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THE ARCHER COUNTY NEWS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
By Edward C. Wayne
U-Boat Shells West Coast Oil Field
In First Assault on U. S. Mainland;
Japanese Consolidate New Positions
As Battle for East Indies Continues
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The three-man planning committee which acts in an advisory capacity
to Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production board, at a meeting
in Washington, D. C. Left to right: Thomas C. Blaisdell, assistant director
ef the national researches planning board; Fred Searles, consultant on
ordnance, ammunition division. United States army, and Robert Nathan,
assistant director of progress reports, War Production board.
SHELLS:
On West Coast
The West coast had been waiting
for enemy shell fire since the day
the Japs launched their sneak at-
tack on Pearl Harbor but when these
first shots came, they came from
the sea and not from the air as most
persons had believed they would.
In the Pacific twilight, as the
President addressed the nation over
the radio on the progress and course
of the war an enemy submarine
appeared oft Santa Barbara, Calif.,
and fired from 15 to 23 shells into
the Elwood oil fields near that city.
Ofl wells in the area are located
right on the beach. No casualties
and only slight damage to the oil
fields were first reported.
Radio stations carrying the Presi-
dent’s speech did not go off the air
until he had finished speaking and
then a blackout of the entire area
was ordered.
ROOSEVELT:
Progress Report
Revealing that thousands of Unit-
ed States troops already are in the
southwestern Pacific. President
Roosevelt, in his latest fireside chat,
told the world that soon the United
Nations "and not our enemies, will
have the offensive; we, not they, will
win the final battles, and we, not
they, will make the final peace.
While enemy shells were landing
on the California coast, the Presi-
dent promised to carry the war to
the Axis enemy in distant lands and
far-flung waters—wherever he can
be found. America, he said, will
harness its unequalled production
facilities to the war effort and pro-
duce totals of guns, planes, tanks
and ships formerly deemed impos-
sible.
BURMA:
Defense Stiffens
The addition of wch-trained Chi-
nese troops to the norti.-m flank of
the British in the Burma battle had
found Chiang Kai-shek’s men able
to take, at least temporarily, the of-
fensive.
Japs holding an important river
near Chiengmai were driven back,
and the China troops took up offen-
sive positions, some believed within
the borders of Thailand.
Additional R.A.F. planes were
added to the Tiger Squadron of the
volunteer American forces assigned
to protect the Burma road, and al-
though the port of Rangoon had been
made useless, Chiang was thought
already to have opened new sources
of supply by other ports.
Churchill was believed to be "see-
ing the light” that empire was go-
ing to have to relax its firm hand
on the natives, and eventually to
give over to them much of the work
of freeing themselves from the at-
tacking Japanese, in India.
Changes in the British cabinet had
seemed to indicate this, at any rate,
and many observers felt that all the
disastrous outcomes of the early bat-
tles could only be overcome, in the
last analysis, by letting the natives
get into the fight in a big way, in-
stead of leaving them to be made
into fifth columnists by the advanc-
ing Jap$.
These observers pointed out that
Java’s population of 40,000,000 per-
sons would be hard to conquer.
CHURCHILL:
Heeds Critics
Winston Churchill, heeding the
sharp criticism that followed Singa-
pore and the “channel escape” of
the Scharnhorst, Gneiser.au and
Prince Eugen to Helgoland Bight,
streamlined his cabinet.
Out went Lord Beaverbrook, be-
cause of ill-health, and his retire-
ment was followed by a statement
that he might come to the United
States in liaison work.
Chief burden on Churchill had
been his frequent appearances be-
fore the house of commons—meet-
ing his critics with bursts of ora-
tory that won him one parliamenta-
Tkings I Never Knetc
And Still Don’t Know:
Whether the sugar-rationing here
isn’t extremely mild compared to
Germany, where it's verboten to use
any sugar at all for sweetening cof-
fee or tea . . . That the secret of
Winston Churchill’s amazing energy
is the old Edison formula of grab-
bing quickie snoozes through the day
. . . Whether motorists know il
they don’t wear a hat while driving,
they suffer greater eyestrain ... If
it wouldn't be a good idea for both
Republicans and Democrats to adopt
this revised slogan: "Now is the
time for all good men to come to!”
