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The Road Ahead
For 18 months now the U. S. has been mainly pre-
occupied with preparation of an all-out assault "En
its enemies on the ground at seaand in the ith has
cept in the air, only a small portion of our strensthane
been pushed against the enemy. But we ha e
reached the point now where these forces can be used
effectiveness, and from here on out
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By RAYMOND CLAPPER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—The
last message of President Roosevelt
was such an admirable and helpful
report on the war that one hesitates
to find any fault with it. Yet the
silence about our relations with the
French committee was disappoint-
ing.
We are going to need France.
Even if a miracle should bring vic-
tory without an invasion of France,
the French people would still be a
most important factor in achiev-
ing Allied peace and security.
In his message to Congress, Mr.
Roosevelt praised the Russians and
the Chinese and distributed words
of encouragement to all the vic-
tims of Fascism and to the little
satellite peoples longing for free-
dom in Rumania, Hungary, Fin-
land and Bulgaria.
But no word to the French. No
word to the French committee to
national liberation whose divisions
we are arming to help in France.
No word of explanation or friend-
ship toward the Frenchmen who
have kept alive the spirit of re-
sistance in France
Why not say the friendly en-
couraging things to Gen. De Gaulle?
Why are we so careful not to say
the words that will give the Frencn
people a greater feeling of pride in
him and a stronger feeling of con-
fidence that Allied forces are work-
ing together, and not against each
other, for the liberation of France?
% % •
PRAISE FOR DE GAULLE
Russia has recognised the French
committee fully, instead of grud-
gingly as we have.
And Moscow says
kind words about
Gen. De Gaulle.
If we fear that
he is slipping into
too close relations
with our ally,
Russia, where else
Clapper
have we been
driving him by
our scowling at-
titude?
This French affair has a long
history. And it would be a good
deal better for all of us if we
would just let that history go into
the safekeeping of the historians
and devote ourselves to the pres-
ent. Do we have to go on forever
insisting that it was right to deal
with Darlan? Most people think It
was a good deal. Why not let it
go at that? Nothing but a guilty
conscience could keep anybody de-
fending the Darlan deal this length
of time. It got us what we wanted,
so let's get on. Now it is Gen. De-
Gaulle who can get us what we
want-or come nearer to it than
any other Frenchman.
What do we want? We want the
French people to get up on their
hind legs and kick the hell out of
the Nazis as soon as .the Allies
come in. We don't want them to
become all tangled up like Badoglio
and the little king did in their own
spaghetti, and disappear from sight.
Gen. De Gaulle is temperamental.
He annoys even such a patient man
as Anthony Eden who has been in
his corner. He has exasperated
Churchill and Roosevelt beyond
words. But there are also some oth-
ers in the war, some other Allied
leaders, who are not exactly easy
to get along with. Yet we try o
be patient and understanding, and
we certainly overlook no opportu-
nity to tell them what a great thing
they are doing.
HE’S TEMPERAMENTAL
Now, Gen. De Gaulle, with all of
his temperamental faults. Is the
only Frenchman in sight who has
any political force, who has any-
thing of what it takes to lead mass
French resistance to the Naas. He
has an excellent military man in
Gen. Giraud—a man who is or-
ganising what evidently are effi-
cient French divisions. He has no
Interest in political leadership and
no flair for it. But, with De Gaulle
rallying the French people, and
Giraud as the military commander,
we have a team that can pull a good
deal of weight in the Allied boat.
And when we try to crack France,
every bit of it will be needed.
The talk goes around that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is even more criti-
cal than the state department peo-
ple of Gen. De Gaulle. He could
very well take opportunity to leave
no room for doubt and to work
energetically to knit good relations
with the only responsible group of
Frenchmen the Allies have. That
is what he is doing with regard to
Russia. Some of the same effort
should go into preparing the French
for the day when they can fight
with the Allies.
For Instance—the French ought
to be part of the Mediterranean,
allied commission, which thus far
includes only ourselves, Britain and
Russia.
