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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-01
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Allies, Holding Offensive,
Have Invasion Advantage
Veritas,' Famed British Military Expert,
Sees Nazis Handicapped by Being
Pinned Inside Defense Circle.
By BAUKHAGE
Netos Analyst and Commentator.

previous warning, he took aim and
shot the Italian down."
This is said to be typical Incl
dent and the Swiss declared that a
German woman who drops her pock-
etbook does not dare to stoop over
and pick 1t up.
The Military Aspects
The military aspects are a very
different matter. The great strength
Of German strategy built on sim
terror lines" has been turned to a
weakness. A nation on the offensive
which can strike overpowering blows
at any point it chooses along the
perimeter of the territory it con-
trolls has great advantage.
It's lines are short, they are pro-
tected, they move from the center
outward like the radii of a circle.
The opposing power must 1aborious-
ly follow the witness
the supply lines from the Allies to
Russia which have to sweep around
all of Europe to Murmansk or all
around Africa to the Middle East.
But interior lines become weak
ness when a nation goes on the de-
fensive. AS a matter of fact, Cen
eral Won Clausewitz, who wrote one
of the most authoritative books on
strategy, said:
when you have to 60 on the de-
fenSive, 1t is too late to 60 on the
defensive"
When you do so, interior lines
make it all the worse.
Veritas comments on the position
Of the enemy in the present situa-
ton as follows:
%. the fact that he Is inside
circumference which he must main
tain is a deadly disadvantage be-
cause he Is pinned down at every
point on the circle, whereas his OPP
ponents are free to exploit their la
tent advantages Of exterior lines by
hitting everywhere at once II they
choose"
Therefore in viewing the present
situation in Europe we must bear
these two factors In mind:
First, the Nazis can hold down the
revolution within until the Germans
realize that their last myth of Sc
curity Is exploded. But second, the
strategic position Of the Allies, cou-
pied with their superiority in man.
power, air power and amount Of
equipment, gives them a decided adj
vantage.
Through the fog Of the battle, the
occasional glimpse we catch must
be interpreted in the light of these
fundamentals.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-01
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. G.

What happens when "the coiled
springs Of action" are released In
the cataclysm of invasion?
Europe is enveloped in the smoke
and confusion of battle and only &C.
casionally does this fog lift "show-
ing the swaying forms Of vast ar
mics amid the screaming clatter OF
mechanical combat" It descends
again plotting out the view and
leaving us uncertain as to the
shape Of the plan."
That is the observation Of one Of
the keenest British military experts,
'Veritas," whose privately circulat-
ed analyses are cabled to this coun-
try and eagerly scanned by persons
most interested in the conflict now
going on.
And Veritas reminds us that we
can only maintain our sense Of
perspective and proportion il we
keep carefully in mind certain fun
damental aspects Of the military sit
uation from the German standpoint.
This, likewise, applies to the politi-
cal aspects.
A well-known psychologist, DR..
Norman Maier of the University Of
Michigan who predicted the failure
of the Munich appeasement program
by demonstrating in advance that
according to psychological princ1-
pies, it could not succeed, recently
made some interesting observations.
He said that Hitler would be nqui-
dated and revolution would take
place in Germany as soon as the
last of the myths" created by the
German propagandists for the pur-
pose of lulling the Germans into
false sense Of security were explod-
ed. The Germans, he explains, be-
long to q frustrated society,"" Hit
Ter cured their Illustration with ag-
gression, when, aggression is frus-
trated, nothing else will be left.
Revised Propaganda
This type Of security" propagan-
da being fed to the German people
had to be revised recently. So much
had been said about the strength Of
Nazi Notifications that the leaders
realized the people had developed
what they called a ''Maginot mind"
In other words, they had become
treasured to the point of cornpla-
cency. Therefore, the more recent
propaganda foreshadowed success
full landings by the Allies and played
up the second line of defense.
For instance, it was stated that
the city of Lyons was fortified to re-
sist operations in case it became
the center of the conflict Gyons is
200 miles inland).
Thus, the effort was made to pre-
serve the myth Of security up to the
last moment. AS to the possibility
of revolution before desperation
seizes the Germans, that is slight.
:. is probable that the Germans
lll1SlIt OuSt tAlS 4NdA1S INV IL tAAOy
dared; but it is doubtful if anything
short of the sheer desperation fol-
lowing defeat will turn them against
the guns of the black shirts.
A Swiss who returned from Berlin
just before the day and night bomb
ing of Germany began, said:
There can be no thought of revo-
luton. The Gestapo and the SIS
are too powerful
He recited this incident:
San Italian worker who was pass
ing through the Friederichstrass
was just about to pick up CATER the
bombing of cigarette factory one
of the many boxes of cigarettes ly-
ing around on the ground. Nearby
was young SIS man armed with an
automatic pistol . +. without any
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-01
Training for Farmers

