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Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
American People Hold Clue
ToWar. Miss Thompson Says
By DOROTHY THOMPSON

fiected in the general pessimism
about the possibility of making
great peace
The miasma of doubt, the
doomed and booming doctrine of
historic reiativism and meehan-
ical determinism, has gotten a
whole generation, which is old,
beaten, and disillusioned before
its time.
And, unfortunately, ii has
passed on its own will-lessness
to some of the younger genera
ton, who want to be "guaran-
teed" - before they will lift
hand against the burglar at
their door-that resistance will
result in Utopia - and that,
somehow, the Utopia will be
made outside their own wills.
HENCE the negativism of the
II war-the lack of intelligent
and articulate bodies of men
coming to grips with the war in
an affirmative sense: in the
sense that we fight for this and
this and this, which is reason
able and desirable.
Even being against is, of
course, the beginning of an
awakening. To intend not to
live under Hitlerism is an act
of will.
But it is will against and not
yet for. We have minds but half
made up. The war is only to
prevent - to prevent the Nazis
from getting control of the At
lantic; tomorrow, perhaps to
prevent the japanese from get
ting control of the Pacific.
Britain. too. fights to prevent
the British Isles from falling
and the commonwealth and en-
pire from diSintegrating. Only
the governments in exile of
small states which have already
fallen begin to think of con-
structing, of creating. for they
can no longer prevent any
thing!
But, the Nazi war also be-
comes more and more a war
merely to prevent. That sticks
out of all the recent official
speeches. Goebbels wants to pre-
vent the inferno that will
break out if we lose"
The NaziS know by now that
the dream of being received
everywhere as the "liberator" is
finished. The world that was to
rise heralding the new order has
not risen. 1t has instead put
bombs under railroad trains.
Apparently the Germanic will
has been running along a track
that leads to dead-end street
or a volcano. There has been
plenty of dynamism but no
direction. The "volksstaat' i'll
combines with imperialism, as a
few Nazis knew before Hitler
purged them all at the behest of
his generals.
That country VIII win the war
which first most clearly discerns
the track of history and gets on
that track. That people can save
the world-perhaps-that. going
back TO the Aristotelian concep-
ton of politics. has "the art TO
discern what is good for man.
kind"
I BELIEVE it is almost hope
L less TO await that discern
ment from overnmen [ s or
politicians. For even the best of
them are the prisoners of their
own policies and their own
commitments.
Initiative must spring from
the peoples themselves.
And the American people hold
the clue TO this war, If they can
awaken their imaginations and
wills. For this people Is the new
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
Libyan AEF
Suggestion
Called Unwise
MaIIon Says British Ask
Full Air Force
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.-
British officials here are
informally (and indiscreetly)
suggesting that the United
States send pilots and ground
crews and air force technicians
10 the Libyan front. They even
want us TO take over the air
campaign there.
This is one subject they should
not have brought up. The whole
matter has started wave of
subofficial wisecracks, for ex-
ample:
THE British have used up the
last Frenchman and are waiting
for the. next American"
Nothing more than a token of
an air squadron is likely to go
TO Libya and that will not go
soon, Problem of supply around
the Cape of Good Hope would
make a full air expeditionary
force unfeasible.
imply we already
~ have a military contingent
p in the Near East; also that our
tourists" are visiting foreign
fields of possible future action.
Such rumors are premature.
They have grown no doubt out
of the departure of several Of
ficial military missions abroad.
Ordnance Brigadier General
Maxwell is on his way to Cairo
TO coordinate plane unloadings
and repairs. Brigadier General
Wheeler is at Basra, Persia, un-
loading point for American sup
plies destined to the Russian
Caucasus.
Quieter- missions may have
been slipped in and around Da-
kar, although this is denied.
Bathurst, just south of Dakar,
and Freetown, still further
south, may be under our official
eye.
But both are under British
control. Our officers there need
not wear the garb of tourists.
british private excuses for
- doing nothing in Libya up
to the present attack were that
Turkey was weakening and that
the Libyan- front was techni-
cally dangerous.
1t is true Turkey was shiver-
ing. A press mouthpiece of the
Turkish government recently
said the Turks are really Euro
peans, not Asiatics, and their in
terests are tied with Europe.
Nazi Ambassador Won Papen
in Turkey is speaking highly of
Turkey in a suspicious tone of
voice.
The next serious blow to the
Allied cause might come diplo-
matically on the unguarded
Ankara front, where Hitler is
trying to get Turkish acuuies-
cence for Nazi land attack on
Batum. :.
Der Fuehrer could then pounce
directly in upon the Russian oil
fields and take the Caucasus
from the rear. He also wants
access through the Dardanelles
for his subs.
tIRST rule for success in Con-
= greSS is:
"Never stick your neck out II
you can avoid It."
A majority in both Houses
has been employing that rule.
Mr.. Roosevelt's cautious policy
on defense strikes is apparently
designed to prove that Lewis is
actually mot just Theoretically
damaging defense, and must be
stopped.
The popular pressure, being
engendered increasingly as each
negotiating step fails, clears
the way for easier action. The
White House needs support of
labor as a who1e-for any action
taken.
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Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
MARIE ADAMO,
1887 w. Grand Blvd.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
DETURNED yesterday from
IL 10 days small maneuvers,
and among the important news
/ found the last nine editions of
the Times, and also the pictures
1 sent in, published.
l am very happy about ii and
wish to sincerely thank you for
selecting me as the winner of
the $5 prize.
If the check will be sent to
me, l will buy cigarets for the
boys of my company. If instead
it will go TO my mother. Mrs.
Grace Barber. 1 will let her
keep il for a Christmas present.
Again thanking you, with best
wishes and kindest regards, I
remain.
PFC. JOHN A. BARBER,
Co. b, 1st Ordnance Bn. (A),
Camp Polk, La.
Editors Note: Check has
already been mailed to Pfc.
Barbier.)
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
1unney' 'ssIndictment

