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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1945
A Thought for Today
Theee things speak, and exhort, and rebake
with aU authority. Let no nun despise thee.
—Titos 2:1$.
• • •
Ms is a well-made man who has a good de
termination.—Emerson.
Working the 'Sleeper'
Any football fan is familiar with the
“sleeper” play. It’s as old as the Statue
of Liberty play, and continues to be just
as effective. The end fades out to the
sideline as inconspicuously as possible,
usually after a time out or a substitution,
and lies down. When the ball is snapped
he’s up and away, and usually in the clear
to receive a pass and score.
A variation of this football maneuver
seems to be working nicely in Germany at
present. It can’t be said that General Pat
ton and the Third Army have exactly been
lying doggo. They have, in fact, been a
constant worry to the Nazis. Yet it seems
likely that their spectacular dash into the
open caught the Nazi secondary defense
off balance.
General Patton pulled off substantially
the same trick in France last summer, and
under similar circumstances. The Ger
mans (to cling to the football parable) had
been concentrating on stopping plays
through the line, and were looking for
more of the same. Suddenly Patton broke
into the clear and was going hell-for
leather toward the goal line.
When General Patton worked the
Bleeper play again, the Germans were
understandably worried about the Allied
quarterback running a play over their
own right tackle and into the Ruhr.
Since the Ruhr was their last great
source of coal, the enemy had every right
to be anxious. But now the Third Army
dash has added a new headache.
And the headache isn’t relieved by de
velopments in the East. Matching Pat
ton’s open-field running is the Russian
sprint up from Budapest. A not impossi
ble junction of American and Russian
forces in Bavaria would certainly up
set the German plan for a last-ditch
stand which, evidence, rumor and reason
have indicated.
It has been generally understood that
. at least the top Nazis and the core of the
elite guard would retire to their country’s
southern mountains and fight it out. If
carried through, such a move might de
velop into a long and nasty situation
which could tie up a considerable number
of Allied troops for a long time. But if
the Nazis plan such a move they may
have to start moving pretty quickly. For
% it they don’t, they’re going to find some
, body in the way.
I S* Canada’s ‘Surplus’
i Certain stalwart and presumably hun
gry citizens in and out of Congress have
been uttering some piteous complaints
against our English and Canadian Allies
which, as potential sources of ill will and
suspicion, would do credit to Dr. Goebbels
himself.
The Canadians, it seems, are a fat, beef
engorged people who pile up great civilian
supplies of meat while we go hungry try
ing to feed the English and ourselves. And
this, the stalwart hungry citizens say, is
being done with England’s connivance.
For the English can get free meat from
us through lend-lease, while they have
to pay Canada cash on the barrel head.
These accusations are not inhibited by
a scrupulous regard for fact. Records
show that Canada’s meat consumption in
1944, without rationing, was 141 pounds
per capita. Our per capita consumption
last year, under rationing, was 147
pounds.
Canada has a lend-lease arrangement
with the United Kingdom which is known
as mutual aid. Value of these mutual
aid shipments to Britain is nearly $5,000,
000,000. The June, 1944, value of United
States lend-lease shipments to Britain
was nine and a third billion dollars. Can
ada has about one-twelfth our population
and one-fifteenth our national income.
Canada also has an arrangement to
ship all surplus processed meat to Eng
land. At present a shipping shortage has
built up that surplus, but Canadian au
thorities describe it as temporary.
But why doesn’t Canada send this tem
porary surplus to the States, for our own
consumption or shipment overseas?
For one reason, we have a tariff on pro
cessed meat and a quota on live animals
from Canada. Canada also has placed
an embargo on meat and cattle ship
ments to this country. But it seems like
ly that Canada might be willing to lift
the embargo.
At least Canada’s Minister of Agricul
ture stated a few days ago that both
Washington authorities and St. Paul
meat packers were asked last fall if they
would take shipments of live cattle to
relieve congestion in Canadian stock
yards. And the minister said that he
told in Washington and in St. Paul
; we would not be able to handle the
i do eat more beef than we do
ijrardag* ,<tae reason is that Can
•da has few big cities, with most of them
concentrated in the east. Range cattle
•re fattened on eastern farms adjacent
to these cities. Hence transportation
isn't the problem that it is here. Canada
has comparatively few restaurants. Most
of its beef goes into butcher shops and
thence to homes.
