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No Limits to Nimitz!
sons lose their lives each year in fires. And many times that number
suffer incapacitating or painful burns and injuries. Seven thousand ol
these deaths occur in homes where more than 400,000 tires were report
ed last year. The victims of these home tires are largely women and
children.
During the last ta months, America burned $444,11$,000 worth ot
property— the highest fire loss in 11 sears. This huge accumulation ot
buildings and goods was wasted at a time when the world is crying tor
all kinds of food, clothing, building materials and commodities ot
every kind. While striving to conserve resources to produce and supply
the products for our own as well as other nations, our annual bonfire
consumed nearly half a billion dollars in property.
It is heartening the way Americans have turned to give the less
dramatic w ar leaders as big or «bigger ovations than they have bestowed
idly. A speed- up of this program
upon those who just naturally make headlines and magazine covers.
is being worked out and will pro­
bably become effective in Nov­
The return of Admiral Nimitz furnishes a good example and writes
ember,
with a downward revision
another bright chapter.
points. It is planned also to speed
The Navy prides itself that it does not exalt personalities. The salty
up the rate nt which officers are
released. The Navy plans also to
five-star Admiral from inland Texas, consciously and unconsciously
be down to a peacetime level be­
BY HARRIS ELLSWORTH
holds himself well within this Navy tradition. Nobody who listened to
fore June 1st.
Representative
In
Congress
his gruff, matter of fact speech broadcast from the Japanese surrender
from Oregon
ceremonies would hail him as a spellbinder. No one who can grasp the
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magnitude of his tasks and his successes in the Pacific could do other­
Not long ago, I heard an Eng­
wise than place him among the great naval leaders of all time.
By Huth Taylor
lishman use the phase “the wake
As
the
judge in the divorce
For one need not subtract an ounce of credit from the Army, nor of the battle” to describe the
court said; "It used to be that
period
of
confusion
and
misery
ignore the atomic bomb ,to admit that the big job, the unbelievably
that exists in any area or in any people were married for better or
difficult job of the Pacific was was the N avy’s The Navy got the country after the shooting stops. for worse, but mostly now it
Army to where its men could fight and its planes fly. The Navy opened Apparently most of the world is seems to be just for the better.
the sea lanes, kept them open, and kept supplies flowing over the long­ now in what might be called “the They won’t stand the worse.”
You have to put up with all
wake of the battle”. Not only are
est distances known in major warfare. The N avy’s Marines stormed and we having plenty of trouble at sorts o fthings to live with other
took the strongest island fortresses ever conquered The Navy’s airplanes home, but the collapse of the people. It takes team work, both
swept the enemy fleets from the sea and sky and fought with the land Council of Foreign Ministers in sides being willing to work to­
It means you have to
London indicates that the pro­ gether.
forces after hours.
blem of winning the peace is not think of the other fellow’s rights
And the man on the spot— if a goodly portion of the globe can be proceeding very smoothly.
as your responsibilities.
Members of Congress are aware
Each person, or each group, or
called a spot— who directed al Ithis was Admiral Nimitz. Welcome
of the complexities of the pre­ each nation, always believes it­
home!—Christian Science Monitor.
sent home front problem. Con­
Letter From
Washington
On the USS Richmond Eld­
red Leroy Juck, seaman, first
class, Route 2, Ashland, Ore., set.
ved on this light cunser as »he
anchored off Omlnato Nuval Base
to help in the occupation of north,
ern Japan.
The RICHMOND, veteran of
three years of North I’ucific war­
fare .heuded a long line of cruis­
er», curriers, destroyers und auxi­
liaries that entered Tsu g a 1 u
Strutts Sept. 8. At 5 am. she was
met by a Jupunese frigate outside
the struits und three Japanese
boarded the American ship to us-
sist in the passuge through the
minefields.
To the men of this ship, the oc­
cupation of Hokkaido and north­
ern Honshu was a fitting climax
to the long, weary months of but-
Monument» and markat». Saa | thug fogs, storms, cold and Japs
Burn» Mamorial». On tha P lait. In the North I’ucific.
be insurance or electric lights, or
saying how muny acres of augur
beets per farm, etc., we don I
sturt up our worrying apparatus
—we just say, why did the guys
let Sumbo do it.
1 um not preaching that we
should keep in a turmoil ull the
tune ulaiut the other person—but
from the way she looks from hen
ut Hickory, folks have gotta team
up and do something us u group
or we will be cleaned up one by
one, or piecemeal. Something
needs to be done kindu unani
nious-like about Uncle Samuel
and his Russian ideas of the Govt,
taking over and being everything
—except a taxpayer.
Yours with the low down
JO SERRA
New
Arrivals!
Living Together
self the standard by which all
gress, however, finds itself in a should be measured. Each be­
curious, in-between situation. The lieves it is right and that others
end of the emergency has not yet must conform to that standard of
America Betrayed
At the end of a war which cost the nations of the world tens of mil­ been declared. Hence, the war righteousness.
powers of the President are still
But when people begin to work
lions of live», unspeakable suffering, material losses beyond human cal­ in force. In other words, the dom­
together, they learn to know that
culation, and which closed with the discovery of a weapon so devastat­ estic affairs of the country are there are varying shades of right­
ing that the destruction of human life on earth can conceivably be ac­ still being operated on a war­ ness. They begin to assume that
time basis even though the war
complished at the press of a button— to repeat, at the end of this cosmic has ended. Meanwhile there is their*» is not the only side.
