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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

the cries for rehabilitation mounted in Amer
lea and echoed around the world They did
what the guns Of the enemy had never done.
Within few short months precipitous de-
mobilization had 50 riddled the Air Forces
wings that not one group was fit for combat
To be sure. we have made some recovery
since that low ebb of our national strength.
America is beginning to realize that its part
in the Allied victories has placed us inevitably
in a position of world leadership. We have
begun to rebuild our military position.
But we are doing it far too slowly to be
safe. The minimum requirement for the
nations air security is an air -force-in-being of
20 combat groups, supported by the necessary
number of service organizations. Although
the Air Force was able to activate SIS of
these groups by the end of last year,
there are funds to sustain the remain
ing Is on a skeleton basis only. And
glance at the future is even less encouraging
The AR Force budget for 1913 will permit the
maintenance of only 40 combat groups
not much better than half the minimum re-
quirement for the safety of the country
We're StaIin1
Nor does the picture become any brighter
when we look at aircraft production. The
current Air Force budget allows us to pur-
chase less than l 800 aircraft of all types this
fiscal year. This is just half of the 5000
new aircraft the Air Force has stated must be
procured each year to defend our shores
Worse even than the decline of our mill
tary strength is the deterioration of our
national pride. We are growing apathetic
toward all national security matters. We
hesitate and tumble and stall. We let the
Congress cut military appropriations dras-
tically, we debate endlessly over universal
training, we let our strength dwindle little
more each day.
These are the plain and chilling facts We
have no time to lose; this golden opportunity
to rebuild our military power may not last
much longer 1t will be too late to start after
we are attacked. There are several basic steps
that we must take at once, to insure the
prompt recovery of our former position as the
strongest nation in the world. These may be
summarized under four headings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11
;. Reserve Program,

We must support a reserve program which
will enable our Army Navy and Air Force
in-being to expand rapidly in the event of
war. The Air Force budget for 1913 will
allow some form of training for only $1,000
members of all three civilian components -
the Air Reserve, the Air National Guard,
and the Air ROTC. While over 100 Air
Reserve training attachments are needed,
budget cuts have reduced our reserve training
facilities to AZ. These budget cuts must be
restored at once. Training takes time; and
there may not be much time
We must change many other old ideas,
and fit them to the modern concept of war.
Our commercial airlines for example, form
a very important part of our whole reserve
system. We must keep our airlines healthy
and strong, because we may need them in a
hurry if a Pearl Harbor happens again.
4. Universal Training
Last but not least, we must establish a
program of Universal Training, to give the
three services the trained manpower they
need to insure peace. This program has been
called for repeatedly by leading statesmen,
clergymen and military men. The temper of
the times makes imperative that we set it in
motion without further delay.
We cannot win another war. No one can
win another war. Therefore, we must not
fight another war. Our only hope in this
atomic age is to apply our strength firmly
and steadily for peace among nations. This
so 1xAov 49,.
We must maintain our strength - not to use
as belligerent. but to buttress our position
as the worlds referee for peace That means
that what we built up together for victory
should not be allowed to go to seed. We must
work for peace as wholeheartedly, as devot-
eddy as we worked for victory. The End
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counter offensive, we would have to surren-
der - or be annihilated
We are little better than third-rate power
in the air. We have about 3, 700 first-line air
craft in fiyable condition, but more than half
of these are being used for training and are
not ready for combat. We have another $500
or so 6rst-line planes in storage, but to put
them in combat readiness would take from
three to six months. And, remember, for
many of our frst-lne aircraft in operation,
and for all of our aircraft in storage, time is
running out fast. In very few years, every
last one will be obsolete
Il Takes Time
VI COURSE, we say, we have the atomic
bomb. We comfort ourselves by stating over
and over that it would take Russia two or
three or four years to get that bomb into mass
production But do we remember how long it
took us, last time, to get ourselves ready?
If we started rebuilding at full speed, tomor-
row morning, we would require several years
to reach our full fighting strength.
All the planes and all the engines we used
in World War II were on the drawing boards
or in actual production at the time of Pearl
Harbor, yet American aircraft production
did not reach its peak until 1914.
Five full years were consumed last time
in reaching our maximum in air power And
at that time we had strong allies to help give
us the needed time. Our own factories were
never under enemy bombardment. There
were no atomic missiles to slow or cripple our
production. Even at that, we barely made
it: if we had been just little more tardy,
Cermany's w program would have been
successfully launched, and we would
probably still be fighting today. Our mar
gin of victory was perhaps only matter
of weeks.
When Germany surrendered, the Air Force
had more than AZ, 900 combat aircraft. What
is more. there were 14,OOO fighter pilots and
2l,OOO highly trained air crews to man our
bombardment-type planes. At the time of
Japan's surrender, we had 2.865 of the BIG
Superfortresses that had smashed and scared
Japan's war economy to state of impotence
American air power lowered for moment
at that magnificent height Then, with the
war over but with the peace yet to be won,
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give America balanced defense, therefore.
we must first of all increase the Air Forces
share of our defense budget so it can perform
its duty the way it is expected to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11

