DE The Centre Democrat, BELLEFONTE, PENNA. EEE EEE WALKER BROTHERS....... A.0. DBRR..... "iiss: Reena ss PPAR tir isu nie PAUL M. DUBBS reser nesses Associate Editor CECIL A. WALKFR.....t000000.4.. Business Manager <T Issued weekly every Thursday morning. Entered in the pwstoffice at Bellefonte, Pa, as second-class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 per year if pald In advance $2.00 per year if not pald In advance — WERICAN( RESS SE 5SOCIATION The date your subscription expires is plainly printed an the label bearing your name. All credits are given by a change on the date of label the first issue of each month. We send no receipts unless upon special re- guest. Watch date on your label after you remit. | | | Matters for publication, whether news or advertising, | must reach The Centre Democrat office not later than Tuesday noon to insure publication that week. Adver- tising copy received after Tuesday morning must run | its chances. All reading notices marked (*) are advertisements. Legal notices and all real estate advertisements, 10 cents per line each issue. Subscribers changing postoffice address, and not no- tifying us, are liable for same. All subscriptions will be continued unless otherwise directed. NATIONAL €DITORIAL SSOCIATION ve Slumber CIRCULATION OVER 7,000 COPIES EACH WEEK EDITORIAL AMERICA'S FIRST YEAR OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR It scarcely seems a year since the day when our teletype clicked off the fateful news: That bombs were raining over Pearl Harbor, that the United States was at war. First sensation was one of numb incredibility. That dazed feeling swiftly gave way to a nation-wide sense of outrage which transcended all divisions of politics and opinion. Gone was the complacency of a fem hours previous, and, in its place, 3 white, bu™n- ing anger: Historians some day may be able to measuvre whether our losses af Pear] Harbor, ghastly as they were, had not been more than outweighed by that sudden forging of a national determination not only to avenge Pearl Harbor, but to smash forever the Axis menace. treachery had Japanese bombs and Japanese nation’s done what no amount of debate over this foreign policies ever could have done: America was united. In the blinding flashes of fire at Pearl Harbor, in that glare amidst the smoke, every last Axis pre- tense was stripped bare. Any last doubts were re- solved. Though we had been told it couldn't be—ihe totalitarian beast was upon our own shores. An American suddenly brought from December 7. 1041, to now, without transition, scarcely would recognize his country. Changes have been far-reach- ing and profound. But they are not the changes most of us expected, a year ago. For example, we thought in terms of sur- pluses then; we think in terms of shortages now. We thought ourselves invincible, then; that any Yank could lick 10 Japs with his bare hands. We have a betler measure of our enemy now. In this light, let us look over the America’s first year of World War IL War in the Pacific In World War I, the United States was granted a warming-up period. There was no threat from the Pacific. Not only Britain but France held the enemy in Europe while we prepared. The first shot fired by American troops in Prance was October 27, 1917—almost seven months after we declared war. This time there was no breathing spell. From the first bombs on Pearl Harbor, the men of our armed forces faced, in the Pacific, the full force of one of the most efficient military machines the world has ever known. The only respite we gained was brought with the blood of our soldiers, sailors and Marines in Hawall, Wake Island, in the Philippines—and with the blood of our British and Dutch Allies in Malaya and the East Indies. The enemy started December 7 {rom the spring- board in Indo-China given them by Petain’s Vichy Government. They needed only one day to conquer Thalland, five days for Guam, 14 days for Wake, 54 days for Malaya and two weeks more for “impreg- nable Singapore.” Three months [or the Duich East Indies. For 100 days, American and Filipino troops held out on Bataan--100 days that will live forever in American history. But they were forced to surrender on April 9. Corregidor fell May 6. We know, now, why we couldn't come to their rescue. In five months, Japan conquered an area 12 times the size of Japan proper, with a population twice as large as Japan. Then the tide began to turn, slowly, Four days after the surrender of Corregidor we won the battle of Coral Sea and speeded up the process of whittling down the Jap Navy. The first week of June saw the last Jap gains, with the landing in the Aleutians, But the same week we won the Battle of Midway. We won round after round in the Solomons, car- ryihg on a war of attrition against the Jap Navy. The Japs have now lost a minimum of 380 ships sunk; we have lost 86. Our shipyards can out-butid the Japs 10 to 1. We haven't won the war in the Pacific yet. For two weeks now he have been “closing in” on Buna, in New Guinea, but the Japs stil] hold it. We have been fighting for four months to hold the Solomons, which the Japs took one afternoon last January. We have not been able to repeat our bombing of “But we are no longer losing in the Pacific. The Japs. have made no major advance on any front for past year-— i | | i THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. December 10, 1942. the past six months. We have started on the long road back. Prelude to the Second Front In the European theater, U, 8, policies and opers= ations stem from that dramatic