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12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH. Friday. Feb. 18. 1944 funded 1831 A Newspaper Fer the Home E.

J. STACKPOLE 1901 1936 Col. Albert H. Stackpole Editor and Publisher (In Military Service) Lt John R. Hood, U.

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Entered at Post Office in Harrisburf as second class matter. By carrier fifteen cents a week; by mail 17.30 a year in advance; single copy three cents. II 1 would be true, for there are those tcho trust me; I would be pure, for there are thote who care; 1 would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brate, for there it much to dare; I would be friend of all, the foe, the friendless; I would be giving and forget the gift; I would be. humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up and laugh and tote and lift. Howard Arnold Walter.

Deferments Re Examined By its order directing an immediate review of the cases of 1,700,000 deferred farm workers the Selective Sen ice System apparently is setting in motion the machinery for stabilizing the draft procedure for the duration of the war. The order sent to all draft boards yesterday included instructions that all deferments be cancelled where it is found the farm workers have not been contributing their share of the national production required to meet the increased crop goals for 1944. The National Selective Service Headquarters made it clear that boards are not expected to con tinue to defer a farm worker unless he produces "by his own personal and direct efforts" at least sixteen "war units" of agricultural production a year, a revision of the previous policy under which deferments have been granted registrants who produced eight or more "war units." This drastic change by which a large percentage of farm workers will be transferred from the agricultural industry to the armed forces has been made under a draft law amendment approved recently by Congress but which dovetails with the Selective Service System's plan for attaining its objective of 11,300,000 men in uniform by July 1. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director, in restating this goal at Philadelphia on Wednesday, explained that success will entail the draft of 1,300,000 men between February 1 and July 1.

At Philadelphia the Selective Service director was considerably more specific than he was in his Washington press conference yesterday and he made it unmistakably plain that the majority of the additional armed forces personnel would be obtained by re examining deferred workers in all industries, cancelling most of the deferments and leaving business, industry and agriculture to find their own replacements. He argued that, in view of the fast mounting pressure for building the armed forces to maximum strength, industries most affected by the present schedule have had sufficient advance notice to train workers to substitute for deferred men in the prime draft age groups. Longest Air Freight The longest air freight line in the world operates from Patterson Field in Ohio to India; operating on a regular schedule, great cargo planes carry war essentials to American troops in the Far East. Leading Man? "I have a leading part in a new play." "That so? Who is your leading lady?" "Don't have any. I lead a horse onto stage." Pathfinder.

I Better English By D. C. Williams 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Where is she 2. What is the correct pronunciation of 3.

Which one of these words is misspelled? Disarrange, der rangc, dereliction. 4. What does the word "indomitable" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with re that means "the state of being true to Answers 1. Omit at.

2. Pronounce mak a nist, and accent first syllable. 3. Derange. 4.

Not to be subdued; unconquerable. "He has an indomitable will." 5. Reality. Dorothy Thompson: German Question There is now a plethora of books and articles on "What to Do With a Defeated Germany." These and their critics divide themselves into advocates of a "tough" or a "soft" peace, and under these cate gories the entire literature is labelled. But the writers start from the wrong point which is not Germany.

Their writings presume a total victory of politically unitedallied powers, and assume that after this war the German question, in itself, will be of primary importance. But the German question was never primary. Germany became the world's Problem No. 1 because of failure of agreement between the western nations anJ the Soviet Union. Tomorrow again the chief problem will not be Germany but the relations between the western powers and the Soviet Union, as they affect Germany.

In my last column I asked: What is the Soviet up to in regard to Germany? I reported on Soviet propaganda without pretending to know its ultimate aims. It is obvious that none of the Allies has so immediate an interest in he future of Germany as the Soviet Union. But what is the essence of Soviet Policy in general? Is it security or is it Messianism world revolution? The answer is: Security with Messiariism only as an instrument for Soviet security. Under no circumstances is it Messianism at the risk of security. Security for the Soviet Union means peace.

