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lied operations as Guadalcanal and New Geor-
gia. which afford bases for increasing air &C.
tivity against Japans stronger outposts and
cut off enemy transport service to the areas
at the southern rim of early Japanese con-
quests.
These operations in the southwest Pacific,
and the success with which they are meeting,
are vitality important at this time with an
assault on Burma drawing near Equal sue
cess in the Burma campaign will result in
heavy deliveries of materiel to China, on
whose eastern shores land based air forces
will he in a favorable position for the bombing
of Japan in unison with other air forces based
on fields now used by the Japanese and for
naval Smelling from the west.
Salamaua and Lac may seem minor victo-
ries, when viewed alone. But IN their rela-
tionship to the whole picture of the Pacific
war their fall is a major stroke
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The Literary Guidepost

ness. Then he met a girl in Eng
land, and quit the sea.
He had hard luck with his
shore job. 1t was selling vacuum
cleaners, and there were two diff
ficulties about it: the women
used him to clean up room and
would not buy, and it took him
into houses where there were
loose articles he could pick up.
He went to Jail. In fact, he went
twice before he was finished
with it.
The things that happened after
Jack went back to sea are much
better told by Laskier than by me.
Jack saw an old woman hysteri-
cal from joy over string of
refuse fat from a sleeps back in
Fascist Spain and he found a life
boat in which were the SCARED
bodies of is children. The guns
OF German raider sent his ship
to the bottom and shot off one
OF Jacks two strong legs. Death
coquetted with him for months,
but he came back.
That is perhaps the whole story
OF Britain in this war, and there
is a strange power in the honesty
OK Laskier's telling, 1t is personal
and deeply felt. and it has an epic
quality AZ well.
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Home Drive For Bonds

With headquarters Sc: up in the Tide Water
building, Princess at Second by Mrs Bernice
Stellings co-chairman of the women's divi-
sion of the war bond campaign committee,
the intensive drive which is being carried to
every home in Wilmington by the "block
system' of the Civilian Service Corps is def
initely under way
This particular division OF OCD which was
organized some months ago by Miss Louisa
Eskridge who had been loaned by the federal
health agency to the county health board and
whose departure to another field where her
services are more needed is greatly regretted
has been holding group meetings, or zone
gatherings for couple of weeks, for special
training in the specific duties involved in this
third war loan crusade, and is prepared to
answer all questions and deliver all denomi-
nations of bonds 1t was quick to offer its
assistance to Mrs. Stellings when organiza-
tional steps were being taken for the drive
But Mrs. Stellings will need volunteers for
her headquarters and taking care of
the many details involved in the solicitation
Here is an opportunity for Wilmington women
who are not already engaged IN war tasks
to do something that really counts
Notwithstanding the success of early efforts
to reach the goal set for Wilmington it is to
be emphasized that some millions Of dollars
worth of bonds remain to be bought, and
that Wilmington can not look itself in the face
later if they are not bought We can't
afford to hold back, not with our own bows
under enemy fire and our national security
depending upon victory. Six million and more
dollars is small enough for US to invest in
this crusade.
1t will not be enough to give home solicitors
a pleasant smile when they arrive. They
must have your bond subscriptions
If there is any failure it will not be the
fault Of the womens division of the cam
paign, under the able leadership of Mrs. Stel-
lings, nor of other units who are putting
their souls into the drive. 1t will be ours,
ladies ana gentlemen. who still have the priv
ilege OF working for pay and living peace
fully at home, while the rest of the world
rocks under the impact of war.
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1t Never Learns

The OPA's decision once more to invoke
the honor system to prevent pleasure driving
in the east suggests that unlike the elephant.
the OPA does forget, but like the moron, 1t
never learns
The eastern public is not going 10 be soothed
by this concession, nor is the gasoline short
age going to be solved Eastern drivers Will
use up their rations as they see fit. Ana
while they do it they will continue to curse
the OPA.
What eastern motorists ask is simple-that
they be given what gasoline can be spared
whether it be three gallons a week or one
gallon in three weeks, and permitted TO use
it as they choose, without sacrificing their
honor thinking up reasons why trips TO WISH
neighbors or to play golf are not for pleasure
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A Major Stroke

