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After The War
After the last war, the American people were definitely
sick and tired of militarism and all that it involved. Work-
ing on the theory that “the war to end wars” had been
finally fought and won, the Amercan people and their gov-
ernment proceeded to scrap their military power with
astonishing speed. A large part of the Navy was scuttled.
The Army was reduced to 130,000 men—a smaller force
than was maintained by many a fourth-class Europeon
power. The Air Force was reduced almost to the vanishing
point. Appropriations for all the military services were
cut to the absolute bone, despite the warnings and plead-
ings of such fore-sighted commanders as General Mac-
Arthur, who was convinced that another and greater war
was coming and said so to a disbelieving nation. We
withdrew ourselves from our foreign commitments as
swiftly as possible, and pursued a policy of 100 per cent
isolation.
The Amercan people seem to think in very different
terms today. They, and their leaders in both parties, are
coming to realize the immense obligations which our
world leadership will impose on us after, as well as during
the war. As the United States News puts it, after the war,
“The world will be in no shape to run itself. . . . There
will be the task of policing and of putting on their feet
a the 300,000,000 people of Europe. There will be the task
of dealing with 80,000,000 people in Japan. .. . A: year or
two may elapse between the last battle and the actual
peace treaty. During this period . . . large occupational
forces will be needed. . . . The size of the task involved
indicates a force of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 men outside
the United States.”
No one regards this prospect with any particular pleas-
ure. Instead, it is regarded as a matter of sheer necessity,
whether we like it or not. And there is an amazing una-
nimity of opinion as to what must be done. For instance,
both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie, who hold extremely
opposed points of view on many vital domestic issues, see
almost eye to eye when it comes to America’s role as stabil-
izer and policeman in the post-war world. Former Presi-
dent Hoover is co-author of a thoughtful new book in
which he too argues that the American destiny lies in a
kind of internationalism which is the direct antithesis
‘of our national attitude during the ’20s. And American
industrial leaders, in all fields of enterprise, hold similar
opinions. There is, of course, much argument as to the
details of our post-war policy—but there is little argument
as to the basic principles which must underly that policy.
It will cost a great deal of money to police and to re-
_ habilitate the world. It will require the maintenance of a
gigantic Air Force, and of a very large Navy and Army.
It may involve outright gifts to stricken nations. It will
mean that, in the interest of world peace, we will have
to forego some of our past trade advantages, and dispense
with high tariffs and other barriers to commerce. But, it is
argued, the cost of doing this, gigantic as it may be, is far
less than the cost of fighting a terrible war every genera-
tion or two. It is also argued that, due to the incredible
production machine we will have at the war’s end, our
national income will be so high that we will be able to
afford expenditures which would have been impossible
in the past.
This, of course, is a form of imperialism. But its prin-
cipal spokesmen, such as Wallace, Welles, Roosevelt,
Hoover and Willkie, say that it will have little in common
with the imperialism of the past. They say it will not be
based, as was the old imperialism, on subject peoples.
Instead, it is to be based on more or less equal peoples,
with each given full opportunity to share in the wealth
and progress of the world.
There are skeptics who doubt that all this can be done.
Even its zealous advocates admit that it is a colossal under-
taking. It will be a journey of economic and social ex-
ploration for which there are neither charts nor preced-
ents. But millions of men and women believe that unless
it succeeds, “the last, best hope of earth” will be lost, and
a new dark age will come upon the world.
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Reverses In Libya
The terrific reverses in Libya are a tribute to German
military leadership—and a harsh criticism on British mili-
tary leadership. That seems to be the collective opinion
of most authorities. The British were superior in the air
and on the ground. That superiority gave them a fatal
confidence. And Marshal Rommel and his Afrika Korps
took a long and daring chance and succeeded. f
The battle of Egypt is of the utmost importance. If Hit-
ler can seize the Middle East, to which Egypt is the gate-
way, he will have resources and geographical positions
whose value cannot be exaggerated. He will be well on his
way to making contact with Japan. He will, with his
satellite Italy, dominate the vital Mediteranean. Every
resource the United Nations can muster will be used for
the defense of the Middle East.