conference of Presi dent Roosevelt and Winston Churchill last December y Our role in the European struggle was two-fold: first, Intensified lease-lend, especially to Russia: second, the bullding up of an American Army in Britain preparatory to assault upon the Axis, Key factor in this program was the Battle of the Atlantic. U-boat attacks upon our coastal fhipping struck almost as severe a blow at the oll supply ot the East as the loss of Malaya had struck at the rub- ber supply of all the United Nations, Similar attacks upon our convoys to Murmansk and Archangel sub- stantially cut down our shipments of mechanized equipment to the Soviets Russia Stands Fast A vear ago, remember, the Nazi were on the de- fensive for the first time, In Russia. Their retreat, as we learned later, was not beyond Hitler's plannea line of winter resistance, But the drives upon Moscow and Leningrad had beep halted; and, for the Hrst time, there seemed assurance Russia would survive the winter. Our forces continued to assemble in North Ire- land. New U. 8. equipment was rushed to Egypt where our first tanks proved disappointing, later one excellent, U. 8. Flying Fortresses began to take part in the RAF rald program over the Continent in which 2000-pound bomis supplanted 1000-pounde: 4000-pounders supplanted 2000-pounders, and ton “blockbusters” {ell in blasting destruction over North Italy as weil Germany occupied France four- and All the while a new | \ fron nd front Russian demands were answered with promises promises were kept The The raid on Dieppe, we know now, was a costly but deceptive prelude. The fruit of the year's plan- ning really ripened on November T7—when the great invasion of North Africa was launched, with subse- quent developments too recent to require mention here, But as we look back over this year, we realize that in spite of tremendous handicaps, the United Nations have been able to seize the air offensive in the Western European theater, give Stalin “eficc- tive second front assistance.” and threaten the vers survival of Italy as an Axis mighty stroke For planning and execution of that Antic offensive, any tribute we may make pales beside the imprecations which the Axis dictators have heaped upont the authors: Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Their fury is its own accolade Forward in Production “Army Seeking Giant Armada of 4120 Plane That headline, of 19038, seems | Yet it is a help in measuring our gains on that most vital of war front production. This year our plans according to OWI, will be 49.000 partner-—all in one aughable todas output, planes and tank targets. The wars with bare Without the machines, guns, would be 50 many helples cannot win modern our men stoutest hearts hands on production is a report on the set the whole tempo of war pro- we produced 32.000 17000 anti-air- shipping The OWI report assembly lines which Besides 49.000 planes self-propelled artillery. 8,200,000 tons of merchant duction tanks f+ guns- crail guns; and merchant shipping, Yet, when it is 4 These totals are, except in below the goal set by the President remembered that we started far behind the AXis is a mighty achievement that we now begin to pass the enemy's maximum production effort—with ows on maximum by no means in sight. In one vear our total war effort is beyond any yardstick of comparison—with that of any other war or any other nation. It is an achievement of a nation which has continued to operate under its free Insti- tutions, an achievement chalked up In spite of much disheartening fumbling, faulty organization and hesi- tancy in compelling factory conversions to war needs y now, for example, has a manpower czar been named and drastic steps been taken to meet the problem of maintaining the production army without diminishing the effectiveness of the lighting force. Only now, do we have a food czar to deal with the increasing serious problems of supply not only to our army and our civilian population but to the citi- zens of our occupied lands Only Were it not for the fact that this war demands far more, we could, ag OWI says, congratulate our- sélves on a war production measured, in money, at 47 billion of dollars But money figures do no count much in war, The figures that matter are figures on ENEMY LOSSES To be truthful, the whole civilian front, the whole production front has only begun to mobilize We have only begun to discover what we can do The Year Ahead The book of the year past is now open to us. It is the book of our own education in war, the lessons we have learned the hard and bloody way. Upon the profit taken from those lessons rests much of our hope for the year ahead. There are those who blithely chirp that the “war will be over by spring.” Others talk glibly as though we had only to walk into Italy to seize it, when, as we now know, our forces have been stopped in Tun- isia. For the year ahead, let us follow the advice of our President; vield neither to excessive optimism nor excessive pessimism, We all have a job to do We all have a victory to win, It will not be easy or cheap. But we will win that victory if we give to the war effort the best and the utmost that is in us, whether it takes one year, five years or 10. What we did yesterday counts no longer. What matters now is what each of us does today —Phila- delphia Record. AT LEAST THEY ARE NOT HITLER'S Destruction of a large part of the French fleet at Toulon is both a victory and a disaster, If the Al- lies could not acquire this formidable fighting force, at least the patriotism of the French in blowing up