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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Postman Rates Help

IF EVERY American household to face the aerna
tive of losing its mail delivery service or paying
sizable fee continue IT, the odds overwhelming that
the fee would be paid--and gladly.
We take much for granted that familiar constant
always welcome figure of the man in gray
He is 10 all of us friendly tentacle between and
distant friends between and the world you please;
between us and isolation between and our affairs
To that description must be added the fact that the
mailman is in tough financial predicament.
Ever since 1925 his salary has been the same bar
ring of course the considerable he took during the
depression.
Ever since 1925 incidentally the wages of labor and
the price of living have changed
WORKERS get more money, and it costs more money
w to live
Some sections of labor have, by agitation and by
negotiation, outraised the cost of living.
Their margin of profit is greater, in other words.
But the postman?
Not at ALL
The posman has progressed in the opposite direction
His work is more important, more difficult more
responsible than
He is the fron-inc soldier in the campaign of
municatons.
But he cannot agitate he cannot strike, he cannot
lobby.
He must respectfully and patiently petition Congress-
THE latest petition is in the form of r. 7071, intro
i duced by Mr. Ramspeck of Georgia.
It provides for temporary annual increase of $500
for the duration of the and six months afterward.
The bill is now in committee.
1t is not only plain justice but plain common sense
for committee to recommend this bill and for Congress
to enact it.
Mail delivery carried out efficiently and Loyalty, it
always has been, is fundamental necessity in
peacetime
The security. promptness and privacy of the mails
essentials of civilized life They connote response
bity and experience that cannot be bought but certainly
should be properly compensated.
Not only is the laborer worthy of his hire but the
hire should be worthy of the laborer The posman de-
his temporary raise. and he should get it.
One way to help is to write wire your congressman,
emphacally urging him to support H. R. 7071 You and
your country, well the postman will benefit by it's
passage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25

cessfully the violence that will
ensue when the war is over by
turning the job over to the in
weston is, Of course. on the face
of it utterly ridiculous. To say
we shall turn the task over 10
management is likewise engag-
ing in dangerous speculation. To
say that we shall turn it over to
labor is also impracticable.
Then, what shall we do about
il? My answer is that the only
way we can save our form of
government, our form of econ
omy, is by the united forces of
investor, management, and labor
defending as unit private en-
terprise and the liberties that
make it possible. To deviate
from this unity of the three
human elements-to whatever
degree it may be-disaster will
follow for all.
Therefore. IL is the commu-
nifty of interest between in
weston. management and labor
that will win the war. and it is
the community of interest be-
tween investor. management
and labor that will save our
country from internal discord
when the war has ended"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
| letters to
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

10 The Editor:
Under these conditions how
~ can we expect to win this
war?
My husband who is expert
enced in not one but several
lines of factory work has been
repeatedly turned down due to
a physical defect which in no
way hinders his ability 10 work.
He passes all tests in any line
he applies for until it Gomez to
physical.
He has been q gas station at
tendant for Is years and never
lost one days work, but due
TO war restrictions is forced to
seek other employment.
Several factory employment
men have shown him thousands
of dollars worth of material
strapped due 10 unskilled but
physically fit labor.
The army and navy require
physically fit men. Some must
be left behind.
Isn't there just as an impor-
tant a job for those who have
to stay home through no fault
of their own and are ready and
willing to work?
Or must millions of dollars
worth of material and perhaps
the freedom of our country be
lost just because we are not all
perfect specimens?
MRS. ALBERT JONES,
1876 Findlay avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Ambassadors in White
Thrill Hero Worshippers
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

