The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-13
REAL DETECTIVES
FOR YOUTH

In spite of rather gray looking
skies, I left Washington one after
noon, hoping to land in New York
about 6:45. But we came down at
an unfamiliar airport, and found
we were in Philadelphia and the
flight was cancelled. ] drove to the
station and caught a train almost
Immediately and reached my house
at 9:15, so I might just as well have
taken a five o'clock train out of
Washington.
talked to some army boys on
the way over, who had just had
their orders. One youngster in
sailors uniform sat just few seats
ahead of me. When he turned
around, I felt sure he must have
added a few years to his age, for
he looked IA instead of IS. They
tell me that the boys coming over
here from England to get their train
ing in flying, are very young, rang
ing from is to 20. Some of our own
pilots are 20 to %. 1t is curious
thing to me, that older people
seem so often to accept with COM
placency these young armies. I re-
bel, and yet know an army must
be young.
have great desire to see our
fighting forces organized in the most
efficient possible way, by putting
each individual in the place where
he will serve best, because only in
that way shall we shorten the horri-
BILE period through which we are
living. I want to see everyone in
civilian life at the present time, do
ing the job he is best able to do,
and doing it as well as he possibly
can
If women are able and skillful
enough to 60 into factories, I hope
they will. I hope that all men,
young or old, who work in factories
In defense industries, will do the
most efficient job that can be done.
Whatever the jobs are that people
are doing, I want them done by the
right people and in the best possible
way, because that is the way to
win this war.
Every day that goes on, means
more young men in every land are
dying. am confident that our cause
is just, but I want to see youth free
again to fight a different kind of
war, war to find way by which
we all live more decently and hap
PLY together.
All of us know that, at the end
of this war, that other war has to
be fought, and we shall need youth
to fight it. ! hope that, in every fac
tory today, and in every service
camp, young people are discussing
the kind of world they intend to
build after the fighting is over.
It may not be the kind of world
in which my generation has lived,
but if it achieves the ends for which
we are fighting-real freedom for
every individual regardless of race,
creed or color, economic freedom
for every individual who is willing
to put his capacities to work Of some
kind-then these horrible days will
have obtained good results. We have
to live through them and I accept
the necessity, but at the same time
hope we do our share in civilian
life to prepare for different and
better future world.
u. s. AIR PILOTS
AND THEIR JOBS
Travelling by airplane these days
is extraordinarily interesting, be-
cause there is nearly always a quota
Of pilots aboard returning from hav-
ing ferried planes to some place.
Some of these men are doing great
many hours Of flying, more hours
than we would have thought consti-
tuted real safety in ordinary times.
wonder if, in our communities,
people are aware of the fact that
these boys from all over the coun-
try, are dropping in and out, deliv-
x,1o~ae x,iaGsx.c< 4hox~,