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MAN’S STRUGGLE FOR
ECONOMIC SECURITY
Part 3
By George Peck
In the first two installments, we
discussed the efforts of early
man and some of the present day
peoples to achieve economic se
curity. Today we go to the Orient
to see what has been going on
there. This trouble spot centers
around Japan and thereby hangs
quite a tale.
Eighty years ago, the Japanese
were a primitive people—one of
the world’s oldest and most peace
ful. They still fought with bows
and arrows. They were quite con
tent with their lot and the only
fault anyone could find with
them, was that they wished to be
left alone. But that couldn’t be.
England, France, Holland, yes,
even America had merchandise
they wished to sell to the back
ward Japanese. The Japs, there
fore, were given the choice of
getting “civilized” or getting
blown out of the water. They
quite wisely chose to become
“civilized,” and as a result be
came good customers of the afore
mentioned nations.
Japan has never forgiven En
gland, Francle, Holland and Ame
rica for that deep humiliation.
The day of reckoning may come.
At first the program worked out
very satisfactorily for America
and the other nations involved.
Then it backfired with a violence
that made all parties concerned
wish they had never heard of
Japan. Almost in a twinkling of
history’s eye, these amazing little
pupils had learned all their mas
ters’ tricks and were flooding the
world markets With goods of their
own manufacture at prices their
erstwile masters had believed im
possible. The new customer had
.jumped over the counter and be
come a vicious competitor.
Polish Units Fighting
Near Pogradec .
ATHENS. —A wounded Polish
soldier whom our correspondent
interviewed at his bedside revealed
that while many Poles are in front
lines attending to the “taking of
new positions” an equal number
of Polish soldiers see that “these
positions are being held.” Polish
and some Australian forces, occu
pied the towns of Pogradec, Mont
Ostravitza and a little further to
the south the Heights of Premeti.
Polish Communication Staffs,
formerly on the engineering staff
of the Polish State telephone and
wireless works and the Greek
have proved themselves invaluable
in the establishment of field com
munications systems and short
wave stations turned over to the
Greek high command. Our corres
pondent was informed that one of
Poland’s outstanding inventors,
Stanislaw Chrzanowski whose in
vention allows ground crews to
measure and follow enemy planes
by comparing strategic points of
the map with the actual terrain,
has joined the Royal Air Force in
Greece.
LONDON. —Latest and reliable
information received of the fate
of Polish girls deported from
Poznan reveal the shocking news
that ’they were sent to military
brothels on the Siegfried line
last winter. Many of the girls
have managed to return to their
homes, in a distressing state, tell
ing their terrible experiences. One
eighteen year old Polish girl from
a middle class family, had said
that she was compelled to submit
to some twenty soldiers daily.
But it didn’t slop there. The
Nipponese began to read history
and soon discovered the old form
ula for empire. Having copied
every other way of the while man,
they quite naturally copied this
one. They built an army and a
nevy and looked around for fields
to conquer. The logical place to
start was in the huge, rich, spraw
ling, undeveloped areas of China.
It seemed perfectly in order to
march in and “civilize” the Chi
nese, thereby, creating a control
led customer for Japanese goods
and opening valuable source of
raw material.
Horrified, the other powers told
them that this was no longer nice;
that the rules had been changed
since the history books were
written. Japan agreed that maybe
the rules should be changed but
politely asked that the change be
delayed until they had gotten
their full share of the loot. So
saying, they proceeded with
characteristic thoioughness to
conquer a large part of China.
Russia had a go at trying to stop
them but soon abandoned the pro
ject.
This placed the Western Powers
in a very embarrassing position.
It was difficult for them to drum
up much righteous indignation
when the jam. of their own de
predations was still on their fin
gers. They couldn’t deny that all
Japan knew had been learned
from them. The net result was
that they muttered a few sancti
monious reprovals, and continued
to sell Japan the materials she
needed with which to expedite the
slaughter of the Chinese.
Next week in the final install
ment, we will attempt to sum
marize what all these things mean
to America.
Bohemia Must Pay for
Its “Defense”
The Nazi authorities have
forced the Czech banks to take
600 million crowns of a German
war loan (.$20,000,000). On Dec.
18th the Czechoslovak Press
Bureau in London had a report
from Prague that Berlin had set 4
billion crowns ($133,000,000) as
the sum the Protectorate must
pay for its “defense.” Beside these
payments, the Germans demand
80,000,000 crowns from indirect
taxation in Bohemia-Moravia.
