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Our Power in the Pacific

american power In the racine
sea, air and land-has grown to such
awe-inspiring dimensions that we
now see it engaged simultaneously
in great and far-reaching offensive
operations along a tremendous
ocean arc stretching southwark
from Tokyo for more than 1000
miles to strategically vital Manila.
Never in history has any nation
displayed so much might on so vast
a scale of smashing action. AS Tokyo
reels and burns under the weight of
our massive carrier strikes, other
American forces are reported storm
ing ashore on Two Jima Island, 750
miles to the southeast, and some
1,500 miles southwest of that, Gen
eral Macarthur announces the cap
ture of Bataan and the Japanese
nervouSly describe fierce battles"
being fought against waves of our
air. borne and sea-borne troops
landed on Corregidor, key to Manila
Bay.
These far-f1ung actions, though
distant from each other, are all part
of single pattern. Spectacular and
important enough in themselves,
they are still merely the prelude to
greater events to come. What these
events will be, time alone will dis
close, but obviously the strategy so
far worked out and applied by Ad-
miral Nimitz, General Macarthur
and their top-ranking associates has
set the stage for Pacific operations
of the most decisive kind and the
greatest magnitude.
The possibilities are momentous
in their implications. Formosa may
be invaded. The coast of China may
be invaded. Indeed, even Japan it
self may be invaded. In any case,
the japanese themselves, shaken
and stunned by the power of our
Fifth Fleets pulverizing air assault
on Tokyo, are now publicly declaring
with ill-concealed nervousness
that our forces may be planning to
land at any moment in the home
land. Nor does our naval command
which now feels confident that the
remnants of Hirohito's Navy could
be destroyed by single one of our
great task forces-do anything to
quiet the enemy's fears. On the con-
trary, it aggravates them by stating
fatty that we are capable of effect
ing landings not merely at places
like Two lima or Formosa, but any
where-with emphasis on the word
anywhere"
1t serves no useful purpose, how
ever, for Americans to try to guess
what next great move is planned by
our Pacific command. That Is some
thing which the Japanese are well
come to null over in this most fret
full and harried phase of their exist
ence. Here in the United States,
with all honor to the brave men who
are doing the fighting and with
prayers for their continued success,
we can take proper pride in the
power of our Nation and be thank
full to heaven for it. A miracle of
sorts has been wrought since Pearl
Harbor.
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Phillips Chapel

1t is pleasant to think that the
chapel recently dedicated in his
memory at the Church of the
Epiphany fills need which the Very
Reverend ZeBarney Thorne Phillips
himself realized and appreciated
during the eighteen years in which
he was rector there. Any downtown
house of prayer inevitably is visited
by strangers. Men and women in
need of pastoral counsel seek it in
such place. They appear in sea-
sons of sorrow, in periods of stress.
Also, they come for such joyful rites
as those of marriage and baptism;
and. of course, they come for pri-
vate participation in the Lords
Supper.
Doctor Phillips repeatedly in his
own experience rediscovered the de-
sire of regular parishioners and
transients alike for a smaller sane
tuary than Epiphany proper is. The
chantry chapels of Canterbury
Cathedral were ideal for services for
only a few persons gathered to-
getheri but Washington is not Can
terbury and the solution of the prob
lem here never was feasible in the
late Deans time. It remained for
the Reverend Doctor Charles w.
Sheerin, his successor in the parish
ministry, to supervise the creation
of the answer to the oft-repeated
inquiry for "a little church" in G
street.
1t is beautiful chapel, and there
is no question about 1t being used
as the beloved leader for whom it
testif1es would have wished. A living
memorial it is and long should be.
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From Jerusalem to Jericho
sston of Luke. r.3O-37
Discussion OF Luke, r30-37
By the Req. Edgar A. Sersn1ith, D. D.,
Minister of the Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Church

