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Our Chief Aim To aid in every way the prosecution of the war to complete Victory. __ THOUGHT FOR TODAY The ancient Hebrews were masters at prayer. It was their greatest contribu tion to the art of the human race. And their prayer* have been answered in the sense that if life for them has been hard, at least they survived their enemies. Psslm 124 for Instance, Is a wonderful War-time prayer and fits our present situation to perfection, even as though its Author had been reading the news since Pearl Harbor.—From NOW. _v_ The Road To Berlin (By The Associated Press) l_Westem front: 302 miles (from west of Duren). 2— Hussian front:310 mile* (from Warsaw). 3— Italian front i 560 miles (from Liver gnano.) -V—— Teen-Age Consciousness We have noted with considerable alarm a growing predisposition to confuse the so-called teen-age problem with juvenile delinquency. The two are as far apart as the poles. The fact is , so far as the nation’s youth is concerned, one of these problems is not nearly so “much a teen-age as a parental one. There are millions of youngsters in this country who are puzzled by what is going on in the world and at a loss to know how to guide their course in safety from adolescence to ma turity. They need help—eonstruotive, friendly, wise help—both in the home end beyond the home’s influence. With a world in turmoil. It is not surprising that the younger generation should be a bit “at sea”, as it were, end anxious to have a strong hand at the helm or at least to chart its course. The best of all hands to render this service is in the home—the parents whose privilege, no less than duty, it is to give the counsel they do emestly seek. Wise parents have learned that one wi^ perhaps the best way—to help their offspring is through recreatioi.. That is why cities ere increasingly creating wholesome recreation programs for children with an eye to meeting the varying needs of the individual child and developing individual aptitudes which will be •f value in adult life. The records show that children who leam to play are not only the safest children but most liable to grove into safe, helpful, productive maturity. When all to aakl, flue toot remains that the youngsters of today are little different from their grandparents at the same age, with the same Impulses, inclinations and emotions; and H they are franker than their elders it is only because they have shaken off the piffle and false modesty of the Victorians, which is to their credit. Even with Jltterbugging preva lent, and despite the alleged evil of the motor ear, youngsters now are no whit worse than the ancients of the two-step and horse and buggy days. Xhere is every good reason to get rid ef gtur teen-age consciousness and recognize the home’s responsibility toward ehildren, which to the greater because of the unsettling ef fects of war. -V * Aachen’s Importance While American forces have been battling their way into Aachen and His Germans have been wasting men end armor erueily in its defense, it is worth while to consider the im portance ef the aneient city to the Allies end the Nazis both from view point to military value and as a morale builder or buster. De Witt MacKenzie, Associated Press ana lyst, whose daily articles enjoy with reading, has dealt with this phase of the battle with his customary insight and conciseness. Because eur readers would otherwise miss the privilege ef seeing his analysis we are quoting his ob aervations in part here. He writes: "Already it is clear that Hitler intends to make this test ease, as witness the manner in which he has flung crack armored troops into the conflict at the approaches to the old town. Thus we have further confirmation that he is determined to hand on to the death, and still is cable of causing up plenty of trouble. "On the other side of the Nazi ledger Is proof that not all German soldiers or civilians are( willing to die for him. His officers in Aachen have been shooting both civilians and soldiers who tried to surrender. However, that’s not conclusve, and further evidence is needed to enable us to gauge the dictator’s control over his people. “Berlin brags that the Nazi commander who rejected the American ultimatum to surrender replied: ‘Even an American cannot ask a city like Aachen, where thrity-seven German em perors were crowned, to surrender.’ Passing by the thought that we not only can but did demand surrender, we find much food for thought in this line. “The Hitlerite commander would have been correct if he had said: ‘Germany cannot af fort to surrender a famous old city like Aach en_the first important city to be attacked by land forces in the fatherland proper since the days of Napoleon.’ the loss of Aachen will be a tremendous shock to German morale—so great that Hitler dare not risk it if he Pos sibly can hang on. If by hook or by crook he could build out of it an epic of German resis tance, it would strengthen morale. “By the same token, the Allies need Aachen for the psychological effect on the Germans. But that’s only half the story. Militarily this city is of great importance to both sides. For the allies it’s the gateway in the corridor lead- j ing from Belgium into Germany—a vital rail-1 way and highway center. For the Germans it’s j a powerful defensive anchor in their Siegfried line. “Undoubtedly Aachen remains one of the notable possibilities for a break-through to the Rhine and thence into the heart of Germany. The crossing of the Rhine, which may prove even a greater barrier than the Siegfried line, is likely to be a major problem and one over which speculation if futile pending develop ments.” -V Dumbarton Oaks A Step Ahead Despite criticism in some quarters, the pro ceedings at Dumbarton Oaks have generally won approval and created a belief that post war international relations will be on a higher plane than during the quarter century between the first and the second World wars. It is recognized, of course, that any decisions reached there can only be the preliminary consideration of problems that must be solved later and lay the foundation for a lasting, and hopefully, prosperous peace among all the peoples of the earth, large and small. However carefully the diplomats participat ing in the discussions weigh the broad subject of universal peace and strive to foresee emer gencies that may arise to jeapardize it, many details must be dealt with later because of the limitations to human planning and fore sight. At best the decisions reached in ad vance of the return of peace to the world must be inconclusive and inadequate. But it is gratifying and hopeful for future security that a start has been made thus far in ad vance and, if composite opinion Is to be trust ed, contains the germ of success. But there is one fact that must be borne in mind in the establishment of any council or association of nations charged with maintain ing peace on anything better than a temproary basis. It is that sucess will depend upon the sincerity and integrity of the contracting pow ers and the protection of the weak nations from persecution, exploitation and domination by the strong. Furthermore,-basing the observation on the record of the League of Nations, no organi zation can hope to maintain peace or even ap proach the outer rim thereof, unless it is for tified by a strong police force in the form of an army, a navy and an air force, ever ready and prepared to deal with an threat from any source. The League failed, not so much be cause it lacked documentary powers, but be cause it was not backed by armed might. And because, in one case at least—needed sanc tions against Italy when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia—it lacked backbone. me macnmery wmcn tne uumoarcon uaxs conferences plan to setup for a secure post war world will fail as completely as did that of the League of Nations unless It is rein forced by armed power to carry out its pro gram. If eternal vigilance is the price of peace, then it must be apparent in the light of past experience that a powerful factor in that vigi lance will have to be police protection against brigands. -V New Political Allies When Earl Browder was Communist candi date for president he spake as a Communist. But no more. He has packed the party in cam phor for the duration. So when he made a speech the other night in New York it sounded, in tone and spirit, like a lot of other cam* paign speeches this election year. It was on the wild and extravagant side, which is in the best political tradition. It predicted everything just short of the end of the world If Mr. Dewey should be elected. Mr. Browder’s logic was no more flattered by close examination than that of most com paigners. His thesis seemed to be that since Mr. Dewey objects to Communism in Amer ica, his election would wreck all hope of world peace, and would invite every country in Europe to plung into immediate civil war. But the thing that impressed us was the Mr. Browder’s thought, once the sulpurous smoke had drifted away, was basically similar to that of Harland H. Aljen’s booklet, “The Business man’s Stake in America-Soviet Friendship.” Mr. Allen dosen’t sound like a Communist.He is a consulting economist with his own invest ment management business in Chicago. His main intefest, judging from the booklet, is in private enterprise and the interests of busi ness men and investors. And for the sake el those interests he feels any postwar friction with Russia might be ruinous. The war’s end, says Mr. Allen, will find this country and Russia in possession of most of the world's military and industrial power. He suggests the possibility of their fighting it out, as Rome and Carthage did 2,000 years ago,or collaborating, as the United States and Russia have in the matter of sea power during the past century. Mr. Allen makes other sound and obvious points; that Russia offers an excellent post war market; that we aren’t the only country she can trade with; that Russia has licked tough enemies like transportation bottlenecks, toood sharoage and industrial