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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
Committee Votes
Dad Draft Delay

WASHINGTON. Oct. 81 (INS)
The House military affairs COM
mittec late yesterday approved the
amended Bailey-Clark deferment
bill making it mandatory TO place
fathers married before Pearl Har-
Dor at the bottom of the draft list
The bill, in effect. would write
into law the principles of the
Kilda, bill, which passed the
House last spring but was side
tracked in the Senate.
The Bailey-Clark measure. al
ready passed by the Senate, will
be brought before the House next
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Eliminated from it was a Senate
provision requiring certification OF
workers indispensability by his
employer before draft deferment
may be granted. 1t also sets up a
medical board of five physicians
10 review physical standards.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
Hastings Mayor
Named 10 Head
State I00F

LANSING, Oct. 81 - Charles
Leonard, mayor of Hastings, was
elevated TO the grand mastership
of the Michigan Grand Lodge,
IOOE. and Mrs. 2etta Timpson,
Detroit, was elected president of
the state Rebekah assembly as
the organizations concluded a
three-day convention here yester-
day.
Glenn X. Hammell of Kala-
mazoo. former grand master of
the state lodge, was chosen TO
succeed Fred A. Rogers of Lansing
as grand secretary. Rogers, who
had held the post 81 years, re-
signed because of i'll health.
The new grand masters staff
elected were: James +. Trebil-
cock, Wakefield, deputy grand
master; Andrew j.. Bradford,
Baldwin. grand warden; Carl +.
Pfaff, Sandusky, grand marshal;
Lowell Patterson, Flint, grand
conductor; Francis Dodge, De-
troit, grand guardian; Theodore
Thompson. Williamson, grand
herald, and Lewis Capen, Mil
brook. grand treasurer.
The Rebekah assembly installed
the following officers: Mrs. a.
Rimpson, president; Mrs. Bernice
Charlefour, Eaton Rapids. vice
president; Mrs. Hope Sheldon
Detroit, warden Mrs Eta Smith,
Grand Rapids, secretary; Mrs.
Addie Smith. Detroit, treasurer;
Mrs. Mabel Pavey, Jackson, mar
shall; Mrs. Catherine Letherby,
Traverse City. conductor; Mrs.
Louvia Fox, Grand Rapids. inside
guardian; Mrs. AIDA Gibson, Lam
sing. outside guardian; Mrs.
Josephine Taylor, Detroit. chap
lain, and Mrs. Fern James, Galien,
musician.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
Flint Detective Among
g FBI Graduates
International Sound Photo

WASHINGTON, Oct. p (UP)
Gerald William Spencer. Flint
detective, will be among the 3S
law enforcement officers to be
graduated from the FBI National
Police Academy on Oct. %, it was
announced today.
Senator Ferguson and Charles
+. Wilson. WPB vice chairman,
will address the graduates of the
l4-week training course.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
Father
OF Ill i'm IA

STANFORD. Conn, oct. u
QNS)-Ernest f. Strain, 33-year-
old widower and father of IL chill
dren. was placed in Class Ia to-
day by his draft board.
In the normal course Of things,
Strain, a laborer, would be liable
for induction in December.
His wife died less than a month
ago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
10 Italians Executed:
Refused 10 Aid Ndzis

NEW YORK. OCT: 21-GNS)-
The Bari radio said last night
that 10 residents OF Mantua,
Italy. had been executed by NaZi
firing squads for refusing 10 CO.
operate with the German army"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
Army 0. KS Sally Rand

NEW YORK, Oct. u (UP)-
Sally Rand today saved a war
harried government from having
TO make a ticklish decision by
announcing that she would go TO
North Africa TO entertain troops
only as a fully clothed trouper. /"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-21
Definite Results
Awaited From
Moscow Farley
Nv NATALIA REM

