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"Wo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Am"
- from First SUtesmaD, tlarch ZS,;l85i
THE STATESaiAN PUBUSHINC CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
. Member of Tb Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of an
.news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited, in this newspaper.
? Italians Aren't Foob '
" German units established themselves in : great
numbers in Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria t - . they
" were so numerous that everyone suspected an ul--
terior reason to be on the spot to quash any Ital
f ian movement to break away from, the axis. At first
' the Italian population was inclined to welcome them
and to make an effort to get along with them. But
- soon their Teutonic unyieldingness and their meth
' odUcal requisitioning of everything they needed
' aroused great antagonism . . . A Swiss friend ol
ours who lived in Sicily told us that the German
- fliers there pulled up vineyard stakes andj fence
palings whenever, they wanted to make fires for
- cooking. This was particularly , serious! in Sicily,
where wood was scarce and expensive. ! . . !
- "I am sure the Sicilians would welcome any in
vasion which would get rid of the Germans," he
said. They hate them.-
: One thing that we (a group of American corres
pondents released from internment in Italy) did all
agree on was this: that Italians cordially disliked
the Germans and that this dislike was no tempor-
- xy disagreement arising out of the strain of the
present war, but inherent, deep-rooted in the past,
when waves of German conquerors periodically
swept over the Italian peninsula; and intensified
by the dissimilarity of the German and Italian
temperaments . . . -
Even most of the fascists bitterly resented the
way the nazis had moved in and taken control oft
all of Italy i . . Party leaders already realized that
the inability ter win decisive victories without Ger
man aid was going to weigh against Italy in any ,
division of axis spoils ... Mussolini himself was
reputed to be worried about this aspect of the sit- ,
uation: that Italy would have ruined herself econo
mically and spilled much blood only to have very;
little reward for her effort in the end, because his
-armed forces had not been equal to the plans he
had Conceived for them, i i
The fact remains that there is a huge Anglo
American fifth column in Italy, many millions
strong, a great potential source of aid to us if we
can only find a way to use it . 4 . And these fifth
columnists would be willing to work for us if we ;
were to give them help, but they are not going to
rise up and risk being killed in a revolt; that does
not have at least a 75 per cent chance of success . . .
The Italians are an extremely old and disillu
sioned race which has already lived through every
- known phase of human development, 1 including
triumphs decadence, and disappointment ... Now .
- they have turned to and prefer the simple life. ;
They work hard, go to bed early, drinkyvery little,
smoke very little, come;, home for dinner, go to
church on Sunday mornings, and take a stroll' in
the park on Sunday afternoons ... But because
Italians prefer the simple life does not mean they
are simple-minded. On the contrary, they are his
torically over-sophisticated and ultra-cynical. Four
teen hundred years of living under various conquer
ors of one race or another has rubbed out much f
: of their idealism. Such fighting words a 'liberty
and "democracy' which so stir American blood,
leave Italians unmoved. They are inclined to look
out first and foremost for; their skins and worry,;
about moral principles afterward . V . '-. I ?
Our Italian fifth column will certainly never re-
revolt if they think Russia will have f anything
whatsoever to do with the occupation. The same is
true of the peoples of all the smaller countries
allied to the axis. It is even, true of the Germans
themselves. We believe that a - second front will ;
never divert a serious number of troops -from the
Russian front on this account ... If the Germans
ever believe they are hopelessly beaten,: they will .
try to hold the Russian line and let the Americans
and English occupy their country.. from "Balcony
Empire by Reynolds and Eleanor Packard.
American and British occupation forces, the
dispatches say, have been -welcomed with open
arms and rejoicing in Sicily. Such an event was
forecast, as the reader will have noted, by the
Packards in their book written just a year ago. I
It is enlightening to read that our invaders'
welcome there is not, at least for the most part,
a reaction of defeatism culminating in the actu-,
ality of defeat. On the contrary our forces are
welcomed as deliverers. 1 ,
If the Packards analysis is correct, a similar
welcome awaits us on the Italian mainland
wherever the nazis and fascists are cleared out
and it will be a sincere welcome, though not
too profound. To understand their reactions it
is necessary to understand the Italians. .
