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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
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CHAPTER ONE

KAY STEVENS walked across
the crowded floor OF the huge store,
noted with satisfaction that all Of
her departments were busy. She
stepped into the elevator reserved
for executives James, the nice. look
ing colored operator. said, Good
afternoon" and whisked her up to
the ninth floor James thought Miss
Stevens was the grandest person in
the store. She was reserved, but
always kind and friendly.
Miss Hand, David Banning's
pretty, cordial secretary, was just
leaving his office. Mr.. Banning Is
waiting for YOU. Miss Stevens she
told Kay with a smile.
AS Kay entered the large, pine
panelled room she congratulated
herself. The room did strike Just
the right note. Masculine. business
like, but obviously the room Of a
cultured man with excellent taste.
Interior decoration wasn't part Of
her Job at all; she had stylists for
that. But when Mr.. Banning, Sr.,
died, and his son David had become
president, he had come begging TO
Kay
You know the sort OF thing |
like. Fix il up, please. 4 large desk,
decent lights, room for some books,
a clock that keeps correct time. Big
ashtrsys for my pipes. And no
quaint animals or fussy chintzes."
The room had an air OF quiet sta
bility that aided the 35-year-old
presidents relations with both the
anxious young buyers and the staid
old ones. McClures was one OF the
largest department stores in New
York, and a store that kept its
prestige and its customers by al
ways being several jumps ahead Of
any other store II was a hard
place to work for, but a fair one
David motioned to the empty
chair beside his desk. Dick Randall,
the assistant advertising manager,
was comfortably settled on the
sofa. Dick was smailish and quick
with gay bright blue eyes and a
merry Isugh. David was tall and
broad shouldered, his crinkly brown
hair streaked with gray. his habi-
tually sober face attractive because
Of beautiful large brown eyes and
an occasional warm smile. Kay got
more than her share Of those
smiles.
Dick wants to start planning
the advertising for the June sales.
Are you ready for him, Kay?"
David asked quietly. His voice was
always controlled and quiet, even
when you knew from his blazing
eyes that he was in a rage.
Just about. I've had conferences
with each Of the buyers; all the
merchandise is lined up and on or
der, and most Of the samples
are in"
Even the stationary" Dick
asked, with an impish grin.
Kay took a cigsret from a hand
fooled leather box. And carefully
counted ten. Laura Hing, the sta
tionery buyer, thought she should
have been vice president, not Kay.
SO she did her best to upset and
thwart Kay at every turn.
Don't tell me that female is still
up to her tricks David said. IF
her samples aren't in, I'm going to
fire her. She's been spelling for it
for months"
"Oh, they're in, David" lied Kay.
Laura was a mean enemy, but she
supported her mother and needed
her job.
Dick winked slyly at Kay. A
wink Kay was glad David hadn't
seen. David didn't hold with senti-
mentality in business. And he ex-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

c. Davis: Il hope we'll have unity
in all the elements in food pro-
duction. distribution and manpower.
It's going 10 take close and friend
ly cooperation all along the line
to do what the country is capable
OF doing"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

LONDON-UP-The Vichy radio
has disclosed that Hungary is so
desperate for soldiers to replace
those lost In Russia that IT has de-
cided 10 call up Jews for military
sPrYire
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

Ypsilanti, and Thomas Eekert' De-
roit. And with the acquisition by
the government Of one ship, the
80" has been taking quite a beat
ing. Eleven hours we're flown on
the ship Sunday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
Wings

