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Evening star., 1943-07-07
What Europe Thinks Of us

his car when ne subsequently
picked up two colored soldiers.
The growing tendency in swe-
den and England to hope that
the United States will withdraw
into its isolationist shell comes
chiefly from our experience with
the French refugee leaders and
with the tentative political ges-
lures made by the administration
here toward cooperation with
such Central European PERSONAL
tiles as Otto of Hapsburg.
1t would be incorrect to say
that any large proportion OF
Europeans want us to be isola-
ZIONIST. But there is marked
swing in that direction,
English shipowners and COM
mercial airline managers are
developing an acute concern
about the United States. In those
circles one finds q real British
isolationism-the British equiv
alent of America firstism," as
an observant American friend of
mine put 1t. He had been in
London in an ofiicial capacity for
some time.
Views Are Discouraging.
For an American who has faith
in America, it is discouraging
that our foreign friends adopt
these views.
Apparently the views rest on
the fact that they don't under
stand us.
They don't understand us be-
cause they still receive inade-
quate information about us. Brit
ish papers are thin and many Of
them sensationalize the news
from the United States. The best
London correspondent in this
country probably is Robert
Waithman Of the News -Chron-
icle, whose paper attempts to
present a well-rounded picture
of the United States.
They don't understand us be-
cause they-like us-dont know
what our postwar intentions are.
British foreign policy, for in
stance, in the long-term view is
vague because American foreign
policy In the long-term view Is
vague. I heard many complaints
on this score.
The OWL has been doing 4
good job In London in supplying
information to the British pa
pers, but it cannot picture spe-
cifically what does not exist spe-
cifically. Nobody in Washington,
much less in London, can predict
the road the United States will
travel when the peace comes.
They don't understand us be-
cause We give the idea that We
are trying to hide our shortcom-
ings instead of trying to get rid
Of their causes.
Transmission abroad OF the
news about the Detroit race riot
was held up almost "a hours. I
heard many comments in Lon
don from men and women who
thought that this sort OF censor
ship piled sin on sin.
Perfect understanding exists
among topmost American and
British military and diplomatic
officials in London.
The British have made con-
cessions in the councils of war
and 50 have the Americans. Each
side now understands the COM
promises and why they were
made.
This sort OF good will and COM
munity OF interest has left the
impression that the two countries
can get together when each
knows what it wants.
The most striking picture Of
America one gets abroad Is that
1t is a country which does not
know what it wants beyond the
desire to win the war.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

the real thing.
r or h e
present, the
only signih-
canoe OF the
new lighting
is that 1t is
occurring In
q n q r e q
W h ic h for
many months
has been con-
sfdered the
spri ngboard
for q major
Nazi offensive.
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himself to the
fact that the Job
of financing the
war, which rests
on his shoulders,
is so huge and so
vital t h a t h e
needs the aid of
every competent
man he can get,
whether he likes
him or not.
One trouble
with Mr.. Nor
genthau is that
he Is a moody
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try is still
here.
The reports
I was reading
in En- 6 land
t r o m m y
country gave
such a bleak
picture of a
nation IN a
sort of social
and political
v o ! c a n ! c
eruption that
I hesitated to
come back.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Germans Claim Sinking
Of Nine Allied Vessels

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July THE Berlin
radio reported today that German
submarines had sunk nine Allied
ships totaling $1,000 tons "in recent
days" but failed to say where the
alleged sinkings took place.
Failure of the broadcast, which
was recorded by the Associated
Press, to give any details concerning
the claim made comparison with
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Francis /. Timmons, Jr.,
Named Aide to Col. Kutz

Francis L. Timmons, jr.. yesterday
was appointed administrative as
sistant to the Engineer Commission
er, Col. Charles w. Kutz.
Mr.. Timmons, whose salary will
be $4,000 a year, has been serving
for some years as a secretary in tho
Office Of the Engineer Commissioner.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
9th Army in Near East,
Ituliun Report Saws

BERN. Switzerland, July IA
Sofia dispatch quoting the Gior-
male dItalia said yesterday a great
portion of the British 9th Army now
was concentrated in Iraq, Iran and
Syria, and said Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery, it's head, was reported
to be in Baghdad.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
The Great Game of Politics.