Suppose we asked Canada’s 11,800,000
people to reduce their meat consumption
by 20 pounds per capita in 1945, and give
us the difference. This dividend, equally
distributed, would give every American
for the whole year less than two addi
tional pounds of meat. And that’s what
all the vituperative shouting’s about.
Nazi versus German
When this war began the German peo
ple doubtless believed that Hitler was send
ing them into battle to win land, power
and glory for themselves. It may be
that even Hitler deluded himself with
the same notion at first. But the fic
tion has long since been dispelled.
To any German with access to even a
smattering of truthful news it must have
been clear for some time that the wax
was being fought for the Nazis, not the
Germans. Today that fact is abundantly
evident to all.
Since the Allied breakthrough from
the Rhine, the German civilian has been
sampling the fate of the people of oc
cupied Europe during their temporary
conquest. Unarmed citizens have been
machine gunned when they tried to sur
render. Guns at their backs have forced
the untrained aged and children to face
the Allied guns before them.
Probably the Nazis defend their in
humanity on the grounds that it is a
German’s “duty” to defend his father
land against the “hated invaders,” the
“terror bombers,” the “bolsheviks,” or
whatever. Theoretically, that might be
so. But actually it is obvious that the
heiling throngs of yesterday are by now
heartily sick of the Nazis and their war.
But the Nazis are not so busy with
efforts to save their own skins that they
neglect to punish civilians even in terri
tory that has fallen to the invader. For
example, they could spare three men to
return to Aachen and assassinate Franz
Openhof, the Allied-appointed mayor of
that city.
jliic may uaii v/ppcimui a coi
laborator.” But even they must realize
that the tenn has a different meaning
here. Aachen’s fall ushered in no al
leged “new order.” It was the beginning
of the last act in the terrible drama of
Nazi ambition. That’s all that it was.
But life still had to be lived. And it
was Oppenhof’s job to help restore a
semblance of orderly life, and to help
dispense a stern but reasonable justice.
For that Oppenhof was murdered. The
Nazis had threatened to kill those who
aided the Allies. Now that threat was
carried out. It can scarcely be the last
of such murders. Oppenhof’s fate will
become known. His story will be whis
pered in the conquered portions of Ger
many and proclaimed where the Nazis
still stand.
Thus any non-Nazi asked by the Allies
to serve in civil government will fear for
his life. And so long as any ardent
Nazis remain at large there will be rea
son to fear. A desire to end the hopeless
struggle and aid in a restoration of
peaceful living will be overshadowed by
the constant dread of the Nazi assassin’s
bullet.
Thus the inevitable may be defied a
little longer. It cannot avert the Nazis’
defeat. But it can and may complicate
the conqueror’s task and prolong to some
extent the fighting and the occupation.
New Britain is reviving the question ot
rubbish removal. .That city a couple of
years ago even went to the point of se
curing legislative permission to float
$400,000 worth of bonds to finance a
municipal incinerator. The amount was
cut in half before authorization was
granted, but the bonds have never been
sold. It was about the same time that
considerable agitation was started here
in Waterbury for such a plant and a sys
tem of public collections. Waterbury put
its project off until after the war. It’s
now included in the post-war scheme.
Any such system has to be rigidly admin
istered. We have seen instances of pub
lic collection systems where the results
were certainly unsatisfactory.
Gone are the old—and more particu
larly, the young—familiar faces from the
big-league baseball scene. But as another
wartime season is about to commence,
the sports pages bring us at least one
nostalgic reminder of the good old days
—eight managers in each league have
assured the world that their team will
finish in the first division.
Selected Poem
THE SILVER FLUTE
(Helen McGaughey In the Poet’s Column, Hartford
Courant)
At night as I lay in my lonely room
When I was but a child
There came the sound of a silver flute
In music sweet and wild.
Enchanted by the melody,
I followed In pursuit;
And ever by moonlit hill or stream
The music hung like fruit.
Although my years are silvered now,
Tonight the enchanting theme
Is haunting me and leading me
Like one in a waking dream.
It weaves itself in a mystic spell
With moonlight, field and tree.
