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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
High School Students
Enjoy After-Game Hop

Students OF the Ypsilantl High
School swayed to recordings OF fam
Gus bandleaders at a "dime-a-
dance" novelty Halloween hop after
the Birmingham-Ypsilanu football
game Friday night. The party was
held in the gymnasium and refresh
ments Of cider and doughnuts were
served.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
Engagement Announced

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Carson
announce the engagement OF their
daughter, Frances Louise. to Avia-
lion Cadet Charles W. Sinkule. Jr.,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sinkule
Sr. At the present Cadet Sinkule is
in training with the Army Air Force
in Cuero, Texas.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
At Clinton MEETING

Mrs. James Bell, Mrs. c. J. Berno.
Miss Resale Clifford, Mrs. Leon
ard Menzi, Miss Fannie Beal. Miss
Clara Janet Allison. Miss Martha
Norris, Miss Jane Matteson, Rev.
DR.. ]. Ashby. and Mrs. Louis White
went TO Clinton, Thursday, TO at
tend an all day meeting Of the
Women's Division OF the Jackson
Association OF CONGREGATIONAL
Churches. Miss Matteson and Miss
Beal we're among the speakers. The
chief address was by Miss Lucy
Lyons. a missionary from China
who returned on the Gripsholm and
who told knowingly OF the present
sad condition OF life for the com
mon people in China. The Clinton
church women served a fine dinner
20 noon. The program had been ar
ranged by Mrs. Harvey c. Colourn
twas regretted that her daugh
'er's Illness had taken Mrs. Col
Jurn to Pittsburgh before the meet.
Ing - go
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
Engagement Announced

Mrs. LaDora Coleman announces
the engagement OF her daughter,
Dorothy Aline. to Donald W. Wealth
erman, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. James
V. Weatherman. The wedding will
be Nov II.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs Norman Schuster
who moved 10 Boston. are now NOV
ing again to New YORK and will
live in Flushing They will come TO
Ypsilanti for Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Culp will
spend today and Sunday in Detroit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Tapp.
Miss Lois Jean Schroeder has re-
turned from a weeks stay In Grand
Rapids.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Scheppner
and daughter, Mrs. Beryl Ellard,
visited Mrs. c. c. Lane in Chelsea
Friday. Mrs. Ellard returned to Kal
amazoo today.
Mrs. A. y. Burd and Mrs. Glenn
Burd spent Thursday with Mrs.
Hayes Holt and daughter from
southeast OF Wayne.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
Social EVENING

The Ypsilanti Court OF the Ben
Hur Life Association spent a social
evening Wednesday In the Wash.
ington Apartments with Mrs. Lee
Counsellor and Mrs. Helen Lung a.
hostesses.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31

For Your
Representative
i'm Congress- A
Vote for who's. farnes. and loyalty to hsco mmun
ity has been definitely ~
Vote manwh years of haveg given him S,a
prestige and influence - III
Vote manw who believes thoroughly in thedem -
formo government
tc 6 sSnnsr4
Vote For
EARLC. NICHENER
By of his seniority Representative Earl Kitchener
holds important appointments His reelection will give him still
influence for his district
By his votes ON important questions everyone can
see that Mr. Kitchener has considered the best interests
of the people i'm his district and conscentiolsy
spected their wishes
you have had occasion ask advice help from Mr.
Kitchener you know that he has done his best promptly
He firm believer the theory that representative
congress should really and truly represent his people
Representative Earl C.. Kitchener has represented
his district honestly and we'll
We believe there will be question about large
nhs favor For the benefit of newcomers this vicinity who will
here for the first time November urge upon the
Importance of voting Earl Kitchener represent you
gress.
This tribute Representative Kitchener published
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31
Entertalns Friends

Miss Mary Lou Groos beck enter
tanned a group OF friends at Hal
loween party Friday evening. After
a parade, the young folks played
games and had appropriate Hallov-
cen refreshments. Decorations were
also in keeping with the date.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-10-31

