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EDITORIAL
Gospel Of Hale
(New York Times)
From time immemorial one of
the few mitigating circumstances
of war has been the rspect of
the soldier for a valorous enemy.
Defenders of cities have been
allowed to march out with drums
beating and flags flying because
they had fought bravely. Grant
would not take L e’s sword and
he let the Confederates ride their
horses home “for the Spring
plowing.” World War fighters
didn’t belittle Jerry over in the
opposite trench. They w re glad
to give Jerry credit for being a
good soldier. Otherwise, what
credit was there for them in shov
ing him back? And many veter
ans on both sides doubtless real
zed that ther; was an occupa
tional link between all men en
gaged in the trade of war, with
the mud as deep in one trench as
another and the cooties just as
troublesome.
There was a little chivalry ev
en at the height of a frightful
struggle. In the air, before the
Nazis turned fliers into buzzards,
there was more than a little. The
“New Order” changes all that.
The Italian Govern m nt has just
suppressed an official Catholic
newspaper because in it an army
chaplain. kFather Pigncdoli, said
to the soldiers: •
“Your Christian faith tells you
that your enemy does not cease
to be your brother, who is per
forming, as you do, a duty to
ward his fatherland. . . . Respect
him, therefore, and do not utter
words of hatred. Hatred is a bro
ther of impotence.”
Had Italian fascism clung to
honor and to magnaminity Italy
might not have been what it is to
day, a conquered Nazi province,
and Africa and Albania might
not now be littered with the rags
of its military disgrace. What if
it turned out to be true, in the
end, that the old decencies actual
ly pay material dividends? It i
this doubt, this heresy, that Mus
solini apparently wishes to keep
from contaminating his country
men. But it will not be downed
in Italy, nor even, for all time,
in Germany.
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At Ease
(Philadelphia Record)
No matter how often they were
told they were saluting “not the
man but the uniform,” recruits
never have enjoy d being forced
to salute every officer in sight.
Especially on leave, with a girl
on each arm.
So we think the Army has
been wise in ruling that soldiers
no longer are requir 'd to salute
officers when they are off post.
The salute is still authorized. A
private may, if he meets a shave
tail and feels like saluting, go
ahead and salute.
We an glad that the Army
chieftain remember that a man
remains a human being even
when he puts on a uniform. Per
haps the idea will percolate even
to some of the old-time non-coms
such as the four sergeants who
“resigned” the other day at Fort
Dix because they objected to
“coddling” of recruits.
VISION
“The public is finding air trav
• el increasingly convenient and
the airlines show vision in ex
panding to meet future needs.”—
Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the
president of the United States.
Notable Gains
In Health In
Present Year
NEW YORK. N. Y.. — Wage
earners and their families in the
United States got off to such a
healthy start this year that their
mortality for the first month was
on a par with that of January,
1940, despite the influenza epi
demic which might have b:e-n ex
pected to cause an increase in
the death rate. In making this an
nouncement, the statisticians of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company ba e their conclusions
on the records of th: company’s
Industrial policyholders.
Among the insured groups of
this country and Canada com
bined, January mortality rates
for 12 causes of death were low
er in 1941 than in 1940. These
causes includ d pneumonia —de
spite the rise in soar! t fever,
whooping cough, dip'.heria, tuber
culosis, syphilis, diarrhea and en
teritis, apendicitis, and the con
ditions incidental to child-bear
ing.
While the January death rate
for insured American wage earn
ers and their families was the
-ame in 1941 ss in 1940, the rate
for American and Canadian pol
icyholders combined was 1.5 per
cent higher in 1940, and for this
increase the influenza epid mic
was largely, responsible. It swept
over larg sections of the Uni;
cd States — especially the West
Coast — and Canada, in which
country the death rate among the
insured group jumped 30 percent
from the January, 1940 figure of
5.7 per 1.000 to 7.4 per 1,090 in
January, 1941.
“SEVEN”
KETCHIKAN — William Dal
ton and his wife, of Ketchiksr
are wondering if they should call
a baby boy just born ‘'Seven."
The boy baby is the seventh
son of the coupl weighs seven
;
born at 7 o’clock.
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ZANY—Suspicions that wo
men’s millinery is as giddy as
ever are confirmed in this mad
cap hat gaily designed by Helen
Liebert of red felt with blue
embroidery. The antenna-like
feather may serve for some
short-wave flirting.
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EmSTER BONNET ?—That terrible moment of doubt—such
as most women have when they firsi try on their new purchase
at home—seems to be worrying Fifi, baby chimpanzee at Phila*
delphia, as she looks at her new’ feather-trimmed spring hat.
FOR THE OBJECTORS —This former CCC camp bar
racks near Ellicott City, Md., now bleak behind winter-stripped
trees, is being readied for tne housing of about 175 consc.ont'.ous
objectors, who must take a year's training for non-combatant
duty under national military draft law. The Friends’ Service com
mittee sponsors their consei vatlon, reforestation piojects.
CAPTAIN AND CREW RE-UNITED
;
Capt. Wilhelm Daehne (right), of the scuttled German liner Col
umbus watched the transfer of his crew from train to busses for the
trip to their new quarters at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, as the
seamen arrived from San Francisco. G. W. Linnenkohl, senior in
spector of the U. S. Immigration in charge of the transfer is at left.
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