The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-18

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 The naval battles of summer and fall have resulted in such heavy losses on both sides that the long range effect is war of at- triton in which the winner eventually is the one who has something left after the heavy sinktngS.
 This should make the United States definitely superior. if only because of Ter superior production facilities. Even Suppo5irg every unit of the U. S. fleet. as De- cember 2, 1S41. were sunk, together with every unit Of the Japan csc fleet. the oGdS would be in our favor. This Is because our production ratio ranges between 6-1 and 1O-1.
 In other words. even those U. s. naval units which are being pro- duced most slowly are being pro- Ciuced times as fast as i1iInilaT units to the Japanese, and those being produced most rapidly are being produced ten times as fast as the Japanese. In fact. new U. s. naval vessels are being completed as rapidly as the Navy has personnel to man them.
 Today the U. s. Navy has &C., ctirate information about Japan ese production faciliteis. This iS because Japan relied largely on American engineers and in- dustrial coEsultants. and these American experts have nov been summoned to Washington. where they serve as advisers to the military high command.
 This var of attTision. together
 win the fact that our major
 effort Is concentrated in Europe
 means that the victory may not
 eeme in the Pacific for some
 time. In fact, some naval ex-
 Eerts think it may be decided
 more by q. S. ships not yei conn
 missiOned than by those now
 serving in the Pacific
 NOTE: The Navy notices a re- duction in quality of both Japan csc flyers and Japanese planes As one officer puts it: They are nov playing with their second team Best Jap aviatO-s probably ware lost when 4 Jap carriers were sunk in Midway- It takes months Of training to produce a good plot il anyhOdy's country
 DEMOCRACY IN U. s. ARMY
 In the spruce wilderness of the Yukon Territory. distinguished guests witnessing the opening of he Alaskan highway were be1ded down in a long. dO-mitOEy like barracks Outside the TempeTa- ture was yell below zero. Inside. a negro private had been assigned to keep The fire going all night
 Brig. Gen James A. O'C0nnOE. commanding the Northwest Serv- ice Command. which constructed tke highway. had rolled up in his sleeping bag when the negro came into the harrack. a souvenir pro- gram of the ceremonies sticking out of his back pocket
 For several moments he eyed the generals quiet form. then he walked cyer and gently shook the sleeping bag General. Suh.@ he said. -will yea put yuh name s1 my program fer me"
 Gen OC0nnor pushed back the Tap of the sleeping-hag. hliEked hzs eyeS- ~Khat'd ysu say. yezng mane-
 The soldier repeated his rs- quest
 Sure | VIII" said the general
 So. climbing out of his slsep- ing-hag in ms lang undszwgaT. the commanding general put on his spectacleS. got his fountain pen from has jacket. and suso'- graps.ed tare program
 Canadian Cabinet Minister lam Mackenzie ard Ed BartleEf. Sec rekaxy 0g Alaska. waseaned the i'm efdent from their 0wn own Saeep- ing bagx-
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 OUTLETS NEW HOME
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