European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes age of learning now that the i Bill of rights is about to be brought up in con Gress for i would like to bring up the educational Section which discriminates against those of us who were Over 25 years of age upon entering the if one was under 25 then it is necessary to have had ones Educa Tion interrupted before receiving scholarship there Are others like myself who have had toe desire to go Back to school but for Many usually Able to do now that a Chance has been presented by our government Over 25 years old Are excluded from it is True that we can take a refresher course for one Vear but maybe we have different plans and would like to Complete our the argument that it would be used As a Gravy train1 cant be used against us because we would still be required to maintain Scholastic standings As we the others benefiting under the pro armoured an editorial three Down and one to go s and s on trial i feel sure that my personal East concerning the Continental of the stars and stripes reflects a widespread principally responsible Lor most of the criticism i Nave heard directed at s s criticism with i Nave often expressed vehement agreement is the employment of the Only newspaper which has adequate Continental circulation As an Agency of the theater Public relations your seemingly successful Back patting and scratching the bag is a reflection of the tremendous influence which a news paper with no Competition and it seems further to a re Flection of How wrongly that in fluence has been bombarded with supporting arguments for one Point of the average longer sufficiently sup plied with contrasting opinion and accepts in an its i connotations that Point of i unless by personal experience or information he is Able to see the fallacies so blithely glossed when the Soldier has come full Circle to he writes a and behold the stars and stripes is Happy in the knowledge that it has from the beginning represented the average soldiers the stars and stripes has be come the most effective poster of the theater and its use As a Means of publicizing the danger of Trench foot is a legitimate functioning of a but the reverence with which the stupid and hurriedly ineffective changing of replacements into reinforce ments was handled is toe sure sign of a paper with a Heel print in its heart political instrument and its use As an instrument of political instruction is of toe lowest Caliper the condescending attitude of win Nies a hell of a Good so let him worry about followed with unhappy rapidity by Uncle Joe is a pipe smoking Cha and russians died in mortal combat during toe last six so lets let my worry for them about polish situation is not Only its perversion of toe word editor Ial its As bad As toe medics giving painkiller pills to a Man Wito acute the responsibility of any newspaper is not to meet pub Lic taste on a Hearst an but to inform reliably a Public which has toe eventual Power to the comics Are and considering their tremendous popu the us2 of the stars and stripes As a Means of circulation is we justified but there is no demand to bring toe editorial Page to an approximation of toe level of the comic a Man being brought to a decision likes to do it seriously and not emotionally nor on a have you cot that straight Joe i enjoy the ramifications and implications of the Chaplin trial and cheesecake As much As but Wito toe extreme limitations i of space under which toe paper it would certainly far better to print significant Domestic news of major no need to eliminate the cheese but Good school editor in toe states has More news judgment than to let a Chaplin rehash push an antitrust suit Nunt out of toe but Pue Rilely stars and stripes is on re somewhat Pue Rilely Well both for an education for peace for toe creation of an informed Well stocked with informed with so Many things being put off until the i see no reason to add to the lengthy list toe beginning of the difficult task of the stars and stripes is in an enviable that of Able to do today what so Many of us Are forced to put off As a simple example of what might replace the columns of prosecution quotes from the cigarette theft me Point tothe statement of a new York times correspondent there is about the germans in Many occupied towns toe astounding and unmistakable air of people who Are now neither Servile nor full of All gis who we rent there should but that didst fit into toe pro Touchy subjects proof that such Touchy subjects politically can be handled sanely and Well on a factual basis is toe weekly dissertation on Domestic news in is there any reason army news service  do daily what yank does this letter is written with toe extreme suspicion that there Are not Only a Large number of soldiers who feel As i but that there Are Many who daily Tarn out toe Sheet under trying conditions who would agree in most of the Points at i Hope that this and similar let ters will be of some assistance in