_AND Now, LADIES, I WILL TELL
YOU How TO PREPARE THE /MOST
DELICious STEW. YOUR HUSBANDS
LOVE IT. we HAVE NAMED IT
. The DOUBLE V— ONE V is FOR
VI CTORY AND THE OTHER FOR MITA-
MINS’ FIRST-We Tk € THE LEFTOVeRs
FROM YE STERDAY S DINNER. AND
PUT TEM NN THE PAN WITH HALF A
“ Peek OF BEET Tops AND THREE OR
FOUR FISH HEADS. ADD Two QUARTS
OF WATER, TRE--
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with increasing i-----
the enemy will feel this increased pressure
will hurt him most. . , Marshall told
That, in brief, is what Chief of Staff Marshall torn
the American Legionnaires in convention at Omaha,
Soldiers, Count Your Change in Itc
None Emphasized that we stand at the beginning not
the middle or near the end. of our greatest pressu
upon the enemy. Our base preparations are nearing
completion everywhere except in Italy, which must
needs be one of our principal bases of operation against
GermanyThe amount of shipping, supplies manpower
and other requirements to put the Italian based ant!
operation—after we have won it—is bey ond thefam
IP conception of the average civilian. It may well take
months which is something for those who expect vic-
tory by Christmas to keep in mind. s—mnavino
The chief of staff's sobering words were dismaying
only to those who have been overoptimistic. They were
actually cheering to those who have realized all along
and magnitude of the task. God knows we have come
a long wav from the slough of despond in which we
found ourselves 18 months ago, when everything
seemed to be going wrong. We can see daylight
We know we're going to win, unless we kick victory
- away in senseless bickering and disunity among our-
selves and with our allies. But we also know that the
road ahead isn’t strewn with roses and beds of ease
We Americans can look the future in the face with
confidence and hope, in a spirit of humility rather
than arrogance; for we have had a narrow squeak and
we have passed the crisis, but we still have far to go.
In the strength of our arms and with the blessing of
God, we shall win through to glorious victory.
Stalin and the Junkers
On the surface the American and Russian method
of dealing with the problem of weakening Germany
bv propaganda are poles apart.
In his message to congress Mr. Roosevelt promised
the destruction not only of Nazism, but of Prussia s
military clique which has for generations spark-
plugged Germany's aggressions. Any plan for the dis-
armament of Germany must necessarily include this
formula as a necessary step. ....
But the Russians angle their approach differently.
Stalin has said he does not desire the total destruction
of Germany, not even its military strength. From Stal-
in's viewpoint, this makes perfectly good sense, for
this reason: Russia is sponsoring a movement among
captured German officers to undermine the Nazis from
without and bring about their downfall. Obviously if
he also advocated the total destruction of Germany’s
military caste, he would be telling his German collab-
orators in advance that as soon as their joint work
was accomplished, the captive generals would imme-
diately be shot. . .
Thus Stalin is doing exactly what we did in the case
of Darlan in North Africa—that is, making use of all
available means of striking at the enemy through
whatever instrumentality comes to hand. American
pinks raised the roof about our deal with Darlan, but
you don’t hear them raising the roof about Stalins
deal with the German militarists he has personally de-
militarized. They are effective weapons in his hands,
and he is using them in a practical way.
Using them to undermine the Nazi and embracing
them as blood brothers after the deed is accomplished
are two totally different things; and we cannot imagine
Stalin going to bed with the Junkers after the war is
won. It so happens his captives can be of great service
in undermining one Adolf Hitler, and the old fox of
the Kremlin is using them for that purpose. Telling-
them to their face they would be liquidated once their
usefulness ends would hardly be a good way of getting
their cooperation, would it? ________________________
Good Purpose, Wrong Method
Tennessee is the only one of the eight states which
require a polltax as a prerequisite to voting which can
abolish that requirement by a simple act of its legis-
lature. Not long ago the Tennessee legislature abolished
the polltax. The Tennessee supreme court later held
that the legislative act by which this was brought
about was unconstitutional.
All the other polltax states have the provision im-
bedded in their constitutions. No act of the legislature
can repeal it. The repeal must come from the people,
voting in an election submitting the question to them
directly, within each state.
