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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01
THEY SAY

New York-Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt admits she was sur
prised by Prime Minister Church.
ills visit TO the white House. My
husband actually told me on the
morning OF his arrival that he was
coming to stay with us"
Sydney Former Australian
Prime Minister Robert a. Menzies
declares Japan will be knocked out
OF the war before Germany and
adds: Although our dangers were
never greater. our prospects OF vic
tory were never so clear"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01
CANADA TOPS COMMONS

Melbourne, Australia. Jan. l.
UP British Dominions are now
contributing aircrews to the En-
pire Air Training scheme on the
basis OF population as follows:
Canada, SIS per cent. Australia,
36 per cent. and New Zealand S
per cent. Even these percentages
fail 10 take up the large number Of
volunteers in each Dominion.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01
Post Office Reports
II Per Cent Increase

Postal business in Ypsilantl has
increased II per cent over last
year In 1910 post office officials
estimated the increase at 1O.5 per
cent over 1899
Letters which ran through the
cancelling machine this year
amounted to 2,572.415 compared TO
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

ANNNSoAhN VI 81
hamstringing such peoples as the
Germans, Italians and Japs that
they never will be capable of ere
ating a later conflict
l could quite understand a dis
agreement between a couple Of flu
ture-shapers, one arguing for all
around appeasement and the other
for the complete and permanent
subjugation of the predatory coun-
tries.
But this isn't a disagreement be-
tween individuals. Both Of the
pair urge, in chorus, both of the
two programs.
1t stumps me to understand how
the Germans or the Japs are going
to be rendered so utterly powerless
that they'll consider themselves on
an equality with everybody else on
earth and consequently will lack
the slightest inclination in the di-
rection of subsequent mischief
making
The Italians, who, generally.
aren't very bellicose, even after
being prodded into international
strife by some exception, like
Benito Mussolini, might be sufi-
GENTLY suppressed to stay so,
though | wouldn't think they'd
like it, either.
Appeasal and Suppression
The Germans, though. are a diff
ferent proposition. Maybe appeas-
ing 'em a trifle g. the last wars
end would have kept EN- quiet, but
1t wasn't tried, and the result was
Adolf Hitler. Hence the reasoning
that, suppression having failed to
work that time, the democracies
would do well to be moderate
after the present conflict, has a
certain amount Of cogency But
how can appeasal be successfully
administered following today's
muss, IL accompanied by still
stronger dose of suppression than
1918?
The contention for suppression
has its plausibility, too. Since it
didn't take" before, however. It
appears that a lot more Of 1t will
be essential when the next terms
are arranged. That's sound cere-
bration, isn't it? But how can
suppression be made still more ef-
fective than before, if it's modified
by liberal allowance OF appeasal?
And Japan?
Unofficial Washington discus
sions envisage a Nippon stripped
Of its army, with Manchuriar Ko-
rea and Formosa returned to
China and with the southern half
OF Saghalien Island restored to
Russia. How's that for appease-
ment?
Italy, Of course. is to be chucked
out OF northeastern Africa and the
Spain, although It hasn't been In
the war yet, has been. under eau
dillo Franco, troublesomely pro-
Axis. and may lose its African ter
ritory south Of the Strait Of
Gibraltar.
These questions undoubtedly
have been thoroughly hashed over
by President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill during
their Washington conference, a Sc
ries Of conversations with which
Maxim Litvinoff, Boss Commissar
Josef Stains recently appointed
Russian ambassador, has been
closely identified. Governments-in-
exile Of the various Germany
over-run countries likewise have
been represented. To Judge from
Informal diplomatic chat, they
know pretty well how they pro-
pose TO re-divide the face OF terra
frma and the oceans when they
get the Axis licked. To them it'll
be en- entirely satisfactory re-diH-
sion, but I'm darned If l can see
how 1t can be made to suit the
Axis bunch so well that they'll
never want to 60 to war again.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

