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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10
Willow Run Ev. Lutheran Church

A-hlS0'Ali - LhAI
Arthur F. Boyer Pastor.
1920 a. m Morning service
with sermon This will he a spe-
cial Lenten service Sermon topic.
THE Savior's Promise 10 the Dying
MalefaCtor' Services are con
Quoted at the Personality Studio
corner y. Adams and Pearl SITS. or
one block north Of the Post Of
nee
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10
LENTEH REDUCING DIET
BY Or. Clendenine
Sunday ond MoHdoY-s75 eoIories
BREAKFAST

-~HGAy NHd fFfONSSI
BREAKFAST
universal vitamin pill; q cup
tomato juice-100 calorics; / rusk
(ro butter) leo calorics; l cup
coffee tno cream or sugar.
LUNCH
toasted tomato sandwich
go caiories; l glass skinned
mi!k-I00 calories.
DINNER
Average helping praised OK
joIuts-20O calories; Z head let
tu-e (mineral oil dressing) -25
calories: l orange sliced (no
sugar. 100 calories.
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million. Adding fuorine TO the
feed Of cattle did not appreciably
increase the amount Of fluorine in
the milk. so there seems to be no
danger Of obtaining milk which
has too nigh a tluorine content. A
recent investigator states: Den
tai carries in city school children
varies invcrsely with the huorine
content Of cows milk"
We spoke yesterday Of the role
OF uncleanliness and decaying par
ticles of food in dental carries.
The strength Of the teeth to re-
sist is undoubtedly another factor
in its occurrence or lack of occur
renee, and part of this strength
seems TO be due to the amount Of
fiuorine and vitamin d in the diet
of children.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10

healing. then sin. disease, and death
will disappear
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10

Under Pre- -ident Roosevelt or any
of r. y. x s successors.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10
Returns Home

Returns Home
Mrs. Retta Chambcrlin who has
been spending the winter with
her sons, Clarence and Charles
Chamberlin. Detroit, returned to
her home here for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alden Day and
family visited Mr.. and Mrs. Eaton
Roberts, Ypsilanti, Sunday after
noon.
Gilbert Day. Roscdale Gardens,
Plymouth. was Sunday after
noon visitor Of his mother, Mrs.
Lena Day and daughter. Maud.
They all visited Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Day.
Mrs. Leonard Nudge and Mrs.
John Bokon spent Friday in Dear
born.
Albert Day. near Wayne, was r
Saturday visitor of Mr.. and Mrs.
AFRO Day.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10

DR.. Clendeniug will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10
NESloSAuRS
AND FlSN-llzARDS
WERE 1ERRORS
OF ME SEAS
40, 900, 900
YEARS AGO
One-MinIIte Test

l Where is Denmark strait
situated?
2. Where Is Hudson strait
3 Where Is Cape Farewell ?
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-10
Your Health
BY logan cIendenlrs, NJ o. .

SOME TIME ago 70 was found
that the teeth Of p,rso9s living
in certain districts iu the Rocky
Mountain area had a peculiar mot
Ting of the enamel with the ex-
posture OF chalky patches and dis
Askov American., 1943-12-23
UNHOLY ALLIANCE - WHY
SOLDIERS CAN'T VOTE
MINNEAPOLIS Spokesman)

To its great disgrace, the upper
house of Congress, the United States
Senate, voted last week against the
plan which would allow the thou
sands of loyal American men and
women who are risking their lives
on foreign soil to vote in the Novem-
ber elections. This crime against the
rights of the men in the fox-holes
under enemy fire, was perpetrated
by an ''unholy alliance" between poll
tax Southern Democrats and 18
Northern Republicans.
This newspaper has no respect for
the motives of the Southern Demo-
cratic senators, who ran true to form,
neither has it any for the Northern
Republicans who played cheap ward
heeling politics in aligning them
selves with that group of Southern
senators who are in office without
benefit of majority participation in
their election. The poll takers with
their usual cry of Estates rights"
were naturally expected to halt any
plan to allow Negroes and poor white
soldiers the right to cast ballot
under Federal supervision. We did
not expect Northerners of either
party to cooperate with the recalci-
trant poll takers.
If the law had passed, many thous-
ands of Southerners both black and
white would have had their first op-
portunity to vote - right for which
many of them are being manned or
dying. Behind the usual cry of
estates rights" of the poll takers
(our native fascists) is the fear that
sooner or later every man who is
a citizen in any state in the union
who can mark ballot, is going to
be allowed to vote. Naturally, our
home grown Hitlerites who mouth
"white supremacy" and the other
catch words of the totalitarian move
ments realize that when this hap
pens they will no longer be able
to be elected to our halls of Con-
gress where their manipulations and
acts are disgrace to the republican
form of government and a discredit
to the democratic processes
Northern and border states people
should vigorously protest to the 18
Republicans who so violently struck
blow at the overseas armed forces
by cooperating in this most despica-
BILE plot to disfranchise the soldiers
and sailors overseas. They are the
ones who deserve the bulk of our
censure for they put partisan polit-
icar considerations above the rights
of every man and woman in our
armed forces.
Askov American., 1943-12-23
Ration Calendar