Mrs. Nathan II. Bowen is visiting
Miss Alice Lowden in Detroit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

that he knows better because he has been around the country and the reporters have not - was inconSiderate and, presumably, unconSidered.
 MT. Roosevelt found three bad spots in our war effort = Congress, the Press and the Radio, and certain minor members of his own entourage who, he says, have been talking too much. Congress, he says, is bad because Congress insists upon inveSti- gating the conduct of the war. It shouldn't, he thinks, because congress men don't know enough. They should mind their own business
 What is Congress business? The Con- stitution says it is to legiSlate. How can Congress legislate intelligently unless 1t inquireS into those matters requiring leg islation? The people, and we, have been end are severely critical of Congress. But noy on the ground that it seeks to edu- cate itself. Quite the contrary.
 The press and the radio, too, write and talk of things of which they know nothing, says MT. Roosevelt. To which we reply that the press, at least, spares no effort to get all the facts -~ although, often, by request of censorship, much that it knows is not printed. Undoubtedly con- gresS-men reporters, columniStS and administrators do talk out of turn, at times. So does the President, whose words, by virtue of his position, carry the most weight of all.
 The public has been ahead of Congress, and much of the time ahead of the White House The press and the radio have reported that fact regularly. We hope there will be great progress in toughening up, now that Mr. Roosevelt knows that he need not wait for public sentiment to catch up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Highway Building to End

Slashing of the State Highway Depart ment budget just about in half would nor mally be considered as an economy meas ure. It isn't being done for this purpose here in Connecticut, where Commission CT William J. Cox has just announced his department will operate on $12,0G0,000 budget in the coming biennium instead of $20,000,000. The idea is that there just isn't going to be highway conStruc- ton for the duration. So there won't be any need of funds in department budgets for new roads.
 All of which means quite bit here in Connecticut, where 8 most ambitious program has been launched by the High way Department of recent years. It probably means, too, that the quietus will be put on the proposed Waterbury Bridge port highway until war conditions change. And this new route was to be boon in the defense manufacturing Nau- gatuck Valley. We presume the valley section of the route will be completed for that's under construction now and com pleted in some part.
 But there was an elaborate scheme to bypass Derby and Shelton by means of new HouSatonic River bridge which probably won't materialize now for some years to come. Whether or not the route from Shelton down through Nichols into Bridgeport will be modernized is also doubtful in view of the general announce lment that the department would operate on such a small budget, comparatively speaking, and many contracts would be cancelled.
 The Wilbur L. Cross Parkway won't be worked on any further, unless, of course, war developments make it a necessity. It's too bad, of course, but there are more important things to be done, principally war to be won.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Casting Aspersions

After a two-week, 8754-nile big-circle tour of the United States, President Roosevelt informed a press conference that the people of the country are ahead of Washington in their understanding of war needs and in their willingness to respond. The President has confirmed what we, and other newspaper writers, have been insisting for months. There has not been the Slightest doubt in our mind, since a few days after Pearl liar boF. that the people were ahead of wash ington and were gaining fast.
 Newspapers have been certain of this, among other reasons, because in the ag- 4regate they have spent millions Of dol sars 70 send skilled observers around the country and to exchange the results Of kheif research. They have gone to grass scots for their information, seven days #eek and 24 hours a day. That is why HIf. Roosevelt's accompanying remark, .hat Che newspapers arc doing harm by
 i'nltng what they 10 not know .~ and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Vandalism

You might call it Vandalism, or Youth on the Rampage. Perhaps it's the pres ent world upheaval. Perhaps it's this or that, but it seems to be the general con- sensus that the wilderness and you-can't- tell-me attitude of the very young today is lack of parental authority. This par ticular subject was brought to mind by reading in the local press this week that malicious vandalism was rampant in the Fairmount section of the city,
 And Fairmount is not the only section that gets it. It is surprising the size and age of youngsters that rush through residential sections and use other peoples yards as though they were public prop erty. A street light is provided, it would seem, merely for target; likewise windows in school-houseS and private homes. That goes too for door lights at private homes. Well, all this has been hashed and rehashed time and again. The police, it is true, can do their bit when and if informed. The teacher in school can and does her bit by striving to diSci- pline wild youngsters. But if the folks at home have not done the spade work, what's the use in blaming police and teachers?
 This situation must be very widespread and acute at the present time, because we continually read and hear about it. It is the subject of discourses by our clergy who continually call attention to this one thing = parental neglect of children in the formative years. At an important gathering the other day in New York City, Archbishop Spellman devoted large part of his talk to youth full vandalism. It is something to think about, especially for parents to think about; parents who have go-as-they-like, do as they-like and play-as-they-like children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