Peace, in Stalin's mind as in Mr. Hull's is in divisible. Peace for the Soviet Union means no small wars which might develop to en compass the Soviet. A peace which might be a ten years' truce is no security, A peace based on the assump tion that only Germany would ever conceivably attack the So viet Union is also no security, Therefore the attitude of the Soviets must be, first, Germany must be rendered unable to organize a war against the Soviet, and, second, no other powers must ever have the chance to use Germany or parts of Germany against the So viet. The second question will become increasingly more impor tant than the first.

The Soviet Union has no reason to believe that anti Soviet intentions will forever be exclusively confined to certain nations, or that "Prussianism" is a geographical concept. Twenty five years of bitter experience have convinced the Soviet that wherever there are strongly reactionary governments, under the domination of powerful imperialist or cartel monopoly interests, militarism, or other institutions traditionally hostile to the Soviet Union, there is permanent danger of encirclement and eventual attack through incidents involving first smaller states and later great powers, This is the Soviet neurosis and a neurosis that has unfortunately had plenty of evidence to support it. Out of this arises the Soviet demand that the states immediately on her borders shall not have anti Soviet governments, or social structures dominated by anti democratic forces that will openly or secretly support hostile governments in the future. This includes Germany, which is practically on her borders. The Soviets want permanent peace with the western powers, who alone, after this war could menace them.

The Soviets know that promises will have to be made for this. They know that a radically communist Germany would be regarded as a challenge. They know that the bolshevization of Europe would be a step toward war rather than peace. But they are also convinced and by historical evidence that a highly reactionary Europe would be a step toward war, not toward peace. The compromise can only mean democratic states controlling plutocratic and military interests.

With this in mind it is no exaggeration to say that the way the Anglo American powers act in other countries, and the way the American elections turn, will determine to an immeasurable extent the Soviet attitude toward Germany. In the course of this year the Soviets will have absolute military superiority in Europe. It is not believable that they will allow themselves to be maneuvered out of this superiority in order to give the Anglo American powers complete freedom of political action. The Soviets I think, are willing, for reasons of peace, to limit their operations in Europe, but only for compensation. That compensation is a Europe that is not by the nature of its social structure, hostile to them.

As far as I know, the Soviets have confidence in Mr. Roosevelt who also Wants permanent peace. But there is reason to believe that they have no complete confidence in the War Department, the State Department or the parallel institutions in Britain, in which there are certain traditionally anti Soviet tendencies. 1 A Daily Prayer For Patience in Separation From every part of the earth which Thou hast made, Almighty God, prayers are arising to Thee from lonely hearts in behalf of absent dear ones. Only such a Father as Thou art canst understand and assuage the grief of hearts separated from their best beloved.

In uncertainty and anxiety they await news of their service men, meanwhile pouring out their hearts' supplications to Thee. God be merciful to all who thus endure the sorrow of love. Give them stout hearts, and simple faith in Thee. Teach them that they and their dear ones are alike in thy Fatherly keeping. Give hero hearts to all the home folk; and may no word of fear or anxiety or complaining escape them, to harrow the hearts of their absent loved ones.

In this testing time of love and faith may affection be purified and loyalty demonstrated. Let something of Thine own patience, Eternal Lord, be imparted to all waiting hearts. Speed the day of vie tory and of glad reunions, that together we may praise Thee for Thy Fatherly protection and sustaining grace. Amen W.T.E Mrs. Henry McLemore: Quiet Please! Daytona Beach, Fla.

I don't know whether it is the gypsy, the Nostradamus or just the tea leaves in me that makes ne feel so sure that at the mo wiaMU.l "i ii i A Ktu propnesy ac ss5 curaieiy stne iuture. iBut, I have the feeling sand here is 5 the prophecy: When a cer tain ex col umnist who used to write this column under the quaint name of "McLemore" resumes writing it, he is not going to be able to fool his loving wife half as much as he did in the past. It will be with the greatest pleasure that I will turn the reins back over to him. But, having striven to drive the horse myself for a while I'm going to know a lot better when to yell "Whoa." I can't begin to remember how many times I have heard phrases like this: "Jean, when a man writes a daily column, that is all he should ever be asked to do. The strain of it is so terrific that when he is not actually at his typewriter he should never be asked to do anything that he doesn't want to do, such as pay bills, or fix things around the house, or do errands.

