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EIGHT THE DAILY MAIU, HAGERSTOWN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1941. (Established 1S2S) 1. PjUtlixhed every eveuiuv lundkiy by The Mali Publishing pany. 28 Summit Avenue. Ytoyra, Maryland.

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All rights ol publl- clatlon of special dispatches herein als Tank Output production program unequaled by any other world power, American assembly lines are expected by defense ojcials to be turning out tanks at the rate of 3,100 month by 1943. gigantic program calls' for monthly production of 2,000 me- dium'tanks; 1,000 light tanks, an4 100 heavies, the- Army's new 60-ton. steeL still in the experimental stage. "By nextspring." Undersecretary of War. Robert P.

Patterson recently told an audience of delegates of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, "there be more tanks in production than was considered possible less than a year ago. jiThe various types of tanks 210W under construction were mentioned by Mr. Patterson. light of 14 into full production in April of this year. These are proving their ability I in the fighting in Libya at pres- 'eit I'To every three light tanks iftde, we are getting one med- 28 tons.

These tanks, too, aer proving: their in the fighting on the other side." would spend the winter in comfortable quarters at Moscow, Leningrad and other large cities. The effect of all this on German national morale is, from the outside, unpredictable but the present trend cannot be other than adverse. Another war with the United States cannot, for the German people, be an omen, of hope or a promise of a prompt and victorious peace. It would be quite like Hitler, now that he has assumed supreme command, to launch some desperate but spectacular coup to stimulate his people and remove them from contemplation of the defeat in Russia. It would not be sound at this time to suggest a comparison with the German crackup in 191S.

But news of what happens in the lair of the Nazis from now on will be sought less in formal communiques of battde-front developments than in hundreds of small dispatches that throw light on the state of mind of the German people. Intide Germany If Hitler miscalculated Russia's armed strength as of midsummer, 1941, this was a miscalculation com- to military staffs of other nations, including that of the United But the German miscalculation was responsible for opening up a front 2,000 miles in length, upon which German blood has been for six months in a vain effort to take important objectives. It was responsible for the German armies and air force encountering their first defeat. That it is a defeat is now implied in official German statements, and with even greater clearness iu the hesitation and confusion under which Hitler himself has assumed supreme command of the armies. The miscalculation on the Russian front has led to serious differences among the various groups of.

high and the army as to what Should now be done. That the morale of the troops needs stiffening is evidenced in Hitler's fervent appeal to their endurance ami their patriotism. is almost, incredible, but it seems to be a fact, that the German in Russia need underwear, shoes, mufflers, gloves, warm clothing of all kinds, and that Doctor Goebbles has had to appeal to the German people to deprive themselves of these irreplaceable ar-! Licles in order to fit out the troops. It is Hitler'? gospel that the common soldier comes first, that his needs must override all other considerations. But now Goebbeis reveals that all of Europe's factories, storehouses, department stores and private wardrobes cannot furnish, enough loot in clothes to outfit his soldiers for a cruel Russian winter.

This fact alone nails down extent cf the German plight, shows how grave was the German miscalculation. The Nazi general had expected that the armies Unified Direction All indications at London and Washington point to a prompt effort to create an inter-Allied supreme war council to coordinate hostilities against the Axis. The need for such coordination is obvious. -If such a council can be set up without too much loss of time, and if it can be armed with power for effective decisions, a great advance will have been made over what happened in 1917, when the United States first joined a world- war. In 1917 the Allied effort -wag diffused, Russia had collapsed, the Italians had been defeated at Capor- etto, there fas no general plan, no single directing head, and American aid was still months in the future.

It was not until November 7, 1917, that a Supreme War Council was created. The records of that council have never been published, but it passed; great power and at times exerted considerable influence. It consisted of civilian Ministers of the Allies with military representatives and it sat at Versailles. The military representatives had no executive status. AVhile it led to improvement iu shipping, and food resources, its effect was to establish a dual advieorship, consisting of the Versailles group and the national general staffs or the various commanders in chief.

It never succeeded in its main direct operations on all fronts. Two months after the great German offensive of. March, 191 S. the Supreme Wai- Council intrusted the supreme command of the Allied armies to Foch. If.

coordination of effort was needed in 191.7, if unified direction of operations on all fronts was considered essential in 1318. how much greater is the need now when there is a world war on a scale not then known. But the measure of the need will, it is probable, also prove the measure of the difficulties to be encountered in reaching such unification. Except in a broad strategic sense, no general'ssimo in this war could assume actual conduct of operations, as Foch did in 10IS. In the sense thai Koch did it.

to direct, a war in. Europe. Asia and Africa would be impossible. What can be done is to create a general war council, which can map ou-t, a grand strategic plan for the Allies, conserve and develop their resources, and give general directions to which each separate land campaign ami each separate mission at sea can be made to conform. Lighting Up Decline In Farm Values Is Noted Statistics provided by the U.

