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. <&■ *1 McCORMICK BIESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CARQUNA Thursday, March 18, 1943 Expand Armed Forces For Knockout Blow SUPERIORITY OF NUMBERS WILL ASSURE VICTORY Plan U. S. Air Force To Give Al lies 2 To 1 Break Over Axis. "Hie Germans in World War I gave up the fight because o their ability to reason with over* whelming figures. Now, as then the-enemy must be made to real ize that they cannot win.” With these words. Undersecre tary of War Robert P. Patterson revealed that the United States is planning to build up the armed rervices to approximately 11 mil- Jion men by the end of 1943. Of this huge number, over million are to be in ' the army Over 2 million will serve in the navy. Out of the total in the *crmy, 2t 1-2 million will be in the air force. With this tremendous striking force, both the army, and navy will be in a position to deliver a knockcyit blow on whatever front the military chieftains might de cree. without such big forces, however, critical operations might be severely limited. • - “We have suffered a setback at the hands of the German army in Thnlsiir,” Patterson said, “but not because of lack of supplies. The iorthegming - offensives against Germany, Italy and Japan will depend upon superiority of num bers.” ' ’ Axis Divisions Now Hold Edge In Europe At the present ^ time, the Axis armies heavily outnumber the United Nations in the European and African theaters. They have' <83 divisions ■ at their command, ' ^5 divisions more than the Allies. If we bring up our strength to 100 divisions, the Axis still will possess-an advantage of §5 divis ions. However, it must be re membered that the enemy’s forces will be spread over the European continent while we, as the offen sive power, will be able to pick cut our spot for action and con centrate pur armies there. These calculations do not take in Japan. Besides the Axis’ 483 divisions in Europe, the Japs have £8 in the Pacific battle zone. In addition to - this - formidable ground force of Ravage and well- i rained personnel, Japan has an air force of 200,000 men. Despite the buffeting her naval fleet has received at the hands of our sur face units and bombers, it is still strong. Thus, it is easy to see the need for a huge American \ army and navy, when considered merely in the light of imposing strength of the enemy on all fronts. This does not take in the tactical or strategic importance of massing superior numbers of men in the locality of attacks—“Getting there fustest with the mostest,” as the Confederate General Forest once i.o picturesquely put it. But modem warfare is extreme ly complicated. To wage it suc cessfully, an army must have ma chines made for war, such as tanks and armored cars. Besides, there are the trucks that haul the supplies. The airplane is a mechanism also and needs spare parts, gasoline and oil, etc. In addition, guns, munitions, food and clothing are required. Ports will be needed to receive these supplies for our forces, and rail roads, roads and bridges will have o be useable to transport them to the fronts. Keeping this in mind, let us now consider the words of the army chiefs: “The conquering of the Axis powers is a step by step process to evict them from strongly fortified areas. The enemy will completely destroy all port, transportation and commun ication facilities they may be forced to abandon. These must be rebuilt with speed. Special ised troops must be on hand when needed. Their training must start now . . . .” Plan AEF Of Five Million Men By 1944 According to Maj-Gen. I. H. Edwards, army strength overseas will total 2 1-2 million by the end of this year. It is planned to in crease this force to nearly five million men by 1944. Edwards says the plans have been made cn the basis of favorable shipping conditions. The major-general also revraled that the army is developing an air force of 900 squadrons of 2 .1-2 million men. When fully organ ized, Edwards says, the American air force alone will equal the Axis’, including Japan’s. To add to our gigantic airplane power, will be the 900 air squadrons of the other United Nations.^ Recent devastating raids over Germany and western Europe may be the first assertion of our air superi ority. Of the total of over eight mil lion men planned for the army, a substantial number will remain in the United States. These will be used to guard ports of embar kation find will also serve in the defense commands throughout the country. More than a million and a half members of the air force will remain here, to train or operate in the defense forces. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox has announced that the navy is building up to a personnel of over two million men. During the current year, 900 new surface units are to be delivered, bring ing the total up to 4,100 ships in the fleet. Not only will there be a demand for more sailors to man the new vessels, but person nel Will be needed for the addi- tional installations to tend the units. / As of recerit date, the navy had over a million men on deck, rhe program of expansion thus would call"for a doubling of the present personnel. However, naval officials said that developments might allow a reduction in the number qf pien that would be needed. The 4 total of approximately 11 milliofr 4hen in the armed forces would represent about 8 per cen of our population. This com pares with the 12 per cent that Germany is supposed to have un der arms and the 10 per cent serving in Britain. Question Size Of Forces; Seek * To Delay Dad's Draft The army’s plans have not gone unquestioned. Influential blocs m ooth the senate and house are seekiAg to definitely establish the needs .of the services before a- greein'g in‘ the program. At the