Recently, the Office of Defense
Transportation announced that pub
lie vocational training schools In 1870
cities throughout the country were
turning over to the automotive in
dustry a constantly increasing
number of workers trained in one or
more phases of automotive indus
try"
The United States Office Of Edu-
cation is sponsoring the automotive
maintenance training program.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-01

They are trying to help hll the gap
in automotive maintenance person
mel caused by the war.
But what many people do not
realize is that it is also conducting
courses that directly touch the farm.
Congress appropriated $12,5OO, 900
for the food production war training
program which the Office Of Educa-
ton administers.
The minimum age limits for both
out-of-school and in-school persons
have now been removed and all
courses are now offered to urban as
well as rural persons.
Twenty-Five courses are being Of
fered In which the farmer is inter-
ested, and they run all the way from
the operation, care and repair Of
tractors, trucks and automobiles to
soil and water conservation. And
besides the various handiworks in
the mechanical line around the farm
such as machinery repair, wood
working, elementary electricity and
construction Of farm machinery and
equipment, there are special courses
in milk production, poultry produc-
ton, eggs, pork, beef, mutton, lamb,
wool, soybeans, peanuts and various
commercial vegetable production.
There is general training for farm
workers, production Of fruit and
nuts, vegetable gardening and pref
ty nearly everything that one has to
know how to do around farm.
These courses are conducted
through the cooperation Of the pub
lie schools and are responsible to
the state board for vocational edu-
cation.
William T. Spanton, chief Of the
division for vocational agriculture,
says he believes that on a dollar-for-
dollar basis, no appropriations made
by congress to stimulate increased
food production have contributed
more to this end than has been true
Of the appropriations already made
to the U. S. Office Of Education for
these specific vocational training
programs.
practically all of our 5000 local
departments Of vocational agricul-
ture, scattered widely throughout
the entire country" says Mr.. Span
ton. ''have available on the local
school ground well-equipped farm
shop building where courses in farm
machinery repair are given to farm
ers and where, at the same time,
their much-needed farm machinery
and equipment can and is being &C.
tually overhauled and repaired"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-01

be quilted-leaf design around bor-
der is quilted in pale green thread.
You will obtain complete cutting pat
tern for Strawberry Quilt pattern No.
$500. quantities of materials specified, fin
ishing directions and quilting directions.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
Is required in filling orders for few Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-01
BRIEFS:

DnlLI %
OF the 10000 Australian civilians
now employed by the U. S. army in
the Southwest Pacific, about 80 per
cent are women, as reported by a
Melbourne broadcast to the U. S.
The rice produced in China's Jap
anese-occupied Kiansu and Che
kiang districts can be bought only by
the Japanese at fixed price, to be
sent to Japan for military use.
Sweden has provided a haven for
war refugees including Norwegians,
Danes, Esthonian Swedes, Esthoni-
ans, Poles, Germans. Austrians and
Czechs, and Russians, Hungarians
and Frenchmen, according to re-
cent survey.
A German fortune teller has been
sentenced to Ave years in prison for
spreading rumors while telling for
tunes-among other things, she told
her customers Of new incendiary
bomb invented by the Allies to burn
under water.
Under a medical and health serv.
ice proposed by the Australian gov
eminent, medicine prescribed by
doctors will be dispensed by drug
gists without cost to patients. Chem
lists will be paid by the government
out Of national welfare fund set
aside to improve social conditions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
HOT RECEPTION,
COOL SENDOFF

