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Tuesday, December 26, 1944. THE nRHATUR REVIEW PAGE SIX Underestimated German Strength THE DECATUR REVIEW Comparison with 1918 Situation Will Not Bring Victory We Must Remobi. 'Second Wind' Push by Enemy "The Community Paper" lize and Forget Reconversion ior a lawk nppripri f'h pm and wp taa to the retention ot lwow. dul t. By WALTER LIPPMANN THIS IS A "VERY bad time indeed to minimize the gravity of the the name of the safety ol our u.v,,!Uif, nurone and in the Pacific, ing and self-righteous moralize about issues which few of us really let us have the common sense not German often- understand, has already gone fur.

ther than it can be allowed to go to stake the fortunes of war ana the solidarity of the alliance, and the liberation of the Poles them- By DEWITT MACKENZIE Of The Associated Press The Germans have got their second wind and again are on the arivean event for which this column yesterday warned readers to be prepared but such news as has filtered through the censorship dim-out to this writing indicates that About Town AN ENTHUSIASM for the job at hand, an open mind for change and courage to put into practice new ideas, marked the whole life of Justus H. Krebs. Whatever he undertook seemed to reflect credit to his life and to benefit his feUow men. He at the end of 50 years of active life, of typhoid fever. That 50 years never found him at a standstill.

While still a very young man he served as a steward in a large club in Chicago. While there he gained a fine knowledge of foods and how to prepare them. That was in the days before there was such a thing as ice cream and French pastry. The good chef had to be a judge of good meats, as meat formed the most appetizing part of a meal. When he left Chicago he did not at once take up work along the same line.

He came to Decatur in 1875 and took a job driving a delivery wagon. In this way he was able to size up the town and get acquainted with most of the population. This knowledge was further increased when he took a position as clerk in some of the Decatur stores. Plves. unon a small province con in view of the ordeal of our troopi and in the light of the imrnens Allied effort it will take to con-elude this world war.

taining a predominantly Polish city in the midst of a predominant ing ours elves how soon after Ludendorffs breakthrough in March, 1918, the German armies surrendered. Even if it should turn out to be (Copyright, 1944) Russian country-side. If, as we have argued, the whole the Allied forces have been holding the enemy to smaU gains in most sectors or stopping them altogeth rrifnrial settlement of eastern er. Europe can and should be postponed until the war is over, then this par fjpneral Eisenhower seems to ticular settlement can be reexam true that Von Rundstedt has thrown in his have the situation well in hand, and we can have confidence in the ined when the war is over. Lippmann Let us remember that we are not nntcnme It should be marKed tnat in a nosition either in Europe or in last reserves and has staked everything, let us remember that the tide of battle was not turned in 1918 by Just Folks By EDGAR A.

GUEST DOtfBLE DUTY I was glad to be a grandpa and I thought I would be glad. If occasion should require it, to do duty as their dad; But a day of double duty, running on from dawn to dusk. Finds my every muscle aching like an old decaying tusk. I'd the strength to be a grandpa; but also a dad to be, I discovered Christmas evening, was a bit too much for me. I was early at the chimney where they found their stockings filled And before we'd eaten breakfast there were things I had to build.

There were toys I started going; there were play guns that I fired. And by ten o'clock o' morning I was winded and was tired. But I'd owed unto their daddy, who is somewhere over sea, When it came to Christmas morning pop and grandpop I would be. Now, the mother sits and chuckles at my every grunt and groan And she says: "You cannot take which is what you should have known! You can never be their daddy; you are much too gray and fat. Father Time, the wise old fellow, has made vprv sure of that!" despite the great weight of the German counter-thrust, our troops have suffered no debacle.

On the the Pacific to indulge, in the moral Test of Strength. Marshal Von Rundstedt's counter-offensive will be stopped. Already it has been slowed down. The peak mileage advances reported had to do with reconnaissance forces, not the fight line. The question now is whether the Germans have the strength to hold the gains after the offensive comes to a If they hold, we have a big task ahead of us.

