The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-23

scores or their comrades.
Official communicates report only
the number of planes lost on a
given flight. They fail to men
ton that when ten Flying For
tresses 60 down, 100 men 60 down
with them.
This not only requires replace
ments, but also requires that
the men who survive shall not
brood too much over their friends.
Officials calculate the chances
of survival, just as the men
do, and they regulate the
flights to keep those chances
favorable. No flyer is kept on
operations for more than rs or
30 flights, depending on the
percentage Of losses.
Also, officials take pains to
keep the mess halls filled. If
so men fail to return from a
raid, they make sure that there
will not be so empty chairs at
mess.
A high official of the War De-
partment, just back from a tour
of the air fronts, reports that
morale Is good among the fly
ers.
"If you sent them out against
heavy opposition to bomb truck
by the roadside" he said, "they
might not be SO keen about it,
but these boys know the i'm
portance of their targets, and
their fighting spirit is high"
One officer, squadron lead
er, suffered an injury to his fot,
which was put in q plaster cast.
But he hobbled out of the hos
pital, without being discharged,
and made four flights over Eur
ope with his crew, before attend
ants discovered his trick and took
him back to bed.
b AND c BOOKS DOWN
Some Eastern motorists look
ing forward to more gasline next
month have a sad disappointment
ahead. The OPA is planning
to offset any increase in con-
sumption. For while the value
of A coupons will go up, the
number of B and G coupons will
go down, and the one move will
offset the other.
Trimming OF B and G books
will be done by instructions from
Washington to local boards direct
ing that applications for these
supplementary rations shall be
scrutinized more carefully and
the number of coupons reduced.
Reports of OPA investigators
reveal that some local boards
are too liberal in granting sup
lementary rations. This is es-
pecialIy true in small COM
munities where board members
know applicants personally and
do not like to police their driv-
ing too sharply.
1t Is also true in oil produc-
ing states, where the necessity of
sharp reduction has not yet been
universally realized.
Thus, when you get your next
B and c ration book, you may find
that the board has used the
scissors before passing the book
on to you.
LUDWIG'S WARMING
Emil Ludwig, famous German
author and biographer, recently
had a unique session with the
Army's School for Military Gov
eminent at Charlottesville, Va,
as to what the Allies should do
with Germany after the war.
Ludwig gave a series Of lee
lures on how to prevent another
Hitler from arising and plunging
the world into another war 20
years hence.
Based upon years of studying
Bismarck, Hindenburg and the
Kaiser, the German historian
urged that there be a strong
army of occupation by all the
United Nations for at least five
years.
"The German people should
know for the first time In
100 years." he said, what
foreign authority looks like. Only
thus can they be brought to un-
derstand that they have been
defeated"
Ludwig pointed out that Ger
man militarism always had come
from Prussia, while Germany's
culture had come from the South
and West. Therefore he pro-
posed splitting Germany up into
two states: ~ Prussia, small and
isolated; and (2) Bavaria, Saxony
and the smaller Catholic German
states which are not militaristic
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