SUGAR-Sugar stamp No. % in
war ration book No. 4 good for
five pounds, valid through jan
uary Is.
MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE, OILS
Brown stamps 'L", "N'' and "P',
and 90" valid through January
CANNED GOODS-Green stamps
"A", "B" and &C" in war ration
book No. 4 valid through Decem-
ber 20. Green stamps 'D", "E"
and "F" valid through January
20.
GASOLINE" coupons good for
three gallons valid through jan
uary 81. "B" and "C", and "B1"
and "C1" coupons with words
mileage ration" printed on the
face value at rate of two gallons
each. AS of December 1, new type
"B2" and "C2" coupons valid for
five gallons each. Motorists must
place license number and state
on coupons.
TIRE INSPECTION-"A" drivers
must have next tire inspection by
midnight, March 81. ''B" drivers
must have next tire inspection by
midnight February %, "C'' drivers
must have next tire inspection by
midnight February 28..
Askov American., 1943-12-23

brated the winter solstice in their
Yuletide festivities.
BY the Fifth Century, the Catholic
Church in the West had made the
celebration Of Christmas on Decem-
ber 25 compulsory.
Whence came the practice of uni
versal benevolence and the giving of
presents on Christmas Day? This was
derived, in the main, from the old
Roman festival, the Saturnalia. The
latter originated as a harvest fes-
tival and later came to be a SYM
bolic celebration of the legendary
freedom, equality, happiness, and
benevolence of the reign of Saturn
over Italy.
BY the early Christian era, the
Saturnalia had become a seven-day
festival, lasting from December II
to December %. For its duration, all
business and legal activities were
suspended. Good will, generosity,
and gift giving were prominent
element in this pagan fete.
A special Christian justification
for giving presents was found in the
legend of the Wise Men coming to
Bethlehem bearing gifts on the first
"Christmas."
The Christmas tree is Teutonic
contribution. It is part of the
Christmas festivities only in Teuton-
ic countries or in those which have
been penetrated by Teutonic influ-
ences. In France, for example, the
Christmas tree was not extensively
introduced until the winter of 1870
1871, when the Prussian soldiers VIM
tered in France. When Mussolini was
trying to denationalize the Germanic
peasants of the former Tyrol, he for
bade their use of Christmas trees.
Santa Claus is populariZation
of the legendary St. Nicholas, who is
supposed to have lived in the Fourth
Century. He was thought to exercise
various functions, such as guide and
protector. His rites were celebrated
on December 8.
With the rise of the Christian
Christmas, the celebration of st.
Nicholas Day was merged with the
Christmas festivities in Germanic
countries. st. Nicholas then became
the gift bearer. He was represented
as distributing gifts to children after
a benign inquisition of them as he
visited them.
In most of Europe, st. Nicholas
was reputed to travel on gray
horse or a white ass. When he came
to the United States as Santa Claus
his legendary steeds became REIN
deer - possibly from Morse leg
end. Further, his ancient religious
associations were all but forgotten.
In this manner, the folklore and
customs of the ages have contributed
to create the most striking and COL
orful Christian festival of the year.
Askov American., 1943-12-23
ORDERLY MARKETING
Editor Askov American:

Editor ASkov American:
The governors idea to pay for
heavyweight hogs the same price as
for middleweight seems to me more
price coasting than to help get
congestion out of the hog market.
When feed becomes scarce and the
prices go up, hog raisers outside of
the grain-belts are compelled to sell
their hogs to protect themselves
against losses.
Heavy feeding of grain to the too
many hogs, and light feeding to the
too few cows will further decline
feed, dairy and meat products. East
ern dairy cows are in bad need of
grain to keep milk products up.
Therefore the heavy flow of hogs to
market is a welcome movement, a
pleasure to look at, from producer
and consumers standpoint, and
should not be interferred with.
Of course producer and consumer
should be protected against losses.
Therefore we need little different
system of marketing, new deal".
Fluctuation in the flow of products
to market has always been profitable
to "old deal' packers but works for
the farmers like playing slot ma
chine - the party who owns and
controls the machine always wins.
To come back to my argument
about the present situation is that
the farmer doesn't know the amount
of hogs packers can handle. The
packer does not know how many
hogs the farmer has ready to ship.
The trucker does not know when
he can be unloaded when he arrives
on the hog market.
A governor or regulator would be
very welcome in this chaos to pre-
vent congestions and losses of these
valuable products. Something better
than price boosting or embargoes is
needed.
JOHN NIEBOER.
Sandstone.
Askov American., 1943-12-23
FULL GENERALS IN u. S. SINCE
1899 NUMBER IA
(St. Cloud Sentinel)

(SC. OlOuO O6IltlIlel)
There have been fourteen officers
in the United States Army who have
received the rank of full general.
They are George Washington, Ulys-
ses S. Grant, William T. Sherman,
Philip H. Sheridan, John J. Pershing
Tasker H. Bliss, Peyton c. March,
John L. Hines, Charles P. Summer
all, Malin S. Craig, George c. Marsh
all, Douglas Macarthur, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, and Henry H. Arnold.
The rank of full general was created
by act of Cong gress in 1899 to honor
Washington, who then had but nine
months to live, and his military sue
cesses were sixteen years past.
There are today five full generals
in active service and four retired.
Generals Eisenhower and Arnold
Askov American., 1943-12-23
(TOO Late for Last Week)

Following the Churchill
Stalin-Chiang Kai-shek-Inonu con-
ferences in Cairo, Teheran, and,
again, in Cairo, Stain returned to
Moscow, Chang Kai-shek to Chung
king, Inonu to Ankara while Roose-
welt and Churchill fingered on in
North Africa to look over battlefields
and carry on talks with high Amer
lean and British army officers.
Out of all the conferences and
observations new and decisive
military events are expected to
develop, but, naturally, nothing
can be said about them. The only
fact openly announced is that
the war will be continued with
increasing strength until Ger
many and Japan are completely
beaten.
While the world was still filled
with rumors about the conferences
that is, before they were held - it
was a widely held opinion that they
had peace as one of their objectives.
1t was rather plainly said that Ger
many had put out peace feelers; that
the pope was paving the way for
peace; that the United Nations might
send Germany an ultimatum, de-
manding immediate and uncondi-
tional surrender - and so on.
But at the conferences themselves
it was clearly shown that the war
leaders found no shortcut to peace;
not one single official word was said
about the probable or improbable
nearness of peace 1t was all war.
New Front?
The second Cairo conference.-the
one between Roosevelt, Churchill and
Turkish President Inonu - suggest
ed anew the old possibility that a
new front may be opened on the
Balkan peninsula. While it is not at
the moment of writing certain that
Turkey will actually go to war, it
is exceedingly possible that her neu-
trality will become strongly favor
able to the United Nations and that,
at about the same time, Bulgaria,
Rumania, and Hungary may with
draw from the war in which they
Askov American., 1943-12-23
WHY CHRISTMAS?
(By Harry Elmer Barnes in
The Progressive)

Why do we celebrate Christmas?
Why do we celebrate it on Decem-
Der 25? What contributions have the
ages and the nations made to this
great international Christian festival
of peace, good will, and benevolence?
In answering these questions, as in
other phases of our everyday life, his
tory can provide most interesting
and cogent information.
Christmas was not celebrated at
all in the early years of the Christian
era. It was then the general custom
to commemorate the death rather
than the birth of eminent religious
leaders and martyrs. Their death
was regarded as marking the date of
their birth into the kingdom of God
and the life everlasting.
The great Christian festive rite of
Christmas was established some time
in the late Third or early Fourth
Century as strategic move in the
struggle of Christianity with its Per-
sian rivals, Mithraism and Manichae-
ism. Persian competition with Chris
tianity accounts not only for the
origin of Christmas but also for the
day selected.
There was no certainty at the
time - nor is there now as to
the exact day of Christ's birth. In
deed, one cannot even date the year
of his birth with any exactitude.
But there was a very good prac-
tical reason for selecting the 25th of
December as the hypothetical date
of the Nativity. This was the date Of
the chief holy day of Mithraism, the
leading Persian rival of Christian
ity a rival which at one time
seemed likely to crowd out Chris
tianity in the Roman Empire. There
was still a life and death struggle be-
tween them when Christmas came
into being.
The Mithraites worshipped light,
which they believed to be the symbol
of life and goodness. The sun was
the source of light, and hence the
most holy thing in the universe from
the Mithraic point of view 1t was
only natural, then, that the winter
solstice should be the great day of
celebration in the rites of Mithra-
ism. This was the date on which the
sacred Sun symbolically began to re-
gain its strength and warmth as the
days became longer. The Sun there
by increased its dominion over dark
ness.
There were no precise astronomical
observations at that time, so Decem-
ber 25 was as close as the Mithra-
ties could come to the winter sol.
stice, which actually occurs on De-
cember %.
The selection of December rs was
a stroke of genius for Christianity in
its struggle with Mithraism. It pro-
vided the Christians with a great
rite to match the Mithraic feast Fur
ther, it made it easier for convert
to pass over from Mithraism to
Christianity. The Mithraite convert
ed to Christianity found something
comparable to his main religious hol-
iday right at hand.
This date, December 25, was also
very satisfactory to the Germanic
converts to Christianity, for the pre-
Christian German pagans had cele-
Askov American., 1943-12-23