disruption as well as the Nazis; that this took resourceful ness and character that can work wonders in peace as well as war; that American-Soviet harmony is about the best gurantee of world security. These may have been some of the things that Mr. Bowder was driving at, though cer tainly for different reasons. But the pointis hat he consideraions favoring good rela tions with Russia must be apparent to most thinking Americans—including Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Dewey, Mr. Browder and the National Association of Manufacturers. We shall probably get along with the Rus sians and do business with them so long as businessmen have enough voice to be heard in the White House, whoever is living there. What they say won’t please Mr. Browder, or speed the revolution. For what business will De urging is a relationship which, oddly enough should do a lot toward keeping American capi talism a healthy, prosperous, going concern. Fair Enough (Illtir’i N»ti.—Th* Star mai tk« Newt aeitpl 19 rupiniikilltT far lha paraaaal Tlawi at Mr. Filler, lad ettaa IlMiria with Ikea aa auk aa many at kla raadara. Hla article* aerra tha faai aarpaaa at makia* paaple think. BY WESTBROOK PEGLER Copyright, 1944, King Features Syndicate, Inc. NEW YORK, .With a grateful bow to Presi dent Roosevelt for his use of the word "fraud” in his oration to the goons in Was^ngton, I shall try to clarify a particulary nasty fraud perpetrated on loyal American merchant sail or* by the National Maritime Union, which unerringly follows the communist party line and receives many favor* from Mr. Roose velt, himself. This organization has recently held an elec tion in which, by it* own admission, 20,000 American sailors were disqualified because they had not been members for six months. That, however, is by no means the only pro vision arranged by the political water-front salts who run the union to perpetuate them selves in office and promote the communist program on American ships. The primary qualification, of course, is the poll-tax. If a sailor isn’t paid up, he can’t vote. And, of course, the penalties for non payment of a union poll-tax are much more painful to the victim than the mere denial of the ballot to delinquents in the poll-tax states. The man who doesn’t pay his union poll-tax loses his right to earn his living and may even be driven out of a vital war job. And, if he persists in his refusal as a decision of pa triotic principle, may be utterly ostracised from most lines of work wherever he goes in the United States by means of the union black list. The Southern poll-tax delinquent suffers no refusal of public or private employment and may take full advantage of all public fa cilities. The qualifications for office in the National Maritime Union were ingeniously figged to make it impossble for actual, sea-going sailors to dislodge Mr. Roosevelt’s pro-communist and outright communist dockside adherents. To be eligible for office a sailor must have been a member of the union for at least a year and a sailor for at least two years. We have seen that 20,000 men carrying supplies to the war were deprived of the vote. Now we begin to perceive that practically all the war time recruits to the merchant marine are in eligible for office because the vast majority of new men have had less than two years of sea service. These are the people whom the communists of Mr. Roosevelt’s following in the N. M. U. fear most, notwithstanding a tremendous propaganda directed at them from the time they enter training. They are, in the main, typical young Americans and are not "reliable” from the political standpoint of the communists. But they have no effective voice in the union meeting* at the national head quarters and they are subject to peremptory dismissal from the union and referral back to their draft boards and induction into the Army if they speak against communism either afloat or ashore. Joseph Curran, the president of the union. once boasted that he would fire out of the organization, without trial, anyone whom he| regarded as a "racketeer,” a term undefined in the Constitution. The union's minutes and its official publication, formerly were heavily salted with ominous notices of men dismissed for 99 years and thus barred from most Amer ican ships for anti-union conduct. Refusal to associate with a colored man in hours off watch and expressions of racial or religious prejudice are high crimes for which an offend er may be set on the beach and cited to his draft board, whatever his qualifications as a sailor. Freedom of selection of companions and freedom of speech thus are two primary verbotens among Mr. Roosevelt’s maritime auxiliary and the communists constantly force the racial issue in a degree deplored by most moderate Negro leaders by promoting occa sions for compulsory racial mingling by both sexes. Sailors who are not quite ready for this relationship are liable to expulsion and banish- j ment from the sea. i Incidentally, the minuies and the official | anion paper ceased to publish the