Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 37, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 March 1942 — Page 3

Lieut, com. gene tunney is -# an expert in the art or science of winning competition. And this happens to be the day and time when great competitors are needed, at the front or back of the front. We caught the roving commander on the run to get his slant in this general direction. “Just what,” we asked Tunney, •‘is needed to make a winning competitor, in war or work or sport?” “There are two main sections to this matter,” Tunney said. “One is physical—the other is mental. Certainly, physical condition is a big item. No cne, physically unfit, can be of much help in any form of competition and we are now in the middle of the toughest competitive struggle the world ever has known. This is an all-out scrap for everybody now living. And it is no. part of a push-over or a sure thing. “In my own case, I gave seven years to the matter of getting ready for Jack Dempsey. I never tried gl MB LIEUT. COM. GENE TUNNEY Not thousands . . . but millions ... to ease up or spare myself. I knew the job it would take even to have a chance. “We were supposed to be a nation of athletes. But when this war broke out everyone was amazed to know how unfit physically so many millions were. I didn’t say thousands—. I said millions. Millions and more millions. There had been too much ease, too much ’ softness, too few willing to pay the price needed to get in shape. “By shape or condition 1 mean legs and stomach, eyes and ears, especially. To me exercises that develop the right stomach muscles, plus the right diet, are among the most important factors. I have never quit these exercises since my last fight with Tom Heeney, years ago We have needed more performers and fewer spectators.' fewer in proportion. Not for Granted “You can’t take condition for granted. It is something for which you have to work. But as some philosopher once said, ‘lt is better to train today than to Wait for tomorrow to be outclassed.’ “We’ll have to get more iron into our bodies and our hearts and souls.” “There is another big side to the making of a winning competitor,” Tunney said. - “This is the mental angle. “In the first place, no smart person ever underrates a rival or an enemy. This is especially true in war. A team can afford to lose a football game or. a pennant race. But no nation can afford to lose a war. That means losing everything. The only smart thing to do is to figure you have a strong, tough, able opponent in the road who can only be beaten by greater strength, toughness and ability. “It would be interesting to know just how many contests have been lost through overconfidence. I don’t believe there can be a greater shock than to find, suddenly, you are up against more than you looked for and not be ready for it. It is too late then to have your regrets. No ■one pays off on regrets. “We are today in a much rougher, tougher war than we expected to meet. Too many of us have underrated the enemy—two enemies who have had ten years’ preparation against our ten months’. Other Angles “No winning competitor,” Tunney continued, “can afford fear or discouragement or self-pity ‘Cowards,’ as Shakespeare put it, ‘die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.' There must be confidence, but not overconfidence. There must be full determination to win. whatever the price to be paid. “In my own case, 1 worked as hard oh the mental side, on the side of nerve control, as I ever worked on the physical when I was boxing. For example, 1 had full respect for Jack Dempsey, but no fear of him. I had made up my mind in advance that I would let him kill me before I would quit. I was prepared mentally to be knocked down. But I also prepared myself to be ready to get up again—and keep on fighting. “Someone has said that ‘each must suffer to grow strong.’ I believe in that theory or idea.”

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Jap Successes in Java Sea Battle Credited to Numerical Superiority; Coastwise Shipping Losses Offset By Stepped-Up Shipyard Production (EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in columns, they are those ot the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper., _________ (Released by Western Newspaper Union.).

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Seagoing home for President Roosevelt was the 10,000-ton cruiser Houston, sunk in the battle of Java. During the last eight years the Chief Executive traveled almost 25,000 miles aboard the Houston, which was commissioned in 1930. The Houston was one of two ships lost by the U. S. in what was termed the “fiercest and bloodiest ever known.” The United Nations lost a total of 13 ships.

