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T PAQE rOUH ' ! ' I . The OREGOH STATESMAH, Salem. Oregon, Tuwdar Morning, May 15. 1945 : j . ' j' y
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The Associated Press
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited
No Paper to Germany j
The process of reeducating the Germans be
gins with controlling their press and radio and
barring American newspapers and periodicals
from circulating in allied occupied territory.
The army's department of psychological war
fare apparently thinks their mental capacity is
so starved they have to be spoonfed for an in
definite time. Goebbela in his day had the same
idea, and became the world's No. 1 propagand
ist Now our army uses the same tobls but re
verses the direction of the line of thought pour-
ed into German minds. i
It is obvious that military rule will persist in
Germany for some time, and 'with it military
control of channels of communication within the
country. But "it does seem a sorry commentary
that the literature Of free America, for example,
is to be withheld from Germany. .Even in war
time there was the interchange of scientific
journals through Switzerland, scientists recog
nizing universal freedom for discoveries in pure
science. Now with Germany to be reeducated
as a democratic state its' people are not per
mitted to read the literary and political journals .
from this country, i
This barring of American publications has
provoked widespread protest. It surely will not
stand very long. Introduction of American and
British publications ought to be a stimulating
and helpful thing in this process of reeducating
Germany; The longer the German mind is re
garded simply as a cistern to be filled there will
be competition for ;control of the source of sup
ply. When the German mind is given liberty of
thought and access to all expressions of opinion
it should grow in knowledge, hi self-control and
in that sense of freedom which is the true bul
wark of humanity; against tyranny, j
Coddling Captives
We are pleased that General Eisenhower
moved promptly to take Herman Goering off
exhibition. If all this chatter bout prosecuting
war criminals has ! any meaning and the tens
of thousands of victims of nazi atrocities in Ger
man prison and concentration camps cry out
for retribution Goering should be thrown in
the guardhouse and treated like a criminal
awaiting trial. He was Hitleifs own choice as
No. 2 nazi, and stayed with the. nazi gang until
Just a few days before Germany's final collapse.
If he has talking to do let him o it to the. court,
or to experienced interrogators of the military
intelligence section. ;
With Goering being dined by the generals,
validity is given to the German hope! for easier
treatment at the hands of Americans. They
raced to greet the Yanks as captors in hopes of
escaping the fury: of the Russians, j Well, the
Americans should hot be softies, either. The al
lied court for war criminals should be instituted
t once and all those suspected, of war crimes
turned over to its custody for prompt trial. The
sooner punishment following jjtrial is inflicted
the quicker the German people, will realize that
this war was not just a practice game.
It happens that Maj. Gen! John E. Dahlquist,
commander of the 36th division which captured
Goering, was first commander of the 70th di-
vision at Camp Adair. He and Brig. Gen. Rob
ert Stack are called down quite sharply by Eis
enhower who previously had forbidden any
fraternizing with top Germanjj civil or military
officials. The . public statement by the com
manding general is welcomed jas a sign there is
to be no coddling of captives. j
Will Japs Surrender?
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Of the Germans this was tnje, they fought as
soldiers following 'generally recognized rules of
warfare. They fought hard, and resisted with
'greet tenacity; but when. they were thoroughly
defeated they yielded to superior force. If the
Wehrmacht commanders had j enjoyed full au
thority they would - have surrendered months
ago to spare their Country its final agonies. Hit
ler, the fool fanatic, wouldn't give up and
wouldn't let his generals give up. At last they
realized they had to, so they surrendered armies
in big blocks, as high as a million men at a time.
Thus far the Japanese have shown no such
willingness to yield to the inevitable. Surren
der by the Japs is always an Individual matter.
No officer has capitulated to the Americans,
surrendering any considerable body of troops.
When it comes toj large-scale fighting which" is
expected in China or on Honshu, Mrill the Japa
nese persist in these battle tactics, resistance to
the death? Probably. Their driving force is ab-'
solute devotion to their emperor, counting it '
Editorial I Comment
NIEMOIXEK AND THYSSEN I -
i In the delivery from Axis prison camps of In
dustrialist Fritz Thyssen and Pastor Martin Nie
moller, both articulate anti-HiUerites who were im
prisoned for their utterances, there arises possibil
ity of a confusion Of ideas.' The confusion lies in
this: to have been j against Hitler does not neces
sarily mean to be in favor of democracy.-
The case of Thyssen is ' fairly simple. He fi
nanced Hitler's early ascendancy, thus making it
possible, .for the express and admitted purpose of
forcible suppression of the labor movement in Ger
many. .Hitler turned on! Thyssen later an experi
ence not monopolized by Thyssen and they became
. enemies, but this falling-out between suppression
ists did not make Thyssen a democrat, and any emo
tional drift toward canonizing Thyssen would work
a fraud upon democracy.