sentences* imposed by the Kangaroo courts in an effort lo conceal this information from the public. However, through loyal American friends who ire perforce members of the-union, I. regu larly* receive detailed information of the hid den proceedings. Another qualification for office requires that a candidate shall have been ashore not more than six months before his nomination, except in the case of incumbent officers nomi nated to succeed themselves. The incumbents don’t have to go to sea at all and none of them does. But, by still another union rule, if a man spends more than four weeks ashore he falls into "bad standing” and thus becomes ineli gible for either office or the vo:e with the result that none of the thousands of loyal Americans can remain on the beach long' enough to develop a following and. campaign,! for ' office. By these provisions, anti-commu-1 * ' M nist candidates are stopped before they can start. •*' Ibis however, is the “Democra tic Process” in an organization which Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, both, have honored gratuitously, a union which has a program to “take over” the American Mer chant Marine and whose bas.c, original membership is so largely alien that allowances are made for their inability to read or under stand orders in the language of the United States. I “THERE ARE TWO OF US!” With The AEF Wanta Play Some Rumorang? BY KENNETH L. DIXON WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE Oct. 7 (Delayed)—OR— “Pass the potatoes,” said the captain to the lieutenant, adding “Did you hear about that new division that’s go ing to relieve us in ten days?” The lieutenant looked at his watch, turned tp another lieutenant, and said solemnly, ‘I win. Three hours and ten minutes.” He had just scored another point in a new game which is fast gain ing popularity along the western front. It is "rumorang” and bears a marked similarity to the game ol "gossip” which most of the sol diers played as children. It consists mainly of throwing out a rumor and then seeing how soon it comes sailing back at you. The speed required for your "rumor ang” to return is the main point of the game, but it has many side angles. For one thing, like ‘Gossip,” it is important to see how much the original rumor changes in trans mission from person to person. Also a basic rule of “rumorang” requires that you specifically state when first starting the game that what you are passing along is only a rumor. Then, if it comes back camouflaged as an absolute fact, you practically have scored a grand slam. Also it is important to see what source is given for the “fact” when it comes back. “I had several rumors return as straight from Gen — by way of his aide,” said one grinning cap tain who gets a big kick-out of the rfnme * ‘Mntnr’illir nnminrt frAm him . they are not rumors any more. They are the straight goods —if they had come from- hjm.” Generally speaking it is consider ed poor sportsmanship to start a rumor resembling some actual fact. Several high-scoring officers have been bitterly accused of this lately by less fortunate “rumor ang” players. The whole idea is to place the game entirely on the basis of hu man nature, gullibility and wish ful thinking. It didn’t take long for the: top notch “rumorang” players to learn the most success could be achiev ed-in the last classification. Ru mors about mass dotations of some leave for soldiers long overseas wept whole division like wild fire. Also not' long ago rumors of a pos sible armistice, assassination of Hitler, surrender of the German army and similar pleasant dreams developed into “fact” with amaz ing rapidity. " ' Lately, however, there have been fewer of such rumors. Conversely, next to good rumors the soldiers seem to spread the direct possible rumors the fastest. A chance remarked at breakfast about such and such a battalion being- in a tough spot Will have that entire- battalion wiped out by noon., A single comment 'that one rifle cpmpany is running’into stiff resistance will be quickly multi plied until a whole regiment has been forced to retreat 10 miles be fore sundown. Although nobody has -been able to track-down the •game’s"inventor, the finger of suspicion points to ward a certain army' chaplain, who reportedly decided.to wage a cam paign of ridicule against the never endihg-' rumors which1 sometimes play '*havcc with the soldiers’ roo rale. According ‘to the stogy the chaplain figured the best way to make the soldiers of his outfit im mediately suspicious of all false rumors was to convince them that most are false anyway. That story is just a rumor itself— the chaplain denies it—and maybe the chaplain didn’t have anything to do with it. However, if that is what the inventor had in mind he has been- largely successful—in some outfits, at least. It practically takes an official report in triplicate before anyone at one division command post wfll believe anything that is told. The other day a major started a rumor shortly after breakfast. Sev eral hours later he was question ing a. German prisoner