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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-26
Oh kOncu Ieta

10 zalosten.
Oh koncu leta
To leto, katero kmalu zatone.
DO pc pestrosti dogodkov in 20
orzini, v kateri so Sc vrstili,
ostalo pomembno V zgodovini.
' tem letu sc je koncaIa vojna z
Nemcijo in Japonsko. V TEN le-
tn je umrl predsednik Roose-
welt, katerega danes ia dezela
zelo pogreSa. V TEN letu SO bill
~ Milana obesili "a pete mai
vecjega sirokoustnega bahaca,
kar Jill je Sc nosila zemlja =
Mussolinija. In V tenn letu je pa
do gnezdo nemSkega fasizma-
Berlin, kjer je tudi poginilo pre-
cejSnje Stevilo ostudne nacijske
3olazni, kot ma primer Goebbels
n menda = Hitler.
Eksploziia atomske bonnie,
katera je stresla svet ter z raz-
v~ozljanjem atomske sile odprla
novo dobo, katere Sc ne razume-
mo, Sc je tudi izvrSila to leto. In
V tenn letu Sc je izvrSilo tudi to
kar smo vsi zeleli: Osvobojenie
naSe zemlje, zemlje, katera ie
namocena S krvjo stotisocev
nash mucenikov-Jugoslavija
Nekje doll ma hrvaSki zemlii
gnjijejo kosti prvaka nash upor-
nikov = Matte Gubca. V dav-
NH temnih dnevih je stall ma
cclu nash kmeckih upornikov.
katerih geslo je bio kot ie pi-
sal Valvasor: Ca stare pravdo!"
Kronan je bill ma razbeljenem
prestolu in Z razbeljeno krone
ma CLAW je umrl ma zagrebSkem
trgu.
Dolgo, dolgo je cd takrat in
duh upora je lezal otrpel VISA
stoletja -. Ali ne mrtev. Duh
upornika Gubca in njegov BOZ
nj kirk Sc je ponovno razlegal
20 slovenski, hrvaSki in srbski
zemljl. Same to pot je bill ne
premagljiv, katerega MISC mogli
zaduSiti ne izdajalci in ne oku-
patorji. Kirk, kateri doni Sc da-
mes: "SMRT FASIZMU! SVO-
BODA NARODU!" Prijatelji, ne
pozabimo Min.
Ia mas OBJ koncu lcta
Caka mas veliko della. Ne sa-
mo tn tel dezeli, katere dr.
zavljani smo, ampak kot delav-
cev, da organiziramo naSe sile;
kajti vse kaze, da Sc Industrial
nj BOZ Sele zacenja. Potem je
naSe casopisje, brez katerega
smo brezmoGni. Ter koncno po-
moe naSim bratom in seStram
V NOIl4ON1i11, hdICIl 81 NI6uIll
Vsega, kar jim moreno DAFT. To
je samo nekaj namigljajev smer-
mic, V katerem bono morali vr-
Siti nase delo V prihodnjem letu.
Oh koncu bi Sc rad zahvalil
Vsem sodrugom in prijateljem
Proletarca "a Min velikoduSno
prispevanje "a ruski relif ter V
Sklad "TriStoterih''. Tudi V tenn
letu bono apelirali ma vas, kaiti
razumljivo je, da so glavni viri
delavskega casopisja - delav-
ski narocniki - in delavski pri~
spevki. Kot skromni dopisnik
Proletarca Sc YAM zahvaljuiem
"a naklonjeno pomoc in oh enem
klicem: Sodrugi, ne pozabimo
ma mas list, kateri je V vseh kri-
zah stall ma pravi strani in S ka-
term zremo neustraSeni V bo-
docnost Ma delo sodrugi! Ok
enem zelim vsem cltateIiem in
p~rijateljem Proletarca srecno in
veselo Novo leto 1916.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-26

jala matt in prikrivala muzanje.
"Ko DO napleteno, DO lepo,"
je kimaje z%atrjevala sestra in
tezko zadrzavala smeh.
mo, pa je volk sit in koza
cela," je vsaj navidezno resno
menil oce.
Koza je ostala res celia, ampak
volk nj bill posebno sit. Vkljub
temu sva bila zadovoljna, da Sc
je izteklo tako, kakor Sc ie. Po-
slhmal pa sva rastoce smrecice
gledala kot smrecice, in ne vec
kot bozicna drevesca.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-26

je glede stalisca zaveznikov &c
10 zalosten.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
Secretary Forrestal