!
Mr.. and Mrs. Darrell Root, who
have operated the Ypsilanti Air
port for the past three years. are
undecided about their future plans
following the acquisition by the
government OF five OF their six
planes.
Four OF the ships were taken
over last week and another one
left Monday. Three OF the planes
were taken to Toledo Municipal
Airport and two TO Chagrin Falls,
o. The "65" was taken from Mem
nan Airport and was also sent to To-
ledo In addition, ships have been
taken from Ann Arbor Airport,
| bringing a question OF the future
status OF all three local fields. A
reported Is planes were on the lists
OF government agents who are
purchasing the ships for use in
War Training Service programs.
Everett Esch and Richard Cot
trell, who have been instructing at
Ypsilanti Airport, are now employ
ed as flight engineers at the Bomb
err Plant and Dale Mollenkopf, also
former instructor, is getting his
instrument rating in Minnesota.
Lloyd Brown, another instructor,
is at his home in Hudson for the
present
Miss Muriel Rumsey has moved
her plane from Ypsilanti Airport TO
McEnnan Airport, and other ships
have been moved to Jackson. The
Fairchild OF DR., and Mrs. Harry
Britton, which is equipped for
instrument flying and with excel
lent radio equipment, is also TO go
for Army use. This will leave
only two ships at the airport, one
OF the Roots and one belonging to
lyle Graham. who is now believed
TO be in California.
Aviation Cadet Keith Crimson will
receive his silver wings and com
mission as lieutenant in the Army
Air Corps at graduation exercises
Monday morning, April -, at the
post theater OF the La Junta Army
Flying School of La Junta, Colora-
do. His parents will go west for
the ceremony and his mother will
pin on the coveted Wings
Crimson has been honored by be-
ing named squadron commander
lie has seen real action in the con-
Guiding phases OF his training,
writing that last week nine OF the
Cadets were caught in snow
) storm rs,ei Denver. a. txayso fly
on instrument for quite a while be
fore | landed at Buckley Field. Our
/ ATS we're coming down all around
Denver that night.
I'VE were flying night formation
| in At LIS Friday night and two
planes hit. Killed three. My room
mate bailed out and rode the silk
| down. He was really lucky as his
chute opened about 40 feet from
the ground" writes Cadet Crimson,
who was formerly an active mem
Der OF the Ypsilanti squadron OF
the Civil Air Patrol.
Another former member OF the
| Patrol, Virginia Acher, has report
ed for preliminary training in the
Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Ser
vice in Sweetwater, Tex. Miss
Archer was formerly a student at
Ypsilanti Airport and while here
was employed at the girls dormi-
tory at the Normal She left
nurses training in Ohio to enter
| the WAFS.
Harley Langan, test pilot at the
/ Bomber Plant, has brought his
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

China: "The Chinese still are re
sisting and | have every confidence
that they will continue TO resist.
We must not expect too much from
them. They are giving all they
can
st. Louis-Food production and
Distribution Administrators Chester
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

his commercial flight test. while
Don Gridley, executive omcer OF
the CAP squadron, has an appoint
ment Thursday at Krist Port TO
take his instructors rating test
Carl Jorgeson, instructor at the
Bomber Plant. is continuing with
an interesting course in navigation
at the Tuesday night meetings Of
the CAP. Thursday night IS for
drill practice at the local Armory.
New students at the McEnnan
Airport include Oracle Cahours.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
Half-Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
mufs and stockings prophessd for
Easter have swept the and
the weather promise is recorded
Death: Mr. Mary Besoe IS oil W. Beso. at Belle
Vile
William Fusch employe Peninsuisr Paper Co.
Married Idle Methodist PARSONAGE
Reed University student former psrshioner OF DR. Idle
owosso, and Miss Mildred Rohey Ann Arbor.
Fifty Years Ago
Death William Wsllsc. u resident OF Ptsfeld
1850
Miss Lille Shpmsn graduate the Clesry Business COLLEGE
has taken senographers position with firm in Jackson
Piano pupils OF Ayona by violin pupils
~ Frank e. Smith interesting recital Miss Laura
Cuicksbsnk adding vocal the
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
Rural Events
TODAY
Stony Creek

TODAY
Stony Greek
W s. {. s. Auxiliary TO meet At
home OF Mrs. Doris Day In eve
ming.
THURSDAY. APR.
Sheldon
Woman's Society OF Christian
serviee meeting. cooperative lunch.
con 1850 At church.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
LENTEN REDUCINGDIET
BY Or. CIendsninq
TkSTsSsy-S35 esIsriss

