The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-08
Machine Gun" Parker Pony Express Courier Salutes World War Hero for "Outthinking Hitler"-Notice of Promo. ton to Great Fighter Received in Water. bury During His Visit as D. A
 Guest of Honor.

battlefield of Mexico Parker did the same job he had done on the hat- tlefield of Cuba, and returned again to his pursuit of Villa.
 Then came World War One when Parker put over in the war depart- ment the extensive use of machine guns, and less use of rifles. As q re- suit 1t has been estimated that 6A per cent of the Germans killed were put away by the hands of machine guns that Parker put into action on the Western front, according to the report of the German army's own staff During the trying days of 1917 and 1918 he literally begged his old side-kicker, Pershing, to bring on tho tanks. Please read this word and date again: TANKS i9t7-'i9. He wanted Pershing to or. der one thousand of them even if only 50, or 100 arrived. We'll Themis who writes her undiBputed history has written what happened --that this present war Is one of tanks. AirplaneS, yes, but they have just graduated Into more speed and bigger bombs. Tanks have Knocked out the infantry, and ground is held by tanks today, not unhoused men. John Henry Parker foreSaw oil these things, He was the incessant pros pounder of the machine guns, and then later the tanks, which Idea Hitler picked up and put to his own unsavory use. Don't forget that others may claim credit for 1t. Churchill, Hugh Drum, or George Marshall, but the laurelS of foresight go to General Parker who sits on the bank of the Truckee river phil. osophi1ng and prophesying while smoke from his curved-stem pipe drifts skyward toward the snow. capped Sierra Mountains. Maybe that's what helped to give him his last lofty idea that's bearing fruit today.
 Parker's Protocol Coming True
 When the present war broke out no man knew any more than he the fighting strength of the loosely com. bined Allies, and what Hitler had welded together with concentrated power to throw against them. Park. CT didn't sit around and prophecy what was likely to happen as thous. ands of curbstoners do, nor did he soap-boX his ideas. He went to work and wrote down what had to happen if the world was to be saved for the English speaking people. And he did more than this. He wrote down a program for it all-THE PARKER PROTOCOL for the mlli- tary and naval unification of Great Britain and the United States, and he mailed 1t to the Secretary of Mckenzie King ct Ottowa, Canada. All this happened long ago. Before he mailed 1t the writer had the hon. or of both reviewing its contents, and listening to General Parker read excerpts of same. Without ex- aggeration, in the least, everything he propounded as an absolute nec- essity to defeat Hitler, and Japan, whom he claimed would eventually come In, is coming true. Churchill met Roosevelt on the high seas. He met him again, and the outcome was concentrated power so long and bad- ly needed to speed up production. Now Q Donald Nelson is at the helm. One hopes he's going to prove the bulwark against Hitler that Lord Nelson was against Napoleon. The things Hitler predicted in his book My struggle" have not come true. Just the beginning of them did where he usurps the helpless, weak ling nations. What Parker predict ed machine guns would do in the World War came true, according to the German military experts own testimony. And what he predicted tanks would do, and hollered, hope lessly, for in 1918 is all coming true. They are going to gain the ground and hold it, and defeat the Ger- mans in this war. That is enough of them are with his protocol or- ganization. And this organization that he claimed would have to be created to save the world, and wrote out its program long ago. is rTn- ming true to form.
 So far as a thinker in military af- fairs there is as much difference between Parker's brains and thoSe of Hitler as between the brilliancy of Q diamond and a brass door knob. And SO far as the military predlc- tions in ''hEein Kampf" coming true against those of Parker, down through the years, there Is as much difference as that between a rain-
 bow and a feather dugter. Hitler
 just has Q lot more tools with which