. . That Mohammedans begin
each meal with salt. (Because they
believe it helps prevent most dis-
eases.) . . . That, according to U. S.
health authorities, effective bombing
of Japan's overcrowded cities would
probably touch off an epidemic of
the dread Asiatic cholera there . . .
That among the Betsileos of Mada-
gascar, when a funeral is held for a
woman, the procession, before reach-
ing the cemetery, goes back to her
home for an hour. (Te.e theory be-
ing that women always forget some-
thing when they leave home.) . . .
That if you want to get the maxi-
mum taste from food, remember
these tips: Bitter things taste more
strongly on the rear of the tongue,
sweet things on the tip, sour things
on the sides, and salty things on
both the tip and sides . . . That
bad tempers are now blamed on a
shortage of vitamin B1 in the diet
. . Whether you’ve heard the one
about Count Ciano describing his
Berlin visit to his father-in-law, Mus-
solini. "Hitler gave me a wonder-
ful dinner,” Ciano related. “Every-
thing was solid gold—the plates, the
knives, forks, spoons—all solid gold”
. . . "That's nice,” commented II
Duce, holding out his hand. “Let me
see!”
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A French underground paper re-
cently related this grand fable. The
bishop of Bordeaux handed 50 francs
to his secretary to give to a poor
woman who had requested alms. ■
The secretary protested, "Mon-
seigneur is perhaps unaware of the
fact that the woman is a Jewess
...” "A Jewess!" exclaimed the
bishop. “Goodness me, that’s alto-,
| gether different. Give her one hun-
j dred francs and thank her for her
j confidence in Christian charity!”
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Highbrows complain about the
' way swing music hurts the classics.
! But it’s a matter of record that, be-
| cause popular bands started to swing
] Tschaikowsky, the sale of that com-
Recent Defeats Prepare
U. S. for New Sacrifices |
Armaments Production Continues to Increase
As United Nations Equip World’s Greatest
Military Expeditions.
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAY I
Dchool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LL'NDQUIST D.D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Cblcasa,
Released by wexlern Newspaper Union I
Lesson for March 8
WNU Service, 134J H Street, N-W,
Washington, D. C.
Now is the winter of our discon-
tent and a still more discontented
spring may not be far behind. Wash-
ington at Valley Forge, Lincoln hold-
ing with knotted hands a nation split
asunder may well look down on
us with deep concern.
Not that this great nation is even
near the danger which hovered so
close to the battered armies of
Washington’s Colonials, or threat-
ened the century-young Republic.
We have just passed a $26,000,Oi/O,-
000 appropriation, the largest in his-
tory. We are preparing to arm
7,000,000 men, training an air force
of 2,000,000. When the planes which
our factories can turn out are ready
to spread their wings they can
darken the skies over Berlin and
Tokyo.
But as the mists of spring spread
out over the oceans, they touch the
brows of new masters, rulers who
never dared lay claim to rule the
seven seas.
Gradually the American people
realize that the world they looked
upon from their comfortable win-
dows is a different world from the
one which their peaceful mind's eyes
saw before Pearl Harbor and Singa-
pore. It is a world that all but a
very few would have scoffed at if it
had been described to them before
the crushing defeats which the Eng-
lish speaking peoples have suffered
in the scant weeks since December
7, 1941.
It was a soft February day when
we strolled up to the White House
gate, showed our photographic
passes to the policemen, filed into
the Executive Wing and finally found
ourselves in the President's office as
the newsmen do twice each week.
President Rebukes
Rumor Mongers
There were no quips as we waited
until the last man was in. And the
President's easy smile was absent.
