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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16
Work Only Cure


Typical of many such human
derelicts are those who suppose
themselves 10 be suffering from
nerve fatigue They must con-
tinually rest on account of that
fatigue. They were born tired in
nine cases out Of ten, and the more
they rest the more tired they get.
Nothing but lCork piH rest them.
They are not fatigued: how could
they be? They do not do anything.
1t is really internal friction that is
wearing them out.
1t is here in this class that the
war may come as a savior. War
and war work and preparations
for war-these may be the focus
ing points that will give many
"neurasthenics" a new interest in
life ard in the work they do and
in the determination to accomplish
a definite objective they will find
way of life that entirely eliminates
the friction that has been grinding
them into nothingness.
Do not misunderstood me. am
certainly far from advocating
war. ! certainly do not think war
is worth the saving Of our neuras-
themes. But isn't it tragic that
they cannot find something as COM
pletely absorbing as war, some
thing in ordinary life that fills
their mental and spiritual hori-
IONS sufficiently so that they could
shake off their lethargy and 90 to
work for it and become whole,
complete and useful human be-
~ings? - --,,,--,-,...,.
Isn't II too bad that the medical
profession cannot find that kind of
an objective for them in ordinary
life? Doctors are accustomed TO
say to these people Don't worry
just stop thinking" But that
would be Just like sitting on the
safety valve and inviting an ex-
plosion. Nothing checks thought
except the substitution of another
thought.
II can sometimes be laid at the
door of medical advisers that they
surround these people with the
idea Of disease pernicious idea.
Who has not heard Of the type of
patient who, because he or she has
pain in the side and little pal
pitation. lies awake, loses appetite,
worries himself or herself sick,
and drags around Fostering
friends and relatives and medical
attendants with the thought Of
heart diseased" Such a person
should not be smoothed down but
speeded up and taught to live
harder, faster, more intensely.
Here think the Christian Science
Church. although I do not sub
scribe at all to its theories, does a
great deal Of practical good.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16
Observations
Lindsay Warren Seems
Not Too Eager to Take
Over New Duties
BY Charles Z. SteNart
REPRESENTATIVE LINDSAY

c. WARREN OF North Carolina
hasn't seemed particularly eager
TO begin work as comptroller gen.
eral Of the United States, TO which
post President Roosevelt appoint
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-16

Tie and critical faculties being
highly developed.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
is logical to expect a tightening OF
the Nations relief burden

is logical to expect tightening Of
the Nations relief burden.
In New York yesterday, Wendell
L. Willkie, Republican nominee for
President, was quoted as saying that
there is definite proof that the
Roosevelt administration is planning
again to pack relief rolls, especially
in those States which are politically
doubtful" He cited as an interest
ing and striking coincidence" the
fact that in non-election years relief
rolls decline, whereas in election
years they expand. That the Re-
publicans, taking their cue from Mr..
Willkie, will make Federal relief and
its alleged abuses one of their cam
paign issues seems assured. Recent
increases in w. P. A. rolls naturally
will be cited by the Republicans in
support of these charges.
This being the year of a national
election, it is of vital Importance
therefore that w. P. A. officials be
on the alert to prevent any packing
of relief rolls by politicians. This
will require unceasing vigilance,
particularly in those States in which
the battle lines are closely drawn.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

cur dead, our war cripples and two
decades of postwar unsettlement. We
cannot do this every 90 years without
practical, realistic territorial or economic
advantages to our own country. We
received more kicks than ha-pence" the
last time. That is all interference"
ever gets.
Gratitude is short-lived with nations
We must cut out emotionalism and
hysteria and get these islands now
while the getting is good. Uncle Sans
family should not give something for
nothing all of the time.
If Washington and Hamilton. who
participated in the first great Presidents
farewell address, or the jefferson Of the
Louisiana purchase, or Cleveland or the
first Roosevelt, were in power today with
this question before them-how long
would those islands. in this situation of
disadvantage and anxiety, remain in any
foreign hands?
Whether these islands are now ac-
quired in satisfaction in whole or part
Of defaulted war debts, or bought for
price, or obtained by other methods. they
should be acquired by the United States.
Get also the Caribbean bases. But get
these islands permanently for our own
Nation, regardless of sentimental objec-
tors or of sixth columnists," who are
more fond of some other country than
their own GEORGE S. PARKER.
Peterboro, N. H.
August 20.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Employment Gains

