Milford chronicle., 1947-10-31

We have some Z,5UO B-ZJS IN dead St0f-
age. But it would take months, and perhaps
a year or more, to prepare them for combat
and to train the necessary ground and air
crews. We had the time in the last war,
thanks to British resistance and the ''primi- |
tive" weapons then in use. No military COM
mentator thinks we will have it if war comes
again.
The brakes believe that national security
demands modern Air Striking Force equip
ped with at least 1000 modern, long-range
bombers, which will be kept in combat readi-
ness at all times Secondly, they continue,
we must have an adequately financed re-
search program which will assure us world
leadership in aircraft development There is
an old saying to the effect that every military
plane is obsolete as soon as built-its superior
is on the drawing boards. At present, our re-
search activities seem pitifully inadequate.
All we have is few experimental prototypes
of advanced planes. The Air Forces asked
$300,000,000 for research and procurement
they were actually given $33,000000.
The brakes deal in some detail with the
potential destructiveness of the atomic bomb.
They quote the great physicist, DIR. Robert
Oppenheimer, who said "atonic weapons
might kill 100000 Americans in a single
night" The bombs dropped on Hiroshima
and Nagasah affected only three or four
miles of area. The scientists think that fu-
ture bombs may be able to devastate three
or four hundred square miles-an area great
er than that of any American city And even
that would not be the end. These giant bombs
would release enormous amounts of un-
shielded radium the effect of which would be
unimagnable
The brakes touch on the dangerous the
ory that there will be no atomic war because
it would be too horrible - that no nation
would bring itself to employ so fiendish a
means of destruction. They say in reply to
this attitude: LET us not forget that there
has never been weapon invented in human
history, from arrows to flame throwers, that
has not been used to the utmost of its ca
pacity. If we, tolerant and enlightened
nation, could bring ourselves to drop atom
bombs on the homeland of an enemy, are we
prepared, in the absence of an effective inter-
national police force, to rely solely on moral
force to prevent an enemy from dropping
bombs on us?"
That is the terrifying question their ar
ticle propounds 1t is clearly question that
the United States must answer-and soon
N&@&S
SOON AFTER THE WHITE man first
set foot on the North American continent
expert calculators got busy estimating how
long this or that natural resource would last
The gloOmiest predictions have been made
concerning timber More than hundred
years ago French botanist, after swine
around portion Of the country, reported
that, There is an alarming destruction ot
trees for building. The complaints of the
scarcity of timber are every year becoming
more serious in America )" Warnings have
been issued with clocklike regularity evel
since.
In regard to our present timber resources
spokesman for the timber industry make
the observation that, when we conside
' overall growth in every size Of product from
Christmas trees up, plus losses from fire, dis
ease and insects, we find that currently tn
national drain is being replaced by growth
This has been accomplished in spite of tn
!, TACT that we still do not protect 80 percent O
our forest land from the hazard of fire
1t is an historical fact that most of tn
estimates of the natural resources of tn
United States have been woefully inaccurate
They have indicated an inability to eTas
the vastness of the nation and it's recupers
tive powers. The proof of their inaccuracy
evident on every side, in the continued deve
opment of the natural resource industries
such as lumber, which according to the est
mates, should have been out of business
half century ago. Actually such industrie
have no intention of going out of busines;
liz OAAAiNNA 4O1 lS QuISulu
practical conservation programs that shoul
insure sustained production from this re
source for all time, while simultaneous
! meeting public demand for forest product.
, It's policy is typical of the resourcefulness Z
J private enterprise and in reality is the secre
: of this nations greatness. 1t advocates max
: mum use as well as conservation of America
!. : natural wealth.
5000
NO HIGH GOVERNMENT official hs
! urged that price control be imposed on ou
, peacetime economy. But various privat
groups are vehemently arguing in favor {
another OPA or its equivalent, and the Amer
. .ican people should realize what their ides
n would involve
z First of all, peacetime price control woul
! mean revolutionary regimentation of our &c,
; nomic system. 1t would necessitate rigi
y dictation of profits, wages and all other item