NOlullC VI Ato odACo Ildso UCCA VCIy
small compared with the money
obtained through the Victory fund
committees, banks and security
houses, which co-operated under
the discarded Federal Reserve setup.
I'VE cannot depend" said Henry
G. Bengel, = Chicago banker, ION
such stunts as stripping savings
stamps of Hollywood girls legs.
The war saving stan is not the crew
to handle big job like war financ.
ing. 1t is honeycombed with
political appointees who do not
know as much about selling bonds
as the banks and investment
houses" Few will dispute that.
Signal Successes.
1t has been publicly asserted that
Mr.. Morgenthau's decision was due
to his feeling that the Federal Re-
serve System and the banks were
getting all the credit and he was
being pushed to one side. 1t has
been further tied that there Is
a feud between Mariner s. Eccles,
governor OF the Federal Reserve
Board, and himself. and he felt he
could not permit Mr.. Eccles to be
out in front in the ar-financing
program.
These seem petty reasons for
changing a successful system for
one that is experimental. Yet no
others that appear adequate have
been advanced, and 1t is true that
Mr.. Morgenthau has not justified
the change. 1t could be justified, OF
course, If the Federal Reserve setup
had failed in the previous drives
But 1t achieved signal successes in
both-raising nve and one-half bill
lions more than the Treasury asked
in the April drive and two billions
more in the December drive.
Mr.. Morgenthau himself was
greatly elated over both drives, and
1t was generally accepted that the
organization responsible would con-
tinue. And then on June it was
heaved out the window. Thosuands
Of trained men all over the country
who gave up their time and, with
out compensation, worked night and
day to put the loan over, feel re-
buffed and badly treated.
The Secretary's action, they say,
is designed to discredit them. 1t
implies distruSt. Conscious OF hav-
ing done their unselfish and pa
troitic best, they would not be hu-
man II they did not feel resentful.
May Correct Action.
Altogether, 1t is an unpleasant
state Of Affairs. Everybody wants
Mr.. Morgenthau to succeed in the
next drive, regardless of the change.
Failure would not only be calami-
tous for him, but for the country.
Self-interest as well as patriotism
should impel every citizen capable
Of contributing anything to aid to
the limit Of his ability, no matter
how he may regard the Secretary's
policies. Nevertheless, 1t is unfortu-
nate that. without adequate reason
or explanation, Mr.. Morgenthau has
seen fit to kick out q functioning
organization that had done splendid
work, setting up one whose capacity
Is yet to be proved.
1t would be pretty fine If. recog-
nizing q mistake, the Secretary
should act now to correct it. It
would refute the critics who ascribe
motives of personal pique to him
and it would confound those who
insist that he cannot rise above his
personal dislikes. 1t would prove
Mr.. Morgenthau bigger man than
most people think him. There is
still time.
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his first and last
term as Vice
President.
1t is b e in G
taken for, grant,
ed, of course,
that President
Roosevelt is to
be renoninated
for a four t h
term. No such
certainty sur
rounds the iden-
tity of the vice
p re S / d e n t ial
nominee.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
By BLAIR BOLLEs.

The natives return to the
United States these days is an
occasion for astonishment--
astonishmert that the old coun-
Evening star., 1943-07-07
This Changing World

that the round -the-clock bomb
ings Of the Reich's military and
Industrial installations had
caused the Nazis such damage
that they could not sustain .
major offensive.
Those who feared peace talks"
maintained that our failure to
open q second front In Western
Europe-across the Channel-had
completely discouraged Stain,
who no longer could see any rea-
son why the Russians alone
should bear the major brunt Of
the war.
The middle of the road observ-
ers, who indorsed neither Of these
extremist theories, and who be-
lieve that early July is not too
late for the Nazis to start their
long-expected break Through at
tempt, give . much more plausi-
BILE explanation Of the German
delay.
The massing OF a large Ameri-
can British invasion force in
North Africa has worried the
German high command to
certain degree. After the con-
quest of Tunisia there were few
Nazi troops in Southern Europe
and practically none in Italy.
There was the possibility, it
was said, that the Italians might
collapse unless strongly support
ed by Berlin.
A regrouping Of forces become
inevitable. None of the Nazi
units on the Russian front has
been moved. But forces from
the Reich itself had to be sent
to Sicily. Sardinia, France and
the Balkans.
Transfers Needed Time.
These transfers required a
good deal of attention. The
Nazis wanted to make sure they
had enough manpower at. all
the invasion points" to Illustrate
the Allies efforts. They realize
That the Italians alone could
not defend their country.
The propaganda stories that
the Germans have abandoned
them would have further broken
the morale Of the Italian troops,
and the Allies, in spite of a rela-
tive small number of troops,
might have been able to walk
into Italy practically unopposed.
In order to guard against such
an eventuality, the Nazi high
command, for the last five or six
weeks, has been busy transfer
ring ground troops. equipment.
especially aviation, and supplies
to important strategic points in
Southern Europe. The Germans
communication system was over
burdened by these transfers and
it is not conceivable that they
would start . major operation In
Russia while their lines of COM
munications were cluttered with
trains going in a different direc-
ton.
The concentration Of Nazi sup
porting troops In Italy and other
danger points In the Mediter-
ranean has been completed. Only
routine transportation is needed
henceforth.
This might explain why the
Nazis may have decided to start
a Russian offensive now.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