Living together either as indiv­
catastrophe, what do we find? The natural expectancy would be to find great public demand to have nor­
iduals
or as nations, requires un­
humility and thankfulness for peace in the heart of every man; a devout mal peace-time conditions restor­ derstanding—and what is more,
ed and war-time controls remov­
determination to strengthen the religious, governmental, industrial and ed. If Congress were to act im­ a willingness to understand. Inter
dependency does not mean the
scientific institutions which have grown slowly through centuries of mediately in response to this de­
other fellow must do all the giv­
mand,
its
action
logically
would
trial and error, and which have reached a peak here in our own United
be the declaration of the end of ing. Relationships must be recip­
States, giving all of our people, as individuals a stature and dignity the emergency, which would auto­ rocal if they are to endure.
Danger does not lie so much in
matically end executive powers.
never before known. But do we find these things here?
what
people believe—but in the
We must realize, however, that to
The most obvious fact in the United States today is that business throw off all brakes right at this uncompromisingness with which
It is
men, laborers, farmers, politicians— all of us— are trying to escape th time might easily have disaster they hold those beliefs.
much easier to be critical than
out
results.
It
will
be
recalled
natural consequences of a long and terrible war. But this is not so
that the serious inflation of the correct.
strange perhaps as the fact that in trying to escape these consequences, first World War period came aft­
The strength of any lasting as­
we are willing to scrap our nation’s financial integrity, our form of er the war was ever and was fol­ sociation, whether it be between
lowed by a sharp depression. It individuals or nations lies in a-
government, and just about every heritage of mankind that this coun­ is almost a certainty that infla­ greement
upon
fundamental
try posses. The accent is on phony material security, even at the price tion would take place rapidly ideasl, in willingness to concede
ot personal liberty. Many public officials are more concerned with right now if controls were taken to the other equal rights and op­
off.
portunities, and in the mutual
measures that are politically popular at the moment, than with justice
The problem inevitably, there- recognition of interdependence.
or political integrity. We are shouting for easy living, despite the fact foiX is President Truman’s to In short, and to be very trite—it
that we are faced with ruin if we do not work very hard. Labor has deal with, at least for the next needs the strict application of the
few months. He has all the pow­ Golden Rule, for human kindness
served notice that it intends to increase its social gains with less work er needed to do what is neces­ is the foundation of life on earth.
and more pay. Again, the accent is on personal profit above everything sary, but right at this time more
else. Our nation rode to the financial crest of a war boom over the than ever before, the President The Low Down from
needs the cooperation oi the peo­
bodies of a million men who gave al lthey had in mortal conflict for the ple for the good of the country.
Hickory Grove . . .
sake of the spiritual treasures of civilization, and now it proposes to stay
Most folks pay little attention
1 1 1
The capital city has done honor to the other guy’s troubles, and
on that easy living crest by hook or crook.
to several returning heroes, b u t, 1 gUess it is maybe okay, or al-
This spectacle should bring fear to the hearts of the thoughtful— fear no demonstration heretofore was ' most. Everybody has his own
for al lmankind.
equal to that in honor of Admiral | problem, like digging up the rent
Nimitz. It is estimated that near­ or keeping mama in purple “al­
ly a million people lined the lure” toenail polish, or keeping
streets and gathered on the Wash­ the car key hid from Junior. If
Crossing the Picket Lines
ington Monument grounds to see some stranger gets himself ar­
What has happened to our traditional sense of order and justice in the parade and hear the welcom­ rested, or shot, or some Senator
this nation.' Nearly every day now we read in the daily news dispatches ing ceremonies.
or Secretary of State pops-off
Admiral Nimitz is a white-hair­
o fflareup between industrial unions, fights between pickets and men ed man with a kindly face. He is with a new angle on some chack-
ed idea—it is not our baby—we
who want to return to work. There have been many reports of fights rather small in stature, but has a
think.
wherein some union member, a member of a picket line or maybe an in­ bearing of authority. Admiral
Nimitz is t typical American fam­ If the Govt, edges into some
nocent bystander gets seriously injured in the fighting. Last week a pro­ ily man, who has risen to the other person’s business like may-
minent Hollywood star received a brain concussion in the movie strikes very top of his chosen profession, ■ M M N O M oanaattM iQ nanaa
and wil ltake his place in history
which have been gripping the film capital.
as one of this nation’s great naval
While many people sympathize with the unions and their members in heroes.
the attempt to get more pay ,yet we can hardly see how anyone can
condone the outright attempts on person’s lives, without interference
from the law. We have never heard of the established law enforcement
agencies doing anything about arresting pickets and sympathizers who
beat up others. They apparently get away with it in the eyes of the law.
Personally we get very disgusted with the whole strike picture.
There may be some justification for attempts to get higher wages in
isolated cases, but on the whole, the workingman has had good wages.
It appears to us that strikes are being called in many cases without at­
tempting to settle the disputes by negotiations between unions and
management. The unions are very powerful and are using that power
to compel capital to meet their demands. Inasmuch as capital is firmly
entrenched and very powerful, we may expect to see some extended
fighting before peac settles over the industrial world. And in the mean­
time the public suffers from the strife.
1
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The speed of Army demobili­
zation has, up to now, exceeded
original schedules. I understand
that revised estimates are being
made. According to reliable infor­
mation, men will be discharged
from the Army at the rate of one
million a month during the first
months of 1946. The reported ob­
jective is to have all Army per­
sonnel discharged and home by
June 1st.
The Navy demobilization pro­
gram is not moving quite so rap-
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