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-
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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."
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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-
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don. Other officers elected at the
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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
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' 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.
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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.
It was bought by the Brazilian
chain of 24 newspapers owned by
Assls Chateaubriand and will go
to the Sao Paulo Art Museum.
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NOW 3 OUT OF 4
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FILLED IN A MONTH
In some fastest-growing areas the wait still
is long-but we're making steady progress
; if
1. Installers have been working fast the first half of
1949 .... keeping up their pace of the postwar years. Here
. in the West, 145,000 new telephones will have gone into,
service in the first six months of the year. Although new
. orders keep pouring in, we're able to take care of them
' faster. 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. Nearly a million and a half tiny soldered connections
must be made before new equipment like this can begin
working in a medium-sized office. But we're hurrying all
we can to make the waiting time shorter still. Your tele
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until everyone... everywhere in the West. ..has more and
better telephone service than ever before.
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