The Russian defense against vastly superior German
legions has been nothing short of miraculous. Hitler is
apparently throwing everything he has into the Russian
front now. If that effort can be stopped before too much
territory’s lost, a long step toward breaking German mili-
tary power will have been taken.
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You might just as well ask for a divorce as ask your wife
to cut down on the money she spends at the hairdresser.
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Give Me Liberty
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at
“the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death.”—Patrick Henry.
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About the only people who seem to have any fear of the
police or the courts are the law-abiding citizens who never
get into trouble.
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Racial And Religious Intolerance
“What a magnificent opportunity to put racial and
religious intolerance where it belongs—on the dump heap
of prejudices destroyed by common sence.”—Dr. Malcolm
S. MacLean, President, Hampton Institute.
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Remember the good old days when the only thing in the
newspaper was crime news?
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Stability
“The world can be at peace only if its life is stable, and
there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion,
where there is not tranquillity of spirit and a sense of
justice, of freedom, and of right.”—Woodrow Wilson.
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From Mid-Pacific
Dear Editor:
Have received word that you
were sending me our home town:
paper, The Dallas Post. Have been
real anxious to hear from our
friends at home. Have just receiv-
ed one Post, and am writing to you
so you will know that I have start-
ed to receive them. I want to thank
you and all of the rest concerned,
as it is a home town paper to be
proud of. We have a paper “over
here in camp called Midpacifician,
but it won't beat the Dallas Post. I
am hoping that some of my friends
will have a few lines in the Post as
it would seem like old times. I am
doing fine in my work and expect to
do better. Thanking you again for
your kindness and hope I will still
receive the Dallas Post, will sign
off saying Hello to Mother, Dad
and the family.
P. F. C. Wilfred C. Moore,
Hg. Co. 27th Inf. A.P.O. 957,
c/o Postmaster San Francisco.
Written During Blackout
Dear Editor:
1 wish to let you know that I
have received your paper today. I
was very glad to receive it to find
out what my friends at home are
doing. I never thought I would
ever appreciate a paper that well.
I hope you can read my writing
because the lights were ordered out
for a blackout. There is still a lit-
tle light from the window.
Many thanks.
Pvt. Thomas M. Templin,
Co.B11 Bn. A.F.R.T.C.,
Fort Knox, Kentucky.
A Veteran of Midway
Dear Editor:
I'd like to take this opportunity
to thank you for sending me the
Post.
We fellows over here are separ-
ated now, but every time we meet
we talk over all the news in the
Post.
Please say hello to Jack Richard-
son and Jack Hislop for me.
The ol’ town has really changed
in the two years I've been away.
Many of the names I see in the
paper are new to me. So it looks
like I'll have a hard time getting
re-acquainted when I get back.
Sorry this has to be such a short
letter but I haven't time to write
more now.
You buy ’em and we'll fly ‘em
and do a few more jobs like we
did at Midway.
Sincerely yours,
Johnny.
Cpl. John Garbett 13004006
31st Bom. Sqd. A.P.O. 953
c-o Postmaster
San Francisco, Calif.
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HARRY E. POST
biggest part of the maneuvers will
be held in Louisiana.
This cadre which I'm with to
start up this new company was left
behind. So I guess I won’t hit
maneuvers this year. In fact, I
don’t believe maneuvers will last
i long anywhere as they’ll need the
men other places.
By the way, you asked one of
the fellows a few weeks ago what
a cadre was. Well, it's a small
group of men picked from their
original company. They usually
start up another company as we
are doing or do duties for a small
i us some outfits may pull out for
overseas duty not needing a full
| baking company. So we just send a
cadre of bakers to fulfill their
needs. Then, too, a company may
be ordered out short-handed, so
they go to another company like
their own and pull a cadre from it.
