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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
NEWMAN CLUE
MEMBERS ENJOY
HOLIDAY PARTY

Newman CLUB members enjoyed a
Christmas party Tuesday evening In
81 Johns Auditorium. Those pres
ent danced 10 recordings OF popular
music They also danced the Viz
sinia Reel and played novelty
games. Games We're directed by
Miss Mary Bigger. Ypsilanu
Red and green decorations bright
lnod tae room.
Mrs James w. Brown. Mrs owen
j. Cleary and Mrs Francis G. Pryor
n emLcrs of the League 0i Catholi
Women served delicious refresh
ments of Christmas cookies and
punch from an attractively laid
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
CONGREGATIONAL LADIES
AID ELECTS OFFICERS

Salem. Mich. Dec. IS The
Congregational Ladies Aid held
their annual meeting and cleo
ton OF officers at the home OF
Mrs. Rex Shuart, Thursday.
The officers elected were. Mrs.
Emma Kehrl. president; Mrs..Nera
Clark. vice president; Mrs. Mary
Osborne, second vice president;
Mrs. Bertha SchockoW, treasurer
and Mrs. Irene Broegman, secre-
tary.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
Book About Europe
Reviewed For Club

Book.a-Month Club. an organiza-
ton for senior women on the Mich
igau State Normal College campus.
and sponsored by the Women s
League, met Tuesday evening In the
Alumni Lounge OF Charles Mckenuy
Hall 10 hear Dr. G.. +. Harold, pro-
fessor of English. speak on John
Gunther's book. Inside Europe
DR. Harold gave members an
background for the book
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
Rural Events
TODAY
North Superior


North Superior Extepsion group
will have their Christmas dinner
and party at the home OF Mrs. Carol
Freeman. Dixboro.
Denton
Woman's Society OF Christian
Service will hold a Christmas par
ty at the church.
Frains Lake
North Superior Extension Group
will meet with Mrs. Glen Freeman,
Dixboro. Lesson / morning,
Christmas party following dinner
Eaton Mills
Mrs. George Essex will entertain
the Neighborhood Club.
London
L. n. s. Study Glass meets with
Mrs. Lucy Ke'lar in III evening.
BelleVille
First public meeting to be held
in new Mennonite Brethren Church
OF Christ, $. Sumpter Rd.
DECEMBER 10
Begole
p. c. Circle will meet with Mrs.
Max Miller Cooperative dinner
at 1890.
Prayer Meeting al the home IT
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Hopkins,
Plank Rd.
OakVllle
Oakvillc School will have their
Christmas program at the Oak.
vile church In the evening.
Stony Creek
Womans Society of Christian
Service will meet at church. Din.
ner will be served at noon.
Christmas program at the Oak.
lawn School in the evening.
Stony Greek Grange are to be
guests Of the Pittsheld Grange for
a euchre tournament.
Cherry Hill
Christmas program at 3 p. m. at
school.
East Ypsilsnti
Spencer Club will meet with Mrs.
Duncan Millar.
Denton
Woman's Society OF Christian
Service will sponsor community
Christmas party at church. Co
operative supper at $50.
DECEMBER 20
London
RaleirLville Fryburg and
Barnes Schools to have Christ.
mas programs in rrc-eyenIng.
Stony Greek
Christmas program az the Metho
list Church at p IN
A potluck Christmas dinner at
he Tamarack School.
South Superior
Community tree and program a.
tale School, Vreeland I'd, at 80
,. m.
Plat
Program by the Plat School
hildren. In the afternoon for the
children and in the evening for the
parents.
London
Fryburg School Christmas pro
ram.
Canton Center
Bartlett school pupils 20 give
program.
S. W. Ypsilsnti
Thorne School Christmas pro-
yram.
FrainS Lake
Frains Lake School Christmas
Program
DECEMBER q
OakVilie
Methodist Church program N the
yening
BelleVille
Christmas program VIII be given
n the new Mennonite Church
DECEMBER %
Begole
Members OF Begole Sunday
.chool will serve Christmas
reakfast. 10 lie followed by a
christmas program
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
Campus Events

table Red candles thanked the table
and sprigs OF evergreen lay upon
H.
The next meeting OF the club viii
be after the Christmas vacation
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
KILLED BY MACHINE

Detroit. Dec. IS Ap- Adolph W.
Rreckeherg, Go. OF Detroit, was kill
ed and three men were injured
Tuesday when a machine at the Mo.
tor Products Go overturned
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18

