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“stand in the mountains of northern Luzon nearest their
and air arms. They had isolated the Jap garrison on Luzon
north of the Philippines, that our own armies counid not be cut off or disturbed from the outside: {possessed
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MANILA AND AFTER ANILA is more than a symbol, important as that is. It is even more than the strategic heart of the Philippines and the Southwest Pacific. - It is the best base for invasion of Asia. On that fact rest Jap fears and allied hopes. Of course the fall of Manila will not complete the reconquest of the Philippines. : The enemy holds man¥ islands, incliiding large Mindanao. And he still has large forces and his smartest generals on Luzon. What he will do with them is not clear. Our own commanders there are frankly mystified. The Jap defense, or lack of defense, of Luzon does not make gense to them.
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|The Melting Pot By Edward A. Evans
we . WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Here's SF : a bunch of clippings from The Hood River (Oregon) News. You may remember the publicity Hood River got last fall when the Amerjcan Legiorl post erased i6 Japanese names from its honor roll “of men and women in the armed services of the United States, and when there were threats of houseburnings and boycotts if Japanese families ‘returned to the homes from which the government moved them away soon after Pear] Harbor.
revise: some of the opinions you formed about Hood River's Americanism. . The first tells now Ray Sato, M. Asal and Sat Noji have returned to their fruit ranches in the Hood River valley. They are Nisei—American-born sons of Japanese parents—and graduates of high schools in the valley. Noji has one brother, and Asal two, In the American army in the South Pacific, while Sato has just received his own notice to report for induetion.
“more than gracious” in welcoming Sato, Asai and | Noji. There has beéh no hostility.
Church Asks Legion to Restore Names
ANOTHER TELLS how the Methodist church members at Odell, in Hood. River county, voted unanimously to ask. the Legion to restore those Japanese names to the hopor roll on the courthouse, (National Commander Edward N. Scheiberling of
EVEN ALLOWING for MacArthur's surprise tactics | and consequent success in dividing the enemy forces four | ways, the Japs for the first time have failed to out up a
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homeland. If so, there may yet be prolonged fighting in that area. But, regardless of northern Luzon and Mindanao, the Manila bay region and the already taken airfields provide the major naval and air bases closest to the China coast. When Corregidor fortress falls, and -the Manila-Subic basins are clearéd, a new phase in the Pacific war will begin. sn" * x =x ~_ FOR THE LUZON LANDINGS and campaign are not merely, or chiefly, land successes—superb as MacArthur's ground forces have been. - The distant landings were posible because of his sea
from reinforcements and supplies. They had gained such control of the South China sea, and the waters and skies
These same waters and skies are the route for an American invasion of China. So, whenever the Manila bases are ready and sufficient land forces and supplies havg been bailt up there, the road to Asia will be open and waiting. - » » "= . THAT ROAD, to be sure, will be subject to enemy raids. The battered enemy fleet probably will pick the spot for the big naval battle, which it has carefully avoided so far. And the enemy air bases on Hainan island to the south, and on Formosa to the north, will flank our movements. Te ; Moreover, our road runs into a dead end on the China coast. * All up and down that coast the enemy! is strengthening his position from his plentiful land reserves. But behind Jap coastal lines the Chinege are reorganiz--fng and receiving supplies from the newly opened Stilwell road across upper Burma. And, when the time comes, the combined sea-air-ground forces landing in Asia will be the great American amphibious team which already has driven 6000 miles westward through Jap lines without major defeat. No wonder the enemy is worried.
the Legion also has called upon the Hood River post | to restore the names of 15 of the servicemen to the community honor roll. The 16th, Commander Scheiberling learned, had been dishonorably discharged from the array.—Ed.) A third is about Lt. “‘Chuck” Swanson of army intelligence, who visited the News office while home on furlough to tell the editor how usefully, faithfully and bravely soldiers of Japanese parentage—some of them from Hood River—are serving America in the Pacific area and in Italy. Lt. Swanson said that if the Legion post won't restore the Japanese names to its honor roll, he hopes it will remove the name of his brother, Capt. Tom Swanson, who was killed-in-this war.
“Their many friends,” the clipping says, have been |
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One Little Pig He Isn't Goin to Plow Under!