In his leisure time he should be urged to play simple card games, such as poker and gin rummy, or to indulge in healthful sports, such as golf and watching the horses run around a race track. "Furthermore, when a columnist is actually at work, his household should revolve around that fact. No interruptions unless he wants them. Hand and foot service at all times. His train of thought should never be broken unless he is the one who breaks it." Of course, I've taken all this with several grains of salt.

Too many times have I been through this kind of a morning. "Oh, Jean, I can't write a column today. I haven't a thought in my head. I'm written out. Call the syndicate and tell them that I am through.

What a life! Why didn't I decide to be a monarch or an organ grinder or a bus boy? I'll be here the rest of the day trying to write one line. What did you say that phone call was? They are already at the club? Call them right back and tell them I'll be on the first tee in 45 minutes. I just had an idea. I'll knock this column out in 30 minutes. Yesterday I had a column to write by noon, so at 9 I was at the typewriter and then 1 remembered that I had promised Henry some hush puppies (that's food, Northerners) and some date cake.

As I went into the kitchen to fix them I saw some tomatoes that had been given to me so I thought I'd better cook those too before they spoiled. Back at the typewriter with my nose and ears keeping track of the kitchen. The phone rang. "Are you going to join the' Civic Music Association this year?" Then the door bell. "Collect for the paper, Lady." At last the date line was written and the door burst open.

"Hi, Jeanie. What are you going to give to the United War Relief Fund? You're on the list. Gee, I'm worn out. I think I'll sit down and have a cigaret and a coke. I can remember when I used to be afraid to come by here in the mornings when Henry was home for fear I'd irterrupt him at his work.

Don't I smell something burning?" The door bell. "Man to fix the leak in your roof. You'll have to show me where it is." So went the morning. I finally finished the column, bad as it was, by 1 o'clock. SomehoSv I have the feeling, though, that the next time I hear this, "No interruptions unless I want it and I must have hand and foot service" that I am going to say something like "What was that you said?" It is announced that full time members of the A.

R. P. wil continue their duties for some time after the' war. Householders showing unlighted windows will be warned for the first offense, Punch. ft 1 arSK Ht SSI LEONARD LYONS: Poker Sessions The Hoyle Club in Hollywood features one of the two most famous weekly poker sessions in the country.

The other is its East Coast coun Jierpan, neia in New York everv Mon 'day night On the West Pna et Trio I pri i a 1 players are Marc Con nelly, Ira hwin, Charles Co burn, Howard edict, Harrv Kurnitz and Morrie Ryskind. The Hoyle Club's quarters now displays a Service flag with ZVz stars. The three stars represent three members who no longer can attend the weekly sessions because they're in the Army. The half star represents a young man, now in the Army, who played in the game, but always was permitted to kibitz. Mrs.

Jim Farley may. attend both the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Tammany convention delegates will not be the Hall's leaders, but selected from among the most, prominent Democrats in the city. And Leader Eddie Loughlin is making sure that they all are pledged to Roosevelt Igor Sikorsky, who won the Faw cett Aviation Award for his development of the Helicopter, received the prize via CBS "We the People" program Sunday. He was asked to fly to the New York broadcast from his home in Hartford, in a Helicopter.

"Sorry," he apologized, "but I don't own a Helicopter." Commdr. Gene Tunney was in the Stork Club last night, and told of his reunion with Tom Heeny, his one time opponent, in Australia. Tunney, who is campaigning against cigaret smoking, also reported on an Admiral who doesn't permit cigaret smoking in his presence. Grantland Rice and all the others at Tunney's table thereupon lit cigarets Rice told of the day he took Tunney and Jim Corbett, who then was 60, to the roof of an apartment house where they boxed a while. "Frankly, I could've flattened Corbett that day," said Gene.

