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SOUTH BEND PUBLIC LIB-MAY 304 S.MAIN ST., CITY. H to Pe ,H w "SO YOU WANT WAR?"-&___ " "YES WE WANT WAR"-"All-America* " n " HIBBBBBIRJJ1UU U.J. OFFENSE BEST DEFENSE IRROR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27th, 1942 APATHY, NOT of PEOPLE, but WAR PUDDLERS ELIEVE It 4 4"^7^ES, we want war!" Alexander, Cyrus, Caesar, Napoleon, Grant, John J. Pershing, Hit- • ____^ler, Hirohito^ , all scored their successes ^y going after them. Waiting for the enemy to ! x come, and merely defend, has balked a few invasions, but in-itself never won a war. Wa­ Or ELSEl terloo was a double-barreled charge from both sides; the heaviest battalions won. Not until the North got defense out of its head and determined to take MEAT O' THE COCONUT the offense did our Civil War show any signs of Rebel fail­ ure,—or Union triumph. So now of Makassar and Java. Bp Silas 'Witherspoon Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea was brutal William J. but telling — and Pershing's charges on Argonne Forest "BIG BILL" GETS ("Big Bill") and Belleau Wood turned the German face back to Berlin. Hosinski, ex- The aggressors have been winning' in this World War II CALLED DOWN BY sheriff, is again because of their initiative. Santa Barbara isa warning. on the "pan"; A local wag, of OCD connections, emphasized the im­ STATE AGCODNTS this time for al­ portance of civilian defense the leged double- other day, by observing that the BOARD ON CHARGE charging for war administration seems to he transportation conserving our whole war equip­ OF OVER-CHARGES of insanity and ment for the purpose; that some­ criminal wards what like Hitler*, we move in and FOR TRAVEL-BUT to state penal, take possession, most triumphant­ cor reetional, ly, where there is no resistance; OTHER LAWS FIND and infirmary like Greenland, Iceland, Ulster —- institutes. State or with slight opposition, say, the OFFICIALS BLIND chief of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Board of Accounts, Otto Jenson, -certifies it to Att'y Gen. George N. Beamer, simultane­ Signs of life loomed again during ously reporting it to South Bend's "other" the week in Java, as once at Ma­ newspaper by Associated Press wire, as kassar Strait, but the end is not though it were.some great yet, and "we want war." Back crime. He says his men there before the Japs thumbed have detected "Big Bill" their noses at us, while we slept, having over-collected for "so you want war?" was a prize such travel $2,912.28 taunt at us, then embryo Fighters worth. ^^^An ^ official for Freedom, and Defenders of "spokesman" (whoever 5^. America by Aiding the Allies — that is; newspapers do from the America Firsts, No For­ not have to reveal their eign Wars, Bundists, and other sources of information i^_^^^______^___________^___^_^_._^_^_^___^_^_________. such groups. anymore; they're privi- (On Page T.wo) Ex-sheriff Hosinski leged), has since de­ clared that Hosinski was wised to'the charges in advance; was told to cough up, but re­ fused, or neglected to do it. True but false WILL OUR RUSSIAN ALLIES DOUBLE-CROSS US? enough to be a whole lie. Once before it By JOSEPH E. DA VIES was some $7,000 that it was rumored by Former U. S. Ambassador to Moscow Recites Russia's Goal political enemies that Hosinski was trying to HEN Russia began In a world at war, the Soviet gouge from the county, driving back Hitler's Union possesses in its Communist because "he was trying to W armies, the nations sympathizers throughout occupied collect it, but somehow united against the Axis were filled Europe and even in Germany itself that petered out and an with relief because the Nazi tide a powerful agent against Hitierisjji. adjustment in his favor has been stemmed at last. But now The Nazis owe much of their suc­ was effected. Now this; as the Russians push on, relent­ cess to their fifth column activities. and the animus. They lessly determined to drive the in­ The European Communist move­ want a grand jury in­ vaders from Russian soil, there are ment has attracted millions of fol­ vestigation, and crimi- Att.y Gen. Beamer those who ask.the fearful question, lowers especially in Germany, nal prosecution instanter; Prosecutor Arthur "Where will they stop?" They France, Poland, and Bulgaria. F. Scheer is-importuned daily by the "other" ask, "What of the Comintern?" Here may be the skeleton of a paper to get busy—though Att'y Gen. Bea­ The answer is that both the Soviet "Sixth Column" to defeat the Na­ mer makes no bones of it that it is