MOSCOW. oct. II GNSl-The
important question Of the agenda
Of the tr.partltc conference OF
foreign ministers has been settled
and Moscow observers today are
confident that the historic parlcy
viii produce definite results.
ANY idea that The talks are 20
be merely a preliminary 10 later,
more important discussions have
been diSpclled since Secretary OF
State HUI and Foreign Secretary
Eden began their conversations
with Foreign ComHiSSar Molotov
AWAIT DEFINITE RESULTS
The Moscow meeting. il was de-
clared, viii stand on its own
feet and produce very definite
results.
indicating that military matters
were discussed an yesterdays
meeting. British Mai. Gen Hast
ings lSmay and American Mai.
Gen. John r Deane. head OF the
L. s military mission IN Moscow,
joined the discussions for the first
time.
The sEenda was decided upon
by all three nations representa-
tiveS without difficulty. although
a number OF questions still remain
open.
4-HOUR CONFERENCE
After Hull. Eden and their mill.
tary and political advisers con-
ferred with Molotov for hours
and 10 minutes yesterday. Off
cial CHARTERS revealed that the
conference is proceeding well IN
a cordial atmosphere
A member OF Hulls staff de-
scrIbed the session yesterday as
very agreeable"
According 10 Anglo-American
quarters, the views OF Gen. Flip
Golikov. hero of last winters
DonetS Basin fighting. which re-
suited in the Nazi defeat al Stain
grad, are proving very construc-
tive and he has shown a keen
understanding Of the American
and British viewpoints.
Among those who accompanied
Hull and Eden to Yesterdays ses-
sion was w. Ayerell Hartman. L..
s. amhassadordesignate TO Mos
COW: He e&bressed approval of
the Russians" handling of the con-
ference.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
Martin Points the Way

D REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN of Massachusetts, minority
leader in the House. has rendered service to
the nation by directing the attention of the administration
the desraby of financing the part through
instead of through endless ping up confscatoy taxes
If the significance of Mr. Martins words is grasped and if
his advice followed his might mark turning
point IN preserving national sovency which continuance
of the American system itself depends
Mr.. Martin aconically remarked
I'VE not going let strange the public with new
taxes without effort expenses of govern
ment."
Strange not too strong word for the Morgenthau
tax proposals which represent ad absudum in fiscal
policy.
HE proposed treasury including the hangover La
bies for uncanceled 1912 taxes would confiscae 100
per cent of all received by married men
with two dependents provided their exceeds S25 600
year Moreover these proposed for incomes in
excess OF H%ooOO year exceed the British which
long been deemed confiscatory
There no real escape from the calamity SYM
oozed by the runous Mogenthau proposals unless rioos
federal spending curbed
The nudicious lavish use Of funds for elobaonev
should becAeully scrunzed and audited by Congress
win the future OF the republic stake this no mere
party issue
retain soenc while achieving smashing victory over the AXIS
Inc bipartisan character me
expenditures
FORTUNATELY this significant committee headed by senat
tor Byrd Of Virginia Democrat member Of the party in
power Secretary Morgenhau represented on the committee
While individuals like Mr. Martin the
total warfare be carefully drawn by and udcous
group such as the Byrd committee
Originally The Byrd up "a gesture
Now al this critical uncture the Byrd committee becomes
focal point for patriotic Americans who preserve this
Of lie against external enemies and against rnous internal
policies and trends
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
FAIR ENOUGH
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

Mr.. WILLKIE is entitled 10
NA a chance 10 say further
regarding his program and that
which he calls his political
"hosfy" but / don't see how he
can expect TO come out even
when he promises 10 maintain
free enterprise and also 10 give
labor a voice in this govern
ment.
Free enterprise is just what
the term suggests. whereas
labor in the accepted political
meaning of the word is its
mortal enemy. They cannot
exist together.
BY labor / do not mean the
people who work and neither,
| am sure. in his heart, does
Mr.. Willkie. Like all other
politicians, he means by labor
the political group and force
consisting OF the unions under
their bosses who today are
either stupidity or cunningly
liberal and restrictive.
The stupid ones are found
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25

THE great battle now raging in Russia
along the line of the Dnieper River may
prove to be the fiercest and even the most
decisive battle of this war.
1t seems clear that the German armies,
forced out of the Caucasus and out of the
eastern Ukraine by the gathering threat to
them in western Europe deliberately took up
their position on the Dnieper River believing
that they could hold it against the Red army.
This line which they must keep intact
against Red army rupture is very long one.
Perhaps it is so long that their reduced num-
bers cannot hold it. From Vitepsk through
Homel to Kiev, their very important central
position, the distance is 800 miles. From Kiev
the river executes an enormous eastward bend
as far as Dniepropetrovsk and Zaporozhaye.
Here where the river turns westerly again,
the German line abandons the river and goes
straight across the Nogai Steppe to the Sea
of Azov. This southern sector adds $50 miles
more to the line the Germans must hold. The
loss of this part of the line would endanger
the strong German forces in the Crimean
peninsula and might lead to their destruction.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25