WE WON the last war. And it's the last
w war we'll ever win. If we have another,
this nation will lose.
Well lose and the enemy we fight will lose,
because victory in atomic warfare is no longer
possible. One nation cannot defeat another
nation today. That concept died with Hiro-
shlma War is like fire: you can prevents fire,
or you can try to put it out, but you can't
win" fire, because fire is destruction.
five fought Russia, the best we could hope
to achieve is a moral victory, and that would
be small comfort to the remnants of our peo-
pie, crawling amid the burnt out foundations
and charTed chimneys of ruined nation.
So we must not, we cannot, talk about wag-
ing war with Russia. Even if we wiped out
Russia, we would be wiped out in the process.
War itself is defeat. We must talk about wag-
ing peace. We must wage peace with all the
air power, with all the machines and money
and men that we used to fight Germany and
Japan. We must be stronger than any
other nation in the world. because l. am
convinced we are one of the few nations
in the world today that genuinely, de-
voutly and unselishly want peace.
Where do we stand, then, at this most
critical moment in our nations history?
How does our air power compare today
with that of other nations, either potential
allies or potential enemies? Are we strong
enough to prevent another war?
Oue-Punch Outfit
During the war, as Commanding General
of the Army Air Forces, was responsible for
two and half million men. still feel deep
responsibility toward these men, and be-
lieve they want to know the facts.
That is why am breaking two years
silence to state these facts frankly. Any poten-
tial enemy knows our military situation any
way; the only ones who do not realize it are
our own people. The cold truth is that at
present we are almost as badly off, in mill
tary sense, as we were before Pearl Harbor.
If another attack comes, the first blow
will again fall through the air. Our Air Force
would hit back with all the power it has.
1t could probably hit the enemy staggering
blow But then it would be all over for us.
Our Air Force today is one-punch outfit.
Without the ability to launch sustained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-01-11
The NEXT WAR;
by General H. H. Arnold

And nobody will win it. Our retired Air Force
chief says the only chance to prevent world
disaster is for the U. S. to remain strong.
Here's warning - and program for action
Photograph BY John Gutsan
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30

the printing in his school books or
the writing on the blackboard can
become unnecessarily physically
upset and unhappy. The sooner he
has glasses after the need for them
is discovered, the better he can ad-
Just to his school work and the
more apt he is to be successful in
it.
In addition, parents can help
their children avoid eyestrain by
providing a desk or table for home
work that is equipped with lamp
which has a strong enough light
for easy reading and that is shaded
to prevent glare. Teachers and
parents can both check window
shades, lighting, seating arrange
ments and posture when children
are reading or studying in order to
help them avoid eyestrain and fu-
ture eye troubles, says the State
Board of Health, which reminds
that good eyesight once lost, is not
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Holy Communion VIII Be Observed
Sunday Morning