"In fact, if we ever could have been matched on the day' Corbett was at his peak and I at mine, I'd have licked him. No boxer ever could've spotted me 20 pounds and have won." The Washington company of "Life With Father' has a $50, 000 advance sale for two weeks Majority Leader Ives of the State Assembly is grooming himself to run for the U. S. Senatorship For the first time since the war began, a movie will have its premiere before a group of war workers. The picture is "Voice in the Wind," which will be shown at the RCA Victor plant in Camden When Generals Marshall and Arnold arrived at the Barberry Room in N.

the cloak room girl didn't give them a hat check. "No check?" asked the Chief of Staff. The girl shook her head and assured him: "Oh, I'll remember you." A young Naval officer, accompanied by a lady, went to the central circulation department of the N. Y. Public Library, seeking a certain dictionary.

He had searched all over town for one in vain. He was leaving and wanted to borrow the book from the library for a few months While the arrangements were being made the librarian spoke to the lady, who confided that she once had been a librarian. "Why not go to Room 201 and apply?" the librarian suggested to her. "We have a shortage in librarians Just then the young officer looked up from the application he was filling out and asked: "Mother, whom shall I give as a reference?" "Why not your father?" the lady suggested. The young officer wrote his father's name, "Wendell L.

Willkie." Lt. Eddie Albert, the film actor, who participated in the conquest of Tarawa, tells of the marine sharpshooter who was picking off snipers. "How'd you like to be going back?" Albert asked him. The marine looked through his telescope sight, fired, watched a sniper drop, and answered: "No. I'd rather stay here." "Been away long?" Albert continued.

The marine again sighted his gun, dropped a sniper, and replied: "Comin' on two years, sir." "I guess you're cured a homesickness," said Albert. "Yup," said the sharpshooter studying the palm trees, finding his target with the telescope sight, and dropping another sniper. "Yup. But er well," he said, aiming, firing and killing another sniper, "mebbe I'd like to be back home in Louisville right now. You see.

sir." said the marine aiming, firing, killing, "it's the squirrel nuntin' season." Pauline Leder. whose hus band, Millen Brand, wrote "The Outward Room." from which Sidney Kingsley adapted xne world We Make" is asking for $50,000 for the. right to film it. Former Rep. George Tinkham, oi may become a Con gressional candidate again, but this time as a Democrat.

Tinkham, who always voted against the Administration, would continue to do so. His only problem, however, would be about sitting on the Democratic side of the house that is, if he's elected Sen. Pepper will get LL.D. in Florida, Sunday. I Ernie Pyle: Old Timers Have Priority On Few Comforts in Italy In Italy, Feb.

18 (Ly wireless) The little handful of. old timers left in my company have been together so long they form a little family of their own. They sort of 7 11 stand apart from the newer bulk of the company. Out of their wisdom they seek out the best place to settle down in a new bivouac. They are the first to find an abandoned German dugout, or a cozy pigshed, or a case of brandy in the cellar of a bombed building.

And by right of seniority they take it. Most of them are, sergeants and platoon leaders by now. Such men as Tag Allumbagh and Knobby Knobbs and Jack Pierson, whom I've mentioned before, and Sgt. Ed Kattel man, of Cincinnati, and Buck Eversole, of Twin Falls, Idaho, and First Sgt. Bill Wood, of Council Bluff, Sgt.

Pete Conners, of Imogene, and Pfc. Eddie Young, of Pontiac, Mich. So much depends on this lit tie group of mon coms, and war is such a familiarizing force that they are almost on the same basis as the officers. In this company the officers eat separately when they re in bivouac, but that's about the only class distinction, There is little military formality. I had to laugh one afternoon when Lieut.