CHICAGO - The Republican
National Convention and Chi
cago's hottest weather in two
years ended simultaneously last
night.
Just as the COP sessions con-
cluded, a cool mass of air adj
vanced TO Lake Michigan bring
ing relief TO thousands after the
three hottest days of the year.
On the opening day of the
convention the mercury hit 95
degrees above; on Tuesday it
touched 100-for a new season
high and the warmest day in
two years, while yesterday
temperatures were SO.
Today, with most Republicans
homeWard bound, an 80 degree
reading was forecast.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
Rowing Reporters

new military airports in cities
which had none before the war
Airlines expect that some will
become available to them short
ly. There also are a huge num-
bed of military planes, particu-
larly l2-ton, 2l-passenger DC
3s, a few OF which already are
coming back 10 private lines
from the Army. With such fac
ilities, officials say. they can do
quite lot this year. Thus Am
erican Airlines expects to start
service into Kalamazoo and
Battle Creek, Mich. this year,
possibly also into Joplin, Mo-,
Akron, o.. Fort Worth, Tex
With enough DC-3's, they would
be ready to operate in 80 new
cities within 90 days OF getting
permits to do SO.
United has got back five
DC-3's in the last three months;
20 more, they say, would enable
them to start flying in IS more
cities which they've asked per-
mission to serve. .
REDUCTION IN FARES
Eventually there will be one
stop routes overseas from many
Of these smaller cities. 1t will
be Muncie to Chicago, and
change there for London, which
you reach in a 100-passenger
ovean liner in Id hours.
Such global traffic, however,
is contingent upon the develop
ment of national and interna-
tional air policies. On that bas-
is the lines now project a S186
round-trip between Chicago and
London, and a $500 round-trip
between San Francisco and
Singapore, with As to 48 hours
flying each way.
A great many conflicting and
overlapping proposals for DOM
este development now are be-
fore the Civil Aeronautics Auth
GRITTY, but it is threshing them
out and granting some permits
now.
Probably your short hops will
be in DC-3 type planes, your
average long trip in about 40
passenger ships cruising at 220
miles and crossing the country
in IS hours instead of 20 as at
present. TWA, whose strato-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
NEA Staff CORRESPONDENT


NEW YORK-Your first per-
Ional experience of the postwar
age of flight probably will come
With boarding planes closer
lome-right in Muncie, Ind,
'or instance, instead of as now
80 miles away in Indianapolis
and sooner than you expect.
Muncie is among scores OF
smaller cities which the Big
Four airlines now are racing to
web into Americas skyways.
Air executives tell me that
spreading domestic routes will
give the average citizen in small
and middlesized towns a big
surprise during the first year OF
peace.
One line, TWA, has asked for
Uncle Sans go-ahead to fly
into 100 additional cities. Their
| plan would put almost every
town Of 5000 in their route ter
ritory west of Kansas City with
in Is miles of an airstop. Unit
Cd wants to add IS cities such
a. Modesto, Cal, Bradford, Pa,
and Hagerstown, Md, to its net
work. American asks for 38
new stops, and has an all-lines
development plan to bring all
but 50 u. S. cities of 10000 pop
ulation within 171a miles of an
airport. Eastern wants about 50
new stops.
Trunk line routes between
small, distant cities such as
Scranton, Pa, and Topeka, Kan,
are coming. Also midnight-to-
breakfast sleepers from coast to
coast. All-cargo flights, actually
started within the past six
months by all major lines, her
aid the postwar domestic mail
service: you'll put the regular
first-class postage on your letter
or parcel post package, drop it
in the box and the post office
will fly it to the addressee auto
matically if he's far enough
away to warrant it.
Such mail service will come
gradually. The new smaller
city service, however, will begin
TO materialize very soon, GER
tainly before the war ends in the
Far East.
There are several hundred
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
NO LAW, But
DENVER-N. f. Young Of
Monrovia, Calf, wrote Elroy