The Ali Girls "Kook klub" will
hold meeting and party at the
home OF the leader, Mrs. Ham.
mond. Dec. %, at 1880 p m.
Each girl will bring food for a
pot luck lunch and dime gift
for exchange. The lesson topic
will be Cereals"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
COWS DIE IN BLAZE

Union City Dec. sap Ten
Guernsey COWS died Tuesday when
hre destroyed two barns on The
farm OF Lynn ". Case, Union City
mayor.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
Program SUNDAY Night

The Federated Sunday School
Christmas program will he at the
church Sunday evening at s j. m.
The Bethany Glass Will present a
pageant.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
College Calendar

TODAY
ESQ Womeus Executive Board Meeting. Women
Lounee. Charles Mciemy Han
$50 D.. m-W.AA Christ party. gymnasium.
1880 LndqustS residence klm
THURSDAY
500 p. m-Chrmas Sing Pease Auditorium
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18
News From Salem

pie social and dance given by the
Thayer T. r \ and school Friday
evening In the town hall The Ply
mouth High school drama club
presented a one-act play followed
by dancing 10 the music of a Ply
mouth School orchestra.
Nj and Mrs. Bert f. Stanbro
viii leave this week TO spend the
winter in California
John Bussey. Mic. spent the
week end AT the A C.. Wheeler
home.
Mrs Asa Whipple Eight Mile
Rd. visited her daughter, Natalie.
at Michigan State College. East
Lansing, Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Julia Foreman accompani.
ed Mrs James Dickie and Mrs.
Howard Whipple, South Lyon, to
Detroit Friday.
Miss Doris Lyke. Plymouth. was
a supper guest Friday evening OF
Mr.. and Mrs Myran Lyke
Mrs. Charles Payne and Mrs
Charles Mankin and family were
Ann Arbor visitors Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy St0ody. De-
troit, were Sunday visitors Of Mr.
and Mrs. II searfoss.
Mr. and Mrs. Myron Lyke and
son, Murray. spent Sunday after
noon visiting friends at Walled
Lake.
Rev. Hackcnburg. Unadilla
spent the week end al the home of
Rev. Lucia NJ. Stroh, Mrs. Hacken.
burg accompanied him home after
spending the past week in the
Stroh home.
Sunday guests and callers at
the home OF Mrs. julia Foreman
We're. Miss Neda Liichow. South
Lyon. Mr. and Mrs Merrill Rem
wick and Mr. and Mrs Hugh
Foreman. south Lyon
Osirander's Corners will have their
Christmas tree
OEboro
Christmas exercises 10 take place
at DiKboro Church atSp ~.
DEC Em6ER q
Denton
Sunday School will give Christ.
mas program at church at 80 p.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-18

Hundred at Social
Over 100 persons attended the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
Board Acted Wisely

The Board of Fire Commissioners in
ruling recently that money given by DR..
Dudley Deming to three firemen of in
dividual services should be returned to
him was faced with ticklish situation,
but disposed of the problem with wis
dom and sagacity not always found in
new city commission. Anyone who has
witnessed a fireman rushing through
smoke and flames to rescue property or
persons Immediately and not unWisely,
feels that these men are acting heroically
and in such manner as to command eX-
pressions of praise or even rewards OF
some kind. Certainly the fireman who in
the course of his duties risks his life for
another or for another's property is en-
titled to the respect of his community.
But, as the Fire Board justly perceived,
the establishment of precedent whereby
firemen might expect to be rewarded for
unusual services would certainly disrupt
the coordination of the department in
time. 1t would make of fire-fighting and
the accompanying rescueS sort OF glorl-
fled movie or show in which the fire
men would be playing to the audience
and individual performances would be
the order of the day. Fighting fire, like
most jobs in life, is matter of cordina-
ton and cooperation. The men who han
die the hose lines or who drive the trucks
or who raise the ladders are no less to be
commended than those who get chance
to enter burning buildings and bring out
residents of property.
Certainly the board deserves common
dation for it's firm and unyielding stand.
It could easily have indicated itself on
an opposite viewpoint, but would have
weakened departmental authority. Fire
men who show courage will continue to
be cited by the commissioners and to
share the respect as we'll as nearly con-
gratulations of their fellowmen.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
War Mortgages The Future