They are individualists, who never were en
thusiastic about fascism. It was tolerable only
because they were a patient people, and little
interested in politics. After all, Italy isn't Eng
land or America. 'There'll always be an Eng
land." There never has been an Italy, political
ly speaking. Something in the form .of a na
tion was created less than a century ago; only
yesterday, as history measures time. A notion
needs pride; Italy in its brief national existence
hasn'f accumulated much I cause for J national
pride. American-British invasion doesn't shat
ter anything Italians hold dear; on the contrary '
it spells as our jChief spokesmen's messages
have : truthfully stated deliverance. Let's not
scorn the Italians if they are smart enough to
recognize it. . . : ; .- , .
The fingers of the American air force are
long, and now they are, reaching out long dis-
- tances. Monday they reached from a base in
the Aleutians to Paramushiro, northerly base
in the Jap-owned Kurile islands. They reached
a thousand miles from southwest bases to bomb'
Macassar hi .the Dutch East! Indies. It is as
though the operations were from the fingers Of
each-hand, reaching farther and farther to grip
the .very throat of Japan. These raids will be
followed up by more planes with greater weight -of
explosives.. The fingers through the air will
creep down the Kurile chain, and up the islands
off southeast Asia, until they join in doing ha
voc to the home islands of Japan.
Vice Admiral Home says the navy is pre
paring for at six-year war against Japan. It
may .take that long; but it would seem when
we can throw all our naval and air weight into
the Pacific war the end will come more quickly.
This raid, from an -American land base, on true
Japanese territory, even though Paramushiro
iT12CD miles from Tokyo, is particularly gratify
ing es a follow-up of the Doolittle. raid on Tokyo .
in April, IS 42. The Japs themselves must see
the "movies finger writing -their doom in.
bomb-traced letters in. the sky.
Values are funny, things, always changing.
Here a melon (cantaloupe) is worth nearly two
- packs of cigarettes (20 to the pack). In Sicily
the rate of exchange between American sol-
, diers is one melon for one cigarette. That shows
how long it has been between smokes for the,
Sicilians. : -- '-.-M -xr :-. v -ii'A ,-
By MAJ. GEN. DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS,
Military authority and former president of tha
University of California . - v,'
Editor's Note: Paul Mailon is on vacation. .
In his absence,' Ma j. Gen. Barrows' column will :
appear in this 'space several times weekly, al- "
ternating with other material. Mailon will be
"on the job again August 3. ". "
Warfare in the1 Jungle
- Our troops in New Guinea and the Solomons are
experiencing combat under the trying conditions
imposed by the tropical forest. I have bad some
experience myself with the oppressive and diffi
cult conditions that i the prodigious sylva of the
- tropics imposes on both life and movement within
its dark shadow, j , . " " ! i.
The trees of such a forest are, many of them, of
the finest hardwood. They rise to lofty heights with
bare trunks orj boles, and only I a hundred,
feet above the ground do they break out with
branches and foliage which so intertwine that they .
form a lofty, dark umbrella that adds to the gloom.
Beneath these tall ' trees, and forming a distinct
mass of vegetation," is the veritable jungle; it en
tangles the soil with an impenetrable and hostile
cover of forbidding vegetation.- ; - it; . j
Everywhere that I have seen this tropical forest
it impresses me with its uniformity. 'I have tra
versed it in Malaysia, in Central America, and in
Africa where it Is a belt 150 to 200 miles wide
that encircles the' Gulf of Guinea and finally mer
ges with the forest of the Congo. In South Ameri
, ca the enormous forest of the Amazon divides that
continent far more' completely than do the lofty
ranges of the Andes mountains. : ' ;' ;;;fcj-
If no trails exist : through this tropical : forest,
the stony bed of a rushing stream, pouring" down
. a valley to the sea, is the only traversible way.
