The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-06-18

plies IN the Far East are now To-
Gated, is farther from San Francis
co than Japan is.
The Globol War
The President has spoken Of this
war as a global war. The sooner
we begin to realize that the high
ways r skyways traced around a
globe and not along the false pro-
portions Of a Mercator projection,
the sooner we will realize what our
task is, today and tomorrow.
The mass raids on Germany have
shown the course that the Allied
Nations are going to follow to VIC
tory. That curse is, the shortest
course. Germany gave US the hint
when she built her once unbeatable
Luftwaffe but didn't have what
America has to carry out the idea.
This war is what H. c.. Wells pre-
dicted 80 years ago in his prophetic
novel, The War of the Worlds"
namely. a war in the air. And after
the war the nation which controls
the skyways and the stations (the
bases) will control the world.
Today, the reason why the United
Nations are stymied in their effort
is because the seaways are closed.
Not because the Axis has blockaded
the seas, although the submarine
is still unconquered in the western
Atlantic and men in Germany are
~decreeing that Americans can't run
their car because they in Germa-
ny won't let us have the gasoline.
The Allied Nations can't build ships
faster than they are sunk but only
recently has the old-fashioned meth
cd of conveying men and goods by
sea and rail been questioned and air
transport taken seriously as a SUBJ
stitute.
Before the Russians ever trained
a single parachutist, before the Ger
mans developed the technique of
landing men and equipment be-
hind the enemy lines from the air.
an American sergeant had patented
a method Of landing machine gun
units from parachutes. Before the
first Germans dropped their men
into helpless Holland, Americans
had been dropping men in asbestos
suits from planes to fight forest
fires.
W. have been afraid to take the
shortest cuts. Perhaps the new
mass raids over Germany will
awaken US. If they do. a new world
in the skies opens. a world where.
after all these years. we will admit
finally that a straight line is the
shortest distance between two
points. And we will follow that line.
Buy War Bonds
Washington Today
In the month of April $500 gov
eminent employees we're trans
ferred from Washington to other
cities. Thousands of new govern
ment workers came here within that
period. Since then it is estimated
that the number of newcomers is
increasing.
That is a slight indication, re-
duced to statistics, Of the growing
importance of your capital which
today is more nearly the worlds
capital than any other city. That is
one reason why a book which came
to me last night. written by one of
my colleagues, is a highly important
book for anybody who wants to
know the real Washington.
The book is called washington
Is Like That" a rather pert title
for a book that is anything but pert.
Rather, it is pertinent and the best
factual Interpretation Of the capital
and what it stands FIR that I have
ever read.
Willard Kiplinger wrote it. He is
a reporter who was born in a small
town. understands the small town
viewpoint and makes his money
writing for big town folks.
Mr.. Kiplinger, with the help Of a
staff Of news-getters. has learned
the art Of getting facts and assay
ing them with more objectivity than
most. That is why his book is good.
1t is complete and it is good.
Washington" says Mr.. Kipling-
er sis not a diamond sitting on a
piece Of velvet. as some people like
to think it. Instead, it is a collec.
ton Of tools or implements to be
handled and inspected. People can
grab hold Of them, see how they
are put together. and how they may
be used to make a better system.
I hope this book may serve as a
training course-on the use of the
tools in Washington"
You can grab hold" Of the facts
IN Mr. KipJip per'c book hopo <bov