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Tuesday, November 7, 1344. DECATUR HERALD INTERPRETATION Crosstown Editorial! By Roland Coe Hedge-Rows Of Normandy Editor's Note: This is the 48th of the Ernie Pyle war dispatches that are-, being reprinted during Ernie's On Election Day the citizen is not ware of a paper shortage but when he stands alone with his conscience in the polling booth he realizes that the pencils are shorter than ever. After having been mauled and practically destroyed by U. S. Navy Task Force 58, the Japanese admirals can be thankful that somehow or other they managed to stay out of the way of, the other 57.

in 1918 and died in exile four years later. Archduke Otto was then 10 years old and well along in his education to be the ruler of Austria. That education has been continued. Archduke Otto speaks six languages. He is a graduate of a Belgian university.

He has traveled widely and has studied law, civics and economics in Europe and in' the United Staies. He has talked with some of the leading statesmen of the times. He tried to join the United States army. The archduke is unmarried and his private life has been headline-proof. He seems 1o be a serious, honest young man.

But nobody takes seriously the ambitions and pretensions of a personable, democratic, well educated, well traveled young man of 32 years. And if the same Archduke Otto had succeeded to the throne of his ancestors when he was only six or eight years old, that succession would have been accepted as the proper thing and nobodv would have been excited. Nickname Too Good for Him The Infantry Journal. A friendly reader has written letter criticizing us for using "that traditionaUy English sportsmanlike term 'Jerry' in referring to the dirtiest, crookedest and yet most professional soldiers that modern wars have produced." Our correspondentan infantry lieutenant and only recently back from Italy goes on to say: "The term 'Jerry aggravated hell out of us in Italy. It sounded and still sounds too much like an admiring and loving nickname for an old college rival.

In my opinion that term is an anacrhronistic as the beautifully draped horse and lance and knight in armor. I do not believe any man who has fought the Nazis can help but feel anything but emotional disgust and shame when he hears that term Personally I resent the use of it with a passion." A number of substitute noun, that might be used to denote the German soldier come to mind: Heinie, Kraut. Boche. Hun. have seen "Hans" used, too.

Th American Thesaurus of Slang gives us some more: Busher, Cousin Michael. Dutcher, Dutchie or Dutchman, Fritz or Fritzie, Wurst, Hitlander. Kraut. Lim-bureer, Metzel, Rhinelander. Sauerkraut.

Sausage, Vaterland. The Thesaurus fails us on "squarehead," which we had thought meant the more loutish citizens of the Third Reich. Instead, the Thesaurus insists that a "square beaded" person is anyone who is stupid or foolish. And certainly in strictly military affairs, on the tactical level, the Germans are anything but stupid or foolish. Second Thoughts -By David V.

Felts WE MAY break down and buy T. P. Adams' new book "Nods and Becks' (Whittlesey House, $2) that is, when it api pears on the marked-down tables or in a reprint edition. Reviews of the volume suggest it is another collection of verses, paragraphs and essays which appeared in 'The Conning Tower" column over which F. P.

A. presided in his Golden Age, when he really worked for a living. We became acquainted with "The Conning Tower" in the 1920's and when the lamented B. L. T.

died, we hailed F. P. A. as the nation's top columnist in the classic tradition. In those days F.

P. A. was not popularly known west of the Hudson but he was the darling of the yearning outlanders who read the smart magazines, who saw occasionally a copy of the New York World and who followed devotedly the doings of the wags who had luncheon at the round table at the Algonquin hotel. Then came the "Information. Please" radio program and F.

P. A. won a coast-to-coast audience. We welcomed and publicized his radio appearance and rejoiced in our pre-radio devotion to him. Although he answered few questions, unless they related to Gilbert Sullivan, his comments and even his evasions were clever and in the best F.

P. A. tradition. Capitalizing on his new nationwide recognition, F. P.

A. took to the lecture circuits and when we learned he was to appear in our town we recommended the forthcoming appearance as the literary treat of the season. On the lecture platform F.P.A. was a bust. It was our good fortune to meet him twice off the platform while he was in town, once at a private party and again in the newspaper office, where F.P.A.

is at home. But our friends who knew him only on the platform looked at us, shook their heads and mercifully said So we are a Please" Adams fan. We like to read his books, most of them collections of excerpts from "The Conning Tower." We cheerfully recommend "Tobogganing on Parnassus," "Weights and Measures," "So Much and "The Melancholy Lute." Here's hoping "Nods and Becks" is in the same tradition and mood. Sometimes we wonder how effective would be the democratic process if a citizen had to crouch in a duck blind in the rain to exercise his sovereign right of suffrage. By ERNIE PYLE ON WESTERN FRONT, August, 19441 know that all of us correspondents have tried time and again to describe to you what this weird hedgerow fighting in northwestern France has been like.

