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Editorial
THE BORGER DAILY HERALD
1945-YEAR OF RETRIBUTION —By NEA—No. 2: Air Assault on Gormany
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NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL
The State Department has $13,000,000 to spend on Its
proposed Foreign Information Service during its first six
months of existence. It has jobs for some 2(500 persons in
62 countries. AH it has to do now is persuade Congress to
breathe the breath of life into the new agency.
Given that, we shall have a permanent successor to the
late OWl and Office of Inter-American Affairs whose ob-
ject, according to Assistant Secretary of State Benton, is to
give foreign peoples "a full and fair picture of American
life and of the aims and policies of the United States govern-
ment." Its instruments will include worldwide shortwave
broadcasts and wireless bulletins every day, newsreels and
documentary films, periodicals and such like.
Mr. Benton has said the new agency has no intention
oC competing with foreign propaganda abroad. He has like-
wise declared that it is not intended to compete with or sup-
plant existing private news services.
Perhaps Mr. Benton is wise in making this explanation,
since both foreign government propaganda agencies and
non-government news services are strongly established in
their opposite fields. But he leaves us with the odd and
hesitant inference that the State Department is going in
neither for poopaganda nor for factual news distribution.
Only one thing seems definitely certain in this tepid
declaration of an expensive project. Most foreign readers
and lookers and listeners are going to accept the State De-
partment's foreign information output as slanted American
propaganda. They've been fed too much government-issue
news and views in the past to believe otherwise.
The State Department implies, by its declaration of this
proposed agency's purpose, that foreign peoples have been
getting an inadequate and unfair picture of this country,
and-a distorted impression of its government's intentions.
But will these foreign peoples believe that a government
information agency, confronted with a choice, will ever fail
to show that government's activities in anything but the most
favorable light? We doubt it.
We do not question that the State Department's inten-
tions are the best and mo&t honest in the world. Neverthe-
less, this information agency seems doomed to sow more
confusion and to reap a harvest of cynical suspicion.
It might be more realistic if the State Department
would cease to disclaim any propaganda intentions and try
to compete with foreign propaganda agencies as best it
could. Or, much better, it might throw its influence be-
hind the growing efforts to promote a greater freedom of
the press throughout the world.
For that world is badly in need of a free access to news
for agencies which are known and trusted, and which will
give the most straightforward information that human
frailty and prejudice will permit. And we doubt that more
- government handouts will meet, that need. - —-
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SLOW DEATH
Congress' latest dealings with its brainchild, the Smith-1
Coonally Act. are typical of the fumbling and stumbling \
that has marked the history of this law intended to prevent
wartime strikes.
Instead of killing the outdated and unsuccessful legisla-
tion swiftly and completely, Congress has prolonged the ag-
ony with a prohibition, tacked onto an unrelated bill, which
forbids the National Labor Relations Board to use funds for
taking strike votes. That means that the NLRB is now pre-
vent^ by law from carrying out the provisions of a law that
>| if ft illin effect.
Altogether, tho NLRB has spent a million dollars in tak-
ing more than 1000 strike polls since the law was passed in
Jtuy, 1943. Workers have voted to strike about nine times
out of 10. Since the coming of peace the board has conduct-
ed more elections than in the two war-time years that the
law was in operation. But, though the war is over, the
NLRB was still required to ask. and with a straight face,
whether workers wonted to stop production even though it
Would interrupt the war effort.
Now, at least, that foolish question will no longer have
to be asked, answered and computed at the taxpayers' ex-
Sense. But the job isn't finisher! and won't be until the
mith-Connally Act is off the books.
Another sour note in the OPA program. The price of
pickles is going up.
A fireplug is an ingenious device designed to let the
motorist help swell the city's revenues. ,
A Brooklyn man, father of ten children, re-enlisted be-
cause it meant higher pay than he was getting as a civilian.
From one army to another!
A Missouri woman got a divorce because her husband
threw an ax at her. Women are mighty nice—but not fickle!
Canada follows our lead by removing tires from the ra-
tioning. That makes two countries where you won't be able
to find them.
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Bv NEA Service
DY FEBRUARY, IMS. Allied
strategic bombers had vir-
tually paralyzed the Uetman
coal mdu try. Armaments works
burn'd their last lumps, then
stoofi idle in the Reich's moment
of military crisis.
IU-ichsminister for Armaments
Albert Speer called upon the
railroads to reorganize their
shatttM-ed lines and rolling stock
and at all costs move coal from
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tbf Ruhr and Saar to the fac-
tories.
And then on the 22nd of Feb-
ruary the Allied Air Forces iew
Operation Clarion. The target:
Herman transportation. More
than 10.000 Allied planes flew
from bases in England, France,
lielgium, Holland and Italy to
bomb 200 individual targets over
an area of a quarter of a million
square miles inside Germany.
German officials have testified
recently that war production
was halved, rail traffic reduced
!M) per cent. The German army
was no longer mobile.
Hitler had one chance to hold
the Western Front—to keep in
production the mighty Ruhr, a
concentration of coal mines and
steel, armaments and chemical
plants 40 miles long and 15 wide
oast of the Rhine. The Allies
isolated it by air, sealed every
one of 10 entries and exits.
