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10 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Tue., Junt 28, 1949 What To Do With Atomic Bomb In Stopping Future Aggression? Ask Boyle By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK & I know an old soldier, retired ont World War and three International riots ago, who spends hit time re fighting his campaigns and keeping the mice away from his medals. The old boy knows his trade well and loves to work out small problems like the probable dally average hay intake of Hannibal's elephants in crossing the Alps, I called on him the other day and found him fuming as usual over three big maps hung on his library walls. The maps were decorated with little flags, squares and triangles the hieroglyphics of the military. And the old toy, wearing his old fashioned high cavalry boots, was striding up and down before them like Napoleon the day be fore Waterloo. "What's up now, colonel?" I asked cheerfully. "Planning a motor trip to Long Island?" The colonel gave me his cus tomary glare and chomped in half a stray hair from his 1890 mustache. "In the first map I have cor rected the errors made by Grant at the singe of Vicksburg," he snapped. "The second map shows my plan for seizing New York City, and" "What do you want to take New York for, colonel restore the five-cent subway fare?" I Interrupted. "I wouldn't take the place as a gift on a pewter platter," snif fed the colonel. "It s lust a mili tary exercise for me. I also have worked out plans to storm Mos cow, Minsk and Plnsk, envelop the North and South Poles and outflank Addis Ababa. "Sounds like a busy afternoon. How big a force' would you need to capture New York?" "After I throw three artillery shells Into Times Square," puf fed the colonel, pausing to pour himself three fingers of bourbon, "I figure I could take It with a troop of spavined horse cavalry armed with sabers. Tne popula- SLABW00D In 12-16 and 24 In. lengths OLD GROWTH FIR DOUBLE LOADS : WESTERN BATTERY SEPARATOR Phone 858 tlon would have trampled Itself to death trying to escape to Mew Jersey." "Granted. Now what's the third map show one of Von Clausewitz's campaigns?" "Haven't I ordered you never to mention the name of that Prussian illiterate In my head quarters?" the colonel snorted. "No, the third map Illustrates how we would stop the Russians at the Rhine if we have another war by using the atom bomb." "But the atom bomb Is a stra tegic weapon not a tactical one," I protested. "It's for knocking out enemy cities not enemy armies. Everybody says that." The colonel gave me a scorn ful glare. "Sonny," he said pityingly. "People at the time thought gun powder was just a nice thing, to make firecrackers with, too. "The way to win a war with a new weapon Is to use that new weapon In every way you can. "Suppose the Soviet armies at tack. Everyone figures they'd overrun Europe while our fly boys were wiping out Russian cities with atom bombs. "But how long would It take us then to get the Russian armies out of the rest of Europe? Five years? Ten years? But why concede In advance they can overrun Western Europe. "Before they can hit for the English channel, son, they have to cross a big wide river called the Rhine. To cross that river their army has to mass together. And whenever they mass, son, It's my Idea we can hit 'em hard with atom bombs. I don't care whether you drop the bomb on 'em or shoot it over with a big gun. "Either way you'll cost them about five square miles of an army. And I can't think of a better way to Invest an atom bomb In wartime." It made sense to me. ' "Colonel," I said, "I think I have been" underestimatlne your gray hairs." wnat joses wars, son, ne re plied, "is a head with a one-track mind, whether it's on old or young shoulders." a r u i njm.CTl1'i.niii. 'Tliir'i i -irivliTriinriritifiTT iT'nrn Tnr r -inr n nimi npnii )ni i mi n n ijji n "or 71 nrT'iri " m"7- "-"1 TTfH r w - i HONORED FOR "MERITORIOUS SERVICE" Captain Roland J. Schwartz (center), son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwartz, Roteburg, has received citation for "meritorious service" in con nection with his work in trials of Japanese war criminals. He is pictured above with Lt. Col. R. E. Vendenberg, chief of Control end Planning Division, and Major General James A. Lester, commanding general, San Francisco Port of Embarkation. (U. S. Army Photograph). Captain Roland J. Schwartz, Roseburg resident now serving In the Army Transportation Corps at San Francisco Port of Em barkation, recently received the Army Commendation Ribbon in recognition of his "exceptionally meritorious service and superior performance of duty" with the International Military Tribunal in Japan. Major General .James A. Les ter, Port commander, presented the award to the Oregon officer at a Port