present time, they think a total Jorce of 9 million men would strike a likely balance between the services’ requirements and in dustry’s. Following Man Power Commis sioner Paul V. McNutt’s statement that the importance of a man’s em ployment rather than the number of his dependents would qualify him for deferment, several bills were introduced in congress seeking to delay the drafting of married men. A senate committee’s recent rec ommendation to defer all essen tial farm workers served to strengthen the possibility of the early drafting of married men with dependents. If is the contention of those opposing the organization of a military force of 11 million men that there will not be sufficient shipping available to transport or supply an overseas force of the dimensions planned. They point out that it takes an aver age 'of 20 tons of shipping to carry one soldier to the front and to keep him supplied for a year. Although American shipbuilding has reached record levels, they say that submarine sinkings and the necessity of using a substan tial number of oup vessels for hauling goods and materials to and from other countries will draw shipping facilities from the military pool. ■ Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Each week hi this space will be presented a picture and word portrait of someone whose name is mwe.) • Direct, business-like and as modern as the new China toward which she is constantly striving, Madame Chiang Kai-shek has re tained, in spite of the urgency of her hurried existence, the serene and delicate charm we have learned to expect of Chinese women. •Wife of . China’s indomitable generalissimo and sister-in-law of the late Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese republic, Madame Chiang works tirelessly for the social and economic good of her- people. She personally supervises the care of war orphans, helps dress the wounds of China’s fighting men, and is the directing force behind plans, like the “New Life” and “Thrift” movements, to bet ter the lot of the Chinese by making the most of their resources. •A graduate of Wellesley college, in Massa chusetts, Madame Chiang is familiar with American customs and speaks fluent, but dig nified English. To meet the many demands on her time s))e has found ft wise to dispense with much of the elaborate ritual of Chines* etiquette, but visitors say Coat she is always unaffectedly gracious and immacuL^ly grooms*. % ABOVE ^HULLABALOO By LYTLE HULL \ Japanese Prisoners Captured by Marines WANT ADV. YOUR OWN BUSINESS on our capital. Rawleigh Dealers earn big profits. Products on credit Several available routes nearby. Exceptional opportunities for in dustrious men and women. Write l&wleigh’s, Dept. Richmond, Va. mm THE CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM- FOR FREE MEN ONLY These Japanese prisoners, captured on one of the outer islands of the Solomons group, are being lined up by their marine captors as preparations are made to turn over the area to the regular army. The marines took the Japs with them. (Official Marine Corps Photo.) TODAY and TOMORROW B; DON ROBINSON FOR SALE—Two year old mule olt. Would exchange for milch cow or middle age mule. J. J. Collier, Plum Branch, S. C. WANTED—A share cropper on 50.50 basis on a farm 1 mile from Troy. Can work 5 or 10 acres, cotton allotment, made 1 bale per acre last year; and all corn you can work. J. A. Young, Troy, C., R. F. D. HATE Nazis How hard should we hate the Nazis and the Japanese? Should we just hate their leaders? Should our hatred be carried further to include all of their armed forces? Or should we go all the way and Include their entire civilian popu- ation as well? I imagine the directors of the propaganda offices in Washing ton and London have discussed this subject from all angles to determine just what steps they should take in distributing hate- provoking material. But without ;he assistance of government- directed lessons in hate, the feel ings of the people in this country have expanded rapidly to include most all of the Axis populations as objects of intense hatred. Seldom do we hear people say anymore, “You can’t blame the German people”—which was r common statement at the time he war broke out. Now we dc blanje the' Germaft people and the Japanese people and the Italian SCC-211-170, | people for continuing to stand behind their blood-thirsty leaders. And we feel little sympathy for the people of Germany when we hear of the terrible destruction being wrought in their cities by our bombers. Our attitude has become one of the-more-killed-the-better, for ve no longer think of the Nazis as being people like ourselves at instead picture them as a rr.nl, brutal race who deserve every thing they are getting. I am taking orders for Pot Plants, Cut Flowers, Funeral Sprays and Designs. See me for our Easter Flowers. Mrs. Frank Jcason, McCormick, S. C. MME. CHIANG . . evil There is no doubt that it n a dangerous thing for the future of civilizatidn for one group of .il- lions of people to learn to h ate another group of millions of peo ple. It is a dangerous thin? be cause no permanent peace can ever be established while such feelings are rampant. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek gave the real answer to just how far our hate should extend when, in a recent speech, she said: “Christ taught us to hate the evil in men, but not men them selves. While it may be difficult for us not to feel bitterness for the injuries we have suffered at the hands of the aggressors, let us remember that recrimination and hatred will lead us nowhere. We should use our energy to greater purpose so that every na tion will be enabled to use its native genius and energy for the reconstruction of a permanently progressive world with all nations participating on an equitable and just basis.” It is remarkable that a woman who represents a nation which has been for years the object of inhuman aggression by a neigh boring nation should feel any thing but hatred for that nation, but her broad vision; Christ-like in its recognition of justice, goes beyond the shifting emotions of most of us and never wavers from a goal of a finer and. more per fect world. GOAL . . .