In two weeks of April the full
weight of Allied air power fell
rm the remnants of the German
air force and annihilated it in
the air and on the ground—
3,484 planes smashed aloft and
below in 14 days. And as the
troops rolled across Germany
through city after city to Berlin
they saw vivid evidences like
those pietui od above, of the
effects of earlier bombardment.
Tomorrow: Bridsine the Rhine.
COLUMN
TEXAS
TODAY
* WASHINGTON COLUMN
BIG OBJECTIVES
By HAL BOYLE
MANILA, Jan, 7——(^P)—Manila
s the biggest boom town in the
Orient. It is a combination of
Tombstone, Ariz., and a Missouri wedefina
•ountry fair. There is so much
raffic—still predominantly army
/ehicles—that it takes three mili-
ary police at some intersections
o break up the jams.
Crews are steadily at work an
oad repairs but Manila streets
ire tougher than Tokyo's. When
hell craters fill up with water it
By JACK RUTLEDGE
Associated Press Staff
Maybe this belongs on the wo-
men's page, because its about a
The frontier was pretty rugged
when Sallie Ann Reynolds and J.
A. Mattews were married iu a
stone ranch home on the Clear
Fork of the Brazos River near
Albany. It was Christmas Day.
1876.
On Christmas Day. 1945, their
Grandson. William Watt Blanton.
Sm TS Min.de Beil^^ln'^e
■«?« Lt 25 Isame house the same furni-
nnkpd its heart rot of tUre With three «$i*tt*tfons of
K? E?. ™ 1 Matthews. Reynolds. Blantons and
he storm clouds more than an jr. . r,if^nt
lour or two in eight days. *«oyle> piesent.
r ;mi,. | Lverythina was duplicated as
Hninc «Ji/ under !elo9elv as possible—the same old-
Manila. Rums sag und tjme hand-carveti mantle, a wed-
ding in candlelight, music on the
limbing vegetation in the heart
>f the city. Rough wooden build-
ings reminiscent of a frontier
vestern town are springing up
everywhere . . . They serve an
argent temporary need but if al-
lowed to remain it may take the
Philippine capital decades instead
of years to regain its old leisurely
beauty. . . . You can still see trac-
es of its former charm among
iwellings and public buildings
blasted into all shapeless chunks
jf concrete and rusted iron gird-
.*rs.
For all the shattering destruc-
tion wrought here, however, there
same little organ used in the wed-
ding 68 years ago. the bride com-
ing down the same stairway.
And just like that weddirm so
long ago. the celebration follow-
ing the cermonv was attended bv
ranchers from miles around. There
waa a barbecue of beef, turkev
roasted from a fireoit The scaoinu
of a fiddle and the calls of the
square dance mingled with the
greetings of kinspeoole. many sons
and grandsons only recently re-
tured from the warfronts scatter-
ed over the world.
The ancient old house, frequeut-
is more life and feeling t>f activ-|]y renovated and Dloced in its
ity than in any city in the Far ocicimt stvle with furnishings bv
East with the possible exception Watt R. Matthews, was packed,
of Shanghai. Much of this busi- To follow through in true so-
ciety nage style: The bride was
charming. Beat man was Lt. Joseph
■3. Blanttmf UBNH. brother fcf the
groom. Bridesmaid was Miss Mar-
tha Beth Newb.y of Breckenridge.
Mrs. Helen George Tabb of
Albany attended the bride. Mrs.
Elizabeth Price of Albany, the
bride's aunt, gave her awav in
marriage.
Blanton is the youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Blanton.
lawver and former congressman.
He returned a month ago from
India-Burma, where he served for
nearly two years in the Armv
Counter Intelligence Corps. He.
himself, had been .elected countv
judge just before entering the
Army. He resigned at the time,
but base been asked to resume
office. ___________
priced and booming burg — you
can read clearly stencilled on his
back:—"Overseas ham."
less boom is based on the dollars
of free-spending American sol-
di«nrand snilm-s. ManMa
seems to be earning its living
keeping the military entertained
and there remains the question of
what will happen when the rest
of the troops move out and home-
ward.
Manila's two main streets —the
Escolta and Rizal avenue— have
gone completely honkeytonk in the
dnd of commercial chop suey
that finds souvenir stores, photo
galleries and blaring night clubs
shouldering for space. There is
a snack shop in the American
Hardware building and a variety
show In the Staid, former Philip-
pine Bank of Commerce. The Es-
colta once was Manila's Fifth
Avenue . . . now it's an alcoholic
razzle dazzle complete with bar
girls, tinpan pianos and one peso
a shot whisky. But the streets
are crowded with shoppers and
.spenders and everybody seems
happy and hopeful.
American made goods are pour-
ing in. Kentucky Bourbon was
scarce at $40 a quart last August.