handbook says,
"The Irish SOL
dier may not
have the oppor-
tunities of the
other armies Of
seeing the world
but he certainly
has unique OPP
portunities to
see Ireland first"
and the favorite
h u m orist Is
Myles Ma Geo.
paleen 9TH a t 3
Evening star., 1943-07-07

CHE opinions OF the iters this their oun not
necessarily Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort oiue all sides of questions OF interest to its
although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
BY FRANK r. KENT.

It would be greatly in the national
interest If before the next Treasury
drive. scheduled for September,
Secretary Morpenthau could adjust
Evening star., 1943-07-07
|Feud May
Have Echo
| In 1914
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

OF more than passing significance
perhaps is the political aspect of
the Wallace-Jones feud. For it does
look as If Henry Wallace is serving
Evening star., 1943-07-07
By CONsTANTTNE Drown.

Washington military observers
cannot yet determine whether
the reported German offensive in
Russia is q flash in the pan or
Evening star., 1943-07-07

There are more than 10 conven.
lent branch offices for Star want
Ads" located throughout the city.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
McLennore-
Recounts d Few Of
DubIin's FoibIes
v HENRY McLEMORE.

DUBLIN.-This is the city where:
1t is illegal to take mad dog into
public park, prominent sign
warns against 1t; the Irish Army
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their highest specifications and lovely ondroe
with Hall for the
S29O deeply chenille
Cathedral
skiIth carving size $780,
Evening star., 1943-07-07

Allied reports Of recent losses impos-
sible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
Kelly TO Present
Copies Of Bills
To Legislators
Should Save Much Time
al Special Session in
Early 1914, He Asserts
Time. stan Correspondent,

LANSING Nov % - Breaking
precedent. Gov Kelly revealed
today that he plans 10 have copies
of his proposed new laws in the
hands of each legislator we'll in
advance OF next year special
session.
It has been the custom for gov
ernorS TO explain TO the Legisla-
ture on the day II convenes what
new laws he wants and later SUBJ
init the actual bills.
"This time II will be diff
ferent," he said at Is my aim
10 complete our studies well in
advance of the meeting so the
Legislature can come to Lam
sing fully prepared to get right
to work"
He said he expected to issue the
call for the middle Of January or
possibly Feb. l. and expects the
session TO last only three or four
weeks.
Meanwhile. members of the
House and Senate finance com
mittees plan 10 meet next month
10 agree on a budget for the next
fiscal year.
their first meeting yesterday,
only preliminary reports were
made. Budget Director Fred c.
Striffler said no estimate of next
years budget can be made at this
time.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
PROGRAM EXPANDED

Implementing his own program
Larllin has surveyed all recrea-
tional facilities in the northern
district, potential as we'll as actual
He has enlisted the aid and CO.
operation of neighboThood war
clubs, union locals and other
groups.
"These people want to help"
he says. They are glad To CO.
operate when YOU show them
what is needed and that the
work Is important"
His argument is that profess
sional recreation directors should
spend their tim4 educating the
volunteers to perform the actua
directing and supervision. par.
ticularly now that paid STATS have
been decimated Wy the draft anc
the attraction Of better paying
Jobs.
1t is this type Of program thai
the area co-ordinator plan is in
tended to establish, according C
John H. Witherspoon, chairman
of the advisory committee.
'If Ii works we have gone a
long step forward I'm solving our
problem" Witherspoon said.
"And / think IL will work IL we
use imagination. break few
traditions and slash all the red
tape that gets In our way"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
ALL KINDS KNOW HIM