America from a sick mans So
ciety to healthy vigorous one,
thereby making of the American
tropics, Which are now-aided by
the speed of modern transporta-
tion--a granary, storehouse
and bulwark for all of Western
civilization.
A war" book you must read
the war of the brain and
nerves of man against the all
devouring, disease laden mi
crobes, the Nazis OF the insect
world.
"If there II one thing out of
which the human being I'm all
ages has got u tremendous kick,
IL Is war and it's horrors" said
the professor at our club, lift
ing the backbone out Of Smelt
as neatly as chef at the Wal
dorf.
EVOU mean men and women ."
i Il asked Pete the pacifist,
holding poised in the air
tablespoonful of asparagus soup.
without a doubt" replied the
professor. There Is something
in us that cries for horror
stories, fictitious or real.
"War books always sell. War
pictures and plays pack 'em in.
Murder fiction has a sure mar
ket. From Homer 10 the daily
accounts OF this war in the
prints and over the air we lap
up the horrors.
"Now. this Il not because we
are essentially cruel or evil. IL
Is. simply. because our natures
demand sensations and thrill at
any price. Boredom and dull
ness are the two things we flee
a. from a pest.
Also. Pete, the dlctators, IL
they are good psychologists,
know perfectly well this periodic
demand Of human beings for
novelty, thrill. surprise, horror
sensations, and they bank on II
when they order war.
They know, further, that a
bored people does't care what
the war II about. Most of us,
except YOU. Pete, who are LATEST
man l ever met. would rather
wear out than rust out-and
that il one of the causes Of war
that We will not face"
you'll never wear out, prof, "
SAID Pete, particularly In the
region OF the larynX, although
there's something In what you
say"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Interest Of Investor. Labor
Fundamental Of Freedom

that we shall have a new form
of government in the United
States, that our whole economic
system will be changed, that a
great and unprecedented sacri-
flee will ensue, that our stand
ard of living will be lowered.
VTNHE prophecies are distress
Il ing, but those who engage
in such anticipations are ignor-
ing the fundamental facts upon
which freedom rests, the facts
upon which the whole system of
human development rests, and
the facts upon which the in
stincts of the human family rest.
While, of course, we shall be
confronted with distress, il will
not be due TO the idealistic and
practical aspect of free enter
prise and freedom itself. but will
be due 10 the attempted and
imposed abuses initiated by inn
practicable and unsound think
erS.
Now, it is quite apparent TO
me at least that the overwhelm-
ing majority of the people of the
United States will not embrace
communism, nor will they en-
brace faSciSm, nor will they en-
brace naZism, because they know
something about Americanism,
its free enterprise, and its lib
critics.
I'VE will have a struggle 10
preserve this economic order
that has made America great.
We are certainly not unmindful
of the task ahead because we
have been rather wasteful in the
past, a bit careless, and bit i'm
practicable.
I'VE will have TO liquidate be-
cause of our omissions. That will
be the task. and the only ques-
ton to be raised is whether we
can rise to the occasion of self
sacrifice to meet the cost of our
own folly.
WTHAT'S all there is in this
l. picture. The matter is
simple il seems to me and can
be summed up in the program:
FIRST: To win this ewar
speedily and effectively. OF
course, this war cannot be won
by any 10 per cent patriotism.
This is a war in which our right
10 maintain free enterprise, the
thrift system. is involved. With
out victory our substances will
be exploited under force of the
victors. So we find no justifica-
ton for weakening now that we
are In the war; to the contrary.
we must fight with renewed
strength and determination.
SECOND: To meet the after
war situation. While this is
placed in the second category, il
is not because il is less violent
than the military phase but be-
cause il does ome second. Self
sacrifice, of course. must occur
in holding our principle of free
enterprise, the thrift system. and
our freedom when the war is
over; otherwise. we shall have
fought in vain. Now, we have TO
pay, and the only source from
which the cost can be assessed
is private enterprise, the thrift
system, that rests upon the
foundation of genuine freedom.
0T'HE means by which we can
Il win the aftermath strug-
gle is something that is chal-
longing the attention of a great
many people in America. and
very rightly so. Rehabilitation
cannot occur by permitting our
people TO starve or by engaging
ourselves in revolution.
We must have unity when
the war is over as strong and as
positive as the unity which we
have now and which we must
continue during the military
aspect of this situation.
TO say that we can meet sue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25