They, in turn, fill up their quota
again with recruits, for they have
time to train them where the com-
pany’ pulling out for active duty
wouldn’t.
Back to our own cadre again,
I might say the new men are all
from Pennsylvania. Then, too, our
company commander is from New
Jersey, so you see this new com-
pany does have a good start. As
yet, we don’t know just where our
men will come from or when we'll
get them. Right now, I'm taking
this army life easy. But you can
tbe sure I'll be plenty busy next
week this time.
The weather down here has been
very warm. We haven’t had any
rain. at all this month. However,
we usually have a small wind blow-
ing but even that’s warm. Boy!
How I miss my swims at Harvey's
Lake.
Wins Promotion
Dear Howard:
Again I must ask you to change
my address. I'm certainly travel-
ing around in these mid-western
states if no place else.
As you've noticed, I'v e again
been promoted, this time to the
rank of Staff Sergeant. Then, too,
you will note I'm with a different
company. That is; I will be after
July 25th, at which time we're to
start up this new company.
My old Company of B 97th Bak-
ery has left Camp Barkley for Fort
Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas.
There they will bake for this coming
summer‘s maneuvers with four oth-
er baking companies. I believe
they'll have the same setup as we
did last year at New Orleans. That
is, bake the bread and then ship it
out to the men in the field. The
Guess that’s all the news I have
for you this time, so I'll say good
night, as it’s a little past ten now.
As ever,
Alan.
St./Sgt. Alan C. Kistler,
Company D, 98 Q.M. Bn (Bkry.)
Camp Bowie, Texas.
The Puzzled Game Birds
They are not those who used to
feed us
When we were young—they cannot
be— ;
These shapes that now bereave and
bleed us?
They are not those who used to
feed us,
For did we then cry, they would
heed us.
If hearts can house such treachery,
They are not those who used to
feed us
When we were young—they cannot
be!
—Thomas Hardy.
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THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE
By EDITH BLEZ
This has been a marvellous weekend at our house. I wonder if I could
depart just a little from the usual
business of being a columnist and tell
you what we have been doing at our house for the past few days? I won-
der if any of you remember me telling you about the rector next door
who went into the Army just about a year ago. Since his induction as an
THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
Maybe now and then it
makes a person feel better
to lash out at the British,
calling ’em © slow-pokes
and bunglers. I am mot
trying to say we should
say okay to everything
they do. They have been
in plenty of messes. It
sometimes seems like they
just wait until the other
guy gets them down on
their back just so they can
show him they are the
best man, and can get up.
For one thing, England
should have known what
was going to happen in
France, living just across
the Channel and seeing
them go Socialistic there,
day by day — sit-downs
and all. Socialism made
France duck-soup for Ger-
many—and allowed Ger-
many a toe-hold on Eng-
land’s doorstep.
Alright, says Henry,
how can you blame the
British for mot seeing
across the Channel when
right here at home we
don’t even see across the
street. We are only a hop,
step and jump ahead of
Socialism. If what hap-
pened in France is any-
thing to go by, we better
wipe off our own specs be-
fore we cross the ocean
and start hopping onto the
British for bungling.
Henry is mo greenhorn—
or greenpea. He looks—
and sees. He don’t just
look.
Yours, with the low down,
JO SERRA.
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Angina Pectoris
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Last Thursday morning the
‘phone rang about eight-thirty and
a familiar voice was saying: “How
are you, Mrs. Blez. How would you
like company for a few days?” It
happened that I was going up to
Carlisle to see the New Young Lady
in Our House. So I imformed the
rector that the house was his and
that he and his wife could take
over until we arrived back that eve-
ning.
The next morning it seemed as
if something unusually nice had
happened to our household when
the rector and his wife, came down
for breakfast. We didn’t realize
how much we had missed them until
they came. He was due at Fort Dix
on his away abroad. For some
reason we had put the thought out
of our minds that he might be go-
ing abroad. We didn’t even imag-
ine he would be going so soon.