who quite seriously tossed his own rumor right back. “At first I was tickled pink think ing how our game must be foul ing up German intelligence re ports,” he said later. ‘But then I got to wondering if maybe the blankety-blank story might not be true after all.” That’s ‘Rumorang.” Switzerland Surrounded By War Still Carries On Switzerland, workshop and won derland, about twice the size of New Jersey, has demonstrated that it can carry on even though almost isolated from the outside world, says the National Geogra phic Society. Entirely surround# 1 by war this small European na tion has found ways to serve oth er countries and to meet the needs of its own 4,260,000 people. Switzerland represents many countries diplomatically, and has provided a haven for thousands cf war refugees. At Geneva is the headquarters of the International Red Cross Committee concerned with the well-being of prisoners of war and the relief of suffering civilian populations. Life in this durable democracy is lived under the long shadow of the struggle surging around its fron tiers. Citizen soldiers guard its boundaries. Grasslands have been plowed up for wheat growing. Va cant lots and golf courses have be come productive tracts. Lack of coal and oil for fuel has increased the drain on forests for firewood. A sugar shortage' hit the chocolate 1 industry. Milk, butler, and cheese i production slumped with the in ! creasing pressure on pasturage for j crops. Transportation has gone forward | and backward. The coal shortage quickened the electrification of rail way arid the' development of hy droelectric sites. Railways have carried additional freight because shortage of gasoline has made trucks idle. ! , . . . ... luuiiot UctlDC 1X11 t W mountain guides out of jobs, sharp ly reduced hotel and ieso'rt busi ness. White-collar workers were drafted for part-time farm and garden help. Many women turned to industry, creating a problem of domestic service. Army mobiliza tion in May, 1940, took a large slice of the nation’s manpower.' Switzerland’s neighbors are ac tively in the war. To the north and east is Germany; beyond the south ern Alps lies German-controlled northern Italy; across the Jura ranges in the west stands France. Since 1291 When three forest districts joined forces in a league for mutual defense, the Swiss have cherished their liberties. Before the war they had become hosts to all the world in a land knpwn for its scenery, climate, winter sports, and good living. Tallest peak in Switzerland is Monte Rosa 15,216 feet high on the I.talian border. A third as high are the limestone ridg.es of the Jura ranges in the west. Between these two great moun tain ranges feed international riv ers. Main systems beginning in Switzerland and winds northwest through mountain lakes past Bern, then northeast to join, the Rhine.’ From the Alps the land drops to the shore of Lake Maggiore, 650 feet above sea level, the country’s lowest point. Neuchatel is the largest wholly-Swiss lake. Prewar Switzerland looked to it's cows for much of its income. Cheeses were sold ir: world mar kets. Dairy products bulked large in domestic diets. Farm* produc ed pigs, pouixry, grain aim po tatoes. Switzerland is dependent on Ger many for the coal to keep its in dustrial wheels turning. During the war a large part of the factory production has been marketed in the Eeich. Manufacture of high precision products and parts is a specialty. Among these wares in peacetime were watches, clocks, cameras, optical and scientific ins truments, electrical equipment, and the like. Among the lighter man ufactures were . embroidery and textiles. Cities above the 100,000 popula tion level in 1941 were: Zurich, 336,395; Basel, 162,105; Bern (capi tal) 130,331, and Geneva, 124,431. Switzerland’s twenty-two.cantons were unified by a federal consti tution approved in 1874. Cantons— the administrative divisions—keep local affairs largely in their own j hands, and manage their national business through a two-chamber parliament to which they send rep resentatives.. In August, 1944 Switz erland observed the 653rd anniver sary of confederation, " For the first- time in recent his tory, a session of cdurt was held in the open air yesterday when Recorder George Harriss presided over his tribunal cn the south lawn of the court house rather than, bear with the stuffiness of the rcwm in the basement whither the court retires when superior court in in session upstairs. At the regular meeting of the American Legion Fred E. Little I was appointed a delegate to the state convention in Raleigh on Oc tober 23. George W. Gillette was appointed as alternate. , - Invitations are out -for the wed ding of Miss Dorothy Einstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Louis Einstein, to Lawrence Saks, to take place on Wednesday evening. Oc tober 29, at the bride's’residence in the Carolina appartments. -—-V--— ' Forum Will Feature Presbyterian Services . y ■-> . A forum on “Prayer and the Modern Christian-’- will be' con ducted by the Rev. William Crowe, Jr.,, D. D.j