TN HIS zeal to further the fitness and recreation pro-
gram of the United States Navy Lieut.. Comm. Gene
Tunney has uttered painful truths concerning the
physical condition of American youngsters.
The former heavyweight champion repeated his in
dctments during recent visit West Coast training
centers.
"Toughness and stamina of past generations have
been lost through legislation and pampering.
"Our school system is doing nothing to build up
bodies. ---4--
There should be a universal system of physical
education.
Every young man should have IS months of stren-
uous service between high school and college.
Nothing is finer for both morale and body
Commander Tunneys viewpoint, that of champion
athlete has been reinforced by observation among navy
recruits.
IT is viewpoint to be respected and needed.
j Our youngsters, in the main, undoubtedly
spoiled.
But most assuredly they not beyond repair.
What has happened is that physical fitness has been
made speciality, something to be cultivated only by
the athlete in competitive sport.
Our school games carried on by carefully chosen
experts while the rest become spectators.
What is needed is to broaden the program to in
clude every boy and every girl to place the emphasis
on those who need it most and not those who natu
rally cultivate fitness.
A low health average is never compensated by
championship team.
In this sense, Commander Tunney breaches a timely
and salutary
healthy mind in healthy body is Latin tag
that says only half-truth
It should read to that no healthy mind can
exist in an unhealthy body.
We have produced many champions.
Let us now produce champion society
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21

The 9,614 hospitals in the
United States have 1882, ,785
beds, according to survey con-
Quoted by the census bureau.
Hospitals average 81 beds for
each 10000 of population and
the average hospital serves
5000 families.
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
NoU. n, 1916

Teuton successes in Transyl-
vania puts the Rumanian army
in Wallachia in a critical posi-
tion.
Emperor Francis Joseph of
Austria dies; Carl Francis
Joseph succeeds him to the
throne.
Bulgarians and Germans flee
to the mountains, northeast Of
Monastir; Allies take the VIII
lagos of Makovo, Crahovo, Vra-
novtsi and Rapesh.
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
observation-disclosures!