MO ONE thrills 10 the heroic
~ more than l do. The essence
OF the heroic. ! take it, is he who
willingly, even gladly, sacrifices
his life for an idea, an expert
ment or a cause.
There is something sublime in
those who hold death in con-
tempt. Now. that is not the
same thing as recklesSneSs or
braYado i'm the face of death.
! think all OF us fear death.
Anyhow. we don't like il. But
there are some things we dis
like more than death-and they
are slavery, defeat, disease.
j should say, generally, that
the greatness of a person is
measured by his attitude toward
death. The great hero, military,
social or medical-iS he who
looks at his own life as merely
a tool, an instrument. in the
hands of a higher imperSonal
purpose-that is. an idea, or the
ideal.
In Ambassadors in White"
by Charles Morrow wilson
Holt, which is the story Of
American tropical medicine"
and the crusaders against the
microbe and the disease-carry-
ing mosquito, you will find the
heroic deeds of men described
who are engaged in a war as
deadly as we are engaged in
today.
THESE men were heroic be-
Il cause they fit into the def
nitions of heroic ! gave above.
They were under the command
of an idea. a passion And their
lives were Of secondary conSe-
quence.
The deeds Of Walter Reed.
Carlos Finlay, William GorCaS.
Jesse LaZear. Noguch and BIZ
Decks thrill me- as Mr.. Wilson
tells them, as do the featS of
many Of our air and naval
heroes more so. in fact.
Mr.. wilson tells OF the
struggles, against fearful and
often hopeless odds. OF the am
baSsadorS in white whom the
United States and European
nations have sent 10 Central and
South America and the West
Indies.
He tells of the victories. the
defeats and the tragic. appar-
emily impenetrable mysteries
which have marked the course
of the effort 10 change Latin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25

Synopsis of address of George
l.. Berry, former United States
senator from Tennessee, and
president of the international
Printing Pressmen and Assist
ants Union of North America,
before a meeting sponsored By
rs Minneapolis and Minnesota
organizations at Minneapolis or
the eUeHing of June is, 1912.
CENATOR BERRY said in part:
~ The subject, The Com
munity of Interest Between In
weston, Management, and Labor,
is not new but is as old as time
itself. 1t represents the ideal
isms, as well as the funda-
mentals, of freedom itself.
The differences that occur
between the elements that make
up private enterprise do not
grow out of the non-application
of the principle of community
interest, but rather they arise
as the result of the attempt of
one. or two, or all, of the parties
10 accept for themselves a re-
turn for their contribution that
is not measured by the yardstick
of either equity or justice.
Therefore, l assert that the
shortcomings in our economic
system of free enterprise in the
United States in the past. at
present. and in the future come
from some advantage that one
or more of the parties may
undertake against one or more
of the parties in the trinity.
"Of course. economic stability
for all or for part of society
arises from the opportunity to
initiate, 10 pioneer, and to profit
thereby. There never has been,
nor will there ever be any other
formula which will successfully
displace this process necessary
FOR human expansion, and the
reason that this is true is be-
cause every child born into the
world brings with il the instinct
TO be free.
And 10 be free is 10 make
the race. In doing this, there
must be a starter, there must
be the Judge, and there must be
the facilities for the race itself.
"D RIV ATE enterprise re-
spends 10 the ambitions
and aspirations of men. 1t lays
the foundation upon which the
thrift system is safeguarded. 1t
dcsignateS the three inseparable
human groups necessary to pre-
serve the thrift system; to-wit.
the investor, management, and
labor.
Now. the investor may be
one possessing the small dollar
growing out OF his thrift, or he
may be one possessing the large
dollar, but he is entitled TO and
our democratic philosophy re-
CURES that he receive a fair re-
turn for his thrift represented
IN his investment. Management
is entitled 10 adequate compen-
satlon because il is selected for
It's efficiency and leadership.
and labor is entitled 10 and
should receive adequate compen-
sation for the labor. mental and
physical, given as its part. plus
the TACT that il represents the
great bulk of consuming power
Tor the product produced.
This is free enterprise. This
is a situation in which no one
OF the three can do the Job as
a whole: thus, the value and
Importance of good will and CO.
operation as between the three
and thus the existence of the
community of interest between
them.
We arc hearing much about
the present situation in the
world There arc those tVbo Sav
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Putting III Mild
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Well it's pretty sickenng reading of 500 people
being slaughtered just because German murderer got
come-uppance ..#I w.
Folks already suggesting things do with Adolf
Hitler when nail him. would make him kiss porcupine
for breakfast play touch tag with lunch and
shaVe him with nutmeg crater for supper.
D. K.as gnd, ia,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
June rs. 1917

