Mobilizer Decries
Foolishness On
Capitol Hill
Charles E. Wilson
Pleads For Unity
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WASHINGTON, {&)—Pleading
for American unity, Mobilization
Director Charles E. Wilson today
decried the “foolishness like
what’s been going on up on Capi
tol Hill, where some of our lead
ing generals are on the pan.”
Wilson told the 1951 industry
x armed forces conference that Am
erican squabbling over military
and foreign policy “must certain
ly be wonderful music to the ears
of the Russians.”
He spoke of the possibility that
publication of documents revealed
in congressional hearings might
help the Communist enemy in de
coding secret messages.
The mobilization chief said he
has reached the conclusion that
the nation's mobilization “isn’t
going to be as long a job as I
had thought — if we have some
unity’ in this country.
Addressing 1,000 industrialists,
representing six national associa
tions of military contractors, Wil
son said:
“What you people are doing
isn’t music to Russian ears.”
I The mobilizer punched his fin
ger at the industry group to em
phasize this en joinder: “Don’t
hoard.”
Wilson said it could be “almctet
fatal” to the munitions effort if
industry piles up big idle stocks
of scarce materials.
Robert Boochever, Juneau
Attorney, Appointed To
Alaska Development C: rd
JUNEAU, May 14 — Robert
Boochever, Juneau attorney, has
been appointed by Governor
Ernest Gruening to the Alaska
Development Board, it was an
nounced today by the Governor’s
office. As a member-at-large, Mr.
Boochever will replace the Gov
ernor on the board.
Mr. Boochever has resided in
Juneau since January of 1946,
when he was appointed Assistant
United States Attorney for the
First Division. He is a graduate
of Cornell Law School and a vet
eran of World War II.
The Alaska Development Board
was one of the several territorial
boards and commissions from
which the governor was removed
at his request, by action of 20th
legislature. Since there was no
emergency clause in the act, it
will not take effect until May 30.
The board will meet at the end
of the month in Juneau.
MORGANTOWN, W. Va., (/P)—
Sgt. A1 M. Mason, 21-year-old
Geedsville soldier returned home
two days ago after nine months
in Korea.
He was killed yesterday in an
auto accident., Pcflice said skid
marks showed he had fallen asleep
at the wheel.
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He that stands it now ...
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M... the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his
country; but he that stands it now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny,
like hell, is not easily conquered.**
So wrote Thomas Paine at Christmas time in
1776, Ending over the campfire-lit paper resting
on a drumhead, during that bitter retreat of the
ragged Continental Army below the Delaware.
Only a few days later, that same army crossed the
Delaware to establish a bridgehead and win at
Trenton.
There are no summer soldiers, no sunshine
patriots among the American fighting men who,
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in this past year of crisis, have stood against
aggression, in bitter winter, in "times that try
men’s souls.”
These men . . . soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines
. . . have proved themselves worthy descendants
of all American fighting men. They have faced
heavy odds, and come through to win.
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On this second Armed Forces Day, Americans
are proud to salute die man of die year ... the
American fighting man, who "deserves the love
and thanks of man and woman” for his quiet
determination.
Wherever he may serve ... in Army, Navy, Air
Force, or Marine Corps ... be is die man of
die year.
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