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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-06
MILFoRp THOMPSON oIEs

, salem, Mich. Jan. G. Funeral
services for MILFORD Thompson
we're held in the old Thompson
Residence, Five Mile Rd.. Sunday
afternoon at . o'clock. Rev. Lucia
NJ. Stroh, pastor of congregational
Church, Salem, held the service
Mrs. Henning and Mrs. .Fahrley
sang Abide With Me" and Near,
er My God to Thee.
Wilford Clyde Thompson was
horn in Salem Township. Nov. Is.
1889. He joined the First Congre'
gational church OF Salem when 10
years old and was active as long
as services we're held there. lie
passed away Thursday. He leaves
his mother, Mrs. Anna Thompson,
Worden; sister. Winifred. Detroit,
and two brothers, De Forest and
La Verne. Hampton, la. lnterment
was in Worden Cemetery.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-06

LONDON up Marcel Deaf.
leading French exponenti OF col
liberation with Germany. has
urged action against former French
officials who refuse to cooperate
with the Axis, the Nazi radio Paris
reported Monday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-06
EaIls. Rreaks Hip

John Van Akin. Laphams Corn
ers. received word that his mother,
Mrs. George Newman, Traverse
City, had fallen and broken hip.
She is confined to a hospital In
that city and doing as well as pos
sible.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Whitaker,
Brookville Rd.. entertained 80 re-
latives at a family dinner New
Years Day.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-06

Undersoes Operation
Mrs. William Benjamin under
went an operation at Mt. Carmel
Hospital, Detroit. Monday morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Passing The Buck

The government has no peer when 1t comes
to passing the buck.
The Red Cross sanator:um is a case in
point When the airport movec up to Its
back door and contractors began dumping
material at it's front door the building be-
came uninhab;table and the sanatorlum man.
agen.ent asked the Army 70 buy the site so
that a new building might be erected else
where. away from the turmoil and dirt it was
stirring up in expanding its air base.
The Army refused The sana' orium had to
close Patients were accommodated in other
retreats, as far as possible, ard help was
sought through the public health bureau. Now
comes word that this agency can do nothing
and recommends that another appeal be made
to the Army.
Round and round the vinegar c-uet the mon
key chased the weasel
All the time additional persons already suf
fering with tuberculosis and others in the
earlier stages have gone without the segre-
cation and the rest so essential in successful
treatment and in preventing spread Of the
disease.
BaS1ng OPINION on past experience there is
no reason to hope for favorable action by the
Army.
The one logical course. il would appear, if
we are to have a new saratorium, is to pro-
coed with the project ourselves This would
involve bond election, but there is no doubt
that the voters would support the issue.
There would still remain the necessity of
securing priorities for vital materials needed
in construction, but it IS hard to think that
the authorities in charge could find an ade-
quate excuse for refusing to grant them Sure
y the health Of the community is VITAL even
with the war at a critical stage.
1t might be all right for the county to renew
its plea to the Army. but while this is being
done preparations for an election could be
completed to the advantage of the project.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
The Literary Guidepost

of John Dome and Sir Philip Sid
ney are intact, although Paternos-
ter Row, the publishers quarter
is gone and so is the Chapler Cot
fee House about which Chatterton
wrote glowing lies to his mother
the while he was starving in his
garnet. Stationeis' Hall is danas.
ed, and so is St. Giles. Without
Cripplegate,> although the parish
record containing entries on Cror'-
wells marriage and Millions death
is safe.
The Charterhouse is damaged
also - Lovelace, Crashaw, Steele,
Addison, Wesley and Thackeray all
were pupils there when it was a
school. The graves of William
Blake and Defoe are safe IN Syn
hill Fields, and Keats House in
Hampstead is only charred a bit.
The Dickens House in Doughty
street survives, the Covent Gar
den neighborhocd has chanoad -.
tie since 1899. but the Temple with
It's memories of Johnson Coz
smith, Lamb and dozens more is
a sad sight.
MIR. Ward covers London and
Its environs with some care, and
then swings out of town into Kent,
and around the island. briefly into
Scotland. and back down the east
coast.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
BY JOHN SELBY

