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brothers among themselves and big brothers
to the lesser peoples Of the earth seems to
fading It is a sad but inevitable reflec'
ton that unless the leaders can find common
ground for preventing future wars the chances
Of preserving peace are slim.
The need obviously is for subserviating
temporal to spiritual things. The time has
come for the leading governments to consider
Pauls admonition: What shall it profit
man lin this case a nation) if he gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?" Ideal.
istic. you say? Yes, but essential
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Save The Soul Of Nations

LOOKING back, 1t seems impossible that 81
Much could happen in the year that has
passed since. Allied forces landed in Nor,,.,.
~ FRANCE has been liberated from the Ger.
man yoke Germany has beer conquered The
war IN Europe has been ended. American
forces, with the aid OF their Allies. have mail.
tremendous advances against the foe in the
Pacific. Despite their suicide attacks tba
japanese are being steadily forced back with
tremendous losses in armed forces, naval
strength shipping and supply sources.
Inc year has witnessed phenomenal nr,o.
ress IN combat. Would that as much co,.1d
be said on the political and Diplomatic Sid,
But it cannot The nations that stood shou,dax
to shoulder on battlefields in Europe arc dr.w
Ing apart on peace policies and postwar co,
laboraticn
France under deGaule still has tn 1e.rr
how to play the game with fairness pu..
STA, with an ideolgy opposite in manv w.v,
TO the principles of democracy, seems to have
shifted from cooperation to lone-wolf nolicv
Even Britain and the United States are f.,
apart, particularly on the destiny Of colonies
and China is in the throes of domestic dis
cord.
The conference at San Francisco, called ia
lay the foundation for world peace, is prov
ing hotbed of conflicting opinions with deli.
gates all but lost in wilderness OF eros,
purposes
The hope Of reaching an accord througf
which the five leading powers might act q.
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Daily Prayer
FOR OUR SERVICE MEN

Our hearts leap high with pride,
o Lord God of Hosts, as we con.
slider our men in service, their
teachableness, their high valOr.
their resourcefulness, their valOr.
We thank Thee, who hast matched
them with this hour. Their daunt-
less devotion to our Country and
to our Cause shame into silence
all of our petty complanlngS
against wartime restrictions. AS
they offer their bodies in battle
so would we offer our spirits IN
service, that we may be one with
them in a vast expression OF pa
triotism and of Christian devotion
Keep alive in all of our boys II
uniform the clear and conS,an'
consciousness that the home folh
are daily thinking about them ana
praying for them. Save them rom
all dishonor, and the stains OF Sn'
Deliver them from death and SUI,
fering, if it be Thy holy will; ana
to any who fall, grant free en-
trance into the presence OF ChII''
the Captain of our salyaIlOh
Amen. w. TIE.
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The Literary Guidepost

/ The principal trouble IS le"6D'
it doesn't take anyone 7OO pas"
to grow up. l also think l slnea 10
faint literary air, as though u ,o,
were partly an exercise IN coi aIiv.
sition rather than a novel. I iu'a ~
l don't know what, beyond the ss ua
sire to write novel No. z olO ".
Clark to write this; miss any II,
ner compulsion. Generally sp ,','ns
ing, literature is full Of sfoS sirS
boys: if Tim has something WINE the
makes him worth adding ~ Vs.
list, it gets buried somewhere, !,
THE TABLES OF THE LAW; by
Thomas Mann (Knopf; S?''O''
Despite the general critical i: sl,f an
miration for this eXiled Ge IL 30.
author. often am oolIgeu ~ oro.
gard as tedious what o, .asl nP g.e
claim is profound. But 'nls s;a nv i.
lette is definitely an except, ~ On.
is Mann at his best, and no ,S o;n
is apt to praise it more highly D'''
l wish to. -, ~ Lowe.
Translated ably by H. !. I Vases
Porter, this is the story u ayodu,
from birth to exile to uie +.ble,
and the engraving of the '' ,,l.
of the law on the s~esons;; i9s.
phurous summit OF M" AL and
Mann makes Moses more ~. in.
understandable; he 7doS ''
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interpreting
The War
By kIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press News A..