This is in addition, of course, to
German confiscations in the Pro
tectorate —locomotives and rail
way cars taken to the Reich,
machinery and stocks of raw ma
terials from factories, the pro
perty and bank accounts of organ
izations which have been banned,
such as the Czechoslovak Red
Cross, World War Legionnaires,
all universities, the Masons, Ro
tary and just recently the Boy
Scouts, •
Poles Secretly Arming
.. LONDON.—German papers in
occupied Poland publish reports
which confirm that the spi’rit of
resistance and sabotage against
the German authorities is grow
ing among the Polish population.
The “Warschauer Zeitung” re
ports that in the district of Radom
the German police stopped a car
with five Polish passengers, and
found in it rifles, hand grenades
and ammunition. The Poles re
sisted arrest and a fight broke
out. Two of the Poles, one of
them injured,, were captured; the
others succeeded in escaping.
Petain Sends Polish
Troops to North Africa
LISBON. Reliable reports
from Algers confirm the inten
tion of the Vichy Government to
keep the balance of the third Po
lish division in French labor
camps for the duration of the
winter with the purpose of trans
ferring them to North Africa this
coming spring. The exact location
of the third Polish division is un
disclossed hut the information
reaching here reports them un
dergoing military drills and exer
cise unquestionably designed to
render them valuable in desert
duty. In this connection, an in
teresting sidelight is cast on the
situation by the announcement
contained recently in “Le Jour
nal” still published at Claremount
Ferrand, of the imminent depar
ture of Pierre Desurmont, former
assistant French military attache
to the Polish Government at An
ger, for Algiers.
The third Polish Division con
sists of approximately two full
brigades with one brigade almost
totally confined to cavalry. This
would be an invaluable addition
French forces in the desert
where patrol duty is of primary
importance and where good horse
manship ranks high. Military
circles here are speculating on the
significance of this Vichy move
which suggests a probable im
portant joint move with Gen.
Weygand’s troops later on.
Secret Broadcasts in
Nazi Occupied Poland
Worry Gestapo
STOCKHOLM. —The daily news
papeT Skanska Socialdemokraten
of Helsingfors reveals the inte
resting information as to the man
ner in which the Gestapo trails
listeners to foreign broadcasts in
Nazi-occupied Poland. It appears
that for many weeks, Nazis fluent
in the Polish language were enlist
ed by the Gestapo to call on Polish
families in the disguise as Polish
compatriots and to offer them
under the vow of secrecy little
implements, which, attached to
their wreless receivings set would
free them from static interference
and enable them to intercept
foreign broadcasts, particularly
from BBC in London. Weeks later
the same salesmen would call on
the same Polish families and in
quire if they were satisfied with
the reception. Wherever the re
plies were in the affirmative the
visit would shortly be followed by
the Nazi Gestapo who would
promptly haul the head of the
family and sometimes whole fam
ilies before the Nazi tribunal
where the customary sentence for
listening in to foreign broadcasts
ranges from three months to three
years at hard labor, while Poles
would find themselves on the way
to Nazi concentration camps.
In addition to BBC in London,
two other stations are particularly
undesirable to Nazidom. One is
reported to be somewhere in Swe
den, operated by Poles in the Po
lish language and reporting night
ly a Polish news summary. In
consequence of the operation of
this station whose reception is
particularly effective in Northern
occupied Poland, the German
government has protested recently
to the Swedish Ministry of Com
munications. Another Station,
sometimes identyfying itself as
“Freiheitssender” or Freedom
station, is rowing somewhere in
Europe, presumably Hungary,
and broadcast in addition to the
German language, also in Polish,
Dutch, Danish, French and Ita
lian. It has successfully operated
for two years.
Polish Women Forced
to Hard Labor
in Germany
LONDON, According to De
cember report of the International
Transport Workers Federation,
10,000 Polish girls and young wo
men have already been been car
ried off b ythe Nazis to do com
pulsory labor in Germany. Many
of them work on the landed esta
tes in Germany, many work as
menials in the households of high
officials in the Nazi party, many
others have disappeared without
trace. Letters from their fellow-
, (Thursday, January 23rd), 1941
countrymen in the great army of
“A Million Strong” of forced Po
lish laborers now condemned to
slavery in Germany, refer to the
indignities inflicted upon these
young women and girls. They de
nounce the situation of many ot
them who have been assigned to
German military barracks, as a
crime against civilization. Also,
in Nazi occupied Poland women
have disappeared in mysterious
circumstances and the Polish
newspapers almost daily publish
anxious inquires about these mis
sing girls.
