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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
CHORAL SOCIETY
PLEASED WITH
SUNDAY CONCERT

The seventh annual Christmas con-
cert of the WyandOtte Choral society,
given i'm Roosevelt school auditorium
sunday afternoon. was, in the opinion
of the large audience that attended,
the best In the history of the society.
The five groups of songs ON the pro-
gram were rendered with smooth
hess that justified the long hours OF
rehearsal by the chorus.
Likewise. the society was fortunate
III securing. as guest SOiOist Pauline
Wright Higgins, who is cOntraltO solo
list at the Metropolitan Methodist
church i'm Detroit. Her accUmpanist
was Mrs. Blair Mclean.
The entire program was in cOnson-
ance with the sacred Christmas season.
The concert opened with three num-
hers by the Choral society. These In
cluded Break Forth d BeauteOus
Heavenly Light" by Bach; Might in
bethlehem" by Parker-Geer, and an
old English song. The Twelve Days
of Christmas" arranged BY Louis Vic
tor Saar.
Mrs. Higgins followed with the
''hllkaby." by Brahms; 40 Candle
Was There and No Fire" by Liza Leh-
mann. and - Leave Your Sheep" by
Cecil Hazelhurst.
Three songs by the promising Junior
Choral society followed. They were :
virgins Slumber Song" by Max Re
ger: a Burgundian air, "Pat-aAPan,
lay laws. and lin dulei jubilO, by
Klug
"A Slumger Song OF the. Madonna
by Michael Head; The Eve of Christ
mas by +. Dudleigh Vernon. and
The Holy Child were next given by
Pauline Wright Higgins.
\ group Of Czech Christmas carols
followed.
One uf the fine things on an exCep-
tionally good program was Anton Ru-
binstein's 'iSeraphic Song" a solo by
Pauline Wright Higgins. with violin
Obbligato by Jack Downing.
That Christmas standby. Silent
Night. Holy Night" In which both the
Choral society and Junior Choral so
ciety appeared, closed the concert.
III. Hyle Lyon was director, Mrs
Florence ErOstic and Mrs. Emily Lyon
accompanies.
EieanOre Bennink was director oil
the Junior society, and Anita Raether
the accompanist.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
JUDGE CUTS
DAMAGES OF
SAVAGE IN TWO

City Attorney w. Hugh Williams In
formed the Council, at its session Tues
day night, that Circuit Judge Sherman
ID. Calendar had reduced the damages
awarded. Frank H. Savage from S4,OOO
to $1,000.
Savage's wife, Bertha May Savage,
died from the effects of injuries sus-
tanned when she stepped into hole on
Negaunee street The husband brought
suit, claiming damages for himself per-
sonally and as administrator OF his
wife's estate.
Judge Calendar Overruled most or
the reasons advanced by the city for a
new trial, but said he did believe that
the amount awarded in damages was
excessive, and reduced the Judgment
by One-half.
He gave the plaintiff until Decem-
Der % to accept the $1,000 Judgment.
IL he does not so accept, the city Will
be granted q new trial.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
Commission
Tells Council of
Light Plans

In a communication to the Council
Tuesday night, the Municipal Service
Commission declared that 1t lis doing
everything possible to increase the IL
Elimination Of streets bearing the most
traffic and eventually 1t is the plan
Of the Commission to make wyandOtte
one q the best lighted cities I'm the
United States" -
Referring to lighting conditions on
Eureka avenue, the letter stated that
the illumination Of this street has
been under investigation for some time.
IL is planned to increase the lighting
OF Eureka avenue during the present
fiscal year.
An order has been already placed by
the Commission for Is 22 foot street
lighting standards and the necessary
equipment for the north Biddle ave-
nue. extension. The 14-foot standards
with the new six-foOt bracket extern
sion are to be placed on Eureka ave-
nue. from the viadnct TO Fifteenth
street.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
Fiftesn Prizes for
Hens Decoration

The Is prizes which the Merchants
Association Of Wyandotte Is offering
for the best outside decoration of city
romes, are on exhibition in the office
of the Municipal Service Commission
in the old city hall
The following prizes are offered:
$50 electric stove, $40 radio, $29.95
electric rOaster, SIS automatic electric
tOaster, $40 electric brOiler, 6 $7.95
automatic electric teakettles, $7.95 de-
luxe electric coffee maker, $5.95 cleo
tric coffee maker, $4.95 deluxe electric
kitchen clock, 1896 electric kitchen
clock.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
Officials Discuss
Skating Over Air

