Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-12
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BURRIS JENKINS

Poor little Mexican children will
have TO go without their siesta from
this cut. That's pity; really is, Tor
most of the children of the United
States get their afternoon nap up
until the school age and then most
of them have TO leave it out. 1t is
real deprivation. Perhaps a good
many of our cases are young men
dropping dead in the forties or fif-
ties may have something to do with
the neglect of the siesta. This is no
;ole. This is serious business, large
and important sociological question,
whether in Mexico or America, ana
this column. is scarcely the place to
make a final settlement on so UNI
versal a social question. But after
all we simply wanted to express our
sympathy to the little Mexican
children and that is all.
The news from Europe brings the
story of a see-saw, swinging back
and forth producing apparently no
definite results.
The whole German nation, 1t
would appear, has been projected
into a fanatical and even crazy
condition. Evidently Hitter knew his
people when he declared that they
would never give up, certainly not
while there are any conditions OF
existence at all left in them. They
are blind, dead drunk with rage,
except for the fact that drunken
people cannot be so terribly eff
cient.
Think of it! The Reich set out to
conquer the world, and it was soon
fighting the entire world. With the
exception of Japan, their only ally
whose possible helpfulness to Ger
many is open to serious question
no, she has been fighting the world
for the greater part of five years at
least without definite results. We
may bring about unconditional sur
render, but that seems to many
persons now to contain doubt. The
Germans are a wonderful though
ILL l-balanced people for when there is
no energy left in them they still are
ready to work till they drop. We
know of instances here in our own
country where this is true. We can
then imagine how doubly this is true
back home on their own native soil.
When they are defeated in one
battle they rise up and go at it
again. When one of their factories
is destroyed they get to work like a
bunch of beetles and build it all up
again. If they can't maintain 1t on
the earth at all, they put it down
underneath the ground and there
keep it going. They are an inde-
fatiguable race of people; nothing
wears them out.
The news, then, is news of the
desperate warfare, of the nation
gone wild. OF course, we feel that
they are bound to be beaten down in
the end, but with much greater ef-
fort than we had believed. 4
1t would seem, then, the sensible
thing for all the young men of
Dumbarton to bring forth a new
child into the world, a price of
peace on earth, one determinately
set for the maintenance of future
use SO that we shall never again
irk this terrible nation to aggression
against other parts of the world.
Interesting that the most cheering
news from the front lines on the
other side should come from the
China coast where the United
States, through Halsey and his
forces, should be attacking for the
first time in history, any of the
territory eIonging to China.
Strangely enough, too, the attack
is not made directly upon China but
upon Chinese soil held under Japa-
nese domination. Ports and airfields
which shall play very large part
in turning the tide of war in the far
east are being captured now by
American arms. Here, at least, is
great ground and solid ground for
hope.