It makes a changeling of the world
And a willing slave of me.
Daily Almanac
Sun rises 8:33 a. m.; sets 7:19 p. m. (war
time)
All vehicles must be lighted thirty min
utes after sunset.
Morning stars during April, Mercury,
Mars; evening, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn.
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Sale Of Surplus
War Plants
By PETER ED SON
Waterbary Demoerat-NEA Wash
ington Correspondent
Washington, April 3 — Anti-Trust
division of the Department of Jus
tice wll soon enter the picture as an
active factor In determining who
can buy what surplus government
property, if its original cost was
more than a million dollars. Now in
preparation for
isuance In the
near future is a
D e p a rtment of
Justice memoran
dum which will
be guidebook on
what conditions
of the Sherman
Anti - Trust Law
a pros p e c 11 v e
purchaser will
have to meet, and
what he will have
to do or be to get
approval. Assist
ant Attorney
General Wendell
Berge, in charge of the Anti-Trust
division, has already started to
train a staff to process these pro
posals.
First principle will obviously be
that no sale will be approved if it
will tend to give anyone a monopoly
in anything.
A corollary may well be that sales
of surplus war plants will be frown
ed on if the buyers intend to shut
them down Just to remove their
productive capacity from competi
tion. This represents an interesting
tie-up with the administration's
free enterprise, small business, full
employment policies. The contribu
tion any sale will make toward post
war employment will thus become
a test of merit for any prospective
ALUMINUM PLANTS
AS TEST CASES
As an example of how these anti
trust restrictions may be applied,
disposal of surplus aluminum pro
ducing and fabricating facilities
may offer early test cases. The gov
ernment now owns nearly 100 alum
inum plants, valued at over 800
million dollars. The government's
nine aluminum ingot producting
plants now represent 42 per cent of
the total industry capacity. Alum
inum Company of America owns 38
per cent, Reynolds 16 per cent and
Olin Corporation the other four.
Only two of the government ingot
plants have thus far been declared
surplus. Both have high operating
costs and nobody wants them. Navy
is now using the Queens, New York,
plant for storage, while Army has
taken over the Burlington, N. J„
plant as a depot.
When it comes to disposal of the
aluminum ingot plants which might
be used by private industry, a cou
ple of complicating factors enter
the picture.
First, the Small Business Com
mittee of the Senate has launched
an investigation of the light metals
industry. That lends another de
cidedly anti-monopolistic cast to
the proceedings.
Second, the U. S. Circuit Court of
New York, acting for the Supreme
Court, has ruled that the Aluminum
Company of America did formerly
have a monopoly on ingot produc
tion. The point generally overlooked
was that the Circuit Court with
held judgment on whether the
Aluminum Company should be dis
solved. sayjng in effect that this
should wait on disposal of govern
ment facilities to see what the pat
tern of post-war ownership might
turn out to be.
The implied threat here is that
If the Aluminum Company acquires
much additional ingot producing
capacity it will have to be dissolved
as a monopoly.
ASKS GOVERNMENT
GUARANTEES
A recent government witness be
fore the Small Business committee,
Samuel Moment of the Boonevllle
Power Administration, even went so
far as to say that the government
should make such favorable terms
of sale or lease to new producers
that their market would be guaran
teed for five years, through pur
chases for a government stockpile.
Department of Justice gets its
authority to advise on surplus prop
erty disposal from two sources. Con
gress reserved to Itself the right to
approve sales of property costing
more than five million dollars. But
in the Surplus Property Act the
Department of Justice was given
authority to pass on the disposal
of all properties costing more than
one million dollars, and in the War
Mobilization and Reconversion Act
Justice Is required to report to Con
gress on the growth of monopolies.
Attorney General Francis Biddle
has already submitted two such re
ports to Congress and he has an
nounced plans to make other re
ports on a monthly basis. The Anti
Trust Division considers It has a
mandate from Congress to serve as
watchdog on the whole surplus
property disposal program.
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By BARL L. DOUGLASS. D.D.
THE RIVER AND THE WAY
We read In Pilgrim’s Progress
that as Christian and Hopeful made
their journey toward the Celestial
City, they came to a place where
the river and the way for a time
parted.