But I'm going to go over it once more, for we've been in it two months and some of us feel that this is the two months that broke the German Army in the west. This type of fighting is always in small groups, so let's take as an example one company of men. Let's say they are working forward on both sides of a country lane, and this company is responsible for clearing the two fields on either side of the road as it advances. That means that you have about one platoon to a field. And with the company's understrength from casualties, you might have no more than 25 or 30 men in a field.

Over here the fields are usually not more than 50 yards across and a couple of hundred yards long. They may have grain in them, or apple trees, but mostly they are just pastures of green grass, full of beautiful cows. The fields are surrounded on all sides by immense hedgerows which consist of an ancient earthen bank, waist high, all matted with roots, and out of which grow weeds, bushes and trees up to 200 feet high. The armistice submitted by Russia is reported to be acceptable to Bulgaria and Bulgaria is just lucky. 'Here's somethin' you've never seen before a real old-fashioned all-metal scooter built before vou was born!" Justify the Campaign In a war the battle is the pay-off, the culmination of all the planning and preparation.

In a national political campaign Election Day is the pay-off. The speeches, the platforms, the pledges, the charges and denials are futile unless they are translated into votes, the medium of exchange in the expression of public opinion. You may have made up your mind when the two major parties nominated their presidential candidates last summer you may defer the decision until you take the official ballot into the polling booth. But whatever your decision and whatever your opinion it doesn't count until it has been recorded in the manner prescribed by the laws of the land. The democratic process is strengthened with use.

So long as free citizens exercise their right to vote they will continue to be free and w-ill continue to participate in their government. We Americans are so confident in the stability of our form of government we hold a national election while the nation is engaged in war on fronts all around the world, when all our industrial resources are converted to the production of war materials, when millions of our young men are far away across oceans from the homeland. The campaign has been bitter and some of the scars may persist after the returns are in. Ugly charges have been made against men who w-ill hold positions of high authority in our government, regardless of the outcome of the ballotting. The bitterness, the threat to national unity and even to the war effort can be justified only if every qualified citizen votes today.

Otherwise we wasted a lot of time and took a dangerous chance. Thoughts on Election Day What Shall We Talk About Now? law, get experts to draw up blueprints, and issue orders. Presto! We are in the golden age. We shall make the goods that people ought to have, even if they don't want them. We'll wash their The Germans have used these barriers well.

They put snipers in the trees. They dig deep trenches faces, remove their tonsils, stop such foolishness as gambling, abol ish patent medicines, and, in gen town past the officers' Red Crosi and the warehouse where we drew the beer ration, and out along the streetcar tracks." behind the hedgerows and cover eral. manage mankind as intelli By HOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN Unless you write down your thoughts every day; and have them printed in a newspaper you cannot possibly know the nonsense of which you are capable. As a sort of penance, I have spent some of this election day reading my views on previous elections. Also, I have read parts of Friedrich Hayek's new book, "The Road to Serfdom." Between them, I am unnerved! In 1932.

I found it hard to decide whether Hoover or Roosevelt was the best man. It seemed to be a choice between head and heart, between an experienced administrator and a mere humanitarian. From then on. I wavered between instinctive faith in indivi gently as we would hogs. The only difference is that we them with timber, so that it is almost impossible for artillery to get at them.

Sometimes they will prop up ma UitlHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllUllllllllllliH know what sort of hogs we chine guns with strings attached, so they can fire over the hedge without getting out of their holes. They even cut out a section of the Russia in the Aerial Age It has been the custom to divide the earth into Western and Eastern Hemispheres because trade routes have been, for the most part, across continents and across oceans in directions generally parallel to the Equator. Many of the trade routes were "the longest way 'round" by necessity. Caravans, railroads and automotive trucks must follow land routes and ships must travel the waterways. But in the long heralded Aerial Age the world, geographers and aviation engineers tell us, will be divided into Northern and Southern Hemispheres because commercial routes through the air will ignore land and water barriers and will be the shortest distances between the great cities, most of which are north of the Equator.