S. Department, of Commerce in the 16th census show that, the value of farms and farm products in Washington county have declined considerably during the last decade The value of livestock on Washington county farms in IfMO was as against S2.26?.SHO In Livestock includes domestic animals, pouliry and bees. The value of livestock products, smich as whole milk, cream and butter was $1,115.776 in 1020 and onlv in the figures FAIR ENOUGH by WESTBROOK PEGLER A FEW days ago these dispatches presented a one-sided account of some shooting in the lumber country around Richwood, W. where the CIO has been trying to organize the workers and obtain recognition as the agent for bargaining. This publication has drawn a reply from the CIO which I reproduce in full as follows: "Your column of.

December 22 on Richwood, W. Va. situation convinces me that you need no facts to produce a column. Here are some facts you should know: "1. Messrs.

Thompson and Wilson (informants quoted in the earlier piece) are propagandists ot the Cherry River Boom and Lumber company. HOW TO TELL ARMY PLANES Crops harvested on Washington county farms were valued at. $4,460,737 in in and only The census shows that Washington county had 2, SI 6 farms in 1940 and 2.552 in 1930. Their respective values were: Tn 56; in 1929, $5,363.370. basis of personal experience in the Newspaper Guild of the CIO, I can't give much weight to the statement of a CIO official.

Moreover, as between a company union and a CIO union run by Communists or by one dictatorial union boss such as John Lewis, I might prefer the company union. I HAVE heard and read so many outrages and demonstrable lies in my Guild experience and observation that I am able to maintain an open mind on the question whether this is a company union. Nor do I believe that less than 20 per cent of the people are working. I am a little more generous toward the statement that hundreds of the men never draw any money on pay day. That has happened elsewhere and could happen in Richwood, but I know that thousands ot men and women who are unionized against their will wind up with less money, net, on pay day than they drew before.

The unions take so much that many 2 The Richwood Loggers and People show a net loss even when Lumbermen's union is a company their pay is raised, dominated and represents a small Mr Titler doesn't claim a major- minority of the employes. ity for the CIO. He only say? "3. The mill is running with less i attempts have been made "to set- than 20 per cent of tne crew. i tie the dispute" and that the CIO "4.

Hundreds of these employes never draw any money on pay day. "5. Five attempts have been made in the last six weeks by Governor Neely. T. P.

Department, of Labor and Labor Board to set tie dispute. "6. CIO has offered to arbitrate but company refused. "7. CIO welcomes an investigation by any state of Federal agency.

Richwood has been a Fascist town under a dictator for more 1 than 12 years. No real American should question the iutestrny of Governor I Neely after 20 years of faithful pub- lie service. I George .1. Tiller. "International Representative.

M. Workers of America, i 'Charlestown, W. Va." i TIM'S we have had both sides and will now offer some analysis and comment. I note that Mr. Titler does not mention, much less deny, the principal statement in the earlier story that, more than 100 rounds had been fired from rifles into the offices of the company, into a public school and into the home of n.

company official and at the log trains. I take it. therefore, thai he is willing to let that report staml a confirmed fact. As to whether the Messrs. Thompson, the local editor, and Wilson, a company employe, are propagandists for the company.

I cannot accept at value the word of a man who has the effrontery to lay it down that "no real American shouM question the integrity of Governor Neely." They may lie propagandists, hut the CIO and the mine workers have many propagandists on their side, and, moreover, truth is powerful propa- anria, the more so 5f it is true, as Mr. Titlei seems to Rrant. that snipers are firing SO-SO rifles at. American workers employed on a defense job. don't know whether the Loggers' and Lumbermen's union is a company dominated but, on the has offered to I think he would claim, a majority if he had one and I am sure many CIO politicians would claim, a majority, anyway, but I point out that if the CIO had a majority it would submit to an election and wouldn't try to muddle the situation with offers to "settle" and "arbitrate." The captive coal case what happens to employers who agree to "settle'' or "arbitrate" with the CIO.

Richwood may be a Fascist town. but. many unions are Fascist unions and West Virginia is becoming a Fascist state under Governor Neely and the CIO, which has been organizing the public em- ployes and wants to collect a legalized loot or subsidy from the public treasury in the form of a dues checkoff from citizens employed by the state. Now you. have both sides of the story, and -I thank Mr.

Titler for his generous help. Man About Manhattan By George Tucker EW. YORK, Dec. S.S. Normandie haunts me.