The losses of war are paraded before
our eyes, and they are terrible enough.
But unseen are the losses of the future.
They are the sum of the things that would
have been had the war not come, but
which now may never be.
The Rockefeller Foundation has been
noting some of these losses, lest they slip
into oblivion without our realizing it:
The University of Warsaw has ceased to
exist. The entire Polish faculty of the
University of Cracow is believed to be
in concentration camp. The Univerity
of Madrid library was devastated by Moors
who used the books as rifle emplacements.
The University of Prague has been closed
by the Germans Half the universities of
Germany have been closed, and at the
University of Paris the student popula-
ton has shrunk from 10000 to 5000.
For these things, life will render it's bill
later
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10

5000 miles away on the firing line,
was being decorated for "excep-
tiOnal personal courage, q high
degree Of leadership and signal
administrative ability in COM
manding his ship under trying
circumstances :"
While the anomaly of decorat-
ing for distinguished service a
man who had been passed over"
by the Selection Board may not
have seemed strange to the BRASS
hats, 1t did to Secretary Edison.
He ordered a special Selection
Board to reconsider Conlon's case.
This time Conlon was pronounced
"best fitted" for promotion and
raised to the rank OF Commander.
NOTE-Interrogated about the
Navy promotion system by a
House committee, Rear Admiral
Chester Nilnitz, chief of the Bur-
eau of Navigation, admitted, II do
not attempt to deny i'm any way
that competent officers are being
retired through the selection Sys-
tenn" The committee also brought
out that of 40 officers who had
been dropped by. the Selective
Board and recently recalled to &C
tive duty, only IS had been re-
tired on physical grounds.
FDR AND Firms
The Finnish war has been over
for about month now, but those
who have mentioned it to the
President still find him sore at
the manner in which the Firms
were let down.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
DIR. John N. Lewis

Waterbury has had many clergymen
in it's long history of religious develop
ment, but it's safe to say that few have
enjoyed the general acclaim and love
which has been accorded DR.. John N.
Lewis whose death early today Saddened
the entire community. DR.. Lewis was
real priest of God in every sense of the
word He was friend and benefactor to
his felloWman; he was his counselor, con-
fessor, and comforter at all times. Race
or creed it made little difference to him.
Under the skin we were all brothers in
the eyes of the Lord and he saw through
His Masters eyes.
He was familiar figure to the growing
generations of Waterbury. The boy
grown to manhood and full maturity can
recall him as fondly and clearly as the
grey-beard. A kindly gentleman at all
times his greeting right and left along
the streets he walked for so many years
was cordial and not just for the select
few but for all and sundry. That
was an outstanding quality in DR.. Lewis.
Wherever he might associate he was an
intimate. None knew him but to love
him, but we know that he has been gath
cred unto the fold of the Master for whom
he labored faithfully down through the
years.
Practically his entire ministry was spent
here in Waterbury, although he was not
native of this city or either the state. But
once assigned to st. Johns Church he be-
came such an integral part of it and the
religious life of Waterbury that separa-
tion was unthinkable His efforts were
many and diverse. But Waterbury will
long remember him as simple, God
fearing man who preached the gospel
love thy fellowman - so well that he
became the living example and object OF
it. Waterbury bows it's head in sorrow at
his passing. May his soul rest in peace.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10

Despite the fact that people have had
plenty of time in which to cash receipts
handed out for payment of tolls on the
Hutchinson River Parkway in Westches-
ter County, N. Y, only few thousand
dollars have been refunded OF the
$279, 100 collected in tolls 1858 900 remains
to be refunded. Which means that peo-
pie don't mind paying the 1O-cent toll as
much as might be imagined from the
howls of protest that were heard when
Westchester County inaugurated them.
If they did there would have been no let
up in the demands for refunds. Oddly
enough the largest refund to date was
$500 to the New Haven Automobile Club
which collected for members and friends
in it's area.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
DR.. Cyrus Adler

In the death of Dr. Cyrus Adler, presi-
dent of the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, this nation and the world
loses one of the foremost advocates of
enduring peace. This kindly gentleman
had labored through long life to instill
in his fellowmen love for their neighbor
He labored year after year Tor the welfare
and betterment of Jewish rights and liber-
ties. His voice was never stilled nor his
activities curbed.
A highly-educated and cultured man
DR.. Adler could have had countless more
honors than those bestowed upon him
throughout his busy life. He was gifted
writer and fine speaker, but both his
writings and utterances were often pushed
aside to give him opportunity and scope
for his forceful endeavors in many differ
ent directions He truly deserved the ap-
pelation given him in 1882 of one Of the
"ten leading Jews of the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
BLONDE TROUBLE AN
"ACT OF GOD"
Bridgeport Times-Star)