We get this information from Jennings Perry, editor
of the Nashville Tennessean, one of the leading lights
in putting over repeal in his state. Mr. Perry is now
chairman of the National Committee to Abolish the
Polltax, with headquarters in Washington This com-
mittee proposes to ride roughshod over the constitu-
tion of seven of the 48 states and abolish the polltax
by vote of congress.
Remember that none of the seven legislatures has
this authority. Their state constitutions specifically
forbid the legislatures to repeal the polltax. because
it is a part of the state constitutions and nobody but the
people can alter these documents.
Yet Mr. Perry and his committee propose to have
the federal legislature do what the state legislature
can’t do—that is, abolish the polltax in these several
states by legislative decree.
Probably the polltax should be abolished, but if and
when it is done it should be done by constitutional
a means. If congress wants to submit a U. S. constitu-
tional amendment giving it the right to fix the quali-
fications of voters in the 48 states, let it do so. But it
has no moral right to cram it down the throats of the
several states, in violation of their own constitutions
and at some violence to the federal constitution.
By HENRY McLEMORE
This is in the nature of a sup-
plement to the handbook which was
distributed to the Allied soldiers
before they invaded Italy.
The information contained is bas-
ed on knowledge gained as a tour-
ist in Italy and if I knew anything
about Iulians, they are incapable
of looking at any American, be he
in uniform or out, without giving
him the prescribed tourist going-
over. Iulians didn't shoot at Am-
ericans before the war, but they
did everything else they could
think of to get the better of them.
The first chapter oi my supple-
ment will be titled "Doughboy,
Count Your Dough " It will be
filled with warnings against the
happiest, laughingest, warm-heart-
edest short - change artists who
ever sang "O Solo Mio" in an off
key.
The average Iulian cashier could
no more give an American tourist
his correct amount of change than
a Hatfield could send a wedding
present to a McCoy bride. Pay a
fifty cent bill with the equivalent
of a ten dollar bill and if the money
handler gives you more than eight
bucks back, you're not in Italy. At
the same time, it you count your
lira and demand the proper change,
the Italian who has short-changed
you will go into gales of laughter.
He will shake all over as he gives
you what is due you Before you
know it, you'll be laughing too and
come close to feeling sorry that
what papa had tucked aside for
mama and the bambino had to be
handed over.
AH. THOSE CIGARETTES!
"Don't smoke Italian cigarettes'”
That is Chapter No. 2. The English
cigarette is bad, the French cigar-
ette is worse, the German one la
a grade below the French, and the
Italian cigarette—well, a man could
roll himself one from ground roost-
er combs and ten-penny nails and
do a lot better. One puff and the
average American's lungs will jump
straight from his chest, look the
owner in the eye, and demand,
"What the hell is going on here?”
I had my first Italian cigarette,
being too broke to buy anything
else, sitting at a table in the Square
of St. Mark in Venice. A couple
of friendly pigeons waddled over
and I Inadvert-
ently blew a puff
of Italian cigar-
ette smoke on
them. They took
off on coughing
motors, circled
the Doge’s Palace
three times and
then conked out
completely to nose
dive down on the
McLemore Bridge of Sighs.
Chapter 3 will be headed. "Don’t
Get Sore If Italian Sphaghetti Isn't
As Good As What You Got In Res-
spaghetti joints (bread, butter, des-
sert included) did I get any spagh-
etti that tasted the way it really
should.
BEWARE OF GRAPE 8KINS
Here’s another tip for soldiers
travelling in Italy. When riding
on a train you might as well give
up the idea of objecting to Italians
eating grapes and putting the
skins down the back of your coat
This is a national characteristic.
The Italians won't throw, the skins
out of the window or on the floor.
They are too neat for that. As they
eat each grape, they take the skin
and with a graceful gesture, drop
it down the collar of the tourist in
front of them. I took a two-hun-
dred-mile ride on an Italian train
and came out within a whisper of
being mistaken for a vineyard All
I needed was for some peasant to
walk up and down my back in their
taurants At Home "
The Iulians make a lot of spagh-
etti. The clothes lines are filled
with it drying. But once they
get it made, they don't know what
to do with it. I happen to be a
great spaghetti lover and I search- ..... ....________.____._____
ed all around Italy for some I could bare feet to press out five quarts
really enjoy.. Heaven knows I had
it with every meal but it was not
until' I got back to New York and
sat down in one of those fifty cent
of chianti.
