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SILENCE ON CORREGIDOR
After five months of firing, after twenty-seven days of concentrated attack by a foe outnumbering the defenders perhaps twenty to one, after air attacks increasing in frequency and violence until they howled over the little island thirteen times in one day, after incessant bombardment by the heaviest siege artillery, after semi-starvation, sickness and uncounted casualties, after the invaders had actually landed in force- after all this the guns of Corregidor stopped firing yesterday morning at about 4 o'clock, Eastern war time.
The silence that fell over Corregidor must have deafened the remnants of the 6,500 soldiers, sailors, and marines-men no different from their comrades, whom we see daily on the streets of this city- who had lived through those weeks of roaring hell. It might be fitting if all of us, now safe at home, kept silent too for perhaps the two minutes that we give on Armistice Day to the dead of the older war. We might keep silence, for that time, for the newly dead and for the brave living men who have fallen into captivity: all of us, the hesitant, who thought this was not our war; the provincial, who could not see beyond our continental shores; the unimaginative, who accept this war but do not yet understand what it means in valor and in agony. Not one of us is wholly guiltless of Corregidor. From the high command to the most obscure citizen we stand at this tribunal whose judges are the captive, the wounded and the dead.
This is not the time to ask who was most to blame. We know that the fighting men who bore the burden of battle, aware that for them there could be no victory, were unafraid and blameless. It is for us to hope that never again will American soldiers be compelled to fight such a battle, and that from this time forward their naked courage will be clothed with force, with airplanes, with ships, with tanks, with the reasonable chance- and that is all they ask- of victory. It is for us to resolve that none of the small sacrifices by which we can help them shall be omitted, that no work whose fruits will succor them shall be left undone, that no jealousies, no intolerances, no greeds, no ambitions shall rob them of the least thing that they need. 
Let us be silent for a little space before the living and the dead. Then let us take up our work again, each man to his task- each woman too- committing ourselves to it until the cause for which some died and others still suffer has won the day.

BARS TO INTERSTATE TRADE
At Washington a State-Federal conference is in session. It was called by Mr. Roosevelt's authority to devise means of ending or suspending during the war State laws and regulations that interfere with production. In the last two or three years the Council of State Governments, the National Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers, the Temporary National Economic Conference have, or should have, directed national attention to the fact that many States have passed laws which amount in effect to restrictive or even prohibitive tariffs against the importa-