unfortunate individuals awakened no
sympathy in him. He had no time to
bother with human suffering.
Second to appear was Levite who,
when he came to where the un-
fortunate traveller lay. looked on him.
TOO bad" no doubt he said to him
self, but he is no friend Of mine.
Why should trouble about him? He
even does not belong to my race, and
besides, the world is full Of such
people. hope some one will help
him, but haven't time. My engage
ments are pressing; must be going"
Then came Samaritan who, when
he beheld the robbed and beaten
traveller. had compassion on him.
After giving him first aid, he placed
him on his own beast and brought
him to the inn and took care of him.
took more he would repay it.
Jesus, telling the story, asked:
(Which of these was neighbor unto
him who fell among thieves?" And
the lawyer replied: He that showed
mercy on him" The reply Of Jesus
was: go thou and do likewise"
We have here expressed three
PHILOSOPHERS of life:
l. The law Of the jungle-the rob-
Der. 1t holds: What want in life
will get regardless of Others" and
Might makes right"-a philosophy
which would make wild beasts of men
to prey on each other and let the
strongest prevail.
T. Next we have the law of seclu-
sion as represented by the priest
and the Levite. 1t says, II will live
my life selfishly. If you can live, all
right, but have no responsibility in
the matter. You are not of my race
or clan. I have no interest in you or
what happens to YOU" We still have
people Of their sort in our midst, but
their philosophy is doomed. Modern
science has made the world COM
munity and, whether we like 1t or
not, no one group long can live in
isolation from their fellow men.
). The third philosophy is repre-
sented by the good Samaritan. 1t is
the philosophy OF Christ. He came
to minister and not be ministered
unto. His was life of unselfish
service, a recognition of human
brotherhood and helpfulness. There
was no room in His plan Of life for
personal selnshness or national iso-
lation.
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from North to South and from South

from Nortn 70 south ana from South
to North.
Much more impressive, however, are
the many varieties of covers bearing
patriotic or propaganda designs and in
scriptions and, most particularly, the
college covers which were current In
day-to-day usage during the Civil War.
In the latter category, Mr.. Dietz mem
tions the University of Alabama, Emory
College at Oxford in Georgia, the Uni
versity Of Georgia at Athens, Wesleyan
Female College at Macon, Center Col
lege at Danville in Kentucky, the Cen
tenary College Of louisiana at jackson,
Hampden-S Sidney and Randolph Macon
Colleges in Virginia, the University Of
Virginia at Charlottesville and the Vir-
ginia Military Institute at Lexington, a.
well as many smaller institutions OF
learning, all Of which suggests that not
only was the Confederacy . reality In
terms of routine and practice but that
1t had q cultural background conse-
quential beyond even the apprehension
Of the times In which it most specifically
was manifest.
Mr.. Dietz has brought forth his book
as labor Of love. The power implicit
in his subject is apparent in every page.
but 1t is especially in the reverence Of
his treatment that the reader. however
little he may know or care about stamps
and covers and postal history. detects
the authenticity Of his theme. A Ma
ton which was only pretense could
not inspire 90 much unqualified de-
votion.
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This interesting parable OF Jesus
was spoken in answer to q question
asked by lawyer or scribe of the
ancient Jewish synagogue: Teacher,
what shall do 10 inherit eternal
life?" Had the question been sim
cere, jesus probably would have given
a direct answer, but reading the un-
dercurrent of his thought, which
was contrary to his speech, Jesus
simply answered his question by ask
ing another: What is written in the
law? How readest thou?"
With readiness which implied q
perfect knowledge Of the law, the
scribe replied: Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all
thy strength, and with all thy mind,
and thy neighbor as thyself." Jesus
commended the answer saying:
Thou hast answered right. This do,
and thou shalt live"
But having been led to answer
his own question, the lawyer was
not satisfied, and seeking to justify
himself, said: And who is my
neighbour" This gave rise to the
parable which turned the occasion
into the opportunity for teaching
some valuable lessons applicable not
only for that day, but also for the
present times and condition.
From Jerusalem to Jericho: This
highway, supposing 1t to be the most
direct route, was about 81 miles. 1t
ran through rugged country Of
rocky passes well adapted to the
purpose Of thieves and desperadoes.
The parable mentions three per-
sons who passed over this danger
Gus highway. The first we will call
an unfortunate traveller. He was met
by robbers who stripped him of all
he had and beat him, leaving him
half dead. It is, indeed, a great
misfortune to be deprived Of our
possessions whether they be great or
small.
But those who are robbed are not
the only unfortunate travellers. On
the highway of life there are some
who have been stripped Of moral
virtues. They are many and their
condition is sad, but to all such
Jesus comes with hope and salvation.
Next to pass over the road was
priest who, travelling to Jericho, came
to where the stranger had been way
laid and assaulted, but he passed by
on the other side Of the road. Such
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Thut japanese Fleet

