SOUTH BEND PU3LIC LIBRARY 304 S.MAIN ST., €_PTY. MAY 2 1% WORLD WAR ll's KILLED EXCEEDS THAT OF ALL PREVIOU IMAHWARS in nonfakes Over Memorial Day FRIDAY, MAY 25th, 1945 SLAVOCRACY Attacked Within; TOTALITARIANISM Without ELIEVE IT HIS MEMORIAL DAY (next Wednesday) upon us first by Japan, then Germany, then Italy homage will be paid to a near half-million —leaving no more doubt as to their global de­ T more soldier souls than ever before in its signs. It was given to the world, from all quar­ OR ELSE history—preceding 1942. That many more bodies ters, that democracy was doomed; totalitarian­ MEAT Q- THE COCONUT of our heroic dead have been submerged in land ism was to take over. There was to be a "new and sea, and turned ashes — on battle fronts, order" on all continents. ... BY -;- swallowed by the angry waves, dropped from the Germany was to absorb Europe; Japan, Asia SILAS WITHERSPOON I skies, and cremated in Axis prison camps,—since and Australia; Italy, Africa—and together they the treacherous Pearl Harbor that climaxed our Do you get it? would divide the Americas. Their ambitions were years of fears with rugged reality. JUST WHAT IS KEN Well, neither boundless; their egotism commensurate with the did I until I Thenceforth we have been at war; declared task—even unto reiteration of the Hohenzollern DEMPSEY? MAYOR, looked it up, dictum that demanded a "place in the but it means Its Shadow Encircles the World sun." ONLY CONTROLLER, this; that It was to forestal execution of that Francis Ken­ threat that the United States, long fore­ neth Dempsey "ACTING AS MAYOR" warned, joined Great Britain and Rus­ (to fully dig­ sia, in common cause,—that soon came OR BOTH? ANfl ISnif y 1___He__9-_& lency) became to embrace two score other powers, con- HE TO GET SALARY mayor, if at jscaous of their impending dangers. As all, by opera­ United Nations they are at work in San OF MAYOR OR ONLY tion of law; Francisco today, insistent that such ne­ the duties cessity shall not rise again. CONTROLLER'S OR thereof being With this war two-thirds won—with conferred by Germany and Italy knocked out, — San POSSIBLY BOTH ??? m upo_ Francisco is looking ahead intent that him as ci£y comptroller—never mind how he no World War III need be to finish the came to be comptroller. He is either mayor cr task of World War II, as World War II he is just city comptroller—with the duties was bread and born from the unfinished of mayor super-imposed upon him. We must task of World War I. get this thing straight. Read the statute: Something of the kind was attempted "In case of a vacancy in the office of mayor the last time, but ghoulish statesmen, the city comptroller in all cities having such of­ pick-sniffian politicians, financial har­ fice shall act as mayor." pies and economic war-mongers, inspir­ Well, now what? Is it Comptroller Demp­ ing the withholdment of cooperation, sey or Mayor Dempsey? Did Dempsey resign monkey-wrenched the machinery and as comptroller (and mind you the statute says the effort, wherefore our half-million "comptroller" not "controller"), when May­ dead—say nothing of the million dead or Pavey resigned as mayor, assuming he was to our allies,—that engage our sorrow moving up a notch, and needed do so in or­ (On Page Three) der to get a new comptroller? If he did, too bad, from appearances; in that case he is out entirely. Only the comptroller "shall act as Because of these Sacrifices, the dawn of Justice mayor"; he only "acts as." Churchill If Dempsey resigned as comptroller when and Freedom slowly casts its gleam across Pavey resigned and left him his duties, then the horizon.—President Truman. there is no comptroller to "act as," and since Out a deputy comptroller, or acting comptroller, "acting as" mayor, cannot succeed to the Churchill mayoralty status, under the decisions, it will be up to the common council to name a chief executive. Addenda, which salary does the In comptroller, "acting as" mayor, get; his, as (Page Three) comptroller, or the mayor's; is he to "act as" mayor to the extent of collecting and spend- (On Page Two) '.a',_S_-r-__.-_-W _?-?