By PAUL MALLON

Dewey and Macarthur. Dewey
cannot, or will not, campaign,
but he can be drafted for the
nomination If "favorite' son
and uninstructed state delega-
tionS demand him in sufficient
numbers.
Macarthur is military
genius, probably the only one
this country has developed
since the Civil War. His UNI
rivaled talents entitle him 10 a
military place far more promi-
nent than he has; or is likely
to get under this adminiStra-
tiop.
But he is not apt TO be widely
considered for the presidency
because he has been out of the
country for so many years, has
not and cannot express views on
political issues, and cannot
campaign.
Distributed by King Features synd inc.
Reproduction in whole or in part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
The WORLD IN REVIEW
Battle on the Dnieper

SideHt Of the University OF CdtU0fNid.
THESE are operations in which the Ger
man army is now engaged. But at one
point at least. the Red army crossing at
Kremenchug, its counterattack has not sue
ceeded Moscow reports that this bridgehead
has been widened greatly and that the Ger
man defense line is ruptured.
1t is apparent that the former superiority
Of the German armies over the Russian is
gone Losses Ia their great battles which have
been going on continuously for many weeks
have doubtless been high on both sides, but
they are especially felt by the Germans.
While this great battle on the Dnieper is
only imperfectly disclosed to us by the Rus
sian reports and by German reticence, 1t is
undoubtedly the fiercest and most decisive
battle now in progress anywhere in the world.
If the German armies lose the battle on the
great bend Of the Dnieper, at Melitopol and in
the Crimea, and are able TO withdraw success
fully to a much straighter and shorter line
between Kiev and the Black Sea, at Niko-
aevsk or Odessa, it will be nevertheless
striking demonstration that they have lost
the war. II
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25-Mr.
w Willkie is turning Republic

WASHINGTON. Oct. 25-Mr.
W Willkie is turning Republic
can.
In energetic front page action
of late. he has sought to correct
the mechanical defects of his
earlier campaign for 1914.
For instance. he has endorsed
candidates Edge of New Jersey,
Hanley of New York, and spoke
kindly of prominent Gov. War
rem of California. although
they have not said what they
think of him, publicly at any
rate.)
His carefully arranged WASH
ington visit was an effort TO
parade his bandwagon before
the eyes of reluctant or an
tagonistic Republican congress
men. His story, mostly told off
the record here, runs something
like this:
Dewey cannot run in view of
his promises, and, If he does,
Willkie will get % per cent of
the New York delegation. Mac
Arthur cannot campaign, and
the people will not accept man
whose views are not known.
Bricker can be smothered easily.
nearly all New England COVER
nors. and all except two COM
mitteemen are ready TO plump
for Willkie. The South has been
lined up-and 50 on. Boiled
down. the Willkie attitude is IN
effect:
II can get the nomination on
the first ballot II l want it,"
TTIE story did not have the
i desired effect. The reaction
it left here was that Willkie is
very smart operator. is de-
Veloping into just as clever a
politician as Mr.. Roosevelt, and
along the same lines. His band
wagon seemed 10 be a self-made
mirage. No one could hear the
toot of any horns from il.
Only one southern political
leader. Georgia national COM
mitteeman. is for Willkie. Most
people here think Bricker will
have the South-perhaps has"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
Quick Ques tiions

1.-The author of Sherlock
Holmes was prouder of
having written The White
Company" a novel about
British invaders in Italy.
His name?
columbus was native Of
Naples, Genoa, Venice or
Palermo?
3-The earth is fat. not Spheri-
cal. al what two places on
the map?
4-What happening on Oct 25,
1884, inspired Tennysons
famous lines
Theirs. not 10 make reply,
Theirs, not to reason why.
Theirs but 10 do and die
5-Oct. Is is the birthday OF
Richard + Byrd. Primo Car
nera and Pablo PicaSSo. How
did each win fame?
6-Right or wrong: ta) Fire
flies or lightning bugs in
tho Amazon region fash
red yellow and green lights
like traffic signals tbj
dictionaries and experts do
not agree upon the correct
pronunciation OF the words
abdomen, bouquet. mobilize
and moose, among many
others
What West pont-educated
president IN this country
was imprisoned for Two
years for treason ?
s What is virgin olive oil7
ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25