u
ssNIO WORD today is SO important Produce! Pro-
" duce! Product" said Leo Krzycki, vice presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union,
addressing the CIO convention here.
The sentiment is the sentiment of the entire coun-
try But is it the sentiment of the CIO convention dele
gates meeting in Detroit?
We don't know.
After four days of meeting, the question still IS
AS it was before the convention:
What Is the ClO-what the delegates-going
to do guarantee that the mighty arsenal OF America
can produce produce, produce:
TINE speeches have been made Fine resolutions have
been passed CIO is in favor of allout aid to the
Allies CIO pledges complete support of President Roose-
velts foreign policy CIO advocates mediation of all
labor disputes.
No one could ask for better set of resolutions.
But resolutions without actions scraps of
paper
As WALTER REUTHER told the convention dele
"A gates
Resolutions meaningless unless carried to every
mill and every machine. Hitler is not fearful of
lutions The world resouted' for years while he
busy building machines. We've got to speak not
through mcrophones but through assembly lines"
How are the delegates going to speak through the
assembly lines? Are they going to shelve personal
and group interests" speakers have urged or are
they going to quarrel going to sit down. going to try
to get yours while the getting is good?'
TT IS not too late act It is not too late to set up
positive program to halt strikes and labor stoppages
and the innumerable disputes which have shackled de-
tense production.
If C1O really approves mediation of labor disputes
AS was said in resoution-then let us have simple
workable plan set up to work out labors part of the
bargain Let us be assured that labor is mbued with
the spirit of mediation much that CIO will to any
lengths to make it work
The time for words is past. The time for action
Is here.
You must Produce Produce Produce
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
BAERINO DOWN ON THE NEWS:
HOu To Tell Ezli
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

The administration and the labor chiefs thick
cold gravy without anybody being able to tell which
the thicker of the
Things like that bad for discipline. Once the boss
has kissed the senographer you bet she is through
taking dcation
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Lewis should really get together
and the fat No matter who wins neither of them
goes back into the mines.
II a coal miner would pick fellow to represent
right of the pit And j would send him Wash
ington but wouldn't allow him 10 wash his face.
Boys, when they stop living like you, acting like you
and looking like you then they don't represent you any
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Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21


CAN you imagine the multiple
~ cation of this hysteria,
helped considerably by this civil
ian defense propaganda if Hit
Ter should drop a few bombs
on Philadelphia. New York. or
even Minneapolis or Kansas
City? There would be a demand
by every town in the country
for air raid shelters, and from
every congressional district for
at least a regiment of antiair-
craft troops and a squadron of
pursuit planes for every village.
Thousands of tons of essential
materials would be anchored to
the ground. Guns, ammunition
and planes would be pinned down
pointlessly. Shipments abroad
and to our army would be re-
duced to trickle.
/ think there's a fair military
conclusion that il would be ut
terly impossible for the Nazis
to mount and execute a raid
that would have any military
significance whatever. But that
isn't the point here.
There are four reasons for
aerial bombing. One is to de-
stroy industrial or communica-
ton systems. Another is to pre-
pare the way for ground troops.
A third is TO paralyze the civil
ian population and make it sue
for peace. Not one of these is
remotely within Hitler's power.
This he knows as we'll as any
body.
QUT there is a forthwith a
- very few planes. to cause
such concern among civilians
that military weapons might be
diverted from their true pur-
pose. II is Of this that I am
speaking.
The best education that could
be given our people on this SUBJ
ject. is that no such raid by
strategy. guile or stealth could
ever be strong enough to do
enough harm TO warrant them
in demanding detachments from
our great organizations for mill
tary and naval defense.
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Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21

MANY of us are old enough
1u to remember that, during
the Spanish-American war, for a
little while. the Spanish Atlantic
fleet was in the process of bot
ting itself up in Santiago Har-
bor But most people on the
Atlantic seaboard didn't believe
that. There were demands from
practically every sea-coast city
to detach battleship from our
Atlantic feet to guard that city.
That would have been duck
soup for the Spaniards. who
could have destroyed them in
detail. The navy stood firm and
finally caught and destroyed the
Spanish fleet outside of Santiago.
But the scare was widespread.
1t resulted in string of almost
useless coastal fortification on
our Atlantic Coast, and absorbed
a lot of money from our scant
military appropriations which
might much better have gone
aIco,.Ear4
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21

No one could ask for better set of resolutions
But resolutions without actions scraps of
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21
Civilian
Panic Helps
The Enemy
johnson Warns Against
Arousing Public
BY HUGH s. JOHNSON