‘Made Me Hang My Head in Shame'
- MOST OF THE other clippings are letters to the editor of The News, W. L. Regester writes that the Legion post's action { has “made me hang my head in shame” for Hood | River for the first time in his 43 years there. Guy Carlos comments that Legionnaires who propose to bar Japanese families from the valley are “adopting |
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voeltaire.
genuine Nazi tactics. , . . If any group can today so | deny or abridge the rights of these people, brother, | they can do the same to you and me tomorrow. Heil Hitler! Greetings Hirohito!” Sgt. Jim “Lill, now overseas, protests against | “friends of mine being rejected, dishonored and disin: the very valley they are fighting to de- | fend.” M. C. Wells writes from a maritime officers | service scheol in California, that he can no longer | brag about Hood River to people he meets. |
Veteran Defends Post's Action
NOT ALL of the letters are like that. { Edward M. Glasscock, also a veteran of the | other war, defends the Legion post, and adds that | the Hood River valley and other Western farming | communities “are faced by a menacing problem of | combatting a people who multiply like flies, can live on a few handfuls of rice a day and have an endur- | -ance that no man should be asked to have. To compele with them white people are required to adopt their way of living . . . to work 18 hours a day cut living standards to the bone. May God forbid!” That points up the economic background ‘of what has happened in Hood River=the feeling against | Japanese residents, with their large and hard-working families, dating from days long before the war when | fruit prices were ruinously low and times were hard | in the beautiful valley. But, reading these clippings, you remember that | the American melting pot has never operated with- | out heat. And you get the reassuring feeling that | the heat in Hood River is tempered by a deal of | tolerance. and understanding. — Hood River -has a problem, all right, but it seems also to have a good many people with the will to use calmness, kindness and patience in working the problem out.
WORLD AFFAIRS
“PUSSYFOOT” WILLIAM E. JOHNSON earned his nickname, as he | wrote in his own biographical sketch for “Who's Who | fn America,” by the “catlike policies” he used in pursuing | lawbreakers in the old Indian territory. That was back | in the century's youth when “Pussyfoot,” as special officer of the U. S. Indian service, convicted more than 4400 bootleggers of selling firewater in violation of federal laws | supposed to protect the red men. But Mr. Johnson could be lionlike, too. A “missle thrown by a member of a mob” knocked out one of his eyes | in 1919, when he was lecturing a London audience in behalf | of prohibition. After that, as before, he continued to | roar defiance to the Demon Rum. He made three trips | around the world in behalf of temperance, delivered more than 4000 lectures, organized an Anti-Saloon League in the Philippines, helped to edit in this country 35 is Saloon | League publications and a six-volume standard encyclopedia of the alcohol problem, went right on speaking and writing until the United States undertook the “experiment noble in motive,” and thuhdered protests when that experiment was abandond: i E The news of “Pussyfoot’” Johnson's death at the age | of 83 brings back memories of a name once almost as well | know as that of Carry Nation, and of a simpler time when millions thought this world would have few problems left | to solve if only it were made illegal to sell and drink liquor.
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OMISSION
FTER re-reading Senator (George's 55-minute “sum- | mary” of the powers of the Reconstruction Finance |
Cotporation, it occurs to us that about the only prerogatives | Jesse Jones neglected to ‘receive from congress are its | constitutional responsibilities to coin money, lay taxes, |
declare war and tonclude peace. Despite that omission, however, if any free-wheeling
spend-lender and world-remaker gets his hands on all those |
billioris of shekels, he will be likely to influence greatly the
- value of coin minted, burden, of taxes laid, kind of war
waged and nature of the peace resolved—congress to the contrary notwithstanding—unless congress. takes a firm grip on those purse strings. iy
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OT that we'd expect to hé able to report it in a paper. intended for the home and fireside, but we'd give a to be able to sit and listen when “Uncle old friend, Jack Garner, meet.—perhaps in Uvalde and discuss Washingnry Wallace, wil be
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Loss of Face By William Philip Simms
(Continued From Page One) vo ippine’ capital. Until recently, they resisted to the last man in defense of every tiny atoll: Why their strange behavior in Luzon? The answer, some. of the experts | here believe, may be found in | Berlin. The Nazis, like the Japs, 1 at first raced all over the map: against less prepared forces only to lose everything largely because | they had taken in too much | territory. It may be that the Japs know | they have lost, the war as they originally planned | it; and are now hoping to avoid complete annihilation by pulling in their lines. . > Manila’s fall is significant because from here on out—barring major reverses—tlie United States can face ‘the war in the Pacific from an altogether new angle. And this is tremendously important.