* . . peace Those who are concerned about •ur not hating hard enough have io cause for worry under Ma- iame Chiang Kai-Shek’s philoso phy. For she does not say we shouldn’t hate but should con- jentrate our hate on the evil in man. In our more lucid moments wr ?an all reaize that that is wher our hate actually is . centered—o^ the selfishness, the greed, the brutality and the dishonesty of our enemies. And, before we have the kind of world of which this famous Chi nese lady dreams, we must no’, only fight to annihilate those traits in our enemies, but also must endeavor to wipe them out wherever they show up among ourselves. When we read of the many conflicts, the injustices, the greed and the selfishness among people in this country, it is hard to pic ture a world in which all nations will be friendly and fair to one another, but our only hope of having permanent peace is for all people to work and pray to achieve this goal. It is only under the so-called capitalistic system that the citizen can have what we are in the habit of calling Freedom. For under any other system the citizen must be ruled by force. In the capitalistic state man is free to use his brains and to “ex pand” to any limit those brains are capable of carrying him—ex cept—that he is prohibited from injuring or from hindering the progress of another citizen. Hav ing free rein to forge ahead along whatever path his desires dictate, he has no reason, nor incentive, to try to destroy the system which allows him this free use of his powers. If a man is a farmer and has good horse sense and a fair a- mount of ambition and energy — he can improve his land, add to his acreage, build bigger and better buildings and equip them with all the modern conveniences. The weather and worms can slow him up, but man can’t—when we are functioning normally under the capitalistic system. Suppose you are a laborer and you are determined to get ahead in life and not spend it all digging coal or coupling freight cars. Well you can own the “blinkin’ ” mine some day if you really make up your mind to do N so; or you can be president of the railroad and fire the “super” who used to make your life misreable when you were just a “hand.” It has been done often. s The politician can become Pres ident under our system—but he can’t in a country which is slave to any of those one man control ari-angements. There he can be come a stationary cog in an iron wheel, or he may be thrown out on his face because some cog a- bove him doesn’t like the lo«ks of it. He can never be more than; just a frightened servant of some higher up frightened servant, with no right to call his soul his own and very little to call his life his own. It takes a brave man to be a politician in a totalitarian gov ernment: a man who is willing to take his life in his hands. ^ ; ' In a capitalistic country, when a farmer or a laborer or a clerk becomes wealthy, he is called a capitalist. In other words, he owns something over and above his dai ly bread. This surplus he puts to various uses which usually help him and humanity, and which ad vance our scientific and mechani cal civilization. If he abuses the powers which he has acquired he is stepped upon by our own police 1 —the government. No other system has yet been in vented to give man free play for his brains and energy. Therefore no other system is satisfactory to ambitious people, who are usually equipped with brains, try always to overthrow the systems which hold them back. And the systems use force—in the shape of secret police and the soldiery—to destroy those citizens who would destroy them. And so we have what is known as a dictatorship. Some times the dictator is a Fuehrer and* calls his government national so cialism; sometimes a duce and calls his government fascism; sometimes he is a king, or an em peror, or a lord protector, or a sul tan—with some other fancy name for the compulsory rule which he or his ancestors have arbitrarily forced down the throats of a peo ple who have as much right to lib erty as we Americans have. Dreamers and planners will for ever be figuring out new schemes- for spoiling the “good thing” we have in our country and for get ting us into some fancy harness with themselves at the reins: Bufc Americans have tasted liberty too- long—they will always wake up in time if real danger threatens. First Aid for U. S. Troops in Tunisia Sydney Hyman of Gary, Ini., who is with the U. S. medical corps, gives first aid to Pvt. Manuel Freitas of Oakland, Calif., who suffered wounds about the head and hands during the first day of the battle for the tiny Central Tunisian railroad junction of Sened. U. S. forces fought hard to gain control of the railroad station at Sened, which offers a clear view of the tabletop tank country over which the army in posses sion can send its forces against the enemy. Thirteen Lucky Number for Sub Crev/ SMART MONEY KNOWS WHERE TO ,/i GO AFTER l READING THE ADS , IN THIS IIK NEWSPAPER. Thirteen is the lucky num' • of the crew of this U. S. submarine, but unlucky for the Nips. T. ub’s special tally flag, with its own, device in the center, counts tc.: Jap merchantmen and three Jap war ships sent to Davy Jones’ lockci .. The submarine, which was not named, was eemmar.;- : by Lieut. Commander Lucius Henry Chappell, 38, of ; Uciiunbus, tua. its “bag” was one of the most impressive of the war*. *