routing toe familar toe front before it can make an bed Star out of the stars and stripes which achieved its popularity in world War i Wito a common sense compound of in dependence and it seems in summary a hell of a note when a brass cast outfit like toe army Navy journal can will say things that neither the nor the ans dares men now its up to our readers to judge and write their verdict and lets review for a the four paragraphs of Ike Eisenhower third order of the dated december the enemy is making his supreme Effort to break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your Brilliant victories of the summer and he is fighting savagely to take Back All that you have won and is using every Treacher Ous trick to deceive and kill he is gambling but already in this Battle your gallantry has done much to foil his in the face of your proven bravery and Forti he will completely but we cannot be con tent with his Mere by Rushing out from his fixed defences the enemy May give us the Chance to turn his great Gamble into his worst so i Call upon every of All the to Rise now to new Heights of of Reso Lution and of let every one hold before him a single destroy the enemy on the in the destroy him United in this determination and with unshakable Faith in the cause for which Good in answer to All the gripes about Lemon and Orange powder in we have found the solution and Good by taking this powder and which we have plenty and which is a Little harder to adding a dash of mixing them All together in your canteen you have ice take Cocoa from creations and you have Ohara and general Eisenhower we we with gods go Forward to our greatest the first three paragraphs of ikes order have been and Are being British in the yanks in the French in the reds i the on every every Man of All the allies is grinding the enemy theres plenty of Para Waffen Volks the rank and file of the the factories and fuel the lairs of the but the enemy is being i Only one paragraph of ikes order remains to that the United we will go Forward to our greatest we Good news Doest go to our we we stay Trustan gets increase in salary 24 Vic president of the Harry of got a raise on tru mans senatorial salary of 000 was increased to the vice presidential Henry whom tru Man went of the Federal payroll at toe same but it Felt that toe 56yearold new dealer would be Back in a matter of pro Bably As Secretary of super forts Are taken seriously japs now Send up fighters 24 super fortress has begot to meet serious fighter opposition in its the japanese waited until the 16th strike by the b29s 1 hitting that they didst take the new bombers too they do just when their air defense is needed in the Philippines and they have had to fling a valuable part of their firs line planes against toe in the third raid on toe Island of the japanese came out of their comfortable dream of Mili tary isolation and sent up heavy fighter opposition to meet bombers of the 20th bomber command stars and Strtt Pes printed at the new York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de for the armed forces under auspices of the information Educa Tion special and information Elysee contents passed by the army and Navy entered As second class at the Post office new the of s82 Felt toe weight bombs from one big objective has been Ina Ted As a according up i dont think they mean what on they mean where wounded what sector in Germany operating from bases in at the japanese or immense aircraft fac bombs bursting in toe vast Omurlu works were Nart of toe pattern of strategic bombing announced some time ago by the 20th a to cripple japans War product l destroy Jap Industry in recent toe japanese have seen super forts bomb targets among toe most vital to their War steel Center in Man one of their biggest sources of War and an other big steel have both navys firepower greater than in 1940 24 fire Power has been in creased to five times the 1940 Capa while the tonnage of Comba Tant ships has been toe Navy disclosed the guns of guard auxiliaries and combatant ships can hurl tons of steel in a 15 second firing the Navy explained that As Well As the number of ships measured a navys behind the increased fire Power Are Radical changes in toe Arma ment of modern fighting the most Modera the commissioned in february packs a Wallop 92 percen greater than toe pref Earl Harbor Curtis Lemander of the 20th a in Chin India there is need to return to he Jar main Advance air repair base Supply and most important air target Japan has been Virtus so jul delay in attacking toe Superia in earlier raids suggests japanese have been trying to up toe giant bomber and attack As far As is b29 has fallen into their hands Good enough shape to enable to to learn anything of value folks at of storks 17 re 16 Barview 31 vow Peter new James Indian Apo Steven 13 r 16 Robert 18 Guido 13 new Yor Paul 19 Wilbur cams new j Jug Clyde 17 John new Philip Brook Lynma 16 pvt 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