Tony Libertore, of Charleston, S. C. was lying on the ground with several of these sergeants sitting around him, just gabbing about this and that. Lieutenant Libertore made some remark, I forget what is was, and Jack Pierson rocked back and forth with his hands tucked around his knees, and said: "Why, you horse's behind, it ain't that way at all." Even in fun you don't talk that way with an officer until you've been through that famous valley of death and out again together. Then Lieutenant Libertore started telling me all that he had to put up with.

He said: "Now take Tag and Knobby. They treat me like They brow beat me all the time. But' word came around this afternoon that six men were to be picked for rest camp, and boy they've been 'sirring' me to death ever since, and bringing me gifts and asking if I needed anything." Tag and Knobby sat there listening with appreciative grins on their faces. These old timers in the company sort of took me in and made me feel a part of them. One afternoon Lieutenant Sheehy asked if I'd ever shot a carbine and I said no, but that I'd always wanted to.

So he said: "Well, let's go out and shoot at something." At the time we were a couple of miles back of the fighting. Our company was to march that night and start its own attack next day. That afternoon they had nothing to do, and were just like a man who takes a day off from the office to lie around home. There was dis forz OrJe iiino's Lt tiiAvjs yACUPlNS ABOUT LlTtefcWS UP e. HOUSE 5 CEflLlAIML LEAVES A LOT OF StJtr AUOUKD 1 A WL Roommates tant artillery and the day was warm and sunny and lazy.

I'd been jokingly bragging on the way down about what a crack rifle shot I was, so now I had to make good or else. And I did! Nothing could make me any prouder than that I picked off little white rocks right along with these veterans. We must have shot for half an hour. We traded guns all around so I could try them all. Buck Eversole showed me how they hold a Tommy gun and spray a slope luU of krauts.

Finally the Lieutenant said: "We better stop or the Colonel might raise hell about wasting ammunition." Toward the end the boys made it comical, holding the guns out at arm's length and shutting their eyes like girls, and holding down the trigger and just letting her jump. It was realy an incongruous interlude was is full of them. Eight the finest and most hardened soldiers in the American Army out in picnic fashion shooting at rocks and having fun two miles behind the line where tomorrow they would again be shooting to kill. "Don't Peench!" In the Public Gardens stood an elderly man who held by the hand a little boy of about eight. The little boy asked, pointing to the Latin words on a sign, nymphaea stellata, the South African blue water lily, "What does that mean?" The elderly man answered without hesitation, "It says you must not peench the feesh, only look at them." Apparently any answer was good enough for the little boy, who said "Oh." Cape Times, Cape Of course the child with a home lesson must keep a radio percolating near by, in case of a breaking development in geography.

Milwaukee Journal. Latest creation of the electrical wizards is a "silent fan." Probably a kind that winces when the Ladies Day crowd shrieks at a pop fly. Detroit News. CA.M7 SA DOMT" ACT AS CteAM OPtoAM 2 lin? iff Neal O'Hara Says: New York, Feb. 15 Congress is already getting complaints from the constituents about the income tax blank.

It is so complex that even a Philadelphia lawyer could not puzzle it out, even if you gave him a substantial retaining fee. A dozen years ago jigsaw puzzles were the national hysteria. But if you were unable to fit a jigsaw puzzle together, you could say, "Aw, t'hell with it!" and go to bed. Well, Morgenthau has got out a new jigsaw puzzle and you had better fit it together before March 15 or you will find out it is not just a game. When you look over the pro visions, clauses and items on your blank, you wonder who else could have framed it ex cept some crosseyed guy in a psychopathic ward.

In fact, the more you read his official documents, the more you are convinced that Henry Morgenthau, is the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Today's Horoscope WHAT TO EXPECT TODAY Sun in Aquarius General Tendencies There may be arguments about legal matters, insurance or tangled finances today. If so, try to keep our of them. The tend ancies at this time are not favorable for the fortunes of the average man or woman. The best indications come in the late afternoon or evening and concern sport or entertainment or some expensive manifestation.

