Peacetime Looms
As Vets’ Haven
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — If the sol
diers and sailors of World War
II are fretting about the kind of
peacetime America they will have
to live in, they can stop it right
. now and start worrying about
what kind of a bed they want to
make for this nation to sleep in
for the next 30 or 40 years.
, For just about that long, say
politicians here, the “soldiers’
vote” will be the biggest pump
kin in the field.
Using round figures, the prob
lem is so elementary it wouldn’t
stump even the youngest political
quiz kid. By the next election,
there will be ten to 12 million
potential “veteran votes” in the
armed forces. Suppose this voting
body could be united on any is
sue and through family and
friends could swing just two or
three votes. That would be be
tween 30 and 40 million votes—
about 70 per cent of the greatest
total popular vote ever cast in
this country’ in a national election
(about 50,000.000 in the elections
of 1940).
It won’t, of course, ever work
out that way because the basis
of democracy is difference of
opinion. It will, however, work
enough that way that on any is
sue on which most of the veter
ans stand united that there will
be no doubt about the result.
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The pattern for the political
future already is being drawn.
With the next national elections j
14 months away, the battle for
the “soldiers’ vote” has burst j
with a fury.
When President Roosevelt an
nounced his ‘‘six points” for de- J
mobilization and rehabilitaton, |
Reipublcan opponents accused I
him of making a “shameless” bid
for the fourth term and courting
the soldier vote.
The storm didn’t end there,
however. Disputes have arisen I
over division of political time on j
rado broadcasts, especially those
short-waved to the four or five
million service voters who may
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be overseas next year; over the
right to print stories and state
ments criticizing the administra
ton and the President (who i?
also, of course, Commander In
Chief) in Army, Navy and Ma
rine camp newspapers; over the
extent to which, if any, political
addresses can be made to soldiers
in camps; over how candidates
for Congress are going to make
their appeals to the boys and
girls in khaki.
And how about the rule that
no man in uniform may partici
pate in politics.
The situation is without prece
dent (the election of 1864 is so
vaguely comparable that it may
be ignored). New rules and reg
ulations, maybe through a scrap
in Congress, will have to be
made.
The fight is just beginning, but
it’s apparent already that both
Democrats and Republicans are
going to court the service votes
with all their political might.
And the men and women in ;
the services can learn ther poli
tical lesson No. 1: No damsel
wooed so ardently by rival lovers
ever dies an old maid.
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1 cup broken noodles
1-2 cup soft bread cubes
1-4 teaspoon paprika
1-4 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon minced onions
1-2 cup grated or sliced sharp
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2 eggs, beaten
3 tablespoons catsup
2 cups seasoned white vegeta
ble sauce
1 cup cooked cubed fish
(freshly ooked, leftover or
canned)
1-2 cup cooked dried peas or'
lima beans
Cook noodles in 4 cups boiling
water and 1-2 teaspoon salt for
10 minutes. Drain and add bread,
seasonings, cheese, eggs and cat
sup. Pour into greased ring mold.
Bake 40 minutes in pan hot wa
ter in moderate oven—about 350.
Let stand 5 minutes in water out
side of the oven for several min
utes. Turn onto heated platter.
Fill and surround with the rest
of ingredients simmered, for 5
minutes.
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1 tablespoon granulated gela
tin
3 tablespoons cold water
1 cup sweetened apple sauce
(regular kind)
2 teaspoons lemon uice
1-4 Teaspoon grated lemon
rind
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1-8 teaspoon salt
1-2 teaspoon vanilla
Soak gelatin 5 minutes in wa
ter. Dissolve over boiling water.
Cool and add sauce, uice and
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DAVENPORT
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HEADQUARTERS. ALASKAN
: DEPARTMENT — Maj. Gen.
Davenport Johnson arrived re
, eently in the western Aleutian
i area to assume command of the
| 11th Air Force, it was announced
; oy Lt. Gan. Simon Bolivar Buck
j ner. Jr.’s .AD headquarters.
General Johnson, former as
sistant to General H. H. Arnold,
chief of the Army Air Corps, suc
ceeds Maj. Gen. William O. But
ler, who has been transferred to
Washington.
Born in Tyler. Tex.. March 28.
1890. General Johnson attended
public schools there and entered
the United States Military Acad
emy in March. 1908. Graduating
with a bachelor of science de
gree, he was commissioned a
second lieutenant of infantry
June 12. 1912 A bombing expert.
General Johnson also graduated
from the Air Service Field Offi
cers’ School in 1921, the Com
mand and General Staff School
i in 1926. and the Army War Col
j lege in 1929.
In World War I, General John
son distinguished himself as a
combat pilot in France under the
command,of the late General
William A. Mitchell. Arriving in
France April 5, 1917, he was com
manding officer of the 95th
Squadron four months, and the
2nd Pursuit Group six months.
After service on the San Mi
ned, Meuse and Argonne fronts,
he was awarded the Silver Star
and Order of the Purple Heart,
on citation of General Pershing,
and received the Croix de Guerre
from the French.
Rated as a command pilot and
aeial observer, he became a gen
eral officer on October 7, 1940,
when he was promoted to briga
dier general and appointed assist
ant to General Arnold.
General Johnson became com
manding general of the 6th Air
Force Panama Canal Zone, on
Aug. 15. 1941, and served at this
post until Nov. 25, 1942. Prior to
assuming command of the 11th
Air Force, he was commander of
the 2nd Air Force, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, for six
months.
jf Notes and Comment
J ~\f\ J£ received a letter from the \
\ \ \^ Writers’ War Board the otlier Jf
I » * day asking for a statement on
*( “The Meaning of Democracy.” It pre- J
iA 'sumably is our duty to comply with such
'| a request, and it is certainly our pleasure. A
\ Surely the Board knows what democ- 1
J racy is. It is the line that forms on the m
/ right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It
r* IJ isCthe hole in the stuffec?%hir,t through *
\V which the sawdust slowly tricklesj it is If
\\ the dent in the high hat. Democracy is F
J the recurrent suspicion that m<*e thart V
/ half of the people are right more than J
d] half of the time. It is the feeling of Fj
«l_ Ji privacy in the voting booths, the feeling J
of communion in the libraries, the feel- C
( jng of vitality everywhere. Democracy F
is a letter to the editor. Democracy isX
the score at the beginning of the ninth.{
\ It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved \
;jj yet, a song the words of which have not V
dl gone bad. It’s the mustard on the hot A
a\ dog and the cream in the rationed cof- w\
|Yl fee. Democracy is a request from a War i ^F
y) Board, in the middle of a morning in bl
1 l the middle of a war, wanting to know J
vj^what democracy is. _
Reprinted from Till, I^EW IfORKBB
July 3,194 3
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