DISASTER: Battle of Java The world had known that there had been a naval battle off Java just before the Japanese moved in with their full might at three points on land, but until the announcement was made that the Allied fleet had been “overwhelmed by superior numbers” it had not been known what the losses had been. This, at long last, had been given to the press in a more or less detailed summary which showed that the United Nations lost 13' ships, not apparently counting any submarines that might be missing. The United States lost two, the 10,000-ton sleek cruiser Houston, favorite of President Roosevelt himself, who had gone to Hawaii in her in 1934, and frequently had been aboard her; and the World war type “four-stacker” destroyer Pope, 1,190 tons, both presumably lost with all hands, though there was some hope that some survivors may have reached shore somewhere, The British were the—heaviest losers, having six vessels listed as lost 5 * including the famous cruiser Exeter, small but valorous, 3,390 tons, which had taken part in the victorious attack on the German Graf Spee off Uruguay. The other five lost by the British were all destroyers. The Dutch lost their flagship and chief cruiser, the Deßuyter, presumably lost with all hands, for she was hit by a torpedo and sank in a few minutes at night on the first day, at the height of the battle. They also lost a destroyer. The Australians lost two vessels, the cruiser Perth and the Yarda, a sloop, both missing and presumably lost. The Japanese, according to the same report, lost eight vessels, but all details as to any actual sinkings were unobtainable, probably due to .the unfavorable outcome of the battle. Included among the eight were two cruisers, one of the 10.000-ton class. A study of the British and American naval communiques seemed to show that the most telling blows were struck, not so much by the gunnery of the Japs, as by their submarines and speedy destroyers. The Exeter had one of her boilers blown up by a shell, which cut her speed 50 per cent, but she still escaped from the battle and was apparently sunk seeking to escape from Java to Australia. The same was the fate of the Houston and the Pope. SLOWDOWN: On Car Speed In a country stressing speed, speed, siieed in war production, President Roosevelt had gone to the governors of the 48 states with a request for a slowdown in one thing —the speed limits of the nation’s highways. He had recommended 40 miles per hour as a top, as a means of conservation of the present supply of tires for the motoring public. The President had said: “I would greatly appreciate your co-operation in an effort to achieve this objective throughout the country.” Most governors rushed to comply, and many issued immediate orders to their state police officers to see that speed limits were cut down.

HIGHLIGHTS - in the week ’ s news

C.London: Hitler had been reported as offering his Jap allies a world eippire if the war is won by the Axis. All of India, part of the Middle East and part of East Africa wa? believed to have been offered. What Italy was to get was not clear. fl, Washington: The WPB board has ordered cessation of the making of washing machines and ironers May 15. \ '

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AUSSIES: Getting Help The same rigid censorship which had kept an official record of the Java sea battle from getting to the 'British and American public until two Weeks after it occurred and nearly that time after the Japanese had announced the loss, for instance, of the Houston and other vessels, had given the country only the The appointment of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of all United Nations’ forces in Australia gave truth to the many rumors which had cropped up in the past month. MacArthur transferred his headquarters from the Philippines to Australia upon orders from President Roosevelt. He was given his new post at the request of the Australian government. His promotion had long been expected as the result of his courageous stand on the Bataan peninsula. sketchiest picture of what aid we were sending to Australia to help the Aussies get ready for their defense against the Japs. First hint that troops had arrived there had come from Yates McDaniel, who had slipped into a “color” story a report that Perth was literally jammed with Americans in uniform. Next had come the story of a London Daily Mail correspondent who added giant figures to the tale by picturing a convoy almost without end, on the way to Australia and already attacked by Japanese naval “spearheads.” Finally, a Chicago Sun correspondent sent in. a copyrighted story which said that “thousands of American troops” had arrived safely in Australia, but that he could not say where they were being debarked. ATLANTIC: Toll Growing Though our navy, co-operating with the British, was keeping supply lines between Britain and the United States open, coastwise shipping had continued to yield a terrific toll. The loss of American flag ships alone had passed the half-hundred mark, and the lives taken were assuming important figures. "Shipping insurance rates were hiked again. There was no disposition to admit Hitler’s claims that 151 ships of a total of 1,029,000 tons had been sunk in the first two months of the war in the Atlantic alone; but the total was large and was constantly mounting. The loss of 50 American ships in two months was an average of about a ship a day, and with one shipyard in the East launching two large vessels weekly, this was not necessarily a fatal loss, but other countries’ losses were not being, reproduced as successfully as our own. Despite the losses of U. S. ships, it was pointed out that if the present rate was not increased, or even lessened, it would not be long before our merchant marine was tremendously greater. But if Hitler’s figure of half a million tons a month were true,. then the picture was less rosy, at least until we reach our goal of 8,000,000 tons a year.