Every poolroom operator in the
district knows him. So do the
church pastors. Larkin plays
pool with the youngsters he meets
in pool rooms-and the propri-
etors are glad 10 have him lure
them off 20 Join his activities.
Those activities are manifold.
They may be as simple as a pi-
nochle game in his basement
headquarters at the Dawson
School or as elaborate as a hand
ball tournament with mimco-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
MISC Women Grads
Offered War Jobs

EAST LANSING, Nov. 20 up
Pratt w they Engineering
Corp. is offering positions 10
Michigan State College women
graduates as fellows to engineer
ing aides, Prof. Tom II. King,
head of the college placement
bureau, announced today.
Accepted women who are not
chemistry or mathematics gradu-
ates will undergo an intensive 35-
week training course in the plant
70 which they will be assigned as
engineering aides.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
Times Photo

graphed lists of entrants and
poStngS of the scores.
Larkin does not tell the young
SterS what TO do. He lets them
decide what they want TO do after
discreetly suggesting possibilities
There is none Of the CHEEKY. pro-
feSSional play leader in his opera
tions, no cry of Come on, fellows,
let's start a game. "
Under his guidance dozens of
gangs" have been welded into
orderly groups, self governed, self
directed and with their own
choice Of program.
Corner gangs exist because
the youngsters lack knowledge
of the facilities available 10
them" LaTkin says. "They want
clean games and fun, but they
don't know where to go nor
what 10 do.
1.-THE first big job we have to
do Is 10 spread a knowledge Of
all facilities, not just the mu-
nicipal Fairgrounds or cOmmu-
nifty centers hut the church
gyms, the nelghborhoOd club
rooms, the vacant lots that can
~ ~ cleaned off for softball
games and everything else that
will take the youngsters off the
streets.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

"NeXt we need q great many
volunteers to aid In directing
the activities. All they need TO
do Is give minimum OF guild
ance and supervision--see that
the bat and hall are put away
when the game Is over or the
lights out and the door locked
when the clubroOm is left.
THE youngsters will look
after their own discipline when
the need for II Is made clear to
them. They want responsibility
and are able TO assume IL. They
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
Lemon Juice Recipe
Checks Rheumatic
Pain Quickly

~ you suffer from rheumatic. sr
thrills or neuritis pain Try this simple
penEive home recipe that thou
sands are using Get package Of
Ru -EI Compound a two Week supply
today. Mix IL with q quart 81 water
add the juice ~ lemons, It's easy. So
trouble a. al and pleasant You need
only tsblespooufuls tWo times a
day often within a. hours some.
times ovpruiFh Splendid results are
obtained N tife psins Do nor quickly
leave and IN yJf ~ rot feel better 70.
turn the an,A4T package and Ku ~
utll cost you nothing &C. Try ss if is cold
BE- your druggist uuner an absolute
money hsrk EusrEutee RUIZ Com
pound a for SAFE and RECOMMENDED by
druf stores everywhere
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
STILL GAZE HUNGRILY


council were ducking the rebukes
of public opinion over the tax, the
corporation counsels office was
still looking hungrily at those lush
federal taxes being paid by local
utilities.
Then Richard A. Sullivan got
busy and sought the mayors ear.
Sullivan is the city's young and
aggressive utilities cofstitant.---
II became apparent at election
time that his proposed pay roll
tax would hurt the mayor at the
polls. Members of his official
family urged him 10 withdraw IL
and submit instead Sullivan's bite
from the telephone, light and gas
companies 10 finance postwar i'm
provements
But the mayor refused to go
along claiming he wouldn't make
political capital of a plan even
he hadn't made up his mind about.
INAUGURAL REPORT
The strategy then became TO
prepare q momentuouS inaugural
report for Jeffries TO deliver after
he had returned from his post
election Florida vacation. The
announcement was 70 include
complete list of what the city
would need after the war. the
amount Of employment il would
proVide 70 cushion The postwar
unemployment shock and the
means Of raising the money.
Members of the mayors Off
cial family have been scurrying
around, urging heads of all the
departments 10 get their postwar
plans and needs into sufficiently
good shape TO present to the
public.
Council President Lodge will
have a lot TO do with mapping the
city's strategy over the next two
years He was a member OF the
council when the city got itself
nearly 100000. 900 in debt financ-
ing postwar Improvements after
the last war.
THE MAIN PITFALL
That is the main pitfall which
Jeffries, with the help of Lodge,
plans 10 avoid this time II is
also one of the main reasons many
city officials have, for some
time. favored establishing a City
of Detroit lobby in Washington,
a practice Of other large cities, 10
steer federal funds here for ex-
pressways, airports, park devel-
opments and a new sewage sys-
tenn.
Speaking of Councilman Lodge
Detroit voters will be faced in an
other two years with the problem
of replacing him. for. in recent
interview, he revealed that this
would be absolutely his last term.
The. dean OF The common coun-
Gil has served sp,J,- 4G>-3 ne first
10 years as member of the board
OF aldermen. On Jan. L. he begins
his tenth term on the present
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21