BY Or. (lendenin0
ThVrsdsy-S35 eaIsriss
BREAKFAST
universal Vitamin pill; y cup
orange juice-100 calories; l rusk
tno butter) 100 calories l cup
coffee (no cream or sugar..
LUNCH
Carrot. cabbage and raisin sal
ad mineral oil dressing 30 cal
cries; 2 soda crackers-50 Gallo
riss; l glass skinned milk-l00
Galleries.
DINNER
l egg baked in a tomato-100
ealories; l slice toast mo butter)
100 calories; n canned apricot
SIS calorieS.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

Dr. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

showed that it was 10 per cent
carbon dioxide, l per cent oxygen,
30 per cent marsh gas and SO per
cent nitrogen. This is not quite
the composition Of the air, but eX-
eept for the low content Of oIy-
gen and the high content Of marsh
gas, it is fairly close.
Experiments on Athletes
Experiments on young, healthy
athletes show that they excrete
about a pint Of gas a day. This
indicates that at least there is
nothing essentially dangerous or
abnormal about the presence of
gas. 1t is only when it gets exces-
sive that it causes agitation.
Probably most gas that is eruc-
tated has been swallowed instead
of resulting from the fermenta-
tion Of food. Many nervous peo-
pie are chronic air-swallowers.
The most frequently found or
gsnic disease Of the digestive APP
paratus which is associated with
the passage Of gas is gallstones.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
Your Health
Dyspepsia Not
Same Ailment as
Stomach Ache

DYSPEPSIA is an old-fssh-
toned word which doctors rather
shy away from using any more.
Laymen use it a good deal and it
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31

seems to me it mas a meaning. |
think we can separate stomach
ache from Indigestion.
Evening star., 1943-09-22
Homecroft
From the London Time.

from the LONDON 1lmeS,
In a recent letter a correspondent
asked that school year should be de-
voted to training girls for the vocation
Of wives and homemakers Another fol-
lowed with q suggestion that homecraft
cannot be taught satisfyingly to children
who end their school life at IA years of
age, and that the raising of the school
leaving age will stiH have a need for
continue ton teaching. She pointed out,
too, what a moments thought confirms,
that the clever girl in the secondary
school has no time for extra scholastic
work She would therefore postulate
training for girls in homecraft-and per-
haps there was hint of compulsory
training corresponding to an OBJ
legation of training which might be
military training, or engagement in some
form of social service, for boys passing
out OF their teens. The object would be
to give girls the means as well as the
will to become good homemakers. The
girl trained in homecraft and the boy
trained in handicraft will be the better
able to contribute to their future homes
q self-reliance and independence which
the experiences of wartime have shown
70 b blessing beyond price.
Evening star., 1943-09-22
Foundation Builders
Said to Be stopping" "

70 the Editor of The Star:
Unless the Atlantic Charter has more
to rest upon in American life than Is
apparent today, it will come in time to
occupy such place in history as Borah's
"outlaWry of war" does.
Borahs "outlawry of war" was a beau
tiful theory. but, because it rested upon
the sandy foundation of isolation, 1T
fell and great was the fall thereof
So far as anybody is able to see, the
Atlantic Charter rests upon the same
sandy oundation-isolation.
The United States Senate is the only
stone masons union in this country that
is allowed to build lasting foundation
for the Atlantic Charter, and the Senate
is not working on the job of providing
a rock foundation for Just and durable
peace to rest upon. Who Is responsible
for this strike, for the stoppage of work
on this most important wartime Job,
which must be finished and ready for
world peace to rest upon by the time
the military victory is won7
WILLIAM H. HARGROvE
Evening star., 1943-09-22

