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Show The Private Papers Of a Newspaperman: This Is a personal message to a few irresponsible American women, who do not realize the headaches they are causing some ol our Com. manding Officers by causing heartaches heart-aches to our fighting men. . . . This message was suggested by Government Govern-ment and war leaders who appar- ently are concerned about a certain matter and here it is. A fighting man is only as good as his' fighting heart. . . . And inside his heart he carries the woman he loves. . . . Anybody in the armed services from the hard-boiled top sergeants to the understanding chaplains will tell you that a fighter fight-er can best protect our country when the woman he loves is protecting his heart ... It is the source of a soldier's sol-dier's greatest strength and it is also the possible source of his greatest great-est trouble. This means that a certain, thoughtless, small percentage of American women must do their duty to their country by giving their absent fighting men more consideration. ... It is an extremely ex-tremely sad occurrence when a telegram arrives In some American Amer-ican home with the news that an American fighting man is a casualty. ... It is also sad when an American fighting man on a firing line receives a letter telling tell-ing him that his affection for the woman he loves is a casualty casual-ty back home. . . . Think that over. A Washington paper, reporting that Joe Kamp and Ed Rumely were trying to have Congressional indictments indict-ments against them dismissed, quoted their counsellors as saying the indictments should be thrown out "on grounds that the subpoenas were addressed to the House sergeant ser-geant at arms and not the defendants. defend-ants. " Oh, don't change the subject! Many soldiers are writing this reporter because they do not understand un-derstand the GI Bill of Rigfct3. . . . The U. S. Gov't owes its fighting forces the same thorough thor-ough education In their civilian rights that it insisted upon in their military duties. . . . The American people expect each fighting man to get as much assistance as-sistance under the GI Bill of Rights as that fighting man gave service under the articles of war. . . . This Gov't owes it to each fighting man to bring as much attention to his return to civil life as it put forth to bring him as a civilian into the armed services. ... If the Gov't is able to seek out a deserter to punish him it ought to be able to seek out its heroes to reward them. . . . Each fighting man is entitled en-titled to expert advice at Gov't expense. . . . This is more than simple justice. It is sound national na-tional policy. , It Is easy to understand why the officials (responsible for the transportation trans-portation of our returned men) had them ride in coaches while prisoners prison-ers of war rode in Pullmans. . . . This excerpt from a soldier reveals that higher-ups give more consideration consider-ation to prisoners. Look: "Gallbach, Austria: Yesterday I saw something that burned me up. I went for a ride along the Alps and saw German Ger-man soldiers who had surrendered (120,000 in all), who had never been put in a prisoner's cage. Instead, they were living In the best hotels, swimming, sun-bathing, riding vehicles ve-hicles and probably got their gas from us men; they had all the American ciggies and food they wanted. They also carried small arms, such as pistols, rifles and machine-gats. Can you imagine that? This through the courtesy of the American 7th Army. Maybe I'm on the wrong side!" This is a short and ugly story about a war hero. His name is CpL Edward Majeski of Hastings, Minn. He was the first soldier from the 1st ward of that community to leave for combat duty. He served 4 years in uniform most of that time In actual combat overseas 18 months of which he suffered in a Nazi prison camp. ... He was wounded. . . . When he returned to Hastings there was no crowd at the station, no cheering, no band, no paper or confetti shower, no flags. No nuttin'. . . . Only this "greeting" from a storekeeper, who had the police hand Majeski a summons sum-mons and complaint. . . . Corporal Majeski was fined $10 and court costs for riding a bike on a Hastings sidewalk. . .1 . Whew! Second Thoughts on Some Second Raters: Hitler, according to the Moscow mighties, is a suicide, the first victim vic-tim of his killings people can be glad about. But the tragic part of it all is we could have had him dead by his own dirty hand a decade ago. Had one nation France, Britain, anybody pulled a gun on him when he marched into the Ruhr, Hitler, by compact with the High Command, Com-mand, was pledged to blow his looney top oil. |