"a Literary Journey Through
Wartime Britain by A. C. Ward
Oxford ST.. E.
Some months ago, the New York
branch of the Oxford University
Press asked it's London office for
some material on the bombing of
literary landmarks in England. 1t
seems that literary people in this
country had been asking, and the
Press thought it would be a nice
thing to send Ground a mimeo-
graphed sheet to relieve the gen.
eral apprehension.
Quite time elapsed without a
reply, which caused no comment
in these war days. But at last
there arrived, not the expected
letter, but the manuscript of "a
Literary Journey Through War
time Britain" the author being
A. c. Ward. 1t is another brief
escape from war, even though it
is concerned with the effect of war
on literary landmarks. For Mr..
Ward has not only told about the
damage, but about the places and
the people literary and otherWise)
who inhabited them, so that the
result is very cosy sort of book
indeed.
Much Of literary London has SUI
fered. But in st. Paul's the tornbs
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Be Lenient

1t was Henry Watterson who wrote the per-
feet definition of the journalist The journa-
list, he declared, is the newspaper man out
of a job.
The reason for quoting Marse Henry is that
if the newsprint situation becomes much worse
the country will break out with rash of
journalists.
The Chicago News, Secretary Knox paper,
is to cut out all advertising fer a while. to
solve its own newsprint problem. BY this
means the News can still give its readers a
glimpse OF passing events But all publishers
are not as well situated financially as Mr..
Knox They are dependent upon advertising
to pin the nosebag on fol- their stats and
themselves If they were forced to follow his
example they would soon be bankrupt.
Their only alternative is 10 reduce the mum.
Der OF special features they carry, avoid cir.
culation increases or even reduce circulation.
and restrict news content 10 essential and i'm.
portant happenings. One and ALL thew are
now doing this There is no other way for
them to survive newsprint rationing.
Star-News readers are urged to be patient
and lenient. The war will not last forever.
When 1t is past, when normally is restored
and newsprint again available in the CUSTOM
airy quantity we will be increasing our service
to subscribers to offset curtailed service I'm.
avoidable during the conflict.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Flu And The Doctors

Wilmington is having flu epidemic. That
is to say there are more cases of flu than
of all other diseases. AS a consequence the
small number Of physicians in private prac-
tice are vastly overworzed and cannot keep
up with all demands upon them.
The New Hanover County Medical Society.
in its meeting on Tuesday evening, took such
action as it could both to dispel unnecessary
alarm and to Tighten the excess load upon
it's members. To this end it announced that
while flu is prevalent the type is not nearly
as severe as during the 1918 epidemic. In
fact, the doctors say. it is very mild and if
the patient will go to bed and follow instruc-
tons previously issued by the health depart
ment, will quickly subside.
With this word of encouragement, they urge
everybody to place calls for Them except in
actual emergency. between and o'clock in
the morning. BY so doing, the doctor may
make extensive rounds before visiting the hos
pitfalls and so save their patients from waiting
until late afternoon, decay which, because
avoidable
They also urge that persons desiring their
services deliver their message to the office
attendant, instead Of insisting or talking with
the doctor himself 1t is surprising, they say,
the time that is consumed in answering ques-
tions which could as well be answered by
the attendant-time that is needed, but lost,
in attending patients at the office.
The docors also urge that night calls be
placed only in emergency. They point out,
with reason, that they require some sleep,
and the recuperation it brings. if they are
to keep up with the heavy demands upon
their services by day. They emphasize, how
ever, that whatever the hoIr trey will answer
any emergency call. Whar they wish to avoid
is breaking down themselves and so leaving
the people with an even smaller force to deal
with the general health situation.
There is nothing in this That is not soundly
based in common sense. With public cooper
alton the physicians will cope with the emer-
gency. They deserve this cooperation. Let
everybody give it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
The Case Of WOdehouse

Should man serve the enemy under threat
of death, or accept death as satisfactory
alternative? Should he do an enemy's bidding
even without pistol at his back, to gain
privileges while in captivity? And if he does,
should he be considered an outcast?
The case of P. G. Wodehouse precipitates
these questions. Wodehouse, who has enter
tanned millions of readers for twenty years
or more with his humorous writings, was
taken prisoner in France in 1910 during the
Nazi invasion. Anthony Eden annouced some
time ago that he had 'Iet his services to
the enemy propaganda machinc'' Now the
British Broadcasting Corporation has banned
musical comedies with lyrics by Wodehouse
The Be may be entirely correct in it's
position. The point is too fine to be settled
by snap judgment. But it IS only fair to
recognize an age-old fact that all men do
not possess the spirit of martyrs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
QUOTATIONS