any form Of government becomes de-
structive of these ends it is the right
of the people to alter or abolish it and
to institute a new form of government .
On such principles the Constitution
was written and adopted: in the last 10
years these principles have been in such
jeopardy that in the minds Of many who
observe the trends there is question
as to whether the spirit of the Constitu-
ton is still in effect.
Certainly, in the last 10 years the
bureaucratic form of government has
done little to bring about the detectives
referred to in the declara ton, but has
become so powerful that it can and has
questioned the rights OF representative
government as provided for in the Con-
stitution, in words so clear that, quibbling
New Deal lawyers to the contrary, any
one who understands the English Ian
guage may clearly interpret the intent
The men who wrote that document
used words to clarity ideas and intents,
not to conceal and confuse them
never before, In the history OF the
Nation, was there time when it was
SO necessary to understand and defend
what the founders wrought We must
not be beguiled into crusadng for the
four freedoms abroad whilst our own
rights and freedom are being sapped at
home. The sorry plight of Europe today
is the result of despotism perpetuating
itself by constantly turning the minds
of the people from misrule at home TO
the danger of foreign foes.
In times of economic stress or war,
the people too readily permit the usurpa-
ton of their civil rights, fact well
known to those whose ultimate aim is
domination and the perpetuation of
power.
Hence, between now and November.
1914, the American people must solemnly
consider how much of their constitu-
tional rights they have lost under the
New Deal and ascertain if the sophistry
on which it is based has brought us any
collective benefit. CTS.
Evening star., 1943-09-22
Jobs and the Schools

In the past two years an ever
present problem in Washington
schools has been the accommodation
of an overflow of pupils that in some
sections of the city taxed available
facilities Today, with the city's
population at a new peak, the prob
lem becomes one of persuading boys
and girls in the senior grades to
continue their education, in spite OF
the Job opportunities caused by labor
shortages.
The proportions that this problem
might assume were anticipated to-
ward the end of the last term. This
summer there were hundreds of ap-
plications for job permits. Official
figures on school attendance for the
opening day will show the effect for
the coming year. But whatever it
is, the War Manpower Commission
and the school authorities are pre-
pared to meet it by system of
counseling boys and girls on some
of the relative benefits they may eX-
pect from completing preparatory
school and leaving school to accept
Jobs
The arrangement of part-time
courses, to accommodate children
who have jobs, and the reverse,
which lies in provision Of part-time
iohs tn hermit school attendance
will receive continued study under
program approved last spring by the
Board Of Education. This effort is
distinctly worth while. 1t will be
Evening star., 1943-09-22
For Defunct Dictotors

People sometimes find pleasant
advertisement in choosing the book,
or books, they would take with them
if cast away on some desert isle The
choice varies, of course, with the
taste of the potential castaway and
is never settled to any but his own
satisfaction. But now, thanks to
Herr Hitler, we at least know the
book that he would choose to comfort
the lonely exile of defunct dictator
No, not "Mein Kampf" Mussolini
gratefully acknowledged the receipt
from Hitler, after the recent un-
pleasantness in Italy, of "a wonderful
edition of Nietsche's work"
There is an interesting touch OF
irony in this gift from one who
doubtless sees in Mussolini's fall the
shadow of his own future. 1t is as
If he were comforting himself and his
crony with rather desperate ad-
monition-"Here, read this. We were
right all along. See what it Says"
The only good is the will for power.
Strength and pride. ruthlessness and
Evening star., 1943-09-22
THIS AND THAT
By Charles r. Trdce.cell.