London of his generation cast it. self at his feet in adoration.
 But nobody paid any attention at that time to modest oxford don named Thomas Gray, who wrote a poem ''Elegy Written Tn A Country Churchyard," and polished its phrases for seven years before he offered 1t for publication.
 If you should by chance have heard of Charles Churchill and his works, you are one in half mill lion, but most high school students today know of Gray's "Elegy."
 Don't be swept oil your feet by the estimate that the supposed big- wigs make of their contemporaries, whether the estimate be good or bad. While Shakespeare was writing his immortal dramas, Q number of thoroughly cheap playwrights were getting considerable attention from the theater-going public. Germany drove the revolutionary composer. Richard Wagner, into exile. France would have none Of Victor Hugo, The Pharlnees called for the release of the popular leader Barabbas and the cFuelflxlon of Jesus.
 History is Feplete with accounts Of how tho Charles Churchill variety or folk gets the public car, while Honlo unknown man of real worth finally achieves immortality.
 Al Rights Reserved ilabaen News
 peper EYndieaio
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

The Hartford Times thinks that ex- governor Raymond E. Baldwin deserves a lot of credit for denouncing the al- liance of Democratic and Republican forces in Bridgeport in recent nomlna- tions for state senator in an effort to de- feat candidates on the Socialist ticket Of Mayor Jasper McLevy. The Times con- tinues by saying that ''The Republican leaders action is virtual defiance of MT. Baldwin, who is seeking reelection. It indicates division in the ranks of the Bridgeport Republicans that augurs a greater interest in MT. McLevy's candi- dacy for the governorship than other wise might be expected ..." Reference is also made to Bridgeport voters send ing three Socialist senators to Hartford as they have done in the past. Well, It wouldn't hurt to look back at the legls- lative records the last time the Socialist senators were in Hartford and find out how much their alliance with the Repub- lican side of the Senate aided the COP, not to mention Bridgeport. All of which may not be reprehensible or it may be classed with the current Bridgeport po- litical entente, depending on how you look at it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Candidate for a Medal

When war medals are being passed out, we nominate Warren Breaux, Il years old, of Gueydan, Louisiana. He weighs 72 pounds, himself, but since April he has collected 400 tons of scrap metal for our war program. Sure. He earned $2,13o for his work. But what has that to do with the case?
 The laborer is worthy of his hire, and Warren had no opportunity that wasn't available to any boy or man with 1nltla- tive and dash of patriotism. Uncle Sam will be doing an injustice and missing a bet if he doesn't recognize this lads super service for democracy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

They figure that the quest for manpower is going to get tougher and tighter, and that eventually we may find it a mistake to draft an army of 1O,0OO,ooo men - es- pecially since we lack the means of getting them to grips with the enemy.
 White House advisers point to physicians as an example. Today the Army is plucking doctors from civilian life by all sorts of methods, first promising them commissions if they enlist, then threatening that if they don't en- list they will be drafted. Stu dents in medical schools have been taken in as reserve officers, and, in some cases, third year medical students who couldn't pass the of ficers' physical exam, are being drafted as buck privates-despite three years of medical training.
 The goal which the Army seeks is seven doctors to every 1000 men, whereas the British have found the optimum figure to be four and half.
 Result is that many small communities find themselves
 without doctor, and the situ-
 ation will get worse. For at
 the rate of seven doctors per
 1000 men, a 1O,O0O, 900 man army
 will need 10000 doctors and
 there are only 15O,OOO to 160,OOO
 in the entire United States-Of
 which only 1O5,OOO are young
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