Some of the answers were sharp.
There was rebuke for repeating a
rumor, condemnation oi Washing-
ton’s Clivenden set, as the Presi-
dent called them—defeatists.
Then when a reporter asked if the
President would comment on the vis-
poser°s'records 7 n c7as“s,c mam « JE!”
Sir Stafford
Cripps
Lord
Beaverbrook
MISCELLANY:
Uvalde, Texas: John Nance Gar-
ner, former vict president, in a rare
interview, said, “There is no lack of
morale, no complacency among the
people.”
Washington, D. C.: Senator Gil-
lette charged that huge interests had
been deliberately blocking agricul-
ture’s effort to provide gram alco-
hol from which synthetic rubber
could be manufactured.
ry battle after another—but at wha
cost to his vitality and accomplish-
ments could readily be imagined.
Into this breach Churchill fired the
"man of the hour,” Sir Stafford
Cripps, fresh from his triumphs in
diplomacy in Russia, a man who
had the confidence of the “man in
the street,” and who was to take
over the job of being the govern
ment’s man before commons.
There were other changes, but
these were most vital. The cabinet
was reduced to seven men, and
some action of this type had beea
vigorously demanded.
JAVA:
Mighty Battle
From the narrow waters to the
east and west of Java had come re-
ports of mighty air and naval en-
gagements, proving that the last
stronghold of the Dutch in the East
Indies was not going to be given up
without a bitter struggle, also that
the Japs were not going to “by-
pass” Java without at least a ma-
jor try to capture it.
American and Dutch warships had
come to grips with the invasion force
attempting to take glamorous Bali
from the “blind side,” hoping to
swarm over the 100-mile-wide island
and thus overlook their quarry Java
from a vantage point separated
from the mainland only by a mile-
wide strait.
First reports had been highly op-
timistic, reminiscent of the Ameri-
can-Dutch resistance to the Japa-
nese landing forces in the Straits oi
Macassar. Eighteen enemy war-
ships and transports had been sunk
or damaged—four planes shot down,
with a loss to the Allies of two de-
stroyers and four planes.
Most significant in the battle, how-
ever, were the reports that the new-
est types of dive-bombers (presuma-
bly navy planes) were being used,
and with telling effect.
For once it seemed that the Allies
had a considerable air force in ac-
tion, whether based on an aircraft
carrier or on Sourabaya could only
be guessed at
As to the word from Tokyo, the
Japanese admitted that a strong
naval battle was in progress, but
asserted that the Allied ships “ran
off” with severe losses, and denied
any serious losses to themselves.
Just how well Java, with its 40
millions of population, could be de-
fended, still remained to be seen,
with the Japs pretty well ensconced
on Sumatra.
! ner hit an all-time high , . . We’d
like to see a celeb enter a joynt
soma time without acting as if he
were playing the star role at a coro-
nation . . . Our idea of paradise is
! where everybody feels as good as a
headwaiter looks . . . What’s be-
! come of Technocracy? . . . The
ditty, ”1 Don’t Want to Walk Without
| You, Baby,” is a friend of the ears
when played in a slow tempo deco-
rated with strings. When it conies
dressed in brass it’s an enemy.
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The bad news the wireless has
been pouring out all week from the
South Pacific must put a pain in
Goebbels’ neck. How can he fright-
en us with threats of disaster, he
must wonder, when our own com-
mentators tell us the raw truth?
The more we know the tougher it
gets for the Axis liars and scare-
mongers . . . The Berlin radio
soaped the Yellow Aryans by an-
nouncing that Wotan, the Heinie god,
and the Jap god are practically first
cousins. That kind of slights the Ital-
ians, who must have become de-
Aryanized when the Greeks shot the
spots off them . . . The best of
Jack Benny's stinginess gags was
his denial that he forced Dennis Day
to donate blood for a transfusion.