Ia broadcast over station WNlZ,
Saturday evening. Mayor Thomas A.
Davis extended an invitation to at
tend an invitatiOnal skating meet. pre-
viously postponed This meeting will
lsc held on December - and 20. wel-
iher permitting.
Remarks were also made by Recre-
alton Director Benny Yack. President
Otto Bufe and Chem Mcfarland and Al
l'omnichowSki. Of the Recreation Com
mission. were present at the broad
east.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
Civic Hall, Etc.
Activities Postponed

Word reaches The Herald from the
Commerce Research Group at Chica-
go, that agitation for "a civic hall and
ice skating rink I'm wyandOtte. to
serve down river cities, has been post
poned until after the holidays. Ac-
cording to the promotion group. there
lis an evident widespread demand for
such Il facility"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
Churches Will
Observe Christmas

All Of the churches ia the city are
making preparations for the observ-
ance of Christmas in ? manner that
BELTS the importance Z he. anniver-
sary.
There will be special asses In the
Catholic churches, with n accompani-
ment Of music. In u Protestant
churches the services W Il be I'm keep
ms with the occasion. inday schools
will render programs, al ! the children
OF course will not be fo gotten
Judging by the sales It local stores,
Santa Claus will be keIt busy on his
round of homes.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
OLD TIMERS WANT
A TROPHY ROOM

The Old Time Ball Players Associa-
tiOn has asked Mayor Davis and the
Council to give, consideration TO pro
viding a historical and memorial tro-
ply room in some central location in
the city. The mayor referred the mat
ter to the city clerk, city engineer and
Councilman Louis Brohl. who cham
pioned the request.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
POSTOFFICE OPEN :.
EACH EVENING UNTIL {

keeping the Wyandotte postoffice open
each evening this week until 8 o'clock,
for the accommodation of mailers Of
Christmas gifts and greetings.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
Herald Has the
Winter Road Maps

The Herald has received from the
state highway department a limited
supply Of the new winter road maps Of
Michigan. While the supply lasts, maps
are fzse ut this Office for the asking.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
SPECIAL COUNSEL'S
BILL ORDERED PAID

The Council Tuesday night author-
lied payment Of a bill for $545. 10
Frank Ortman. special counsel In the
trial Of the case OF Prank Savage W.
the city of WyandOtte. -
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23

The Down River Shipbuilders' ASSOC
citation will hold a meeting tonight ut
workingmen's hall In River Rouge.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23

Members of the IAC..5A. held their
animal Christmas parts on Tuesday
evening
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-23
WYAND0TT::'
LADY'S SLOGAN
WINS AWARD

xUvondo+4 laa - 49,,
''
ooah' Oh Zll4 blodie as nue., mas been
awarded the prize for ttmissiOn of a
safety slogan that is being used in
natro;t a,r;na +ho hi; -.
MIS-. Ooan was one the i,1OV In
ui'iuuas WHO entered l eontest. Inc
committee sponsoring t'.e contest was
GoHposeu Oh fonce commissioner
I,einrieh Ilckert "a I@Foit' 1onh a.
Fry, deputy commissioner, inspector
FREQ cuergens' director d tranlc, ana
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
ONE BIG OBJECTION
TO LABOR UNION TACTICS

When a salesman attempts to put ms
product on a merchants shelves, ne doeS
not do it by destroying the products OF
his competitors. If he is a smart sales
man. he does not even criticize the COM
peting product. He sells his own item on
its merits.
When storekeeper goes into competl-
ton with another storekeeper, he does not
send out his employees to close up the
other mans place. He depends upon the
service he renders and the goods he
sells to make himself successful.
When a laborer goes looking for
job, he does not point out what bad
workmen the other laborers are He tries
to prove, instead, that he is better.
But-when a labor union goes out af-
ter membership, it usually does two
things: it tries to destroy the competing
labor union, if there is one, and it uses
fear to inspire a desire for membership.
In Brawley this week the carpenters
union local threw a picket line around
the Imperial Irrigation Districts stand
by power plant. There was only one
reason for the action. The union wanted
to force a contractor to fire a man. The
mans offense was that ne worked on a
Job where, the union said, strike was in
progress.
We do not criticize the local particu-
larly 1t is merely doing the accepted
thing. 1t is following the example of
other unions throughout the country.
But to labor leaders we would like to
make suggestion:
Why not try selling your union on
its merits?
A lot can be said for labor unions.
Many benefits are found in organiza-
tion of laborers. For employers, as well
as for employees, there are many reasons
why certain classes of labor should be
organized. Yet in the last three years
we have not heard one of them advanced
by union organizers.
Why cannot unions sell their ideas,
for a change, instead of trying to put
them over by brute force and coercion.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
THE PRIMARIES
IN PENNSYLVANIA