tionS when the State Depart ment was the chief champion of the oil companies, especially abroad; when Secretary of State Kellogg wrote high-flOwn notes to Mexico warning that she was on trial before the world for expropriating U. s. oil proper ties.
 But now the State Department champions a square deal to Mex ico = much to the consternation of the oil men who have infl- trated into the government.
 Recently the State Depart ment proposed sending an ecOn- Omic mission to Mexico to study closer cooperation with our neighbOring ally against the Axis. On the mission 1t ap- pointed an outstanding oil ex- pert, William J. Kemnitzer of Laguna Beach, Cal, to study Mexican oil.
 Kemnitzer had lived in Mexico once worked as resident geologist for the Mexican Candelaria Co.,, also for Shell Oil; and for the U. s. government in lawsuits over U. s. Naval oil reserves.
 But he had made. the unforg1v. able mistake of writing a book, ''The Rebirth of Monopoly" plus other articles and books critical of the big oil companies. So when it was learned that the State Department planned to send Kenn- nitzer to Mexico, Deputy Petro- leum Coordinator Ralph Davies of Standard Oil of California, and his aide William Duce, objected vigorously.
 They pulled the wires so effec- lively that Cordell Hull, though usually resenting outside interfer- ence with his Department, finally yielded. Kemnitzer did not go to Mexico. Instead the State De- partment is sending him to ex- anime the oil situation in Chile where big U. s. oil companies are not so interested.
 Copyright, 1942, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Current Comment

Our flying fortresses will continue to bomb factories in France turning out war materials for the Axis, and Vlchy protests and demands that such measures Do ceased are being dlsFegaFded. -The Army and Navy Journal.
 
 Wartime elimination Of summer vacations at most colleges has help. cf forgetting. -pr. George '. sehiesseF Of Colgate University.
 When law and order break down it means that some people have been able to obtain certain rights denied lo others. Mayor Frank ] kAueshe os clsve. N-'-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

Our old friend, the Meriden Journal, comments on the recent town elections with claim that the Silver City has now been threatened as "the most Republi- can city in the state. All of which made the editor point out that once upon time Meriden was the most Demo cratic city in the state until it lost that honor to Waterbury. A moot point, we say and one we never conceded to the Silver City. Waterbury's claims are stlll fine same as they once were with the fig ures pretty good backing for many years past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

A To prevent side slip or skid ding, just as the turns of speed way must be banked so that racing automobiles can make the turn at high speed. Banking is necessary to counteract centrifugal force, which would tend to throw the plane of on tangent to the circumfer- ence of the curve 1t Is making. Air. planes would skid around nat curves at high speed if not banked.
 @. Does "Whitey' Ford, master of ceremonies on the Plantation Party" radio program, also take the part of the Duke of Parucah?
 A. Yes. His real name is BenjamiS F. Ford.
 @. Was Cleopatra an Egyptian?
 A. She was of Macedonian de- scent.
 Q How much of the body weight is blood?
 A. The total blood volume of . series of healthy men was found to average 4.9 percent, or aproxi- mately one-twentieth of the body weight, with individual variations ranging from 42 to 5.9 per cent. An individual weighing 160 pounds would have about pounds of blood (about 4, quarts).
 e. What produces the light in an electric fluorescent lamp?
 A. The electricity does not dow through filament as in ordinary incandescent lamps. but instead jumps from 8 contact at one end, through gas which fills the tube, to contact at the other end. This produces invisible ultra violet light which strikesa chemical substance on the inside surface of the glass tube, which in turn glows or "fluor- esces," producing the visible light.
 @ What is the address of the Marine Research Society?
 A. Salem, Mass.
 @. What proportion of the homes in Canada have electricity?
 A. Sixty-six per cent.
 Q. How is the tonnage of a mer- chant ship calculated?
 A. By measuring the interior of the vessel to ascertain its internal volume in cubic feet, and then di- viding the total by 100 to obtain the tonnage. According to this sys- tenn of measuring. 100 cubic feet equal one ton.
 EDITORS NOTE - If you are desirious of securing this weeks booklet, War Powers of the President" address F. M. Kirby, Department 2-1O0. Waterbury Democrat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth St. Washington. D. C., with IS cents to cover postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

