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TWELVE THE DAILY MAIL. HAGERSTOWN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944. (Establishes 1S28) Published every evening except Sunday by Tne Mail Publishing Com pany 23 Summit Avenue llajfers town, Maryland. QARV1N A Editor National Advertising Representatives: Burke, Kuipers Manouey, inc. ew i'ork, 420 Lexinfftox.

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Per .75 Six months 4.25 Per Year 8.UO Fourth. Fifth and Sixth 10.50 Seventh and Eighth Zones 12.00 Foreig-n Mail Per Month 1.50 trol of civil -vernment in France as liberation proceeds. General DeGaulle is a difficult person with whom to deal, but he seems to have wide support among Frenchmen, inside and outside of France, nd he is one of the reali- ties that cannot be ignored in Al- lied strategic planning. Entered the postoffice at Ha- grerstown as 2nd class a Dec 12. 1898.

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated is exclus -t-vely entitled-to-tbc uao of publi-ea- tlon of all news dispatches credlte to it or not otherwise credited 1 this paper and also local news pub llshed therein. All rights of cation of speclaJ here! are alao reserved Island Hopping Island hopping in the Pacific has received at least implied criticism from some military leaders, including General Mac- Arthur. Without defending that procedure in toto, Gen. Thomas Holcomb, retired Marine com- mander, contends that island hopping was necessary as far as it has gone in the Pacific and that more of it will be necessary. The Allies must converge up- on Japan from all directions, he asserts, and one of those direc- tions lies along the chain of ma- jor islands leading directly to Japan's door.

-The advance from island to island is as much a part of the grand squeeze play on Tokyo as the Russian drive or the coming invasion of Europe. "The Russians," says General Holcomb, "battle from village to village across hundreds of miles to reach the Rumanian and the old Polish borders. But no one has'ever disparaged the Rus- sians for village hopping. Ob- viously their only sure course is to drive the invaders back by routing them from their defens- ive strong points, one by one. "Certain amphibious opera- tions are necessary in prepara- tion for hitting Japan's greatest bastions and the Allies will take as many of the islands as they absolutely need with the least possible expenditure of men, time and materials." Crosi-Channel For monthfe English harbors and English, lanes have been filled with the sight and sound of ships and troopi maneuvering against the hour when a great Allied expedition Invades the coast of Northwestern Europe.

Months ago the grand strategic decision, was made to hazard such aa Invasion, in particular after it became apparent that there was imall hope of anvading the Medi- terranean coast of France from North. Africa. All of the vast es- tablUament of invasion forces in England, all of the Allied command- at the second level of com- maud, all of the American land, sea and air forces based in Britain hare been awaiting the arrival of their commander-in-chief, General Eisenhower. The general has now arrived in England, and it can thus be said that the final phase of preparation has begun. General Eisenhower went to England fresh from con- ferences with Prime Minister Churchill, who has now also ar- rived in "Condon, and with President Roosevelt in Washington.

The ros- ter of Allied command is complete, the strategic and tactical aims of this fateful enterprise have been fixed, supplies have been accumul- ated and training is in its final phases. Inasmuch as this greatest invasions is to be mounted from bases in the British Isles, enormous supplies have had to be accumul- ated and must be made to move with unfailing precision. That is one part of General Eisenhower's job--a phase of coordination and training which further embraces the activities of various Allied troops--French, Belgian, Polish. Dutch, Norwegian and so on--- which will have a real or token role in the invasion. Prime Minister Churchill has at- tempted to bridge the gap that has hitherto separated General Charles De Gaulle and the French Commit- of National Liberation from close working arrangements with As to the broad politi- cal results of the conference be- Churchill and IVGaulIe, nothing is known Rnt the French IB Invasion assume con- i Halsey's Idea Admiral Halsey's insistence upon Allied forces marching into Tokyo and dictating peace there and no- where else is based upon something more than Halsey's reputed long term antipathy for the Japs.