It is apparent the Germans came through where our lines were thinly held. We lost many men captured and much na-terial. By the week-end the German flanks were being heavily attacked and our reserves were getting into the fighting. How long will it take to drive the Germans back? We have the men and materials to do it, but by the time the line is reestablished Jan. 1, the time when General Eisenhower at one time predicted the war would be over, will have come and gone.

Some day there may be an answer to the questions being asked, how the Germans could mount such an attack without army intelligence having some hint about it. Such attacks are not set up over night. There is special training and massing of men and. materials. Presumably our forces were taking the usual number of prisoners in raids, for information purposes, planes were taking photographs and there was the espionage service.

Regardless of how it happened, we have set back and must start the new luxiirv of estranging our sirong- comforting analogy; it was turned aii; Thp British and the contrary we've steadily increased the desoerate fighting of our by Russians have paid a terrible price Allies and by "an enormous speed our grip. Excited B-29 Flier Tossed Out His Name Grand Rapids, Dec. 25 AP) Benny Goldstein, 32-year-tfj photographer's mate, first class, sayi if the Japanese ever capture he's going to tell them his name it Murphy. In January, 1944, Benny, home tnt the Christmas holidays, was a member of the crew of the Navyi first plane to bomb Japan proper. After his plane dropped bombs over the target.

Benny and other ctew men unloaded anti-personnel bombi at low flying range. Goldstein said he got excited arj tossed out some of his personal effects, and when he returned to hii base he remembered several cf ta articles he tossed overboard had hj name 'and serial number on them. to wage this war while we were The fighting is fierce, and we ing up of the American reinforce ments. making up for our unpreparedness If the events of 1918 are to be must be prepared for heavy casualties. We shall break the back of this German offensive in due Thev have paid with their blood repeated now, it will not be by re- for the right to be judged, at least course.

Of that there's no doubt. ssuring ourselves that it all turned BY 1882 Mr. Krebs was in the restaurant business for himself right downtown. He hadn't been in business long before he hired the late Sheman Strouse to work with him. Mr.

Krebs knew the kind of service necessary to please the public. That was the kind he gave and his business prospered. While he was in the restaurant business he was offered a position as dining car conductor on the Wabash railroad. Serman Strouse was so thoroughly acquainted wifh Mr. Krebs ways of doing business by this time that he was en considerately and temperately even But the cost in lives is going to out for the best but by recovering the conviction of desperate urgency if we think they are error, wnen be hard to take.

on which, then as now all depends. they act in defense of what they The Hitlerites of course are suf egard as their vital interests. fering just as heavily. It's a bloody business they've started in their The blunt truth is that all of us They have needed us and they and I know of no exceptions desperate, last-ditch effort to stam need us now to insure their Sur have underestimated the power of vival snd their security. But we pede the Allies into making a com our enemies.

We have allowed trusted with the management and Mr. itreDS accepted the position with the Wabash. ourselves to see things as we wished promise peace, mat mis is men hope is further confirmed in the to see them, and not as they are. He showed the patrons of the railroad tne statement made by tierman om Now we must see them as they same courteous treatment that he had given cers that their offensive calls for are, and find in the truth not com But before another Christmas we must work his customers in Decatur. He didn't hesitate to arrival in Paris Jan.

17, after which fort and ease but steadfastness ano le them know that he was also in the restau and nrav till then perhaps Roosevelt will talk peace Peace may bring all soldier daddies to their terms." resolution. The spectacular victories which we won in Europe and in the Pacific caused our enemies to concentrate furiously in order families again. The broad picture of the German rant business in Decatur. Traveling men stopping in Decatur, looked the place up and passed the word along, as to the courteous service they had found. In this way he extended his acquaintance.

assault remains the same. They're to wage war. straining to extend the two great The victories caused us to be ott salients which they have driven in assistance of museum authorities on armor, have designed armor flexible as possible which retains ample metal to ward off shrapnel and small arms bullets. guard, to think about reconversion to the American front in Belgium AT ABOUT this time among the men often towards the Meuse river. One of and demobilization, and to tneorize and quarrel about peace.

