Regimental mirror. (Fort Benning, Ga.) 1943-194?, May 04, 1944, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR ’ REGIMENTAL (MIRROR] Office: Building 73 Published Every Thursday by and for the Enlisted Men of the Academic Regiment. The Infantry School, Fort Benning. Qa THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1944 The REGIMENTAL MIRROR receives Camp Newspaper Ser vice material. Republication of credited matter prohibited with out permission of CNS, 205 E 42 St . N Y C., 17 COL E P. PASSAILAIGUE LT VERNON C HOYT Commanding Advisor SGT. WALTER MILLER ■ • • Editor Cpl Johnston C. Woodall Assistant Editor Pvt. J une Freed Secretary INFANTRY DAY CONTESTS AID TO PERSONAL "ORIENTATION" The announcement of Infantry Day contests by both The Infantry School and the Academic Regiment head quarters should receive warm response from members of this command, who are on the threshhold of the crucial hour in their military career. Most men of this regiment will be overseas as combat Infantrymen before the year is out and will be present when the great decision is made against the enemy at close quarters. In the quiet way that the American soldier has, each and every G1 in the outfit is thinking about his part and preparing himself in mind and body for his graduation to the more active branch of the Doughboys. No contest could be announced at a more fruitful time in world history or in local affairs. Those men who have returned from combat will not have to think very hard for subject matter for the con tests. But men who are yet to go have something just as important to say. They have an unusual opportunity to put into creative form the very things they have been mulling over in their minds as they await reassignment. We are naturally proud to be in the Infantry—that branch of the service which, significantly, gets more and more recognition as the war develops. The Army itself has made two important gestures expressing the importance of the Infantry. First there came the announcement of the Com bat and Expert Infantryman badges; then came the 275,- 000 new ratings passed out to combat Infantry outfits. Recognition from enlisted men in other branches of the service has come too in the thousands of applications flood ing the War Department for transfer to the Infantry! But now, for the first time, we have a chance our selves to express OUR feelings in the matter. We have always been proud of the vital part WE have played in the training of combat leaders and technicians for the Infan try. We are even prouder now that when our men go ‘over” they will be in on the ground floor of the fight— literally! Our feelings are important. What do we ex pect? What are we going to do? Why are we going to do it? Why are we proud that we’ll be wearing the blue of the Infantry? Questions like these will figure in many entries to the contests, which will help us formulate those final ideas we all like to have in mind when we get ready for an im portant step. 11TH STREET USO WELCOMES CONTEST WRITERS, ARTISTS Academics interested in com peting for the $250 worth of bonds offered as prizes in the Infantry Day contest have been invited by the 11th Street USO in Columbus to use the center’s facilities while working on their entries Water colors, oil paints, brush es and other supplies for artists are available, according to Miss Mabel Boles, program director. ‘‘For those Gls and WACs who are interested in creative writ ing, our second floor lounge is open for use. We will do every thing possible to create the prop er conditions for serious writ ing,” Miss Boles said Two separate contests have been announced for Infantry Day, to be celebrated on June 15th. The Infantry School con test, open to all military person nel at Benning, offers a SIOO Phone 3046 bond for the best literary work and a SIOO bond for the best art work on the theme of “The American Infantry and The A merican Infantryman.” Entries must be submitted to The Infan try School public relations office by May 31st. The School contest judges will be announced short ly. The second contest, open only to enlisted personnel of the Aca demic Regiment, offers a SSO bond for the best expression, in any form or medium, on the same theme. Entries to the regimental contest must be submitted to the Academic Regiment public re lations office by May 31st. Gls may enter one, or both contests, but except in the cases of large plastic art forms which can be made in only single copies, a separate copy of each work must be submitted for each con test REGIMENTAL MIRROR THE MARSHALL ISLANDS . ; ® National Gao^raphk Society RiL >r Distributad by C.MA. DlKar [Pawsonj [Brown]Bikini^ Rongelap . ^ORongerik Utink [Kutuzov] Ailinginae*©^ ’ Taka** [ENIWETOK | Hr ^Ujelang [Providence] 4 / V&Likiep ^^^^TTWOTJEI * y* Ro I WWWSJW Ujae« Z HnH [Menshikov] ^Erikub [Katharine]'*' ♦ ... SV Lae/*’ '♦Kwajalein Maloelap 4 ^ ^1 I A i n, Aur [lbbetson] KWAJALEINj z K-’Namu [Musquillo] % ' W • Jabwot 0 [Arrowsmith] . Aihnglapalap z [Elmore] gj? Arno [Daniel | fc ] O . Pingelap i a ! [ CAROLINE ISLANDS [Bonham] Mili [Mulgrave] Namorik^ Kill- Narik Kusaie^v [Baring] [Hunter] [Knox Islands] [Ualan] o too zoo [Boston] Ebonf® Miles THE MARSHALL ISLANDS COMPOSE ANOTHER HUGE SECTOR OF THE PACI lic war theater which now, far from being of any use to their former Jap owners, are a definite headache for Hirohito. Only four Marshalls remain now in Jap hands—Jaluit, Mili. Wotje, and Maloelap—and they fit perfectly into General MacArthur’s idea of the Japs’ "withering on the vine.” During the past few weeks the Army Engineers and the Navy Seafjpej have built up greater bases on Eniwetok and Kwajalein than the Japs were able to build in 30 years. Air strips on Kwajalein are probably the bases for recent air attacks on the faraway Carolines more than 700 miles deeper