Milford chronicle., 1945-05-08


TUESDAY. MAY 5. 1915
THE EUROPEAN PHASE of fighting is over
but the hardest part of the fight is about 10 begin
Some OF the most pcrplexine problems of all time
lie ahead OF us Millions of people have been IN
rooted: governments have been destroyed: words
like democracy and freedom and honor have lost
all meaning in some parts OF the world VIII the
destruction of Nazsm effectively destroy the German
desire to conquer the world? What is Nazism? Who
started it? How it be stopped? How can an
effective democracy be set up in Germany? How
will Fascism arise in Finland. Poland or France?
Who are the enemies of democracy in those coun-
tries? How can the shockincly low standard of iv
ing in the Balkans be raised? How can democracy
be established there? These az" just a few of the
problems and questions which confronting the
world Our job is to bring sense To insanity and
order to chaos food to starving people and Just
punishment the who starved them; dignity
and humanity human wrecks who have been de
prived of the power stand on their own feet and
take care of their own. The minds of free people
today are swarmine with a hundred questions: Who
started this thing? Why? How the victims
of Fasoism in Europe get back on their feet. bring
democracy back to their countries that it stays
there? How can we fix it that more of us wont
have TO die i'm another war. twenty thirty years
from now? These are of the questions that
presented themselves at the San Francisco Confer
ence. The organizatona work started on our west
coast continue grow and expand if the
world is avoid calamity such that which
we are now in the midst Of The Job must he done
THE WAR IN GERMANY has come tri-
umphant conclusion. after years of blood and sweat
and tears. The American people can hardly be ex-
pected to refrain from expressing their immense
dino tbpiI
individual temperament experience. Some will
be iubant: others will give quiet thanks to their
Creator that the nightmare of the last few years is
at length beginning dissolve. But all of us must
realize. after the first few days of the great news
that We Day has come, that at least half our task.
WHICH Wf ,faHnot nFglGrt stil lies before rs The
announcement of We Day will have profound rf
feet upon each and every one of us civilian and
soldier and sailor alike. Our armed forces will feel
an overwhelming urge to come home and at home
their parents. wives and sweethearts looking
forward no less eagerly to their return. They will
feel that at the very least these entitled
to a furlough before they are to the Pacific
But General Marshall and the other leaders of oui
armed forces. whose Judgment on these main issues
has proved be sound in the past. tell us tina
it cannot be done that way.
We cannot think only of the men. and of tn,
families of the men, who have heen fighting in Eur
Ope. We must think also of the men, and the fam
lilies of the men, who are still fighting in the Pacific
In fairness to them. and for the sake of the Who'll
Nation we cannot permit the against Japan t
last week. a day even hour longer than nee
essary. Every unnecessary week, day or hour mean
the loss or mutilation of more young Americans Blu
bring full weight against Japan without un
necessary loss of time part of the troops now i
Europe will have to be taken to the Pacific thear
of through the Sucz Canal and part through tn
Panama Canal. Neither of these can have an or
portunity for furlough. Other troops will have
be kept for long time in Germany. Doubtless
will be desirable to send men back through tn
United States, and some groups that cannot he use
in the Pacific will no doubt be mustered out permar
entity. But these exceptions will affect the ger
era need for toll and sacrifice without nterrupto
until the war in the Pacific. as in Europe is ais
brought a successful end. And if bear TIL
need in mind during this time of Victory. our relic
and thankfulncss will be sober though the
will not be less real
PRESIDENT TRUMAN has already shown th
he does intend follow verbatim the polici,
of the Roosevelt Administration even though he h;
given lip service to his predecessors policies. II
announcement that he intends to cut government
expenditures minimum ten per centum is mo
than pleasing news the millions of taxpaye
the Truman Administration intends to eliminate al
reduce agency spending just quickly as it
possible. Apparently the Roosevelt policy of 60
tinung useless agencies long after they have ceas
to be of value will be discontinued Further a
nounccments from Washington indicate that seriO
thought is being given to the problem Of reduction
taxes This study is fine but unless it is approach
with the thought of reduction of spending it W
lead nowhere We all remember the "bOOnd0g glin
and wasteful spending of the toO-lOng- lived ROOs
welt Administration Years of waseful spendi
preceded entrance into the war -spendi
which rapidly becoming national disgra
when the with its necessary orgy of m
spending. War is Money spent in its &C
duct must be lavishy and wasteuly spent. That
inevitable But at time the long drawn
peace-time waste of federal funds and national
justified. Mr.. Truman apparently a
this. His cut of billions from the ship build
program. together swith reductions of revenues
federal agencies, is assuring to the people W