He is said to have had feelings the op- posite of esteem for them years before the attack on Pearl Karbor. In holding to the goal of Tokyo i as the finishing line in the race for victory, he may have in mind not hatred but the symbolism of the Japs themselves. The Japs coddle the obsession that their homeland is soil sacred to heaven and that the "son of so-and-so--alone is fit to rule. This is booked up, un Flushing Up A Dodo happily for the rest of the world with the military idea that war is glorious and that there is nothing more glorious- than. to shed blood for the emperor who is heaven' own.

The Japs fortify their morale with the recollection that their homeland has never felt the tread of the conqueror. Admiral Halsey's point is that unless Americans and their Allies march through the Japanese islands and converge upon Tokyo, little will have been decided in this war so far as the Japanese people are con- cerned. They may lose all their outside territory and retain the mischievous idea that they, as child- ren of heaven, are unconquerable and divinely chosen to everybody else. It may be said that Halsey's idea is endorsed by the great majority of Americans. Pearl Harbor open- ed their ayes to the fact that the Japanese are barbarians in a world that is trying to retain at least the forms of civilization.

Making them adaptable to civilization is a prime task. And Tokyo looks like the place to begin. conquer a attack the United German Air Doom General Arnold, who is in better position to know than any othei person, vexplained that the recent on Germany in which States lost 64 planes and the nazis more than 100, was great victory for America--one of the greatest of the war. "War is the most uneconomical thing on earth," said the general, 'but with our production the loss of 10 planes might not be as ser ous to us as the loss of one plane to the enemy." In those words the air doom of ermany is sounded, as the air doom of Japan will be later on. American airplane production now s'as great as that of the remainder the world combined.

It is more ban twice as great as the warplane jutput of the axis. Furthermore, ermany's capacity is being whit- led down steadily, the latest in- tance of which is the demolition German fighter plane factories Brunswick. "As a result of this air attack," xplains General Arnold, "hundreds projected German fighter planes ever will be manufactured to stop he Allied bombers or the Allied roops when they invade Europe." That is the point for Americans, reading of Allied bomber at-' acks and losses, to keep in mind. ermany is concentrating on the manufacture of fighter planes. Re- NEW GUINEA By Raymond Clapper utedly the Germans have three- fourths of their air strength in Germany to meet bomber attacks and as a safeguard against invas- ion.

Allied fliers are shooting these nazi planes down and destroying the sources of their production. The Russians are taking advant- age of the shortage of nazi air cover and are making sweeping gains on the eastern front. All this spells disintegration and defeat for the enemy. And the rate of disintegra- tion will increase steadily and in- exorablv. QOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, -5 Jan 20--(by must be introducing me by easy stages into the rough jungle life of tho Pacific war.

When I left my a i cooled hotel in Austra- lia for New Gui- nea I figured 1 was now going to be diving into a green hell. I got soim heavy Marine field shoes, put away my necktie, drew leggings and a mosquito head- net, and began taking atabrine. At 3:30 a.m. Lieut. Col.

Philip La Follette called for Frank Mason, special assistant to the secretary of the Navy, and me. Mason was wearing a sun "helmet and Army khaki and when LaFoIlette came into the modern hotel lobby and said: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." We traveled to New Guinea in -47, which is the cargo model the Douglas DC-3 and which is the ruckhorse of the Pacific war as well as in the Mediterranean. From our rear headquarters in to our forward- headquar ters in New Guinea is as far as rom Natal to Dakar, and half of the route is over water. The war ou icre -is being run over that long distance, with high staff officers shuttling back and forth.

In fact it is such a normal bit of commut ing now that they con't even both er to require passengers to wear Mae Wests. Out here airplanes are the chief means of transportation. To get from New Guinea headquarters to forward airfields would mean a six- MUSIC IN MESS TUNES UP APPETITES week trip over mountain and jun- gle trails by horseback, but it is only 45 minutes by air, so whole divisions are moved that way. MY FIRST day in New Guinea was totally unlike what I was pre- pared for. They are easing me into it gently by putting me up in the press correspondents' camp In a coconut grove.

