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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-23
Program Sunday Mornino

The combined choir of the Den.
ton Parish presented their Christ.
mas musical program at the
Church Sunday morning at 11:O.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Marsh lett
by train Sunday for Tennessee.
They will visit Mr.. Marsh's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Marsh. and
the mother OF Mrs. Marsh. MIS-.
Lucy Cakes, Obion, Tenn.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Sheppard visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Zanders,
Plymouth, ond Mrs. Frank Ray.
mond. Wayne, Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Heimer-
dinger visited relatives in Man
chester and Clinton Thursday.
MILFORD Slnden, who has been
suffering with ear trouble, went
to Ann Arbor TO special treat
ment.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-23

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Several families from this com
munity attended the Christmas ex-
ercises at the Willow Run Chapel
Wednesday evening. The children
from the Begole School took pat
in the program.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-23
Has Influenza
Attend Party

Janet Sinden is confined to her
home with influenza.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Mexican Ropprochement

1t was not merely to aid in stabi-
lizing the political situation in Mexi-
co, but also in hope of creating better
relations between this country and
its sister republic that Vice President
elect Henry A. Wallace was desig-
mated to represent the United States
at the Inauguration of General Avila
Camacho on December /. The United
States has not intervened in Mexican
politics to decide a contest between
presidential aspirants. That question
was settled by the Mexican people at
the polls last July. But the action of
President Roosevelt should tend to
quiet the clamor of adherents of
General Juan Andreu Almazan and
scotch the threat of revolt by his
faction in Mexican politics. To the
extent that the chance for upheaval
In Mexico is eliminated, Just so much
Is the security of the United States
and Of the Western Hemisphere
strengthened.
Mr.. Wallace is we'll qualified to
represent the United States in its
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Canned BuqIers

Many of the Army's new soldiers
are going to get their bugle calls and
martial music out of boxes and the
time-honored cry: Kill the bugler!"
is going the way Of the picket line in
a mechanical cavalry division.
The Army Air Corps has listed for
the guidance of subordinate COM
manders the materials required to
build robot bugler or a synthetic
band. 1t even lists the records con-
tanning appropriate bugle calls and
marches
Men who might have made buglers
probably will wind up as cooks
which is exactly what Army men
have favored from time immemorial.
1t is to be remembered, however,
that the old-time Army bugler sell
dom, if ever, ran out of wind. But
the modern outfit which loses its
phonograph needles or breaks its
records is going to be in bad way.
Commanders are reminded that
march music is canned" at speeds
higher than the desired 120 steps a
minute" but that a governor-con-
trolled motor may be used to keep
the troops from double timing
through parades. Maybe drill SER
geants should carry metronomes,
just to check up on the governors. It
must be remembered, too, that
phonograph record which goes bad
cannot be set to peeling spuds.
The system should open fertile new
fields for the Army's perennial sup
ply of practical jokers. The possi-
bilitieS of switching recordings have
yet to be explored; for example, the
effect on the top sergeant's blood
pressure of a blast of hot "boogy-
woogy" during a sedate evening pa
rade.
Evening star., 1940-11-14

contact with the Latin American re-
publics. Fluent in the Spanish Lam
guage-he has made speeches in that
tongue-Mr. Wallace long has di-
rected part of his attention to the
problems of those countries. He Is
keenly alive to the Importance Of
Latin America to the United States
in peace as well as in war. 1t is
doubted whether better emissary
could have been selected to prepare
the ground for the long expected
defense agreement which may be
negotiated soon after General CANA
cho has been inaugurated. Such an
agreement has received considera-
ton, particularly in Mexico City, in
recent months, and although details
have yet to be worked out, the inten-
ton of the leaders of the Mexican
government to arrive at such an
accord with the United States is
manifest.
1t Is automatic in American foreign
relations that Mexico never must be
alienated from friendship with the
United States, because of her stra-
tegic position along a virtually un-
fortified frontier in the southwest.
Presumably any defense agreement
with Mexico will include, like that
with Canada, provision for co-opera-
tion between the two governments
against subversive activities.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Community Responsibility