NNE OF the most interesting by-productS
~ common to both World War and World
War II has been the progressive deterioration
of the institution Of royalty. With little more
than passing notice families and hierarchcs
which for centuries claimed TO rule by divine
rsh, have dropped from the head Of the
procession t6 places OF almost complete ano-
MN ~ in the passing parade.
Oae form Of monarchy has almost faded
out 81 world consciousness under the impact
Of tie doctrine that all men are created free
and equal and that all Just powers of govern
men, are derived from the consent of the gov
crned. simultaneously however a new type of
dospotic monarchy masquerading under the
forms of democracy and paying ip-service TO
the people as the source Of power has been
and is spreading over the earth at an alarm
ins pace.
ESS than 80 years ago William of Hohen-
L zollern, addressed as the all highest, IS
sued the imperial edict launching the attack
or. Belgium and France Car Nicholas, Of the
House of Romanoff gave the order for the
Russian legions 10 cross into East Prussia.
Franz Joseph, of the Hapsburg line, had al
ready sent his Hungarian and Austrian hus-
sars across the borders of the dual monarchy
Today the Hohenzollerns, the Romanoffs
and the Hapsburgs scarcely rate paragraph
in the news. The Bourbons of Spain are trying
10 lobby their way back into power; the House
Of Savoy in Italy must await the verdict of
the people at the conclusion Of the war; Carol
of Rumania haunts the night clubs of Mexico
City while his son leads precarious existence
as a puppet; assorted refugee monarchs won
der what the future holds. This is but the
European scene.
In Egypt. ancient Persia and India the
native kings and princes occupy their thrones
by sufferance and during good behavior. Good
behavior is exemplified by prompt and COM
plete compliance with instructions from alien
authority. In Asia the king of Siam and the
emperor of Manchukuo furnish a secondary
comic relief to the great Oriental farce in
which Hirohito, the son of heaven, blinks owl
ishly as he carries out the instructions of the
military autocrats HOMECOMING before him.
Only in those lands in which the royal
house has long since surrendered any right to
interfere with the processes of popular gov
eminent does the occupant of a throne enjoy
any prospect of continued tenancy
THIS amazing panorama coupled with a
widespread ignorance of the meaning of
the word monarchy has led to almost uni
versal acceptance of the idea that the people
in the respective nations control their own
destiny
In his Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire" Gibbon pointed out that wherever
the command of the army and control of the
public funds are actually exercised by the
same person such a state is monarchy, not
withstanding it might be given some other
designation.
No informed person will question the fact
that Mussolini, Hitler, TOTO and Stain have
been monarchs in the real meaning of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
The New MOIaaPcIlS

term. even If they pretend to hold power and
, govern in conjunction with grand council, or
a Reichstag, or Diet, or a Congress of
Sovets In connection with these figures the
interesting fact is that even they have deemed
it necessary 10 keep alive the fiction that they
are responsive 10 the people.
However. the most insidious undermining
Of popular government is not taking place in
the domains Of any Of these rulers but in the
homelands of democratic principles.
CEVERAL years before the issue of bu-
y reaucracy became acute in the United
States, Lord Hewart Of Bury, the lord chief
Justice of England who occupied his exalted
office from 1922 until his death a few months
ago published book entitled THE New
Despotism.'
When it is recalled that Lord Hewart was
a member of the liberal government of Lloyd
George this remarkable volume should COM
mand the respectful interest Of all people who
believe in freedom and are fighting to pre-
serve it.
power of bureaucracy in England, Lord
Hewart wrote in 1929:
That there is in existence, and in GER
tain quarters in the ascendant, a genuine
belief that parliamentary institutions and
the rule of law have been tried and found
wanting, and that the time has come for the
departmental despot. who shall at once be
scientific and benevolent, but above all
law unto himself, needs no demonstration"
UTHE bureaucratic despot we already
have"
MYTH reference to the methods used by
w the old kings and the new despots to
get power he wrote
"In those days the method was defy
parament-and il failed In these days the
method il to cajole, to cOerce and to
parliamentary it is strangely successful.
The old despotism, which was defeated,
offered parliament a challenge.
THE new despotism, which is not yet
defeated, gives parliament an anaesthetc.
The strategy is different but the goal is the
same 1T is TO SUBORDINATE PARLIA-
MENT. TO EVADE THE COURTS AND
TO RENDER THE WILL OR THE CA
PRICE OF THE EXECUTIVE UNFET-
TERED AND SUPREME"
THUS spoke the late lord chief justice of
i England in relation to a bureaucracy
which was meek, humble and law-abiding in
comparison with its American counterpart.
He might have been discussing the current
situation in this land of the free when he
wrote the observation:
Much toll. and not little blood, have
been spent in bringing slowly into being
polity wherein the people make their laws,
and independent judges administer them. II
that edifice is to be overthrown, let the
overthrow be accomplished openly.
Never let il be said that liberty and
justice, having with difficulty been won,
were suffered to be distracted or impaired
i'm a fit of absence of mind"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
knowledge Test
By DIR. sABINA III. CONNOLLY