One splashes, slips and clambers up ' this stream
bed, with vines! arid ; prickly lianas, frequently
- tangling with his head and body, and progress is '
slow. With energy and good fortune, one may make
a dubious mile an hour. Where man has to traverse '
the jungle, he slashes a rude footpath, but this may
be so hidden, winding and obscure that it can be
followed only with help of a native guide. fj
. In the deep jungle there is almost no life of any
kind. I have pushed through it for days at a time
and seen not a living thing; not an insect, nor a
rodent, nor even a reptile. The python, one of the
greatest of snakes. Is found-In the jungles of the
eastern archipelago, but I think only where he can
find his food, which seems to be the wild 'pig and
the deer. In the jungle where such prey lives, the
python grows to extraordinary size.' He has no poi-"
son sae but he has fangs with which he seizes the
victim as he encircles his coils. I know of one in
stance where a python struck and badly lacerated
a man's shoulder before it was killed. f
While this great snake is indigenous in the east
ern archipelago, I am not informed as to its pre
cise range. If the python is to be found in the for
ests of New Guinea and the Solomon islands, we
may expect to hear some remarkable snake stories
when our boys come home.-; j -;-iv" -
There are few flowers In the tropical forest Oc
casionally rare and beautiful orchids may lighten
the uniform mass of ereen with soft color and ra '
shapes that delight the eye. But while common in
some spots, one may go days without seeing orchids
or any other flowers.' -.; -,- ;: - - : lj .w
The soil in the tropical forest is uniformly moist.
It steams. The atmosphere is not only hot and hu
mid, but there is almost no circulation of air. Even
the winds do not seem to send their breath through
the Indescribable wind-break of the forest itself. '
The tropical forest Is a quiet coven.lt is singu
larly and depressingly stOL Only the luxuriant
vegetation which blocks one's every movement,
and which spreads irresistably and flourishes
amazingly by reason of the warmth and dampness,
saves one from the Impression that nature is not
only silent but sleeping. 1 l
What can be said for the human inhabitants of
.the tropical forest? The real jungle has almost no
human ' denizens. But along stream banks or - in
spots where the forest thins out, and one can see
the sky, or where man has made uncertain and
temporary conquests over it, there may be human
life. On the whole, dwellers in the tropical forest
; are very few, and they are always primitive and
' very lowly. Such are the sparsely scattered In
dians of the forests of the Amazon. Where the for
est is dominant men leave it largely alone.
If there are adjacent islets, more open and more
salubrious, even hough they be small, man makes
his home on these. Thus the great island of New
Guinea, a , thousand miles long, the first island in
size of the whole world, if we except Greenland, pos
sesses a very small population in proportion to its
great size. ' k ,
Contrasted .to New Guinea where the Australian
soldiers and our own have been battling the jungle
as well as the Japanese, and found maneuver im
possible and movement very slow, 'arduous and
dangerous, the small Islands of the Trobriand group
to the east of Papua, are thickly inhabited by an
interesting race of Melanesiahs. : Correspondents
who accompanied our soldiers who have just land
ed on these islands speak of the delight : felt by
veterans of New Guinea jungles in the open park
like woods and luxuriant, cultivated fields of this
small paradise.
This may seem a dark picture that I have given
of the tropical forest. It is gloomy.-Twilight and
darkness envelop it, but it is the tropical forest
as I have experienced it, and knowing the difficul
ties of movement and of sustaining ute in a green,
dripping wilderness in which there is practically
no food, memories give me a sense of the physical
conditions under which our own men liave been
battling the Japanese. These conditions . in i large
part prevailed through ' the Owen Stanley moun
tains, from Moresby across to Buna, where the
Japanese attempt to attack failed.
I have it from an officer who has recently vis
ited this wild country, that when the Australians
pushed over the crest of this high mountain range,
the Japanese resistance had already ended. They
found the dead and dying stragglers! of the Jap
anes retreat lying In numbers along the trail.
