The White Falcon - 20.02.1943, Page 6

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by Billy DeBeck
•SSSSST
m&W' NW=> S.’EVVrVYc.CR OUi MOttRTAW.
ww var'ia x vevoA Me
a-nv\\r'orn>’ vnvwvst tm racr \s t(\r<mro,
We 'sve' morr. \tMRW>t$R\_ ^ecv. it
rr<<
>// W ^
o'"
-— —i c\x -
(. <- -y / iJ// <
Topr iOj’. King features Syndicate, Inr., World rights rcservcri. " *
** ?
\VvBRfcAOA
<N SECOOT«
TARSh TAAR. \TOA-RRRM\S
V=> AS 'A'CTCUVN' AS
V TV? WOO* NVOWrW l
! wVfWv cPPMnpwnrw j/e*
~^kKoJ
m
u ?
/W : -
T t, i „
Our neighbors, the Navy, pres-
ented an excellent entertainment
program in our theater last week.
And someone has sent us some
of those “rubber bands” you call
chest expanders so the outfit is
fast becoming muscle conscious.
Another girl friend has writ-
ten her last letter: “I’ve met so-
and-so and I love him very much.
I’m keeping my old job!”
10-E-C.
Field Artillery
Father-to-be Corp. Bing And-
erson was presented with an in-
fant-size sleeping hag for his
hoped-for son. The men are still
talking about the fine lime they
had recently when a Bed Cross
sponsored program was staged
here. It was quite a treat.
Pvt. Burton A. Anderson.
T/5G. Joe (Call-Me-Sergeant)
Taylor is always asking the
K.P.’s, “How did . I ever make
Sgt.‘?” After tasting Joe’s cab-
bage with cheese, others now
are asking the same question.
T/5G. Bucknor, known as “Ted-
dy” to his boys, is down in the
dumps lately. It seems his love,
Bose, by name, wrote only 14
letters during the last two weeks.
Pvt. “Call-Me-Lover” Jennings
lots such a collection of girl’s
pictures over his bunk, it looks
like the graduating class at Vas-
sal-.
Pfc. Paul .1. Florentine.
The first hit of business new
S/Sgt. Lowery vows he’ll attend
to, sans further adieu—is to post
a reward for the uncouth rascal
who was so mean as to pilfer
his “Git-tar”; i.c. a broomhandle
and can equipped with three
genuine twine strings. He wants
to whip out a few tunes that’ll
shame Monsieur Autry and Ac-
ufr. (Note to the culprit: We
ivho have never learned the fin-
er arts of vocalizing beseech
thee to keep abovementioned in-
strument in hiding.
If Pvt. Horwitz doesn’t become
an auctioneer after all the shout-
ing he does at our bingo games,
we’ll pass the job on to ever-
obliging Wolfgang.
Pfc. Jack D. Hunt.
—They Say....
(Continued from Page 4)
had to fight a-war on two fronts;
when we view with satisfaction
the accomplishments of the Brit-
ish IJighth Army in North Africa
we must remember that this
army has been able to drive for-
ward without looking over its
shoulder toward India.
Thus it is apparentJhat rarely
in military history has a detach-
ment so thoroughly justified it-
self as the detachment of Allied
air power which has been as-
signed to the southwest Pacific.
WALTER LIPPMAN.—It is so
highly probable as to be virtu-
ally certain that at some point
within the past few weeks—per-
haps when the dash to relieve
the Stalingrad army failed—the
German governing class made up
its mind that the war couldn’t
be won. A conviction of that sort
can’t be kept the secret of a
few men; it must soon be known
to military and political agents
of countries which can’t afford
to be wrong about who is going
to win the war.
Finland, Spain, Italy and Turk-
ey are all vitally interested.
Finland, in effect, publicly has
thrown herself upon the mercy
of the Allies. The tension in
Spain is relaxed. Italy had a
change of government. Turkey
dramatically reaffirmed her al-
liances with Britain and Russia.
RAYMOND CLAPPER.— The
new American Commander of
the European Theater, Lieut.
Gen. Frank Andrews, says that
his first job will be to increase
the bombing of Germany and
thus to complete the softening-
up process.
The idea that Germany could
be defeated from the air has nev-
er been seriously held except by
a limited number, but it is ac-
cepted that a daily raid on the
scale of the Cologne raid would
so completely disorganize and
depress Germany that a few of
them would bring her half way
toward defeat. Russia is now
doing the job on the ground.
There may be much groundwork
for us to do before it is all over,
but every bomb dropped now
will do work that otherwise
soldiers will have to do later.
Every bomb dropped in Ger-
many has a double force. It does
its actual physical destruction
and it udds its blow to the Ger-
man spirits that are already so
low over the defeat in Russia.
Obviously we have sent a
considerable airforce to North
Africa, and the fact that General
Spaatz is remaining in Africa
indicates that extensive opera-
tions are in mind there. That
has necessarily checked the
amount of air power that we can
put against Germany itself for
the time being. But considering
our production along with the
pilot training program we
should have literally thousands
of planes available for use
against Germany within a very
short time. Unquestionably Ger-
many is shaken inside. There is
odd behaviour going on there—
funeral dirges, strange silence
from Hitler, a frantic note in the
voices of once cocky propagand-
ists, a hurried dashing about of
the General Staff in the Balkans
since Churchill’s visit to Turkey.
All those things add up to a
home front echo of the bad news
from the whole Russian front.