Our Obligation Becomes Moral
TERRITORIALLY¢ our chief stake in the Far | East is the Philippines. Once these. are redeemed, our fight with Japan will assume a totally different character, taking its place on the same -plane as our fight with Germany. : ! . That is to say, our war aim—in the Pacific vol
less than in the Atlantic—will be to help destroy in- ]
ternational outlawry and make the- world safe for the peace-loving nations, ‘ As long as the flag of Japan floated above Manila, 'e were in honor bound toskeep plugging away if it | took the last drop of American blood and the last | American dollar, We had to keep on regardless of whether our allies helped -us a little, a lot, or none at all. It was “our” war, ' Once we give the Philippines back to the Filipinos, our stakes in the struggle against Japan are the same as in the struggle against Hitler—no more and no [ less, As in Europe, our obligation becomes largely moral.’
All to Our Future Advantage .
> THIS GIVES the United States a stupendous advantage at future allied council tables, Britain,
France, Holland, China and Russia will all be more |
deeply tted in the Pacific than we. Britain must go. to bat for Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, her East Indian colonies; Hongkong, Bure ma, India. France has Indo-China to think of and the Dutch Indies will still bind Holland. -
"As for Russia, she must re-examine her entire Far |
‘Eastern position. Japan shares frontiers with Siberia. |
| Vladivostok is still directly menaced. ali ./ Of course America's Pacific war aim will remain unaltered. “It is to see Japan destroyed as a great
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“1 SHOP IN THE | MIDDLE OF THE WEEK” By a Conductor's Wife, Indianapolis Well, I certainly agree with Mrs War Worker. I think Mrs. Nash ~Ilses very poor judgment: —I worked 'in a’war plant over a year, condi- | | tions are so in my home that I am {unable to now. I stay out of stores lon Monday evening feeling that|
[Times readers are invited to express these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because ofthe volume received, letters should be limited.-to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of thé writers and publication in no way implies agreement with those The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manu-
OF GOOD WILL” By the Membership of Constantine Consistory No. %, A. S.. 8. R. of Free Masonry, C. C. Smith, grand com-| mander, Indianapolis ——— : Whereas, out of the purity of your heart endowed only with a simple. sense of Justice and Equity and, whereas, you have introduced | to Indianapolis its native son, Todd Duncan, in a manner which reflects credit on the city of Indianapolis and all its citizens of good will. |
Now we the undersigned, pause | a moment in our reflections to)
offer a toast to you, your children,
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{bering how I used to try to get! opinions by The Times | waited on while I was still em-| 3 . { ployed ‘and had such a short time| 1to shop.
| visiting with friends and otherwise ~- | taking up space. : Since being a housewife again, {1 now- shop in the middle of the {week and also stay out of grocery Istores after the war workers get
scripts and cannot enter cor-
: | respondence regarding them.) man and a house who has used >
its powers and autharity in the interest of uniting all men of good sels : will to ‘Pecognize the virtue of | board if given a chance as they are : {passing other boards, both medical
hard work, perseverance, and tal-| ] ent in the highest moral plane)3nd chiropractic in.other states suc-
occupied by spiritual tolerance. | cessfully. . { people. T remember the golden rule 2 8 = The fact that the graduates from 1 5150 keep off the trains. Being a “GIVE THIS BILL jour colleges are not permitted 10 ryilroadman’s wife, I do have a
CAREFUL STUDY” | practice in our state, you can see| ‘hi A -ithat it will be only a few short years Vass whieh 1 WITT ute after the war, By W. H. Gwynn, D. C., 4508 E. Wash. St. when the people of the state of In-| The Indiana Chiropractors’ Asso- [diana will not have the doctor ot “OUR FEET ARE rr Z
ciation, Inc., which has been or- | their choice. The chiropractors are, WARM AND DRY” ©. : : {contributing much to the war effort] , g.rviceman’ B i \ ganized for 34 years and Yepresents ,y keeping defense workers on their | * Serviceman’s Mother, Indianapolis. 90 per cent of our profession, will jobs. Since the Republican party present a bill to the general as- has complete control in Indiana and | row the article by Jack Bell, printed sembly, asking for a board to regu- | has stated that they want to re- in the Jan. 29 issue of The Indianlate and to raise the standards of} eople We. believe they should gi : . ! , bY uld give - our profession. This bill calls for | ys a chiropractic board. Not only | mentary upon those who are supfour years of eight months, which are the chiropractors being denied posed to equip our infantry that includes all basic subjects with the their fights but the people’ of the|these men must suffer from lack exception of obstetrics, and materia state of Indiana are being denied of adequate clothing. If waterproof medica. |the services of many chiropractors/garments can be made for other
In 1927, the chiropractors then of which we are in need. | branches of the services, they could
from trolleys, too, at their ‘busy times. I'm trying to consider other
