Milford chronicle., 1945-08-10

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editors and publishers We have been wondering if
and how they would manage to come ont in favor
of atrocities. very difficult side to be caught even
for American Nazi lover.
We didn't think they could do it. but by George
they did and want he the first to congratulate
them on the neatest trick OF the month if not for
the whole year of l945.
The line they have been taking is that after all
the living skeletons. madmen and tattered cadavers
found in Buchcnwald, Dachau and other German
recreation centers were not Americans but only
other Germans Russians. Poles. Belgans. Dutch,
Greeks. Norwegians, French Jews. Czechs, Jugo-
Slavs, what is all the shouting about? These
not prisoners of war but just people the Ger
mans didn't like Americans. except those who ap-
parenly through organizatonal breakdown
were starved shocking skeletons were treated
according the Geneva Convention SO you really
cannot call what happened to Jew, Pole. Bel
gian or Dutch Slave laborer atrocty, can you
now? The millions of starved. beaten, shot hung
roasted eviscerated hayed and roasted of Europe's
humanity were merely local politicos who erred in
not seeing eye to eye with the German government
The boys putting out this engaging line haven't
vet managed to swceten the odd couple of hundred
American prisoners butchered in open field by
IS Troopers during the Bulge break-throuGh. rms
yet unexplained affair is sort of untidy appendage
which can hardly appeal to the neat, methodica
mind of the Nazi-lover. and we hasten to suggest to
them that it merely boyish prank. the natural
cxuberance of a strong and healthy soldier carried
away by the glorious stimulation of combat And
besides they under the mOmentary alteration
that they were going to win that they would hold
the ground which the massacre had taken plac"
until they could the traces in which case
all right. doesn't it.
WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? This qucs-
ton is causing many authorities to wonder just what
will he the outcome of the wild buying spree which
affects farm land prices. All reports indicate
that the price of farm land continues to rise as
prices for farm products continue to be we'll above
the prc-war average. Likewise all signs point tC
another major and disastrous readjustment when
income drops to more normal level Those familiar
with the wild speculation period between 1915 and
1920 will recall that farm real estate jumped in value
total of twcnty-six billions dollars. by 1893 this
increase had been wiped out with resultant los:
of thirty-six billions of dollars in working capita
from the farming industry The crash followed will
its resultant foreclosures and hardshps The spira
of initiation in farm properties is again rising Au
thorities worried Banking interests in the rura
have been warned that conservative lending
policy should be adopted to curb the rising price
of farm lands Many reasons are put forward TO
the abnormal increase Among them is the desr
of farmers to make money while the making
good. with the resultant aftermath that they will no
have funds with which to purchase needed machn
cry and equipment following the boom. Probabl
one of the contributing factors is the desire of cit
folks to buy farm lands and of spectators to pun
chase with the idea of unloading before the nev
able
one which is loaded with potential dynamite. a
explosion is in the ofing which will dsilluson man
of those who now look through rose tinted glasse
Do@
IN AMERICAS ARMY CAMPS. some soldier
are getting ready to go home. In long white ba
racks. they're sweating out the final steps of pr
ccssing, leading them. at long last. out of it. FL
these men, wearing the gold bars of overseas Sc
vice, the stars and ribbons marking Americas ba
ties from Anzio to Saipan. the shellfire and trac
bullets are over. They're going back to civilian lii
But the war isn't and they know that fl
we'll. Even as they go through the camp gates tn
other soldiers forming up, with barrack ba
l on their backs and rifles their shoulders. prepa
ing for the march to the train and the train ride
the port and the boat ride to the that still go
on. The old men leaving know what the new m
g going into battle expect.
h The that future, too. AS tn
s march to the train their nerves tense tn
:; faces set. They've been told, and they know it
V their hearts that the war is far from over. TIL
l. know that some will not return; that wounds a
death must pay for Pacific backgrounds yet to
S won.
; Welcomed home by their families and frien
r. returned to the liberties and luxurics of civilian Il
the old veterans will be the last to forget these II
going into battle. "If do thing for
: buddics over there and the going over,
= this" said one discharged veteran from Italy :"
e to make America know that the war wont be o
n until the last shots fired. It's to make America
p that ones effort should be spared If it can mi
ID the war shorter by single day. It's to make Am
J., lea know that our men will be wounded and xii
N until that day comes.
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