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Show HOW MANY GENERALS Everywhere and at most any time we come in contact with expert arm chair military startegists. These individuals, individ-uals, even though they have spent most of their active lives pitching hay seem to know the volistics of every known weapon, the speed of every airplane and the relative rela-tive strength of the navies of the world. Right here in Cache Valley it would be easy to find at least the thousand local generals who could tell you just where the Second Front should be launched and just what sort of an armed force it would require to do the job in so many days. j The simple truth is that we are a group of hot air ped-dlars ped-dlars and that we delight in telling about those things we know least about. In some things there is no particular harm in posing as an expert. For instance, nothing can come out of picking the plays a quarterback should call in an important football game. There's nothing wrong about planning the strategy for the Yankees or the Cardinals in the present World's Series but in our prosecution of this gigantic struggle we will just have to leave the planning for those who have spent their lives in training. There is however an opportunity for everyone to fit into this supreme war effort. Most of us can do at least one thing well. It may be farming, professional work or we might be able to contribute as mechanics but one thing sure, is that we are terrible generals. , There is before Congress and the administration the problem of conserving and possibly drafting man power. If this comes we will be forced into the field which we are best fitted for. The farmer can very well plan an agricultural program. The mechanic can suggest to his foreman better ways to do the job, the business man can contribute in his field but neither of them are much help to the military men. There is still another bad feature about idle chatter. It, in the first place, is confusing and does nothing to build morale. The amateur is in no position to see the whole picture, pic-ture, of this total war strategy. His neighbor may be influenced in-fluenced by the rumor and chatter It is highly possible to scatter gloom or optimism without any justification for either. It would be a capital idea for each and eveyone to get the idea firmly planted in their minds that we are in this war to win and that it will not be over until we do win it. Another important thing is that we in this country have maintained one of the finest military organizations in the world and that the results will come when operation is in full blast. There's nothing much wrong with our prosecution prosecu-tion of this war only that we started altogether too late to prepare for it. When we get over this handicap we shall go though no matter what the obstacles may be. If we must be Generals, let's get into the branch of the servcie our previous experience has fitted us for. |