liners did the New YorkLoS
Angeles flight in less than IA
hours, is preparing to clip off
several hours more, with ST.
passenger transcontinental ships.
A four-fold increase in domes-
tic air passenger and mail traffic
is epected within the first four
postwar years also a reduc-
ton in air-passenger fares from
five to four or even three cents
a mile.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29

Nelson of the State planning
Commission for information
about housekeeping on the Ark
ansas river. Was there a law
against il?
No, replied Nelson, there was
no law. Still, he advised Young
not to count on il, Considering
little impediments 10 navigation
such as the Royal Gorge. house
sized boulders and the fact that
the river is only a few inches
deep most of the year in the
Eastern part OF the State.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
by the Associated Press
WORTH FIGHTING FOR

EAST HARTLAND, Conn
What worried Gordon c. Wright
most as he sped home on liberty
after two years of Naval service
was that he would be too late
for the strawberry season. Talk
ing later about his first meal at
home. he said; Yes sir, l made
it. And that strawberry short
cake was worth coming all the
way from the South Pacific TO
get"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
REPEATER

OKLAHOMA CITY-An cid
erly man called at the Oklahoma
county election board offices.
asked Mrs. Ollie B. Roberts.
stenographer, question con-
corning registration and then
told her:
II voted for William Howard
Taft and haven't voted since.
but l don't want TO miss this
election"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29

The War Food Arministra-
tons Office of Labor plans 20
bring into this country from ia
maica between 10000 to $4,000
workers to relieve critical farm
labor shortages this summer.
Last year, 1896 workers were
brought in from the same British
West Indies colony.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
GONE But NOT, ETC.

MIZPAH, Mont.-Heavy RAIN
fall washed out the Mizpah
bridge. but local residents are
keeping track of it. They have
notified downstream communi-
ties their bridge last was seen
floating toward the Powder
river and how was it getting
along, please?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
DISCARD

CHICAGO -- Mrs. Madeline
Wachtel, Is, a model, was grant
cd divorce from David Wach-
tel. 90, after she testified before
Judge Joseph SABBATH that her
husband struck her. The reason.
she said, was that she made a
wrong play in a pinochle game.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-06-29
FALL GUY

FALL GUY
SALT LAKE CITY - Earl
Campbell of Chicago. director
of the National Safety Council,
couldn't keep his speaking en-
gagement here. He was injured
in a fall.
Evening star., 1944-04-02
(see EMPLOYMENT, Page C-3J
By J. A. O'Learv.

If the question of international co-op-
Grafton to keep the world at peace after
this war came up in the Senate again
today, there would be no material weak
enlng of the strong support that basic
principle received five months ago
This conclusion appears justified by q
survey of current reaction in that
branch of Congress to recent events
abroad, which have raised questions in
the minds OF some people as to the abil-
ity of the United Nations to give prac-
tical effect to the high objectives set
forth in the various conferences of AL
lied leaders.
Problems like the settlement of Polish
boundaries and the status of the Ba-
dogllo government in italy may have
caused some skepticism for the time be-
ing, but there are no indications that
events thus far have affected the general
desire Of the Senate for international
cooperation after the war.
Members of both major parties also
seem to be in accord in the belief that
1t would not be advisable to attempt to
set up an international organization in
final form while the war is still on In
the case of the United States that would
mean Senate ratification of a treaty,
with the attending possibilities for con-
troversy and debate over details.
The Importance attached to the recent
action of Russia in establishing diplo-
matte relations with the Badoglio regime
in Italy was minimized within the past
few days by an editorial in Izvestia,
Russian government newspaper, ex-
planning that the exchange of ENJOYS
did not mean full recognition of Ba-
doglio. The papers further statement
that the Soviet government is willing to
see immediate changes in the Badoglio
government served to clear up much Of
Evening star., 1944-04-02