The river was symbolic of refresh
ment. B u n y a n
was here pointing
out that In the
p 11 g r im age we
must all make
along life’s path
way, It happens
at times that this
pathway gets sep
arated for the
time being from
the things which
refresh, console,
and Inspire us._
Much of life’s pathway Is not beside
the refreshing river bu through hot
deserts of disappointment, over the
rocky pathways of sorrow, through
the briars of pain, and the swamps
of discouragement and temptation.
It happens for us, as It happened
for Christian and Hopeful, that fre
quently as we go through life, we
come to a place where the river and
the way for a time are parted.
But this does not mean that God
has forgotten There was divine
In
The Springtime
Washington Merry-Go-Round drew pearson
Drew Pearson Says: British Propose Sending Troops Into Albania to
Handle UNRRA Relief; Byrnes Chops 72 New Warships; J. J. McCloy
Will Be Top Civilian Commissioner for Occupied Germany.
WASHINGTON, April 3. — For months the Albanian radio has been broadcasting
daily appeals to the outside world for food, clothing and medical supplies. But
although UNRRA is supposed to care for the war-torn countries, and although Albania
has suffered more than most, UNRRA still has been unable to enter Albania.
Backstage reason, according
to UNRRA officials, is that the
British want to send 1,200 Bri
tish Army officers into Albania
to supervise UNRRA relief for
UNRRA.
This, in turn, horrifies the Al
banians. A total of 1,200 Bri
tish officers in tiny Albania
could mean a throttle-hold on the
country, if they wanted to exer
cise it. And knowing ail t'o
vividly what happened when
Great Britain went into neigh
boring Greece, the Albanians re
fuse to admit the British mili
tary.
Faced with starvation or mili
tary domination, they have
chosen starvation.
The British proposal to send
1,200 offices into Albania is based
upon an agreement that when
ever a country is liberated, reliel
supplies must oe the responsibil
ity of the Allied military for the
first six months and UNRRA must
work under the military.
However, Albania was never oc
cupied by any Allied army. Neither
British nor U. S. troops enteied
it. But now that the Nazis have
been completely chased out, the
British want to come in under the
excuse of administrating UNRRA
relief.
The Albanians see no excuse
for trading one set of foreign
troops for another.
NOTE: The British also de
manded of Tito that they send
more than a thousand British of
ficers to handle UNRRA relief in
side Jugoslavia, but Tito refused.
Finally Russia backed him up
and Tito got his UNRRA relief
without British troops—only 40
UNRRA workers and 60 British
workers. UNRRA officials arc
hoping that the British will make
some similar compromise in re
gard to Albania.
BYRNES AND BATTLESHIPS
Secretary of the Navy Forres
tal was irked when War Mobilizer
Byrnes chopped 72 warships of.4
the Navy’s program, but the Ad
mirals were not merely irked
They were fighting mad—especial
ly Admiral Ernie King.
Byrnes had found out that the
Navy was planning these ships
for post-war, not this war. He
knew their construction would
take away valuable steel from
the Army and other strategic
uses.
For Instance, the tractor and
farm-machinery program la
scheduled for a cut of about
40 per cent beta use the Army
claims it is already short of
steel. This, despite the des
perate need of producing more
food. So Byrnes figured the
post-war ships could wait until
after the war, since they won’t
be finished for two years any
way. Also he figured that it
was perhaps the Job of Con
gress—not the Admirals—to de
cide how big the post-war Navy
should be.
All of which nearly broke the
heart of Admiral King. He had
been talking for months of start
ing now to build a post-war navy;
also had been indiscreet regard
ing the country—now an ally
against which those ships might
be used. Maybe this also got back
to Byrnes.
CIRCUS GOES TO JAIL
The circus stopped in Washing
ton to water the animals the other
days on its regular trip north. It
stopped a little corrowfully. There
was none ot the blare and fanfare
and braggadocio of the old days.
It was going north to open a new
season and try to pay several mil
lion dollars tot he victims of the
purpose behind everything that
happened to the Pilgrim in his pro
gress toward the Celestial City. For
the good of our souls, we need
sometimes to be separated from the
river with its refreshment and In
spiration.