Now it's plentiful at $7.50. All
prices are dropping steadily. Most
stores and miniature department
stores, stocking everything they
can buy. One hole in the wall,
for instance, had souvenir shoes,
Philippine Panama hats, liquor,
new women's cosmetics and Amer-
ican oatmeal. The oatmeal sold
for 50 cents a large package and
you could also have your picture
taken while it was being wrap-
ped up, or get your watch repair-
ed. r
Stocks of Dxtdly needed cloth-
jntf in*#1 Ix'i/innmL' 1a iiitIvp hut. *1111110(1 bronCuull Q1UCOU5 Itt0Qla
IL,,ni branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
many children still trot around a botti#Qf creomulslon with the un-
bare as Lady Godlva. One small; derstand:n</ you must like the way it
>hoe shine boy who works out-; quickly allays the cough or you are
side one army post exchange 1 to have your money back.
wears a shirt made from a cloth ^DCAUIII CIA kl
bag . . . When he bends over your : w IV C wlYl wUJIv
shoes—he won't touch them for for Couehs,CheslColds, Bronchitis
less than two bits in this still high i
Erection of new churches and
refurbishing the battle scarred
ones of Europe would cost an es-
timated one and one-half billion
dollars. _ _____
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulslon relieves promptly be-
cause lt goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
' {en
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7— The
easiest thing to do on a dull holi-
day la to take a whack at the for-
eign uolicy. There is alwavs some
remote corner of the world where
things are going to pot and any-
one can be an interrtational ex-
pert if he is far enough away from
the scene to be free from'contra-
diction bv troublesome facts. The
trouble with most of this exuert-
ing is that it gets side-tracked bv
inconsequental incidents and loses
sight of main objectives. What
happens in Azerbaijan. Bandoeng.
Chungking or even before the
Foreign Affairs Committee in
Washington may look terrible
when viewed through a knothole.
But tear down the fences of sick-
ening sensationalism and the view
becomes much more salubrious.
In any such grand view, it will
have to be admitted that the rec-
ord of U. S. foreign policy over
the war years looks good and is
something to take Dride in. Oh,
it is possible to bellyache all over
the place on individual errors in
the old State Department. To
show how they lost a trick here,
failed to finesse a kintr there and
led into the opponent's trumps
some place else. But when the
honors are counted and the scores
added up. the important thing is
who won the bridge game.
Announcement of the Moscow
communique from tjie meeting of
the three foreign ministers, sign-
ing of the liretton Woods agree-
ment in Washington, publication
of the American-planned charter
for on internaUonal trade organi-
zation—these are morels the latest
tricks taken in what amounts to
the international tournament of
foreign affairs. There is nothing
new in this victory. It is oJd stuff.
But is is st> befogged bv Hurley
incidents arid Wherry charges and
what went on in North Africa.
Vichy. Saipan and the Argentine,
that the reallv important results
are tost sight of.
Look at the record. It begins
even before the United States got
into the war. when the broad out-
lines were sketched into the At-
lantic Charier and when Secretary
of State Cordell Hull set up a
small planning unit to see what
could be done to salvage a few
pieces from the inevitable war.
then going from there to see if
another such catastrophe could not
be avoided.
Moscow Conference
American In Conception
Hull's first result, was th,e first
Moscow Conference in which
I agreement was reached to plan for
|a United Nations Organization. It
was n purely American conception.
The first drafts ot the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals were American
ulans. The Sun Francisco Confer-
ence of the United Nations which
|followed did not just happen. It
| wag planned.
The same thing applies to every
I step towards international co-
operation since the war began. It
covers UNKRA. the United Na-
tions Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
jministratoin. first of the new in-
; ternational organizations, which
| has now been given enough money
ito complete its as.-iced job. It
covers FAO—the Food and Agri-
culture Organization which will
work towards better world food
supply. It covers PIC AO—the Pro-
visional International Civil Avi-
ation Conference now functioning
at Montreal to regulate world air
icommerce. It covers tht* interna-
tional bank and the international
monetary fund planned at Bretton
Woods. It will cover world agree-
ments 011 international communi-
cations. begun at RIO between the
•American republics, at Bermuda
'between the U. S. and British,
and tlue to be completed at an in-
• ternational conference later in the
I year, it will cover ITO—the In-
jternational Trade Organization to
be discussed this spring.
Beginning Made
Toward Four Freedoms
\ All these things fit into one Pic-
ture—n picture largely of Ameri-
:can conception and execution. It
lis by no means complete. There
Sare several points in the general
j principles of the Atlantic Charter
I as. vet untouched. Onlv the barest
.beginning has been made at at-
ItaittinK freedom from fear and
from want. That's a job that will
take generations or even centuries.
Point eight of the Charter de-
Iclares that "All the nations of the
world • . • must come to the aban-
donment of the use of force." A
:start in that direction nia\f have
I ben made in agreement at Moscow
to create an atomic bomb commis-
sion. reporting to the Security
Council of the United Nations Or-
ganization.
I li the atomic bomb can be con-
'troiled or outlawed, so can other
ioointa in foreign policy determina-
tion for the new year. It Is im-
portant. however, to remember
that these ere the things that
should be kept in mind when
i speaking of foreign policy. The
;big objectives.
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Added And
Lasting
Loveliness .
is constantly being added to
the perpetual beauty of High-
land Park n
More—yes many, more shade
trees, evergreens and rose
bushes were planted last week
— and even more will be
planted this week.
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