Washington citizens in the past
have demonstrated their sense of
civic responsibility, as well as their
love for their fellow men, by their
generosity in contributing to the re-
lief of those who are in need. Their
responses to the war-relief appeals
and the annual Roll Call of the Red
Cross have been most recent demon
StrationS. And now they are asked
to help their own neighbors through
the medium of the Community Chest.
Efforts of thousands of volunteer
workers, giving freely of their time,
energy and money to raise the S2,000,-
600 required for the eighty-seven CO.
operating agencies will be foremost
in their minds for the next few weeks,
efforts which, by all standards, de-
serve the support of the whole COM
munity.
This sum, far from being what the
Community Chest would like to have
to carry on its work, is the absolute
minimum with which it can accom-
plish the varied tasks of relief, re-
habilitation, care of the helpless and
character building. An ultimate
shortage of a single dollar would
handicap this attempt to make
Washington a better place in which
to live.
In the past, many individuals have
found the making of what they
would consider an adequate contri-
button difficult when paid in one sum.
Many, although wishing to do
more, have felt pressed to restrict
their generosity. This year an ap-
peal is made to give all year" Just
as the various agencies find it more
difficult to meet expenses in the
closing months of the year, so are
many contributors handicapped in
their giving at this season. 1t has been
suggested that donors in this cate
CORY make their gifts payable at
stated periods throughout the coming
year-a proposal which should make
possible larger total contributions.
Some business firms, in the past,
have assisted their employees in
adopting this plan. 1t Is now ex-
tended to all. And it offers an
opportunity to every resident of
Washington to play his part, how
ever small it may seem when COM
pared with the total sought, in ex-
tending helping hand to his less
fortunate brothers.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
American Education Week

Education has assumed an in
creased Importance in recent months,
in view of the unprecedented expan-
sion of vocational educational activ-
ity in national defense industries and
the constant emphasis by educators
and educational bodies on its relation
to the struggle for the preservation
of democracy. In sense, therefore,
designation of a single American
Education Week might seem super
f1uous this year. With the twin emer-
gencies of national defense and
national election requiring special
attention from adults and youth
alike, this might we'll be called Amer
lean education year.
It is an interesting fact, too, that
the country may be on the verge of
finding out just how effective has
been the observance OF American
Education Week The setting aside
of this period for focusing attention
on the work of the schools grew out
of the disclosures as to extent of
illiteracy in the American Expedi-
tionary Force during the World War.
Its prime movers were the American
Legion and the National Education
Association. This year, as the Ma
tion's first peacetime draft goes into
high gear, an opportunity may be
afforded to compare today's literacy
standards with those of 1918.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Heroic Jervis Buy

The mystery which has surrounded
the battle week ago in mid-Atlantic
between German raider and q con-
voy of thirty-eight British merchant
ships has been at least partially dis
PEELED with the safe arrival in port
Of thirty-five of the ships-and the
stories told by their crews give cause
for qualification to all friends Of
embattled Britain. Deep, indeed, was
the gloom which first meager reports
of the attack created, not alone in
England but in the Americas, where
the fight for control of the Atlantic
shipping lanes is a matter Of vital
concern. First there were the
sporadic and cryptic SOS calls,
telling of the shelling of certain ships
by a Nazi warship, presumably Of the
pocket battleship class, followed by
the German claims that a convoy
of $4,000 tons had been "annihilated.
Now comes the announcement by
the British Admiralty that all but
three of the ships escaped, due to the
heroic tactics of an armed converted
freighter, the JerviS Bay. This auXil-
larry cruiser, although hopelessly out
gunned and out-armored, swung
from the convoy to engage the raider,
the while throwing out a dense
smoke screen to shield the scattering
British ships. The captain and crew
of the Jervis Bay must have known
that theirs was a suicidal mission,
but they fired their smaller guns
until the decks of their ship were
awaSh. Only few of the crew were
saved, but the sacrifice of the Jervis
Bay made possible the escape of a
majority of the British ships.
OF course, the loss of even three
ships is serious blow to the British.
That a convoy of SO many ships
should have been protected by moth
ing more formidable than an armed
merchant ship is an indication of
how hard-pressed Britain must be
for warships needed to patrol sea
routes far from home ports. Threat
ened in her island stronghold, in the
Mediterranean and in the Far East,
England must divide her naval forces
to the best advantage in European
waters. That is why she welcomed
as godsend the recent exchange Of
fifty over-age American destroyers
for bases in British Atlantic possess
sions. and it is why she hopes for
more and more aid from the United
States-aid which must be given by
us as an essential phase of our own
defense effort.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
British Naval Victory