In the eastern provinces of Ger
many, the Polish women are
treated as harshly as the Nazi
authorities prescribe; but in Ba
varia and the Rhineland, where
the population is largely Catholic,
the Nazi newspapers have found
it necessary to remind their read
ers that Poles are a conquerred
people who do not belong to Hit
ler’s new world order. They are
intended to be the servants and
not equals of the Germans and
one newspaper reminds German
housewives in Munich that Polish
women are daughters of a nation
which is destined to serve. They
may not eat at the same table as
the master class; German child
ren must be taught that Polish
servants are something not quite
human.
President Benes Predicts
Germany’s Defeat
President Benes said at a press
conference in London on Decem
ber 10th that he is convinced that
Britain and her allies will win the
war for six reasons:
The Battle of Britain has been
won by air defense. America will
provide the necessary help in
material, Italy is a hindrance in
stead of a help to Germany, and
is unable to defeat Greece. Ger
many is unable to tyrannize the
100 million people she has over
run, and faces increasing diffi
culty in the territories she has
occupied.
Germany must soon undertake
something in the Balkans which
will end to her disadvantage. In
past wars no nation has been able
to defeat those who hold the mas
tery of the sea, and the German
fighting potential and morale is
constantly worsening under the
British blockade. Great Britain
certainly dominates the seas and
with American help will dominate
the air.
Polish Airmen
Decorated With D.F.C.
On aerodrome somewhere in
England the Chief of R.A.F. Fight
ers Command Air Marshal Sholto
Douglas decorated with distin
guished flying cross four Polish
fighter-pilots who shot down 44
German planes over England.
Speaking, Douglas expressed ad
miration for the work and the de
votion ,and wished further suc
cesses in combating the common
foe. Later Douglas inspected the
famous Polish fighter squadron.
Fifth Cross was bestowed post
humously on another pilot of the
same squadron, killed in London
defence. The same pilots and
three British R.A.F. officers were
also decorated Virtuti Military
Cross. Douglas addressed Polish
airmen. “Czolem, lotnicy,” and
said; “R.A.F. is proud of its Po
lish comrades in arms whose
deeds are known throughout our
army. I desire and await victory
of our cause and the rebirth of
free and independent Poland.”
This squadron No. 3U3 shot down
in September over 100 enemy
planes
Youth Waiting for Ride
Gets Fast One by Plane
BOSTON.—A young fellow here
thinks he thumbed the fastest ride
on record.
He was standing on the Southern
Artery one afternoon when Dana
Fitzgerald, a radio announcer, spied
him.
“Where are you going?” asked
Fitzgerald, stopping his car.
“Hyannis,” replied the youth.
“But it looks as though I won’t make
it tonight. Been waiting at this cor
ner for almost an hour.”
“Hop in,” said Fitzgerald.
The youth did so.
Fitzgerald sped across Neponset
bridge to nearby Dennison airport.
His private plane was waiting for
him, and he told the pop-eyed hitch
hiker:
“Get in and we’ll be at the Hy
.annis airport before five o’clock.” .
EDER.IC F. VAN de WATEtt W.N.U. S ER.vic S
•’l'm in w -t Doom, vvun miss
Paget. I thought I recognized your
voice.”
I hoped that by some sound or
sign he might show alarm. The
thick voice must have come from
this booth. I was as sure of this as
I could be of anything, but Lyon was
drawling on in his faintly English
accent:
“Then I’ll not ask you both to
join us, though you’d be most wel
come. I think I’m beginning to bore
my sister a bit.” The fondness, that
ever showed when he spoke of her,
softened his face now. “We’ve been
here,” said Lyon, “for—when did
we come in, Louis?”
“Seven-thirty, sir,” the lingering
waiter replied.
“For almost five hours, then.
Which only goes to show how much
misery loves any company, eh,
Mallory? I wish you’d have a glass
with us.”
The band brayed on. My mind
gyrated with the dancing chorus.
“I must go back,” I told Lyon.
“We were on our way home. I’ve
had a rather strenuous day.”
“Good God,” he said with a lit
tle shudder. “Who should know that
better than I?”
