SOUTH BEND PUB-IC .118RARY. 304 S.MAIN ST., CITY. Hji */>. •'/ Prophecies Are Three Kind; True, False, and Neither 1-.1---1—LUU I... S What of Tomorrow? IRROR FRIDAY, JANUARY 16th, 1942 Know Your Bridge, but Don't Cross Until There HILE it is necessary that we keep our eye on the road, well as foot on the accelerator ELIEVE It and hand on the steering-wheel, as we drive through this war program, to execute a vic­ W torious finish, it isn't necessary that we empty the back of our heads entirely to the ! processes through which we are passing, or what we may find when we come back. The pessimist, Or ELSEl however, needs be optimistic of his. pessimism,—and the optimist needs some pessimism. It isn't the tire trouble that we MEAT O' THE COCONUT are having, the taxes we must pay, or the rationings through B$ Silas Witherspoon which we must pass, that is the big probem of civilian morale. It is the sense of the hereafter; Addenda to what about the morrow? Henry TYPHUS AND LICE "the infantry W. Wallace, vice president per­ of the snow force of Franklin D. Roosevelt, AID "INFANTRY OF and the cav­ president, tells us in Atlantic alry of the Monthly, the kind of peace we wild blast" SNOW AND CAVALRY must insist upon. His insistence that as allies is all well and good. OF WILD BLAST" IN of Alexander (On Page Three) DEFENDING MOSCOW ST. 1 gions like winter's withered leaves," the God of Battles, despite Stalin's reputed atheism, appears this time to so disdain Adolf Hitler's "hell bent" for Moscow, as to confront him also with a lutewaife of typhus and pincers of lice. Elsewise it may. be that Paul Goeb- bels has discovered it a fit afterthought to make Germany believe, and the world with her, that of course, the retreat on the eastern front is in nowise due to Russian resistance or aggression; that the Nazis are just unlucky in a contest with the elements. So the story gets out, is given out, in fact, that extra doc­ tors and nurses are being rushed to Warsaw, and other points east, to care for the shiver­ ing, the feverish;.15i*d the bitten. The Nazit don't mi_ttS- the Russian tanks,,cossacks, ma­ chine-guns, or attaching hordes; only the •low - temperatures, high - temperatures, and nits. : However, it may be there; this lice and typhus tragedy. Doctors tell us that dirty hides, long unwashed, wreathed in undies and ovies akin to filth, basking in chilled cli­ mates, are highly eligible to typhus; condi­ Our New War Industry and Labor Boards tions that are as attractive to lice as the carion is to the crow. Indeed, the old Spanish dun­ OMETHING is supposed to be doing in Washington to speed up war production; something geons were perfect incubators of both. And to get, and hold, industry in line and make it knuckle down; something to keep labor in it may be that the Nazi army that was to S bounds, and get the thing done. We now have an all-powerful War Productions Board, bathe in Moscow's public swimming pools in Donald M. Nelson, supreme direc­ three weeks, have gone without a lot of soap tor. His say goes. Simultaneously and water incident to their three months of Washington has set up a new Na­ Ghost of Woodrow Wilson delay and disappointment; curse the incor­ tional War Labor Board, with Wil­ By GERALD W. JOHNSON rigible Russians—those great unarmed, strag­ liam H. Davis, head of the defunet (Author of Biographies of Andrew Jackson, John Randolph, gling rummies, and aimless shots. National Defense Mediation Board, and America's Silver Age.) What the resistance that held Moscow as its chairman. What Davis says TTTTOODROW WILSON'S ghost stalks across the face of aloof after mid-September for two months doesn't necessarily go. ^^f / the earth. Had he lived he would have been eighty- before the snow flew is, to be sure, a matter Labor and industry, when in con* • • five years old on December 28th. It was scarcely no­ of conjecture-—but .it rpfoy be that God has flict, must have more of a chance ticed. Too many Americans were too busy trying to forget him; some other way of it?rf>eding the progress of to powwow. President Roosevelt even Americans of his own party. His ghost was challenging the super-Gods against the Godless bums. has never been strong for putting their intelligence and their political integrity. Time had given You can almost never tell. Think of what too many clamps on labor. So the them the lie. those Japanese heathen