The case of Pastor Niemoiler is different, and
rests upon lack of evidence rather
Pastor Niemoiler. won the respect of
world when he refused to allow
religious head of Germany. JHis utterance: - ".Not ..possible very soon
you, but God, is my Leaderr is said to have sealed: are expanded and.
his commitment to prison. '
But Niemoller's courageous stand in the issue
of religious integrity does not necessarily show
that he would have taken the same Stand against
fascism at large, say in a matter of civil liberties,
nor against Deutschland Uber Alles. He served as
a U-boat commander in the first irorld war.
Pastor Niemoler Is not to be pre-judged in these
matters, but the record is incomplete. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Favor Svoayt Vt; No Fear Shall AwtT
From First Statesman, March 28, 1851
THE STATESMAN PUBUSHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publishers
. Member of the Associated Press J
is exclusively entitled to th as
-"the war is
Chinese in
Fay of rotaI lunploye l
ries There has
"
for 20 yean
basis.
Interproii
Tho VJcr Ngivo
are virtually no
. costal area itself
Trom its mouth
King).
than adverse.
the God-fearing .
Hitler to become V however, that
era! Mac Arthur's
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for publication of aL
in this newspaper.
glory to die for him. This gives a gloomy; pros
pect, for there are some four million men in the
Jap armies and it takes a long time to put that
number to death.
There remains on chance of avoiding this
general slaughter, anil that is surrender by the
government at Tokyo. If the Japanese leaders
could ever sacrifice their face-saving ideas they
could ask for an eh of hostilities and jaceept
what terms the allies jpffered them. As we.see it,
that is the only way the war with Japan fan be
ended short of slayinjg several million Japanese
soldiers. This is the real meaning of the phrase
not ovfr." 1
Foochw 1
The Chinese are resuming offensives, not only
in the interior but it the seacoast too.J They
have entered Foochcfw, a seaport on the East
China sea, lying nearly opposite the uppers tip
of Formosa. Naturally, speculation arises over
whether the Americans ill strike at this port
to gain their first toe-hold on the China coast.
It is doubtful if Fobchow would be the initial
point of landing. To!carry supplies to the Chi
nese a more valuable port and one muchjcUser
to our base in the Philippines would be Canton.
With this firmly in American hands, supplies
could flow to equip he Chinese armies.; j If .the
objective is to engage the Jap armies in jChina
or to obtain a Chin4 base for "action igafost
Japan proper, then the strike would, be j north
of Foochow, perhaps JShanghal. " I j
We do not know Whether a major blow will
be struck this summeV because we do notj fajow
how much additional Jmight must be transferred
to the orient from! Europe- of how long that
transfer would requufe. We shall surely see be
fore the year's end Invasions; of China br the
home islands of Japan. The j air raids, in the
meantime, are hittin the enemy's capacity jfor
war-making. ' I ! ,1 j If
Employe
The last congress fadjourned without jtaHing
favorable action on the bill toj readjust salaries
of postal employes.! Unless ex;tehded the temp
orary supplemental allowance of $300 per an
num will expire on llune 30 jnext. Instead of
merelv extendina this the congress should' make
. nmnanan i.nwnml f mA iiiotmnt nf nnstal S&la-
i .
been no change in the pay base
probably no otner group 01 any
size but what has had, several pay boosts In that
interval of time. Thltre has been reduction in
working hours, but fon overtime posta Im
ployes get no time-and-a-half. By' a singular
method of computation they jget 1or trvfrtjme
work a little less than straight time pay. Their
work, too, has been much heavier than evHrlbe-
fow.- J : . i ; :-: :' h-t '"
Loyalty to the service permanence of enure
and provision for retirement pay tam kept
most postal employes' on the job; but the people
of the country should not wear that loyalty thin.