I saw her iriake her maiden entry into the Port of New York. As sirens wailed and planes droned overhead a million New Yorkers and New Jerseymen lined the waterfront and cheered. She, a gay, French chit with a tri-color in her hair who winked at strang- ers, and the crowd winked right back. THAT night I went aboard her for her first official reception, and I remember the gorgeous tapestries and the miles of ankle-deep broadloom that precluded all sound as you moved through her salons or strolled her endless passageways. I was to remember those tapestries and all her jeweled trappings months later, after the bottom fell out of the world, after Calais and Dunkirk.

The Normandie never left her berth at the foot of 50th street after war was declared. She had a skeleton crew. Cops paced the waterfront and only by presenting special credentials could you get aboard. I used to pass there twice a day, wondering at the slow change that began to take place. Rust came to color her chains and stain her sides.

There was no life. She seemed desolate and forlorn, with only her press clippings of yesterday to remember her. ONE night in a bar, one cold, ugly night many months later, I listened to a tale that brought a cold, dull horror into the room. The man who told it was a high official. He told it frankly, openly, easily.

He said: "That's a terrible thing about the Normandie. isn't it." We looked up, ques.tioningly, and in much these words this Is what he said: "The lonely, beautiful Normandie has been gutted by rats. The great, ugly rats that haunt the waterfront. You can hear them galloping through her corridors at night like dried beans rattling in a hollow skull. They have ripped her gorgeous tapestries to tatters, gnawed the costly furniture, literally lacerated ker saloons.

"But that is not the worst part, not nearly. There is a little chapel aboard the Normandie, because she is French and therefore Catholic. In this chapel is a figure of Jesus. "The rats have gnawed this Im- of Jesus to Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST 27th Pursuit Squadron: This slrik-i ing falcon was a familiar device! over French battlefields in the last! World War.

It was the insignia erf the old 1st. Pursuit Group, later changed to the 27th. It. won 54 CHRISTMAS WEEK BIRTHDAYS To all whose birthday falls within. These costly days of Christmas cheer, Since few with presents will come in Let now these verses gay appear.

"Many returns!" to you we call But gifts? The Christmas took our alii Oh, brother mine, you came to earth Two days beyond the Christmas morn Missing its revelry and mirth. 'Tis hard remembering you were horn. Oft have I proffered as my share A Christmas tie I wouldn't wear. So close to Christmas you appeared Cold turkey makes your birthday feast. The candles (often have you sneered) Burned halfway-down their length at least.

And relalives worn out with giving Forgetful you're among the living. And so to all. of these few clays. Whose birthdays scarcely noticed pass I stand a moment now and raise The customary empty glass. The Day Dr.

Earl LPouglass He Made The Best Of Things We can't have what we like, then we have to like what we have." It was the late King: George who said this. Most people think a king- has everything in life he wants, and that he can do pretty much as he pleases all the time. As a matter of fact no individuals in the world have higher walls built about them than do kings. No one has to adapt his life more completely to the lives of others than do the few people in the world who hold positions of royal station. King George had many things to contend with during his eventful life.

He had learned much in the school of denial, and his firm conviction was that whether he liked them or not, he had to accept certain things that came his way and make the best of them. But he went further. He claimed that we can actually like what we have to take, if'we only meet the incidents of life in the right spirit. The same circumstance will make one person bitter and another person brave. What destroys the morale of one man, puts the fiber of courage into the heart of another.

Every human being, be he king or commoner, has to take life as it comes and make the best of it. and he who learns how to do this has indeed made a success of his life. All eWH-Y MERRY TOADE MARK 'ASHIMTON ROUND REGISTERED By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alkn Air Corps Rejected Long-Range Fighter Planes, Now Gravely Needed Washington, Dec; the outbreak of war, the Army and Navy were in the unenviable position of sitting by, powerless to help the little band of Marines gallantly defending Wake and. Midway Islands.

Even more important, the Army and Navy also were unable to send any real reinforcements to the Philippines. THIS was the tale this man told. We listened In stunned I came back to the office and wrote this story, then destroyed It. Next day I went to the head of the French Line and told him what I had heard. He said.

"Why. it's fantastic, untrue, a He." I said. "Will you let me go through the Nonuandle and pee?" He said. "Certainly, anytime, at once." So I went aboard her. and once again saw her priceless tapestries and fine old filigree work, her costly appointments and her luxurious elegance.

Nothing was alter- Reason for this was not that the Pacific fleet was handicapped by the Pearl Harbor attack, but also because the Army and Navy lacked long-range pursuit planes. And the greatest need at Wake, Midway and the Philippines were planes able to ward off. Jap bombers. We have thousands of pursuit planes in the United States, but the only present way to get them across the Pacific, is to take off their wings, crate them and Put them on slow cargo boats. Thus they would be subjected to the grave risk of Jap submarines.