Many of them had starved. Many others had ex
pired under the hardships of the junsle or suc
cumbed to the diseases that spread throush a com
pany of men unskilled in the ways of the forest,
; susceptible to its contagion, and unable to resist
its tormenting obstinacy and its dread loneliness"
and hostility. '
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SEX BN WEDNESDAY II88 K.
6-00 We're Up Too.
Interpreting
The Vlfar Weivs ;
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON . AP War Analytst (or The SUtesman
The canker of disaffection is
gnawing so ravenously at Italy
that Anglo - American strategic
directive for the. Mediterranean '
front 'may already be outmoded
by events. "
It would cause no surprise if
allied military staffs should hold
a meeting in the near future to
reshape and speed up the At
tack plans. The campaign ! that
has all but pried Sicily , loose
from the axis grip ' and shaken
mainland Italy has taken a mat
ter of days Instead of weeks. It
was mapped before Tunisia
started to blow up in a sudden
collapse of axis - resistance.
The underside of the axis has
proved far softer at the first
test than Prime Minister Chur
chill possibly could have 'fore
seen last November when - he
coined the phase to epitomize
allied strategy in seizure of
. French African bases. If It leads
quickly - to internal Italian : dis- i
intergration, further revision of
the Anglo-American battle plans
- to take prompt advantage of
that break would seem -indi-cated.
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And the chances that , it will
are ' reflected .in - Italian troop
mutinies in Sicily "and whole
sale surrenders. ..,
There is every reason to be
lieve that the allies are already
busy i with schemes to cut the
time lag further In pushing the
attack on : the foe promptly, in .
conjunction with the widening
Russian offensive. These plans
probably deal not only Nw 1 1 h
Europe hut , more distant - war
theatres upon which current
events A in ; the Mediterranean
have i an important bearing. :
The fast-paced rush of larger
actions in Europe has tended
to obscure the hardly less signi
ficant developments in the far
'Pacific." -,;; - ; ;J-i;:
A reshaping and acceleration
of the 'MacArthur-led ; sea-air-ground
, attack, now spreading
over a 1,000-mile long east-west
"front from the Strait of Makas
sar between Borneo and the
Celebes to the northern Solo-
mons, seems likely to take ad
- vantage of that development.
The.' American-Australian of
fensive in . the Solomons-New :
Guinea area appears to be pri
marily an' attrition' maneuver
' and j if that Is true lit has al
ready been startlingly' success
fuL The enemy has lost a score
or more warcraft and many
score planes as against relatively.
Inconsequential losses : in either
category. Yet he has not dared
risk; his main fleet strength in
a sea action that could be de
cisive. -
Tokyo has refused what
' Ghurchill called, "the supreme
challenge' of sea power, which
argues that 'Japanese war lords,
know it could mean only de
feat . ,
J The Japanese Island perimeter7
. now. being probed discloses the
lack also of adequate plane
, strength.. There has been much '
evidence, of enemy air establish
" menb ; set up in many places.
f But i when the test came the
planes were not : there. They
could not be spared from other
. fronts, 'including Japan itself, .
or from Burma where by every
sign a massive British sea-air-.
ground offensive is brewing for
the post wet-Monsoon period In
falL r t
The pinch of the tragic too v
lihle and too late shoe is on
the other 'foot now In the far
"Pacific .Tokyo 1 1 h u s far : sent
small boys to market by air and
sea, t endeavoring to : sneak re
inforcements orj supplies to be- .
leaguered garrisons at Munda or
in New Guinea,! or trying to dis
rupt the allied attack by In
adequate air formations.
It has paid a. heavy price for
that ,in ships ; and lives and
there is every indication Japan
can not replace her air and sea
losses. As she dare not risk her
main fleet The only, alterna
tive is to shorten her defense (
lines. That would mean retreat, .
and ; the beginning of the end
for Japan, as an Italian collapse
must mean the beginning of the
end for nazl Germany.
By I.IAX LONG
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CTiapter 3 Continued ;
T;ice, eh? Dud J queried with'
satJ-fictica. . ,
I screed with enthusiasm, and
added, "It must be the seepage
from this pool that wets the sand
-where I beached my dinghy."