AialyN
Serious as have been Aro.r;.
losses afloat in personnel and ,sia
damage off Okinawa. ths-. mp
authoritative word for it that ne
ures to curb japanese sn risas'
bombing attacks are taking o.s.
There seems reasonable e nss
pect that by the time Anas nO''
forces are ready to moNa ''aa
against their next major ob;ecti oa
this enemy weapon of desner. euVs
Will have been written down ia vi
more than nuisance value. W no
That, at least, was the Opinion
Admiral Halsey even before W. Of
turned to action with his r; Nc Ie'
third fleet. "'snV
Halsey did not doubt v,b;,.
Washington that ways and WIZ. n
to deal with this Japanese b
khiri technique would be eyo,' nal
His confidence is now scbo s.'ea'
vice ADMIRAL Marc Mitscher, unt
recently in command of III. YUM ~.
carrier task forces GOVERNS ' a.
Okinawa operations. He estim.s W.
to a Washington press confsransll
that only one per cent of Janara.s
suicide bombers actually ~.
through Navy air defenses for 81 q.
fective attack and that everv a
saw that ratio being reduced ~ p,
practical elimination of that NOV
ace to shipping can be .orssaa.
Mitscher believes.
Redesign of equipment sbo.,,
ships is a factor in the eouat;nn
Perhaps Halsey's fleet has ,mdsr
gone that process to some exten.
A believer in offensive tactics w.
sey's first move on resum;ng Conn.,
mand was to throw his carrior
based planes against PROBABLE sri
eide takeoff spots in Japan
Based on Mitscher's figures fl.
attrltlon factor Of itself would Seem
to be ultimate answer to Janansss
suicide tactics. The wastage * IAN.
tastic if SO out of 100 shlps ,rs
beaten off or shot down.
1t is an axiom of normal air com.
bat fully affirmed in the conrso
of the war in Europe that sis.
tanned attack is impossible wher,
losses run as high as 10 per GEM
Mitscher's experience in the Pa.
cific operations indicated that m
more than 10 per cent of enemy
suicide bombers ever penetrated
Navy air defenses and that suto
as did were all shot down or d..
stroyed themselves. He gave No
figures on losses incurred hv enc.
my planes which did not break
through, but it seems probable
that aggregate Japanese losses in
ships and pilots run far above The
10 per cent deadline.
The pertinent fact also is that
for all that morale shattering loss
ratio, the suicide bombing tech.
nique has not halted although il
may have prolonged the clearance
of OkinaWa. Nor is there any rea.
son to expect that 1t could preven.
an amphibious assault on the Jap,
anese islands themselves II and
when the time for that comes.
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By W. G. ROGERS
THE CITY OF T MILLING
LEAVES" by Walter Van Tilburg
Clark (RandOm HouSe. CO,

"THE CITY OF TR EMBLINC
LEAVES" by Walter Van Tilburs
Clark (Random House; S3).
When you buy this book YOU get
your moneys worth, for it's ZOO
pages long. It's about boys and
girls crop ing experimentally
about young love and then mar.
rlage, about the formation of the
man out of the high-pitched voice,
tne short pants and the pinplv
lace which compose the school.
boy. 0'
Clark, whose first novel. 1.-THE
Ox-Bow Incident won such wide
acclaim, hasn't exactly done it
again, but he demonstrates an nm.
usual skill with words, an oc.
caslonal fervor that scars to, IN.
common heights and a knack of
building rounded characters.
Ilm Hazard is the central flo.
ure. The plot consists of no more
IMAM the detailed picture, done on
broad canvas and with a pains
taxing brush, of his growth into
manhood and his development into
a musician: We meet his friend 3
Marjorie, Pauline, Rachel, MARY
nus brother Willis, the painter
Lawrence Black; we 20 to tennis
matches, horse races, dance halls
ana kids parties; Some of the
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WASHINGTON CALLING s
by MILM
MARQUIS CH1LDS &.w.9..3