The Germans are a great people with
great qualities, and Germany IS inherently
a great country, but after the smash that
will follow this war Germany will be writ
ten off the slate IN Europe e,, for long, long
years-Prime Minister Jan Cnfistan SHUTS,
Union of South Africa.
The enemy counter-offensive is gradually
becoming real.-Tokyo radio.
we are. He will walk behind machine. We
u wv Oscar Henline. Iowa farmer tour;no
Britain
por1;, is ghost city-a home for cor,,o.
~ a,.v-faced inhabitants living in b pses
m n1 You find people who begin to 1 cr.,
1 when they see ruins everywhere.-swedGissyS
correspondent =
Each month Of til the n coming year will find
smaller numbers OF people engaged in Wiz
goods Gen Leonard p. Ayres Ft claH
land economist eSe-
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Looking To The Future

Admitting on the word of competent au.
shorities that the war in Europe will be sue
cessfully ended during 1914, and believing, con.
trary to some observers, kat the war in the
Pacific will not be long protractcd, what are
ne as people and nation to do to restore
normal conditions of production and Of living
and pay off the tremendous debt we have
incurred?
The victory will have been made possible
largely because we contributed so heavily of
our resources and accumulated wealth. The
nauonal debt, which bids fair to exceed three
nunoreo Dillon dollars, is no less staggering
than the drain upon our natural resources
We cannot hope to discharge the one or
bring the other to normal leve] within . c.,-
tury or more it we attempt to do the lob alone
Very properly, and in conformity with a
national ideal, we have no empiric ambition.
We seek no gain in territory We are fiobtino
and shall continue to fight, only to nreserv.
our independent national existence Ru+ w.
must take stock Of the wars cost both to the
United States and every taxpayer. When we
do this it must be apparent that sacrifices
far greater than any demanded during the
battle must be made in the peace era.
1t is not fair to think that Americas con.
tribution to victory can be overlooked by its
allies or the burden be let to its people te
carry, Some means of compromising this ma
ton for its lendlease shipments must be &C
cepted by the beneficiary powers which hav,
been enabled to carry on effectively through
them. And the nations which precipitated thi
war, must be made to recompense the United
States IN part for the tremendous drain tn
war has imposed.
Russia, through Joseph Stain. has indicates
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

its intention to pay for every dollars worth
of goods and equipment received from us.
Great Britain can hardly hope to escape her
responsibility for repayment this time as she
did after the former World war. This will
help the United States to discharge it's war
debt sooner than if there snoul.. be no return
from them. But the chief obligation of pay
ment should be imposed upon the aggressor
nations which compelled us to i.npoverish our
selves to defeat them In no other way can
generations of unborn Americans be saved
from a crushing burden.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

The underlying cause OF the
trouble in this country on the
home front is that we are applying
one standard of morals, Of values,
of duty, and of rights to the men
and women of the armed forces
and a different standard to the
civilians. That is why we have
strikes and threats of strikes in
industry but stern discipline in the
Army and Navy. That is why we
have the ren.iess pressure OF
group and special interests about
money-for higher prices or lower
prices, for not bearing taxes, for
more or less profits-while from
the Army and Navy we expect
and get service and sacrifice
which are beyond price.
AS long as we who are civilians
indulge ourselves with the notion
that we have the right to push,
press, complain, to use strikes or
legislatice combinations, w h h
our soldiers and sailors have re-
nounhed, just so long will the
home front be disorderly, just so
long shall we be in bad humor
with our countrymen and with
ourselves.
In all these contentious at home
there is by normal civilian peace
time standards great deal to be
said on both sides. No fair-minded
man can deny it. The miners had
a case The critics of MI. Lewis
had case. The railroad men
have case. Judge Vinson has a
case. The steel workers have a
case. The government has a case.
The farm bloc has case. Organ
lied labor has case. The war
contractors who object to the re-
negotiation procedure have case.
So have the War and Navy Depart
ments. The lobbyists objecting to
taxes have a case. So has the
Treasu Justice incarnate could
not Judge finally and properly all
these arguments.
Why not? Because it is aoso-
lutely impossible to find the just
solution in money matters (and
all these arguments are about
money. at me when the nation
is fighting for it's liberties and its
future, and is demanding of ten
millions of its bravest and best
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Walter Lippmann Says:
War, Domestic Issues
Are Closely Related