Britain has struck effectively at
Italy through the air AS the result
of a smashing bombing attack on
Fascist warships at their principal
base of Taranto, the balance of
power in the Mediterranean has been
"decisively affected" That is the
assurance which a smile-Wreathed
Prime Minister Churchill gave the
House of Commons yesterday. He
was acquainting it with details of an
action in which naval air force
bombers crippled two Italian battle
ships, including one of the brand
new 35,000-ton Littorio class, and
probably damaged a third. OF Mus
Solini's six capital ships, only three
now remain battleworthy, and the
British Admiralty communique also
announces that two Italian cruisers
and two feet auxiliaries were heavily
struck.
Mr.. Churchill described events al
Taranto as "a glorious episode"
They not only affect conditions in
the Mediterranean, he explained, but
react upon the naval situation in
every quarter Of the globe" BY put
ting half Of Italy's Capital ships out
of action, it becomes possible to
release powerful units Of the British
Mediterranean armada for several
essential purposes-pursuit of the
German pocket battleship now
commerce-raiding in mid Atlantic,
strengthening of British forces in
the battle for Egypt and the Near
East, and dispatch, If necessary, of
fleet units to bolster the position
in the Pacific, freshly menaced by
japanese activities in Indo-Chino, in
the direction of Singapore.
It is the alteration of the Mediter-
ranean picture which is of immedi-
ate Importance With Italy's sea
power decimated, she is appreciably
less capable of lending naval support
to the land and air forces threaten
ing Egypt and the Suez Canal from
the direction Of Libya. The task of
defending Gibraltar against Italo-
German attack by land, sea and air
is also facilitated. Italy's fleet is the
principal challenge to British COM
mand of the Mediterranean and the
empire life line to the east. That
menace is considerably lessened by
the brilliant blow the air arm of the
Royal Navy delivered at laramie.
The effect on the Grecian campaign
should be distinctly unfavorable for II
Duce's ill-starred legions and it will
augment British prestige throughout
the Near East at a psychological
moment.
Evening star., 1940-11-14

threaten them. but that they are likely
to make sudden dash, sort OF squir-
rel teasing Of the songsters.
Hence the birds which winter here
give the larger rodents considerable lee
way. Usually they keep to the other
side of the feeding station, whether on
the ground or on a stake.
Since the young rodents attend strictly
to the business Of eating, the birds are
not afraid of them, and eat right with
them on the same side of the platform.
1t is no unusual sight to see two
small squirrels surrounded by songbirds.
Persons who feed the birds all winter
often work up quite dislike for the
squirrels, regarding them as totally
unlimited guests at the feeding board.
Actually, the squirrels do little. If
any, harm. The birds do not mind
them. even when they tend to shy
away from them. They accept their
comings and goings with good grace.
They know better than we do that
the goings of the squirrels will give
them breathing spells of freedom.
Squirrels are active, restless crea-
lures, always on the go, unable to spend
more than half an hour at any one
point.
1t may seem to the observer that they
are forever eating sunflower seeds, but
the truth is that it is seldom the same
squirrel for any length of time.
Usually in the suburban sections there
will be from four 10 q dozen coming 10
any one feeding station. Many devices
have been tried, in an effort to keep
them out Of the birds seed, but mostly
these attempts are failures. The COM
monest device is an inverted funnel
fixed around the feeder stake about
halfway up.
Often the squirrels scorn this, merely
leaping over it or climbing up around
it or jumping to the feeder platform
from a nearby shrub.
Actually. squirrels cause no harm at
a bird feeding station, although at times
they may seem to be scattering the
rightful consumers.
They eat considerable food, but more
than repay the owner for it by their
playful antics and their odd poses.
Dislike of squirrels at a feeding place
intended primarily for birds is mostly
in the mind Of the beholder.
When this dislike is pried out of the
mind, and thrown away, the squirrels
Immediately become the clowns Of the
garden.
BY acceptance of what comes, as much
as is humanity possible. the observer
adds to the sum total Of kindness in a
world which seems to be bent on less
ening it every year.
There are many ways of being brave
and one Of them is by insisting on be-
ing kind to animals, If you feel that
way. Never be frightened off by cruelty
and unkindness, whatever their forms
or appearances.
The brave English people are sharing
their food with their dogs and cats and
squirrels and birds.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
A Labor Man Pleads for
Labor's Cooperation.