west in what is still Jap-con trolled territory. Both Truk and Guam, previously important Jap bases, are now almost completely untenable due to the American advance into the Marshalls. Truk especially has been repeatedly bombed with great damage to shore and harbor installations and to shipping caught in the Truk lagoon. Church And State Interests Inseparable In Current War By Chaplain Glenn S Reddick Jesus Christ was accused of two charges at His trial—blas phemy and treason. Pilate tried Him on the treason charge. The Pharisees thought they had Him for treason over the tax ques tion. Jesus answered them clev erly and said “Render unto Caesar the things that are Cae sar’s”. The question of a man s atti tude towards the State is an old one. Socrates took the attitude that a man should obey the State even if it cost him his life—to Socrates the laws of the State was sacred. Laws are the foundation of the State. A sovereign State is com posed of a definite territory, a definite people and a definite body of laws. By a law I mean crystallized public conscience. A law is not a law merely be cause it is on a statute book. It has to be in peoples’ conscience. (Prohibition, for example, never was a law.) Ancient people believed that the State was divine and its laws were given to it by the Gods. The Hebrews thought this. Both the Hebrews and Greeks thought that the State was more impor tant than any member or citizen. Pythagoras and Democritus both taught that everyone should devote himself to the good of the State. After the Persian Wars the people of Athens began to question blind loyalty to the powers of the State. Individual ism was in the air. The Sophists believed in the freedom of the individual They thought laws were made by the stronger to keep the weaker in subjection. This attitude towards law tended to make for anarchy. GOOD CITIZEN Socrates and Plato and Aris totle in answer to the Sophists thought up an adequate philoso phy of the State. Socrates be lieved that the good citizen was one who constantly searched af ter knowledge He was intensely loyal to the State. He was will ing to die because a law court of Athens had sentenced him to death To him the State was a mother who had given him life and made him what he was. Pla to thought the State necessary for the highest development of the individual. The good man was the good citizen Laws were necessary only because some people refused to cooperate with the good State. Aristotle thought the State should enable, each member to become wholly good. He believed that a democracy was a bad form of government. Monarchy and aristocracy were good forms. The Epicureans did not be lieve that participation in public life would contribute to the hap piness of the individual, there fore a wise man should shun public office. The Stoics took the opposite view. They believed that all have duties and obliga tions to the State and its laws are natural laws which we must all obey whether we like it or not. A good State was one whose laws and practices were in har mony with the good of all man kind. The Stoics were almost internationalists in their views. The Christians put God above the State. Man should be loyal to the State only in so far as it obeyed the laws of God. Some early thinkers of the Church hes itated between world denial and world affirmation. They substi tuted the Church for the State, as did for example, Augustine, in his “City of God”. Earthly rulers of States may make mis takes but the ruler of the Church never made a mistake. In Mediaeval times the idea grew up that the King received his authority from God Author ity was superior to public opim ion and the State superior to the individual. Between the nomi nalists and realists there were two views of the State. The Re alists held the State to be the only reality and its members to have no true reality The Nominalists held man to be the true reality and the State as having no existence apart from its members Aquinas sought to fuse the thinking of Aristotle Thursday, May 4, 1944 and Augustine. He believed that rebellion against government can never be justified. Changes in government must come through legal means, since government is of divine origin. Aquinas taught that the Church was su perior to the State. The State received its power from the Church. IN UNIFORM AGAIN Anyone who has gone through a war may question the State. I myself have done so. For years after the last world war I ad mired Eugene V. Debs in his at titude towards the State. 1 vow ed that in case of another war I would oppose it and speak a gainst it and advise any young man not to enter it. Now I find myself in uniform again. Why the transition? In the first place, no State can exist that allows or permits it self to have its sovereign terri tory violated or taken from it by force. Japan has done this with the Philippines. In the sec ond place no State has a right to exist which eliminates Christi anity and preaches the doctrine of the Super Man, as Germany our enemy has done. Honesty should be the basis upon which the solid foundation of any State rests. Both Germany and Japan have forsaken honesty and sub stituted lies and deceit for it and therefore have forfeited the right to exist Among civilized people No State has a right to block the economic progress of its citizens or the economic prog ress of mankind. Germany and Japan by reverting to State Cap italism have forfeited all rights to exist, because they hold mil lions in economic slavery for the sake of a favored few of their citizens PEACE TO MANKIND If I had to choose between the Church and the State I would rather obey the Church. In this present conflict the interests of the Church on the side of the Allies are so bound up together that we cannot separate them We live in a world of force be- (Continued on Page 5)