From this distance it is almost I'M
possible actually to determine the i'm
portance of the Pennsylvania primary
election of Tuesday on the national poll
tical picture. At first glance it seems the
New Deal, coupled with the CIO, has
suffered humiliating defeat. But there
are other factors to consider.
We have said before that no state cleo
ton, regardless of the issues, can truly
indicate the feelings of the nations vot-
ers. In state elections there are too
many personalities that never appear in
the national picture. The candidates are
closer to the people, and SO better known.
With this mental reservation, it seems
that the Pennsylvania election has dem
onstrated two things. That left wing
labor forces are not as strong in the
industrial areas as the noise they make
would have us believe, and that the peo-
pie of state object to an attempt by
New Deal political strategists to tell
them how to vote.
Only the first item stands up as of
national importance. The second will no
longer exist when the election issue is
a nationwide one, instead of local one.
The people, then, will not feel that any
one from outside is trying to tell them
how to vote-because all the candidates
will be from "outside."
Taken as whole, we believe the Penn
sylvania election, or any other state cleo
ton, of minor Importance in the nation
al picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
Famous Sayings

Although the archipelago of ia
pan has been on the maps for CEN
turies, it is only within the last
half century or so that the ordi-
nary American has really been
conscious of Japans existence.
Much of this consciousness has
been born of irritation-a feeling
that these perky little people from
the far east were feeling their oats
altogether too much, and that
their capacity for starting trouble
was out of all proportion to their
size. But underneath this irritation
there has run a vague, haunting
feeling that we had seen the Jap
anese before. We knew him but
we couldn't quite place him, SO to
Speak
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
COMPULSORY MIGRATION
OF GERMAN JEWS
Riverside PreSS)

(RlNerSlde Press
To Americans there are many interest
ing angles in the report from Vienna,
that the German government is planning
IAN organized mass emigration of 10000
Austrian Jews in succeeding years" 1t
would soon eliminate AuStriaS S 100000
pure-blooded Jews and many of mixed
blood
As described, this expulsion would not
be quite so heartless as some already ac-
complished by the NaZi government. 1t
will be more orderly. The victims will
not be obliged to flee with two or three
days notice. But in most cases there
will doubtless be great grief and loss.
Americans will not miss the irony OF
the statement that transportation will
be paid to ports of emigration with funds
to be derived from the resources of veal
thy Jews in Austrian Germany The
Nazi government will take money from
Jews who have it, and pay for the depor-
tatiOn of those who havent-but only as
far as the ports of emigration" The
cost of long sea voyage is apparently
none of the Nazis' affair.
And where will the eXiles go? The
Hitler government suggests that per-
haps arrangements can be made with
several countries in the New World, es-
pecially in South America, to accept such
immigrants for colonization of undevel-
oped areas. 1t is a heartless proposal,
and yet one that probably arouses hope
in many sad breast. Some of the Jews
will come to North America, but there
is room and opportunity perhaps for
many more in South America.
The way of life will be strange and
hard at first But in this New World
they may find safe haven, free from
the preiudices Of Europe, with political
and social liberty.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
THE NOON AND
OUR WEATHER
(OrOVIIIe .

(Oroville Mercury-Register)
The mysterious ways of the weather
always have caused speculation by man,
and always man has had some sort of
explanation for its vagaries. When Fa-
ther Ricard was alive he predicted the
weather with some success, basing all
his gueSSeS upon the changing form of
the spots on the sun. There seemed to be
something in it.
There are others who give full credit
to the moon for our changing weather,
although to us the moon seems to be
only a small reflectr stationed out there
in the sky, sometimes reflecting most of
the suns light, that it reflects at all, out
into space.
To the uninitiated it seems hardly pos
Sible that our weather should be affected
in any degree by the fact that the shadow
cast by the earth should be approaching
the moon. The present heat wave has
been attributed to that. The theory is
that when the full moon approaches we
have our extremes of weather, and prob
ably that phenomenon rather than the
eclipse itself, is credited for the present
extreme in weather. Certainly, the moon
was as full last night and is as full today
as it could possibly be.
10 us 1t seems Just as likely that FIJI
day the 18th may have been responsible
for the unreasonable heat. You know, 13
is unlucky, and so is Friday.
We are told that not since Be has
there been total eclipse of the moon on
Friday the 18th. But the reader is en-
titled to take that with a grain of SALT
since the calendar has changed a lot in
the intervening centuries. At any rate
if that is SO, think how hot it could have
been.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
News Behind
the News
fractional Fights
GOssips' Delight