Interest has been focused so closely upon
the Italian campaign and the Russian advance
on the southern reaches of the Eastern front
that the Battle of the Pacific has had to take
second place. But the fighting there has
brought new successes to United Nations arms
and with the capture of Salamaua airfield.
with the fall of Lac soon to follow, the way
is fairly clear at last for attack on Rabaul,
which has long been Japans principal supply,
air and naval base southwark from Truk
With the fall of Lac, which cannot long
hold out with Salamaua gone, the island OF
New Guinea will become as important in Al
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Turning The Tables

Old rule books are out. Changing times are
marked by changing customs.
For example, in Detroit the contract be-
tween General Motors and the United Auto
mobile Workers CLIO. is expiring Oct. 5. OBJ
viously it mustn't be renewed intact There
have to be changes. OF such is progress
made.
In the good old days up to 1912 the proce
dure would have been taken for granted. The
JAW would have canvassed its membership
for suggestions. More pay, shorter hours,
tighter union shop, improvement If grievance
procedure, Improvement in promotion or up
grading methods, liberalization of overtime
provisions.
These certainly would have provided the
backbone of the imposing list Of demands
which the union would have presented to man.
agement at the first bargaining session
Then, in most negotiations, the management
would have turned down the demands coldly,
completely. unequvocally and finally. The
union would have threatened strike The
management would have said go ahead"
The union would have Withdrawn demand
or two, the management would nave accepted
few with or without modification Ulti-
matey, perhaps without cessation of produc-
ton, compromise would have been reached
at about the point both parties had in mind
from the beginning.
But here is General Motors breaking the
rules. The corporation has stolen the unions
thunder. 1t has canvassed its entire SUPER
vsory organization, from foremen to gen.
eral managers" and has put its wealth of
bona fide constructive recommendations in
to demands which it has presented to the
union.
And what did these demands cover? Except
for the pay scale, identically what the JAW
would have included under the horse-and-
buggy procedure in use back in 1942-hours
union shop formula grievance procedure pro-
motion methodology, overtime provisions.
Needless to say, the union caught rea-
lively prepared by having the man bite the
dog, could think Of nothing better than to
do what employers used to do. 1t rejected
the boss demands coldly, completely, un-
equivocally and finally.
Now let the bargaining begin.
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You're
Telling Me

The Italians should not mourn
too much over the destruction of
Their 50,00G-ton liners since old
Mare Nostlum Our Sea- has be-
come Their Sea.
!!
His majesty, says Bulgarian
leader. referring to six-year-old
King Simeon. faces stormy days
and many trials Not to mention
the terrors of the First Grade.
A Warship has been built in less
than nine days. Soon we ought to
be firing them al the Axis from a
gigantic machine gun.
!
All is quiet on Berchtesgaden
the only sound being faint
chomp! chomp! as another rug is
gradually masticated.
!
Putting Britaln's No. l Com
mando in charge of Allied east
Asia activity certainly doesn't
come under the head of giving
comfort to the enemy.
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BY JOHN SELBY
LOG Book" by Frank Laskier
(ScrihnerS: Sl.25l.

(Scribners; S1.25).
Frank Laskier's Log Book" is
a typical British combination Of
reserve and sentiment, and one of
the best personal stories the war,
so far, has given us. The reserve
shows in many ways, not the least
of these being the transparent ruse
of calling the story fiction. The
sentiment shows too, especially in
the way the authors bitterness al
ways washes away in the sure
knowledge that what he and his
mates have done is truly done in
defense of home and loved ones
and the strange idea of liberty
mat sort of sentiment has been
eliminated from G erman lives.
these days. Hitler quite honestly
is lighting for power and in de-
tense of the dynamic lie" He
says so.
Not so the Jack of Log Book. -
JACK was a kid born near Liver
pool. he was choir boy. his peo-
pie did not want him to 20 to sea.
ne went anyway. He ran away.
Z, IN a short while he turned in
the innocence of youth, and re.
celved IN exchange a kind of cheap
Eynlclsm an9s a tendency toward
aquor' flsticdffs, and sore-head ed-
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RRIT0N ASSAlLS
DELAY IN ITALY
Lord Strabolgi Says Allies
Waited Too Long After
MussoIinii's Fall