Then when we come to the end
of the Journey and look back, we see
it all plaintly as part of Ood’s prov
idence for us; and we rejoice.
All Rights Reserved—
, Babeen Newspaper Syndicate
Hartford fire, after which its vice
president, its manager, its canvas
man, its seatman, and several
others will surrender in Hartford
to go to Jail.
These top executives looked
visibly different this year. Jim
Haley, vice-president and direc
tor, is a long, slab-sided chap
from Alabama, who Is called
“Slim” and is thin anyway. But
now he has lost 30 pounds and
is literally wasting away.
Twenty years ago he came down
to Sarasota, Florida, from the
Alabama sandhills without a
nickel in his pocket, educated
himself, and slaved his way up
until he was appointed general
manager of the Ringling estate.
It was his careful handling which
reduced the estate’s debt to the
Government from $4,000,000 to
around $850,000. He even took
the Red Cross chairmanship,
pulled the chapter out of debt,
and made it one of the first coun
ties in the United States tot riple
is quoa for three straight years.
Slim Haley went into the
circus as financial manager at
the request of the several fac
tions of the Ringland family,
whose dependents have been
fighting each other. He never
pretended to be a circus man.
He was a fiscal agent. But he
was in Hartford on the day of
the fatal fire, was arrested, and
sentenced to a maximum of
five years in Jail.
The seatman on the fatal day
had set up the seats exactly as
he had before, day-in-and-day
.out, for years. Also the canvas
man. Then came the fire, the
tragic stampede, and scores of
children crushed.
Jim Haley and the other circus
men go round the lot witn a
haunted look, remembering that
day. They look as if they them
selves were now dying by inches.
And after they get the circus
launched for the season—they
hope to pay several millions in
damages—they are going up to
Hartford—and jail.
U. S. GOVERNOR FOR NAZIS
The President has discussed
with advisers a plan to send live
wire Assistant Secretary of War
McCloy to be the top man in the
American Occupled-Germany set
up.
McCloy would outrank MaJ.
Gen. Lucius Clay, recently ap
pointed on Eisenhower’s staff to
run the military etnd of Ger
many after the war. However,
following the tough and cri
tical report which Leon Hender
son gave FDR the manner in
which the brass-hats have
fumbled plans for governing
Germany, he favors a civilian
at the head, not an Army of
ficer.
Henderson recommended a four
power civilian commission—U. S.
A., Britain, Russia, France—gov
erning all Germany, with military
men operating in four difltrent
sections under them.
McCloy, who has won a repu
tatoln for fair-minded forthright
ness as Assistant to Secretray
Stlmson, would be U. 8. repre
sentative on this commission.
CAPITAL CHAFF
If FDR can’t make the Jack
son Day dinner, he intends to pay
tribute to Ellis Arnall of Geor
gia, leading Governor of the
South, by asking him to take
his place as main speaker . . . .
Joseph E. Davies, ex-Ambassa
dor to Russia, is leaving on an
other "Mission to Moscow” . . . .
Wayne Chatfleld Taylor, Jess*
Jones Under Secretary of Com
merce but better known for his
seizure of the Montgomery Ward
plant the first time, is transfer
ring to the State Department . .
Assistant Secretary of State Ar
chie MacLeish has brought some
good men intot he State Depart
ment, among them Chester Wil
liams and Adlal Stevenson, grand
son of the Vice President of that
name In the Cleveland adminis
tration .... Sentiment Is In
creasing among war veterans lor a
new Veteran's Committee in Con
gress to handle veteran problems
of World War II. Present veter
ans committees face entirely dif
ferent problems from World I,
and the G. I Joeos would like to
deal with some fresh faces ....
The Justice Department finally
inducted the two Nevada senators.
McCarran and Scrugham, to get
together on the new U. S. Judge
for Nevada, Roger Foley.
When Mayor LaGuardia got sore
at the Army because it refused
priorities to let him build a new
airport, he threatened to kick tne
Army off of LaGuardia Field.
Whereupon the Army quietly
warned the Mayor that the Army
had the right to condemn all of
LaGuardia Field if he didn’t be
have. Hie Mayor behaved.