Claimed Benny: “I paid him $5 a
gallon for it” . . . Almost every
time you flip on the radio, you’re
bound to hear some member of the
theatrical profession aiding some
worthy war cause.
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It actually happened not very
long ago in Lindy's when pretty per-
sons invaded the place and peddled
defense stamps to the public . . .
Seated at a table in the comer,
alone, was a fellow the stamp sell-
ers seemed to avoid . . . The cus-
tomers stole furtive glances at him,
but tried not to embarrass him.
He was not in the least disturbed
. . . Finishing his dinner, he went
over to the cashier and paid his $2
check with a new $50 bill . . .
Sweeping up the $48 change, he
handed it to one of the stamp-sell-
ir.g ladies, tipped his hat and went
out . . . Apparently an American-
bern Japanese.
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Harvard beys say they don’t like
Betty Grable, Veronica Lake or Ann
Sheridan. Playing hard to get, huh?
. . . Talk about bad timing. One
radio show plays Hawaiian melo-
dies accompanied by an announcer
who drools about the peace and beau-
ty of Hawaii . . . Here’s a good
typewriter ribbon from Olin Mil-
ler: “If this weren’t such a crazy
world, it wouldn’t be such an inter-
esting one.” . . . Ben Bernie is do-
ing his bit toward boosting the mo-
rale of the country. He isn’t on the
radio
was an effort to lighten the gloom
and the President who had no inten-
tion of revealing the ambassador’s
mission answered that they had
had a good lunch. Then one of the
reporters who had buttonholed the
ambassador on his way out and got-
! ten no comment, remarked: “The
ambassador didn't look like a man
who had had a good lunch when he
came out.”
And that remark expressed the
mood of the city.
Why? Not because officials did not
recognize what might be ahead after
the first reverses. But because they
knew that all they could do, all that
the United Nations could do, was to
mark time while a tiny nation, Ja-
pan, with a population of 70,000,000,
putting out $3,000,000,000 worth of
arms annually, was holding at bay a
coalition of 200,000,000 people with a
monthly, not yearly, output of arms
worth 3'.4 billion dollars.
But we are marking time from a
military standpoint only. Our pro-
duction is mounting. Already we
have supplies enough for the demand
in Russia if we had the ships to
carry them. Soon we will be turn-
ing out two ships a day.
And we are preparing an army.
And that is the point. At first we
thought that America had one task,
to be the arsenal of the democra-
cies. Simply the job of production.
Then we saw that we must help get
those supplies to their destination.
And to protect the supply lines we
needed to man bases. All this was
before we actually were at war.
Supply Lines Threatened
Then war came and now, sudden-
ly, we realize that the supply lines
are threatened. Threatened at Ran-
goon, gateway of the Burma road.
Threatened in the Red sea and the
Persian gulf if Hitler breaks through
the Middle East. Threatened with
Japan’s far-flung, base-studded ar-
chipelagoes which have now spread
eastward from the Marshall islands
to Borneo and the Celebes and per-
haps, before this is written, within
bombing distance of Australia it-
self.
And so we learned that we might
not be able to arm our allies but
that we would have to arm our-
selves and carry those arms in the
hands and on the ships and planes
of our own fighting men.
And so, for the first time in its
history America looks out upon hos-
tile nations in three continents which
it must hunt out in their own lairs.
The greatest military expeditions in
the history of the world are now in
the making. Soon the snows ol th*
winter of our discontent will melP
unnoticed. America will go forth
without thought of wind or rain or
snow or sun.
Meanwhile we have a long, hard
lesson of restraint and sacrifice.
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Uncle Sam Again in
Life Insurance Business
Uncle Sam is in the life insurance
business again.
In World War I the government
issued insurance of more than 4,000,-
000 policies to members of the
armed services with a total face val-
ue of nearly $40,000,000,000. The idea
when these policies were issued, the
government paying the extra pre-
mium demanded of a person step-
ping up in the direction of machine
guns, was that this was all that
could be expected of a grateful re-
public. After struggling with the
burden of Civil war pensions it was
believed that the insurance would
take their place.