LONDON Sept. 10. - u .1 - ID d
strabolgi, Laborlte meil Nv. IL,
Parliament, asserted tonl5a ..r e.
"a curious and unexplained 5 os,S:
of action by the Allies after {. + hs' Al.
lini's fall had lost part o. s,,'
vantages of the Italian ''p'
ton. ,,,arde.
and later an Admiralty va, " y. +.
member in the last war, SPOKE r. +,
dinner honoring Will Roger hi
California congressman VIM
been visiting England mad.
it 'r plain int that we must .I os1' d.
Germans in speed and T , sar5
especially in the political nd la' uner
There was a curious anu a. l VII,
planned delay after July o. ',.., ~9:
Mussolini was ousted as p [ei5rss=
and the Germans were p Eaeoo: b
40 days in which to pour :, ,IS Stro9,
to Italy and the Balkans
gi said. ,,,,ent hi
displayed weakness and in% 1s:o...
and had failed to give
lead to the Italian peoplF +sam III
"Why did we not give . '-,S As #;
lead ourselves? If as soon o, .ossa
h had" been et M made direct to ,3s s..
i;np people to join us as a-l- s5..4
e fifl tn''t the Germans, we 5 nd
have secured control oil ''''
country, ,,bed TO u
Italian coast would nave
ceived with open arms. ,a,nc3
so confused were our +5 Ss' r5a
derful opportunity we and oth'f
planes to bomb Milan d'l diispet;s
northern Italian cities ana S',g G-I ootsr
i and tie terrify our friends s ana lacb co
tai Allies. We created eta, js ls.d
fusion that 100000 ltall4er
down their arms 10 "i'
without a fight.
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By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Observation-Disclosures we do
we'll to make a mental note that
Itay's surrender is mainly a tri-
umph of force and not something
that happened because we had high
ideals or knew a neat diplomatic
trick or two?
So long as it w "a uncertain
whether the Allies would win the
war, for instance along about a
year ago, our high ideals and our
diplomatic tricks did US no good
in Italy. Only when superior force
came into sight did Italy begin
to crack.
If we keep that clearly in mind
and hammer that fact into our un-
derstanding while the event is hot,
we may spare ourselves much con-
fusion and dangerous optimism.
Whatever conta gious effect the ex-
ample of Italy may have on Ger
many and on Japan will gain its
force from the extent to which it
appears in those countries that the
United Nations will be able to
bring crushing force to bear.
Once, as in the days of the
Kellogg peace pact, we tended to
believe that right made its own
might. 1t makes us very pleased
with ourselves to think, as some
are doing now, that Italy's sur
render was triumph of right and
Justice and all of those noble ideals
of democracy and freedom. and
that Satan has. taken beating in
Itay. He took it ony when the
United Nations were able to mus
ter convincing force.
Musslini was not overthrown I'M
ii! after Sicily was invaded and
the Allied victory there was an
imminent certainty. Whatever the
Allies were able to do with psy-
Geological warfare to facilitate his
overthrow gained its effectiveness
because of the background of mill
tary force which was being
brought to bear.
When Badoglio took over he
wanted an armistice but one that
would have kept us out of Italy.
He appealed to his people to carry
on with the war. If we had not
had the force in sight, to go into
Italy, Badoglio probably never
would have got into Mussolini's
shoes in the first place, and he
never would have had to accept
an unconditional surrender instead
of the naturalization of Italy which
he first tried to obtain.
What did the job in Italy was
the force built up under General
Eisenhower, and the successful
landing of it in Sicily, and beyond
that, the destruction in Italy by
the Allied air force.
Badoglio's telegram to Hitler ex-
planning why he surrenders, prob
ably exxaggerates the extent of
Italy's helplessness in order to
make a better alibi, yet it goes
to the heart of the reason why
Italy surrendered. Badoglio's de-
scription of the destruction or &C.
cupation of some of Italy's great
est towns, the paralysis of her in
dustries, the disruption of trans
portation. and finally the impend-
inc invasion of the mainland which
was ready at the time the armi-
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Raymond Clapper Says:
Haly's Surrender Came
As A Result Of Force

stice was actually signed, make it
Understandable why he tells Hitler
he had to ask for an armistice to
save Italy from complete ruin.
On our side there has been some
squeamishness about the place that
force should hold in the United
Nations scheme of things after
the war. Force has a pad name
perhaps because it has been so
often used, and with such ruthless
effectiveness, by our enemies. But
never was force used to finer ends
for civilization than against Hitler
and Fascist Italy. So long as they
were in the ascendant and had the
superior force, no nation, however
inoffensive, was safe from the
most brutal conquest.
Some Republicans at Mackinac
island seemed skittish about rec
ognizing the function Of force. 1t
is only a weapon, like a shovel,
which can be used to bash an in
nocent fellow worker over the head
or to dig the foundations of an
enduring structure.
In the past we have left these
tools largely to the hands of 9TH
ers. 1t is because we are getting
them into our hands now that Italy
has surrendered. Likewise Germa-
ny and Japan will surrender when
they see defeat is imminent-and
they are not likely to quit very
much before that time.
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ployment problem alone. Nor will
the government. There has to be
a combination of capital and gov
eminent to take up the slack that
is certain to occur during low pro-
duction periods. If capital and gov
eminent cannot get together, then
prepare for socialism some pho
phets say.
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LET'S HAVE 1T