(Distributed by McNaught Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
ongressional Record a Stodgy
By PETER EDSON
Reporter-News Washington
Correspondents,
The oldest story in Washington
is the utter futility of the nonde-
script publication known as the
Congressional Record It serves a
questionable purpose in preserving
for posterity the immortal words
of the legislators in debate and their
thoughts on the great issues de-
termining the country’s destiny.
But since much of that debate is
hay and most of the appendix Is
baloney, the resulting julienne,
when you get it all sliced up, is a
salad that is fit for neither man
nor beast and is completely blotto.
The Record never seemed more
ineffectual than in Its reports of
the opening day of the new session
of Congress. The good solons had
been home for three months, beat-
ing the bushes, mending the fences,
getting their grounded ears full of
grass roots and dirt. By any law
of averages the congressmen should
have returned to the capitol full
of pep. vinegar and beans, bursting
with information on the state of
the nation and rarin' to right the
country's wrongs. Yet a perusal of
the columns of the Congressional
Record or an actual watch on the
proceedings themselves was a bit-
ter disappointment if not a com-
plete letdown. The stuff just wasn’t
there.
utfit
THE WAR Today
By DIWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Anelyst
CALENDAR OF RATION DATES
SEPT 30 — Last date for second tire inspection by A card holders.
Oct 2 — Expiration date for red stamps X and Y in war book 2
(valid from Aug 29); for red stamp Z (valid from Sept 5);
for brown stamp A in war book 3 (valid from Sept 12);
for brown stamp B (valid from Sept. 19.)
OCT. 20 — Expiration date for blue stamps U. V, and w in ration book
2 (valid from Sept. 1.) .
OCT. 30 — Expiration date tor brown stamps C (valid from Sept. 26);
D valid from Oct. 3>; E (valid from Oct. 10); F (valid from
Oct. 17).
OCT. 31—Stamp 14 in war ration book 1 valid until this date for five
pounds ol sugar.
OCT. 31—Stamps 15 and 16 In war ration book 1 good until this date for
5 pounds each of sugar for nome canning. Persons needing
additional sugar may apply to ration boards for supplemental
allotments.
OCT 31—Shoe stamp No 18 expires.
NOV 21—Expiration date for No. 8 basic A gasoline ration coupons.
Taylor County War Price and Rationing Board located on third floor
of Federal building in Abilene.
RECORD RESOLUTION
Digging through the Records in
an effort to find what might be on
the minds of the people back home,
you come on these sorry disclosures:
Presentation of resolution pass-
ed by the Wisconsin State Legisla-
ture calling for, among other things,
a constitutional amendment limit-
ing tax rates to 25 percent maxi-
mum.
Resolutions from a Kansas live-
stock convention objecting to any
efforts to get people to eat less
meat.
Resolutions from southern rice
growers that they need more labor.
Resolutions from northwest farm-
A one-minute speech by the Hon.
Eugene J. Keough entitled, "Trees
Do Grow in Brooklyn."
A one-minute speech by the Hon.
Bertrand W. Gearhart of Fresno,
Calif., which was a recital of a
12-line poem in which St. Peter ad-
mitted a man to heaven after he'd
been through hell making out his
income tax form.
AD INFINITUM
Various one-minute speeches ob-
jecting to the draft of fathers and
reprinting of newspaper articles on
that subject which the members
should have seen anyhow, if they
BRITISH Prime Minister
D Churchill has the knack of
hitting the nail on the head, ax
he again demonstrated yester-
uday on
mannerin
5 h which he drove
Bros home the points
1 of his notable
Bis-a two - hour war
Been report to the
House of Com-
mons.