WASHINGTON There is notn-
irgthat gives more delight 20
Washington gossips than the stir
ring up of a factional fight in
some government department.
Not even the White House has
been immune from these rows,
when there have been differences
o. opinion among presidential adj
viSers, and now the goSsips are
trying TO make the most out of thc
case of the rest of the Supreme
Court VS.. Justice Black.
New Deal friends of the eX-
senator from Alabama have been
rushing to his defense with favor
able analysis of his lone-wolf dis
senting opinions. first reported in
this column last February.
Blacks supporters now claim
that recently the Court reversed
a vital 96-year- old opinion III the
Tompkins case, two weeks after
Black had taken the same position
in a one-man dissent.
Ambassador Joe Kennedy was a
potent conservative influence III
WASHINGTON. But he can't spread
his influence across the Atlantic
Ocean. AS Maritime Commission
Chairman, Kennedy emphatically
demanded compulsory arbitration
H. the shipping industry, clashins
with Secretary Of Labor Perkins.
After Kennedy went to London
Miss Perkins kept lobbying quietly
and the result was a committee
bill providing a special maritime
labor board and dropping the Ker-
nc6y plan.
Kennedy was more influential
tnan any other administration adj
wiser in dissuading the President
from turning earlier to an enlarg-
ed spending program.
Washington has professors OF
everything except philosophy and
it's likely to have one OF those af-
ter the November election in tn
person of Prof. T. V. Smith, run
ring for congressman-at- large II
Illinois. Smith is a Chicago Uni
versity professor of philosophy
and author who made regulal
radio talks for the Democrats il
the 1886 campaign. He is chumml
with Roosevelt and numerou
brain-truSterS.
On May 81 he broadcasts on ,
national hookup in an argumen
between a philosopher and poll
tician. Smith takes both parts.
ought TO be pretty good or prett,
awful.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19

does. he solves problems. Patents.
That's exactly it. Patents. Some
times ideas come to him IN his
sleep: sometimes while he IS
awake.
But they certainly come to him,
70. he has 700 OF them.
only two human beings have
ever exceeded this record. The late
Thomas Edison obtained over lOoO
patents. and a practically unknown
scientist. John OConnor, was ac-
credited with slightly less than
1000.
In a few more years I'll nave
them beth showed under, declares
Mr.. Ellis. his keen eyes tWinklins
behind his rimless spectacles. Not
a doubt about it provided | live
that long and never so sound a
sleep at all.
II has been a tough life, but he
has enjoyed every day and night
of it. But he has bit of advice
for any ingenious person who may
hope to follow a smooth and easy
road to wealth by invention.
Forget it., he urges. There IS
no such road. The inventor must
be prepared to work like a beaver
and suffer like a guy with acute
sciatica.'
For five years after his marriage,
81 years ago, Carleton Ellis work
ed and suffered. His patient wife
suffered also. Every night, year
after year. her sleep was broken
when the light above their bed
kept flashing on and off as her
sleeplesS husband reused himself
to jot down the ideas that keep
popping into his head. Month al
ter month she reminded him that
rent day had passed.
Then he got going with his tue
and tank process for cracking oil
The Standard Oil Corporation
made a deal for it, and Ellis be
came 100 exhilarated to sleep. He
invented dog biscuits, soap that
left no rings on bath tubs, and
printers ink that would not
snudge. The rent was paid reg
ularly and money began to pile
up in the bank. Ellis bought him
self new spectacles and worked
harder and slept less, if that were
possible, than before.
When he Couldn't find anything
else to do he wrote. He has writ
ten and published ten scientific
books.
He is now 62 years old, is taking
out patents at the rate Of two q
month, and Is a millionaire.
do you find that your age is any
handcap?' he was asked.
Yes, l do. he said. ITS begin
ming to tell on me. I can't work
more than sixteen hours day
now.
Thus Americas most prolific in
ventor has turned into an asset
what was once a liability to him
Think of that tonight, if you get
to tumbling and tossing around.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
Barbs -'--