Headquarters ceremony. The citation, Issued by General Headquarters of the Far East Command, stated that Captain Schwartz's work as Adjutant for the Tribunal for the period March 1946 to January 1949, "materially contributed to the successful conclusion of the trials of the major Japanese war crimi nals." Captain Schwartz, who entered Army duty in 1942, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwartz of 621 E, Douglas St., Roseburg. McCarthy Is Elected To Head Oregon VFW COOS BAY, June 27. (VP) Oregon's Veterans of Foreign Wars had their first World War II commander Saturday. He Is Vere A. McCarthy of Con- i powerful Shell Premium is the most gasoline your car can use! 9 9 Activation makes the difference Shtll spites moleculei: Shell scientist! take (he finest available crude acmal the molecules by splenitis; ihera and rearranging the atoms according to Shell's formula (or a perfrttly balanced gasoline. 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Other officers elected at the department convention here: L. R. Henderson, Portland, senior vice-commander; Leon Glasscock, Eugene, junior vice-commander; . L. Mlkesell. Grants fass. re elected judge advocate; John Schum, Portland, re-elected quar termaster; Dr. W. A. Thompson, Portland, surgeon; Jess Wooley, Coos Bay, chaplain. Siaiem won next years conven tion, winning over Klamath Falls. People Who Can't Speak Chinese Are Out Of Luck In Communist Shanghai SHANGHAI, June 27. (JPh- English for years the secondary language of this great port city Is fast falling into disfavor now that the Communists rule Shang hai. The stress now Is on Chinese. Foreigners who have lived in Shanghai for years without learn ing any more Chinese than nec essary to direct a ricksha boy, are now feeling the lack. Some Chinese firms whose busi nesses were mainly International trading, once used English almost exclusively. It is startling nowa days to telephone such a firm and get a reply In Chinese. This makes lt necessary to obtain an inter preter to carry on a conversation with a Chinese manager with whom you have spoken English for years. Letters Must Be Chinese Letters to government agencies, and in some cases even to private companies, must now be written in cninese, despite the fact that many of these agencies and com panies are mainly concerned with foreigners and have staffs that can read and speak English better than Chinese. If you Insist on writing in English, your letter must De accompanied bv a Chi nese translation. To insure deliv ery, the address must be in Chinese. Use of Chinese In Shanghai is particularly difficult, because the Shanghai dialect is so different from Mandarin, the official lan guage. Registered Willamette Val ley bred Romneys from im ported rams. Choice selec tions now available. OAKMEAO FARM Newberg, Oregon ' There are some Chinese of con siderable education who can read and write two or three foreign i languages but cannot write their 1 own. Students Demand Change Shortly after the Communists tooK over, students at tne American-endowed St. John's University demanded that "English be ban ned from the curriculum." This turned out to be a demand that English not be used as the lan guage of instruction except in English-language courses. The outcome remains to be seen, since it is difficult to use Chinese for instruction in advanc ed science and other subjects. In some sciences It is actually im possible to go beyond a certain point in Chinese; there simply aren't the words for the work. I First Sale Of Churchill Painting Brings $5,250 ' LONDON, June 25. UP Winston Churchill, who paints for a hobby, put a painting on the block yesterday for the first time. It sold for 1250 guineas ($5,250). The signed painting, called "The Blue Room, Trent Park 1934," was auctioned to raise funds for the Young Women's Christian Association. 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Seventy-two per cent are filled within thirty days- that's practically three out of four. 2. Hundreds of miles of telephone cables have been going in at a fast clip. But these voice-highways are still bottle necked in some places in many of our fastest-growing areas, practically no telephones can be installed for months ...until the lines and other facilities can catch up with the mushrooming dsmand. The telephone picture looks better... but it's not yet all we want it to be. 4. Huge sums of money have gone to work in the Weet to make this new equipment possible and your own tele phone more valuable. Millions must come not from telephone bills but . from people who put their savings into the telephone business. To attract these dollars, we must pay a reasonable amount 'for their use. This depends on the sale of our services at fair and adequate prices. 3. 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