The First Presbyterian Church,
Rev. Walter G.. Hards, minister,
announces services as follows:
Church School on Sunday at 10 a.
m. The Bible is the best known,
but the most misunderstood, book
in the world. Is it merely a great
piece of literature-like the works
of Shakespeare? Did it come
down from heaven? Is it full of
contradictions? These are import
ant questions. This quarter we
shall be thinking about these ques-
tions in Sabbath school. Topic for
discussion in the Adult Class, ''Why
Read the Bible ?" Holly Commun-
ion, IL a. M; Sacramento medita-
tion. In this time of political di-
vision it is fitting that Christian
men and women of all nations
should meet around the Table of
their Lord and partake of the One
Bread and One Cup, signifying
thereby their unity in the Kingdom
of God.
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30
CHILD SAFETY
TRAFFIC RULES
Safety of Our Children Is a
Job For the Whole
Community
SAFETY POINTERS

School bells are ringing again!
The Delaware Safety Council
therefore urges that everybody
children and adults-review the
rules of traffic safety. with va
cation over, and children going
back to school, drivers must be ex-
ira careful. But all of us must
see that the children are as safe
as possible on our streets" Frank
j. Horty, President of the Della
ware Safety Council, said recent
ly. "And when I say all of us,
that's just what I mean. The Safe
ty of our children is a job for the
whole community-parents, the po-
lice, school officials, teachers and
every club or organization that
numbers motorists, parents or
young people among its members" /"
The Child Safety campaign this
month is part of continuing traf-
fic safety program coordinated in
this State by the Delaware Safety
Council and sponsored nationally
by the National Safety Council.
Back-to-school safety pointers list
ed by Mr.. Horty are: ID Motor
lists, give the kids a brake" by u.s.
ing special caution in residential
areas, school zones, wherever you
see them. (2) Parents, see that
your children know the safest route
to school-and that they know how
to behave safely in traffic. And set
them a good example. (3) Older
boys and iris, watch out for the
smaller children. They follow your
Continued on Page Eight
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30

Building, Rehoboth Beach, Sunday,
october 8, will be "Unreality".
Morning service and Sunday School
are at IL A. M. Golden Text: Ro-
mans 1912. The night is far spent,
the day is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and
let us put on the armour of light.
A Bible citation from the lesson
sermon is: Isaiah SO: 4, 7-9. None
calleth for justice, nor any plead
eth for truth: they trust in vanity,
and speak lies; they conceive mis-
chief, and bring forth iniquity.. -.
Their feet run to evil, and they
make haste to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of in
iquity; wasting and destruction are
in their paths. The way of peace
they know not; and there is no
judgment in their goings: they
have made them crooked paths:
whosoever goeth therein shall not
know peace. Therefore is judgment
far from us, neither doth justice
overtake us: we wait for light, but
behold obscurity; for brightness,
but we walk in darkness. A cor
relative passage from the Textbook
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker
Eddy is: (p. 479, 4s0). Darkness
and chaos are the imaginary op-
posites of light, understanding, and
eternal harmony, and they are the
elements of nothingness. We ad-
nit that black is not a color, be-
cause it reflects no light. So evil
should be denied identity or power,
because it has none of the divine
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30
EYE TROUBLE
IN CHILDREN
Health Board Reminds Par
ents and Teachers to Watch
for Signs of Eye Trouble
HANDICAPS CHILDREN

Autumn, early darkness, and the
resuming of school lessons are a
combination that leads the State
Board of Health to remind both
parents and teachers to watch for
signs of eye trouble in children.
Handicapped by eye defects, a child
often sinks below par in his school
work and as a result becomes dis
couraged and bored with activities
which normally would interest him.
In judging whether or not children
have eye difficulties, health officials
urge that parents and teachers no
tice particularly the appearance of
the child's eyes. Red-rimmed, en-
crusted, or swollen eyelids, repeat
ed sites, watery or red eyes and
crossed eyes are definite signs that
eyes need attention. Complaints
by child of dizziness, headaches
and nausea following close work
and blurred or double vision also
are indications of eye trouble and
should not be ignored.
In a recent bulletin issued by the
National Society for the Proven
tion of Blindness, various behavior
traits such as frequent frowning,
stumbling or tripping over small
objects, rubbinb and blinking the
eyes often, closing one eye or tilt
ing the head when looking at OBJ
jects, and attempting to brush
away blur are listed as some of the
signs prevalent in children with
eye defects.
The State Board of Health
stresses that when child is found
to have poor eyesight, he should be
taken to physician who is espec-
tally trained in diseases of the
eyes, in order that the eyes may be
examined and fitted for the proper
kind of glasses. Buying glasses
without a prescription is dangerous
for people of all ages, warns the
Health Department, because if the
lenses are not adjusted to the
needs of the individual, they may
do more harm than good.
A child who cannot easily see
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30
Navajo Indians