British press on closer 10
Lens. France, on 1ls-mile front
southwest Of city.
President Wilson takes over
control of exports 10 meet food
needs of Allied powers.
American passenger liner beats
off U-boat night attack near
coast OF Ireland.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
June rs. 1871

President Roosevelt authorizes
announcement he will not apply
neutrality statute again
Russia.
German infantrymen driving
toward wilma are cut off from
their tank forces by counter
attacking Russians.
\ Turkey assures Russia she
will remain neutral in Russo
German war.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Takoma Red Cross
Production Record
Praised by Lund

Otto S. Lund. manager Of the Dis
trict of Columbia Red Cross Chap
ter, praised members of the Takoma
Park branch for their excellent pro-
duction record yesterday at lunch
con meeting held at the Takoma
Park Presbyterian Church.
More than 80 members attended
the luncheon, at which several Red
Cross officials were entertained.
Mrs. Albert F. Lingle is chairman
of the branch, which now enrolls
between 500 and 600 members, in
cluding number of church groups.
1t has been meeting for 13 years at
the Presbyterian Church.
Among the exhibits yesterday was
heavy iceland" sweater which
had been knitted in two weeks by
Miss Julia Lincoln, one of several re-
tired Army nurses who are members
of the branch. A quota OF $500 such
sweaters is being turned out by the
District for the boys in Iceland.
One of the most active members Is
the secretary, Mrs. Herbert r.
Thompson, who, although sightless,
is able to keep the records by taking
notes In Braille and transcribing
them on q typewriter. She also is
one Of the most active knitters In
the group.
Evening star., 1942-08-07

The most important Job con-
sulners can do In the war, ac-
cording to Mrs. Charlotte War
ner, chairman Of the District
Consumer Interests Committee Of
the Once OF Civilian Defense,
is to help enforce the administra-
tion's price control program.
"The Oflite OF Price Admins
tration," said the dark-haired,
dark-eyed Mrs. Warner, lis be-
ginning now to utilize housewife
volunteers in educating retailers
and the public on price control
regulations"
To attain the committees goal
Of thoroughly organizing WASH
ington for consumer action and
education. Mrs. Warner has been
urging the appointment Of con-
sumer chairmen In each Of
the Districts 66 mobilization
areas. More than half Of the
areas already have selected their
chairmen, she said.
The committee also Is inter-
ested In having women take part
In the rationing program.
Although women form the
largest body Of consumers in the
District, as elsewhere. Mrs. War
ner said, there are at present no
women on any Of the Districts
war price and rationing boards.
However, she continued, one local
consumer organization the
League Of Women Shoppers. re-
ceived q letter Wednesday from
Whitney Leary, District director
Of OPA, saying that there is no
policy which excludes the ap-
pointment Of women to the ra-
tioning boards" This she inter-
prets to mean that some women
Will be appointed.
Mr.. Leary's letter also men,
lions that the District OPA will
open q consumers division In the
near future and that women will
be called on to play q prominent
part in its activities.
A present, Mrs. Warmers COM
mittee is concentrating mainly
on the share-your-car plan for
which 1t has been designated the
oncial oo-ordinating agency. In
less than three weeks, 1000 Of
the Districts $500 blocks have
named block captains. Their job
is to canvass each house with
questionnaires, asking for ca
pacity and destination Of cars.
Evening star., 1942-08-07


Star Stat Photo.
Eleventh street office Of the Con-
sumner Interest Committee.
AS she commutes to either Of
nee from her home in Mclean,
Va, she practices what she
preaches-riding in with three
neighbors in = share-car group.
Since assuming craftsmanship
Of the Consumer Interest Com
mittee in February, Mrs. Warner
has delegated much OF her work
at both ofices to able volunteers.
At the Eleventh street ONCE, an
old stable loaned to the commit
tee by the District Council Of
Social Agencies, volunteers are
on hand Mondays through Fri
days from 10 am. to 4 pm. to
answer questions and help in Or
ganizing classes and projects. The
committee has built up q con-
sumner library to aid in the edu-
cAtional work.
"Once We get the share your
car plan really rolling" Mrs.
Warner said, I'VE are going to
launch an even more active pro-
gram on enforcement Of the
price control regulations in the
mobilization areas"
A bio-chemist by training, Mrs.
Warner began consumer work
four years ago when she and
her husband lived in Denver.
Today she devotes almost all her
time to her volunteer chairman
ship Of the committee.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
F.W. Won Duchenhuusen
D. G. Artist, Dies