In inventor has discovered that
friction can be used as a SUBSTITUTE
for domestic fuel. Now why doesn't
somebody discover substitute Tor
domestic friction?
Uruguay is one nation in a mil
lion these days. The sign on that
co,ntrV's consulate in Philadel-
nbia was stolen a while ago, and
nobody has been able to think OF
a reason for ii yet.
A factory in California burned
down the other day while two
women monopolized telephone
line that should have been used
for calling the fire department.
THAT makes one factory and a
LARGE assortment of ears that were
burning at the time.
Hitier's safe in allowing the
notes of the Liberty Bill to be
heard in a coming symphony con-
cert. He knows nobody'd recognize
them by this time.
Cows escaped recently from 6
runaway freight train in Colo
rado. and the funny thing is that
nobody thought of the obvious
solution-the one hanging on the
front of the engine.
Students at DulWich college,
England. are taught to read and
recitc in classes while wearing gas
masks.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
Bruce Cation Says
A Yankee in Hirohito Court

Now it is possible to clear I'll
feeling up. A recent protest In \
British House of Commons o1
the shipment of Japanese-mf|
cotton shirts to the Malay Sta)
casts a flood Of light on eve1
thing.
The Japanese send cotton to M
laySia under a rigid quota. i
someone finally discovered tn
the shirts that were coming
we're equipped with the most n
digious tails ever seen-three Il
ton was simple. The import
and more in length. The explaf|
simply cut off the tail, marke|
the shirt, and then had a nice
Of cotton piece-goods to sell in
fiance OF the restrictions.
So now-to repeat-we can
where we have met the Japan
before. He is nothing but a doY
east New England Yankee, OF
vintage of Sam Slick.
What is this yard-long sh1
tail racket but variant OF
old Connecticut wooden nutn
gag? Verify. the race that inve
cd it would have been at he
along the Merrimac and the H
satonic. Old faniel Drew, v
carefully halted his cattle by
creek and let them drink their
Just before taking them to mi
ket, so that they would we
more, would have understood
japanese perfectly.
Which, joking aside, is sorI
thing> worth thinking about.
the Japanese are in great IN;
ways very like ourselves. To
sure, they wear kimonos and T.
live in paper houses and they
unutterably polite; but under
surface there is kinship VIII
we would do well to recognize.
Like the japanese, we set out
carve an empire by force of ar
We fought each other, the Engl
the Indians, the MeXicans, and
Spaniards before We were sati
cd; and the drive that set us
on this career of conquest
much like the one that made
japanese plunge into Asia.
Like them, we have been
getters, energetic statesmen, el
nal modernizers. Like them,
have gone Our own gait with sc
regard for the wishes of other
tiLns. Like them, we have b
convinced that through us a
ter civilization is to take form
on the earth.
Ultimately, our recognition
these likenesses ought to bl
GLout permanently cordial r
tiCns between our countries.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
Photographs

The seven dimensions of intel
lect'. according to a Chicago uni
versity professor, are: Memory, III
dUction, word fluency, number ia
cility, verbal reasoning, perceptual
speed and yisualizing ability.
Although the "gullible" Ameri-
can Indians are said to have sold
Manhattan island for hatchet
and a few trinkets, they also sold
a strip of land in New England six
times.
A research institute equipped
with 5000 human and animal
brains began functioning last year
at Georgetown university, Wash
ington, d. G.
More than 900 pupils are enroll
ed in the school for students 10
years and older" at Oklahoma City
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19

all night long
just like a per
son who is wide
awake. Yet he
goes to bed reg
ular y, always
hopeful of one
night of sound
and refreshing
slunber. H / 5
name is Carleton
Ellis.
But instead oil
, t u m b ! ing a io
tossing. as tl,
a V age man
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
Well Ill.
TeIIYou..
says
Bob Burns

Every time | pick up a magazine
I see where some other woman Is
ont for The title of ''the best dress
cd woman in Hollywood" It's IA
nice title if You can get 1t nut us
nretty hard on the husbands.
The other day husband came
home from a party and he was
telling his wife about how nice a
certain lady looked at the party
and he said, 81 couldn't help noti-
cling how simply and modestly she
was dressed" The wife said, "yes,
that woman would do anything to
attract attention"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-19
IOday'S Horoscope

A sensitive nature is character
istic of many persons whose birth
Gay occurs today. Easily offended,
they often are melancholy.