What we Personal armor, which supposedly De- have to do now is to regroup our came non-existent along with swords and forces, mobilize to a far higher de spoken of as successful were a group of young lawyers, Outten, Roby, Nelson, Page and Vail, men Justus Krebs felt he had a right to envy. He didn't see any reason why he should not learn to travel with them. gree than we have yet done, and lances after the invention of firearms, is readjust our political ideas to the saving the lives of Allied soldiers. This war realities of a long and hard war. There was an abundance of spare time in the world is now engaged in is really not so modern as we had thought it was.

connection with his job as dining car con- For the only way to shorten the war is to become fully prepared in our minds and hearts, in our strat egy and our measures, and in our Decatur Day by Day Years Ago 1924 SharD drop in temperature to 1 above zero, diplomacy, for a long war. we took the enormous military risk calculated, as the saying goes, but after two days of rain and sleet, brought trm.hiK tn railrnads. Many wires were down. ery narrowly calculated of try conductor. He got copies of "Blackstone, "Greenleaf On Evidence" and numerous other volumes dealing with the practice of law, and read them during his spare time.

He came back to Decatur continued the study of law in the offices of Outten Roby and was admitted to the bar. practising in Decatur he accompanied a' party of friends to the oil fields of Texas and Louisana. He purchased a home in El Campo, established a law practice and soon died of typhoid fever. When he left the restaurant business he ing to knock out two great warrior I. T.

S. was hit the worst. Highways are cov nations at once. ered with ice and a number of tails ana auto There is no use pretending that accidents were reported. the calculation worked out: We have driven the Japanese out of Equipment for Decatur new ponce raaio broadcasting system will arrive tomorrow and will be installed at once.

some of their island outposts; the Anglo-American and Soviet armies these long arms is stretching out towards the fortified communications center of Liege. The other on the south is reaching for Namur. and subdivides into a drive for Sedan a historic invasion route to Paris. One of the menaces of the offensive lies in the fact that these two powerful tentacles form a huge sack within which are many American troops and supply stations. If the Nazis could close the mouth of that sack it would create a nasty situation, and they are doing their utmost to achieve this.

There are several though less dangerous, sacks at various other points. The threats are far from onesided, however. Eisenhower is flinging counter-attacks at the flanks of these German salients. The immediate purpose of this pressure is to prevent the expansion of the arms. However, Nazi Field Marshal Von Rundstedt is making a big gamble in thrusting these salients out into Allied territory, for he lays himself open to a counter move which might cut off and annihilate great numbers of his troops.

That naturally is what General Eisenhower is hoping to achieve. We haven't yet reached the crucial moment of his all-out counter to Von Rundstedt. That Allied assault undoubtedly is in course of preparation, and when it comes Von have driven the Germans from the approaches and outer defenses of turned it over to Sherman Strouse who was to pay for it out of profits. How well Mr. Strouse succeeded and how he continued in Twenty Years Ago 1924 Dnerr.

for 14 years general secre Germany. te, nf the M. C. resigned his poistion the stecs of his former employer is still a This was a great victory and it nf comment among his- patrons of has meant the liberation of about today to become a special agent for the Chase, 80 million people. But it has meant that day.

L- c- T- Freeman and Dillehunt firm, selling t.onnecu- also that the Germans who were cut Mutual Life insurance. year realizing there still is a war to be won in Europe. Slaves to Seniority. Governor Bourke B. Hickenlooper of our neighbor state of Iowa, elected to the United States Senate in November, is scheduled to resign his office prior to January 11, when his tenure ends, in order to attend the first session of the new Congress on January 3.