that the deal was being put
through at San Francisco to ad-
nit Argentina to the United Ma.
tons conference.
That deal, and the brutality with
which it was forced, was a shock
that has had repercussions not at
San Francisco alone, but around
the world. While Nelson Rockefel
Ter appears to have been the prin.
cipal author, he was assisted by
two professional diplomats OF the
old, backward-looking school that
has contributed so much to mis-.
understanding.
One was Avra Warren of ou1
own State Department. The other
perhaps equally influential diplo.
mat is Robert H. Haddo, counselor
Of the British Embassy in Wash.
ington for Latin-American affairs
Haddo was formerly counselor Of
the British Embassy in Buenos
Aires.
Some of Us suggested early in
April that the San Francisco con.
ference be postponed because oil
the obvious fact that the Imminent
end of the war would preoccupy
top, policy-making officials with
problems that could not be put off.
This suggestion was drowned in
the chorus of those who said it
was now or never; that any post
ponement would be fatal.
But what is done in haste and
with little preparation may be no
more than a pious gloss. Senator
LaFollette suggested that if we ac-
cept the single veto principle, with
all it means in hampering re.
straint on any real peace-making
machinery, we should make it
clear that We hope in the future
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Military Training

Joseph c. Grew, long United States ambas.
sador to Japan and present Undersecreta1y
of State, has told. House committee that
in his opinion, if we have been reasonably
prepared for war the Japanese would not have
launched their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
Mr. Grew is a strong advocate OF military
training for teen-agers. His view obviously Is
bs sed on his experience in the Orient and
particularly on Japan's years OF preparation
for war He had ample opportunity to note
at short range the way the Japanese went
about their program. For this reason his tes-
timony before the House committee Is not the
expression of snap judgment
What he said, therefore. deserves the clos
est attention of the committee. Its members
will do well to heed his advice.
It is time for the United States tn consider
that whatever is done to assure peace in the
world there will still remain the danger Of
other wars, and that any conflict involving
much of the world, as this one does, will be
infinitely more destructive Of life and prop.
|erty,
tee peace. 1t may set up the machinery for
maintaining peace as long as the signatory
nations observe its provisions. But If any pow.
err withdraw its support and cooperation, the
organization which the document implements
will begin to crumble and thereafter the re-.
maining powers will be forced to take pre-
cautionary measures and possibly be drawn
again into combat, from which there is small
likelihood they will emerge with independence
Tor economic security. The survival OF civili'
cation would be problematical.
Naturally the nation best prepared for war
would fare better than others unprepared. Mr..
Grew points out the strong probability that
Japan would not have attacked at Pearl Har.
Dor If the United States had possessed pow
erful Navy or Army All. Force. 1t was
because we were not prepared, no less than
the fact that Japan underestimate our pro.
ductive capacity Gas did Germany and abili-
tv to spring to arms quickly, that we were
drawn into this World War II and nave SUI
fered losses in manpower which cannot be
overcome in a generation and will sind our
selves so heavily in debt when final victory
comes that our children's children will stu
be carrying crushing tax burden.
1t is only common sense to conclude that
with the future clouded by uncertainties the
safe course is to train the nations youth in
one or other branch of the armed services,
and 80 be prepared for any emergency. II
will be infinitely better to be prepared foS'
the worst and not have to fight than to
neglect this training and be compelled to
raise an army at the last moment, with the
strong probability the training will be started
too late.
Eternal vigilance is still the price Of peace.
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WASf1lNL1ON In MS long
speech on the world organizations
being shaped at San Francisco,
Senator Robert M. LaFollette ex-
pressed the growing doubts OF
many people who hope with pro-
found earnestness to see a world
league formed that will embody
not merely power, but faith as
well.
Senator L F % llette was, OF
course, an isolationist. He still be-
lieves that it was unnecessary for
Americans to be involved in this
war But he denied, in the course
Of his speech, that he was a per-
fectionist rejecting all attempts at
organization, and his insistence IN
his own conviction of the need for
a league had the ring of sincerity
1t seemed to me he put his finger
on the real weakness of San Fran
cisco when he said:
I'VE must either have a demo-
cratic international organization
set up to enforce a just peace
which can be successfully en-
forced, and be willing to take the
logical steps necessary to achieve
those two detectives, or we will
have to disregard the organization,
even though we may join it, and
go on with the program of i'm
perialism, power politics, balances
of power, and military alliances.
Such a course will produce the
worst aspects of both policies, and
none of the benefits of either
That appears to be the course
we are embarking on today. The
big powers are giving lip service
to a very limited form of world
organization while all the time
preparing the instruments Of I'M
perial expansion and rivalry as in
the, past. And, as Senator LaFcl-
lette pointed out, this is not Rus
STA alone.
Those who disclaim against the
Soviet Unions go-it-alone policy
should remember the Biblical in
junction about pointing out the
mote in your neighbours eye when
you ignore the beam in your own
eye. We talk about having the
greatest navy and air force in the
world. At the insistence of our
Navy Department, the question of
trusteeships has been blurred and
confused SO that we can keep stra-
tegic islands in the Pacific while
maintaining a fictitious trustee
ship"
To buttress what Senator LaFol-
lette said on the floor of the SEN
ate came the story. through a
crack in the wall Of Argentine cen
sorship, showing-as the CORE
spondent of the New York Times
put it-that Argentina's dictators
have established kind OF fascism
worse than anything in Italy. This
is the statement of Correspondent
Arnaldo Cortesi, who observed
Italian fascism for II years.
New and cruel repressions have
been ordered since Argentina
signed the Chapultepec agreement,
which was 4 pledge to live up to
the freedoms guaranteed by the
creed Of the United Nations. This
>"-.s he-r~~i~- ~ ~. vary ~, =
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By LEE G.. MILLER

