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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice at
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Monday, October 1, 1945 _
WE MAY TALK TOO MUCH!
It is about time that a few of the generals of the air
force got down off their high horse and gave a little
credit to the forces which made it possible for their
B-29s to give the Japanese homeland a severe scourge
of bombing. , , .
Where was the airforce at Pearl Harbor, or during
the year following? .
Who fought for the beachheads from which the air
bases were wrested?
Who defended those airbases?
A certain airforce general said, “The war would have
been over in two weeks without the Russians coming
in, and without the atomic bomb.”
Now let’s get down to cases.
The war is supposedly over, at least the fighting
against Japan has ceased.
The Navy claims to have won the war, the Airforce
also puts forth the same claim. The land forces, the
Marines, Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Seabees, Mer
chant Marine, etc., must have been in the war for a
purpose.
It is true the Navy and Airforces deserve praise for
their fine work; but it could never have been successful
without complete cooperation.
The Airforce is a great institution, but let’s not be
snobbish about it.
To be technical about the status quo of the Airforce
it might be said that it is merely long-range artillery as
sisting the ground forces.
We know that our Airforce is the finest in the world,
but the men and women of the rest of the United Na
tions are entitled to the same full credit, just as though
each individual fired the last shot, or released the last
bomb on the target.
Is it not possible that fewer “chest-pounding” Tar
zans, “screaming from the treetops,” would better our
chances for a complete understanding among nations.
Let’s not forget, it’s a civilian world too.
THE RECOMMENDATION
(Anchorage Times)
Of first interest is the recommendation of the Civil
Aeronautics Board examiners, the report that serveci
as the spark that started the present controversy. These
examiners, after many days of public hearings and more
days of studying the exhibits presented at the hearings,
recommended the following for Alaska:
1. That two air carriers be certified to operate the
coastal route of serving the Alaska trade. These two
carriers will serve every major community within Alas
ka. The prospect of two carriers serving the most im
portant route to and from Alaska, competing with each
other, has proven eminently desirable from every quar
ter. There is no controversy over this proposal.
2. That another carrier operate over an inland route
from New York and Chicago to the Orient by way of
Edmonton, Anchorage, and the Aleutian chain. This is
the proposal which has been the basis for all the discus
sions and the resulting confusion.
It was only natural that Anchorage should lead the
defense of the second proposal when Seattle sought to
eliminate it. This city stands to gain most if the route is
established. Nevertheless, other Alaskan communities
can well afford to support it for the many indirect bene
fits that would accrue to the Territory as a whole and
which will be outlined herein.
While proposing the inland route from Chicago to
By GEOROE 3 BENSON
Btiidtnf of Maiding Collago
Searcy. Arkansas
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WELCOME PEACE
New York always goes over the
top with demonstrations. Maga
zine pictures and news reels have
shown most of the world’s civili
zed people what happens in Man
hattan when the King of England
calls on a goodwill mission or
when Tail-wind-in-face Corrigan
comes home. But now I can boast
that I saw Gotham’s wildest riot
. of joy. Japan’s surrender touched
J off the biggest of them all.
I was having what we South
erners call supper in the dining
room of a mid-town hotel at 7
o’clock p.m. EWT, on August 14
when Washington released the of
ficial announcement. There was
just one breath of unusual quiet
before bedlam bore down. How
long does it take a cab driver to
reach his siren after his radio
brings big news? That’s how long
the quiet lasted. People seemed to
go wild.
Clamorous Jumble
Human voices could be disting
uished at first, along with the
mechanical din, put presently very
little was distinguishable except
by sight. Bent on seeing, however,
I quit the hotel and walked west
with the traffic which I later
learned was storming from all di
rections toward Times Square. I
never got much closer than five
blocks to the focal point. It was
too dense for me at 47th street
and Fifth avenue.
