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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-02

Mrs. ]. D Sample and Mrs. Will
mer Corkins spent Monday in De-
troit where they were guests OF Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Rust and also Wis
tied Red Cross headquarters. OBJ
serving work that is being carried
on In the different divisions.
Miss Linda Atkinson, Stony
Creek. was a Saturday overnight
guest of Miss Lois Corkins.
Frank and Edward Rowe, Mrs.
Charles Campbell. Mrs. Ben Owen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Latin and Mrs.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-02
Pleasure Club Meets

The regular Pleasure Club meet
ing was Friday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Miller. Miss
Susan and Fred Minard and Mrs.
Frances Yeckley in charge OF the
delicious supper. A short business
meeting was followed by social
evening.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-02
Box Social Planned

The Mothers Club announce an
old fashioned box social will be
given at the new school house Fri
day evening. Feb. 13. Women are
requested to bring a boxed lunch
for two which will be auctioned off.
AS It is valentine season it was sug-
gested that the boxes be decorated
in red and white.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-02
Hour Changed

The Sunday School hour at the
Jacksonville School has been
changed to 1890 a. m. and for the
present Rev. Bridwells wife will be
in charge OF the services.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-02-02

Bobby Missy Arthur Missy and Bobbys XII
PnkIepurr together The kitten the shuttle wher
rushed Bobby the hospital for treatment oil
mona time OF it. The girls in the United
Company filled her with rich allowed play all
place showed there Next she went to the Penn
Pape Co but Leroy decided dangeou
Only clue the rightful of the kitten
inscribed "Bobbys Kitten Publicity brought about
hannV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18
Gay Program
Presented by
Chamber Guild
Ensemble Offers
Ukrainian Sketch
By K0Mer
Bv ALICE EvERSMAN.

The entire atmosphere of the pro-
gram presented by the Chamber
Music Guild at Almas Temple last
night was one of happiness. If a
touch of sadness or seriousness
crept in occasionally, it but touched
up the lighter moments and in no
way affected them further. The
Brahms Quartet OPP. 81, No. L."
which was first announced as the
opening number, could perhaps have
provided a proper contrast but the
substituted quartet, that Of Haydn
in D Minor, opus rs, No. 2, was more
in keeping with the following works,
Kof1er's "Ukrainian Sketches, Op.
~" and Loeffler's Quintet in One
Movement"
Koffler's sketches" were given
the first performance in this coun-
try and introduced Polish COM
poser Of individual talent. While
his style and intentions lean toward
the modern idiom, a strong feeling
for the innate spirit of the folk
music of Ukraine warns the harsh
ness of form and stands out from
frame that otherwise might lessen
its charm. As it is, the Sketches
six in number, are short delightful
bits, voicing different sentiments in
fresh, spontaneous manner, origi-
nal in treatment and only OCCASION
ally startling in harmonies.
The climax Of the program was
the Loefler Quintet in which the
artists of the guild were assisted
by Alba Rosa Victor. violinist. The,
facility of Loeffler's writing, its
effervescent quality and its poetic
expression are found at their best
In this work. The pattern given the
instruments Is closely knit in pure,
well-blended harmony with the
third violin as foil for the first.
The artists gave 1t a poetic reading
IN which the balance of the instru-
ments in the matter of coloring was
well maintained.
The same could not be said of
the performance of the Haydn Quar-
tet. where the first violin and the
cello overshadowed the other in
struments. The second movement,
practically violin obligato, allowed
Emanuel Zetlin an opportunity to
display his fine tone and classic
style. However, in the remaining
movements of this number and in
the "Ukrainian Sketches" the vol
ume OF sound was not evenly dis
tributed between the four players
and the fabric of the compositions
suffered in consequence.
The guild has sought for original
ity IN its choice of programs and has
unearthed many works not previ-
ously heard here, presenting them
with careful study. As an ensemble
group, however, they are still new
to each other, since the personnel
changed this year, and have need
to attain a better tonal balance for
q full appreciation of the selections
they play. The popularity of the
Guild Quartet-Mr Zetlin and
Stanley Weiner, violins; Eugene
Limberg, viola. and Marcel Anchor,
cello-is well established, as the ap-
plause rewarding their performances
yesterday attested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18

that as result Of the hearing Octo-
Der "a on the proposed Woodley
road bus route change some minor
change will be made.
Supporting a motion by Mrs.
Walter Sellers, the association urged
that a continuous sidewalk be laid
between the 5000 block of Macomb
street and Wisconsin avenue.
In q discussion Of civilian defense
activities, Mr.. Roney reported he
had failed to receive whole hearted
cooperation from the apartment
house owners along Wisconsin ave-
nue. near Massachusetts avenue. He
said other persons were cooperating
100 per sent.
Owen French reported on the
Northwest. Council meeting held last
week. Mrs. Olive Faircloth, presi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18
: : e--s
Association Votes SIS
For Community War Fund

The Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park Citizens Association voted last
night to contribute $25 to the Com
munity War Fund, with the stipula-
ton that the money be used for the
specific organizations the association
has aided in the past.
The groups include the Society
for the Prevention of Blindness, the
USO, and day nurseries-the latter
only on condition that they are not
provided for from separate source.
The association also voted to con-
tribute $40 to the Red Cross.
Joseph Roney said he believed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18
Harvard, Yale Clubs to Meet

The Harvard and Yale Clubs of
Washington will hold joint lunch
con meeting at the Willard Hotel
Saturday, during which members
will listen to a broadcast of. the
Yale Harvard football game. Lunch
will be served at lis pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-18

dent Of the association reported on
the Federation meeting.
The association met In st. Adams
Church.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Registration Day

Once more through the process of
selective service a great cross-Section of
American men are subscribing to a draft
of manpower to fight the war against
foreign dictatorship. Today all through
the land men between the ages of 20 and
"A are registering at convenient places.
Many will be declared eligible for active
service in various branches of our armed
service. Others will be found to be of
greater service at home But in either
event the call TO register will be answered
as Fundamentally and as unconcernedly
as were the previous two.
This outpouring OF men today was
slightly different than the previous ones,
for there were older men in it, men who
had seen service during the last World
War. There were also many youngsters,
those who have come up since the last
call and those who weren't old enough
before to register Here in Waterbury as
efficiently as did the other registrations.
It's getting so that your average Ameri-
can man accepts this responsibility just
as he does the right to the franchise.
Where other nations, particularly the
totalitarian ones, have long ago exhausted
the youth of their countries, this land is
still heavily populated with available men.
This registration today will be the signal
for many to enlist in some branch of the
service rather than await the call through
the draft. Another year will find our
armed forces, well trained and equipped,
close to those of the nations that have
been warning for years gone by. And
what's more this American army will be
one grimly resolved to fight until the last
vestige of foreign oppression has been
beaten to the ground.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Clean Up Week Is Early

The city isn't ordinarily called upon to
engage in cleanup activities at this sea-
son OF the year. Along about April when
the weather starts to turn bit balmy
ones thoughts turn to house-cleaning
and all the other tasks that 20 with the
time of the year But right now there's
a crying need Of every American house
holder doing the job he or she has long
threatened. In short, get rid of the col
lection OF useless, outmoded, sentimental
articles that are cluttering up attics, Gel
lars, store-rooms, etc.
Your local salvage committee is desir-
Gus of making as thorough a cleanup in
the homes of this city as is possible You
can help out by collecting all the sal
vagable materials and seeing that they
are brought to the various centers. There
must be one somewhere IN your neigh
borhood. Almost any school or firehouse
will receive the junk if it is put into a
carton, large bag or some conCainer that
doesn't allow it to spill all over. Do your
bit to help win the war by contributing
your old metal your old rubber, your old
rags, and, of course, your old paper.
Most of these articles continue to ac-
cumulate, especially the paper, SO have
the children continue carting newspapers,
magazines, wrapping paper etc, to
school every time there's fair-sized pile
of it. Your contributions multiplied by
those of your neighbor and by hundreds
of communities will mean a lot to Uncle
Sam in his furious efforts to provide our
fighting men with the best possible
machines of war It's the Well-equipped
army that travels the furthest and fights
the hardest; we can't let the boys at the
front down for one minute Get busy
now on that cleanup job and make the
salvage pile grow.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16

New Haven plans to have Leon Hender-
son. Office Price Administration head,
place the city in the defense rental area
which would set ceiling on rentals, but
the city fathers want the job done with
out sacrificing their control of the local
situation In short, they want the federal
regulations to protect the city, but they
want the local fair rent committee to con-
tinue to operate and settle all questions.
We doubt very much if any federal agency
would agree to anything like this II we
know our federal agencies, and we don't
admit to too close an acquaintanceshlp,
they will insist on doing the directing
where their regulations are applied,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Our Strength In Truth