BY DIR. SABINA III. CONNOLLY
What was the first: (a)
state TO ratify the Con-
Stitution; (bl name Of Eng
land; (c) fighting of the
Civil War?
2-Say it another way: (a) The
Beloved Disciple; CD in
a br h m bosom; (c)
Roundheads.
Slow many: (a) Labors had
Hercules; CD beads had
Cerberus; tc) eyes had
Argus?
lin what city is this famous
street: (a) Corso; th)
Champs Elysee; (c) Beacon
street?
5-What poem begins: (a) THE
little toy dog is covered with
dust; (b) 20 beautiful for
spacious skies: (c) II think
that l shall never see?
6-What are the plains called:
ta) i'm North America; tb)
in South America; tc) IN
Russia?
Name him: Ca) England'S
labor minister; (b) Japan's
premier; (c) Englands chief
of naval staff.
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
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c.yd,At ls,. Kiss Features ".sls... ,',.

precpousy places Santa Agata that the coast
road is hewn from the cliff face The Germans instead of blast
ing the rock sides above the road and causing anddes which
would have blocked the road only for limited time blew the
road away completely by putting their demolition charges be-
low it The advancing troops found themselves faced with yawn
ing chasms impossible to circumven without prior major en-
gneerng The expedien therefore adopted of keep
Ing up the chase by sending and material around the
demolition by The equipment lowered ropes down
the faces of the cliffs into the boats moved around to the next
spot practicable road and hauled the cliffs again
resume the onward trek.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25
LETTERS

TO TIE EDITOR:
THE war housing center
Il wishes 10 thank the Times.
particularly Pat Dennis. real
estate editor for such fine CO.
operation IN the recent Share
Your Home campaign.
We appreciate your CO-opeTa-
ton IN this vital program Of
securing adequate housing for
war workers.
". JOSEPH STAIRS.
Director War Housing Center.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-25

mostly in the AFL. men who
do not realize that their obiec-
tive has been won and are
pushing on toward disaster.
TlIE cunning ones are the
i Communists and the Social
Democrats Of European men
tally and background who
enjoy American citizenship buy
want security for all froiN
the cradle 10 the grave and 4.
level OF life for all the energetic
and the loafers. the smart and
the dumb, shown in practically
all Of the union practices and
regulations, which retard and
restrict the dilgent man 10 the
standing OF his interiors.
For example. the union de-
cideS arbitrarily that so many
bricks constitute a days work
for a bricklayer or so many
tires a days work for a worker
IN Akron.
The superior worker can pro-
duce much more than tho in
ferior hand. but if he violates
the standard he is punished by
the union.
Right there free enterprise
falls under blow from labor"
in Mr.. Wilkes meaning of the
word The good man takes full
advantage of his own ability and
energy, and his wages at the
end Of the week are the same
as those OF the inferior.
WHAT then happens to his
w spirit ? He relaXeS and
gives up like the European clod
who knows that he can't beat
or claw his way out of the re-
StrictionS that confine him 10 a
class: his children are raised in
this atmosphere and in two or
three generations the whole
breed accepts the system.
COMPELLED to recognize
~ that by labor Mr. Willkie
means unions. and lacking any
suggestion from him that he
would modify union practices.
we must face the fact that I'M
der his government the union
courts would take precedence,
over the public courts; than
men could be punished for mere
inpoliteneSs 10 their union of
ficers: that our free press would
succumb TO the subsidized
boiler room" union press. and
that labor would possess a
right to impose its own laws for
all the people in total disregard
of the rights and freedoms
which he processes TO uphold
For unionism today is Eu-
ropean tyranny lacking only
anti-SemitiSm 10 equal the hate
fitness against which the United
States has gone TO war.
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