Nations largest Indian tribe is
the Navajos of Arizona. The Nava-
jos live in mud and log homes call
ed ''hogans". The sale of rugs and
jewelry and occasional laboring
jobs are this tribes chief means of
making money.
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30

hues.. =. Where the spirit of God
is, and there is no place where God
is not, evil becomes nothing,-the
opposite of the something of Spirit.
Smyrna times., 1948-09-30
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

Services Announced for Whining
ton, Milford and Rehoboth
The subject of the lesson sermon
in First Church of Christ, Scient-
ist. 1901 Van Buren, Street, Will
mington, the Christian Science So
ciety, Grange Hall, Milford and the
Christian Science Society, v. I. A.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27
FRANKLY SPEAKING
1t makes you feel good
Frank :l}I,y:Il D avis

conflict between colored and
white worker, the bosses used
this to their advantage.
There are some who contend
that the tragic and disgraceful
race riots of 1919 were the re-
suit of this conflict skilfully
sharpened by the packers. And
so the wage struggle was lost.
1t took the realistic approach
of the CLIO some Is years later
to lay the basis for the strong
unity between white and black
found in the present strike.
THE STRUGGLE of 1946
convinced the skeptics. The
Negro membership not only
stuck with the union but was
the. most militant element in
the strike.
This has not gone unnoticed
by the packers. This unity dulls
the edge of one of manage
ment's sharpest and most eff
fective weapons against organ
lied labor: the weapon of rae
ism. I have no illusions that
if the opportunity can be man
ufactured, race prejudice will
be used in an attempt to Grip
pie or wreck the present strike.
Just a few weeks ago, fol-
lowing. inflammatory articles
in the Chicago Tribune, vigil
antes patrolled the streets of
the stockyards area, ostensibly
to hunt some mythical Negro
rapists. The forces responsible
for the Fernwood Gardens
housing riots against Negroes
are still loose in the city.
FROM 10000 to $4,000 of the
$4,000 CLIO clearinghouse work
ers in Chicago are Negroes.
Nationally, they total about
$4,000 of the 100000 member
ship.
There are local presidents
and other officials, information
al representatives and an in
ternational vice president.
They are on the key strike
strategy committee and are an
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27

overwhelming majority of the
pickets.
Their loyalty is unchallenged
and their militancy a beacon
to all workers.
HERE are ingredients for
trouble. If the strike extends,
meat becomes scarce, and pric-
es zoom even higher, it is not
unlikely that a whispering
campaign will be started plac-
ing the blome solely on Negro
stockyards workers. Enemies
can point to the largely Negro
picket lines.
I think you know what the
results of such hate propagan7
da could be in a meat-hungry
city where there are strong
elements antagonistic toward
both Negroes and labor.
So you feel good inside when
you see white and black work.
ers united in a common strug-
gle for living wages. But you
also know that the packers and
their stooges will resort to any
trick to break the strike, even
race hate and violence.
But so long as there is real
unity, the unions will success
fully resist any attempy 70 cru
city this wage struggle on the
cross of racism. The day when
clearinghouse workers could be
spill into warning white and
Negro segments is past.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27

~ EMOCRACY sud d e My
- occurred to the SUM-
Times political dopester, Mil
burn Pete) Akers, this week.
The inspiring thought lasted
briefly, unfortunately, but
while it did last Akers sound
ed pretty good. Sample:
"The Wallace third party, or
any other third party that rep
resents a considerable element,
is entitled to a place on the
ballot, municipal, county, and
state.
Those who resort to techni-
calities to deny them that right
are not serving the best inter-
esfs of democracy. Such denial
also is a confession o weak
ness.
'"The American way, the
democratic way, is to grant
such groups a place on the bal
lot. Then, if you are not in
agreement with them, if you
believe your position is right,
and theirs is wrong, go out and
defeat them in a fair manner
at the polls. That's the demo-
cratic process"
Il
WE ALL KNOW what caused
Petey to give some thought to
democracy-efforts to keep CT
cero Progressive Party candl-
dates off the municipal ballot
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27
PIRACY IN THE Go
BY POP" DEARBORN