WITH THE 18TH DIVISION AT
BALETE PASS, LUZON-(by wire.
|less)-'I firmly believe he would
have been head of the army some.
day." said Maj. Gen. Charles L.
Mullins, Jr., commanding general
of this division.
He was talking about his assist.
ant division commander, Brig
Gen. Dusty Dalton who was kill.
ed by Jap sniper.
Il was planning to recommend
that he be given a DIVISION" the
general said. II don't know of any
man in service with more tactica
brilliance or administrative acu
men"
General Dalton won Silver
Star with an Oakleaf cluster, and
a Bronze star.
He had been a general only brief.
ly. Until March he was colonel
commanding the 161st Regiment
which he took over during the
Guadalcanal campaign, and Gener.
al Mullins said he had made it a
regiment as good as any in the
Army.
General Dalton was IS. He was
graduated from West Point in 1898
His wife who writes poetry under
her maident name. Katherine Star
bird. is the daughter of Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. A. A. Starbird. She lives
in Burlington, VT.
I had long talk with General
Dalton in his tent the day before
he was killed, and l was impressed
with his keenness. He obviously did
a lot thinking.
He was talking about the dough-
foots, and he was full of praise fo1
them.
The 'dozer operators and the
needles and lot of others do a
magnificent job" he said. But
it's the rifleman who has to 60 in
there against the machine guns. A
'dozer operator has an immediate
sense Of accomplishment. So does
the medic who helps a wounded
man. A rifleman has to take hill
just why, he hardly knows and
when it's taken what's he got? Just
another hill ahead of him.
Ernie Pyle was dead right when
he said soldiers war is just a
hundred yards OF so on each side
Of him. He doesn't see the big pic
ture. And he wants to go home.
"A man who has been fighting
this long has seen friends killed
and he is tired and he figures he
has about run out his chances, but
he has to take another hill. And he
takes. it,"
The general thought the CORE
spondents had great responsible.
ty to try to make people back home
understand how things are out here.
He mentioned the phrase ''rnopp.
ing up" which sometimes gives
people the wrong idea of a rough
operation like this at Balete Pass.
cts correct phrase militarily,
he said. "You break the enemy
strategically and the decision is
won. but the job remains of de-
feating strong enemy remnants.
That's hopping up, and in using
the term the Army doesn't mean
to imply any lack of ruggedness.
General Dalton was a Giscip1in~
arian. He discouraged officers from
addressing men by their first
names.
When an officer gets too famili-
ar with his men," he said, "he
becomes hesitant about ordering a
dangerous mission. He is likely to
make a request instead Of issuing
an order. But soldier doesn't
like that. He doesn't want to take
the responsibility of sending him
self into danger. For one thing he
feels it's throwing down his family
back home. He wants an officer
Ito nrsLe the d~ri~i~n Th-~e's M
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Lee Miller Covers The Pacific

much volunteering in this army,
and I'm against it. Men want to
be told what to do"
General Dalton was able and will
ing to do anything he asked his
men to do, General Mullins said.
And he could do it better than
any of them" he added.
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General Dalton liked the troops
and they liked him. He told me.
when l need little bucking UP
l go up there" - he pointed off
through the rain and mist to the
front lines and talk to the men
with the rifles -
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to remove this restraint. This u
a SOLDERING suggestion to be SER
ously considered at San frahcl Wv.
Copyright 1945 by United Fea'uf'
Syndicate. IncO
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Dairy and beef herds in England
are rs per cent larger now man
they were at the outbreak OF 'ns
war.
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By WEsTBROOK PEGLER