Americans have suggested sew
eral ways of getting rid of Hitler.
such as putting incendiary wax on
his mustache or a time bomb in
his mouth. By the time the Rus
slams and Poles announce their
solution to the problem. it ought
to make right interesting reading.
L-Greensboro News.
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GO ON, WE'RE WAITING

A comic, for years vaudeville
fixture and now in radio, says in
his experience the public is unre-
ceptive to brand-new jokes. Name
tWo.-Chicago Daily News.
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Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu.
ton of the war to complete Vic.
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

THOUGHT FUR TUDAY
The chief value of an anniversary is to
call us to greater faithfulness in the time
that is left.
william Manning.
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WIS E:; I: 5;
"

CONCERTS.
Navy Band, Capitol Plaza, 7
o'clock tonight.
o'clock tonight and 1890 pm. to-
morrow.
Music Of the Masters" Jewish
Community Center, $3.50 o'clock to-
night.
RECREATION.
Walsh Club for War Workers, 4
pm, II o'clock tonight. Fox trot
and waltz dance class, $3.50 o'clock
tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater, tonight: Georgia and Jerry
and Army Air Force Dance Band.
Tickets to shows and sports
events, 1.-THE Hut" E street at
Pennsylvania avenue NV, II am to
$50 o'clock tonight.
Pepsi-Cola Center, $50 am. to-
day to 1890 am. tomorrow. First
three floors open to servicewomen.
Masonic Service Center, l pm. to
10 o'clock tonight.
Officers.
Officers Club of the United Ma
lions, Burlington Hotel. 10 am. to
1890 o'clock tonight. Introductory
cards to concerts and entertain
l1ent.
Golf and swimming, Kenwood
Country Club, all day. Guest cards
at Burlington Hotel.
Servicemen.
Glasses and Study Groups.
Swimming. pm; dance instruc-
ton, $50 o'clock tonight; Jewish
Community Center (USO).
Beginners French, Thomson
Center, 7 o'clock tonight.
Games, Central Center, 7:30
o'clock tonight.
Spanish class, discussion group.
Northeast USO, 1912 North Capitol
street, 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Social dancing. games. Roose-
welt Center o'clock tonight
Recreation.
Refreshments, voice recordings,
hostesses, Salvation Army (USO), 6
o'clock tonight.
Supper club, lounges. games,
Northeast USO, Sixth and Mary
land avenue NE, s o'clock tonight.
'Amateur camera and movie
guild, darkroom equipment. Noes
USO), 926 G. street NV, 7:30
o'clock tonight.
Dance, refreshments. hostesses,
bridge, Service Mems Club No. l,
8 o'clock tonight.
Square dancing. YWCA USOO,
$50 CLOCK tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICEMEN.
Swimming. Banneker Service
Club, 10 am. to II o'clock tonight.
'Open house, Leisure Lodge, noon
to midnight tonight.
Recreation, photogra ply lessons.
WMCA (USO), 2 pm. to II o'clock
tonight.
Choral, modern dance and sew
ing groups, YWCA USO), 8 o'clock
tonight.
For further details call USO in
formation booth, Ma 1881.
WAR workers welcome.
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Norths four-spade bid was bad.
not so much because he had already
bid his hand to it's limit as because
he did not realize the import of
South's failure to take any action
! over East's trump bid. When
South finally bid three spades it was
nothing more than an effort to take
a partial score for his side instead
of letting the opponents get it.
West, incidentally, was far too
timid in not raising the no-trump
bid. Unless South opened a club
which would have been a most I'M
natural lead-East could have made
three no-trump.
Against four spades West opened
the ace of diamonds, and South &C
tually had play for the contract
If he had found the opposing spades
% and the doubleton ace of clubs.
The club worry West took off his
mind Immediately by shifting to the
ace of clubs and then leading an
other club; but when dummy's club
queen took this and low spade was
led from dummy, East properly
played his spade deuce and South
now had to lose two spade tricks,
In addition to the two aces he had
already lost.
Saturday you were Oswald ia
coby's partner and, with neither side
vulnerable, you held:
AKJ753
1892
H873
%98
The bidding:
Jacoby. Schenken. You. Lightner.
IA Pass Pass 20
Dbl. Pass 3A Pass
3NT Pass CD
Answer-Pass. You have warned
of your general weakness by pass
ing the first time and shown spade
support by your jump raise later.
You must assume that your part
ner. since he knows the nature of
your hand, has his own good reas-
ons for bidding no-trump. Perhaps
he sees way to win nine tricks,
but not ten.
! Score 100 per cent for pass, 10
per cent for four spades.
Question No. LAS.
Today you are Theodore Light
ner's partner and, with both sides
vulnerable, you hold:
a A K107
06
1AQ106
4 Al 1854
The bidding:
Schenken. You. Jacoby. Lightner
Pass co
What do you bid? (Answer tomor-
row.
released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
Heorino Trouble