These three days have been per-
fectly marvellous. In addition to the
rector and his family one of the
boys who had been coming down
from Fort Dix pretty regularly ask-
ed if his mother and brother could
stop with us Saturday evening. He
was expecting to shove off to an un-
known destination, too, and he
wasn’t able to make it home to see
his people.
We didn't have quite enough
beds to accommodate everybody but
one of our friends was going to the
shore and offered us her home. We
all realized in our hearts that this
was a sad weekend but like most
healthy Americans we can always
make a good time out of what
should be a bad time. Never have
I enjoyed people quite so much.
The house was filled all day and all
evening with people coming in to see
the rector and his wife. It was hot,
hotter than it has been all sum-
mer but we all perspired and went
right on having a good time. We
drank enough iced tea to float a
battleship and we all talked our-
selves out!
The rector brought another chap-
lain home with him on Friday eve-
ning and they spent most of the
evening kidding each other about
what was in store for them. The
chaplain was a teller of tall tales.
The poor little Buck Privates who
had come for dinner sat around
wide-eyed. We don’t exactly know
what they thought about their su-
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itself but is a symptom-complex that
is characterized by pain in the chest,
and a sensation of ‘intense anxiety.
and fear of impending death. The
incidence of this disease is in-
creasing and it is most common
after middle age. It occurs with
great - frequency among educated
people of all races. Physical labor
is less conducive to its develop-
ment than is the strain of business
or professional life. A person who
has a highly sensitive nervous
system is more susceptible. Severe
mental and emotional strain predis-
poses to the development of angina.
Males are more frequently affected.
The most characteristic symptom
of angina pectoris is pain, which de-
velops suddenly behind the breast-
bone or over the region of the heart
and may radiate to the left should-
er and down the inner side of the
left arm to the wrist and fingers.
Sometimes the pain is referred to
the right arm, back and the upper
abdomen over the stomach area.
Gastric symptoms may be so con-
spicuous as to lead to errors in
diagnosis. Frequently the attack is
accompanied by belching of gas,
nausea and occasionally vomiting,
and in many cases it is attributed
to some stomach disorder. However,
with repeated attacks the real cause
of the illness becomes more evident.
The symptom-complex of angina is
perior officers!
voice.
together. We had
iced tea and chocolate cake!
for.
this war seriously.
fully.
smiles not tears.
Please
door left for the Wars!
We missed not having our fair
daughter here to join in the fun
but we did call her on the phone
and she managed to hear everyone's
Now this afternoon every-
body has gone back to camp. We
don’t know where ‘any of them are
going or if we are to see them
again but all of us will remember
and be glad we had this weekend
lots of good
laughs in between tall glasses of
When America wins this war I
am convinced it will be because the
boys really have something to fight
They will fight to come back
to the cheerful people they have
left behind. We are an optimistic
people. We might appear compla-
cent. We might appear not to take
We do take it
seriously. We give up our men re-
luctantly but we try to do it cheer-
We send them away with
America will win
this war because the boys want to
keep their homes and their people
just as they are today. We want
them to come back to the cheerful
happy homes they have left behind.
forgive this ‘informality
but I had to tell you about this
marvelous weekend when my little
Buck Privates and the rector next
characterized as much by the fear
of immediate death as by the intens-
ity of the pain.
It is important to recognize cases
of false angina. The pain of false
angina rarely has the agonizing
quality of the pain of true angina
and seldom does it radiate down the |
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and nervous symptoms are more
common. A person with true an-
gina remains silent and still and it
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as it is the realization that it may Pe
Prevention of the attacks is im-
portant. It is necessary that the
individual lead a quiet life, and
avoid as far as possible all mental
and physical excitement. A person
liable to real angina must learn to
do things quietly, avoid haste and
to be temperate in all things. It
may be necessary to abstain from
the use of tobacco, alcohol and cof-
fee. Every effort should be made to
determine the fundamental cause of
the disturbance. Syphilis is the
most frequent cause of angina in
persons less than forty years of age.
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