have been putting NWLB has 12 members, is to have If the man whom destiny seems to have chosen to finish over the past six weeks^S£fct__vg up sl*_p in at least a trio, possible quartet, of Woodrow Wilson's work, lives two more weeks he will be sixty; the orient,—w^n^-thi^'Christian nations art "super-arbitors," and maybe an by strange coincidence, the same age that Wilson was when World still 4efy*t*rf2 preparedness, and some kind of "umpire." Charles Evans Hughes, War I, took us on. Dr. William Osier said; "Chloroform them (On Page Two) (On Page Three) (On Page Four) Page Two THE MIRROR STRIKES FOR FREEDOM If we are to protect ourselves from this danger, industry must not misuse CLIEVE IT the emergency to raise prices; labor must not misuse it to demand an in­ BfNRELSE crease in basic wage rates; govern­ ment must not misuse it to boost Nut Shells DeLuxe farm prices. We're all in the same boat, so far as inflation goes. We-all (From Page One) use the same money, and we all have do-something that is to be staged in to cooperate to make sure that that 1943. Anyhow we're not setting our money retains its Value. dates all close-up,—like London in thirty days and Moscow in twenty, 3fC _|C JfC 5$. —nor assuming that there won't be No amount of slave la­ anything there when we go out to Battle of bor can equal the vol­ meet it. Nor are we counting on untary cooperation of fever and bugs for an alibi. free men. There's a fact for all of us to hang on to through­ 3y_ 3|C _|C 3|C out the coming months. And it is a [j | I suggest that as fact, make no mistake about it. We Make "Unity' a service to be Americans have already proved that. Even though we got a late start in Typlp-Lice Zltf ||g the armament race, we're rapidly catching up. We have the materials InSPBGtOr Un Augustus Lind to do the job better than the aggres­ sors can. We're the masters of mass tdSTBrn i rOnT commissioned production, and they have been our to fly to Warsaw, and other points pupils, copying our advances during' on the eastern front, and make a stu­ the peace-time years. We outpro­ dy of the winter, typhus and lice, duced them then, building up a and the effect that they're having on standard of living so high that it be­ the Nazi hordes while the Soviet believe that Germany's going to bod­ for us to take effective action to con­ came the envy of the world. armies, with their fliers, tanks and ily fall apart just like the highly trol it then, there is even less time Now that the cards are on the guns, sleep at the switch. We may trained outfits we chased behind the now. table we can outproduce them again. need the information later on. This Hindenburg line." Inflation creeps up on a nation si­ It won't be an easy job, perhaps, but Russian incompetence, you know, Tljiat has been Germany's way lently. But it can be as destructive it can be done. And it's being done. was the Lindberghian view when he through the centuries; away back to as bombing planes, and once it has ; Many of our factories switched to was America Firsting (for the Axis); Caesar. In defeat they are the big­ arrived no one is able to escape it. war production months ago. They're Russia knew nothing,/ had nothing, gest cry-babies on earth. And they're What does inflation mean to the already hitting their stride. And could do nothing. He was, no doubt, always being abused. The other* fel­ average person? It means that the more factories will join them, for Hitler's informant on that point, low always starts the fight and never value of his pay check may be cut in this is a battle of the factories. confirming the wish thinking of his fights fair. When they're losing, or half — that the price of everything own GESTAPO. When Hitler start­ after they've lost, it's the weather, or he has to buy may be doubled. A Undoubtedly we'll have black ed for Moscow there was no doubt typhus and lice. pound of meat may cost more than days of discouragement, but the final in Lindbergh's mind but that "three he now pays for. a pair of shoes. A battle is the one that counts in war­ weeks" was putting it off; the Nazis 1 The danger of in­ little later a pair of shoes may cost fare, and we shall win it, for the would cut another swath; the Reich flation that threat­ more than he now pays for a suit of spirit of freedom is still the strongest coufdn't be licked; they, of course, And What Is ened us before the clothes.