There are floored tents, steak for dinner, and a press working room in a screened hut with a sign over the door: "Coconut Grove Country Club." Six months ago I was camping in a North African olive grove on the shore of the Mediterranean. Now I am sleeping in a tent under coconut trees on the shore of the Coral sea. But it is not always so soft for the correspondents. In the hour after my arrival I drove in a jeep to a military ceme- tery nearby where a number of those small white crosses are over the graves of newspaper corres- Brydon Taves of the United Press was buried there just a few days ago. He died as the result of an airplane crash.

In all, seven correspondents have been killed and a number wounded, so being a. war correspondent under General MacArthur's command is not such a good life-insurance risk. I TALKED with several corres pendents just back from the Gloi cester and Arawe landings. Fran Smith of The Chicago Times go in a tight place and had to spen some time on top of a tank, expose to snipers. Phil LaFoIlette wen to Gloucester on the second wave with a group of newspaper corre? pondents.

They were walking dow the beach and passed within feet of a pillbox which they as sumed had been cleared, but afte they passed a Jap popped out an began using a machine gun others who were coming up. Around where I am, all is peace fill and quiet and like Old Horn Week. As our plane landed in Guinea from Australia we wer greeted by Col Lloyd Lehrbas General MacArthur's staff, wearin jungle green and high-topped rub her sneakers. He was dirty bu otherwise just as we all knew him around the National Press Club in Washington. He has been on ev ery front in this war, beginning in China in the '30s.

He was in War saw when the Axis attacked. At the Red Cross hut was anothe. old friend, Mrs. Marjorie Hendricks who owns the famous Normand Farm restaurant near Washington She has been a Red Cross worke at forward airfields, and was jus boarding a plane for Australia. She and Lehrbas and LaFoIlette were classmates at Wisconsin Unlver sity, and met by accident on the airfield in New Guinea as I ar rived.

Nobody said it was a smal world. TO RUN NEW YORK, Jan. Na- tional Council of the CIO National Maritime Union today called upon President Roosevelt to run for a fourth term "as the best guaran- tee" that his five-point program," which includes a National Service act, "will be achieved." Waste peanut hulls can be pro- cessed and made into a substitute tor cork. HAW FIELD, S. t-, sharp increase in food consumption and a reduction in eating time was recorded when music was added to the menu at the 3000-man mess of 'HEY CORPOPAL-- YOU'RE OFF BONDS OVER AMERICA this Army basic filing school.

"A good appetite is the sign of a healthy soldier," Mess Lt. Marvin K. Wilcoxson explained, "and you ought to see those boys go to town on fie sor.p when we play Pistol Ten miles north of the Mexico-United States border near Nogales, stands the old Tuma- cacorci Mission, where neither fort nor gun is seen on either side of international boundary. Tumacacorc? Keep the 4 Freedoms Buy Extra War Bonds From a to Greece, institutions ministering to the inner man have been wrecked by Germans in their efforts to stamp out all but the gospel of the Herren- volk. The Devotional Life Requires Practice By DR.

EARL Li. DOUGLASS is said to have re- 1 marked on one occasion that if he neglected to practice 'or one day he noticed it; if for two days, his friends noticed it; if for three days, the world noticed it. The same is true in the spiritual life. Prayer is either of infinite value or no value at all. Some peo- ple never resort to prayer until they confront shipwreck, and then wonder why they do it so badly.

It takes just as much application and persistence to become adept in prayer as in piano playing. One day's neglect of prayer and a man notices it; two days and his friends notice it; three days, and he may make some tragic mistake which will be ticked over the wires of the world. When shall we learn that the spiritual world is subject to 1 just as the material world is! All rig-Ms reserved--Babson Newspaper Syndicate By EDGAR A. GUEST GAMES ROOM A It used to be our games room, bu the war has made a change And where we all made merry one the atmosphere is strange; Since mother does the washin. now, and I'm assistant, ther To dry, up on the chandelier's th other shirt I wear.