Outstanding
was the Pre-
________mier’s warning
MacKENZIS of the need of
cordial relations between the
Anglo-American allies and their
Russian colleague — a subject
which long has been driving many
timid statesmen to the hurri-
cane cellar. He broached the mat-
ter by announcing that not only
will there be a conference of rep-
resentatives of America, Britain
and Russia "at an early date" but
that thia will be followed by a
Roosevelt-Stalin - Churchill par-
ley. and of this latter project he
said:
"No meeting during this war
could carry with It so much sig- -
nificance for the future of the
world M a meeting between the
heads of the three governments,
for without close, cordial and
lasting association between So-
viet Russio and their great al-
lies we might find ourselves at
the end of the war only to have
entered upon a period of deepen-
ing confusion"
can
ers that they need more boxcars.
Requests from New England sen-
ators for an investigation of the 1
goal situation.
A home-front speech by Sen.
Alexander Wiley of Chippewa Falls.
Wis., principally objecting to the
fact that the federal government
has more employes in the various
states than do the state and local
governments combined.
The principal business of the
Senate was, of course, preliminary
debate on the draft of fathers, a
good political'' issue if there ever
was one.
The performance on the House
aide was even sorrier, highlighted
by contributions such as these:
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom friend of the maturing sun," the poet Keats
called the season of Autumn. And as the dark clouds of Indian Summer come up over the horizon,
an Ohio farmer kneels in a field of mellow pumpkins that typify the harvest spirit of the season.
5
read the papers at all. •
A one-minute speech by William
P. Lambertson of Fairview, Kan.
objecting to OPA price rollbacks
to reduce the cost of living.
An account by the Hon. Homer
D. Angell of Portland. Ore., on his
trip over the Alcan highway.
A 10-minute speech by the Hon.
John E. Rankin of Tupelo, Miss .
Edson
bawling out a
newspaper col-
umnist for critic-
izing Secretary of
State Cordell Hull.
When you get
back into the
appendix of the
Record, the go-
ing is even worse.
What do you get?
Reprints of the
O. O. P. declara-
tions of Mackinac,
MR. Churchill thus approached
a great issue which is caus-
ing increasing anxiety—that is,
the need of ironing out import-
ant differences in viewpoint be-
tween the Anglo-American part-
nership and our Soviet ally. These
problems are largely political and
unless they are solved they will
bode no good to a postwar world
which will be entering a new
epoch in the progress of man-
kind.
To my mind the fundamental
fact to which all parties must
adjust their outlook is that Rus-
sia's star seems to be leading her
straight to domination of most of
Europe and Asia after this war.
Look at it whatever way you will
—politically. economically or
militarily—and the answer is the
same. This vast, self-contained,
invulnerable empire will be the
most powerful unit of the eastern
hemisphere. That's a decree of
fate, and the only way to meet it
Is to recognise it and strive for
a frank understanding.
A MONO the questions on which
A the Soviet and the western
allies appear to be rather far
apart is that relating to the 0
method of handling the defeat-
ed Axis countries, and especially
as regards the treatment of Ger-
many. America and Britain de-
mand unconditional surrender,
which would be followed by mili-e
tary occupation.
Moscow, on the other hand, has
nodded approval of the activities
of German officers and others in
Russia who have formed commit-
tees and are trying to persuade
the German people to overthrow3
Hitler and form a government
which they hope might secure a
negotiated peace. The signs are.
too, that the Soviet doesn't care
for the Allied plans for super-
vising Italy. o
Underlying the issue of the
postwar handling of both Ger-
many and Italy there is, of course,
the very big question of what
form of government these coun-
tries ultimately will adopt for
themselves. From what fount will
they draw their inspiration?
%% •
THEN there’s the question of
a the Balkans, which Russia
regards as within her sphere of
influence but which also fig- 2
ure in Britain's interests in the
Middle East. And over in Iran
(Persia) the old, old rivalry be-
tween Britain and Russia for
domination of this strategically
situated state is working over-
time, as was made quite clear to "
me during my recent visit to that
country. More than Incidentally, •
many observers hold that Russia
has her eye on the Persian gulf
to provide with one of the warm
water ports which she needs so 2
badly.
So it goes, and the further we
proceed in surveying the position
the more apparent does it be-
come that there must be a mighty
lot of give and take among the
Allies if grave difficulties are to
be avoided. That must be nego-
tiated before the end of the war,
for afterward may be too late.
For
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which were In all the papers a week
ago. Reprint of a speech broadcast
on July 9 by the Hon. Walter C.