He frowned at the welt on his
hand. lone said in her husky voice:
“I think you’re pretty generous to
speak to him at all, Mr. Mallory.”
“Accidents,” I answered flatly,
“will happen.”
“Which,” Lyon supplied with a
crooked grin, “is scarcely news to
our family, eh? Good luck, old
chap,” he added, as I mumbled
farewell and backed away. “Nice
of you to hail us.”
As I returned to my table, I craned
my neck into the booth beyond. It
was unoccupied. That voice could
not have come from there. It had
issued from where lone and Lyon
sat. That meant then that Lyon—
I managed to smile at Allegra but
my pretense was poor. She asked:
“What is the matter?”
“Nothing in the world,” I lied, and
sitting down, hid my treacherous
face in the beer seidel. When I
lowered the emptied glass, I added:
“Lyon and lone Ferriter are in the
next booth.”
She dropped her voice to match
mine. Her earnest eyes probed and
pried at the mask I wore.
“What happened?”
I jeered to hide my own confu
sion.
“You seem, my child, to have the
wrong sort of hunches. Unless your
brother is under the table, he had no
date with her tonight. They have
been here since seven-thirty.”
She was only half satisfied, and
mocked in turn:
“And I suppose your stampede to
their booth was just a social call,
eh?”
She was the one person in the
world to whom I wanted to tell ev
erything and I knew I would gain
merit in her eyes by confiding in
her. She was watching me with a
fairer version of her aunt’s derisive
grin. I only said:
“Curiosity rather. I thought I rec
ognized his voice.” Perhaps, for
that, the recording angel pasted a
gold star on my report.
“You are,” she told me, “the most
chronic liar I ever met.”
“You’re just beginning to appre
ciate my virtues,” I answered.
After a moment, she shivered a
little and drew her coat up about
her shoulders.
“Can the rest of them be dis
played in a taxicab?” she asked.
“I think we’d better go.”
I knew she was worrying afresh
over her no-account brother.
“There could be no better show
case,” I boasted, as we rose.
The band blared its climax; the
dancing girls skipped back to their
dressing room in a rattle of ap
plause. Beer rested uneasily in my
stomach as I got my coat and hat
from the check girl. I found my
self shivering. Not even the smile
Allegra gave me as I helped her
into the taxicab dispelled my mis
ery. She was of the flotsam, the
dark whirlpool into which we all
were caught and whirled about ever
more rapidly.
We sat speechless while the taxi
rolled uptown until silence grew un
comfortable. I said at last, to keep
thought at bay:
“I’ll remember this evening. It’s
one thing more I owe you and your
aunt. I hope the pay-off will come
some day.”
I knew the words were stilted
while I spoke, but only half my
mind had followed them.
Lyon had been the murderer.
Why? Lyon had spoken over the
telephone, again in the restaurant,
in a voice not his own. Or were
those blunted cadences really his,
and the faintly English speech he
employed, part of a disguise he
wore?
Beside me, Allegra chuckled.
“Must you,” she asked, “behave like
Electro, the mechanical man?”
“Meaning what?” I heard some
thing more than jest behind her
question.
She said, with an impatient ges
ture:
“Meaning many things. Among
them, your pretense of dumbness.
You aren’t dumb.”
“Thanks.”
“Or not,” she pushed her attack,
“as dumb as that. Why don’t you
play fair?”
There was earnestness in her
speech. There was appeal on the
face turned to mine. The world at
“’Why don’t you play fair?”
the minute was filled with many
things I was unfitted to handle. Her
warm voice was blowing away ev
erything but thought of how much I
wanted her. I tried to get out of
danger.
“I’m at least,” I told her, “that
dumb. How haven’t I played fair?”
She did not answer for a minute.
Then she said in a quiet voice:
“I’ve told you more than I’ve ever
told anyone else—except Grove. I
I trust you a lot. Why don’t you
trust me?”
“I’d trust you with anything that’s
mine,” I said. I meant it too.
She laughed, but not as if she
were amused.
“So you say,” she answered. “You
fall over a wine bucket, you’re in
such a hurry to see who is in the
next booth.”
She gave me the sort of look that
always robbed me of my wind. Then
she made it worse by slipping her
strong little hand in mine. Her
bright head was against my shoul
der.
“You’re pretty swell at that,” she
said.