Congress should pass legislation to correct the
injustice to postal employes, on permanent
n
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By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
AMoeUUd Trem War jAMlyat j f
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The Japanese, who expect mf Americans j event
ually to launch amphibious operations along I the
East China coast have counted largely upon For
mosa as an air base capable of warding off ah at
tack of that kind. I j f
. But now Formosa isfto a great extent neutralized
as such a bulwark by Sustained American bembing
from Philippines basef. Striking evidence jofithis
la afforded by Chungking's report that the Chinese
have reoccupied foochow. :j ;
Foochow lies on the jiorth bank of the Min Chjang
estuary well up from fie river mouth. It is' within
easy striking distance from th norm end pt For
mosa island where heavy Niponese air concentra
tions once dominated he whole! sweep of the Chi
nese coast to westwarjjt . : j
The Min Chiang river offers the most promising
route for an Allied larding on the last China coast
aimed at a junction with Chinese troops driving
eastward in Hunan. Such a move would split -Japanese
force in north and south China aparti Thera
east-west roads in the East China
but he Min Chiang is navigable
S
fort 100 miles to Tfen Pint
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; At Yen P'ing the enjy east-west highway in south
central east China follows the west bank; of the
north fork of the Ma Chiang, curving broadly
northwestward through gfangaj province. It leads
indirectly to Heng Chow, obvious ultimate objec
tive of the Chinese ctfunter offensive in Hunan al
ready threatening Paoching.
Heng Chaw is the leuthern end of a bottleneck
span of the Japanese orridor bisecting China from
north to south.; It lies gome 350 miles crow flight
west of Yen P'ing. '
Use of -the Min; Chiang river as a supply r!oute
would put the main potential beachhead in eastern
China a full 100 miies beyond the seacoast While
Formosa's powerful jUr installations were; intact
that would not hare ibeen possible and a landing
anywhere else on the!; East China coastal! hump
would have been faced with extreme transportation
dificulties. ... i ; . ' if :- pifv::;;:
Whether the Min Chiang Isactoally wilierj Al
lied consideration for landing operations ftof join
up with the Chines in Hunan remains to be seen.
The intensive bombing of Formosa and resurgence
of Chinese offensive Activity both in the Foochow
area and farther north In southern Chekiang as well
as in western Hunan can leave Tokyo in little doubt;
such a move is possible, or Will be
as American air forces in China,
heavy reinlorcemenls reach Gen-
command in the Philipplnesi
Chines reports that the enemy is already; falling
back northward for'tl concentration north! of the
Yellow river in northeastern China are not con
vincing as yet however, it would mean virtually
abandonment of the China-Indo China corridor and
leave all enemy forces in Sooth China, Indd China,
Thiland, the Malay peninsula and the Dutch Indies
to their fate, cut of by land as well as sea from
Japan and from the main Japanese armies iri China.
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A Whale of a Catch ' : . ' ; f ; j : '-':.
News Behind the; News
By PUL MALLON v l j : ' j -(Distribution
by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In' whole
or in part strictly prohibited.) M !
WASHINGTON, May 14-inThe
way the tax trimming program
was announced made It sound
colossal, but it
of that ;
When busi
ness corpora
tions paid their
excess profits
taxes (running
up to 90 per
cent or more)
these war years
they did so un
der a provision
of law which
promised a 10 fn Mauoa
per cent refund within -three to
five years. ) j
All this HSW program does IS
4a aaw thM h.lra 4Ka1 1 II
-1
- . . trM.,lW)n
result Business will merely get
its refund sooner. j
The notion behind this major
feature of the program is I that
business may use the money at
once for reconversion, some; will
need this help. Others have ac
cumulated cash reserves (com
mon corporate war practise),.
The other important change
will be of considerable lielp to.
small business. The lift in j ex
emptions on excess profits "Uxes
(not normal rates which run
above 40 per cent) from 310,000
to $25,000 will, in effect b
solve businesses earning ! less
than 25,000 from the profit
confiscation tax rates 'of war. '
But there is another provision
of law which enabled corpora
tions to deduct from certain
normal rate payments certain
allowances if they paid high ex
cess profits rates. jj
- Thus the announced relief
will not be as great as the 'cited
figures have indicated. Wlthj the
normal tax hand the govern
ment will take back some of the
balm it is offering with the ex
cess profits hand. jf
This i afceut all there Is in
the "tax reduction." ;
Behind its announcement,
however, the participants in-,
dulged themselves in a little
light and fancy stabbing. - Sen
ate Financa Chairman George
had announced two days earlier
that he thought the government
should promise a real reduction
to begin next January 1, Whe
ther or not Japan was beaten.