their own ships, cheated Hitler of his ambition, One cannot help regret that if the going ever was good, the Toulon flotilla did not join the Allies the moment Hitler invaded unoccupied France, It will be interesting some day to learn why this was not done and to what extent Germany would have retaliated against the friends and relatives ashore of the French sailors had they steamed to sea, In any event Hitler did not get the French Fleet. There is satisfaction in that. As for his hypocritical utterances in connection with the seisure of Toulon, the world pays no attention. “Der Fueher's Face” is not more laughable than his claim that Germany is fighting for self-preservation, The tense is im- portant, Germany is doing that today but it had no such thought in mind when it annexed Austria, grab- bed Czecho-8lovakia, plundered Poland, invaded the Low Countries and set up Quisling in Norway. All such pretensions merely incite the world to have done with Germany more than ever, They sug - gest that Germany is approaching the cracking point. It should encourage the United Nations, both on the battle and the home front, to step up the war program still higher and speed the victory which they must and will ultimately attain. The loss of en many fine fighting ships at Toulon is grievous when it seemed as though had time been taken by the forelock, they could have been saved. But at least the uncertainty of their fate has been Siminated. 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Margolf, assistant | professor of poultry husbandry at {the Pennsylvania State College, says {that early planning for 1943 is ne.! { cessitated partly by wartime demand | for turkey meat Turkeys are counted upon to in- crease the total supply of dressed poultry for the country, ang the {government wants a larger number To produce early poults. eggs will] have to be laid during the dark days of winter, which means that the tur-| key hens will have to be exposed to artificial lights, he said. If the exgs | are to be fertile so that they will hatch, the gobblarg also must be sub- | time than the hen turkeys. The birds! also must have sufficient riboflavin, | one of the fractions of vitamin B in | their ration. TA a S—— The man who makes use of his spare time usually finds that he has 8666 AT FIRST SIGN OF A the longest conti i £0 have rved the correct pronunciatios Maugham? ~The name is pronounced as if it | woods jected to lights, and for a longer |, famou to predict earthquakes? and Geodetic Burvey says that ther ility of earthquake prediction. Jt wt partial prediction will reached Dee pOnsily 5 term? United Slat March of Representativ served in the than in the Hous any other member Brit Lhe surname were spelled maum receive for his violins when received from $50 to 875 for his Wi los 2 Clearfield Hunters Near Exhaustion Continued from page two) shoot a deer but didn't because they didn’t know which direction to drag it The men said they had walked at jeast 30 miles since becoming lost They were hungry and chilled to the bone and badly in need of medical! j attention. Searchers, who suffered while looking for them, said they be- lieved the men would collapse after they reached home. Snow had drifted to a depth of several feet at some places in the The fire company pumper sid a fire truck took Philipsburg searchers to the scene. It has been esumaied officially that at least two-thirds of the 80.- 45 years of age! will be required by the Army and! 000 doctors under Navy. That is neagly one-third of America’s total med force! RHEUMATISM Sufferers from the Pain and discomfort Neuritis, BSciaties, Lumbage and similar sonditions often find prompt relief with which help drugs diree J. M. Keichline | Temple Court 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS nsurance Agency One of the Oldest Agencies in Centre County, ANN W. KEICHLINE, Representative. Phone 190 ° LUEBERT'S NOX "EM TABLETS JULIAN There will in the U. B. church on ning at 7:30, by the regular pa "Rev, J. H. Weaver of Port Matilda Mi Betty SBprow of Bellefont visited with Mr. and Mi Jum Reese the pa t week Mis ii, | Old Man be preaching servic fo 1 | ™ A Sunday oy bese been Clarence Flack to Ix who ha about as w Winter made his f appearance last Wedne Mr Albert Petzold and Charles Burd, of § Wasl rived In Julian on Tuesday visit at able ] : dd) moth helton night ol the home of her "a 11 y wl ang i one of Lem of Belle! Leather £ Nfs 3 Ml SNOW SHOE ’ HER Have y Harnish, Budinger, Lok gate and Myra Dixon. Stag agers were Dolores Morgan Swartz and Mary Shires Pvt. Paul Irwin is home on a fur- lough from New Mexico, and is iting hi parents, Mi and Claude Irwin Miss Ruth at the Philipsburg spent Sunday With parents, Mr. and Mrs Miss Dorothy May Mill Hall, is visiting Mrs. Eva Wenrick Mrs. Mabel Lucas returned home from Altoona. While there she at- i tended the funeral of Mrs, Lucas’ cousin, Mrs. Josephine Rhoades { Car] Cole of Bellefonte, spent a few days with Mr. Cole's brother, Roe Cole and family. last week OUR SI vig. Mis France, student nurse State Hospital Miss France's E. M. France Wenrick of her mother, | Flippo hasn't a brittle bone in his body-—or he'd be a candi- date for a plaster cast! No— this | Terror of the Tanbark has fine strong bones and teeth because he gets enough calcium and phos- tes in his diet. Hey, you! One evel teaspoon of Rumford Baking Powder, as contained in bak foods, provides one-half the mini- | mum daily requirement of phos- | phorus, one-third the requirement | of calcium! 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