nearing ffOuDie
A good bidder is supposed to hear
not only the bids that are made
but also the bids that are not made.
His partners previous failure to
make certain bid or double should
mean something to him.
South dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
A9643
0AK106
%
@Q754
Al AKQ2
0J675 n 0Q43
AJ107 W E tKQ4z
So S +J10o3
&A6
AA10s75
092
1858
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-25
Slate Selected al
State D. A. R. Session

At the i3rd annual Stale Confer,
ence being held at the Hotel Stat
Ter. Detroit the following have
beeh nominated to the Offices OF the
new board Of the Michigan Society
Daughters OF the American Reyolu-
ton: state regent, Miss Laura Cook,
Hillsdale; state first vice regent,
Mrs. Chester F. Miller, Saginaw;
state second vice regent, Miss Har,
riet Simons, Marshall; state chap
lain, Miss Lou +. Nickerson. Alma !:
state recording secretary. Mrs. Wal.
ter c. Pomeroy. Detroit; state cor
responding secretary. Mrs. Carl
Nicholas Mapes, Grand Rapids !;
state treasurer, Mrs. John A. Cook,
Lansing; state registrar. Mrs. John
j. Kinney, st. Joseph; state histor'
ian, Miss Ida Mae Burt. Jackson :;
state librarian. Mrs. Warren J.
Anthony. Dowagiac: state directors,
Mrs. Herbert Henry Dow. Midland !;
and Mrs. Charles Loring Hall, De-
troit.
The Ypsilanu Chapter members
who will return here Friday are
Mesdames Richard Smith, Ellio;
Tubbs, Edward Cuthbert. Richard
Eckert and Simon Fagerstrom. and
others returning, who have attend.
ed most OF the sessions are Mes
danes ]. E. Thompson. Richard
Weir, E. G. Wiedman. P. B. skinner,
II. c. Colburn. II. z. WILDER, James
Warner, and John Gault.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-25

war can be expected unless police
are ready. Some OF our soldiers are
already being trained for this work
at Fort Custer and Charlottesville,
Virginia. 1t was stated.
The reconstructiC and relief
problems will be tremendous In all
the occupied countries as well as
Germany. DR.. Krause stated that
the very severity with which the
Nazi theories were taught tended
to create resistance rather than
agreement in many Of the young
people. Therefore the reeducation
OF German youth may not prove TO
be as difficult as II appears. Prob
ably a small fraction OF them are
enthusiastic Nails. the rest merely
acquiescent.
The most hopeful sign so far for
an enduring peace was that most
of the leaders agreed that a long
cooling-off period was advisable.
rather than trying to settle every
thing all at once over a peace table.
Dr. krause was introduced by
Mrs. Olin {. Eckley.
The business meeting was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Harry l.. Smith,
president. at a table gay with a
bouquet Of anemones and ranuncu.
ladies' in varied colors. presented by
Mrs. Stanley Norton. The clue
again voted the club fee TO the
Adult Education Institute In Ann
Arbor on May IS through 20. The
next meeting will be addressed by
Mrs. Myrtle Labbitt, Detroit, Mrs
Harry l.. Smith, Mrs. II. z, WILDER
Mrs. NJ. X. Thomson, Miss Edith
Adams, Mrs. Paul Samson. and Mrs.
c. VI. Elliott went to the conven.
ton o. the State Federation OF
Women's Clubs at Jackson on Mai
Il. Mrs. smith gave a well-prepared
report TO the club.