The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-13
By Dresc Pearson

seem ludicrous and Imaginable were 1t not for the deadly achievements of science in other directions.
 Already Gen William Donovan and his office of Strategic Services had been planning worldwide espionage network to operate in peacetime by which we could spy on other countries.
 Already Adm Ernest King had drawn plans for "a warstips not to be completed until three or four years after the war which peace-aspiring Jimmy Byrnes knocked out of the budget because they not needed and obviously were aimed at future use against only one country-Russia
 Already the War Department had been spurring campaign for peacetime conscripion, never before adopted in the USA.
 Tn other words our top planners were largely ignoring the hopes and ideals for which this war was fought Already they were plungtng ahead to- ward the abyss of the next world war blindly oblvi plunging ahead just as if another war were fore gone conclusion-untl Aug. 5, and the atom bomb over Hiroshima.
 Now cold chill has crept over the world. even over the hardboiled war planners, though not over all of them. The day after the results of atomic bombing became known, the New York News came out with an editorial urging that unless Canada s ply take them
 This is the kind of jingoism on which war feeds. And if there is one thing we have learned in this country it is that being good neighbor pays divi dens We have only to look at our vast borders with Canada and Mexico, minus a single armed guard. or at the thousands of people committing every day troit river. to see that we of North America have led the world in neighborliness. And when you re- memDer CnaG our CraQ6 Wltn Cauauas Cupa ana NICK. ico is greater than with any other three countries obviously good neighborliness pays
 Except for off intervals, when we landed Marines in Nicaragua Haiti, have not tried to lord it other people. We have tried on the whole to respect the rights of others We did not dam off all the water in the Colorado river from Mexico. but divided it peaceably by treaty We have made plenty of mistakes, but perhaps we have come nearer putt ting Christianity to work international basis than other major powers.
 But even so we have not kept out of war.
 So the problem of preventing future wars is very deep and very difficult. It goes much deeper than the United Nations which. though start in the right direction, has very limitations It gets down to education to the churches and to carrying out the basic rules of Chrsts Sermon the Mount.
 How we can do it, don't know. But we must do 1t, or see civilization vanish from the earth.
 Mai D. c. Jernigen, commander of U. S. Base Post Office One at Sutton Coldfeld England, has been relieved from duty result of publicity given to the Army's burning of packages seat to U. s. killed and missing soldiers. The packages were burned instead of being returned to the D. s. A., and according to British papers, contained cigaret lighters canned goods, chocolates. biscuits cakes and other delicaces in such staggering quantities. that British children carried many of them home :. The War Department describes these reports as exaggerated and says that the material thrown away either spoiled food goods improperly packed and therefore unreturnable to the U. s. A.. . Some Army officials think Maj. Jernigen is being made the goat by the brass hats who fired him. He is former postal inspector. The order to relieve him from duty came from SHAEF.
 Copyright 1945, by The Bell Syndicate, Incl