And the amazing fact is that the Army Air Corps three years ago was begged, urged and cajoled to build Ions-range pursuit planes ably to fly to the islands of the Pacific. The man who hammered at the Now that the government, has Air Corps on this point untn he taken over the Normandie thought I'd mention this tale, for It has lifted its head again. "hoard It. In a different version, at. a dinner last night.

The rats have done It again. Only it isn't, true. just, thought I'd write It into the record. OFFICERS OF FAIR ARE NOMINATED Officers and directors of the Hagerstown Fair Association were nominated without opposition at a stockholders meeting at the Fair Board office Saturday afternoon. As no further nominations can he made, all of the present officials are assured of re-election next Saturday.

The nominations were: President. Andrew K. vice- Harold E. Bester; recording secretary. Charles W.

Wolf: corresponding secretary, Roger C. Hershey and treasurer, Thompson A. Brown. Directors Joseph D. Baker, David H.

Ankeney. Elmer A. Corderman. William H. Cunningham.

Simon L. Downey, Charles Hiiyett, William McHenry, Thomas W. Pangborn, Dr. Robert C. Snave- lv and James T.

confirmed victories in 314 patrols to you! Oft return the day over the lines, lost eight killed, And better luck next time." I say. Qne of Nftw Yo Fjf(h Aveniie had seven fliers made prisoners; bookstores reports that its steady and threp were listed as missings The-United States has never lost best seller is not the latest novel in action. a war. nor the Navy a fleet action, but Frazer's "Golden Bough." was black and blue in the face was Major Alexander P. de Sever- sky, famous Russo-American plane designer, who wanted the Army to double the fire power of pursuit planes and also double their flying range, at an additional cost of per plane.

"Fantastic" in 1938 However, General "Hap" 'Arnold, chief of the Air Corps, vetoed the idea because, he said, "the tactical advantage is not worth the extra cost." In January Seversky had flown 1,400 miles from New York to Havana in 5 hours and 2 minutes, breaking the record. It was after this thai, he went to Arnold, thinking the Air Corps chief might ho impressed by the dram tic flight, it not by the blueprints. But Arnold remained unimpressed. He merely said. "That doesn't prove a damn thing.

Give Seversky a broomstick and he'll fly anywhere" So Seversky tried another stunt. He gave the plane to a girl. Jac- pueline who was not Acquainted with that type of plane. Vet. she flew it from Los Angeles to Cleveland, a distance of 2,000 miles, winning the Benclix Trophy.

But the War Department reaction was: "Seversky is seeking cheap publicity for his firm." What he wanted, however, was to prove it was neccessary to have pursuit planes with a sufficient If our theories are air power becomes range to reach the outposts of the United States Hawaii. Wake. Guam, the Philippines. This was stated' fc-'-nally, with what now proves tc be prophetic foresight, in a letter Seversky wrote to the War Department on June 25, 1H3S, in which he said: "An important aspect of such additional range is the problem of transports of pursuit aviation in case of war. correct, and supreme, we cannot depend upon naval protection for our war planes being transported by boats.

The Navy will not able to afford the necessary protection for our transports. "Therefore must be given to transporting airplanes to the various possessions of the United States by air. To do that, our planes must have an emergency range which would enable them, in time of war. to reach any possession of the United States under their own power." Today our pursuit planes cannot even reach Hawaii under their own power. Gloria Vanderbilt Wed In California SANTA BARBARA, Dec.

29 (ff) an historic Indian mission, Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 17-year old heiress-daughter of one of America's wealthiest families, became the bride Sunday of Pasquale (Pat) Di Cicco. actors' agent and scion of an Italian immigrant I nick gardener. The ceremony took place at noon in the presence of two score close friends and relatives, including the bride's mother, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. About 250 other persons filled the mission to capacity, while eseveral hundred thronged the grounds.

Officiating at the ceremony, which required about. 45 minutes, was Father Leonard, assistant pastor of the 165-year old mission, whose rustic, flower-banked walls and altar have been the scene ol many previous notable weddings. There used to be a Naval rating of. Pigeon Quartermaster for the men in charge of the Navy homing pigeons. DICK TRACY OF THE MONTH 'ES, MR.

TRACY. COULD CALL OF A NEW ITS A COMPLETE OF EVERY BIG CASE EVER WORKED ON, CLIPPED FROM THE NEWSPAPERS. IVE ADMIRED YOUR WORK AND I THOUGHT XOLP LIKE THE WORDS EXPRESS MY THANKS, MRS. AUNT BE AT EXCUSE ME, MR. IS MY NIECE, SEE VERX THE CHAUFFEUR TOLD ME YOU WERE HOW DO YOU.