The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-19
Michigan in
Washington
BY Esther Van Wagner fluffy


lion dollar government plant at the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 500 locks
will be largely decided when the
| hearings of the House Rivers and
Harbors Committee reopen on No.
veRber T.
At that time, representatives OF
the Union Carbide and Carbon Cor.
poration and its subsidiary. Michi-
gan Northern Paper Co., will test.
fly on whether they approve the
new plan which has been revised
to offset original objections based
! largely against government con-
troll of power in that area.
Already the Edison Sault Electric
Co, the privately-owned power
plant now operating, has agreed
to it,
If the Union Carbide and Carbon
Corporation will also go along, then
Congressman George Dondero,
Michigan's only member of the
committee will urge his fellow COM
mittee members to o. X. the cree
ton of the government plant. Com.
mittee members are always guided
by the members in whose state the
project will be built.
Some agreement must be reach
ed before July /, 1914, when the
i0-year lease with the Michigan
Northern Power Co. ends. The
lease with Edison Sault ended last
year but since then has been on
year-to-year contract basis. Either
the leases must be renewed or the
government erect plant OF It's
| own.
I'm opposed to government en-
trance into the power business"
commented Dondero, but the 81
million dollar plant might he all
right ! think the companies con-
cerned can best determine this
And | shall be largely guided by
the testimony"
Two years ago Army engineers
proposed an II million dollar plant
which would take over both Michi-
gan Northern and Edison Sault.
This was defeated.
THE new proposal Is just the
first step OF the original plan says
Brigadier General T. NJ. Robins,
Army engineer. 1T provides that
the government plant can sell pow
or to consumers only through the
Sault Edison Electric Company.
With more and more women GO
ing into war factories, the govern
ment, at first. was seriously wor-
ried over providing immediate ia
cilities TO care for their children.
No one doubted that the need was
real. And it vas. only at first. it
didn't seem so because when the
child care centers and war nurs-
cries we're completed. the mothers
Just didn't bring their children. AT
least. in sufficient numbers.
So Mrs. Florence Kerr, director
OF War Public Services for the Fed
eral Works Agency. breathed a sigh
OF relief as enrolment figures
climbed upward, during the last
four weeks.
In Michigan, the record has been
particularly bright. Between Sep
TENDER and October, the number en-
rolled jumped from l.lSS to 1853,
which represents an increased at
tendance of 23.3 per cent That's
even higher than the national in
crease of II per cent.
Mrs. Kerr has analysed reasons
for the previous absenteeism in
nurseries and child care centers
as threefold:
I. The opening of schools which
left the younger children without
the older ones to care for them.
.. Mothers are better acquaint-
ed with the existence and facilities
OF the centers.
3. In@eased employment OF
mothers which is certain to 90 up
to reach total employment OF
one million women by July 1.
The three amendments OF Con
gresham George Sadowski to furth-
er increase allotments OF soldiers
dependents has wide support from
labor
His bill would go beyond the pro
posals Of the House Military Affairs
Committee. which also increase al
lotments. He has sent a letter 20
each Of the 43j congressman asking
for their support OF his amend
ments.
For example, he points out the
differences he would urge, In cit
ing the example of a wife and ono
child. Where the committee would
raise her allotment to SIS, Sado-
wski's amcndb ent's would raise IT
to 500
While Congress makes up its
mind on whether to draft fathers,
fathers are being drafted com
plains Congressman Louis Rabaut.
who is a natural champion Of faith
ers having II children
To him the best proposal Is the
Kilday Bill which would leave
/ fathers as the last to draft. Bat
| the Senate is taking around so
much about 'ther bills that time
| Is being wasted" he said
lie fnars that the rafting Of faith.
ere will brear IN American hones
and estroy the morale Of the ma
ton.