The announcement by Secretary
Perkins that a million more persons
were employed in non-agricultural
industries in July than a year ago
will be the cause of justifiable salts
faction. Between mid-June and mid
July, according to estimates of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 10000
additional workers found jobs in
industry, bringing to 35,6o0,OOO the
total thus employed, the highest
number so far recorded this year.
OF even greater Importance, there
is every indication that gains in
industrial employment, under the
spur of the defense program, will
continue.
Expansion in the war materials in
dustries explains in large part the
recent increases in employment. Air
craft companies hired an additional
1000 workers in July, shipbuilding
companies, 4,7O0, and engine produc-
ton plants, 3,100. Other manufac-
turing fields in which employment
has been stimulated by defense or
war orders, as listed by Secretary
Perkins, include iron and steel, ma
chine tools and the shoe and mems
clothing industries. In addition to
the defense employment, arms ex-
penditures have undoubtedly created
,,eu iohS elsewhere
Though Work Projects Admins
tration rolls decreased from 2,289,7O
on July IL, 1889, to 1,608, 1868 for the
week of July 10, 1910, there has been
an upward trend since then. For the
week of August IA, W. p A. rolls
totaled 1,7O8,O0O. In view of the cur
rent gains in private employment
and the expansion of industry to
supply the Government with ma
tional defense materials, the increase
in the number of persons on the
w. P. A. roster is not altogether easy
to understand AS the curve of pri-
vate employment shoots upward, it
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Discusses Origin of
Gasoline Tax Bill.
To the Editor of The Star:

: o tNe EOltor Oh ! ne Slal.
Representative Randolph, chairman
of the House District Committee, has
been severely criticized for introducing
a bill to increase the gasoline tax l cent
per gallon. To those who are familiar
with the origin of the bill in question,
no apology need be expressed for Mr..
Randolph, because none is needed. In
line with established procedure it has
been customary for members of Con-
gress to introduce bills by request, with
out assuming personal responsibility for
them. Such action does not neces-
sarily indicate their approval of such
bills, and this was the case with Mr..
Randolph. This bill was the outgrovth
of conclusions arrived at by number
of District citizens who are tax payers
and deeply interested in keeping down
all taxes. except where they are ecsor
lutely needed to meet the annual def
cts. knowing full well that special taxes
must be levied unless Congress is more
liberal than heretofore. The situation
was thoroughly canvassed and as taxes
OIl ItdI cSIdtc dlC IlOW ucdSS, tllc SOii-
census was that l cent added to the
gas tax raising approximately sl.30O,000
the first year and more later, would be
a most excellent way to keep down the
necessity for heavy special taxes, with
the proviso now in this bill that this
particular fund should be placed in the
general fund of the District and as such
a tax would not only be paid by all resi-
dent users of cars but also by all visitors
to the city, it would be a most equitable
way of producing that amount of money.
This bill was presented to me for my
opinion and after careful consideration
I felt that it was one of the least OBJ
jectionable methods of taxation. I dis
cussed the matter with Mr.. Randolph
and he was willing as favor to the
sponsors to introduce the bill. 1t was
not his bill and he introduced it only
as a matter of courtesy to a former
member of the House and others, with
out in any way assuming any personal
responsibility. F. THOMAS EVANS.
August 6.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Placing the Blame

Responsibility for delay in the
rearmament program, both as to
men and materiel has been placed
squarely on Congress by statements
yesterday from the President and
John D. Biggers of the Defense
Commission.
Mr.. Roosevelt directed his remarks
to the procrastination of the Senate
in dealing with the Burke WadSWorth
compulsory selective service law.
Although this matter has been under
debate for two weeks, with opponents
taking up the greater part of that
time, there has been discouragingly
little progress made.
During this ineXcusable delay,
Senators opposed to the measure
have been striving to line up sup
port for the Maloney amendment,
which would require trial of modi-
fed volunteer enlistment program
until January /, with Selective service
to become operative after that date
if the enlistment program should fail
to produce the men needed. To
encourage wavering Senators to sup
port this amendment, rumors have
been circulated that the administra-
ton was not strongly opposed to it
and that nothing more than formal
protest would be forthcoming should
it be adopted.
These rumors were unequivOcally
refuted yesterday by the President,
who bluntly declared that he was
absolutely against any such scheme.
The need for enactment of selective
service legislation, he said, is real
and urgent, warning that delay of
even two weeks on the part of Con-
gress might result in seriously re-
tarding the creation of an adequate
defense force. 1t may be that the
opponents of the measure are
numerically strong enough to pre-
vent an early vote and that they
will follow that course despite the
Presidents plea for action, but Mr..
Roosevelt has at least succeeded in
placing full responsibility for the
consequences of delay upon them
where it undoubtedly belongs.
Mr.. Biggers' statement also was
In the nature of rebuke to Congress
for delay in acting on a bill which
combines an excess profits tax, repeal
of the existing Vinson-Trammell Act
profit limitations and legislation to
permit amortization of new defense
plant costs in five years.
Pointedly asserting that business
Is not ION strike" against the rearm-
ament program, Mr.. Biggers left the
plain implication that if there is a
strike" in any sense of the word
it is being conducted by those men,
bers of Congress who are delaying
action on the desired legislation.
That is an inference which has been
rather widely drawn and which will
continue to be held if Congress per-
sists in doing nothing toward further
strengthening the defenses of the
Nation.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Joint Defense Board