A New London candidate for the Legis.. lature will campaign on platform or making the new bridge across the Thames River a free instead of toll structure. We don't think officials at Hartford are going to like him for this. After all the the bonds for this project have to be retlreo and they want tolls to help along, par ticularly now that State Highway De- partment budgets have been sliced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Press Comment
PREPARING FOR THE AIR AGE
(Christian Science Monitor)

Christian Science Monitor)
 The New York State Department of Education has inaugurated course in glider construction as a part of the junior aviation program in secondary schools. In prepara- tion for this specialized branch of the general aeronautics program which begins this fall, group of manual training teachers took a course in glider construction at Cor nell university during the summerl and from their experience, manual of directions was written for the schools.
 The project seems worth while. Military authorities are planning units of gliders to serve as adjuncts of the aviation branches of the serv- ice. The high schools are the na- tlral reservoir of future manpower.
 Glider construction also is 8 training for both boys and girls. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

The frs t of these is the case of Rear Admiral Ben Moreen, who popped of in a speech before the building trades d ep 8 rtnent of the A m erica n F e d CT ation of Labor convention in Toronto to the effect that, al- t h ou g h people can't live with out labor, they navn 1ivya xyif6nNaf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
WORTH EVENTUALLY APPRE-
 GATED
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D.

The name Winston Churchill seems to be earmarked for immor- tality. But did you ever hear of Charles Churchill? Probably not. Only few college English profess sors would recognize the name. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

was an English
 poet or rather an alleged English poet who lived one hundred and fifty years ago. He was all the rage. one piece h e W rot e, c a Il e d "Rosciad," had a sale of 25, 900 cop les. W h was equivalent to a
 million tnday The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

1. American bombers have or have not bombed a Japanese air. drome on the Burma road?
 3. In which country does the news agency DN.B. have its home OfAce7
 8. What is the name of the worlds largest hotel in Chicago now occupied by the Army?
 4. What was the language of Homer, Plato, Sophocles, Euripidesr
 5. Give the Arabic equivalent of MDCCC.
 6. venison is the flesh of which animal?
 T. Quote the line that precedes, ''Nor iron bars 8 cage"
 8. Tn dressmaAing, what Is pink ing?
 9. General Nathanael Greene fought in what war?
 10. Who wrote "Quentin Dur ward"?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
Selected Poem
THE FIRST FROST

THE FIRST FROST CBy Charles L. H. Wagner in the Boston FosO Fingers of silver
 Steal through the night Lovely in pattern
 And shimmering light, Jealous of beauty Of flower and leaf, Softly destroying
 Beyond belief. Oh, that such splendor Masks heart of ice, Death would be sweeter By cruel device, Nature conspires
 To kill with kiss And colors It's dagger With loves aFtifce. Would that my passing That sometime must be Comes In such langnor To set my soul free, NiveFing gently
 The fife yet unsiosssd And lending an aura To glow like the frost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08

TODAY's COMMON ERROR Usually it is best not to split an infinitive by inserting an adverb or phrase between the infinitive and its sign to. Wrong: q went in order to personally inspect it." Rights "to inspect it personally"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
A Thought for Today

Hear me when call, o God of my righteous ness: thou has enlarged me when was il dis tresS; have mercy upon me- and hear my ray er.-Psalms Al.
 Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, whilst in the confidence of prayr my soul took hold on thee.-Addison.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-08
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Limited
 Authority Slows Work Of OWI
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat washington CorreSpondent

Tn addition to this mixup over the presidents trip, two other re- cent cases of confusion over news policy have served to illustrate how difficult is the job of Elmer Davis Ofice of War Information in try ing to coordinate the governments policy on the war story given to the public.