I think the angel must have run
out of gold stars before he laid
aside my record that night. If I
forgot all but my need of her, it was
because her eyes and her soft mouth
dared me; if, for an instant, I let
go of everything I’d sworn to hold
fast and kissed her, at least, I
caught myself on the way down.
It wasn’t the sort of kiss I, or she,
wanted, yet it left us both breath
less. There was ringing in my ears
and I thought the cab had a flat
till I found it was the pounding of
my heart. The pressure of the dia
mond and platinum coronet against
my forehead helped me to let her
go. After a little, when I did not
speak she asked in a shaky voice;
“Well?”
I said none of the things I wanted
to. I just patted the hand I still held
and dropped it.
Her silence bothered me. Her
profile was clear and sharp as the
head on a coin in the uneven puls
ing of lights beyond the taxi window.
She said, looking straight ahead:
“I lied to Agatha today. I don’t
usually do that. I told her, when
Grove dropped out, that I couldn’t
get anyone to take me to the opera
tonight. I never tried. I only said
that I was disappointed and she did
what I hoped she’d do.”
Once or twice in a lifetime, for
tune offers you the thing you want
most and, remembering the way she
has treated you, you don’t believe it.
I did not now. I thought I was
reading wild meaning into her
words. She turned toward me with
an odd little smile and hurried on:
“I’ve been lonely and frightened
and I—needed you, I guess. I need
ed to be alone with you and Tell
All. I thought we could be—friends.
And instead, you behave as though
you were—well, a millionaire that a
TO BE CONTINUED .
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Alec in
Wonderland
WONDER if it’s true that Rudy
Middleton, who takes care of the
soda fountain at Read’s Broad
way and Eastern Avenue store, is
going to change her name to Fili
powski this coimning summer?.,.
The exact date is August 23, my
Romance reporter declares...
Frances Dymowski and John J.
Carlini will take the vows at St.
Casimir’s Church this coining
Sunday.
WONDER if this isn’t a lazy
man’s way of clearing correspon
dence, hut necessity is the mother
of invention... To Ted Topolnic
ki down in Tennessee—thanks
for the postal from Chatanooga...
Is it true that you plan to enter
the Army engineering corps?...
To Rev. Emil Majchrzak, sports
moderator at Corpus Christi par
ish in Buffalo: Some aggressive
individuals in Baltimore are say
ing that the St. Stanislaus basket
hall team can beat anything that
your town can offer... How about
a statement? To the Pride of
Omaha:... You were right about
the letter, but don’t forget that
old Arabian proverb... To Frank
Xowicki of Bridgeport, Pennsyl
vania: Have patience—all will be
explained to you...
WONDER HOW East Balti
moreans will manage to cover all
the affairs scheduled for this com
ing Sunday?... There’s the big
big Oyster Roast arranged by
Holy Rosary Parish for the
benefit of the new school... One
to six (P. M.)... Later in the
evening there’s a big dance on at
St. Stanislaus... From morning
until late afternoon the various
ahletic teams carrying the St.
Casimir colors will be in action...
The Polish-American Council
holds an important meeting at the
Polish Center Sunday afternoon...
At 8 P. M. both the United Polish
Organizations and the Polish Re
lief Committee will hold meetings
at the “Dom Polski”.,.
WONDER if the general mem
bership of the P. S. A. will be
kind enough to help out the new
ly elected president... All that he
wants is.a quorum at the Inter
national Center this Saturday...
How about it boys and girls?...
Draft Board No. 1 sent quite a
few Polish lads last week...
Here’s a partial list: John S. Wi
sniewski, Leon Kuchta, Peter
James Dabrowski, Adam (Buck)
Kozlowski, Andrew Hetmanski,
James Bocek, Marion Anthony
Bogucki... Kuchta na Kozlowski
are slated for Texas, according to
reports... John Wisniewski had
to give a gradually growing law
practice... He was secretary of
the United Polish-American Or
ganizations and filled the same
position with the First East Balti
more Civic Improvement Asso
ciation... Another item for the
Date 800 k... The Country Store
and Bingo arranged by the ladies
of Nest 888 of the Falcons... It
will be held Tuesday, January
28, at Falcons’ Hall, 610 S. Mont
ford Ave.... Mrs. Antoinette Kar
wowska is in charge of arrange
ments.
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Russell Hart, inventor, demon
strates in Los Angeles the effective
ness of his new type bomb, which
may excel any device now used
against submarines. The new bomb.
Hart said, has one-third the weight
of depthjijunhs now used, and equal
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