Lieutenant Governor Robert D. Blue then would take over the gubernatorial duties during the interim period until he assumes officially the title of Governor bestowed on him by Iowa voters last fall. Hickenlooper's motive "in resigning to take up his job as Iowa's junior Republican Senator does not stem from any great desire not to miss a usually dull and formal opening week of Congress. Rather it would be to establish himself as a member of the upper house on the opening day rather than arrive a week late. By a tardy arrival in Washington Hickenlooper, and his state, would be severely penalized in the Senate allocation of committee appointments.

In no deliberative body in the world does seniority assume such a predominant role as in the United States Senate. The member who is one week, or one day, late in taking his seat, receives the less important appointments. Certainly in our democratic system of government there should be some better test than mere, technical length of service in Congress for distributing committee memberships and chairmanships. Too often important groups are headed by misfits in the working out of this seniority rule. Under the democratic concept, other members of any committee should have a voice on who is to head their groups and who shall serve with them.

Congress today- has become a slave to seniority. Wounded Need Nurses. The need for nurses in the army has reached the point where there may be a congressional inquiry why there hasn't been a greater response to nursing our wounded. The wounded are getting excellent medical and surgical care, but the need for nurses has reached the point where it is a reflection on those who can, but will not enter the service. Walter Lippmann points out that in civilian nursing the nurse does not come under army discipline, quite frequently she does not have to leave home or face the discomforts and risks of service.

She can make more money working for civilians who are willing to pay high prices for special nursing Thprp is nn law in this country to force vastly extended became concen The Powers home. 595 Powers lane, was Lights of New York trated behind fortified lines which damaged about S4.000 in a fire today. tip rirniit court room was crowded today HAVING DISCOVERED grand- opera's neither the Red army in front of Warsaw nor the American army in front of Cologne were able to glamour girl (she's diva Helena Bliss), for the trial of John Stacey, charged with the murder of Hiram Rubenstein. pierce in their first attempt. Be hind these fortified lines, which started looking for grand opera's glamour boy with the Metropolitan Opera as my hunting ground, of course.

I think I've found him thnncrVi vnn'H never euesss it to' see him Thirty Years Ago 1914 Twatnr nnstoffice has cleared itself of the they held with relatively mediocre troops, the Germans have recon dressed as Don Basilio in "The Barber of Se stituted and re-equipped a formid Christmas rush but there are still many incoming parcels, due to congestion in the Chicago office. Extra clerks still are employed. able offensive army. ville," or as Mephistopheles in or the dozen other roles this six-foot, three basso, The board of local improvements voted to Ih the Pacific the Japanese have Ezio Pinza, sings. day to improve North Water street from the reacted no less vigorously and ef Rundstedt may find himself involv ficiently to the victories of Nimitz Wabash railroad to Division street with wood For if it isn't a putty nose, arched eyebrows, beard or mustache, it's an evil leer that hides his chiseled, rustic looks.

Yes, Ezio ed in his last great fight. block paving. and MacArthur. Seeing that our amphibious power was great your eye on the battle of Bastosne! That looks like one of enough to cut their sea communi The Millikin National bank, instead ol giving out calendars this year, will give 100 tons of coal to needy families. the epics of the war.

An American cations, thev have hacked out land LUXURY MATES WITH LONG WEAR Pinza, now in his nineteenth year as star basso of the Met is a glamour boy and his M-G-M and Columbia tests have proved it to such an extent that Hollywood wants him on the screen when the present opera season' is contineent is surrounded in this communications through the heart Belgian town. At latest reports the of China to the riches of southeast Yankees had rejected a German Asia. demand for surrender and were This means that the military over. holding out strongly against attacks Nevertheless, the big fellow with the big power of Japan cannot be de IN from all directions. A famous stroyed, but can only be contained, voice began his career not as a singer, but as American armored column is said to a cyclist.

by the amphibious forces of Nimitz and MacArthur. It means that be trying1 to drive through to the rescue. Japan can be defeated conclusively IN ITALY, where Pinza was born, a cross only by a great land campaign on country cyclist could become quite wealthy the Japanese homeland and on the if as Pinza told me "You ever win a race. 300 Boys Seek Asiatic mainland. These hard facts were already It's something like a golf pro in this country.