THE preparations of our or
= ganization for civilian de-
fense are not at all hard to
understand. Everybody wants
to do something to help. The
government has decided. perhaps
wisely, tn a I this is a young
mans war, and that about the
only place that civilians with
actual war experience can serve
is in some sort of home defense
organization.
The effort is given great en-
phasis by the fact that in Eng
land. so close to the winged
danger of hostile attack, prac-
tically everybody has to be on
a constant alert for air raids
on defenseless communities
that is. defenseless except so
far as civilian organizations can
protect them.
On this model we, too. are
setting up. with what little sur
plus equipment we have, pretty
widespread civilian organization.
We have blackouts and alarms,
and there is a good deal of de-
mand for such equipment of
military defensive nature as we
can spare.
There has been considerable
complaint from pretty high au-
thority about the listlessness or
apathy of a good many of our
people toward this effort. :
This column has spoken be-
fore of the suggestion of some
Of them that it might not be an
unmixed disaster If few bombs
were dropped on some of our
centers of population. My pur-
pose today is to pursue that SUBJ
ject just "a little further.
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21

I EFT us return again to dis
- cussion of the strategy of
this war and the prospect Of
Detroit evening times., 1941-11-21

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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-09
BY ROBERT MYERS

CLOS ANGELES, July up
The hands on the clock point
ed to l p.m., and the theremo-
meter in the main street gym
was flirting with the 90 mark.
Bob Pastor demanded:
Just who started this thing,
anyhow"
Pastor, the New York heavy
weight who always has had a
tough time staying heavy in
weight, was complaining about
the fact that most all prizefight-
ers hold their workouts in the
early afternoon.
Pastor, it might be added, was
pretty hot about the whole
thing.
"They don't take horses out in
the middle of the day when the
sun is the hottest and work 'em,
do they?" He inquired with
feeling.
Fighters amt exactly horses,
if you get what I'm about to
say" interrupted Mr.. John
Condo, meaningfully. Mr.. Condo
once crowned himself mayor of
main street-using a huge
billboard to back. up his claim.
Pastor ignored him COM
pletely:
They don't make football
teams or track athletes train in
the hottest part of the day.
and what's more, we don't
fight at noon. We fight at night.
So why shouldn't we train at
night?"
Some fighters do" agreed
Tom Gallery, the prominent
promoter. And that's what's
wrong with 'em. l refrain from
mentioning names, of course"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-09

AHAmericQn
May Play Ball
for Uncle Sam
BY ROMNEY WHEELER

OATLANTA. July o R -
Harley Ray McCollum, Tulane's
gigantic "all-America scrub,
may take his signals next fall
from Uncle Sam.
Remember Harley? He was
that moose-like Individual
235-pound chunk of football dy-
Mantle - whose bone-wracking
play for Tulane's green wave
made him all-America tackle on
the Associated Press team OF
1899.
The big fellow, junior, had
q year to 20, but he was just
another guy who wasn't there
when the wave started rolling in
1910. Scholastic difficulties got
him, and he went down swing
ing. Undismayed, he stuck
around. perspiring faithfully
with the scrubs while he got
his credits back in shape.
Now his eligibility has been
regained. but il selective service
numbers back home in Stillwell.
Okla. keep falling at their pres
ent pace, Coach Red Dawson
can write off his all-America
tackle from that tentative lineup
for the Boston College game
Sept. n. McCollum, by that
time, may be playing for keeps
with the US. Army.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-09
ziggy Defends
SiaieCrown
Ametsus Chomp
Tries to Rspsot

"a strong field assembled to-
day for the start over the Bel
vedere Cob Club course tomor-
row of the Michigan Amateur
tournament in which Zygmund
Zawadxki Of Detroit, member
Of the Mount Clemens Hillcrest
golf team, seeks to become the
first champion to repeat in near
ly q decade.
The states foremost amateur
golfers block the path Of INA ~
year-old Zawadxki. WI 1haod -
participation In the Nationkl
Public Links championship At
Spokane, WASH, 50 that he
might be on hand to defend his
Michigan title. Zawadzki defeat
ed Fred Hammer, z and I. for
the 1910 title also decided here.
The four day meet opens with
an 18-hole qualifying round
which will pare the field to o.
golfers. Two rounds Of 18-hole
match play daily will reduce the
contenders to semi-finals and the
tw0-round playoH Sunday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-09
Brass EIetted
Club President
al Big Picnic
80 Attend Annual
Gst-Tossthsr
at Shodysids Park