,Turr.ir.2 to verify that, I saw
that the beach bar completely
hid the bay and my sampan.
Cociing down the slope toward -us
was Joseph West and a lean
young . man '.with powerful
shoulders, dressed like herself
' for swimming. This, I learned -was
her - husband, Thornton
West. 1 1:--, y
We've . been on the beach
looking at your sampan, he told
me. Trim little boat I had one ;
once.' That tackle and boom are
for lowering your dinghy, I pre
sume. v. i ";'"'. : u v-
"Yes. Iwleave it -rigged over
the side as a mooring post for
the dinghy so my new blue .
paint won't get rubbed.1!
. I don't remember all our chat
ter, but I am trying to set down
things which . had . a . bearing on
, later developments. I admired
Thornton West for his splendid
, physique. He had a handsome
face, too, deeply tanned, a maoe
f ot fair hair and keen blue eyes, 1
and a' cleft ih his chin which
. somehow only added strength to
. his ' features. But- there were
, lines of worry or concentration
in his face which didn't seem to
belong to a completely relaxed
colonist He was a fine comple
ment, . though, ; to the . duskily
beautiful girl who was his wife.
That was what made , the next
encounter so puzzling. " . .
. Josephine turned away from
- us to call out gainly, "Hi, Faro-
ous! .and I saw another man
approaching from the direction
of the houses.' A big man, as '
tall as Thornton West but not so
well set up. There was a flab-'
biness about this one, a paunch
. (though -1 am a poor one to
" speak of paunches, however thin
I am otherwise) and he had a
, dark, heavy-jowled, ' self-indulgent
face. I "
"Hi, Beautiful!" he came back
at Josephine, and I recognized
his voice as that of the man in
. the Delmar house. As he came
' up , he put his arm familiarly .
about her shoulders. " Josephine
smiled provocatively up at him.
Her husband threw her a sharp, :
irritated glance and turned in
stantly to talk to Budd. I sensed
a little intrigue ' going on and
rather wondered at it. Thornton
; was so much the more attractive
of the two men. 1 ;
Delmar, keeping his arm about
Josephine, announced: " The
play's finished to "the very last
word." " , f
The loungers on the sand did
not cheer. I guessed that they
were bored with the subject. '
But they were not allowed to ig-
, nore it, for. Mrs. Delmar came
hurrying up and began talking -about
it, paying no manner of
attention to Delmar and Jose- -phine.
. - y i ' : -
"It's really better, she said,
. sinking down beside Budd, "than
Gray Magic ; '
Budd said, "I'm glad you think
It's good, Bessie. You've worked
so long and so desperately to
make another success'
Her round face sagged sud
denly. "It's been awful - but
; Bronson finally came up to the
. scratch! : ;: J
"What's the theme of this one,
Mrs. Delmar? I asked for the
: sake of politeness, certainly with
no particular interest..
Her lips stretched again in
that smile that was not a smile,
and the others laughed. Turva
.said accusingly, "They won't tell
530 Commentator. I
645 Louie P. Lochner.
60 A Date with Judy.
630 Mr. District Attorney I
70 Kay Kyser's Kollege - I
'80 Fred Waring la Pleasure Time
8:15 Fleetwood Lawton j
6:30 Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
80 Point Sublime I
; 630 Scraraby Amby.-
1 160 News Flashes
, 10:15 Your Rome Town News.
; 1835 Labor News.
i 1030 Gardening for Food v j
' 1045 H. V. Kaltenborn. .
110 Uncle Sam.
i 11:15 Biltmore Hotel Orchestra - !
; 1130 War News Roundup , . ' . .
' U0-S Swing Shift ; ,
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100 News ' i
16:15 The Bomemakers Hour.
110 Music of the Masters. '
110 News -- (
12:15 Noon Farm Hour
1.00 Artists in ReciUL
1:15 Today's War Commentary.
20 Red Cross.
230 Memory Book of Must
3 -15 Romance.