happy new year IN TINS world just
by wishing.
at may not be news to you, but
we are facing a crisis.
you know, a doctor learns a
good deal about crises. l have been
in on lot Of human crises and
always found that if the crisis was
going 10 be solved, somebody had
to do some cold, calculating think
ing. It doesn't do any good TO get
worked up and turn on a lot of
hope! The sister in the corner who
is sitting with clenched hands,
with the tears running down her
cheeks, is not helping at all.
Hate Doesn't Help
"And it doesn't do any good TO
hate. Father and brother out in
the kitchen who are cussing out
the germs that the sick man has,
or telling what they think of the
truck driver who knocked him
down on the icy sidewalk are no
good either. That's all over. Hate
won't do it.
Nor will a false sense of activ-
ityl The member Of the household
who runs around and gets the hot
water bags, the consultant who al
ways wants to give a hypodermic,
he aunt's suggestion that we call
Dr. Soandso from Poughkeepsie
who once had a case like this -
they are just making a diversion,
not doing anything constructive.
"No! Somebody, and it's usu-
ally the family doctor, has TO sit
down quietly and figure out just
what is amiss with nature and how
it can be adjusted TO allow a re-
turn to normally. Somebody has
to think.
Genius Needed
81 had director Of civilian de-
Tense in the Department of Hy-
giene ask me to make suggestions
to improve the health of the ma
ton in this crisis. | said, Sir!
George Washington had false
teeth; Napoleon had ulcer of the
stomach; julius Caesar had cpl
lepsy; Ulysses S. Grant was an
alcoholic; Charles XII had tuber-.
culosis; Horatio Nelson had one
e>sssand Robert E. Lee was deaf
in one ear. What this country
needs is a genius - never mind
whether he can pass a life insur-
ance examination.
What that genius must do is
quite a job. He must realize that
all the peoples of the modern
world are now bound inseparably
in an economic union, and that
union must be equitably managed,
and no one nation-which means
England as we'll as Germany-can
be allowed to dominate the man
agement.
II think, my silver haired
friend"
But / have only FIVE hundred
words at my command in this col
umn and l cannot tell you all DR..
Gibbs thinks.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
H. E. HIS there any cure
for hot flashes? How long do they
last?"
Answer: Modern ductless gland
therapy is able to cure hot flashes
successfully. Untreated they last
about a year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

mid-winter conference Jan. 8 In
Lansing and the Michigan district
birthday party Jan. p in Detroit
A New Years greeting from Ro-
tary Club was read by Secretary t.
S. Weber.
Guests were Carl Bailey, Ann Ar
Dor, Edward Thompson and Harvey
Turner. this city.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

20 ca h and
every one Of its
component ma
tionsin order
that none may
ever feel an
other urge to
start fighting.
because they'll
all be so well
satisfied tina I
thereU be moth
ing for EN- to
scrap for. Then
W e emphasize
the equally vital
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01
filters TO SAY 1T IN SPANISH

Selfridge Field. Mich. Jan. l.
UP-Army Air Corps officers are
considering exclusive use OF the
Spanish language for social and
non-business conversation. The Of
ficers are receiving five-days-a-week
WPA instruction in the Hispanic
tongue.
rAln
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

Can Axis Peoples be
Subjugated, Appeased
at Same Time?
BY Charles r. Stewart

AT ONE and the same time our
statesmen. here in Washington,
and apparently Britain also, talk
of the necessity Of a postwar
world with an even break accorded
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01
Half-Forgotten Days
twenty Years Ago

twenty 7 ears NgO
Deaths Mrs Florence Brown Detroit at Boyer Hos
pa and her elder sister Mrs Harry Field Ballard
paralysis Mrs K. A Wells
being made Of the change ownership
lpslant Laundry Company, this firm ceasng
copartneship taking The proprie
Guy Miller with the firm five years
and Henry v Clark, who has
Mrs Ruth Carpenter Palmer former Ypsilanan has been
elected incoming W. H. priestess Detroit Shrine No 90
Order Of the White Shrine OF Jerusalem.
Fifty Years Ago
The trench opened beyond Maple St and
and rapidly reaching the terminus.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination W Carpenter
as local postmaster lie succeeds Martin Cremer,
served four years.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