The United States and Canada
have made careful and wise choice
of the men who will compose the
new Joint Canadian-American De-
fense Board. Civil as we'll as mill
tary and naval interests are repre-
sented by men we'll qualified by
training and experience to prepare
a plan for coordination of Canadian
and United States resources and
activities for protection of the whole
of North America from invasion from
any quarter. Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia of New York is former
soldier who distinguished himself in
aviation during the first World War
and who has kept alive his interest
in airpower and in matters of
national defense generally during
the intervening years. His outstand-
ing record as a public servant in
Federal and State Governments is
too we'll known to need elaboration
here. Canada's civilian member is
Oliver Mowat Biggar, Kings Counsel,
judge advocate general of Canada
during the days of the first World
War and a member of the Canadian
delegation to the Peace Conference
after that conflict. He, too, is par
ticularly interested in air defense
and formerly served as vice chair
man of Canada's Air Board.
The United States Army is repre-
sented by one of its leading strate-
gists, Lieutenant General Stanley D.
Embick, commander of the Fourth
Corps Area, and by an aviation
expert, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph T.
McNarney. The Navy representatives
are Captain Harry w. Hill, who has
been engaged in preparation of naval
war plans, and Commander Forrest
P. Sherman, who has served recently
on the staff of the commander in
chief of the United States Fleet. The
Canadian military and naval mem
bers are of similar caliber. The
makeup of the board, as whole,
seems to reflect an emphasis on air
power; and this is as it should be,
for it is expected that much of the
work of the board will have to do
with selection of air bases in the
northern part of the hemisphere and
development of mutual program
for aerial defense of the two nations.
The board will lose no time in
tackling the large job to which it has
been assigned, the first meeting
having been called for next Monday
in Ottawa. The creation of this
joint group gives new force and
meaning to the Monroe Doctrine, to
the recent Havana agreement for
hemisphere defense and to warnings
which President Roosevelt and others
have given the dictators against
aggression in the direction of the
Americas.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Toll Story

1t is, or at any rate used to be,
popular to denounce all big corpora
tions as useless encumbrances to
the economic growth of the country.
Instead of condemnation, however,
some of them, at least, should receive
votes of thanks for numerous i'm
provements in our way of living
made possible by their research de-
partments. The experimentation of
large oil company, which main-
tains refinery in the Canton district
of Baltimore, for example, has pro-
duced something expected to be in
demand everywhere-the fireproof,
oil-eating goat.
Authoritative sources" in the
Monumental City claim that in order
to keep grass, a fire hazard when dry,
away from its tanks, the company
employed goats, patiently teaching
them to enjoy grass soaked with oil.
Some centuries earlier, no doubt, the
same patience had to be used to
teach mankind to pour oil on lettuce,
call it salad, and eat it. Anyhow, the
goats thrived and multiplied on grass
salad to such an extent that their
descendants, say the authoritative
sources, are actually fireproof. Nay,
they are more than that; whenever
thew see fire. the animals rush over
to it, form a line, roll over in the
grass and smother the flames.
Much further pioneering will have
to be done before the goat entirely
replaces the lawn mower and the
fire insurance policy in American
life. The ratio of skeptics in the
population to authoritative sources"
is said to be discouragingly high.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
"A Diplomatic Offensive