<L Detroit: The Michigan department :of the American Legion had before it for consideration resolutions asking President Roosevelt to oust from his cabinet Secretaries Hull, Stimson, Knox and Perkdiis. C, London: The duchess of Kent, wife of the younger brother of King George, was expecting a third child. She is the former Princess Marina of Greece.

OFFENSIVE: British Bomb Vital Nazi Centers Britain, more or less held back from bombings over Europe during the winter season of bad weather and worse visibility, had started an all-out and continuous bombing of German towns and industrial centers, also of vital ports in northwest Germany. , From various sources close to London came word that this was a definite part of the British “spring offensive,” and that the attacks would become more powerful and continuous as the weather improved. Extremely large forces of British bombers were being used, it had been reported, especially the Halifaxes, Stirlings and Lancasters, the latter a new and highly—regarded bomber. Not so much mention was being made of the use of American "fortress bombers,” and apparently England had her own plane production in better shape now, or perhaps since our entry into the war was not getting so many flying fortresses. At all events the British airmen were getting in tremendous licks by day as well as by night, and the Germans, beginning to feel the pinch of heavy bombings with little or no return on their part, had begun to send fighter squadrons over the channel to attempt to break it all up. The first day these had appeared the British said eight Messerschmitts had been shot down. “None of our planes were lost.” The Germans broadcast “Eight British fighters were shot down over the channel—no German planes lost.” It was considered odd, however, that the German radio which turned fighter losses upside down rarely Claimed as many bombers shot down as the British were willing to admit having lost. Some believed the Nazis were trying to minimize the number of bombers Britain was using in the raids by this means. BYRD: A "Field Day Senator Byrd of Virginia was having a “field day” at the expense of the Office of Civilian Defense, or the OCD in the Washington alphabet Almost daily the senator was uncovering things which he was passing on to the public through news releases. Among the latest had been his expose of unpaid physical fitness activities of OCD, with particular emphasis on the “bowl your way to physical condition” campaign started by Bowling Co-ordinator Willem. This leader, said Senator Byrd, turned out to be an executive of an advertising firm handling the acEs?. " , ■■WjF ...a. i|p- !■ SENATOR HARRY F. BYRD Focused attention on co-ordinators. count of a nationally known concern which, the senator added, “has a virtual monopoly on the making of bowling alleys and equipment therefor.” Os a piece with this, he said, was the naming of Bernarr Macfadden, the publisher of Physical Culture magazine, as “walking and hiking co-ordinator.” Jack B. Kelly, physical fitness director of the OCD, termed Byrd’s attack on the co-ordinators, who serve without pay, a “classic example of boondoggling in congress instead of focusing attention on what’s happening in the South Pacific and in Europe.” ROUND-UP: Official weather springtime starts in late March, but wartime spring was to start, according to a roundup of AP correspondents in leading war centers “when the ground dries up in Russia” or in mid-April or early May. What that time would bring was a puzzle to most military-minded correspondents, but they agreed it would be “offensive time” and would bring battles on such a scale as to make the present wartime reports seem like child’s play. r Most unanimity centered about one probability, that the Japs and Germans would try a concentrated offensive in harmony with each other. Some were inclined to think that the Japs, after gaining control of northeastern Australia and establishing a “front” there would turn their main attack through lightly defended India and attempt to join the Germans at the Persian gulf. Others thought this plan too ambitious and saw the Japs stopping with Bengal and China cut off from Allied aid, and then turning into Siberia.