Connecticut has already granted
unemployment insurance benefits to
a woman who left her job because
of marriage, to another who wanted
to better herself in the world, to
another who found herself unhappy
at her job. From that, Connecticut
people may have reached the con-
clusion that the Nutmeg tSate is
pioneering in adventurous and lib
eral Interpretation of its unemploy-
ment insurance law.
To the contrary, 1t seems we are
slightly backward. 1t was Illinois, at
any rate, which the other day
awarded unemployment benefits to
a young man who lost his job be-
cause of blonde trouble. He was
once a model employee, on the hard
ware counter in a Chocago depart
ment store. Then the management
installed a gorgeous blonde at the
hosiery counter next to him. The
once model employee became dis
tracted, absent minded, and, in
short, thoroughly lovelorn. Com
plants of his service poured In and
he was fired.
The Illinois Division Of Placement
and Unemployment Compensation
ruled that ''love is involuntary" and
that therefore "ineficiency at work
due to love is not misconduct IN
connection with the job"
Connecticut has not yet adopted
this specific ruling, so the best
course for wage earnerS Is to beware
Of blondes-particularly, we should
say, blondes who do not reciprocate.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10

Connecticut Socialists who are not
identified with the wing of the party
which supports and endorses Mayor Jas
per McLevy of Bridgeport are out to make
court fight over use of the label-social-
ist-on the voting machines this fall.
Heretofore there hasn't been anything
said or done about Mayor McLevy CLASH
flying himself as Socialist when he seeks
election locally or in the state. The party
has been content to 60 along with him.
But so far as the national Socialist Party
is concerned the Bridgeport faction is
not usually considered in line with its
platform or policies. And Connecticut
Socialists who line up with Norman
Thomas but not with Jasper McLevy are
threatening to force the Bridgeport mayor
into court to show cause why he should be
allowed to label his party-SocialiSt. All
of which won't lessen the McLevy popu-
larity today or tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
. HIGHLIGHTS FROM
LATEST BOOKS
LaFollette, ST., Huey Long
Hold Filibuster HonOrs

No one has ever tOtaled what
congressional talking has cost, Is
costing the taxpayers. BY this time
it must run into millions. At least
that is the impression you get
reading Franklin L. Burdette's
entertaining book, "Filibustering
in the Senate" princeton Univer-
sity Press: $3.50. The fine art Of
obstruction is traced from John
Randolph to Huey LOng-and
after. No citizen ought to miss
this book as a clear-cut study of
legislative process, sometimes
useful. more often disgraceful.
Huey Long and Robert M. LaFOl-
lette, ST., seem to hold the record
for filibusters land dramatics) as
revealed in these excerpts:
During his long speech (18 hours,
relieved by 20 quorum calls and
three roll-call votes; a filibuster in
1908 against a currency bilD LaFol-
lette sustained himself by drinking
glasses of milk and egg, but when
he tasted one portion brought from
the Senate restaurant, he rejected
it as doped. Later analysis actually
revealed enought ptomaine in the
glass to have resulted in certain
death, although no charge Of DELHI
crate attempt at poisoning was ever
made. When the exciting filibuster
had closed, for several days the SEN
ator was i'll at his home because of
the deadly potion which he had
tasted.
Only one man has held the floor
longer than Huey P. Long, and no
man in the United States Senate
has exceeded his most celebrated
feat Of continuous and almost I'M
interrupted talking. For Is Ia hours
in June, 1885, Senator Long talked
vociferously, energetically, and fu-
tilely in an effort to force an am
endment to the proposed extension
of "Skeletonized" National Recov-
ry Administration.
His whimsical dissertations In
Guided comments upon the preser-
walton of eyesight, biographical
sketches Of Friedrich the Great and
Judah P. Benjamin, extensive quo
tations from Victor Hugo. a
rambling discourse on the subject
Of "potlikker."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
FRIENDS DISAPPOINTED
IN VANDENBERG