A bicycle firm would sponsor you, put you on a salary. As long as you won, you were visible two months ago. But To Be Scouts course they have been made grimly clear by the German breakthrough. paid. But unfortunately, I never won.

"It was in the showers one day after had come in third. My friends heard me bet These facts about the war, rather Both assistant Scoutmastess and than casuistry about the Atlantic Scoutmasters are needed in De lowing to console myself and someone jokingly said, 'Ezio, you'd do much better to save Charter or speculation about re catur, Scout Executive William B. conversion, must now control our Soules announced today. An assist those lungs for the race and not for singing. judgment, our strategical decisions, ant must be at least 18 years of women to serve their country.

In England there is a women's draft law. The fact that we have men in hospitals who need the aid to recovery that a nurse I thought of my cycling and, for the first time our war measures, our diplomacy age and the regular Scoutmaster in my life, listened to my own voice and quit THE COAT WITH THE DOUBLE-DENSE FABRIC and our public comment. must be 21. cycling." Because our judgment has been Mr. Soules reported the results Thus the beginning of a career that has based on a false and wishful esti of a survey conducted among 12- can give, should bring more into the army nursing corps.

The public is feeing aroused hv the situation. There should be enough gone on and on so successfully that one Hous- mate of the state of the war, ton, Texas critic wrote enthusiastically. are faced with the prospect of longer and more difficult war. "Pinza could sing the alphabet and have his nurses in this country ready and anxious It is all very well to say that audience swooning in the aisles." year-old-boys in all Decatur schools except parochial, by the Lincoln Trails Council of Boy Scouts as inr dicating that 300 boys not already in Scouting would like to become members. to do their part as army nurses, out tne iact remains that there are not.

have achieved a miracle of produc tion at home; the question SWINGING ABRUPTLY from grand opera If the men go and fight, at least the whether we can sustain and increase to motion pictures, there is a picture now be Fifty Years Ago 1894 Christmas weather yesterday was fine and sunshiny, and people were out walking, buggy riding and some even went boating. Stores were closed at noon. Many family dinners were served, and some churches had their Christmas exercises. Florists report a big business. Decatur Gun club has been reorganized for the winter with the following charter members: Chauncey Powers.

Squire Peake, Charles and Will Surface. Will Bauman, Bert Hilde-brant and A. Balmer. The club expects to have matches every two weeks. Total assessed value of real estate and personal property in the county is S8.955.210 and total taxation is S334.794.79.

Valuation in Decatur township is $3,079,987 and tax 490.18. Words By FRANK COLBY Words To Watch Teachers and students of speech, public speakers, broadcasters, and all the rest of us, for that matter, should note carefully that -cally at the end of such words as typically, electrically, historically, should not be pronounced "klee" Nor should -tally, as in incidentally, be pronounced "tlee." Since we constantly use aderbs ending in -ally, we should be sure to give -ally two distinct syllables, as we always do in such words as nationally, emotionally, nominally, usually, visually, perpetually, intentionally, occasionally, originally. Likewise, the aderbial ending -fully should not be telescoped so -s to become "flea," as "wonder-flea, beauti-flea, aw-flea." Refer to any dictionary, and itxwill be found that all such words are syllabified thus: typ-i-cal-ly e-lec-tri-cal-ly his-tor-i-cal-ly in-ci-den-tal-ly won-der-ful-ly beau-ti-ful-ly i aw-ful-ly Considerable grace will be imparted to your speech if the suffixes -ally and -ully are clearly pronounced as two syllables. Try it, and I feel sure you'll be delighted with the improvement it will make in your speech. God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds.

But made not anything at all. So beautiful as words. Branch. women should nurse them wnen tney come Reports show that from 50 to 75 the effort without that national- back wounded. per cent of the boys are now con ing shown in various cities of the country which, though it runs only 20 minutes should service law which we alone, among the great powers in this war, have been too soft with outselves to Modern War.

