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Show A MK.SSA(;iJ TO AUi'KICA" 'iUii tdiLonul was written by an army officer rather than hy an etili.ted man. liut it.s author, Major Arthur (Joofllnenrl, heyan his army career as a private, pri-vate, a combat infantryman before Aachen. So in his editorial, which was illustrated with a picture of a German soldier crouched behind a machine gun he spoke as a soldier to soldiers. And he speaks to us iiere at home, too, in "Look, America!" 'Look, ilntain! Look, America! Look, people of the United Nations! This is a German soldier. Good bad indillerent, he is a fighting fool. His future is hopeless, lie is lighting as lie has never fought before 'listen, America! Listen, Lritain! Listen, the United Unit-ed Nations! This man and millions like him are the enemy. His gun is loaded. When the trigger is pulled it shoots. "There is death in this man. Death in this gun Heath for any of us who, for as much as a minute' takes Ins eye olF the peeps. Whatever we soldiers have all we have we need to beat him. Singlemind-tdne.ss. Singlemind-tdne.ss. Solidarity. Skill. Confidence that every man : behind us is dedicated to one end the death and de- 1 leat lor this foe. "To do this job our leaders are chosen. Chosen by us-by the people. They, in turn, have chosen our supreme su-preme commander. He leads us in the west. Pie disposes dis-poses the troops, chooses the generals. Moves them here today, there tomorrow. Shifts men and materials to meet the tides of war. "And so the British fight under Eisenhower. The Americans light under Montgomery. The French light under Bradley. The British and Americans fight under the French. French, British, American, what does it matter? "What on God's ice-crusted earth matters right now except killing this Hun? What Eisenhower does is for Ike to decide. For us to obey. With understanding, understand-ing, the understanding born of having fought under him from the beaches to the borderlands of the Reich. "He who places pride above military policy is a fool. He who spreads rumor is a traitor. He who panders to local prejudices and pride at the expense of the great purpose of all v peoples the defeat of this German is. an enemy. An enemy who sells out the soldiers, the peoples, the principles, the peace of an entire world." WORK Oil FIGHT President Roosevelt's letter urging action on the -- j ui-iui uiil anu transmitting tne joint appeal of General Marshall and Admiral King states in . emphatic form the military view of the manpower problem. The public and Congress can no longer dougt, that the Nation's military chiefs are deeply concerned lest America's power on the bat-tlelront bat-tlelront be curtailed by less than "total utilization ot our manpower on the home front." The German offensive of December, the extra wastage of equipment due to lighting in winter weather and the growing demands of the new land warfare in the Pacific these have all added unexpected unex-pected pressure for fighters or workers. Unexpected needs, the making of new devices, and plans to quip armies from the liberated countries these are expected ex-pected to rqeuire 700,000 more workers. Opponents of work-or-fight legislation say that military leaders are exaggerating the needs. Recent experiences certainly warn against underestimating. Labor and some sections of industry declare that necessary neces-sary manpower can be obtained by voluntary methods, lhey may regard the recent response to appeals for war workers as voluntary but the President attributes it to the threat of legislation. The evidence supports his view. It looks as if the work-or-hght power would be necessary to obtain full mobilization of American manpower. The May-Bailey bill would apply the pressure only on one segment of the manpower reservoir. It would be fairer and surer to apply it all the way round under a national ser-vice ser-vice act. Christian Science Monitor. 1 . i |