The American people ask no more than
TO be told the truth. They will not be
content with less Three times in recent
weeks, Uncle Sam has held up a mirror
IN front of himself and said, There old
uglymug, how do you like THAT?"
MIRROR No. l was the Truman report,
which showed that our pre-War industrial
production setup with its dollar-a-year
men, its persuasive methods, it's half
measures, was not good enough. MIR
= ROR No. 2 was the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee report, which showed that
shocking profits have been made on
some contracts. MIRROR No 3 was the
Roberts report on Pearl Harbor, which
showed childish lack OF cooperation be-
tween Army and Navy heads before Pearl
Harbor, and complete miscalculation of
the danger of attack with corresponding
failure to prepare for it in the face of
plain warnings
We didn't like what we saw None of
us liked it. What are we going to do
about it? First of all, the production
setup has been changed; Donald Nelson
authority to make it hum. The old half
way setup is already gone. The new all
out setup is already beginning to func-
ton. The warts should have been re-
moved from this one already.
Second the matter of war profits is
up to Congress. The entire American
people are agreed on this: nobody shall
get rich out of this war 1t is up to Con-
gress either to thin out the contract
gravy or skim it off in taxes. Congress is
working on this. 1t can't work too fast
or too thoroughly.
Third, it is to be presumed that the
shock that must have run through the
whole Army and Navy command at the
deficiencies that led up to Pearl Harbor
more or less assures that the same mis-
takes won't happen again Immediately.
The appointment of supreme COM
manders in the Pacific war zones with
full authority, and of the new AEF in
Britain, with all branches responsible to
them, indicates that the danger OF lack
of coordination has been Sensed and par
TALLY remedied. That's good, but not
enough The whole military setup, and
the whole habit of military thinking
must be revamped to fit modern condi-
TONS and that as quickly as possible with
out fatal confusion. Here again the rev.
elation of the whole truth is Of the great
est service.
A free people can function only by
knowing the truth. The greatest posi-
BILE service has been done by these three
brutally frank reports. We want to know
the worst. It's when we've been told the
worst that we start doing something about
making it better. There is no other way
to deal with free people.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Remember?

few years ago when some American
neWSpapermen were just discovering
South America there were lot OF stories
about President Vargas of Brazil Admit
tedly a good deal Of dictator, he was,
some Of the writer's added, practically
Fascist, and all too sympathetic to totali-
tarianism. SO comes the Rio de Janeiro
conference to form a united front against
the axis, and who, stood firmest against
the axis, who insisted most strongly on
the most drastic action? President Var
gas
Thus we see again demonstrated a
truth about South American politics. Lat
in America has dictators, but L tt n
America is patriotic and nationalistic
Even those rulers whose regimes fail to
show up as 100 per cent democracies by
the standard of American liberalism, are
pretty sure to stand firm against for
eign influence, and especially the sub
versive kind practiced by the totalitarlan
countries.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16

fellows not by the way we feeel but
by the way we act; not by what we
want to do but by what we make
ourselves do in an hour when cour-
age is required There are some
people who would enjoy walking
about over the slanting roof of a
tall building. The truly courageous
person, however, is the one who
desperately fears height and yet
who takes his courage in hard and
does a thing which terrorizes him
most, to save someone who is in
danger. Some people love nothing
better than army life and battle.
The bravest soldier Of all is the one
who hates fighting, yet because OF
the oath he has taken and the de-
votion he has for his country, throws
himself into battle intent only on
doing his duty.
Courage is not an emotion. Cour-
age is a policy. 1t is the course OF
action which men take when they
put themselves resolutely aside, re-
gardless of how they feel, and do
what they know to be right. They
may be terrified as they do it, but
courage Is the Impulse which makes
them do it, regardless of their fears,
All Rights decentralization News
paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16