Ploesser of St. Louis, Mo., about
meat.
Reprints of speeches by Roose-
velt, Hull, Taft, Burton and many
others all through the 90-day re-
cess, all of which were aired over
the radio and reported in the
papers And then there's a master-
piece by the Hon. Dr (of veterinary
surgery) George W. Gillie of Fort
Wayne, Ind . on Keeping Live-
stock Healthy.” He’d probably send
you a copy if you dropped him
a card.
But is this the state of the na-
tion?
OPA VS. LAW
TWIN FALLS. Idaho, Sept.
22—(PP)— Farmer William C. Hul-
bert bid $1,050 for a used trac-
tor at a county auction—then
began to wonder about price
callings.
The county said it legally
could accept only the highest
bid, and filed suit for the full
amount Hulbert said he'd pay
If It's legal.
Now the OPA has intervened
in the suit, pointing to a $723
ceiling.
Hulbert's plowing Is waiting.
Bargain Buy
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22—
HOME FRONI
By JAMES MARLOW end GIORGI ZIELKE
(EDITOR’B NOTE: This is another
of a series st stories on the methods
used by the Army at home—news, r-
die and film—to keep its fighting
forces on the world’s battlefronts en-
tertained and informed of the news
from home.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—()-
American soldiers overseas
have a link with home even when
it is only a voice in thin air.
Fiddle-chin Bob Hope, balding
Bing Crosby, leggsy Betty Grable,
Sunday hymns come out of loud-
speakers and radio sets to Amer-
ican soldiers in:
Kiska, Chungking, Cairo, New
Delhi, London, Oran Palermo
Khoramasher at the head of the
Persian gulf, and in Army huts
in Greenland. Those are only a
few of the places.
It is a big-scale operation by the
Army at home and abroad.
OFFICERS planning the invae
U slon of Kiska long-distanced
Washington for a radio station,
picked it up in Los Angeles,
movd it north, took It ashore the
day after the first troops landed.
Headed by experts who were top
men in the radio field in civilian
life, the job is handled by the
Army’s special service informa-
tion branch radio section.
Two of their main jobs are mak-
ing transcriptions (recordings)
and setting up overseas radio sta-
tions to broadcast them
Where there are as yet no ra-
dio stations—Guadalcanal is one
—transcriptions are broadcast
(PP)—Leroy R. Cortell bought a
battered satchel six months ago ______,---
from a passerby who said he / from this country by short wave,
needed the 15 cents for coffee
and doughnuts.
Yesterday Cortell, cleaning
the bag before reselling it to a
friend for 25 cents, felt some-
thing beneath the lining.
It was three neatly folded
bills, amounting to $60.
That short-waving is a round-
the-clock performance.
THE radio section now tran-
1 cribes 36 hours of programs
a week on 16-inch unbreakable
disc records.
There are two kinds ol tran-
scriptions: Regular commercial
programs which you hear at
home—but with the commercial *
plugs deleted for the troops—and
special programs written and ar-
ranged by the men of the radio
section.
The 16-inch records—each side
playing 15 minutes-are packed
72 to a box and delivered by plane
wherever possible, one box at a
time to one circuit. The Army is
shipping out an average of over
2.000 transcriptions weekly to 26
circuits.
A TYPICAL circuit would be
A Kiska. Adak. Kamchitka and
Attu in the Aleutians. In North
Africa there is a network of five
stations A radio station was set
up in Palermo a week after its
%
capture
The Army has placed 48 stations
of its own abroad and addition-
ally- uses private stations or those
owned by other governments—as
In China, Australia and Egypt.
Nearly all the wellknown screen, %
stage and radio stars have ap-
peared on the radio section shows
which bring together more talent
than you at home may ever have
heard on one program.
One of the top programs is
command performance, built up- }
on the requests of troops for a
special singer, special song or
special music
THIS radio enter ainment is in
1 addition to the news and ed-
ucational programs sent out to *
the troops who have received
from the Army thousands of
short-wave receiving sets.
At first the Army had thought
to allow one set per each group
of 120 men but that plan could ,
not be followed too rigidly In a
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