Ancient Armor. be seen by all Americans. It is titled "Beachhead to Berlin" and was produced by Warner Brothers in cooperation with the United States enact. nected with Scouting and only one-quarter indicated no desire to participate in the Scouting movement. "A greater number of boys are affiliated with a church and attend Sunday school this which is The same false estimate of the Coast Guard, the motion pictures, in color, war is the cause of the disappoint having been taken originally by the Coast ment and disillusionment which Guard.

Jeeps, bazookas, "ducks," jet-propelled airplanes and flame-throwers are all products of Twentieth Century warfare. Yet despite these modern inventions military men have resorted to personal armor which dates back to the days "when knighthood was in flnwpr significant," Mr. Soules said, 'as all boys being qualified for second class the Allies have encountered It shows more of the D-Day happenings than seen even by the men who took part Belgium, Italy and Greece. The Alpagora's exdugive double-dense fabric has twice as many wool fibres as ordinary coats. Yes, millions of hair fibres on the coat's surface make it soft, downy and super-durable.

Any textile scientist will corroborate these facts, but your eyes will verify them after one glance Alpagora-way. See the new models today! TOPCOAT WEIGHT $32.50 Other Fine Topcoats FASHION PARK ALPACUNA ALLIGATOR ST. MARK'S COVERTS VENETIAN COVERTS KASH-MARAH FLEECES BACHRACHS errors of judgment, which have un in establishing the Cherbourg beachhead. doubtedly been committed, are the The general release of the picture was errors of men who expf cted the preceded by a screening at which Rear Ad In olden times knights and warriors de-maHpd a bonus whenever they donned war to end this year, and find in miral L. C.

Covell; Commander Q. R. Walsh tractable difficulties in front of a hero of Cherbourg; Commander Jack Demp them because the war has not end their cumbersome armor to go forth to battle for their king or fair lady. Today nnr dm lohhnvs airmen and mine sappers ed this year. sey, and many other high ranking Coast Guard officers were present, along with David lnis, too, is tne primary cause of the continuation of the Polish Ruley, chief photographer's mate and head probably would like extra cash payment color cameraman and Coxswain Gene Oxley trouble, that the Red army was for wearing the steel helmets, meuu iuns, a cti 1pt onarrfs thev wear at the and first class Scouts must have an active affiliation with a church group." "Sincerity in building up a training program for boys should be one of the first requisites in any boys' organization," he added.

It was pointed out that all Boy Scout leaders are carefully chosen and are given a thorough training course so that a Scout is guided carefully and intelligently throughout his entire course in Scouting. In Scouting the first choice of sponsors for troops is the church, regardless of denomination or creed. "Because we could win this war and still lose our youth and the peace, it is imperative that we train the youth today so that they will be able to be worthy citizen tomorrow," Mr. Soules said. stopped at the Vistula and the gates It was Oxley's duty to swim ashore with a rope and a thirty-pound anchor so that his of Warsaw, that no representativ Polish government can exist while shipmates could land by means of the rope.

the greater part of Poland is The anchor was shot away, but he held the vcois oiiu tivi frontlines, flying over flak-dotted skies or locating hidden land mines. But they have seen too many of their friends saved from death by this same armor. And so they grudgingly put on the protective devices i iicn cave them. enemy'hands, and that the advance rope by lying on the sand. Thirty-six men of the Red army beyond Warsaw started from the ship and six landed.

Before nightfall, he was the only one alive of the will be jeopardized if there is no Polish settlement which brings with it the full collaboration of all the MEN'S WEAR SINCE 1877 party. Knowing uicy jiugii- im to rjersonal armor BIC. C. I. PAT.

opr. He had other hair-raising adventures but Polish underground forces. is the restricted movement it permits to escaped uninjured. So in the Coast Guard, he We may think, as I for one do, I that the Poles have a just claim the wearer. But ordnance omcers, "The Lucky Ox." L.

L. STEVENSON,.

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