The most dangerous place in the world dur
ing the past two weeks is pin-point Pacific
island, Two Jima. Called 'hells principal sub
urb' by Associated Press Correspondent
James Lindsey, here is being waged the
toughest battle in the history Of the Marine
corps.
Thousands and thousands of brave men have
stormed over the black volcanic sand of its
beaches, many Of them to their deaths Heavy
casualties were expected but the United States
must have this small piece Of land in its cam
paign against Japan.
One man who has gone ashore there how.
ever, did not have to- no one ordered him. He
has risked the deadly fire Of the well-entrench-
ed enemy because he wanted to, was anxious
to get a first-hand view Of this great battle
Offhand, we recall no other who has filled
his position who has gone this close To the
hell of battle.
He is Secretary Of the Navy James Forres.
tai.
He is one of two men who have led in giving
us the great Navy we have today, the most
powerful in the world. First was the late
Secretary Frank Knox, an administrator well
equipped to build and plan for the expansion
that continues beyond his death. Now, Sec
rotary Forrestal adds to it inspiration of
great fighting spirit.
His visit to Two Jirna is fine example of
his courageous spirit His presence was a
wonderful influence on the Marines who saw
him there. 1t has fine effect on home front
morale because every parent Of Navy man
realizes that no matter how tough the battle
it's not too hot for their sons No l boss-the
Secretary of the Navy-to sample.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
Cost of Carelessness

Preventable accidents cost LAO lives in
North Carolina in the last year. The figures
were compiled by the State Board of Health.
That is decrease from the ,536 in 1913, but
it's still too many.
This includes all accidents, not merely the
automobile deaths. Drownings increased in
1914 with total of 214 That was nearly as
many were killed in transportation mis-
haps-a total of 258. There we're other classes
people getting accidentally shot, burned to
death and otherwise passing away when pre-
vention would have kept them living.
Most of the accidental deaths must be
charged to carelssness lack Of thought, leap
ing before looking. Almost regiment Of CT
villains persisted because somebody was care
less. Children burning to death in house,
swimmers getting beyond their strength, peo
Pile unable to swim getting into the water,
foolish handling of firearms and other "un-
avoidable'' accidents took away too many.
Man has brain, but too often he doesn't
use it. Then it is that somebody has to die
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
Justified Resentment

Sharp letter from seaman helping fight
Americas battles in the Pacific because tax
penalty of $3.50 was imposed for failure to
list taxes seems justified. This occurred in a
county upstate according to a letter he
wrote.
He said he couldn't be in the county at the
time His country had called on him to go
elsewhere, on the other side of the world.
Further, he wrote, he wasn't there this year
to list his taxes, and he doubted that he would
be there next year.
That is, it cost him an extra $3.50 to fight
for America. 1t doesn't seem right. The con-
tention may be made that his wife should have
listed them. The cares of a serviceman's wife
are many. She was unused to this. The person
who had always taken care of this was alb
sent unavoidably detained.
Such things as this do not make man far
from home in Americas service, feel any
better. That is bit Of resentment he will
always carry with him. He hears Of how
nobly the government and people will take
care of the soldiers and sailors when they re-
turn home but writes that" All we are thinking
about now is getting this mess finished and
getting back home. Then we can take care of
ourselves we did before we came in. What
we do need now is for some one to do some
thing for us while we are out here and can't
do lots of things for ourselves
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
No Time Wasted

North Cardinals Legislature is making rec
ord time this session. It's members have push
ed through the big bills as if they were
creased. Debate has been lacking, harmony
and cooperation have been well above the av-
erage with the result that they are now in
1.-THE home stretch
They had several issues before them when
they started work. There was the matter OF
teacher salary raises-settled by compromise
in one afternoon The appropriations measure
was no baby but in a few days it found itself
grown, mature adult in long trousers and
all wrapped up for another two years
Our Assembly seems well organized. A bill
introduced gets the nod and goes through or
its author is told he hasn't chance and must
agree He didn't have a chance. 1t is really a
tight setup True, if everybody were allowed
to talk his head off, protest, debate and stick
to his guns, the boys might not get back home
before Thanksg giving. But no one can charge
that time has been wasted by the Legislature.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

and il there is any left. 1t belongs to private
individuals So 1t is with lumber and hun
dred other things. They are the property OF the
people OF the United States, to be USED as
necessary, and are so used Electrlcal power
and other things necessary for war and for the
home front are taken by the government and
distributed as it wishes.
Yet, in some strange way, the coal mine
owners and the coal miners think the coal
beds are theirs personaly-to argue over
while war needs and home front needs lag.
That coal is a basic part Of the United States
OF America and owned by the people OF the
United States Of America 1t is not something
to be handled as private property as few
argufnentative, bitter self-seeking people wish
1t is not theirs.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
BY w. G. ROGERS