Therefore many commercial air routes of the future will go over the top of the world. To the pilot or the passengers in airliners flying in the stratosphere it will make little difference if the route passes directly over the North Pole. An inspection of an aerial map of the Northern Hemisphere reveals that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics controls land masses of vast area edging into the Arctic Circle. Air routes must cross U. S.

S. R. holdings and there will be a need for commercial airports and bases in the north country controlled by the U. S. S.

R. That's why it is unfortunate that Russia is not participating in the international civil aviation conferences in Chicago. The interests of the U. S. S.

R. must be considered even in the absence of Russian delegates. International misunderstandings have been caused by the location and control of trade routes since the beginning of time and commercial air routes will prove no exception. and we don't know what sort of people we want. Each expert will have a different idea; and only those experts will prevail who can exert enough force.

Thus the planned society becomes a dictatorship: and the rule of law gives place to government by administrative authority. The more the state plans, the less the individual can plan. GUEST HEROIC COUPLET LIFTED From The Stars Stripes. Mediterranean Edition, and Reprinted Here in the Fond Hope it May Give Consolation to the Girls at Home. Having seen the signorina On thr U.

S. babes I'm keener. T-Sgt. R. Wronker.

dualism; and an intellectual con Out of the malaria belt comes tough old General Vinegar Joe Stilwell still well. hedgerow and hide a big gun or a tank in it. covering it with brush. Also they tunnel under the hedgerows from the back and make the opening on the forward side just large enough to stick a machine gun through. But mostly the hedgerow pattern is this: A heavy machine gun hidden at each end of the field and infantrymen hidden all along the hedgerow with rifles and machine pistols.

viction that sailboat politics wouldn't work in a steamship age. Your shoes are really renewed here fine leathers and" ma- terials and highest grade workmanship restores wear- ing-comfort and appearance, i Governors Dewey 4 Bricker and Senator Truman will have jobs next January regardless of the outcome of today's balloting and somehow or other we have a feeling that if The Champ should be defeated, he could find some kind of a job somewhere if he really wanted one. These facts have been obscured by two fallacies. One is that free- dom is not freedom if it is policed i and disciplined. The other is that government is.

by nature, always I benevolent. The truth is that en-; terprise cannot, for its own good, js be wholly immune to the public 3 interest; and that government. al-! lowed too much power, can be-! come tyranny. A friend of mine wonders what we will talk abou when this elec-: tion is over. Well, I think we shall have a great deal to tSlk about, js Whoever wins this election, we shall still be faced with a great de- cision.

We shall still have to de-' "FAT" SPILLER was home from Annapolis and stiffly resplendent in his brass-buttoned blue uniform and was the center of interest at "the Greeks," favorite hang-out of the high school set in Marion 25 years ago. Midshipman Spiller had not been to sea but he had survived the. hazing administered to first year men by their lordly superiors and his recollection of tortures entertained his envious civilian auditors. One of the most graphic of Fat's experiences had been "sitting on infinity" at table. Fat got a fourth gold stripe on his sleeve the other day.

He is now Captain John Herman Spiller, U. S. N. Captain Spiller undoubtedly commands and deserves every respect due his rank, but we can't help thinking of him always as a harried "youngster" sitting on infinity. Now it's up to us to dig them out of there.

It's, a slow and cautious business, and there is nothing very dashing about it. Our men don't go across the open fields in dramatic charges such as you see in the movies. They did at first, but they learned better. They go in tiny groups, a squad or less, moving yards apart and sticking close to the hedgerows on either end of the field. They I seem gradually to have worked out a theory that we could shake up a little socialism with a little free enterprise and come out with a pretty good world.

Now it begins to dawn on me that these two ingredients can't be mixed. I find myself doubting that we can turn socialism on or off, as the spirit moves us. The rather alarming suspicion assails me that when a nation goes slightly socialistic, it ends up totalitarian. If any example is needed, there is Germany. Any sensitive person must be dismayed by the lack of order in human life.

The wastage in an individualistic, competitive system is appalling. Given the power, any intelligent person could take the sorry scheme of things and quickly remould it nearer to the heart's desire. To step up progress, all we need do is sweep out the cobwebs of QUALITY SHOE REPAIRING S18 EAST NORTH STREET creep a few yards, squat, wait, then creep again. cide whether we shall continue on the road toward complete collectivism; or return to the competitive individualism, which we Cand the British) have so largely forsaken. Once the election is over we can cease to suspect any organization which tags itself non-partisan.