We like the idea Of having a trial sal
wage of trolley rails in some city OF the
state. 1t looks now as if Hartford would
be- chosen for the experiment to see if it's
going to be worth while to dig up all the
trolley rails now buried beneath many
coverings of asphalt and other street
materials in those communities where
trolleys were operated. Up in Hartford
they plan to dig up half mile OF double
trolley tracks. The cost will be determined
as well as the ease with which the job
is done. If the returns from the sale OF
the salvaged rails is in some way com
nensurate, Hartford will probably con-
tinue with the job OF retaining 43 miles
of abandoned rails throughout it's maze OF
.thoroughfares. And if it's done IN Hart~
ford, it will be done in Waterbury and
elsewhere But test to determine first
the feasibility certainly seems like the
right procedure.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Current Comment

II there is no referee at prize
fight, the man who puts on brass
knuckles will win. And the same
Is true in the industrial game.
Thurman Arnold, assistance At
torney- General.
/ am going TO use a word which
none of like-and / don't either.
The word is must"
President Roosevelt to conference
Of business, labor and govern
ment executives.
America at war has no time Tor
hysteria.
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
Wickard.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
WE HAVE SOME LUCK
(Meriden JOurnaD

The 1-in-20 gasoline charioteer In
Connecticut who is interested in
auto liability insurance may find
some satisfaction from a New Bri-
tain Herald compilation showing
that premium rates have gone up
this year in SO states = but not in
Nutmeggia.
We are favored, the paper says,
because we were on god behavior in
the matter of accidents in 1910. But
we slipped in 1941, when accidents
increased. Hence, when insurance
rates based on 1941 are applied in
1943 - the compiling, analysis, and
bookkeeping lags a year, we will
probably not be so fortunate in the
matter of rates.
The insurers set aside 63.3 per
cent of their premium dollars for
the payment of claims. When that
percentage is exceeded, rate revi-
sions are in order and they are
made within each rating zone in
every state.
The insurance dollar is very sensi-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16

dom of the British people in
this war;, charge you with
hiding the facts SO that the
British people have not been
spurrcd into a real war effort.
you have already totalitar-
lied us economically and finan-
cially. You have regulated our
factories, our food, our prices,
our profits and our wages. The
only thing we have left is our
freedom to debate, to worship
and to criticize. And as far as
/ am concerned, the only thing
that keeps you fellows honest
and prosecuting this war eff
GENTLY is free and militant
press"
Since then the British Govern
ment has come around to Civ
ing the British public the cold,
unpleasant facts And the Brit
ish public has learned to take
it.
The American public also can
take it.
Copyright, 1912, by United Feat
ure Syndicate Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16

"You have come through this
Pearl Harb0r) in very good
shape. The American people
are sOIidly behind you. They
realize it wasn't your fault. Eut
the thing you've got to guard
against is another mistake. If
there should be another great
catastrophe the reaction will be
different"
Fortunately, the downfall of
Singapore, catastrophe as it is,
is not regarded as Roosevelts
fault. However, some Of the re-
sentiment Of which Wendell Will
kie warned is beginning to creep
into the press, the letters to Con-
gress and the general neighbour
hood conversation.
Very definitely, feeling of
Iess-cOnfidencc is beginning to
permeate the country. The pub
lie feels less confidence in the
Navy-Which the American peo-
pie had considered the finest
and most powerful in the world.
And there is less confidence in
the Roosevelt Administration
and the general way things are
being run in Washington.
Nobody knows better than the
President himself what tragedy
this is. For the one great thing
which resulted from Pearl Har-
Dor, and which almost made up
for our losses, was an absolute
ly unified nation.
PEARL HARBOR MYSTERY
That unity is slowly evaporat-
ing, first because too great a
feeling of optimism was radiated
from high places Immediately
after Pearl Harbor and since; Sec
Ond because the public, not even
today, has been given any real
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Questions
and Answers
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bury Democrats Washington Ser
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@. What section of the United
States may be termed the Amer
lean Ruhr'
A. The coal, iron, and steel pro-
ducing areas of Ohio and western
Pennsylvania.
@. How many casualties were
suffered by the British at Dunkirk?
A. One estimate places the num-
Der at about 10000. Official figures
have not been issued.
@. Did Emily Bronte write any
books besides "Wuthering Heights?"
A. Aside from her poems, pub
lished with those of her sisters In
the collection of Poems by Currer,
Ellis, and Acton Bell, "Wuthering
Heights" written in 1847, is her only
work.
@. What was the title and who
was the heroine of tho technicolor
picture. in which George Brent
Starred about five years ago and in
which there was scene in a lum-
Der camp?