Q Eighty former Mount Clemens
High school athletes gathered
yesterday at Shadyside park for
the annual picnic of the Mono
gram club, snapped tales of the
glorious past" over a copious
quantity of food and refresh
ments, elected officers for the
ensuing year. and awarded a SIS
athletic scholarship.
The picnic was one of the
best that has been held in re-
cent years, according to retir-
ing President George Rastigue.
The ticket sale alone exceeded
the sale in 40 by almost third.
The club has a. total member
ship of more than 800. many of
which no longer live in Mount
Clemens. Only graduates of the
high school who have earned a
letter in some sport are eligible.
For the first time in its history
the club succeeded in awarding
a scholarship to graduating
senior who, in the opinion of
the schools coach, was deemed
most worthy of the award and
who will use it to further his
college education. Bernard BUS"
Roskopp, stellar end on the
Mount Clemens undefeated grid
iron team of 1910, was named
as the first recipient of the
scholarship by Athletic Director
Ernest Buckholz. Roskopp is to
attend Michigan State college in
the fall. Retiring President
Rastique turned the SIS cash
award over to Buckholz who
then made the presentation.
The following officers were
elected to head the club in 1941-
AZ: President Walter "Dobber"
Brass; vice-president Harry
"Hatchet' Halter; treasurer (re-
elected) Howard Brute Web
er; secretary (reeelcted) Bern
ard Hank" Ballantine.
Walter Olsen, former athletic
director of the high school, came
down from Bay City, where he
is now acting head of athletics
of the public school system, to
be present at the annual get
together. Olsen and his success
or, Buckholz, both spoke at the
picnic, congratulating the men,
bers on the fine work they are
doing in keeping the spirit of
sport and fellowship alive and
in promoting good will.
Games, including horse shoes,
baseball, and cards, all formed
part of a very successful reunion.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-09
Pastor Objects TO Heat

Seriously" pleaded Pastor,
why should l 60 in at noon and
lose all my strength, and weight,
too. know that all the great
fighters from Sullivan on down
trained right after midday,
but
&C.. but you amt Sullivan"
came a whisper from behind.
Pastor, here to train for his
rematch July % with Turkey
Thompson of Los Angeles, said
he would take the matter up
with his manager, James j..
Johnston, when he gets into
town.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-09
AiIinq Score.
in pGA Meet
Boy. in son.doses
Put Dent in Por
BY LOUDON KELLY

ODENVER, July 9--(R-The
boys with bandage-and-arnica
backgrounds are doing all right
in this oath P.G.A. tournament
at Water Trapped Cherry Hills.
Defending champion Byron
Nelson of Toledo and medalist
Samuel Jackson Snead of Hot
Springs, Va, who led the way
into today's opening match play
bracket of 80 man-to-man bat
ties over ID holes, both have en-
listed medical aid lately.
Nelson has a torn nail on q
finger mashed in an automobile
door but insists it doesn't bother
his grip-"just feels dead"
Snead, who scorched Cherry
Hills in two qualifying rounds
of 69-69-138, four under par,
to win the diamond-studded
Alex Smith memorial medal,
has been plagued so much by an
aching back that he had about
decided only recently not to
enter the tournament, which he
never has won.
National open champion Craig
Wood from Mamaroneck, NY,
also was troubled With a back
ailment that later spread to one
leg, but he turned in two smart
Cos yesterday after shooting rs
Monday. He might be the frst
since Gene Sarazen to win the
open and P.G.A. the same year.
Harry Bassler, chunky Los
Altos, Calf, pro, who was tied
for the lead at the 18-hole stage.
wound up with 68-73-141-
and his golf career has been in
terrupted IL times by trips to
the hospital, mostly for stomach
surgery.
Despite impaired vision in one
eye, Mark Fry of Oakland holds
the California open crown and
qualified satisfactorily with IT,
76-148.