AnnFRTtsFMFNr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
DIDN'T WANT TO RUN

AFTER my sister died last
year" Lodge said. II didn't
have much enthusiasm left. i
made up my mind then that 1
would not seek reelection In
this last election.
"But when a friend Of mine
came and told me he was filing
my name, ! weakened and told
him 10 20 ahead. The old man
with the Scythe IL catching up
with me. though. and i know
this will be my last time
Most DetrOiterS viii probably
never see Lodges like again. fol
he has been elected IS times. 81,
times as head Of the slate, with
out once making a political speech
without permitting a campaign
card. poster or handful 10 b'
printed for him without attend
ing a political meeting and with
out giving campaign promise
handShake or cigar
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
Lewis Larkin' Work With Boys
Shows HoW to Beat Delinquency
Mayors Group
Impressed by
Novel System
Times Photo

won't accept bOssy directors OF
planned programs. They resent
uplifting but IL Is amazing
what they can and will do for
themselves"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
WiIlkie TO Tour South

NEW YORK. Nov. 10 GUP) -
Wendell W1ftkie was enr0ute 10
New Orleans today for a tour of
the South.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
Proposed Tax
On UtiIitiesCity's
No. t0uestion
jefffies Hopes 10 Avoid
Bic Indebtedness That
Followed World War
Inside City Hall
Nv HAROLD scHACHERN

The one crisis in city govern
ment this week was the prema-
turely announced public utilities
excise tax and IL probably will he
the main question for several
weeks 70 come.
Almost simultaneously with
Mayor IeffrieS, proposal for a pay
roll deduction tax. last summer,
the corporation councils office re-
ceived a setback when the Michi-
gan public service commission re-
fused 10 lower Detroit Edison Co.
electric rates by the amount Of
that company's excess profits
taxes-Ss. 600 900 in 1912,
The pay roll tax proved tmme-
diatefy and almost universally
unpopular. Labor unions formed
a united front with business and
professional groups TO fight the
proposal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
Dawson Are a
Job Eliminates
Usual Fluff
BY MILTON MURRAY

Detroit's new program 10 strike
at juvenile delinquency and pro-
vide new outlets for the enthusi-
aSms and energy Of youth through
area co-ordlnatorS faces. in the
private opinion of observers, the
hazard that il Will bog down in n
traditional fluff of m aypo c
dances and tiddlywink games.
In a studied effort 10 avoid this
hazard the Afftteef advisory
Committee on Youth Problems
has watched the efforts of Lewis
r. Larkin, pioneer Co-ordinator
now working in the Dawson area.
Larkin has shown how Juvenile
delinquency can be preveUte ed by
going out and preventing it. He
joined a corner gang" Without
revealing that he was a social
worker" or an "uplifter," he led
the boys of the gang from their
corner haunts into a church gym
nasium. Under his guidance they
took up basketball and volleyball
and the janitor service at the
gym.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-21
TURN TO DANCING

From whistling at girls passing
the corner. the gang turned 10
staging dances where their self
imposed rules were more rigid
than any a Chaperone would lay
down.
When Larkin met them, the
youths were enthusiastic cop
haters. Before he left them there
had been an understanding. pa
trolmen had appeared as guest
speakers at the club" and, in a
period of Is months there were
only two juvenile arrests in the
neighborhood
Today Larkin Is secretary Of
the Mayors Advisory Committee
on Youth Problems. die is direct
ing the North End District Coun-
Gil In an area not quite two
miles square, he deals with youChs
of 80 national and racial groups
Less than 80 per cent of the 26,-
900 population, native born.
Detroit is Il per cent native
bDrn1