3 JO Concert HalL
40 Book of the Week. - . '
4:15 Plantation Revival -
430 Stories for Boys and Girls
. 80 Swinging Down the Lane. "
530 Evening Vespers
8:45 It's Oregon War ,
6:15 News
6 30 Evening Farm Hour -7:30
Music
745 Sports. "
80 Music -630
News. - . .
- 645 Uncle Sam
any of us. I t!.:..k they're afraid
well steal the idea."
.. I.Irs. Dzlrr.zr shock ter trir.ila
head. '27 vvhst ycu will, it's
bad luck to tell your story be
fore It's down on paper. Any
writer will tell you that!"
Chapter Fccr
Herb sat up purposefully.
"There come Doc and his folks
now "we can get down to a
good hard swim."
I saw a lank youngish man
and an elderly woman approach
ing and asked, "Do you mean to
say you have a medico here?"
Budd said, "It wouldn't be
safe not to have," and Thornton
West added,: "Great piece of
luck to have Latham he's here
for the health of a member of
his family."
The doctor , had on a bathing
suit, but the gray-haired wom
anwho turned out to be his
1 mother was evidently taking
no orders from Herb: she was
dressed . in a comfortable ' blue
house dress and wore not only
sensible shoes, .but stockings.
They were a pleasant-looking
pair though,' like the others,
they both looked me over pretty
sharply. Dr. Latham . had a
homely face with a rugged kind
of strength' as well as a certain
sadness in it, and a loose-limbed ,
way of moving which was quick
but awkward. His mother was a
sturdy type there was appar
ently nothing the matter with
her health and she looked de
pendable in ;. an old-fashioned
way, ; like farm women I had
known .in my childhood. She -said
with a; smile that took
away any sting In the words:
- "So ' your're loafing, too, Mr.
Hoyt? My,, I'd rather be busy,
even If it was getting up my .
own'. coal from .the cellar!" She
looked severely at Herb. "I don't
take my exercise any set hour
nor to the bang of a drum, eith
er." 1 ... V - I 4
Herb waved a plump apologe
tic hand and said plaintively, "It
was just an idea," and Mrs. La-
tham 1 laughed and sat down be
side him In the sand.
(To be continued)
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operators stepping up and tak
ing their places. .
"I've barely touched the whole
picture remember these are
Just some of the minor hard
ships, and yet it's absolutely
unbelievable nn believable
we haven't found it necessary
to have a sick call for four
months. I have yet to hear a
whole-hearted intentional beef
from an. officer or man in the
outfit. Their whole philosophy of
life seems to be, We do what
we have to do. We're all in the
same boat, so what the hell!'
You never saw such a happy- ;
go-lucky, laughing, joking, de
termined to-do-t h e-job-or-die
(and I do mean die) bunch of
men in your life. So if any ;
'Joes around your outfit start
crying because the pork chops
are only done J on one side you
might ask them polite-like, how
many times they've been blown
out from under their mess kit
hy German 105 m.m. shell
during the last week. Yup, sure
strange how a few bombs land-,
ing in ' your! soup will change
your ideas of what's rough ana)
what's Just everyday life."
: Similar reports have come out
of the South Pacific, descriptiva
of the Jungle fighting our men :
have engaged in.
r Do I need, "to point a moral
or adorn a tale?" How trivial
and utterly- Inconsequential have
been the sacrifices we home
fronters have been called on to
make, in the face of what the
men in North Africa or on
Gaudalcanal or on Attu have
endured! No beef roast today?
No silk or nylon hosiery? An
other government form to fill
out? A flat tire? A price ceiling
on wages or products? A crowd
ed stage or train? No lunch in
the diner? Only three pairs of
'shoes a year? Taxes to pay and
bonds to buy? Hard to get help :
in kitchen or factory?
Brother, sister, forget It Get
down on your knees and thank
God for your good fortune that
you still live in a land of plenty,
of comfort, defended by men as
tough and courageous as tha
men of the armed services of tha
USA.
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