Kext day from tta treaimry
came an anonymous statement
that George (whom some I; have
martianed as possible successor
GRIN AND BEAR
was far short
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What? GiTe my eld campaign posters t the scrap drive, with
another election only S years off?" p ;
to Morgenthau) had reversed his
position on this. f
An official; of the treasury de
partment had 'given that! infor
mation to newsmen suggesting it
be published j without credit as
off-the-recordj inspiration. The
newsmen did not think George
had changed his mind and the
charge was hot printed, at least'
not generally! s .
This was not the only piquant
savor of the jdeaL After George
end house jways and means
Chairman Doughton had been at
the White j House discussing
.taxes, with president Truman,
the newspapers were able to"
carry an .authoritative statement
that Mr. Truman had told con
gress to go (ahead and handle
taxes in its own way as he was
too busy to bother. .1
This sounded very much like
Mr. Morgenthau was not to have
his usual annual soul-stirring
presentation pt tax programs to
congress (none of which have
been adopted in late year). It
also somehow encourages people
to; believe j the reports that
jGeorge might get the treasury
secretaryship
: My own information Is that
nothing is likely to" be; done
about a cabinet change In the
treasury until after the Bretton :
Woods agreements sink or swim
in congress! ij . -j , j
Other than; that it can be said
Truman appreciates Morgen
thau'! good New York financial
connections, but on the other
hand, George would take the
job If offered.' j- .
Certain senators whom I
greatly respect , think Morgen
thau will go': in a few months
and the job (will be handed to
Truman's Misao u r i banking
friend, John Snyderr j'
From this!' series of inner
events it if plain the adminis
tration is not going into " any
real tax reduction forj some
time. It . will not accept the
George program promising ac
tion in 1946 and is content to
rest with the faint trimmings
presented last week. 1 1
AMERICUSL G. Ethel'
Patricia Davis, first child of Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Davis, of Amer-:
icus, was born Sept 4, 1939 the
day England and France declared
war on Germany. " J
V Shortly after 8 a. m. yesterday,
as President Truman announced.
Germany's unconditional surren
. der, Mary Francis Davis, second
child of the couple,-was born.
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(Continued from page 1)
111 luck! of the, numerals mark
ed the day. Nature did not smile,
she spat in our faces with a be
lated storm. Nevertheless 12
gathered ' at the starting post,
mildly hopeful that the weather
might -clear later in 'the day,
which most decidedly it failed to
do. W drove to Freres mill on
the sid.of the mountain a few
miles above Taylor's grove, park
ed there. Logging operations
have cut up the old trails, so we
followed the logging road, slog
ging through the steady - down
pour, crossing the feeder forks of
Canyon' creek. Except for the
map which Mr. Ware at the mill
had sketched for me, the route
was largely guesswork, for clouds
hung oyer the treetops. Finally
we left the road and headed up
the trap-less mountainside. We .
worked through the heavy tim
ber, up to the young growth,
then to the twisted brush just
trying to extricate itself from its
very recent burden of snow, on
up through the patches of huck
leberry whose buds were just
beginning to show color, and
where the grass was still numb
from winter, and then to snow
patches! At last we got on top
of something, and found the visi
bility zero.
j Did you ever hear of a lost
mountain? There are Lost riv
ers ah4 Lost lakes in Oregon,
but here was a lost mountain,
' Utterly llost in the fog. The fa-'
miliar; jface of House mountain
was nowhere' to be seen. But
Adolph Greenbaum discovered a
sign: f Bouse Mt We couldn't
see the mountain, even though it
was under our feej. Fortified
r frith that identification we push
ed on through a thicket of rhod
odendron until we came out on
thereat?. A howling gale blew
across its edge.; Clouds shrouded
the face of the cliff and all the
surroundings and the rain, now.
kept faUing. : There was
t0 - toen t turn i
slog down the mountain, all feel
ing as amphibious as the marines.
1 There were occasional rewards
in the way of clearing skies when
the valley scene opened. The
lighter, green of the budding al
der arid maple' in the lower
reaches merged into the heavy
green! Of the firs on the moun
tainsides while the crests under
Heavy tcloud cover were ' deep
blue. L Wisps of cloud like white
down ' in thecutover lands the
"dogwood stood out ; in bridal
, whrteijr-.v : ." -. , -?