~ SoCo WlGllOuG Saying IlldI JIe
worldwide shift in the japanese
diplomatic service, including recall
of Ambassador Horinouchi from
Washington, is a farther reaching
affair than mere transfer of some
forty ENJOYS and consular officers
now stationed at various points in
the Americas, Europe, Africa and
Asia. What underlies this unprece-
dented shake-up is ominously
described by Domei, semi-official
japanese news agency, as "the pre-
lude to a diplomatic offensive"
The fact that the shift includes
two ambassadors to American coun-
tries (the United States and BraziD
and eight ministers accredited,
respectively, to Canada, Mexico,
Argentina, Peru, Chile, Colombia,
Venezuela and Panama, assumes
special significance. 1t indicates
that while Toxic is vigorously pro-
noting "a new order in Asia" it
intends to launch an entirely new
diplomatic order" in the Western
Hemisphere. To just what objectives
future japanese ENJOYS will devote
themselves is, of course, not dis
closed. But one perhaps gets a
glimmer of their nature from For
eign Minister Matsuoka's warning
that the totalitarian Konoye govern
ment will brook no more "toadyism"
in Japan's international relations.
The old line diplomats to be sup
planted are generally men credited
with a broad world outlook. The eX-
pectation is that they will be replaced
by officials more representative of
the militantly nationalistic cult now
dominant at Toxic under army over
lordship. A case in point is said to
be that of Ambassador Horinouchi,
who incurred militarist disfavor by
failing to prevent certain develop
ments at Washington held to be
inimical to Japan's interests. These
included abrogation of the 1911 COM
mercial treaty and recent restrictions
on export of war materials.
The ambassadors to Great Britain,
Germany, Italy and Asia are not to
be changed. This strongly suggests
that the Toxic diplomatic sweep is
intimately related to European war
developments, particularly the battle
of Britain. Japan is obviously out
to capitalize to the limit the current
exigencies of western powers, includ-
ing ourselves. All her recent moves
attest that policy. Britain has been
the principal victim. The French
have been harried in Indo- China,
and recurrent threats are aimed at
the Dutch East Indies. At Shanghai
the United States has found itself
in renewed conflict with Japanese
pretenSionS.
The Washington government has
consistently opposed japanese ag-
gressive activities in China and
elsewhere. Only recently, it is re-
ported, a blunt" note of warning was
sent to Japan. The diplomatic Of
fensive" now signaled from Toxic
seems to foreshadow that this coun-
try, which has become the mainstay
of western interests in the Far East,
soon may be called upon again to
reaflrm that legitimate foreign rights
there are neither to be scuttled nor
their destruction tolerated.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Approves Acquiring Island
Naval Bases.


To the Editor of The Star:
International conditions show very
acutely our defense necessity for not
merely bases in the Caribbean, but Of
outright ownership of the islands OF
Bermuda and the Bahamas directly of
the main coast. These should be ours
as is Hawaii and therefore, safe from
transfer to any foreign nation or oc-
cupancy from abroad.
Out transatlantic mail carriers, with
increased hazards to American passen-
gers, pilots and mails. are now compelled
to take a longer and more hazardous
trip-giving up landing on Bermuda in
order to avoid examination, delay and
possible seizure of American mail. This
situation is loss of prestige and loss
in safety to our airships and seems
weakness on the part of arrangements
by our Government; also an assent to
autocratic arrogance from foreign ma
ton we have worked to aid.
We helped the aggrandizement OF
Great Britain in the last war-a partici-
patton which President Coolidge said
would cost us 100000, 900 900" besides
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Observation on Visit to
Lincoln Memorial.
tn the Editor of The Star.

The other evening stood on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial watching the
reflection of copper colored moon in
the Rejecting Pool and gazing into the
faces of an endless stream of men, wom-
en- and children trudging up to gaze at
the immortal Lincoln.
Surely every conceivable nationality in
this great Nation seemed to have been
there and in every case the reaction
seemingly was the same. They assembled
chattering and laughing, but as they
descended there was an awed expression
on every face and a reverent kind of
quietness.
I got the feeling that out of the eyes
of this sad-faced statue had come
something that was akin to the spirit of
worship. And as I looked at this COM
mon expression, thought of what a
fine thing it would be in these turbulent
times, if it were possible for thousands
and thousands of men, women and chill
dren throughout the Nation to stand
before this imposing figure and drink in
some of the words of wisdom inscribed
on the walls of the memorial.
. Who knows but that in this hour OF
world crisis it would diSpel some of our
petty personal conceit and make us gen.
uinely aware of the colossal task that
lies before us, if we are to preserve the
remaining semblance of democracy and
civilization? In the final analysis, though
our guns be superb, we will never be able
to beat all swords into pruning hooks
unless our faith in justice and right for
all mankind is unconquerable.
GEORGE w. GOODMAN.
August 81.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
The Welfare BUDGET

There is little doubt that the Board
of Public Welfare is trying to meet
some basic needs in what Welfare
Director Robert Bondy has described
as minimum decency standards"
budget for 1912.
The estimates, for example, con-
template large-scale overhauling for
the Home for the Aged and 1nfirm at
Blue Plains. An old administration
building there which Chairman
Overton of the District Subcom-
mittee of the Senate Appropriations
Committee recently described as
"firetrap" is to be replaced with
a modern structure which will serve
in part as home for nurses. A new
ward for colored women is to be
built and the power plant is to be
completely overhauled. Undoubtedly
these changes when effected will do
much to remove from the institution
the stigma which has attached to it
as the result of Mrs. Roosevelt's crit
icism and the recent congressional
investigation carried on by Repre-
sentative D'Alesandro.
A new receiving home for children
long has been recognized by social
workers and others as a great need
to provide the youngsters proper
quarters.
The board deserves credit for its
recommendation that the education
of shut-in children be assigned to
the Board of Education where, in
conformity with the nature of the
work and the practice in other cities,
it rightfully belongs. It was placed
under the Welfare Board for the
coming year with curtailed appro-
priation in the thought that relief