The men themselves, as ex-sol-
diers and as citizens, would proba-
bly have been entirely satisfied. But
the politicians couldn’t let a good
thing like that get away.
The first sweetener was the bonus.
Then came the other bonuses one
after the other and the various bene-
fits which needn’t be related here.
The insurance policies were not a
heavy burden. They cost the gov-
ernment only $1,714,000 which was
the difference between what the gov-
ernment paid out and the premiums
paid in. For you see it was a busi-
ness proposition. The premiums
were taken out of the soldier’s pay
while he was in the army. When he
was discharged he either kept up
the premiums or dropped the policy.
Now Uncle Sam is ready to do
the same thing for the present army.
As of February 14, 1942, 1,308,500
applications for insurance policies
have been received by the veterans
administration with a total face val-
ue of $4,955,000,000.
The policies are in multiples of
$500 and $10,000 is the limit. The
premiums amount to only 67 cents
a month per thousand dollars for a
man 25 years of age. No man who
has any sense at all will miss the
67 cents when he scoops his money
■srSsfi£23®3
Lesson
iected and
Council
permission.
DISCOVERING WHY PEOPLE
DRINK BEVERAGE ALCOHOL
LESSON TEXT-G«nes!» <3:34: Psalm
104:14, 15; Proverbs 31:4-7: Eaeleslasles
1:1-3, 10, 11: Isaiah 50:1*: I Corinthians
10:8, 7.
GOLDEN TEXT--Wine Is a mocker, atronf
drink la ratlins; and whosoever li deceived
thereby is not wiae.—Proverba 20:1.
into his hat, signs the pay-roll and 1 7)
The alcohol problem receives at-
tention in four lessons of each year.
This is, the first one for 1942 and
brings before us a number of scrip-
tures not often used, in order to
suggest the drinker’s reasons for
drinking. Other matters appear, but
we shall limit ourselves to present-
ing these reasons, together with the
Christian answer to each one.
Why do men drink?
I. To Be Sociable (Gen. 43:34). <
At the banquet prepared by Jos-
eph the allowance for Benjamin was
greatly increased, and they "drank
and were merry.” How often that
has been the plea which has led
into drinking and into drunkenness.
The “social glacs” has often led to
the drunkard's grave.
Well, surely God wants us to be
sociable. Yes, He does, and the
perfect provision for man’s social
nature is found in Christian fellow-
ship. .,
II. To Be Happy (Ps. 104:14, 15).
Wine is supposed to br jig happi-
ness, and we may admit that it
does bring a temporary lift which
some call happiness. But who is
satisfied with happiness? It depends
entirely on what "happens." If the
wrong thing happens we are un-
happy. We need a deep abiding joy,,
and only a right relationship to God
> can give that.
III. To Evade Responsibility
(Prov. 31:4, 5).
When life's burdens become too
much for' him the weakling seeks
relief and evades his responsibili-
ties in the deadening power of alco-
hol. But that dossn’t solve the prob-
lem. It is still there when sobriety
returns, and usually fnore serious
than ever. What can a man do? The
answer is, turn to God. He gives
wisdom, grace and strength.
IV. To Forget Sorrow (Prov. 31:
6). ,
“Drown your sorrows" is the de-
ceptive promise of liquor; bat they
stand right there beside man, and
when his poor befuddled head be-
gins to clear they present them-
selves more persistently than ever.
What’s the answer? The God of all
comfort is ready to bear man’s sor-
rows or to give him grace to bear
them and to lead him out into a
place of peace and victory.
V. To Forget Poverty (Prov. 31:
salutes once a month.
There is no red-tape, no physical
examination. Any man who can
stand up and get shot at is healthy
enough to be insured.