Grandpappy jenkins says he's noticed q
scarcity Of spring poems this season Mnvha
lot of them got washed away during the Nv
downpour.
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Fair Enough

Editors note.-The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views Of Mr.. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think.)
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Fifty Divisions

New listing Of American casualties IN an
4,a f.r.f1une areas of war show mounting
teures-enough now to total so divisions OF
troons Before the invasion of Normandy the
American people were warned that great
a,,rober of homes would hear of personal
tragedy It was no empty warning
ARMY casualties, as announced by the oecre-
t.rv nj War. show in killed. wounded, missing
and prisoners total of 676, 1876, as complleo
in Washington through January a. There nave
been MANY since then and will be many more
as advances are made on the Western Euro
pean front in Italy and the Far East Inc
figures do not take in the big number accl-
dentally killed in the United States.
Navy casualties list an additional 077oo cas-
ualties I'd as the Navy presses toward Japan
its roll OF the lost will increase.
Fifty divisions amount to lot OF men. IhlS
makes former wars seem small affairs When
the Spanish American war started President
Mckinley called for 900 volunteers. 1t SEEM
ed then back in 1898, large number. Old
newspaper headlines hammered it as tremend-
Gus. This war swamps all others.
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Secret Weapons

Even the civilian thousands OF mile from tnls
wars battlefront has reacted nervously to
the train of scientific destruction that man
diabolical ingenuity has devised. oucn hei'iSi'
contrivances as the German vi ana w nave
left him wondering what was coming heA'
His apprehension may have been somewhat
relieved if he read two recent dispatches from
the American Seventh Army front. Inc 1rst
one had to do with the battle for town caAeo
Neuf-Brisach.
1t seemed that a chap named Vauoan haa
developed secret, unexpected de1ense Aol
the Germans there. He didn't develop 1t es-
pecially for the Wehrmacht, however, because
he had built it in 1899 And the idea was OLD
stuff then. 1t consisted principally of wall and
moat with drawbridges.
But it worked One gathered from the story
that it was bothering the mechanical Amerl-
cans about as much as the same sort OF de-
tense had bothered the archers and armoreo
knights of old-and lot more than the fam
Gus dragons teeth of the Siegfried Line had
bothered their comrades-in- arms to the north.
The other story was OF new secret weapon
devised by an American lieutenant. 1t was a
slingshot made of two inner tubes and piece
of canvas, and it served beautifully to throw
grenades into the German lines David, OF
course. could have told the lieutenant that it's
a serviceable weapon, even without the gren-
AIDES.
Reading this the nervous civilian might
have concluded that if the war is getting back
meats and catapults it is, while no less terrible,
at least on familiar ground
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American Education

More than year ago the New York Times
their knowledge OF American history The re.
suits were appalling Since then there have
discouraging results
American educators obviously are chiefly
to blame for general level of ignorance that
approaches the ludicrous But they seem to
have been singularly unimpressed, and un-
willing for the most part to take steps to cor
rect the situation.
Now at last one school has done something
about it-quite a lot in fact. Beginning next
fall, the University of Maryland will require
its freshmen to devote the major part Of their
first year to the history, government and lltera-
ture of their own country. The emphasis will
be continued through the following years
undergraduate work and into the graduate
field
We hope that the University of Maryland
has started something Too many Americans
have gone through life knowing nothing more
of their countrys history than what they gain
ed from sugar-coated Parson Weems-ish gram
mer school instruction, or brief, over-simph-
fled high school courses.
Too many Americans are fighting and dying
today without knowing fundamentally, what
they are fighting and dying for. Too many are
extolling or crticizing our democratic govern
ment without knowing the duties, obligations
or the identity Of their congressman and
senators. Too many American minds are
poisoned by bigotry and narrowness that edu-
cation can cure.
1t is time that all our educators give thought,
as these Maryland educators already have
done, to their leading part in preparing young
Americans for intelligent American and world