TEACHER IN AMERICA by
jacques Barzun dittle, Brown;
$50.
This book comes to you with two
disadvantages: one, the title
sounds discouragingly pedagogical
or photographed; two, the color
OF the cover is kind of weak
maple sugar, or caramel cream,
as if intended to look well in a
boudoir.
In both respects you are misled.
In the first place, Barzun saws
little about himself, and he quick
ly gets out from behind teacher
desk and indeed leaves the school
building entirely for long stretches
at time. In the second place.
mere is nothing sweet about this;
it is all pepper and salty.
Barzun, who teaches history at
Columbia, was born in France but
came to America at about the age
TO enter college; he has been
citizen more than a decade. He
writes not about our. classroons
out about our culture, the status
OF our education as people. He
is no airy dilettante brushing the
surface lightly. He cuts deep and
draws blood, but he makes you
like it even when it's your blood.
He always operates gracefully and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
Don't Blame the Weather

War production in the United States failed
to reach the goal set for January. 1t had been
planned to set an alltime high output for the
. first six months of the year but January was
behind both the new scheduled and December S
production The weather was blamed in part.
It's so comfortable to have the weather
around to blame when things don't go right.
1t is a scapegoat for almost anything from
broken engagements to setback on the bat
tlefield. Yet the climate in the United States
is more tolerable, not nearly so constructing in
winter as in Russia. They don't seem to have
allowed it to slow them down in their war
business. They relish winter, the colder and
harder the better. That is when they really 60
to town; rather, toward town, place named
Berlin.
War production fell off probably because of
not enough work. That is generally the trouble
with any sort of production. Consider the farm
er: he could plausibly blame the weather II
months in the year and make a complete flop
in his operations. 1t could be too hot or too
cold; too wet or too dry; too many frosts or
not enough to kill the bugs.
Let's be frank about it and blame ourselves.
That is where the fault really lies. Don't sad
die every wrong on the weather.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

| yet the whole thing was built OF
packing boxes and metal bomb
crates and Army leftovers.
The wooden floor is painted bat
tleship gray. Colonel Griffith likes
to keep his floor clean. Consequent
ly he has big sign on his screen
door saying "please Remove Shoes
Before Entering.''
He isn't joking either. He even
makes his own commanding officer
take off his shoes when he comes
to visit. He furnishes his guest
extra sock in case their feet get
cold, which of course they don't.
The house is built on stills, and
sits admist laurel and other green
shrubbery, wildly native, only so
feet from the sea. You come down
the slope to it over a path cut out
of the laurel, and once in the house
you are utterly away from every
thing.
Before you is only the curve OF
the lagoon, and the pounding OF
incessant rollers on the reef a hun
dred yards out, and the white
clouds in the far blue sky. Several
times a day sudden tropical show
ers drench and cool the place.
It's on Colonel Griffith's porch
that I'm writing these columns.
My only excuse for them not being
better columns is that I can't seem
to keep away from that low deck
chair at the far end of the porch
And also I keep looking up the
path to see if Sadie Thompson isn't
strolling down with her umbrella
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

eight years, and will stay in after
the war. His wife and baby and
dog are waiting for him at La.
grange Park, Ill.
Until recently Colonel Griffith
lived with the pilots in the same
Quonset hut I'm in. But a few
days ago they finished his new
house. You should see it.
It's a skeleton framework of two
by tours about 80 feet square
rooted with canvas and walled or.
with screen wire, tropical fashion.
The roof overhangs about six feet
all around to keep out the almost
horizontal rain.
Inside, they've given it the SEM
blance of many-roomed house by
putting up little hip-high partitions
of brown burlap. This makes it
seem that you have living room,
bedroom, bath, kitchen and sun
porch, although it's actually just
one big room.
The place is wonderfully COM
Portable. 1t has four desks, two
cots and 1C chairs, and vet there
lots OF room left. Il has big
clothes closet, and a wasnbowl and
shower, the water coming from
two 50-gallon barrels up the hill
side.
1t has an icebox, radio and a
field telephone. incidentally, Colo
mel Griffith has the same alarm
clock he took with him when he
went to England nearly three years
ago.
If you had this house in America,
it would cost you 5000 a month,
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
BY ERNIE PYLE