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Your Health

Gold Calculation
Necessary TO Win
Through Crisis
BY LOean Clendeuing. " D.
Happy New Yearl Yes, in
iced. let's wish each other a happy
new year" was my old friend DR..
Adrian Gibbs greeting to me this
morning.
81 wish you a happy new year,
but we are not gong 10 get
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-01

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Red network WLW 200. WWJ
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Columbia 5rcadeasting Company
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WBNS 1860. WOOD 1910: Blue
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WGN 72O.
Evening star., 1942-01-12
Victory Book Campaign

Books are as necessary to national
defense as bullets. The annals of
modern times are replete with evi-
dence of the fact that good soldiers
are readers-literate, intelligent men.
Every great war from the time of
the invention of movable type has
been, paradoXical as the circum-
stance may be considered, an occa-
sion for a revival of learning, rich in
cultural Developments. The stalwart
fighters and the intrepid mariners of
Queen Elizabeth's reign were skilled
in appreciation of literary values.
Oliver Cromwell's troops went into
battle with their Bibles to sustain
them. The Continental Army at
Valley Forge in 1777 had cultural fare
to refresh faint-hearted recruits
even when bread was lacking.
BY way OF illustration Of the de-
pendence of military personnel upon
books, it may be mentioned that
when Napoleon Bonaparte had be-
come Emperor Of France he made the
most Of every opportunity to favor
Evening star., 1942-01-12

valley Of the Amazon by way Of
London and Calcutta; the latter,
after incredible labors, succeeded, In
1877, and it is to him that the well
fare of thousands of plantation
operators traces back.
BY processes equally constructive
even the smallest Malay villages have
been improved as centers of human
habitation. Education and health
services of every modern kind have
been created and maintained for the
benefit of the whole population. To
illustrate the progress OF the penin-
sula in terms of wealth, it may be
mentioned that the revenue of Perak
in 1926 amounted to $45, 100000, as
against $226,000 in 1874.
The japanese invaders are de-
stroying the system which has been
conducive to the civilization of the
Malays. 1t may be wondered to
what extent they will be successful
in controlling the native victims Of
their campaign.
Evening star., 1942-01-12
No Crime

II feel q bit under the weather"
said Detective Lester Chorpenning Of
tie Detroit police, "and would like to
h,ve the day off," This he got; but
s1mething in his manner intrigued
tie professional curiosity OF his
brethren. Lester lacked the appear
a1ce of fillness-rather he seemed i'm
bed with an ill-concealed excite
nent. Added to the daily routine
mysteries served up by the less we'll
b,haved citizens Of Detroit, another
Lad terminated right at headquar-
tvrs. Investigation seemed required.
Fortunately the premises were as
we'll supplied with trained 1nvesti-
gators as is Newcastle with Jumps Of
cal, so at no expense and with COM
paratively little trouble a corps Of
Snerlocks took up the case to learn
What the absentee was about to COM
nit. Whether or not they made use
o. discarded cigar butts or cufflinks
Il not stated, but in some way they
Contacted the suspect and stuck
E.imly to his trail. Doggedly and
obviously they followed it-ulti-
nately to a church-where they
we're just In time to witness their
Quarry standing at the altar and,
With the collusion of q minister and
q charming young woman, commit
ting natrimony.
Evening star., 1942-01-12
st. Francis Orchard

