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THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1948
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Our General in Germany
Back in the year of old, 1925,
Walter Lipmann bossed the edi
torial page of the New York
World. One of his writers was
a combat veteran of World War
I. James M. Cain. He took to a
book by an Oregon lumber-hooker
blew a horn for it three different
times in the World’s editorial
page—and Lipmann let him. The
book was “Paql Bunyan” by J.
Who.
Now it is 23 years after. Cain
is a famous author of realistic
novels, he is the American Zola.
Walter Lipmann is, to my eye,
the most enlightened news analyst
and philosopher on world affairs
now in practice. He is a deep
student, a powerful writer, and
he takes his responsibilities very
seriously.
These remarks are meant to
lead up to Walter Lipmann’s
judgment on General Lucis D.
Clay, the American commander in
Germany, who has had and is
having one of history’s most dif
ficult jobs to do. Lippmann says,
“It is comforting to know that a
man of Clay’s exceptional virtue,
of his strength and moral refine
ment, is to remain where he is.”
Clay is “calm”, “firm”, “rational”,
“resolute,” according to Walter
Lippmann, and as he says it I
believe it. This is truly good news.
Clay on Lumber
On the same evening that I
read that heartening estimate on
General Clay I did some casting
back through wartime news clip
pings. This heading caught my
eye, “The Lumber Industry Does
Its Part in War.” Date was May
13, 1943. The body of the story
was a statement by the major
general who was Assistant Chief
of Staff for Materials, Army
Service Forces, Lucius D. Clay.
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He said in part:
“Our victory over the once
proud Afrika Korps was made
sure by the over whelming wea
pons of war that flowed to our
forces in perfect condition and
ready for use.
The materials
came in boxes and crates, many
of them made of stout Pacific
Northwest lumber. As our troops
pressed forward with the val
uable supplies brought to them
in wood, other troops in the rear
areas were salvaging the very
wood itself. Lumber was so scarce
in the theater of operations that it
was treated with nearly the same
care as the supplies it had har
bored. Not a scrap of that wood
went to waste. It was converted
into shelters, tables, anti-aircraft
gun platforms; in. short, into
many of the things that an army
needs in the field but cannot bring
with it.
“Loggers and millworkers help
ed launch our offensive just as
surely as did the soldiers who
used their wood and their weapons
so rightly and securely packed in
that wood. The Army is looking
to the Pacific Northwest for more
and more lumber—the raw ma
terial of victory.”
Black Falls the Shadow
A black menace is big on the
horizon again. War can hit us
as quickly and as easily as a light
ning stroke. So now, the soldier
who paid such a fine tribute to
the men of the woods and mills
five years ago, bears a fearful
responsibility.
He cannot defy
the lightning and stop its strokes,
but he can do a great deal to
evade and stave off the endless
minor threats and to prepare for
the worst.
Thinking of General Clay and
what his character and actions
mean to all of us, that phrase of
Lippmann’s about him, “moral
refinement” recurs. Surely it is
a true one. The general has a
fighting face, but it also reflects
idealism, refined moral strength
of highest qualify. Friends, there
is one man I trust—Lucius D.
Clay.
Note: The following statement
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presentative, 33rd district, Clat
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four terms, 1941, 1943, 1945 and
1947.
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the people during the past decade
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unless major changes are made
in next fall’s election.
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many years to come and it is
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us as citizens to take an active
part in and vote in this election.
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