Show M Rv i Full Accounting Admiral Nimitz pronounced Midway Midway Midway Mid Mid- way a partial accounting for what happened at Pearl Harbor But Pearl Harbor was more mart th than n an attack attack attack at at- tack on the American navy It was was also an attack on the American home t The navy can settle in full as as an ocean force but the Ameri American an people people peo pea pie must settle in full as a fighting nation The Pearl Harbor account t will be settled when the last concentration concentration concentration con con- camp is a public park And when a worker in Europe has the dignity of a human being instead in instead in- in J stead of the standing of a driven slave It is Americas America's duty to demand demand demand de de- de- de mand full pa payment The question question ques ques- question tion of our future depends on how much the enemy is made to ani answer answer an an- i for its past The liberties won on the freezing slopes at Valley Forge were almost lost lostin lostin lostin in a dirty beer cellar in Munich While France is bound while Norway Norway Norway Nor Nor- way is in prison and nd while Belgium is is in chains America will never be fully free Our monument to Pearl Harbor must be a milestone in world progress That can only begin to happen when all men realize that the peace cannot be kept while criminal leaders remain in power to start a war I I TetO l J. J York ork Newsreel The lads from the theatrical publicity publicity publicity pub pub- cages who leaned on the col- col and vice versa in the uniforms uniforms uniforms uni uni- uni- uni forms of the armed forces The from the Capitol who explains explains explains ex ex- plains why he weekends in N N. Y In UIn Washington the war stops on Fridays and starts on Mondays The out blacked-out Pennsy Station Station Station Sta Sta- tion a heaven for the soldiers returning returning returning re re- re- re turning to camp and their sweeties The pool of silence that floods the Plaza after midnight So still you can hear whispers of nothing Headliners sitting on their thrones of fame and burdened with crowns of worry Actresses entering entering entering en en- deep chin-deep in Summer ermine ermine collecting stares The USO distributes theater and cinema tickets to the men in the local camps and naval bases It is done in alphabetical order to avoid favoritism The other day at the old Paramount Studios in Long Island City now an army depot de depot depot de- de pot the letter L was reached reached- and two movie ducats were handed to Carl Laemmle Jr Young Laemmle was merely the owner of Universal Pictures and its sale made him a millionaire The art studios in Greenwich Village which once were stables The big clock on the building at Street and Avenue where during during during dur dur- ing the wee hours of the you youcan youcan youcan can hear the tocks tick-tocks dropping into infinity The tots who used to play robbers cops-and-robbers now playing Commandos in the west side streets The huge searchlights interrupting interrupting interrupting inter inter- the by stabbing the planes roaring over Central Park Loafers standing on street corners corners corners cor cor- ners staring at the passersby and tossing away precious hours like cigarette butts Wrinkled charwomen charwomen charwomen char char- women entering million-dollar million skyscrapers skyscrapers skyscrapers sky sky- scrapers every evening to give them beauty treatments The rains decorating the street puddles The Most lost Quoted Observation of of the Month Raymond Clapper who has looked at Congressmen as a reporter most of his life let go with both barrels at their Said he People are looking to editorials als radio commentators and newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper columnists for the discussion of public affairs they ought to get from Congress The people dont don't give a damn what the average Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor or Congressman says They know what you he hear ax in Congress is 99 per cent tripe ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied relied re re- re- re lied on The Story Tellers Fortune profiles profiles pro pro- files John Wesley Vesley Dafoe editor of the Montreal Free Press calling him Canadas Canada's greatest man For a long time Dafoe screamed warnings against Hitler and prodded his to action In short another warmonger warmonger warmonger war monger who happened to be making making mak mak- ing sense when his hecklers weren't Free World smacks the bullseye bullseye bullseye bulls- bulls eye with a piece on Reinhard Heydrich Heydrich Heydrich Hey- Hey who was presented with a of slugs by Czech patriots The monthly reveals Heydrich h as the flunkey who did the work that was too dirty even for Himmler Meaning Mean Mean- ing that with the right number of promotions he could have won the rank of rat Typewriter Ribbons Will Rogers There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail Heywood Broun Of all the easy jobs in the world column conducting conducting conduct conduct- ing is the second softest It lags behind nothing but the ministry D. D Kilgallen He likes little people and perhaps that's why so many big people like him H H. H I I. I Phillips Phillips Phillips Phil Phil- lips As we understand it Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington is now pessimistic because of all the optimism Fannie Hurst Easy to bite as a dentist Buy Buy War Var Bonds Bonds- 01 r x J h I. I a |