IN THE MARIANAS ISLANDS,
(delayed)-The BIG squadron that
my nephew is with is commanded
by Lieut.. Col. John H. Griffith, OF
Plymouth. Pa.
He walked into our Quonset hut
the first night was here and grin
ned sort of knowing-like as we
were introduced l felt our paths
had crossed somewhere in the dim
past, but l couldn't recall it.
Finally he said, Remember the
Rangitik?"
"Oh for Gods sake, Of course, -
I said The Rangitiki was the ship
that took US from England to Afri-
ca in the fall of 1912. Colonel Grit
fifth was in a nearby cabin on that
trip and we became well acquaint-
ed. But the war is big and time
flies, and you do forget.
Colonel Griffith flew combat mis-
sions both out of England and A.
RIGA. And now on this side Of the
world he has made II missions to
Japan. But from now on, being an
executive, he is restricted to four
missions a month.
On one mission Colonel Griffith S
bombardier had his leg blown al
most off. AS Col. Griffith was drag
ging him back into the pilots COM
partment, he thoughtlessly took off
his oxygen mask. In moment he
passed out and fell over. But he
freakishly fell with his face right
in the mask, and it revived him.
Although still young, Colonel
Griffith has been in the Army
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
It's Not Their Coal

With time approaching for renewal of the
the country is seized with fit of apprehen-
sion. With the nations coal pile-industrial
railroad and household already low prospect
OF work stopage is unsettling. The mine o.
orators and the miners may get together on
wages but if it is as it has been in the past
1t will be long, costly process.
One point that both sides overlook is that
the coal mines of the country do not belong IN
either They belong to the nation, to the peo.
pie of the country. The young men of the coun-
try do not belong to themselves or to their
parents in time of war but to the nation as a
whole, and they are taken to war.
The sugar crop or that imported does moi
belong to the people who produce it or those
who handle 1.-THE government takes it. what
Is needed for the United States as whole Sr
1t is with your wages and salaries-the govern
ment takes what it pleases, through taxa.
ton. You never even see it. Your automobile
tires that you bought were taken from VOL
those spares you had in excess of five tires
Who took them? The people of the country
did, through their government, when it wa,
necessary Who takes the gasoline-all private
ly owned? The government takes it withou
10 much as a please. 1t is necessary in or
der to make war.
Coal is one OF the principal things used il
making steel. and steel Is munitions The Ar
my and Navy say what they will have frs
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

new, past, present and future, are
all inextricably mixed up together.
It is hard to see how any one sys-
tenn or any single formula can be
laid down for the solution Of the ills
of France and the rest of Europe.
AS 1 leave France at the end of
an all too brief stay, one of the
strongest impressions I have is
how little, in some respects, the
war seems to have altered the bas-
ic situation here. The problems
faced by the De Gaulle govern
ment are similar in kind to those
faced by the government of Dala-
dier at the outbreak of the war.
Three million Ffenchmen are
still in Germany, either prisoners
of war Or slave labor battalions.
Perhaps when they return they
will resolve the issues now in
doubt. Or perhaps the end of the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
The Literary Guidepost

urbanely; at his very wlttleS'' Nv
hurts most, but helps most wv Nv.
We study foreign LANGUAGES a ""
we fail to learn them, ne chais M
We measure "aptitudes' ou' . nv.
intelligence. We mistake oell ~sv.
racy in EQUATION as meaning or,.
erybody in college We ovel u d..
phasize the need for advances N,
grees. and the organization o. .nr
college as against the chara' ~.
and quality of the teaching We ..,l.
erwork aid underpay our fa leu.
ties; we are too stingy win an ~.
ouate financial support lo'
But perhaps the bookish pubic
will be most interested IN ms Wv. .;rs
ments on our reading and "fl.. .-s
habits, principally in two chap.[5a
on How to write and be fe s. #
and How to read and be r-sn'
the first of them headeo =.
quotation from Mark Iva" ..od
'Here and there touch o. y,
grammar for picturesqueneSs' .tar
calls for slow writing, "H' I'M
from students or graduate al.
for quick reading, and offers Ii.
mirable examples to prove
points. ,rtire
The best example is the eli snr
book. If you want to know Ike
to write and be read, - Wfi'e -
Barzun.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02
WASHINGTON CALLING
by
MARQUIS CHlLDs