The refusal of the japanese Navy
to contest such major blows as the
mass air bombardment of Tokyo
from American carriers standing
offshore and attacks on the island
ladder leading to the very heart of
Japan has caused widespread spec
ulation as to just where and when
the imperial battle fleet will be used.
A retrospective analysis of japanese
basic naval strategy, however, would
seem to yield an explanation. The
logical place for Japan's last-ditch
naval stand is the Tsushima Strait,
which separates Japan from Korea
and is the vital sea link between the
homeland and its continental en-
pire.
What distinguishes japanese from
British grand strategy is that,
though both countries are island
powers, Britain renounced her am
bitions on the European continent
at the close of the Middle Ages and
thenceforth sought expansion across
wide oceans; whereas modern Japan
linked her imperial destiny with
Asia, thus subordinating sea power
to land power in her strategic cal
culations. The challenge to Amer
lea and Britain thrown down at
Pearl Harbor was logically new
departure in basic foreign policy
for which the imperial navy had not
been primarily intended and which
1t has proved unable to sustain.
Incapable of maintaining it's bid
for oceanic supremacy, or even to
protect the homeland from attack
on its Pacific frontage, the imperial
navy is thrown back on it's original
function-that of guarding the
passage from the homeland to it's
continental possessions, on which
Japan's status as first-class power
depends. The key to this basic
naval strategy is, as already re-
marked, the strait between Japan
and Korea, a stretch of water about
one hundred miles wide,, but broken
midway by the Island of Tsushima,
which gives the strait its name.
Here it was that, in the Russo
Japanese War, Admiral Togo waited
to wage decisive battle with the
Cars Baltic feet and achieved
victory which clinched Japan's
naval supremacy over the seas lying
between it and the Asiatic main
land. That local supremacy has
been endangered by the Tokyo war
lords rash bid for Pacific mastery.
To salvage at least this much of
Japan's imperial structure the i'm
perial navy is presumably dedicated.
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Not q Bod Law

The National Labor Relations
Board has just made public report
of its experience in the first year of
operation under the strike vote sec
tion of the Smith -Connally law. The
report should make interesting read
ing for those who professed to fear
the worst when the law was passed.
This is not to say that the NLRB
is wholly pleased with the operation
of the law. The report finds indica-
tions that labor organizations are
using the strike ballot machinery to
"dramatize and focus public opinion
on their demands" and to bring
pressure in the form of a strike
threat to bear upon governmental
agencies dealing with labor disputes,
either in the hope of obtaining more
favorable decisions or more rapid
ones"
1t is the statistical phases of the
report, however, which seem most
significant. During the fiscal year
1943-44 a total of 1899 strike notices
were filed with the board. OF this
total 688 were withdrawn, 232 led to
strike votes, and 115 were otherwise
closed. Out of the whole business
only 81 strikes resulted When that
is compared to the total of more
than 1000 strikes that occurred
throughout the country during the
period covered by the report, most
of which we're staged in defiance of
the strike ballot provision of the law,
it gives very convincing answer to
those who opposed the statute on the
claim that it would encourage rather
than discourage strikes.
This view was taken by the Presi-
dent when he vetoed the bill, only
to have it passed over his veto. On
the record, however, it seems clear
that passage of the law has not
tended to stimulate labor unrest"
and has not been construed as "giv-
ing Government sanction to strike
agitations.
What is needed now is not aban-
donment of the law, which some still
advocate, but a strengthening Of its
penalty provisions so that all phases
of enforcement can be handled with
the effectiveness which has char
acterized the work of the NLRB in
carrying out the strike ballot pro-
visions.
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Pun-Arub Conference