that they forget about money and
dedicate their lives to the nation.
We are too patient with our own
disputes, and we are pursuing a
Will-o'- the-Wisp when we imagine
that any wartime government can
provide every civilian workman,
employer, farmer, consumer with
his just, exact and duly popor-
Tomato money rewards. 1t cannot
be done. These problems are in
herently insoluble unless we say
to ourselves that it does not mat
ter if any one of us gets little
more or a littls less than he de-
serves or thinks he deserves, pro-
vided only we have enough to do
our part in supporting the fighting
men.
No one has ever worked out a
just system of economic payments
for the Marines in the first as
sault wave at Tarawa. No one
has been foolish enough to try.
Yet on the home front we go
through the elaborate forms of de-
bate about wage rates, prices,
profits and taxes as if it were
possible to arrive at any solution
which is absolutely and perfectly
just.
Let no one think that the war
can be so divorced from domestic
issues that we can ask men to
face death in battle and on the
home front, can have politics-as-
usual, special-interests-a usual. or
any of our ordinary materialistic,
acquisitives, ambitious habits-as-
usual. That is not good enough, and
the leaders of groups, blocs, fac
tons, Hobbies and parties here at
home had better recognize that
now before they open up an I'M
bridgeable chasm between those
who, without hope of personal re.
ward, have served and sacrificed
on the one hand. and those who
have looked out for themselves on
the other.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Daily Prayer
FOR HUMBLE HEARTS

We are in Thy hands, o Heaven
ly Father. Thou art doing incom-
prehensible things with us and
with the world. We can only bow
reverently and pray, THY will be
done" Thou art stripping us of
cur proud complacency. Our bia-
tant boastfulness has been rebuked
by many a defea+. Our assured
ness of an easy life, filled with
trivial pleasures. has been shat
tered. We have been thrust into
the school of Thy stranpe Prov
dences. Bitter separations and
sacrifices have ploughed deep into
our being. Now we pray for the
sustaining grace of humble and
docile hearts. Help us to trust
Wnere we cannot see. Deepen our
will. Whatever else Details. let us
not lose the faith that we are in
my care, and that all Thy plans
'or us are father plans. This we
ask In the name Of Christ of Gets.
semane. who could say. Mot NV
WILL IL, but Thine be done. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Pacific Colonization

IL former Senator Hiram Bingham of Con-
nectlcut IS true prophet, one phase of the
postwar employment problem will be solved
by the military forces themselves.
Mr. Bingham, born in Hawaii, the son of
missionary and longtime resident OF the
orient, who has been schooling sailor trainees
IN conditions they will face in the Pacific war
zones forecasts there will be a colonization
Doom after the war in many OF the areas
now occupied by the Japanese and some the
JAPANESE would like to occupy but can't If
Is MS belief that many Army and NAVY men
VIII return to the Orient after they are mus
tered out.
lhey are going 10 settle especially in New
Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia and the
FIJI islands, he says, Some of the areas
are a paradise The Fijis, with their sugar
and banana plantations, are another Jamaica. -
Should all this come about there would be
an advantage in addition to the provision that
would thus be made for many men, With a
large white population in the regions coveted
so long by the Japanese there would be less
likelihood of another Japanese expansion out
break The little yellow men at least coulc
not prepare for war on as extensive a scale
and keep their preparations so secret, the,
did In the years preceding P>ar1 Harpor. .:
text of trade would be under a handicap.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
You re
Telling Me