jH Portrait of a Man's Thoughts: The Front Pages: Bruce Bliven, Freda Kirchwey and other editors of the opinion weeklies argued that the U. S. war propaganda copies the methods of the last war and also the Axis pattern. The Axis tactics must be all right, the way some of our elected officials are mouthing its messages . The Sun found a silver lining in the trials of France’s ex-leaders at Riom. Daladier’s popoffs, The Sun points out. have put the accusers on the defensive. The ex-premier reddened the court’s kisser by delivering a long spiel praising De Gaulle, which Berliji won’t, care for Dan Parker s wrist-spank-ing of the race tracks, for making the customers finance the owners' patriotism, was lifted by another a. m.er. But for some reason expired in one edition The UP’s figure wizard broke every heart in Hollywood with his breakdown of the proposed new income tax. An income of a million, he estimates, will eat up enough U. S. and California taxes to leave the receiver approximately $20,000 in the red# Too many correspondents are guessing that Hitler won’t have the stuff for his Russian Spring offensive. Two years of underselling . Berlin should teach us better. He simply loves us to get optimistic. TYPEU HITER RIBBONS: Edmund B. Chaffee: The majority <>j us are for free speech only when it deals with subjects concerning tchichywe have no intense convictions . . . Lin Yulang: He was talking in an unbuttoned mood . . . W ilia Cather: Puffy white clouds racing like lambs let out to pasture in the spring . . . Mary Roberts Rinehart: She Was gnawing on her grievance like a dog on a bone . . . Jan Struther: Ihe apple tree buds were as lightly, rosily clenched as a baby’s fist ... . Maurice Walsh.: . The cold spit of rain in the wind’s meuth. The Story Tellers: Vogue, like lots of us, is disgusted with the way theater audiences respond to The National Anthem. The mag is sore at “the ridiculously casual way in which the audience giggle and whisper while ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is being played—aS though it were a device to enable them to put on their coats and powder their noses to music” The blackout, John Gunther reports after sampling London’s, is “an unmitigated nuisance.” He urges (in Liberty) that the U. S. avoid them as long as possible ... A beauty expert in Collier’s advises gals to be natural, to be themselves. He says they should leave their faces alone, except for foundation cream, powder, rouge, lipstick, mascara, eyeshadow and bluing . . . What, no newsreels? The You-Don’t-Say Dep’t: The SEP editorialist is one of the few ex-isolationists who has remained ex. This excerpt from an editorial is a good reminder for our Cliveden Set: .i “It is sink or swim. Japan is not waging war on the President. Hitler is not warring on Dorothy Thompson. In defeat, if you escape with your life, you will escape with little else, depend upon it. “The British, the Germans, the Russians and the Japanese have no illusions. They know they are fighting for self-existence, and the devil take the hindmost. So are you.” Some people think freedom of the press only gives you the right to agree with them . . . Happiness doesn’t depend on having a 10l or a little. It depends on having what you think is enough . . . Doing silly things occasionally prevents us from being silly permanently . . . It is well to ignore the detractors who disagree with what you say because they would disagree with' 1 anything you say . . . Funny that it’s easier for a friend to remember the one favor you didn't do than recall the many favors you did. The Clivedunces would rather try to win an argument with the President than help him win the war ... An honest columnist is bound to step on many toes because there are so many heels around . . Any kind of constructive -criticism will always be considered destructive by those criticized . . Some Congressmen think of the people only when they need their votes Some exrostriches should be reminded that you can’t love freedom, if you use it to hurt the country fighting for it ... A gal doesn't have to be intelligent to outwit the smartest gent —she just has to be beautiful Uncle Samson can’t hold back the enemy, if he can’t trust the people behind his back . . . The time to worry about what your enemies say is when yoUr friends start to believe them. —Buy Defense Bonds— The Wireless: There was a mes sage from a Tokyo broadcaster which should make licking the Japs a duty. It told that American prisoners of war have been put at hard labor. These prisoners were the defenders of Wake and Guam . . The first tip from the loudspeakers that the RAF had blasted Paris carried plenty of irony. You recalled that the Parisians, when France surrendered, rejoiced that the Heinie pineapples had spared the burg ... Wednesday night lost Fred Allen but picked up a capable comic to sub, meaning Ransom Sherman.

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