10 the Editor OF Inc star.
I wish to thank The Star for its
timely editorial, Industrial Teamwork"
published November 8.
I, too, believe that unless industry and
labor really cooperate we are in danger
of the same fate as that of the other
democracies. Though I belong to the
ranks Of American labor, 1 believe it
must stop listening to crackpot politi-
clans and be willing to compromise its
differences with industrial leaders. Many
workers make unjust demands on their
employers without stopping to think
where the money is coming from.
regret to say it, but radical labor has
certainly been encouraged by the New
Deal during the past seven and half
years to fight what it chooses to call
economic royalists, resulting in the pas
sage by Congress of a lot of foolish
legislation that has injured the cause
of labor.
Take the wage-hour law as an ex-
ample. I used to work 44i2 hours
week and make a luxury wage; now I
work 40, and am barely able to get by
and pay my debts. Yet Roosevelt claims
I am better of now than before. True,
am paid time and half for overtime,
but do not make enough overtime to
balance my annual loss in wages, al
though I am willing to work longer on
straight time. Yet theorists in WASH
ington say I cannot do it. According
to nv experience the Wage-hOur law
has not reduced unemployment. Most
firms run only 40 hours now, because
they cannot afford to pay overtime or
break in new labor 1t generally costs
from $500 to $500 to break in a new hand
for skilled work Don't let any one tell
you differently; after % years expert
ence in my trade ought to know what
I am talking about.
INDIVIDUALIST.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1peH.

Last summers crop of squirrels u
now at the bird feeding stations.
There are three of these miniature
rodents which frequent the station be-
meath the great Van Fleet rose vine on
the fence.
Three Is the usual brood.
The nest was about 40 feet high in
a locust. 1t has been only a month or
so since the small fellows left the tree.
Until then, they were content to play
around the trunk and in the leaves
Now they are full-fledged squirrels
in all except age. and time flies for
them as for US.
They come to the feeding station with
the birds every morning.
The afternoon they take of for q
nap. Surely that must be the explana-
ton Of their disappearance every after
noon. All young animals need plenty
Of sleep.
The house cat, whether it lives indoors
or outdoors, can sleep almost the clock
around.
Old Tigey, who is afraid of the inside
Of a house, being particularly scared by
the voices OF the radio announcers,
sleeps almost all day long in mass Of
leaves which he has followed into .
neat bed.
His fur is thick and wiry, somewhat
resembling that of an Airedale dog. It
is entirely different from the fur of
a true house. cat.
In the coldest weather he sleeps be-
meath the porch, where he can snuggle
up against the chimney where 1t comes
out of the furnace.
This must make a neat bed, for he
is well protected by lattice work and
shrubbery, including evergreens.
All animals which live in the outdoors
work up an immunity against respira-
tional diseases. 1t is rather strange
that outdoors men often are as suscep-
tible to common colds as the average
Office worker
Cats and dogs are better protected by
their fur, which is not just a covering,
as coats with ourselves, but an organic
part Of them, responsive to the calls
both from within and without the sys-
tenn.
Nor is that all.
The animal coat is really two or three
coats, always two, an undercoat of finer
| fur and an outer of coarser.
The inner coat serves primarily for
warmth. The outer coat, while giving
warmth, too also sheds both water and
wind, on the principal of the torpedo
automobile body. Each individual hair
sheds water and wind.
The young squirrels, which are scarce
| ly third as large as their elders, eat
together very amicably.
They indulge in none Of the scamper-
ing which so disconcerts the birds when
larger squirrels attend the feeding sta
ton.
Usually the older rodents keep the
birds at some distance, not that they
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Iu Boheme'