In Cairo, Egypt, the foreign MIN
listers of six Arabic nations are
conferring on project which, if
successfully carried through, will
profoundly alter the destiny of the
entire Near and Middle East. Their
aim is the creation of what would
amount to an Arab League of Ma
tions. The six states participating
are Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans
jordania, Syria and Lebanon, with a
delegate from Yemen in Southwest
ern Arabia expected to attend.
This, in itself, is an impressive dis
play of potential power, covering an
immense block of territory and a
combined population of some 35,000,-
900. Despite wide dissimilarities and
historical differences, all have COM
mon bonds in their Arabic speech
and culture, and in their Islamic
faith, only the tiny state of Lebanon
containing large Christian element.
But beyond this immediate bloc
stretch wide fringes of lands and
peoples that would be strongly IN
fiuenced by such a federation on
Arabic and Islamic lines. The rest
of North Africa. from Tripoli to
Morocco, with 10000, 900 inhabitants,
would inevitably be- attracted to the
new creation, since in all those
countries Islamism and Arabism pre-
dominate. Indeed, its repercussions
would extend across the Sahara to
much of West and Central Africa,
where Islam and Arab culture have
widely percolated. Lastly. there
would be notable effects upon the
balance of the Islamic world which
stretches eastward through Iran and
Afghanistan. to India, Russian Gen.
trail Asia, Western China, and even
to the Netherlands Indies and the
Moro districts of the Philippines.
This does not mean the emergence
OF a united Islamic world The west
ern ideal of nationalism has so cut
across the traditional unity of Islam
that the political solidarity of Mos
lem peoples has become impossible.
However, those countries where
Islamism and Arabism coincide may
well perfect the concept best de-
scribed as "Pan-Islamic National
ism" which has been preached and
worked for during more than half a
century by Jealous advocates wher-
ever Arabic is spoken.
The complications which would
attend the emergence of Pan-Arab
Federation are obvious. High on the
agenda of the present conference in
Cairo is the status of Syria and Leb-
anon, who are backed by the other
Arab countries in their desire to
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Capital Sidelights
By viii P. Kennedy.

There are many interesting newcomers
in this Seventy ninth Congress. They
include five who have seen service in
World War II, and at least II who served
In World War 1. Many of them have
sons in the armed forces and daughters
doing war work.
Representative John E. Lyle of Corpus
Christi Tex, successor to Richard M.
Kleberg, resigned from his second term
in the Texas Legislature to volunteer in
the United States Army in 1912. He
served in the European theater as an
operations oficer for an antiaircraft
battalion from the spring of l943 until
October, 1914
Representative James G. Fulton, from
the Pittsburgh district. quit the Pennsyl-
vania State Senate to volunteer for
military service, was commissioned
a lieutenant in the United States Naval
Reserves. and saw extensive service In
the South Pacific. He had practiced
law for Is years, been q member Of the
county board OF law examiners and
solicitor for the Dormont Borough.
Elected to Congress while In service, he
few to Washington to take his seat and
had to borrow a civilian coat to be
sworn in.
Representative Frank L. Chef OF
Kentucky had served as an enlisted man
in the United States Navy before at
tending college. He received his law
degree in 1881, and was chairman of the
sixth bar district of Kentucky 10 years
later. Married and with three children,
he took leave of absence from his job
as Marion County attorney to serve in
World War II as member of the Air
Corps. He was commissioned lieuten-
ant and advanced to the rank OF major
before retirement due to physical dis
ability in August, 1874.
Representatives Melvin Price OF
Illinois and william j. Green, jr., Of
Pennsylvania were in service at the
Quartermaster School, Camp Lee. Va.
when elected.
Mrs. Emily Taft Douglas. Representa-
tive at large from Illinois, Is keeping
the home fires burning, with . daughter
Jean, while her husband, Capt. Paul
Douglas, is fighting with the marines In
the South Pacific.
Representative Hugh De Lacy quit his
job as teacher in the University OF
Washington to work as a shipyard ma
chinist to assist in the war effort. He
is married and has three children.
Representative Charles r. Savage OF
Washington State, who learned the
lumber business the hard way, has been
elected union ofiicial many times by
both the AFL and the CIO. Lumber
mills and logging camps he represented
won the Navy "E" and the Army "E"
awards in October, 1914. e.
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A Feeling of Spring