| practicing were granted a license} The chiropractors of the state of |be issued to the branch that takes
by a grandfather clause and one Indiana believe that they owe a|the hardest brunt of all, the infan-|
chiropractor was added to the med- great debt to the mahy students who (try. - Other branches of the army ical board. This, you will recall,|were forced to give up their train-|{and navy take much hard punishwas by an amendment to the med- |ifig to enter the service of our coun- | ment, but they at least can change ical act.. But the fact that the|try and who will return to complete | their clothing and sleep in a dry medical hoard ruled that in order | their training and will expect to! place at night. for a chiropractor to take dfi ex-|practice in their home state of In- The Russians and British both amination, he must qualify as a diana. Hundreds of other service- have waterproof boots for their medical doctor and then a chiro- | men will - enter * our chiropractic | men; consequently, trenchfoot and practor to be eligible, and so mot|schools and will expect to practice in| frozen feet are rare in their armies. one chiropragtor, has been per-jour state. They are fighting for|Two of the greatest causes of mitted to take the board of exam-|their right of freedom. Will they|trouble in our infantry are trenchination; yet;:we aré confident that be denied? . foot and-frozen feet; both of these the chiropractor who graduates from| Our only rgpquest of you is that|are leading to far too many, and our schools today ‘could pass this| you will give this bill careful study. preventable amputations.
» 1 am just one lone civilian, There Side Glances=By Galbraith
is nothing I can do about this matter. Why can't the bishops of our churches and the national commander of the American Legion, as well as the president of the, Amerjcan Legion Auxiliary, protest about this matter. Some attention might be paid to them. . ’ When these boys return and are asked by the ministers of our churches to join the churches, and by the American Legion to join that organization, who knows but they will answer, “What were you doing for us when we stood waist deep in snow: when our inadequate clothing froze fast :to us; when due to army supply red tape we could not even be issued a dry pair of pants when we did get back of the lines for a few -hours rest? Were you trying to correct this condition and help us to save our feet so that we might walk, instead of hobbling about on wooden substitutes for feet the rest of our lives?” This matter cannot be classed as political, religious or racial issue, as boys of every political party, | every faith and every race are undergoing this terrible suffering while we sit idly by. Our feet are warm and dry.
DAILY THOUGHTS Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow-of Elam, the chief of their might.— Jeremiah 49:35. 7
PRIDE in ‘their port, ‘defiance in
nA "| their eye, : al home tags 1 see the Lords of humankind pass
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& “Tm + glad to have. them
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| with members of the legislature | hard and assiduously, X
| they are- for war workers—remems-/
1-used to see so ‘many | folks in stores on Monday night—|
Our whole family read with sor-|
fturn-the constitutional rights to the gnelis Times. It seems a sad com-|
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POLITICAL SCENE—
Rising Leader By Thomas L. Stokes
WASHINGTON Feb. b5.—Ever so often a new figure arises on the political horizon to attract attention nationally. Interest is stirred, at first
:. blush, because of his fresh ideas, . | |
us persona] ability and force, and the men forward ona program. On closer inspection it is found frequently that such a figure is a symbol of influences that have béen quietly generating underand it is discovered, too, that what he does in his own sphere ramifies in-its effects far beyond his own particular locale. a Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia, who has been heard fromxbefore, is thrust bodily into the spotlight again by his successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his state as a prerequisite to. voting... It was the climax of a gradual process of education among the people and of continuous personal conferences He worked long,
Action Will Influence Other ates
THIS NOW leaves only seven southern states which still impose this restriction on the franchise, and Georgia's action is bound to have its influence upon the people and officials of those other states. Movements to modify the tax are underway already in- Alabama and South Carolina, and the success in Georgia likewise should be effective in reviving efforts in Tennessee which repealed its tax a couple of years ago, only to have the state supreme court nullify this action, But Governor Arnall's success in Georgia also is reacting right here in Washington. It has opened the eyes suddenly of members of congress not only from Georgia but from other southern states, some of whom have slipped through smoothly to re-election year after year by virtue of well-kept, tight little political machines of the rotten borough variety easily suffrage, due not only to the poll tax but also, and to a greater degree, the so-called “white primary” statuies. The latter were outlawed by the supreme . court in the Texas case, but other restrictions against Negro voting have been contrived.