Friedrich w. Won Dachenhausen,
native of Washington and a paint
er who studied and taught at
the Chicago Art Institute, died yes
terday at Albuquerque, N. Mex, the
Associated Press reported. He went
there two months ago for his health.
He was the son of the late Fried
rich Won Dachenhausen of the Geo.
logical Survey and Mrs. Mabel K.
Won Dachenhausen.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
VaIdemar PouIsen Dies;
Noted Danish Inventor

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. THE death
Of Valdemar Poulsen, So. Danish CO.
inventor Of = wireless telephony
system and discoverer OF the Poulsen
arcs and waves on which his method
Of radio photography was based, was
announced here yesterday by the
National American Denmark Asso-
citation.
Word of the death Of DR.. Poulsen,
who won world acclaim In 1899
when he invented the telegraphone
an apparatus for recording telephone
conversations on a steel wire elec-
dramatically, was received through
Free Denmark. q newspaper pub
lished in London.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Servicenen Feted
On Potomac Cruise

Entertaining under auspices Of
the Home Hospitality Committee,
william jenkins was host to IL
enlisted men from the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps on . boat trip
to Marshall Hall last night. A
group of young women also were
invited for q program, which In
cluded dancing and refreshments.
Others entertaining under aus
pices of the committee this week
include Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin,
Mrs. MacNeil of Barra, Miss Pa
tricia Baker, Mrs. A. Garf1nkel and
Mrs. L. H. Nulands.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Woman Urges Consumers
To Support Price Control
By Susan B. Anthony II.

The goal is to secure 100 per
cent cooperation Of each block
in car-sharing plans.
Mrs. Warner divides her time
between the share-your- r-car
headquarters In Room 500, Dis
trict Building and the 1912
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Away for Summer

Mr.. and Mrs. David H. Frank
have gone to Clinton County, N. Y.
where they are staying at the Hotel
Champlain for the remainder of
the season
Evening star., 1942-08-07

marriage Of their daughter, Miss
Dorothy Vernon Lewis. to Mr.. Henry
Vance Chadwick July Is In Con.
way, s. G.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1942-02-27

RED CROSS ;AR FUND D2IEH
ar activities have ircr cas-
&C the expenses o. the hmeIi can
Rational Red Cross, $ that addi-
tlonal funds are neces sary, hence
a request for contri butt ona is
being made.
Can we spare one half Of
days worl-,- enc 81 xtieth Of oul,
mort,1s inc ome7
The local drive will re han
dled Icy the Palmer Assooi':tea i
Student ->ody during the wook lar.
l to 7 inolusivo. Prepar voQl,
contri butio now, 50 that +-im5
Will be saved the solieit.rs nexb
We Ell.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1942-02-27

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The Valley settler., 1942-06-12

When Vice President Wallace was making a speech in St. Louis recently, he read
 right thru parenthetica1 notation. Cat this point tell humorous st tory). The
The Omaha guide., 1942-03-14
THE WRITING ON THE
WALL"

by M. M. GOODLOW
The writing on the wall is
plain to read,
And the Allied nations should
all take heed,
World wide slaughter and
blood shed,
In the awful days which lie a.
head,
And the Sacrifice of millions
of human lives
Could be shortened by years,
Not to mention the grief and
bitter tears,
The solution isn't in guns and
ammunition,
But world wide freedom
Give the darker races something
to fight for
Something to live for
And something to look forward
too
When the war is through.
We read the writing On the wall
When we heard India's call
Each word was written plainly
In China's plea for Indies lib
erty,
And India's reply to Great
Britain,
Nothing less than complete
freedom,
Would move her millions to
action,
She would rather take her risk
And have her problems solved
by conflict
In plain words they want free
dom while they live,
The same freedom they are now