Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-14
Peace-Making
To Have It's
Headaches
BY HELEN ESSAEN
Central Press CUlumniSt

$500 W. N'liN
Endia =. About nothing particularly
violent but rejecting the ha-
raised state OF mind that is Washing
ton.
Looking back on those first days
after the declaration OF war. Re
member how difficult the job ahead
seemed?
Much Of that job has been done.
1t was a tough job. The lash was
applied to industy-Which didn't
really need a lash at all. Results
nave proved that armies to be
nude out Of raw civilians. Fierce
killers whipped up out of peaceful
stay-at-homes. But there was an
urgency about the struggle \
challenge. We rushed in with en-
thuSiasm. And we won.
But here nOW is the peace-making
rob. That's the test Of free and wise
men. There's no excitement about it.
II was dramatic, hurting ourselves
lnlo the maelstrOm Of war. Now it
IS peace we must taCe-a peace-mak-
ing. rather. All the nasty human
9nImositIes are going - spring out
and what q sl&ther we are going to
Sc IN before there's another Yer
%S1illcs,
How quickly the civilians who
ten. At a big War Production Board
dinner last week attended by new
hartman krug. and Charles Wilson.
.ofmer vice chairman of the WPB,
Donald Nelson, WPB chairman dur
ING the important war production
taNS. was not mentioned.
Speeches were made about every
body Of importance on the board.
everybody but Nelson. But nobody
seemed to have heard of Nelson. Not
one informal question such as How
DO you s'D0se good old Don is going
10 like China?!" was asked over the
third whisky and soda. AS far as
that party was concerned-Donald
Nelson. the chief to whom everybody
there has koWtoWed to a few weeks
before might eve have existed.
II ever there was a town in which
that theory, 1The king is dead, long
We the KING" was followed down to
'he last syllable, that town is WASH
in9ton.
If you really want to have a little
fun some time With postwar plan
ners, just say casually: Suppose we
DO win all those Pacific islands from
the laps, and we do believe that we
shall win them-What are we going
to do with them neXt?'
"Why-er-er give them back to the
natives? Or-er-er get the fleet to
patrol them" You'll get embarrassed
answers something like those.
But the Pacific island problem is
far solemn than this. Accord
ing to actual estimates it will take a
force Of eight hundred thousand men
to garrison the Pacific islands once
they come into the possession Of
Allies.
And that isn't all. The garrisons
and the natives will have to be fed.
On what? Well l wouldn't know.
Nest of the islands haven't shown
themselves tWo-crops-a-year Edens.
Not yet.
Yet, if the Allies leave them I'M
defended, ungarrisoned there will be
a constant possibility Of newer and
more evil, if possible. vars.
Speaking Of islands, those Aleu-
tians, the president spoke Of in his
last broadcast, are gong to be some
thing for the adventurous young to
grow on. Alaska, itself, isn't toe
.l.,:l1;,,, ,, n1l +ln,n Tnuarn,.c fol
me.
But the Aleutians-you can carve
out most any kind Of a Jack Londot
life on those hunks Of mountains and
valleys. # you think there's a fat
pCcketbo0k in fur business. there are
many Aleutian isles OVerrun witt
hundreds of thousands of blue foxes
Ii is assumed that long ago some
body stocked the islands with a few
foxes and meant to come back anC
see what happened to his biological
Iur bearing gamble.
The gambler didn't come back. No
soon enough for himself. For at the
moment there is a fortune IN un'
trapped blue foxes with thick beau,
1iful pelt roaming, growing, waiting
fer the huntsman.
The Army and Navy have each
| created a complete town on two 0
! the Aleutians. Somebody must have
| had to dig in with a thick pick-axt
| before the settlements sprang to Iii
! on land that was oVerrtn with heaV,
grass growing from six inches TO 81,
feet tall.
DAVIDSON Y. NJ. c. A. HEAD.