(Copyright, 1945, by
The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
NAVY REPORT
(New York Sun)
Despite the restraint with which
Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, Com
mander in Chief of the United
States Fleet, speaks of the Navy’s
operations during the past year, the
mere record, unembellished by rhe
toric, is sufficient excuse for pride
on the part of Admiral King and
of the American public. "In 1944,”
the report says, “the whole United
States Navy in the Pacific was on
the offensive.” When victory in
Europe comes, the task of the fleet
will be redistribution of its strength.
In that phase of the war against
Japan it probably will be written
that the whole United States Navy
was on the offensive in the Pacific.
There will be no relaxation for the
Navy when victory comes in Europe.
Up t othe present time the Navy
has not been meeting or beating a
schedule in the Pacific, but "going
as far and as fast as the means at
hand would permit.” When the full
naval strength of the Allies is con
centrated against the Japanese, we
may be able to go further and faster,
but the size of the pob still ahead is
not to be measured by distances on
a map alone. It must be measured
as well by the supply problems in
the Pacific, the demonstrated will
ingness of the Japanese to fight for
every strong point to the last man
and the still considerable resources
of the enemy in raw materials, man
power and fighting equipment. The
spirit and courage of the Navy and
the wealth of fighting equipment
available to it have carried the war
in the Pacific beyond expectations,
if not beyond schedule. The Navy's
record for the past year, as in
earlier years, commands the confi
dence of the American public.
Current Comment
Supplying weapons needed in the
Pacific is going to be a bigger Job
than the people realize. Nor do they
fully understand the extent to
which the Industry’s facilities will
be almost completely tied up after
VE-Day.
—George Romney, director Au
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SALICYLATES FOR RHEDMATM
For more than fifty years salt*
of salicylic acid, particularly sodi
um salicylate and methyl aaucylote
(oil of wintergreen or oil of birch,
synthetic or distilled from winter
green leaves or birch bark) have
been used as remedies for rheuma
tism, Inflammatory rheumatism,
rheumatic fever, acute infectious
arthritis. The same remedies have
been almost as much for relief of
various other ills called rheumatism.
Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) was
introduced primarily as an im
provement upon other salicylates
or salicylic acid compounds, but
has come to be used chiefly as a
pain-killer in all sorts of painful
conditions.
Any of these medicines may pro
duce unpleasant or dangerous ef
fects—such as tinnitus (ringing or
other noises in ears), vertigo, deaf
ness, nausea. So far as untoward
or dangerous by-effects are con
corned, aspirin is little if any
safer than other salicylic acid com
pounds. In my opinion aspirin has
no remedial value other than th«
relief it may give to ache or pain.
I do not believe It cures or helps
in the cure of any aliment or dls
caoc.
Recently some good physicians
have administered by slow injection
into a vein large amounts of sodi
um salicylate—as much as 10 Gm.
(nearly 150 grains) dissolved in
nearly a quart of salt solution ev
ery day for four days—in acute
rheumatic fever, with astonishing
relief for the sick child (most cases
of rheumatic fever occur In child
hood). 1
One of the risks in such treat
ment is prolongation of clotting
time, which would increase the Ha
zards of hemorrhagic complications
from the damage the rheumatic in
fection itself does to the blood ves
sels. But this risk is largely guard
ed against by giving the patient
a'dequat amounts of vitamin K,
which is a physiological essential
for natural control of bleeding or
hemorrhage by coagulation or
clothing of blood. Alfalfa (rich
source of vitamin K, as also art*
other green leaves such as cabbage,
spinach, cauliflower, kale, carrot
tops) concentrate or synthetic vita
min K may be given for this pur
It is my own belief that the sali
cylates have remedial value only in
rheumatic fever (acute infectious'
arthritis, inflammatory rheumat
ism), and that aside from tempor
arily relieving ache or pain neither
sodium salicylate nor methyl salicy
late (wlntergreen oil. sweet birch
oil) nor acety-salicylic acid (as
pirin) has any remedial value in
any form of chronic joint trouble,
whether the nature of the trouble
is obscured under the meaningless
name of “rheumatism” or not.
The nature of rheumatic fever or
acute infectious arthritis will be
another story. Here suffice to say
(1) it is always an acute illness
usually affecting a young person,
and (2) rarely if ever does any last
ing distability of the affected joints
follow the attack. .
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