Some of Senator Vandenberg's
close friends here are saying he
made a great mistake by refusing
to go to Wisconsin and campaign
actively. Study of election figures
persuades them Dewey won by
default; that the one real blow
struck for neutrality-suspicious.
Nye's Madison speech the week
before election-waS highly effec-
tive in that area, and that the state
could have been had with an
energetic campaign.
--..e E-.;consin primary, by the
way, is like a chilling frost to the
hopes of sundry Republican dark
horses. Many had figured if
Dewey got roundly trounced the
party's chief front runner would
be eliminated; a Vandenberg vic
tory, accordingly, would have
caused number of brand-new
candidates to appear. A few may
come out anyway, but there won't
be half as many as If the vote had
gone the other way.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
Employ Waterbury People First

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin
meets with our local employers about
he unemployment situation. We be-
ieve he is sincere in his efforts to
,oost employment, even though it is
.lso good political bally-hoo in cleo
ion year and his press agents have
lot been at all shy in making ma
ional and state mention of it.
Let him and our local employers
i've thought, however, to these
1. When there was a sharp pick
up in local factories last fall
there was also an influx of
workers from Maine, Massa-
chusetts, New York, and Penn
sylvania.
2. These out-of-state workers got
jobs while there was and is a
large number of local unem-
ployed.
3. Many of these transient work.
ers hold their jobs even though
there have been lay-offs locally
in the 1910 slump.
a. 1t may be true that these tram
sients are more able-bodied
than some or even most of our
local unemployed, but the local
men and women are still
charges or prospective charges
on local or federal relief budg-
cts.
S. Our employers are large tax
payers and pay a good portion
of the local welfare costs.
6. What they may save in hiring
a more able-bodied worker
they can lose quickly in in
creased relief costs and added
taxes to pay those costs.
7. 1t is, therefore, good business,
good economy, to say nothing
of local patriotism, to hire
Waterbury people first, to lay
off non-residents first.
8. The same argument applies
equally to every city in the
state.
9. Our governor and the employ
ers of labor should advocate
the hiring of local residents be-
fore non-residents, even at
some sacrifice to efficiency.
10. Employ Waterbury people
FIRST!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10

Suggestions to Roosevelt that
Russia was merely defending her
self against future attack, and
getting back small part of its
previous territory, cause him to
explode.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
It never leaked out, but Col.
Phil Fleming, Wage-Hour Admin
istrator, once was arrested in a
Chicago hotel, mistaken for DR..
]. M. (Jingle Money! Smith, ex-
President of Louisiana State Uni
versity, who fled the country after
exposure of his stock market man
ipulations. Fleming was released
after establishing his identity :.
Jack Garnerites have been flood
ing the country with newspaper
boiler plate. Several thousand
small weeklies have been getting
it. >. While the Democratic Ma
tional Committee Is begged down,
the Republican National Commit
tee is working at top speed, put
ting out all sorts of literature.
taking advantage of every Demo-
cratic slip. The COP commit
tee, incidentally, is working for
all Republican candidates, not for
one. Some Democrats accuse
the Democratic National Commit
tee of working only for Jim Far
ley-which isn't fact. Real fact:
1t isn't working at all.
=. (COnvrioht 1910 nv Tinted
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
WON'T BE CAUGHT MAPPING
(Meriden Journal)

In this period of world uncertain
ties, there is one thing New Eng
landers can be certain about. They
know now when next Thanksgiving
will be for them, because their gov
ernors have taken time by the fore
lock and announced a decision to
proclaim November %, the last
Thursday Of the month, as turkey"
day, in accordance with the time
honored custom.
They are not going to let the
President steal a march on them,
as he did last August, and announce
his premature Thanksgiving day.
Then the governors had to follow
his lead or appeal in the role of dis
senterS, which was not too pleasing
to Republican governors, whose mo-
tives might be questioned. Now the
President may agree with them
which he probably will not, or take
the responsibility for the mixup
which results from two holidays
only week apart.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
What's Your 10?
Can you answer seven of these
test questions? Turn to last
page for the answers.

l. Name the capital of the DOM
inion Of Canada.
2. What is the name for young
swans?
8. Was the Declaration Of 1nde-
pendence signed on July 4, or Aug
ust 2, 1776?
4. What is the name for a series
Of arches?
S. Name the well known Ameri-
can university at New Haven, Conn.
6. Can a mechanical invention be
protected by the copyright LAVISH
Z. What is the correct pronuncia-
ton of the word dictionary?
8. Two famous military defense
systems of modern times are the
French Maginot line and the West
wall. Name one in Rumania.
8. Name the fifth largest city in
population in the United States?
10. Where is the Big Sioux river?