could have renewed meaning
What other hope is there for the
tormented peoples of tragic Eur
ope?
/ Those were the thoughts tina
impressed themselves on me a.
watched that little procession
around the square.
By chance I came across an
other contrast almost as striking
At dinner party in Paris I founc
an island of luxury that had mi
raculously escaped the Wharf.-The oc
cupants, the liberation, every
thing. 1t was as though a spell hac
been put on it to preserve it in.
/ tact.
In the drawing room of our
French host were two Rembrandts
hanging on either side of the fire.
place in the same place they have
occupied for years. Flowers were
everyWhere-great bouquets OF
white lilacs and sprays of cherry
blossom. A French guest whisper
ed that the flowers could have cost
not less than 5000.
The five-course dinner with su-
perb wines could not have been
excelled anywhere in the world.
Three footmen waited on the small
party. The host murmured that
OF course such a dinner would be
impossible if it were not for his
two farms.
A great deal of the conversation
was concerned with the peril to
France from the extreme left ele-
ments within the country. The
guests bore distinguished names,
and no one questioned the right
OF the host to have survived five
years Of destruction and plumber
so successfully.
I speak of this only because, in
miserable Paris, it was such an
extraordinary phenomenon. 1t was
fantastic to come suddenly on this
small island that had apparently
been untouched by the swirling
flood of war.
1t seemed to me to illustrate the
completely Of a civilization that
has survived 50 much. Old and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-03-02

The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON,
Associated Press VIZ

With partial relaxation ~ 81 =
censorship blackout on Allied VIZ
s :, across the Cologne pl,i,
it is clear that Nazi retention 'n, Il,
any lett bank f00tholds except nv.
slole defensive bridgeheads ~ s'
not be for long. S'''
Such west bank stands bo.
Cologne itself, Duesseldor4 ' p
ourg and Vessel would be tba a1 ~
tural pattern for German stta fey I'D
70 thwart or delay indefinitely ''l an
glo-American attempts to in ,e,,,
me Rhine and get on with tho ma4
Each is focal point Of tr sa.'
hhlne communications for the ~.
whether for defense of the rir ,os
i1ae or for escape beyond ii, and
no less inviting target for AlEo%
uomDers and long range guns
willie ItSe1 along Its whole
northWard sweep from Bonn IN N.
~ mlle-wide segment OF the lsf-
bank now held by the Canadisn
FIRST Army is the most formidabla
natural barrier Allied troops bavo
faced since they started across n.
channel for Normandy, II averogns
IN width normally anywhere from
800 to 600 feet and under flood ron '
dltlons in the north is far wider
Just how or where General Fissr
hoWer's staff has planned In cro,,
1t remains to be seen,
The alternative to frontal A.
tempts 10 cross the Rhine when +
is reached along its Cologne plain
span would be to turn it from ths
north Or south. The Germans Ions
ago destroyed the bikes to flood
the Dutch lowlands that border
the Neder Rhine and the Essel
Switch line east of Anthem. Thew
still are cllnging to the north bank
OF the Dutch Rhine at right angles
to the main battle front all the wsv
to the North Sea, however, in Oh.
vlous fear of a sweeping Allied
turning movement through north,
eastern Holland.
Upstream from Cologne tn.
Rhine is not subject to flood but
the high ground all along both
banks make it a hardly less formi.
dable military obstacle than the
lower river. General Patton's Third
Army's advance down the Moselle
now reported in and beyond the
Trier bastion, is an even growing
thi eat to the Middle Rhine never.
theless. So far as front line &C.
counts have yet revealed the situa.
ton on that sector, the strength
Of natural and prepared fortified.
tons upon which the Nazi com.
mand in the west seems to have
relied heavily has proven made
quate to hold back Patton's men
largely due to the character Of
the forces assigned to man them.
That may prove an important
item. Ousted from their fixed de.
lenses those rag-tag Nazi reserves
would be of little defensive value
in field warfare against Patton's
veterans unless they are backed
up with seasoned Nazi troops.