as a feature of the 8 o’clock evening service of the First Presbyterian church, to be held in Kenan Memorial chapel. Among the phases of the* subject to be suggested for general dis cussion will be: “What features of modern life discourage prayer? What circumstances arise to com- ■ pel prayer. What uses ‘ can be < made of prayer for our time? i What can the church do to help : people to pray?” , The forum method ef conduction t ivening services has proven * ■ ■ ilar in the church, Dr. Crowe *»■ B ind it is hoped that this discus*1' ■ /ill be as profitable as others11*' ■ een. , ■ interpreting The War By KIRKE I* SIMPSON Associated Press War Analog Allied armies in the west j • the lesser Rhine in Holland to Belfort gap leading to the llp river in France are slugging it*< with hitter-end Nazi defenders no certainty that winter will ? catch them short of a decisi°p break-through. They have only weeks to g0. avert a weather-bound stalema.' unlikely to ease off enough for ?? jor ground opera.ions until n e'„" March( or April. But they?,1 have the word of their Amerie? supreme commander. General?’ erthower, that it will be no down winter campaign in event. The enemy is due for a , ter of unrelaxing strain agro»g as well as by air, he told a Pr? group ki Paris. Plight Worse The Allied commander did. dismiss the possibility of an r * nal collapse in Germany to? the struggle as suddenly as? First World war ended less !r;f„ a month short of 26 years ago \ still could happen. The plight of Nazi Germany today is incomps? ably worse from a military stand point than was that of imperial Germany in mid - October, ujg when the German crack-up begai ’ That plays no part in Allied ,, Russian plans to push the attack ceaselessly, in and out of season If it comes, it wdll be a welcome short cut to victory bu- the general made it clear that the victory ? can now foresee depends in ,'J way upon possible aid from inside Germany. Front line press observers report Allied troops at grips with the are skeptical of reports that they are confronted by a rag-tag and bcb-tail army hastily thrown gether to fill manpower gaps. ? action the Nazis continued against all odds to prove themselves tough fibered, hard-hitting and resource ful. J.11CIC aie several iaciors in lin actual military situation in tie west still to be computed belcie a winter stalemate of some son can be said to have arrived. Gen eral Eisenhower inferential^ point ed out one in noting Russian pro gress on both flanks of the far flung eastern war front. Russian invasion of the east Prussian breeding ground of Ger man Junkerism was an accom plished fact. A wide-fronted Rod army break-through to the Bai c had all but sealed off many thou sands of Nazi troops northwa; Germany’s heretofore deeply guarded Baltic front was being i :■ posed to sea, air and amphibio,! attack. Southward, Russian, Roman:::! and Yugoslav partisan forces uitii Allied help from the Adriatic site had virtually sealed otf the Balia peninsula as an interment camp for Nazi forces still south of W Danube and the Sava. Budapest was virtually under seige fro a east and south. There were indications of a Nat Hungarian flight from the vast and closing northern Transylvania pocket reaching far eastward ' Budapest to the lower Carpathian passes. Enemy troops there seem ed in a desperate situation. Redac tion of the pocket would brt massive additional Russian forms j into action against Budapest :t,i jj Vienna. Moscow indicated expectation I Hungarian collapse at any monte’, j j but it was clear that the Russia |; southern drive had reached a pert J gravely menacing Vienna regari- j less of what might happen a: £>:■ j dapert. Tlie other great unknown Pi"' 1 tity in the military situation lay h i the west. It hinged upon Eiseitw er’s state of readiness to deliver a new major blow at the lower j Rhine gateway to northwests Germany in Holland befori cal weather sets in. __v__ JOHNSON EXPLAINS CREDIT MOVEMENT The nationwide movement of ' American Bankers association place ample bank credit at the d posal of business during the - conversion period, which was e. dorsed'by North Carolina bante^ at a meeting in Raleigh Thutsdaa was explained here yes’erday ■' Warren S. Johnson, president « Peoples Savings end Trust CO,., pany, who attended the cone'|| ence. . f! Johnson said that “if banking- H sources in any community are m sufficient to meet local needs, n correspondent banks in the cities stand ready to give ass. • ance. , “Local committees will he up in each dis'rict and county the state so- that full coone^ ' will be given to the n® ;on"‘' plan. The main purpose is to sure business, large and that ample credit for "l?crr c ' ^ can be obtained through e banks.” ——-v GREEK FIGHTING \ ROME, Oct. 14.- uTt -Gre,, pilots flying RAF Spitfires participating in the liberation • their homeland an air ministry aouncement said today. Th* *. H men were all in the Greek ^ ■ force before the fall of Greece ^ ■ many made daring escapes * , ■ German occupation to join * ■ orces in the Middle East._■