! And ;so back to the mill and .
lunch and hot coffee in the shel
ter' Of the 'machine shop , while
the returning rain beat a tattoo
on theiroof. ' '.i'"!'vv';'';,
' Why; do they do it - climb
mountadns to get the view which -often
isn't thereT Well, that Is
a secret known only to those who
love the hills and cherish the
woods ind the mountains even in
their, rougher moods. ... ,
iDECATUR, IlL-Cat Waggoner,
85, who says he has bet for the
last 3ft years it would 4 rain on
May 10 and has won 31 times,
has only one taker . for tomor
row's performance. ' ;
f'Maybe Til get. more before
the day is over," said Waggoner,
a former banker, "but I'm about
. out ofi business they're scared
out." ! ,
Last; year there was only light
'- rainfalj in one section of the
city and four of his bettors re
fused to pay: , ; '
" NAMPA, Ida.-5VA JJampa
farmer dangled the following in
ducement in ' the help ' wanted
column! of the Idaho Free Press:
. "No milking ori irrigating,
hardly anything to do and lots
of shade to do it in."
,;ATtii?r.o:ni:;.
GERMANY -iff)-Two sports
minded American officers have
started , reconverting one small
portion of Germany's; erstwhile
war industry. j
, Capt John Pfitsch, ! of Tyler,
Texas, and Lt Cassius M. Lev
of Fenton, Mich, are using a
former German 88-mm shell fac
tory for production of baseball
bats. ' .' ' I
Tn th mnall towtr of Tunger-
hutte the two officers of the 35th
division were
1 V I n
through the
-factory when
t h e y saw a
number of
woodwor king
machines and a
sizeable ' stock
pile of hard
wood. Their
448th y antiair
craft warning
i. ,3
ed. baseball equipment now . that
the shooting is over, j ; j
Soon a makeshift production
. line was working and the first
:- bats began appearing-j-ones that
. would be hard to beat even back
1A aha a ft aw waia 44 j4 AfM k 1r skkf4
tiyiwai Aire irvif tauuiaiavw
a - mwn . am . r am
raiscn tiea ivngernuue oai
wmcn aamitieoiy is ipieniy oi
: trademark for: any bat t
Three first class privates In
the U. S. 320th infantry regiment
have just about decided to start
spreading some proper propa
ganda about Americans to coun
ter the' erstwhile nazi (output
When Henry H. Tremaine, of
Allerton, Mass., Gerald A. Peace
of Williamsport, Pa, j and Wil
liam J. Dubs, of Dallas, Texas,
entered a German home the oth
er day they wound the whole
family kneeling in prayer, j i
The doughboy trio sfcod quiet
ly waiting for the prayers to
end before taking up business
with the Germans. Finally r one
member of the family stood up,
Tho Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. SOGERS
CITY DSVFXOPMKNT.H hy. twls
MmfrS Hareoart, Brftcc; $2); -A
MILLION HOMES A TEAS,- y
Dwrethy Iwwiii (BUreeart,
Brace; SMt).
. Devoted to the subject of what
we're going to live in, nd where
it will be, these two, uncommon-
ly valuable books are jwritten by v
experts. They deserve a wide "
audience; they require little -technical
knowledge f - on i the,
reader's part end are so aptly, so
intelligently phrased that they
make pleasant reading j - "
They're for the man, in the
street Mrs. Rosenmah wants to v
get him out of the street into a -comfortable,
efficient; inexpen
sive home: Mumford wants him
in a less crowded street j Few
people have the information to
argue with these authors. 1
Mrs. Rosenntan, chairman of
th National Committee! on
Housing, quotes fromj the 1940
census to show that of the 37,-
.000,000 dwelling units in! this
country,, 14,000,000 had no flush
toilet 12,000,000 n private
bath tub, 11,000,000 no running
' water. .(.-
' To build, homes for people
with incomes under $2000, she
believes there must bie cost re
ductions all along the line in
.materials, labor, taxe, interest
land values; improvement . in
zoning regulations ; stable, ! effi
cient neighborhood control.; ,
Mumford's book consists of
six republished essays: : fThe
City The Metrop4Utan i Mi
lieu," "Mass-Produ cjion! and
Housing," "Report on! Housing,?