not a cri­ Union and the world have changed zis at their own game. The Unit- minal case, if any, and only a civ4. suit can in the quarter of a century since ^^^^^^^^^^ ed Nations cannot hope to win lie at the most. It is not embezzlement, but the regime of Lenin and Trotsky Joseph E. Davies this war without recourse to,*abo- an over-charge, if anything, and there is no established the Comintern. The record shows that tage, insurrection, even revolution. evidence of intended fraud (fraud must be Russia is today primarily concerned with preserving The question then arises—may not Moscow re­ intended)^ Difference of opinion in matters vert in the general confusion to its revolutionary its own independence and working out its own des­ of law and bookkeeping, the bills having line of two decades ago? Is Russia's help worth the (On Page Pour) tiny in a peaceful world. (On Page Four) Page Two THE MIRROR had the temerity to indulge such give us some of what we have. Put Apathy, Not of People, Bat War Peddlers comment.* ..*t|^ them to work. Reserve for ourselves from the Last fall, just before Pearl Har­ (From Page One). ! say nothl-ig of Tokyo, Rome and whole output, sky, only a measley bor, we, right here on this page, They would have pointed then to Berlin. 10,000 aircraft, plus previous sup­ joined the Washington administra­ Santa Barbara as our own setup to The Axis might be fooled to de ply and we ought not be so de­ tion in a great demand for repeal "monger" the American people into pend too much on the president's fenseless as the president pic­ of the neutrality law, the right to fighting mood — as they charged assertion, and undertake the flare, tures. arm merchant ships, convoy sup­ Stimson and Knox with sinking our 1 but why invite it? The best way In June, 1941, we had an air plies to the allies — insisting upon own ships as an excuse for demand­ to defend New York, Detroit and our "freedom of the seas." Con­ ing convoys and neutrality repeal. force of 167,000 men and 81,000 Alaska, is to give the Axis some­ of them trained"for service. That gress granted it all though in spots We didn't want war, but we thing to do somewhere else. rather grudgingly. sensed the inevitable, and urged 81,000 would man about 13,500 preparations for it, guarding our­ Washington is defenseless is it? planes, — so the apology that we The president had already or­ selves in the meantime, and the Well, one way that the Axis cannot man them seems somewhat dered the navy to "shoot the pi­ challenge hurt. Different today, armies have of defending their bunk. Elsewise our statists® are rates, shoot first, and shoot to kill," however; "we want war," and a capitals, is to give the United Na­ comparatively cracked, or our air and the secretary of the navy told very large percentage of those who tions something to do where their defenselessness, and power of pur­ us our two-ocean navy was such a taunted us then, are with us now, capitals are not. London should suit and assault, are a matter of humdinger that all we needed to do since the inevitable has arrived. have taught us that. We might military strategy. was humding. But Japan hum- They heard Pearl Harbor; they have taken a lesson from Russia. It is twelve long weeKfe, Sunday, dinged first. Who is apathetic now ? have since heard of Santa Barbara. Certainly Pearl Harbor, and now since Pearl Harbor, and for the Not the great mass of American Thanks anyhow for the Java and Singapore, should be enough of a little warlike activity that Wash­ people; not 10%. The 90% want Makassar exhibit. hunch. Now we have our Santa ington has shown, it is time for war. A little dare and dash, following Barbara—at least a gesture. them to stop talking about the Lavalism floored France; do- Pear Harbor, if we had anything Land and sea-surface forces are public apathy. The public is not nothinginsm, but defend, drew her left, to dare and dash with, might important for transport and de­ apathetic. If it were^ Washington into her shell, and left England all and probably would have changed fense — bu.t that is about all. In­ wouldn't be hearing from it as it but stranded at Dunkirk. In the the whole face of things in the Far fantry is good for moving in, and does. The apathy is at the war light of all else the Battle of M_£ East. Saying this, we are not occupation purposes, if they can top, nbtr the front, nor the citizen kassar Strait, where we are sup­ questioning the completeness of make it, .and that is about all; of rear.

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