Season on season on season the deer
come back,
DoUn from the mountain to Uhers
the track
OF partridge or quail goes crtss-
cross along
Under orchard trees bereft of song;
There Is silence ptthtn the blue
birds hole
Close ,ohere the gndrled bouoh
leaves the bole
OF the Macintosh; but ptthered
fruit
Hangs IN the air and lies on the root.
Where turred and teathered seek
through the cold
Kno,Ding the feast dtodtts as OF old:
And orandstr dreaming Dhers logs
burn free
Sends his thoughts stody 10 a.
orchard tree.
Seeing In fancy the totld folk there
Who sdpor the bounty he 5oys to
share.
JESSIE N. DOWIN.
Evening star., 1942-01-12

photographic institutions Of public
Importance because, as he said, he
remembered their helpfulness to him
snen he was q penniless young cadet.
It is against such a background Of
abundant experience that the Ameri-
csn Library Association. the Red
Cross and the United Service Organi-
cations have launched Victory Book
Campaign to collect ten million books
f,r distribution to Army dayrooms,
snips, naval bases. etc. The local
dive, beginning today, will be IN
cnarge Of a District Of Columbia
Committee headed by Mrs. Philip
Sidney Smith. Books wanted are "the
kind of books We like to read our
srlves." Fiction. mystery stories. tales
O. adventure, technical studies, his
t,ries and biographies, reviews Of
current affairs, poems, plays, refer
ehce works-books Of all these many
casSifications are desired. Donations
nay be mailed or delivered by hand
t. the Central Building or any
banch of the Washington Public
Library. The closing date is Febru-
a-y4.
No definite quota has been set for
the effort in the Nations Capital, but
II this respect as in all other en-
d>avor related to the successful pros
e;ution OF the war the people Of
washington surely will wish to do
more than is asked Of them. The
FEDERAL City should be proud to lead
II such an undertaking.
Evening star., 1942-01-12
The MALAY States

When the japanese government
published an Official guide" for
Eastern Asia In 1917, 1t permitted
the editor Of the volume to say:
unlike India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam,
Java and other surrounding coun-
tries, the Malay Peninsula has no
history" The long tongue Of land
between the South China Sea and
the Bay of Bengal, it was explained,
had been simply wilderness with
luxuriant jungles here and there"
Negritos and a South Mongoloid
people who called themselves "orang
malayu" discovered and settled the
territory at some unknown date in
the distant past, "but 1t was the
Chinese and Hindus who /" made
1t habitable." The first, British fac
tory Of which any record survives is
alleged to have been established in
Patani on the east coast in 1913.
Penang was purchased in 1885 and
Singapore in 1919, and those colonies,
together with Malacca, taken from
the Dutch in 1795, we're ruled from
India until 1857, when the Colonial
Office in London assumed admins
trative powers.
The Federated Malay States, in
cluding Perak, Selangor, Negri Sem
bilan and Pahang, associated them
selves in a treaty with Britain in
1896, and Johore, Trengganu, Kelan-
tan, Kedah and Perlis came under
similar British protection in 1909.
Perhaps, as the Japanese guidebook
suggests, "the Malays of the penin-
sula are not spirited people. So long
as they are not taxed too heavily,
and their lives and property are safe
guarded, they will be content" An
other way Of expressing a similar
thought is that employed by Major
General Sir Ibrahim, Sultan of
Johore, who no longer ago than yes
terday urged the Malays to remem-
ber "and be thankful to Allah that
for generations we have lived in
harmony, peace and prosperity under
the guidance of our closest
friends, the British"
It is not entirely an accident that
the Malays "show q marvellous
loyalty to their rajas and chiefs" not
excluding their advisers" One rea-
son for such gratitude may be found
In the development of the rubber
industry, the story of which is as
romantic as any deliberate work Of
fiction. James Collins and H. A.
Wickham were the heroes of the tale.
The former failed in his endeavor to
import para rubber trees from the
Evening star., 1942-01-12
A Pointed Decision