would have time to gawk at what the
fellow next door is reading.
Reading over the shoulder is not al
ways over the shoulder. exactly.
More often it is casting the eyes down
at an angle.
This brings the printed page readily
into view. And an amazing amount of
material comes to view
1t is no uncommon thing to discover
Government secret reports being read
Before one knows 1t, he is reading
something not designed for his eyes.
Just why Government people insist on
spreading their Office work all over pub
lie vehicles, for any one to read, we do
not know
Only the other day we found ourself
helping a man read long and conf
Dental report.
AS soon as we realized what 1t was,
we turned our gaze elsewhere-but sup
pose enemy spies were around?
Often persons with such documents
think they are being very careful by
holding the printed sheets at an angle,
They fail to realize, evidently, that
many persons possess the power to read
even upside down.
Certainly no person in public en-
ployment should carry confidential docu-
ments open in public places
They, of all persons, should not read
en- route.
There is something discomforting
about having stranger reading what
you are reading.
This probably accounts for the decline
in book reading in public places. The
increased crowding does It,
Another thing we believe. is that too
many persons fail to realize what a
precious thing reading Is
So they do not read all they can.
They should read that excellent short
story, The Man Who Liked Dickens"
about an illiterate man in the jungle
whose father had read to him from the
masters works.
1t was not until literate man came
TO the jungle that he was able to hear
those wonderful stories again.
How he managed to keep his reader,
and get himself a succession of readers,
Is the gist of the story.
1t is necessary, then, to have great
desire to read, in order to be a great
leader.
If people do not read as much in
public as once they did, it may mean
that the times are such that reading is
becoming sort of holy exercise, which
one would no more do before other peo-
pie than wash ones face. Still, book
is companionable thing. 1t is good to
carry one, even If it is not read.
Let there be more book carriers, If not
readers. In time, such is the power of
book the person who carries one will
begin to read it. Then our correspond
ent will be satisfied again.
Evening star., 1943-09-22
Ruindrop

Here IN this drop OF lOater
Is Written the story OF any man.
Come like this drop from some
strange alchemy
OF cloud and sun and air,
He can diSdain but not outgro,U
His seU-resoluing chemistry.
Here on the leaf OF the 1Dorld
He forms for an instant
HIS trembling, liquid stain.
Shape OF tear, shape of Uater's
core
He is outdone by the gray clouds
that pass
Ouer the sun, presaoin0 storms
That 1oiH NTH eUentng come.
In that neaU shado,U, his small re-
Election
Viii be lost like the glitter OF glass,
Or II he CLEAN again, the rising sun
Will dissolue him as frost is dissolped
That stays beyond It's season.
SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN.
Evening star., 1943-09-22
Heudwork

In the past, and possibly right now,
famous catch question used to be
proposed by an examiner to classes
of engineering student officers just
before graduation. You have an
eighty-foot fiagpole lying on the
ground" he would announce, and a
hole already dug, six feet deep and
two across. How do you get the pole
into it?" Those not in on the secret
scratch their heads, draw diagrams,
and even 60 so far as to invoke the
aid Of trigonometry all to no avail.
Then the examiner explains. They
are officers, and all they need do is
to glance calmly about for the near
est sergeant, beckon him over and
crisply order" Sergeant, get that
f1agpole up!"
There may be something slightly
fiShy about the moral, and it is
doubtful if Aesop would have cared
to include it in his fables, but let
that pass. OF more practical inter
cSJ Is lllG QucSllO1-WlIl GlldJ
really work, under the stress of war?
1t is interesting to be able to report
that it does, in Africa. An American
construction worker there, faced with
the task of moving 350-pound air
plane engine four miles, with no
conveyance at hand, decided to try
the method After all, if 1t failed,
he had nothing to lose. Button
holing the nearest stalWart native,
an easy job inasmuch as his costume
was mostly one large buttonhole, he
commanded Move that enginep
The result is history Noncha-
lantly the native hoisted the $50
pounds, balanced it neatly on his
head and carried it four miles, thus
demonstrating that two heads are
better than one if they are so con-
stituted that one is strong inside
and the other strong outside.
Evening star., 1943-09-22

love of battle are the virtues OF the
true man, the superman. Pity,
humility, altruism, decency-these
are the symptoms of weakness and
degeneracy, foisted upon Aryan con-
querors by Jewish plot at the begin
ming of the Christian era. Present
events form but part of an infinite
cycle and the final test of the real
"aristocrat' is his willingness to
accept the repetition, no matter how
hard it might be. Tragic optimism"
finds life worth while, not in spite Of
but because of it's pain.
A cheerful little volume, shortening
the hours in his contemplation of the
thought that all the world was out
of step but Nietsche, Der Fuehrer
and me-