Milford chronicle., 1945-05-07
MONDAY. MAY :. l4l3

MONDAY, MAY :. 1919
THE EUROPEAN PHASE of fighting is over
but the hardest part of the fight is about to hcein
Some of the most perplcXine problems of all time
lie ahead of Millions OF people have been up
rooted; governments have been dcstroycd words
like democracy and freedom and honor have lost
all meaning in some parts OF the world Will the
destruction of Nazism effectively destroy the German
. desire to conquer the world? What is NaziSm? Who
started it? How il be stopped? How can an
effective democracy be set up in Germany? How
will Fascism arise Finland Poland or France?
Who the enemies of democracy in those
tries? How can the shochiney low standard of liv-
ing in the Balkans he raised? How can democracy
be established there? These an" iusI a few of the
problems and questions which confronting the
world Our job bring sense to insanity and
order to chaos; food to starving people and just
punishment to the ones who starved them; dignity
and humanity to human wrecks who have been de
privCd of the power to stand ON their feet and
take nf their The minds OF free people
today swarminG with a hundred questions: Who
started this thing? Why? How can the victims
of Fascism i'll Europe get back their feet. bring
democracy back their countries see that it stays
there? How fix it 50 that more OF us won't
have die in another war. twenty or thirty years
from now? These are some OF the questions that
presented themselves at the San Francisco Confer
cnce. The organizational work started
coast continue grow and expand il the
world is to avoid calamity such as that which
in the midst of. The job must be done
THE WAR IN GERMANY has come to a tri-
umphan conclusion. after years of blood and sweat
and tears. The American people can hardly be cX-
pcctcd to refrain from expressing their immense
relief i'll one fashion another. according their
indi hal will
he iubilant; others will give quiet thanks to their
Creator that the nightmare OF the last few years is
at length beginning to dissolve. But all of must
realize, after the first few days of the great news
that We Day has come. that at least half task
which We cannot neglect still lies before The
announcement Of We Day Will have a profound cf
upon each and every us civilian and
soldier and sailo alike. our armed forces Will feel
an overwhelming urge to come home and at home
their parents. wives and sweethcarts are looking
forward no less eagerly to their return. They will
feel that. at the very least. these entitled
to a furlOugh before they the Pacific
But General Marshall and the other leaders of our
armed forces whose Judgment ON these main issues
has proved he so sound in the past tell us that
it cannot be done that way
We cannot think only OF the men. ana the
families of the who have been fighting in Eur
ope. We must think also of the men. and the fam
In fairness to them, and for the sake of the whole
Nation, we cannot permit the war against Japan to
last week. day or even an hour longer than nee
cssary. Every unnecessary week, day hour means
the loss or mutilaon of more young Americans. But
to- bring our full weight against Japan without uu-
necessary loss of time. part of the troops now in
Europe will have to he taken the Pacific theatre,
of war through the SuCz Canal and part through tho
Panama Canal Neither of these can have an op-
portunity for furlough Other troops Will have tn
he kept for long time in Germany. Doubtless it
will be desirable send some men back through the
United States. and some groups that he used
in the Pacific will doubt he mustered out herman
entity But these exceptions will not affect the gen
eral need for toll and sacrifice without interruption
until the war in the Pacific, as in Europe is also
brought to successful end. And if bear this
need in mind during this time of Victory our relief
and thankfuncss will be more sober. though they
will not be less real
PRESIDENT TRUMAN has already shown that
he does not intend to follow verbatim the policies
OF the Roosevelt Administration even though he has
given lip service to his predecessors policies His
announcement that he intends to cut governmental
expenditures minimum of ten per ccntum is more
than pleasing news to the millions of taXpavcrs
throughout tn" nation. This is an Indication that
the Truman Administration intends to eliminate and
reduce war agency spending just as quickly as it is
possible Apparently the Roosevelt policy of con-
timing useless agencies long after they have ceased
to he of value will be discontinued Further an
nounccments from Washington indicate that serious
thought is being given To the problem of reduction of
taxes. This study is fine but unless it is appr0achcd
with the thought of reduction OF spending il will
lead nowhere We all remember the "boondoggling
ana waStcu spending OF the long lived RooSc-
welt Administration Years of wastpfuI spending
proceeded entrance into the war Sppndinc
which rapidly becoming a national DISGRACE
when the war came with its necessary orgy of mad
spending. War is Money spent in its con-
duct must be lavishly and wasefully spent That is
inevitable. But at no time the long drawn out
peace-tme waste of federal funds and national re-
sources justified Mr.. Truman apparently realizes
this His cut of billions from the ship building
program together with reductions of revenues fo,