If you could be right up there between the Germans and the Americans you wouldn't see very niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiB CIDER Gallon 75c APPLES many men at any one time just a few here and there, always try ing to keep hidden. But you would Translation All the hoarded cigarets should come out of hiding on election day as the party workers seek to influence all possible votes. Th v.i-, Jonathons hear an awful lot of noise. Our men were taught in train 4.19 2.59 4.39 3.79 A lieutenant stationed at an air- Ran field near Rome writes us of an Jonathons encounter he had with a couple or Golden of sergents in a jeep pne evening i)eIicious when he was trying to thumb a Crimes Golden ride back to his quarters. The u.

s. No. 1 ing not to fire until they saw something to fire at. But that hasn't worked in this country, because you see so little. So the alternative is to keep shooting constantly at the hedgerows.

That pins the Germans in their holes while we No. 1 Hurrah for You-Know-Who! Herald 25 Years Ago Today Eggs and butter have reached the 75-cent mark, and no relief is in sight. jeep pulled up at his signal and one of the occupants genially in POTATOES sneak up on them. The attacking squads sneak up the sides of the hedgerows while quired, "wnicn- way you going. Large size Russia's Fourth of July November 7, Election Day in the United States in 1944, is the people's Fourth of July every year in the Soviet Union.

It was on November 7, 1917. that the military revolutionary committee of the Petrograd Soviet seized government authority and on the following day the All-Russia Congress of Soviets took control, replacing the provisional government set up by Alexander Kerensky after the overthrow of the czar-ist regime. Historically the incidents of November 7 are called "the October Revolution." November 7, according to the Gregorian calendar used by western nations, was October 25 on the Julian calendar favored by the Russians at the time. It was not until 1922 that Russia, shaken and confused by a series of experiments in government, was organized as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. By 1940 the U.

S. S. R. included 16 member republics. Nicolai Lenin, the Father of the Soviet Union, died in 1924 and for a time the U.

S. S. R. as a national entity was endangered by a controversy between Leon Trotsky, the exponent of world revolution, and Joseph Stalin, the nationalist. Stalin won out and the U.

S. S. R. embarked upon a series of Five Year Plans to develop agriculture, manufacture heavy machinery and exploit natural resources. The second and third of the "plans" were converted to national defense and to the waging of war against the Nazis.

The U. S. S. R. gradually was accorded world diplomatic recognition all around the world, the United States falling in line in 1933.

Once the war against the Axis has been won the U. S. S. R. will convert to civilian production.

Only then will the experiment undertaken 27 years ago have an opportunity to attain the full economic development which seemed to be in prospect when war interferred. 2.49 lieutenant?" The lieutenant said Red Triumphs the rest of the platoon stay back CABBAGE Charles Biggers has been elected manager of the Comet ball team for next year. The club will have a new park, located on the old carnival grounds, North Water and the I. C. tracks.

their guns. The fighting is very close only a few yards apart but it is seldom actual hand-to-hand stuff. Sometimes the remaining Germans come out of their holes with their hands up. Sometimes they try to run for it and are mowed down. Sometimes they won't come out at all, and a hand grenade, thrown into their hole, finishes them off.

And so we've taken another hedgerow and are ready to start on the one beyond. This hedgerow business is a series of little skirmishes like that clear across the front, thousands and thousands of little skirmishes. No single one of them is very big. But add them all up over the days and weeks and you've got a man-sized war. with thousands on both sides being killed.

he wanted to go past the Colosseum and out along the Appian Way. The man behind the wheel merely looked blank at this, but his friend enlightened him. "You know," he said. "The road out of 50 Lb. F-Bag )C ONIONS Rev.

Lee Knotts has been engaged as pastor of Sargent Methodist church. Sweet Spanish OF THIS Oh Yes AND THAT: On Election Day every newspaperman of middle age sighs for the good old days when crowds jammed the streets until midnight' and the country had been saved again Paul Osborn's dramatization of John Her-sey's fine novel "A Bell For Adano" will offer Fredric March in the leading role of Major Joppolo In a recent issue of Time was the statement that the U. S. Navy has 17 admirals of four-star rank. Can you name seven of them? Emily Kim-brough's new book of reminiscences is titled "How Dear to My Heart" and all "Information, Please" fans will chorus the correction "How dear to THIS heart." the first line from "The Old Oaken Bucket," by Samuel Woodworth Sometimes we are convinced that the national paper shortage is the result of the unending purchase and use cf color books by our young The birth- day of the Heiress to the Felts Millions was an unqualified success when rain fell on the following day so that she could wear her new boots to school Only when a citizen has been living right does he find potato soup on the menu on the day he has a sore throat Confession: After reading three pages of mimeographed material from the Underwear Institute, including a letter of protest to the OPA, we must confess we found nothing worth chortling over in this column There are today 1,932 students enrolled in the four years of the College of the University of Chicago, 400 of whom enrolled this fall without finishing high school.