__-----_! emonam Biddle (Copyright) Wickard By RUTH McKENNEY HE current international "situation reminds Perkins me, faintly, of Bones, dear'Bones, the only Tdog my sister Eileen and I. loved in nine­ Gets teen years. Other kiddies, weak-kneed senti­ mentalists at best, went overboard for one of Mr. Albert Payson Terhune^ genteel and virtu­ Passports ous collies, or cheered themselves into a coma (Page Four) (On Page Seven) Page Two THE MIRROR stitious people in the world; always fearful of the worst, down­ issues which come before the sen­ ate. All things considered, this ELIEVE IT right in their hearts-, ,_K_m of hell—and trying to kid .themselves man who may suddenly be thrust out of it, reading the scripture, or rather old testament, of course into the leadership of the nation, has less authority and his opinion for flaws, they may have run across the case of Ahasuerus, king of is less sought after than that of a OR ELSE! JPersia. Ahasuerus, sometimes identified with Xerxes, was en­senator or representative. countered by the bishop of Schleswig at Hamburg in 1542 and It is my sineepe'belief that from M /.(Prom Page One) the moment he takes office, the ing his salary—or .does he get botfi? Does Michael T. Cummings, was last seen near Salt Lake City in 11.68 by a Mormon named vice-president should be groomed O'Grady. Hitler may come back a thousand years from now— against the day when he may be now aide to the comptroller, get a comptroller's salary, or that called upon to "take over." When­ of a deputy ? and unless there is a vast elimination of the fussiness of people, ever feasible, he should sit in on I'm sorry to get so bungled up over the affair. I understood enlist a considerable following. presidential conferences and he (On ."age Four) should be taken into the complete the statute said that in case of the absence, death or resignation confidence of the president on na­ of the mayor, the comptroller should become mayor. I started tional and international -affairs. looking it up patent upon putting a quietus on this "acting may­ Sound common sensq should dic­ or" stuff, and now see what I naiif-to. The law doesn't make* tate such a procedure. Surely, if such a man has been entrusted by the comptroller mayor; only gives him some more work; he shall the American people to hold an "act as mayor"; put on the show,—no relief from his comptrol- office which may evolve into the Iership duties. I don't like it that way. Come down off your presidency, it follows as day the perch, Mr. Comptroller! Slave! Get a move on there. You've night, that he can be trusted to know every detail of the adminis­ got a job for a two-fisted man. tration's activities and plans. * * * * Further, if his character and So it wasn't brain hemorrhage, suicide, RECONVERSION MEASURES abilities are such as to warrant Hitler Dead Again or any of those other methods of self- (Guaranty Trust Survey) the American people to elect him Among the specific measures The reduction in requirements as a possible president, then his taking off, that got der fuehrer, Adolf. counsel and advice should be ac­ He was tired, and nervous, and needed adopted by the War Production for military tires after "V-E Day" And This Time by Board to facilitate reconversion is is tentatively estitnated at 25 per ceptable, should be sought after sleep, so his dictor, personal phy^ic.aa., the creation of a committee to deal cent. Any increase in civilian sup­ and should be of great value to VSfcttck a needle into him, down these with detailed jproblems involved 4n ply that may become possible as a the man elected president by the Hypodermic Point in his dive beneath the reichschancel- the modification and relaxation of result of this reduction will be people. 1 erv an controls over war and war-sup­ used to fill essential needs, ac­ In fact, the vice-president is 11" II J Jf* ,__J l ' d he dozed off into an eternal cording to the special rubber di­ chosen as an "understudy" to the slumber T he medic sa s so porting production. VlBlflGulCilfilllliTllEr , y himself; The new organization, which rector, who says that esse__tir__l president, ready to step upon consists of 16 officials represent­ users are now obtaining only about stage when illness or death over­ no, it wasn't malpractice, nor a grace ing all phases of the board's oper- half the number of tires really re­ takes the "star." But as we now (illinO Pnio__fl V___l killing. It just happened that way. -ations, is known as the "Commit­ quired. Accumulated-needs of *_his treat the vice-president, his posi­ U III (JO I UIOUII Vial The reichsfuehrer couldn't take it; was tee on Period One." ("Period kind, he believes, will preclude the tion is comparable to the "under­ pos-dbOity of an early C-f|back in study" of the "star" of a theatrical allergic to such treatment. He was cremated. One" designates the interval be­ tween the defeat of Germany and the recently authorized program company, who, while expected to Different with Himmler; Hitler's right-hand butcher.