Avoid travel if you can. If Today Is Your Birthday There is no need for haste in your affairs for the years just ahead, and you may find it impossible to hurry things up even when you try most strenuously. The months after the end of next June will help your general interests, although this will be a slow process at best. Do not worry about your money matters, for your problem will be solved satisfactorily. Today's Watchword A card I saw today made me want to bring everyone I knew to read it.

It hung in the window of the bank and read, "ADVICE The best advice we can give you will not help you one bit until you first begin to help yourself." That is the whole secret of philosophy; it can offer priceless gems of wisdom, but until a man knows their value they look like colored glass. The Disappearing Act The trouble with sharing your car, I mean if the bus is your own, Is that sooner or later you find Yourself fixing a flat all alone. UJHAT BfECAAAE Of Th liTtle Papers That uiefce Heee on "Thus TaBce Constantine Brown: Lull in Italy If the news dispatches from Algiers present the situation correctly, there is a temporary lull on the Italian front. According to reports from London, the i Allied Com mand has banned since Sunday all direct on the spot radio facilities to war corresp ents and de creed that news copy Jr must De car i ried by cour ier service to Algiers for censorship on policy and security grounds. In view of the fact that we are encountering heavier resistance than apparently had1 been anticipated, Lt.

Gen. Mark W. Clark's decision to ban all radio newscasts from the scene of action makes people wonder if the true situation is being properly represented to the American people. In this connection it is pointed out that last Friday, before the order was put into effect, Allied headquarters at Algiers announced that Allied planes had made heavy attacks Thursday in support of beachhead operations. A dispatch carrying an Algiers dateline said the Allies against the Germans "virtually every available combat plane, including giant four engine bombers, into one of the greatest ground supporting operations ever undertaken." Correspondents on the spot told a different story.

Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune wrote that the Allied air forces flew "several flights" during the morning, but that rain prevented aerial activity in the afternoon. Had it not been for the reporters on the spot the error, which was rectified by Algiers a few hours later, may not have been corrected and the people in this country would have remained under the impression that the air umbrella was once more active in force. Many people would have wondered, why under such conditions the 5th Army still was stymied on the Nettuno Anzio beachhead. The War Department is now looking into the situation and is querying Gen. Clark for details.

According to reports from Reuters British news agency the decision to centralize all' war news at Algiers, some 500 miles from the battlefront, was taken by the American commander because he became annoyed at some of the reporters comparing the situation on the Anzio Nettuno front with Dunkerque. Gen. Clark, it is explained, has been under as serious a nervous strain in the last few weeks as Gen. George S. Pat ton, was in Sicily when he slapped a soldier and was removed, at least for the time being, from all combat com mand.

Gen. Clark's temper is far less explosive than that of Gen. Patton, but it is understandable that he became irked when newspapermen and radio commentators on the spot compared the plight of the Allied forces in Italy with that of the British in 1940. The principal responsibility for continuing to enforce the ill advised ruling rests, of f. course, with Gen.

Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, commander in chief of Allied forces in the Mediterranean. Whether Gen. Clark has submitted his decision to his superior officer or not is not yet clear. The matter will be elucidated as soon as replies to the War Department's queries have been received in Washington. It is assumed, how (t ever, that if Gen.

Clark consulted his superior officer, 1 Gen. Wilson gave him a free hand to handle what the mili tary regards as a relatively unimportant matter. It is doubtful whether the War Department shares this viewpoint. After two years of war it has become obvious to all concerned that concealing or coloring of news from the battlefront is much more damaging to morale at home than telling the blunt truth. That the campaign in Italy has not been as successful as originally had been expected is obvious to all.

But there has been little, if any, criti cism, of the conduct of the operations. The people on the home front have confidence that the best available commanders have been chosen tn Mead the American forces and tnat setbacks are inevitable. So long as the unadulterated truth is given without revealing military information to the enemy, the home front will accept the good and the bad, news with equanimity. But when commanders in the field begin to camouflage and in i terfere with legitimate reporting a serious suspicion arises in the minds of many that a local commander wants to conceal the real facts from t.h public. CAKirOO EVER.

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