Symbol of an Awakening
GEORGIA'S REPEAL of her poll tax has its effect upon southern members of congress more as a symbol of an awakening in the South than for its practical
| results, which probably will not. Be as large as some |} expect. - It is another sign to the politicians of thé |H
stirring around that was started among the rank and file in the South by the New Deal and its numerous beneficial measures for the plain people. These includéd the sanction to colléctive bargaining that is making labor in the South an active, energizing. force politically, as some southern mem-
| pers learned to their surprise and sorrow in last
year's primary elections. It is the southern conservative tail of tfle Democratic party that wags it around here so in congress— on. such issues, for Jace. The southern wing is so powerful because of the key positions it holds in congress by virtue of the political system that sends the same men back year after year, easily and without a break, and elevates them through operation of the seniority rule to posts of command. 3 ’
' Arnall Champions Henry Wallace
LIBERALIZATION of the party in the South, which is its year-in-year-out nucleus, will do more than anything else to keep the Democratic party & progressive party. This is recognized by Henry Wal- | lace who is popular among the people of the South, | though not among the politicians. Governor Arnall recognizes this, too. He is a
| staunch champion of Mr. Wallace and held his
off to buy their food; stay away! Georgia delegation in line for the former vice presi-
dent at the Chicago convention, the only . southern delegation which supported the Wallace renomination. He sent messages here to the Georgia senators urging confirmation of Mr. Wallace as secretary of commerce. Senator George was.one of the leaders in the fight against the former vice president. | was on Mr, Wallace's side. - - The Georgia governor, who is only 37, is moving
to the front among progressive southern leaders. He broke the grip of Gene Talmadge on the state and has | instituted a series of reforms in state government | designed to make the state an effective agency for serving its people, in line with ‘his philosophy that
the state must earn its “rights.” from Georgia is worth
| The young gentleman | Nakehing
| IN WASHINGTON—
Tighter Controls
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By Charles T. Lucey:
| om . g WASHINGTON, Feb, 5—The | i " move to force tighter congres- { sional controls on the govern=t i ment's huge, ~ independent cor- : porations—the “fourth branch of a government’—will be advanced Gi this week with introduction of legislation by Senator Byrd (D. va.). The George bill, passed by the senate and headed now -for house action, brings Jesse Jones' ol »: corporate empire under the comptroller general's strict accounting, a reform step, but Senator Byrd's bill is much broader. It would place not only the RFC group, but all other government corporations, under direct, annual scrutiny by congress. That's<the way it always has been with regular government cabinet departments, but the corporations have been footloose. i The joint congressional economy committee headed by Senator Byrd has made an exhaustive study of government corporations and now Mr. Byrd is hopeful of action on the basis of its findings. The fight on Henry A. Wallace's nomination to head the commerce department and the big lending agencies has turned the spotlight on the whole problem,
Annual Budget Review Specified
annual budgets to congress by all corporations as by
amount of government capital funds that may be returned ‘to’ the treasury or possible impairment of capital to be restored. ) No government corporations would be allowed to continue. in business except under an authorizing statute—meaning that many big lending agencies now in the Reconstruction Finance worp. structure would ‘have to go before the congressional commit=' tees for a complete justification of their existence. 80 would many others. ; Budgets of the corporations would go through the budget bureau, as de’ those of the regular depart
gress. : A report of each fiscal year's audit would be re quired on Jan, 15 of the following year ng just how the previous budget had been followed and whether there had béen any transactions entered into without legal authority, The secretary of the treasury's"approval would be ‘needed on all’ major of guaranteed government obligations. No new
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