~ URING the executive board of the
- United Auto Workers in Chicago. L
routine meeting it seemed But behind
took place Plans
ershp the UAW membership
of at least four other unions
The JAWS proposed radng campaign
most and militant CIOUnted
Mine MILL Farm Equipment the
stage for this conspiracy its fellow CLIO
executive board issued amalgamaed
cation from of
for the city of Hartford Conn., Charter ITO
Rumors of these
believe leadership
would think OF such radng campaign-much less
But less than three weeks after the JAW executive boards meeting
in Chicago the raids in full operation for all
On March 10 JAW charter offered
in the HarrsSeybodPoter plant Cleveland which
UE contract In Hartford secession
ment taking the Royal
Bond pantsboth UE Miami,
Union organized of the anes
the auto union has raiding
the JAW include Detroit
JAW TaftHartey election
Syracuse die casters plant that has been
past by the Mine Mill The Farm
finding the UAW trying to penetrate its shops exactly the
all the country.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27

on grounds of tricky technical
tiles. But what Petey has to
say about the use of such tech
nicalities is revealing.
Today" says Akers, "the
Ullinois) statutes are such that
almost any attempt to run as
an independent, or to get
third-party slate on the ballot,
can be thwarted by resort to
technicalities
I'm fact, many of the petit
tons filed by Republican and
Democratic primary candidates
could easily be invalidated. 1t
is an open secret that many
time some of them are Signed
by chain gangs working from
telephone books in political
headquarters. Many others
could not stand technical OBJ
jections."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27
Column review
Progressives' fight for place
on ballot gets plug from Akers

The Sun-Times' Irving
Pflaum also had. some pro-
ound thoughts this week-of a
slightly different nature.
Pflaum philosophical that
the less you know about things
the easier it becomes to write
about them. I n C d en- ally,
Pflaum is as close to success
this week as he'll probably
ever get. Pflaum's column is
datelined Lake Success, NY.
THIS WEEK found Doris
Fleeson of the Daily News pre-
dieting that Secretary of Ma
tional Defense Forrestal will
bring a roundabout prepar-
edness program whose corner
stone will be airpower" before
Congress within 10 days.
Miss Fleeson, while declar-
ing that "airpower advocates
like Senators Johnson, of Colo
RADIO, and Taft will also argue
that it Forrestal's program)
makes unnecessary the uni
versal military training pro-
gram to which the administra-
ton is strongly committed"
also says that Forrestal twill
fight for both"
Congress had better wise up
to the increasing and unceas-
ing demands of the military
s. in an election year.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-03-27
x/OU FEEL GOOD down

NOU FEEL GOOD down
inside when you see
white and colored workers
marching together on the pick
etlines in the stockyards area,
talking together in groups on
the street corners, eating to-
gether in the canteens.
It's way of telling the Big
Four packers:
Look here, you guys, you
got away with busting OPA,
you Tapped up fat profits last
year, but you're not going to
get away with paying us STAR
walton wages. All of us-Negro
and white-are in this thing
together, and we're in it to
win!'
IN SOME WAYS, it's a bet
ter strike tn a n that of two
years ago. Despite the tests Of
other CLIO struggles, in 1916
there still was doubt in some
minds that the Negro brothers
and sisters would stick with
he union ship, in a packing
strike. There were white
workers who held bitter me-
mories of strikes in 1894, in
1904, and after World War l.
It was the inherent weakness
of lily-white- trade unionism
that led to defeat in those pc
RODS. Denied union member
ship, which played directly into
the hands of the packers, Ne
groes were held in reserve as
a strike-breaking weapon.
So during the struggles of
1894 and 1904, they were
brought into the industry. In
the labor shortage of 1917, more
were recruited from the deep
South. The anti-union drive
by Big Business after World
War I found the packing I'M
ions still unwilling to solve
democratically the basic prob
lem of organizing these Negro
workers.
THIS was an ideal setup for
management. Aware of the