Grandpappy jenkins has aI I,s;or.
made a New Years resolu~ ;.l.
He's resolved to get those CH.% ;.s
mas cards he's been caIls aT.
around for a week into the 1''
box before Jan. J..
! ..ood
What Junior cannot unoFl''+ .bs
is why he cannot convince '.ooor:.
family that the F's on MS i'P
card stand for Fine.
In view of the terrific scsI. ~,
of domestics. Zadok Dumkopl S am
it's no wonder we never hear q, IL
more of that old-fashloneo
ment, housemaid's knee.
Years ago it was predicted IL %
Germany that Rommel Woul ons1
a long way. Well, its napp ~ hos,
Latest reports have the e snSsrs
of the ex-Africa Korps solll'"
in Denmark.
It's only natural that a . .e
wearing zone of those over ~
made from old U. S. Afi7s
looms would feel all puHed w..
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
AsOthers Say It
MESSAGE FOR THE DAY
nv ALEX s. YEAGER

ID AL1AN % 4 AAoGAS
Through the storm of battle fury,
And the scream of bomb and
shell,
And the tempest of air fighters,
Thanks to God all will be well.
Dazzling light shines in the dark
ness,
Christ is born and Joy for all,
peace on EARTH shall be estab-
lished,
For His kingdom knows no
fall.
Those With Him shall be tri-
umphant,
Those against him will go
down;
Smiles will greet United Nations
While the Axis meets froWn.
Good will helps to make good
neighbors,
AS aggressors fail to win,
Faith and love should be the
standard
Whereby all men live as kin
Hence we have Cnrist's own as
surance,
"Bles't are those making fol
peace"
If the traitors only listen,
From this earth all wars shall
cease.
We can once more feast on greet
ings
In His name, with joy ant
cheer
Let me wish you Merry Christ
mas
And with it happy New Year
Editors Note. The above
verses were typed on the back OF
Christmas card from a serv-
ice man. 1t was received by
Wilmington merchant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
OUSTED

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 29- lR -
The Swedish newspaper Social
Demokraten in d Bern dispatch
said today that German States
Secretary Herbert Backe, in
charge of food, had been ousted
because of the poor potato crop
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

An aircraft manufacturer says
it will take five years to develop
the hehcopter. Shucks - that
means we must wait until l949
to make that weekend trip to
South Anericai
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30
Fair Enough

Editors Note.-The Star and News accepts o
responsibility for tho personal views Of Mr.. Pegler
ind often disagree with them . much many Of
lis readers His articles tic good purpose Of
making people think
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

We don't know what Generals
Marshall and MACARTHUR said at
their meeting but we'll bet Tojo's
ears went from yellow to red in
a hurry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-30

"a Literary Journey Through
Wartime Britain by A. C. Ward
Oxford $2). :
Evening star., 1943-09-29
Corsican Victory Stirs
French Invasion Hopes
By the Assnciafen o

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, Sept. 29-With virtual
ly all of Corsica in Allied hands, in
vasion psychology was reported to-
day to be sweeping France.
Never before have Frenchmen
followed so attentively instructions
of the London RADIO" said a corre-
spondent of the Madrid newspaper
va in a dispatch from Vichy.
Travellers reaching Madrid from
France told of witnessing anti-Ger-
man demonstrations by French war
workers in the streets of Toulouse
and st. Denis last week.
In Toulouse the demonstrators
marched through the streets shout
ing Down with Laval!' according to
the accounts, while at st. Denis, on
the outskirts of Paris, workers pa
raded singing the "Internationale -
The Germans were said not to
have opposed either demonstration.
although the work stoppages affect
ed war production,
Evening star., 1943-09-29
Cuban MoIasses Deal
Fails on Price Deadlock
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Cuban Sugar Commission
announced last night that negotia-
tions for the sale of Cuban high
test and black-strap molasses to the
United States have been broken off
without reaching an agreement.
The announcement explained that
1t was not possible for the Cuban
delegates to accept the basis of the
offer made by Federal officials.
A spokesman of the delegation
said the Cubans would be willing to
resume. the negotiations if United
States representatives offered new
terms.
1t was learned from an informed
source that the American negotia-
tors offered 2.40 cents pound of
sugar content for the high-test mo-
lasses, while the Cubans asked ESQ
cents. 1t was understood that for
the black-strap molasses the United
States offered 5.58 cents a visible
gallon, while the Cubans asked
1880 cents.