February is a short month, but
sometimes it takes a long time to
go by. There are those who con-
slider it the hardest month of the
twelve; they say it is the ragged
end of winter, with no omens of the
unlocking of the earth from its
frozen Information. But to him who
is attuned to the myriad wonders
of nature February is a month of
peculiar, if somewhat tantalizing,
feelings for spring.
One expects wintry days of gusty
winds, swirling snow eddies blowing
over the fields and snowdrifts block
ing the paths to the R. F. D. box
and the henhouse. But intensified
among the evidences of winter still
here are omens that the Kings
strength is waning. There are days
when the climbing sun sends warm
rays and the water drips from the
roofs. What matter the long,
pointed icicles? 1t took a warming
sun to make them.
Interspersed among the nimbus,
gray-cloud days the sun pours into
the windows of the tie-up and
makes patterns in the dusty air.
And cows, irked by their long weeks
in the stanchions, turn their heads
and look at the bright sunlight. In
the henhouse the biddies congre-
gate in the patches of sunlight and
scratch for grain, singing away to
themselves in their contralto, minor
key. And the horses, colts and
young stock, let out for run in the
fields. kick up their heels and go
galloping about as if searching for
the elusive scent of the new season.
There is feeling of spring in the
woods and meadows. There may be
crust on the snow after a freezing
night, but at the south edge of the
maple sugar grove one can see sure
evidence. In the warm midday sun
little trickles Of water run along
the slopes. Around the granite
boulders small areas of brown earth
appear. The chickadees sing their
husky strains and the bluejays flash
among the trees in screaming ex-
citement. In the pine grove there
is soft murmuring of the needed
branches. Perhaps the south wind
has sent an advance scout. 1t may
still look like winter in February,
but the second month has feeling
Of spring.
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fighting determination is endan-
gered." The decree declares itself
limited to the "Reich's defense areas
threatened by the enemy" but since
nearly the whole of Germany is in
that category, there viii be precious
few spots where this new act of Nazi
terrorism will not apply.
Irrespective of age or sex, all civil
ians are threatened by it. They are
told that If they evade their duties
toward the community especially if
they do it from "cowardice or selfish
ness" they will be, punished with the
utmost ruthlessness. Does a man
quit his railroad job to avoid being
bombed. or does a woman talk de-
featist talk among her neighbors, or
does some teen-age youngster steal
some food somewhere? Then If they
do, they are undermining Germany's
fighting strength and fighting deter
mination, and they are criminal
enough to die. The new decree is
as broad and terrible as that. To
describe it as martial law is to be
euphemistic. It is measure of sheer
desperation designed to frighten the
German people into last-ditch re-
sistance against hopeless odds. Per-
haps it could be somewhat justified
if there were any chance to save the
Reich from total defeat, but since no
such chance exists, it seems little
more than move for senseless
blood-letting to crafty the rule-or-
ruin, Gotterdammerung mentality
of Nazidom.
Obviously, now that they thus
stand ready to kill any number of
Germans in the process. the Nazis
will stop at nothing TO- put off the
day when they themselves must
answer for their crimes. The people
of Germany must surely realize
now-and with what bitterness
that the thing they once so loudly
applauded and heiled so endlessly
and followed so blindly and so en-
Enthusiastically is fully prepared to
turn on them almost as savagely as
it once turned on their neighbors.
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Terrorism in Germany

The Gestapo's gun is now definitely
at the head of every German. Under
the drastic decree just issued on
orders from Hitler, military courts
of summary justice" will henceforth
be empowered to mete out death to
any one found guilty of "crimes by
which German lighting strength or
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emancipate themselves from French
mandatory control. Clearly In the
background is the thorny Palestine
question, where Arahism and Zion
ism are in sharp conflict. And still
further in perspective are the inter-
ests of Britain, France, Soviet Russia
and even the United States. The
outcome of the Cairo conference has
thus truly worldwide significance.
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The famous Watch on the Rhine
seems to be equipped with an alarm
now.