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October 14, 1943, at the postofficej
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of March 3, 1879.
MONDAY. JANUARY 15. 1945^
A DEBT UNPAID
( Cincinnati Enquirer )
Americans pride them
selves that as a nation they
pay their debts. We want
a reputation among friends
and enemies of settling the j
score, whether to repay a;
good deed or to avenge a'
wrong.
Above all others there
is one group that we would
not want to think we had
not fulfilled our obligation;
to them. They are the
men who bought with their
lives, their health and their
freedom, time for us to
build a war machine to'
keep the enemy from our I
shores. They are the men'
of Bataan and Corregidor. |
Our government now is
combating signs of compla-1
cency, marked by falling
off in projected production.
Our workers are being ur
ged to reduce truancy from
jobs, to put all they can in
to their work when they
are on duty.
In this nation where ev
ery man may have his own
opinion, even when at
times it dangerous to the
welfare of others, we may
disagree with those who
say the war is not nearing
a conclusion in Europe.
We may disagree with the
warning that there months
and months of work and
blood and sacrifice ahead
before victory is won.
But there is one thing
with which we cannot dis
agree. That is, that for
every month, for every
week, for every day we de
lay the end of this war, we
force men of Bataan and
Corregidor to remain cap
tives of the Japs that much
longer, we reduce their
chances of survival.
Already through the
Red Cross channels of in
formation, word has filter
ed tediously back of the
deaths of many of the her
oes of the Philippines from
malaria or malnutrition.
No matter what we may
think of the war situation,
no matter how confident
victories around the world
may make us, let us think
when we are tempted to
let down that we are let
ting down the men who
held Bataan for four mon
ths and Corregidor for five.
JIad they not held on
we would not be so far al
ong in the war as we are,
we might even have enemy
troops on our shores, en
emy planes over our cities.
The dead of Bataan and
Corregidor we can only
avenge, but the living we
can rescue if we hurry.
SCHOOLS AND
MILITARY DRILL
Governor Dewey was
right when he remarked
in Philadelphia that deci
sion on questions of com
pulsory universal training
for American youth must
be postponed until after
the war. Too many issues
of uncertain outcome are
involved for opinion to
crystallize on that subject
at this point.
But it is a matter which
the American people
should be thinking about
seriously, even now. We
may as well be adjusting
ourselves to the idea that
we must maintain a large
military establishment for
many years after peace is
restored. i
We shall need a large
navy and a large profes
sional army. It cannot be
a shoestring army, such as
we have been accustomed
to in peace. It must be
well equipped, and, to keep
its ranks filled, it must be
well paid.
But it should be a volun
teer army, and we should
not count on maintaining
it by the universal con
scription of American! boys
as they leave high school,
for a year or for any period
of compulsory service.
Yet universal military
training for the young men
of the United States in
some modified form may
be advisable, after the ex
perience of this war. We
have learned the import
ance of training for physi
cal fitness. We have learn
ed that the young man
with some basic military
training is better off, and
worth more to his country,
in a national emergency
than one with no training
at all.
The solution may lie in
some form of required mil
itary training in connec
tion with the educational
program itself, perhaps in
connection with the educa
tional program itself, per
haps along lines of the mil
itary instruction now re
quired in many American
colleges. That might pro
vide the advantages and
eliminate the disadvan
tages of the compulsory
military service plan.—
(Seattle Times).
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