Giacomo Puccini had scant per-
sonal acquaintance with the Latin
Quarter of Paris, about which Henri
Murger wrote the story adapted for
la Boheme." 1t follows that the
opera, first produced at the Teatro
Reggie in Turin, February l, 1896,
owes more to its composers sensitive
spirit than to the realities of student
life, theoretically represented in the
joys and sorrows of Rudolph and
Mimi, Marcel and Musetta. The
murder Of a parrot, for example, is
not commonly corrective for hun
ger. Only in world of make-believe
is the unpaid landlord satisfied with
badinage. And nowhere save in
dreams is there so chivalrous a fell
lowship as that which brings the
whole cast together in single poign-
ancy at the climax of the drama.
The master to whom the interna-
tional public also owes "Tosca" and
Madame Butterfly" created Mimi
from the materials of his imagina-
ton, not merely from the libretto
by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.
She is one of the unforgettable hero
ines of the operatic stage. From the
moment of her entrance with her
candle and key she captures the
hearts of even the most stolidly un-
responsive listeners. Her mi CHA
mano," repeated again and again in
one phrasing or another, is the theme
OF the entire work. Puccini'S varia-
tions of it are infinite in number,
each convincing.
But LA Boheme" is not compost
ton limited to an isolated character
or incident The story is Rudolph's
as well as Minis. So, too, the melody
for which the score Is famous is
shared by Musetta and her waltz song
in Act II. Only great harmoniSt
could achieve such a number of diff
ferent effects without confusion. The
secret Of Puccini, then, is his genius
for making constructive use of every
opportunity.
When played In association with
excerpts from Madame Butterfly"
the recordings Of La Boheme"
offered by The Star In Its second
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Dear Comes the Bride

It has been said that the three
most important dates in a mans life
are those of his birth, his marriage
and his death. He is more concerned
financially with the second, as some
body else takes care Of the first and
third. The National Spiritual Mo-
bilization headquarters in Toxic are
also concerned. Pretentious cere-
monies, lavish feasts, and the pur-
chase of wedding garments used only
once have kept many Japanese
groom in debt for years. They want
to cut out the frills, and ultimately
reduce the cost of a wedding to
mere $3.50.
The tWo-flfty nuptial is one Japa-
nese gimcrack that will never be i'm
ported here. The license alone costs
that much. What if the groom's
wedding garment, his cutaway, is
seldom used again, and certainly not
without three days notice to the
bride, so that she may get it out of
moth balls in time? That, and all
the other paraphernalia serve to give
her fond memories, later on, when
rent is more important than roses
and groceries than gifts. There
should be no objection, however, to
the elimination Of one frill-a group
of the brides female relatives, led
by her mother, all weeping bitterly
at the ceremony, just as If the groom
were in reality as unworthy as they
make him think he is. Let them
realize that If he were that bad, he
would have been hanged long ago.
Evening star., 1940-11-14
Burial of Political
Hatchet Urged.
tn the Editor of The at,

To the Editor of The Star:
Now that the political campaign is
over the only thing for the two major
parties to do Is to bury the hatchet and
cooperate. Whether they will do this
at least on the Republican side-is ex-
tremely doubtful, owing to the strong
support WILKES candidacy received and
their record of opposition in the past. I
hope am wrong In my prediction. The
large Republican vote, aided and abetted
by dissident Democrats, was probably
due to many voters clinging obstinately
to the anti-third term tradition, regard
less of any of the merits of the New Deal.
HENRY LEBACH.