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Other Raw Materials
In South America
The thing the German and Jap-
anese respect most and tear most,
is the American factory. The Board
of Economic Warfare is the board ol
strategy which directs this powerful
weapon of offense.
Some countries on the borderline
of Axis influence have things we want
and want things we have. Let us
say "Belgravia” has ordered cer-
tain foodstuffs she requires for her
starving people. The deal is ar-
ranged. At the same time, we have
been trying to get a certain chem-
ical that "Belgravia” is shipping
to the Axis. So the order to release
the foodstuff finds its way to a cer-
tain desk in the BEW. The food is
not delivered. The minister of Bel-
gravia calls at the slate department
to ask the cause of the delay. He
is referred to a little office in the
shabby apartment building. The talk
soon turns to the chemical that we
want. An understanding is reached.
As I sat in this building listening
to the almost all-encircling enter-
prises the BEW is undertaking, the
President's phrases came back to
me—“an all-encircling war”—"an
overwhelming superiority.” I real-
ized that this encirclement, which
the enemy is attempting to achieve
with a line of flesh and blood and
steel, America is gradually accom-
plishing with a wall that will keep
out the vital supplies that make the
sinews of war of the Axis. , And I
realized, too, that "overwhelming
superiority,” when it is established,
will be established by the power of
America's economic machinery.
BRIEFS
4? Baukhage
<L The attack on the Office of Ci-
vilian Defense was probably an ex-
cellent thing because it would have
shaken the faith of a lot of people
in the government if they thought
we were trying to dance our way
out of our troubles. As a matter of
tact, the entertainment features
were based on similar activities
which had been tried out and found
practical in England.
ff. Federal Security Administrator
McNutt asked all state governors,
in view of mounting manpower re-
quirements for defense production
goals, to give every consideration
to the vocational rehabilitation and
employment of physically handi-
capped persons, including all dis-
charged, wounded or injured mem-
beis of the armed forces.
Heavy is the affliction of poverty
in a world of plenty. Sometimes it
is the result of carelessness or of
sin, but often it is the lot of those
who are innocently caught in its
grip. Men have tried to forget, to-
"drown” even this problem in drink,
and have only made their poverty?
worse and more unbearable.
VI. To Find Satisfaction (EccL
2: 1-3, 10, 11).
The book of Ecclesiastes gives
the account of a man "under the
sun," that is, apart from God's
guidance and blessing, seeking to<
satisfy the cravings of his heart in
many ways. All of them prove vain,
including the effort to find it in wine
and in pleasure.
Frustrated souls often seek re-
lease through intoxicants. They gain
a measure of liberty and a sense
of masterful power, but it is all as
delusive as the dreams of grandeur
of the insane. It is even worse, for
it is a false condition, deliberately
created and soon lost, together with
lost character and decency of life.
The morning after brings only the
deepened despair of greater dissat-
isfaction.
VO. To Stimulate Hope (Isa. 60:
12).
A certain fearful looking forward
to the time of judgment tends to
dampen the -drinker's enthusiasm.
Sc he drinks more to reawaken In
his heart the "hope” that tomorrow
will not bring reckoning, but will
be another "good” day. The world
has no real hope. In fact, the word
itself hat lost its true meaning and
indicates only a sort of wishful
thinking. Is there any real hope?
Oh, yes, and the Christian has it,
hope that is a confident expecta-
tion of the fulfillment of God's every
promise. That kind of hope takes
care of tomorrow—and all the to-
morrows.
VIII. To Encourage Play (1 Cor.
10:8,7).
Paul warns against the folly ol
the “eat, drink, and be merry” phi-
losophy. That road ends in disaster.
Does not God want ui to play7
Indeed He does. He gave us the
instinct for recreation. We need
pleasant relaxation, and He has pro-
dded for u« all the bonutiee of na-
ture, all the pieasutes of wholesome
play, and all in the finest of fellow-
ship with His people and with Him-
self. Thus we find real recreation—
•Nit Just fun that leaves us empty
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