Milford chronicle., 1945-09-07
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER :. l945

JAPAN HAS SIGNED her surrender papers on
the dotted line. So what? Does this mean that We
shall relax all safeguards against her ueachery or
does it mean that shall increase our vigilance
and keep close tab on her every movement? There
is but to this question -un-relaXlng
watchfulness and constant supervision of their eE-
cry action if peace is to be maintained. The terms
imposed upon the tretcherous Japs are stern and
General MacArthurs first two orders Seem to in
dictate that he intends firmly in his dealings
with these back stabbing degenerates This is as it
should be Our military leaders know our enemy,
and they know that they must srush him and keep
him crushed.
Just here is where the home folks enter the
picture. 1t is long established American practice
to pass a law" and then trust to God that it will
be efficiently enforced that it will enforce itself
This may be alright within the confines of this
Nation. but with defeated enemy this cannot be
tolerated Don't for minute believe that the
mere act of signing has completely tanned these
teacherous Orientals. Their national idea ol non
esty is exactly nil. From birth they have Deem
taught that double talk and slippery dealing are
the honorable ways of life.
We hear talk of re-educating the Japs VI TINS
necessity there be doubt But i'll the mean
time for years to come no reliance can be placed
upon their written or spoken word. They must be
watched constantly. We must have, and constantly
man. essential naval bases with fully adequate
ARMY Navy and Air Forces. These must be alefteu
at all times and more of the lak-a-daslcal pre-
war Far Eastern defense system can be tolerated.
This time we must make the peace stick. Failure
to do this means national suicide
IF THE REGULATORS who have had control
of production and selling of such necessities as
sugar meat, milk products. clothing ana comihou'-
ties used by the average American family are re-
sponsible for the shortages are now eXperlehclhs
il is time the American people were given the facts
and let the chips fall where they may
The planners of our sugar supply started theli
control" experiments in the thirties. ana the ne
result is economic dislocations and serious ShoI'
.ges of this basic product in every family ana III
dustry In spite of such record under pId"he"
economy. it has been proposed to bring all basic
foods under worldwide centralized control
Lawrence Sullivan writing in the Nations Bus
mess asks the question: Does world planning pI
committees and chartiss produce adequate supplies
or do free markets call forth a more dependable
,bundance?" Under the planned sugar program O
1884 American beet sugar production was restricted
and our needs allocated various areas, including
t'uba Hawaii the Philippines, Puerto Rico, virgin
Islands and scattered After the JapS struc
at Pearl HarbOr. we lost enormous sugar pfoducuo'
in the Philippines Hawaii, and the Caribbean areas
But despite these losses the planned restrictions o.
United States beet production were continued III tu
force and were not eased until time for planting til
l945 beet sugar crop Had acreage limitations bee
lifted when losses began more United States sug'
would have come to market by October, l942
If we want things eat and wear. and buy an
sell in the United States it is time demanded
free peace time economy under which individual
can carry on without the permission of professions
planners. Otherwise we may be eating sawdust
another five years. Like government ownership