Upon the old Vlctrola now ar mother's "pretties" spread. That moose I got in Canada wears shorts upon his head. Time was a mighty elk I shot, and now on every tine, As though he'd gored a sewing bag, are hanging socks of mine I know we serve a noble cause, and yet, somehow, I wish She wouldn't string her hoisery along that mounted fish. He was a finny monster once, the glory of the deep, To see him so employed today would make an angler weep. rom east to west a line is strung No more we meet to dance.

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TELEPHONE 2000--2001 Washington Merry-Go-Round By OHUYV PKAttSON Alaska Eskimos Pledge 100 Percent of Tribe's Funds for War Bonds Washington, Jan. you are thinking twice about how much money you should invest in Government bonds, con- sider the experience of Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska. Some time ago, Governor Gruening visited St. Lawrence Island, a long narrow strip of land in the Bering Sea so near Siberia that you can look across on a clear day and see the coast of Asia. It is the most northwesterly area of the Unit- ed States populated by humans--a series of Eskimo villages.

Gruening, the first governor of governor Alaska ever to visit the island, wanted to help prepare them to re- sist possible invasion from Japan. A group of Government officials lad been there before, and asked the Eskimos to help throw up earthen fortifications. They said they would be glad to, except that was the hunting season and if they did not get their season's catch, they would be caught short food later in the season. "But if you, will help us now," the Eskimos were told, "we will send you a shipload of white man's food later." So they had helped, to a man and ncluding some women, in building up the island's fortifications. How- ever, the shipload of food never came.

Governor Gruening, arriving lat- er, distributed rifles not only for resisting the Japs but also for hunting, and gave the natives a eries of talks every evening about civilian defense and what the war was all about. Finally, he ap- proached the subject of war bonds. "Those big planes you see in sky," he explained, "cost mon- y. Uncle Sam has to pay for them. Those rifles we have given you also cost money.

Uncle Sam pays for with war bonds. Every Amer- can citizen buys war bonds--usual- each citizen gives about one- tenth of his salary." Then he suggested that the ribe's community fund had some money on hand (a total of $15,000) and the tribe might wish to buy war bonds with part of it The Eski- mos held a whispered conference. Finally, a grizzled chief reported to Governor Gruening: "We buy $15,000." "That's very generous of you," re- plied the Governor, "but that is your entire fund. Perhaps you had better reconsider and save some of that money for an emergency in case of sickness or lack of food." Again there was a whispered con- sultation. Again the chief came back and reported: "I talk to my people.

They say, been very good- to us. We give we shoot Jap too'." That ended the matter. Little Business Champion Inside fact about the appoint- ment of Maury Maverick as head of the vitally important Smaller War Plants Corporation of WPB was that White House advisers favored someone else, and it was only the conservative business men and Re- publicans inside the War Produc- tion Board who put Maverick across. This will be news to a lot of peo- ple in Texas and Congress who for years viewed Maverick as a wild, lone steer. In Congress, he was a tough, hard-hitting New Dealer, in- troduced the President's Supreme Court bill and fought for all FDR's reforms.

As Mayor of San An- tonio, he cleaned up the slums and rode rough-shod over so many poli- ticians that, at the next election, they kicked him out. Then he came to Washington to head the Government Division of the War Production Many people viewed Maury as a lame- duck Congressman occupying a cushy spot on the public payroll. But they didn't know Maverick. He has done one of the outstanding jobs inside the WPB, has won the confidence and respect of big shot businessmen who, politically, dif- fer with him completely. When it came to appointing a new head of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, White House advisers wanted Morris Coofce, for- mer Rural Electrification Adminis- trator, an excellent man.

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