conditions following the war" he went
on. I'VE must know the responsible
heads of government at that time. and
there must be known to them and made
known to us, what the views of all in
terested parties are"
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana, one of the five who voted against
the Connally resolution, believes the best
chance for a lasting peace lies in
some form of United States of Europe,
on the order of the Swiss Federation"
Asked if has detected much change in
sentiment in recent months Senator
Wheeler replied:
Il don't know that there has been so
much in the Senate. but great deal
throughout the country. I think there
is general uneasiness among Senators
as to what is going to happen after the
war.
"If a United States of Europe was set
up on democratic basis, then Russia
England and the United States should
guarantee there would be no attacks on
Europe, and help them get organized
The people talking for one union now.
or supergovernment, cannot possibly
bring that about until and unless you
have stability in Europe and economic
peace"
Senator Wheeler said the alternative
to United States of Europe is a re-
vival of power politics and a struggle
for the balance of power.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
said he does not think there is any less
sentiment now than when the Senate
acted for the general objective of CO.
operation, but that events have af-
fected everybodys feeling "as to
whether ws can accomplish 1t or not"
Evening star., 1944-04-02

orthodox politics, of course, to attack
the other party and its candidates and
point out their mistakes, but not to say
in detail what should have been done in
particular situations.
True to Form.
Bricker is running true to dark horse
form. Recently he visited Washington
to address a large Republican meeting.
While here he held a revealing press
conference, spoke at National Press
Club luncheon, met an undisclosed
number of well-wishers at his hotel and
to this writer. Between now and the
convention he will make as many sim
liar trips as his duties as Governor will
permit. He expects to make trip to
the West Coast this month.
He is a politicians politician-an Or
ganization man. OF the past "a years
he has spent all except three on the
public payroll, first as solicitor for the
Columbus suburb of Grandview Heights
and successfully as assistant State at
torney general, member of the public
utility commission, attorney general
and Governor. He was defeated for
the governorship in 1886, when Roose-
velt carried the State by 100000, but
won in 1888. He was reelected in 1910
by 1865, 900 majority, although Roose-
velt's Ohio majority was 100000 For
his third term, his majority in 1912
was $4,000.
To reach a reasonably correct estimate
of Brickers approach to domestic and
international questions, some knowledge
of his earlier background is also neces-
sary. He was born in 1893 on a 100
acre farm about 25 miles from Column
bus, attended rural elementary schools
and worked year as a teacher before
entering Ohio State University, where
he made his own way. Six feet two
inches tall, genial and energetic, he was
a popular campus figure-his nickname
was "Brick"-and he made collegiate
championship baseball team as catcher,
was president of the YMCA, captain of
the debating team, made the honor So
ciety and was elected president of his
class.
An abnormally slow heartbeat kept
him out of the Army or Navy combat
units so he volunteered with the YMCA,
hoping for overseas service Failing to
get an overseas assignment, he ar
ranged for a chaplains commission
through certifcation by the Congrega-
tional Christian Church, but this plan
also failed. He was sent to Virginia
during the influenza epidemic and did
not get overseas. His political oppo-
nents in Ohio tried repeatedly to make
an issue of his war record, and each
time the voters approved Bricker's at
tempts to get into the fighting zones.
The ease of his popularity and his
amazing Vote-getting record in Ohio ac-
count in part for the Governors ap-
parent belief that political audiences
and political reporters are favorably i'm
pressed by his straddling statements.
His speeches and even his informal re-
marks sound well, but when they are
not vague or bromide, they are evenly
balanced, one half canceling out the
other.
At the Mackinac Island meeting of
Republican officials, at which Gov.
Dewey directly answered all questions
bV repOrterS q WASHINGTON correcropd