Women leaned out of skyscrap
er windows, shrieked and emptied
wastepaper baskets. Down like a
gray snow came shredded news
print, yards of new wrapping pa
per, good stationery—and it did
not stop until Fifth avenue was
literally carpeted. Air borne rib
bons of ticker-tape crawled in and
out among the towers like myster
ious aerial serpents. Buses and
cabs were jammed with people in
hysterical celebration for hours.
At The Bright Lights
An officially estimated two mil
lion men and women made up a
seething mass that centered at
42nd street and Broadway, and
one idea semed to dominate them
completely: "War's over-" The
words were shouted repeatedly in
every dialect with which I have
any acquaintance, and undoubted
ly many more. The emotion of the
multitude said, ‘‘Now, everything
AttftNTINE BEEF
_ MiMHRV
^GOVERNMENT
Alaska, the CAB examiners gave thorough considera
iton to the general air traffic pattern. They cited facts
and figures showing that the historic route to the Orient
has been from the Pacific coast but that the east has a
much stronger community of interest with the Orient
that the west coast. The examiners found that Califor
nia generates 47 per cent of the west coast business with
the Orient, Oregon two per cent and Washington state
four per cent. Thus the examiners concluded that the
already existing Central Pacific air route to the Orient
out of San Francisco amply serves this business.
Much to Seattle’s chagrin the examiners held, in ef
fect, that Washington state generates insufficient busi
ness to warrant a direct air line to the Orient. With this
conclusion Seattle takes issue.
The North Pacific route, from Chicago to the Orient
via Alaska, was proposed for the purpose of serving the
population east of the Mississippi river. Facts were
cited showing the need for it and forecasts were made
that business over this route would exceed all other
Pacific routes within a few years after operations begin.'
! is going to be all right.”
But what are the facts? They
are far from the thoughts of such
a tumult.-—Firing has ceased. Fac-^
lories that made war goods are
closing down as government can
cels orders. Families are waiting
for young mean to come home.
For the next 14 months military
authorities will return the equiva
lent of one combat division, 15,000
men, to civil life every day.
Our Gravest Need
i
To live contentedly men must
have good jobs and hope of ad
vancement. Jobs for men call for
investments, on the average, of
$6,000 per job. Not much has been
done to encourage investment
lately; much has been done to
discourage it. War is over but war
taxes and regulations remain.
Wisely imposed to take profit out
of war they threaten now to take
prosperity out of peace.
American efficiency produced
the goods that made victory pos
sible. The war did not put our
Republic to its supreme test; the
peace will. America’s trail to a
prosperous post-war period has
not been well blazed. With grow
ing intensity we are needing some
thing sorely and need it now in a
hurry: The right tax structure for
the most jobs.
Territorial Director Issues
I New Selective Service
Regulations
John L, McCormick, Territorial
Director of Selective Service, is
sued the following new regula
tions today:
1. Postponement of induction
—high school students.
ta> Any person eighteen or nine
teen years of age who, while pur
suing a course of instruction at a
high school or similar institution
of learning, is ordered to report
for induction during the last half
of one of his academic years at
such school or institution, shall,
upon his request, have his induc
tion posptoned until the end of
such academic yea{\ without re
gard to the date during the calen
dar year on which such academic
year ends, or until he ceases to
pursue such course of instruction,
whichever is the earlier.
<b> Any person who entered
upon a course of instruction at a
high school or similar institution
of learning before he became
eighteen years of age and who is
ordered to report for induction
during the time he is pursuing
such course of instruction, shall,
upon his request, have his induc
tion postponed (1) until his grad
uation from a high school or sim
ilar institution of learning, or (2)
until he ceases to pursue continu
ously and satisfactorily such
course of instruction, or (3) until
he arrives at the age of twenty
years, whichever is the earlier.
2. Postponement of induction
—college students.
Any person who entered upon a
course of instruction at a college
or university before he became
eighteen years of age and who is
ordered to report for induction
during a quarter or semester of
such course of instruction shall,
upon his request, have his induc
tion postponed (1) until the end
of such quarter or semester, or (2)
until be ceases to pursue continu
ously and satisfactorily such
course of instruction, whichever
is the earlier.