A recent decision of the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals in wage
hour case serves as an admirable
illustration of the extent to which
the philosophy of certain New Deal
legislation can interfere with the
successful prosecution of the war.
The question before the court was
whether the minimum wage rate
fixed by tire law or the employees
regular rate of pay should serve as
the basis for computing overtime
compensation. The appellate tribu-
nal, reversing the District Court and
upholding the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion, decided that the regular pay
rate was the proper basis, and there
seems to be little doubt that this is
the intent Of the statute.
It is pertinent and possibly signif-
icant, however, to note the language
used by the court to justify this in
depreciation Of the law. Zone of the
fundamental purposes Of the act,
the court said, was to induce work.
sharing and relieve unemployment
by reducing hours of work. One of
the impelling forces behind the act
is the effort to promote economic
stability through increased purchas-
ing power. These purposes Of the act
are accomplished because the over
time provisions Of the act, requiring
employers to pay an extra bonus or
penalty for such work, distinctly tend
to discourage overtime"
That is pointed language. In effect,
the court is saying, first, that the
Wage Hour Act tends to increase pur-
chasing power at a time when the
Government, through other devices,
is seeking to curtail purchasing
power, and, second, that the act is
designed to penalize employers for
requiring overtime work at a time
when overtime work In certain in
dustries Is absolutely essential to the
successful prosecution Of the war.
In other words, the force of world
events has brought a social philos-
ophy attuned to period of peace and
depression into conflict with the real
tiles of a gigantic wartime industrial
effort, and the two will not blend. If
the Nation is willing to pay the price
in higher war costs and reduced
military output, we probably can get
the necessary production job done
despite the legislative obstacles that
stand in the way But that is no rea-
son to ignore the fact that such a
procedure is absurd on its face.
Evening star., 1942-01-12
Urges Poetry to Strengthen
American People at War.

70 the Editor Of The Star:
What Is offered here is a practical solu-
tion to the problem OF winning the war.
At first sight It may seem trivial, but I
assure the reader that it will do more
than all the training camps tn the world
to turn out alert, energetic and high
minded young men for the Army. We are
being beaten In the Pacific and are in
q mess at home because we have lost the
fineness of mind that used to be ours.
Degenerate art, music and literature have
brought us low, and we are reaping the
results.
I have found from long life Of teach
ing, that the surest way to climb back Is
to read few lines Of good poetry every
day, and think them over for a few
minutes. Whoever makes this a habit will
be amazed at what it can do.
It need be only four lines day and
1t must be good poetry. in variety. The
democracies have lost their love for
poetry because 1t Is not advertised, and
It is not advertised, because there Is no
money in it; but because we have de-
spised this gold for dross, we now are
mentally ut . lower level than our
fathers, who won and developed this
great country. They loved poetry, and
1t, hand in hand with their religion, made
them gpeat They never piped the silly
slogan: I'VE can take It," They never
took it; they gave it. hot and humming.
Before we again can exhibit the force
Of strong nation, we must first be
strong within. We are not strong within
now, and that u why We have been
Inundated by Japan. Not all the money.
Evening star., 1942-01-12
Proposes Planning Reforms
In Prince Georges County.
TO the Editor Of The StaI

To the Editor Of The Star:
II the Planning Commission wishes to
render the residents of Prince Georges
County real service, would suggest
they take up the following program as
starter:
l. Widen all the present trails" that
now masquerade under such misnomers
as street" avenue" and boulevard"
and ease off the radius of the intersec-
tions of those that cannot well be
widened.
g. See that no more dead-end streets
are laid out in any plat and that a mini
mum Of % feet be established for the
paved portion of any future street in
residence district.
g. See that walk is provided on every
future residence street that pedestrians
must use to get to shopping and trans
portation centers.
4. Erect more and better designed
highway route signs at intersections in
such positions as can be read by the
light Of a motorists headlamps before
he makes the turn.
S. Provide adequate lighting for all
new street intersections and bring the
present obsolete lighting up to date.
g. See that a minimum lot area Of
5000 square feet is provided for q single.
family dwelling in every new plat.
Z. See that provision is made in every
new plat for sanitary and storm sewers
Of such size as properly will safeguard
the health and property Of the residents
Of the community. g. B. GERMAN,
Hyattsville, Md.