The x Social Foundations of
Post-War Planning" 'and "The
Plan of London," the last two
printed for the first time in the
vs. -,- .vL;-;.-;-.;:r':-
His observations on jUie nature
of cities delve so profoundly as
to suggest why Americans, and
perhaps British, too, entered, this
war with reluctance, j
The big city, London, I New
York or Chicago, has been built, "
he claims, for oorionyc and in
dustrial purposes, hot jfor human
ends; that is, people gather in
New York to make money, not
to enjoy the full, happy and nat
ural life. American cities of over-;
25.000 do not reproduce .- them
selves, he points out v and the
larger the metropolis, the lower
the birth rate. His mam criticism
of ' the London County Council
plan for rebuildin i is that it .
aims to keep the capital's pres
ent enormous popula
He favors the "garden city."
For all his : radical i attack on
huge urban centers, ! he is just
'an old-fashioned man who wants
family: life revived. ', . ,
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Sportsznlnded Tonics
Produce Ball Beds 4 I
In German Factory .
came over and asked, heavily:'
"When are you going to shoot
us? ' x-TV
"We are . not going to ' shoot
you," said the startled Tremaine.
"Are you going to hang us
then," said the German, paling.
The three privates' finally con
vinced the German family they
had no intention of killing them.
"Then," said the father of the
family in one of the war's great
est masterpieces of understate
ment, "Hitler hasnt told us' the
truth about everything.
Plenty of S3 troops are trying
to avoid surrender by slipping
into civilian clothes. Some of
them may be getting away with
it but not' anY--;-i- - r-rv -
Pvt Frank T. See, Chicago,
was : standing guard the other
night when he heard shuffling
in s parked truck. He found two
bare feet sticking out of a pup
tent Tickling them gently with
his bayonet, he persuaded their
owner to emerge mua surrenucr.
. At first he looked like just
another half - dressed civilian,
but questioning revealed another
SS trooper trying to sneak home
and become a civilian. - .
A different slant was tried on
PFC Clifford Busse, of Rock
Rapids, Iowa, who had been or
dered to question all suspicious
looking persons.
A bunch of freed slave labor
ers came drifting by. There was
nothing to distinguish two of
them from the rest except that
they looked mighty husky and
healthy to Busse, considering the
undernourishment of the major
ity , - :
Suspecting they had been liv
ing entirely too well for slave
laborers, he turned them over
to military police.! A short time
later Busse received congratula
tions for capturing a couple of
confessed SS troopers. : .
PFC Homer R. Kirkpatrick of
Cove Creek, N. C was just fin
ishing a hurried search of a
house when he heard a noise in
the cellar. He surprised a trio of
SS troopers busily engaged in
changing their uniforms for ci
vilian clothes. To prove their
guilt beyond argument, Homer
marched them in just as . he
caught them, half military
clothes and half -civilian. ,
Tho ,
Safety Volvo
WORK FOB NAZI -BOSSES
To th Editor: Hi -
W ar now . about to winess
the trial and punishment of the
war criminals, those evil men
who indoctrinated a whole gen
eration in the glory and glam
our of war, in th lust for pow
er and in the cunning use of
cruelty, hat and every known
form; of barbarism. Having at
tempted to rule-the by force,
starvation and slavery and hav
ing failed, they are to answer
for their crimes.
j The question now arises: will
these men, who started the most
horrible of all wars be treated
as criminals - and punished as
such, or will they be considered
as soldiers according to the estab
lished code wherein the generals
live in a castle and the privates
behind barbed wire?
If Prussian militarism is to be
stamped out or even discouraged
and Europe is to be cleansed of
Nazism then let us .reverse the
usual methods of dealing with a
conquered nation. For example.
If 1,000,000 or 5,000,000 Ger
mans are to be used in repair
ing the destruction, they com
mitted in Europe, let the mar
shals and generals and admirals
and commodores and high, rank
ing Nazis go first and leave un
til the last, th fifteen to eigh
teen year old boys of the "lost
generation," boys who never had
a chance to know or experience
Liberty, Freedom br Christianity.
If the death penalty is not In
voked, then 10 years at hard la
bor in Russia, France or Hol
lad would be a fitting end to the
career of many a Nazi war lord.
, This is not sadistic revenge; it
is justice and it is the kind of
Justice that will take aU the
glamour out of war for this gen
eration of Germans at least.
To permit the, "officer caste
of th. German army to go free so
that they might! fight "another
day"; would be to forget the sac
rifice of our honored dead who
gave "life itself -: in order, that
freedom might - be restored to
mankind.
This Will not be the last war
unless it is also the end of Ger
man militarism.
iC' V C H. R, PICKETT
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