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(Continued from Page 8) ing factories and homes for the next 50 years, than building machinery for a new war. Anyone who doesn't believe that Germany should pay the debt for this war's devastation has no business at the Peace table.

And Japan? Every returned soldier, sailor, and marine I talk to who is back from the Pacific, adds convincingly .to the feeling of revulsion and horror that the very word "Jap" brings to my sorrl. My plan with them won't be carried out, I know. But it would be simple justice, just the same. Put every damned Jap on earth into a big, tight building and turn on the gas. When a dog goes mad we grab a gun and destroy hirn, even though we love him. Why temporize with these evil little demons who have sought to spread their particular type of hydrophobia among all the decent people of the world? I know they're not civilized, and I'm nota.t all certain they are human.

I sometimes doubt that we in this country fully appreciate the Coast Guard. I have met well-meaning folks who have an idea they are just a gang of shore patro,llers. Did you know that in World War One the Coast Guard had a larger percentage of men killed than any other branch of the armed services? Those are the facts as I read them. And they're doing a mighty ,*oO *t" this war, too.

The proof of the heroism of American fighters rises higher as the battles mo,unt. Their fearlessness in the face of death sinks like incense from the altar of God into the grateful soul of every patriotic American. On the beaches and fields of Normandy, it Italy, in Southern France, in a hundred places in the wide Pacific, they have thrown themselves heroically into the face of the impossible, and they have accqmplished the unbelievable. They stand to their guns like Roman sentinels while the earth rocks beneath their feet, and the very heavens rain fire. In awful reverence, in wordless admiration, in sorrow unspeakable we read the casualty lists. With no vain sigh for what

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Fire, said to be caused by faulty wiring, totally degtroyed the $10,000 office building and display room of the Wrightson Lumber Company, 5265 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood, August 21.

might have been, they have fought and died-for us. Their deeds will bloom through the ages. Let us not forget. :t*tf

Let us who stay behind in some small measure repay the debt we owe them by seeing to it that those things they fought and died for be not lost here at home. When Ben Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention in L787, a lady stopped him and asked: "Well, Doctor Franklin, what have we, a Republic or a Monarchy?" And the wise old man replied: "A Republic-if you can keep it." ***

One grand way we can keep faith with our fighting men is to stop this tide of slimy Communism that has not only lifted its ugly head in this land of ours, but has become an open and arrogant force in-our public life. Any man who doubts that there is a job of that kind to be done here, must be in the ostrich class-his head buried deep in the sand. tr<*'F cEocRAPHrcAL

One of the recent stories of the war that perfectly illustrates how our men fight, is about a battalion of Americans who were by-passed and surrounded in Brittany by a German counterattack, and fo,ught for three days in that position. Food and ammunition were dropped to them from the air. But their case seemed hopeless, and a German officer under a flag of truce, gave Captain R. A. Kerley, a Texan, until 8:00 that night to surrender. Kerley said to the German: "Go to hell. I'll surrender when all our ammunition is gone and all our bayonets are sticking in German bellies." And they were finally relieved. A superior of;Ecer said to Capt. Kerley: "You had a hell of a nerve to tell the Gennan that." And Kerley answered: "He had a hell of a nerve to make me that proposition."

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rMPoRrANCE: After three years of war, our Commander-in-Chief has just made a trip West.and discovered the Pacific Ocean; also "an old, old friend" named MacArthur.

Will Mcrnage San Francisco Brcrnch

Don Braley, who has been with the United States Plywood Corporation at the Los Angeles office for the past six years, will su'cceed Fred B. Smales as manager of the San Francisco branch, SePtember 1.