They will have their bachelor's degrees by the time they are 18 or 19 years old Radio static wasn't bad enough last Saturday night. AT FIRST in their hedgerows and keep the forward hedge saturated with bullets. They shoot rifle grenades, too. and a mortar squad a little farther back keeps lobbing mortar shells over onto the Germans. The little advance groups get up to the far ends of the hedgerows at the corners of the field.

They first try to knock out the machine guns at each corner. They do this with hand grenades, rifle grenades and machine guns. 150 Lb. Bag JI0H OF A 1.89 1.19 Concord Grapes 18 lb. Basket Red Cross membership reached 1.968.

Workers were disappointed at the small CHAP'S MARKET 2005 N. Water Cold Preparations as directed City council received from Illinois department of health rules regarding the lake, along with the department's approval 'of the lake project. Amoig other conditions prescribed was that there should be no bathing in the lake. Usually, when the pressure gets on. the German defenders of the hedgerow start pulling back.

They'll take their heavier guns and most of the men back a couple of fields and start digging in for a new line. They leave about two machine guns and a few riflemen scattered through the hedge, to do a lot of shooting and holdx up the Americans as lang as they can. Our men now sneak along the front side of the hedgerow, throwing grenades over onto the other side "and spraying the hedges with WW FOR Heating Contractors Furnaces Th Classified Telephone Directory Union Against Shakedown Ads Milwaukee Journal The Textile Workers' Union of America (CIO) has adopted a policy of excluding all but bona fide consumer advertising from all its publications. The executive council decided that, otherwise, there was danger union solicitors might use "boiler room techniques" to induce employers, having contracts with the union, to advertise. The union has wisely decided that it wants to remove even the suspicion that any of its publications might shake down an employer or anyone else by an implied threat of losing the union's good will.

This is intelligent leadership. Comes that season of the year when a citizen weighs the relative advantages of topcoat or overcoat until he misses his bus. With three Nobel Prizes and two major league pennants. St Louis can rack up 1944 alongside the memorable year in which Colonel Lindbergh flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" across the Atlantic.

THE FELLOW on the radio was telling once again the story of Abraham Lincoln's classic address dedicating the national cemetery on the battlefield at Gettysburg. The narrator told the familiar story and then recounted that President Lincoln turned away not knowing that "in just 512 days" he would meet an assassin's bullet We'll take the radio computation without an audit. The speaker evidently wanted to make the interval between the Gettysburg address and Lincoln's assassination seem dramatically brief, so he gave the period in terms of days. But 512 days last for almost a year and a half, for 17 months, for 73 weeks. Still, any number of days seems more brief than any number of months.

When Napoleon returned from Elba he ruled France for 100 days. That doesn't seem very long, but 100 days stretch out longer than three months. But time in terms of days doesn't fool the fellow who serves 90 days in jail, or who signs a note for the same term. We Can Help You Do Your Job Mr. Farmer Your buildings and machinery must be kept in top condition.

You need to get maximum production. You need livestock on your farm. To do these you may need a loan and we are here to help. Come in and talk it over. NATIONAL BANK Reassured One night the late famous Louisville editor, Henry Watterson encountered his friend.

Col. Dick Wintersmith. in the lobby of a certain swank Washington hotel. The latter seemed to be in a quandary. "What's the matter, Dick?" asked Watterson.

"Oh," replied Wintersmith. "I'm starving foi a dinner of steak and onions, but I dread rarrvmn i Born 30 Years Too Late Archduke Francis Joseph Otto of Haps-burg, for a score of years pretender to the non-existent throne of Austria, has arrived in Lisbon where he is receptive to a call from the Austrian people. The archduke, who spent the last four years in the United States studying democratic institutions of government, -would not insist on a crown. He would be content to be president of a federation of Central European states. Otto of Hapsburg is the son of the late emperor Karl, grand-nephew of the great Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary.

Emperor Karl lost his throne my Ulc periume of onions in breath." "My dear don't let that worrv vm. i ancdu ana eai ine h. Whe" they your the EUtC AT R. ILL. away your breath entirely Pepsi -Cola Company, Long Island City, Y.

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