were promoted in February and
March, 1943, respectively, and Gen.
eral Macarthur was raised to the
high rank in 1880 when he became
Chief of Staff. General Marshall
has been Chief of Staff since 1939
and General Craig, former Chief
of Staff, is now chairman of the
War Department Personnel Board.
Generals Pershing, Summerall, Hines
and March are retired
Askov American., 1943-12-23
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
fContinued from Page ~

er or later will fight Fundamentally
on the side of the United Nations.
AS a matter of fact, Yugoslavia al
ready is carrying on very bitter
war against her Nazi oppressors, but
it is marred by rivalry between the
two generals, Mihailovic and Tito;
they both fight for the liberation of
their country, but their methods and
their ambitions do not agree.
Bombs.
To any general invasion, lombard
ments of enemy industrial centers
must nowadays be necessary pre-
lude.
For that reason British bomb
erS have once more attacked
Berlin, the German capital, with
such violence and such tremen-
dOus effect that nearly all i'm
portant buildings in the city are
said to have been destroyed.
Insofar as it is possible, from a
War-technical viewpoint, to speak
about ideal bombing, it must mean
an uninterrupted series of attacks
bombings without ever a let-up. This
method has not yet been applied,
but it may be one of those surprises
said to be held in reserve for final
purposes. AS it is now, and has been
for some time there are days, even
months, between bombings of cities
and plants, with the result that Hitler
gets time to- repair and to rebuild.
Many observers feel that it is mis-
take to give him that chance and
that, instead, his factories, arsenalS,
airports, and submarine nests should
be bombed without any interruption.
Disaster at Bari.
Both sides in a war as gigantic as
the present are bound to make mis-
takes. A fresh one was made early
this month announced only a few
days ago - when British control of
the air at the Italian port of Bari
apparently was relaxed for while;
the Nazis took advantage of that and
torpedoed seventeen merchant ships
lying anchored in the harbor, caus-
ing about one thousand casualties
In some comments it has been point
ed out that the disaster at Bari was
quite similar to that at Pearl Harbor
on December z, 1941.
In the rest of Italy the American
and British war against the Germans
is making slow headway. The Amer
ican Fifth Army is still consider
able distance from Rome, and the
British Eighth Army is not yet in
Pescara on the opposite coast.
There is at the present moment
no prospect of cOnquering Italy
during the next few weeks. 1t
may take many months, for even
when and if Rome falls, there
is still a distance of pretty close
to four hundred miles to the
Alps.
Slow as the Allied advance is, it
is all the time an advance; the Ger
mans, whenever they do make a
move, move backward
On New Britain.
Far far away from Europe and
America, United States forces are
battling Japanese on the island of
New Britain in the southwest Pa
cific They have taken the port of
Arawa from the enemy, but still have
two hundred and sixty miles to
Rabaul, one of the most important
japanese positions in that part of
the world
No complete official report has
been made concerning the American
attack on the japanese positions on
the Marshall islands in the central
Pacific. 1t seems certain that the
japanese are still there, but that
they received an awful drubbing.
Askov American., 1943-12-23
HOW TO PRODUCE
(NeW Prague TimeS)

Speaking of reducing, the Readers
Digest says that the average person
would have to saw wood for 10R
hours to take off pound of fat; and
repeats the old saying that "the best
exercise for weight reduction is to
grasp the edge of the table firmly
with both hands and straighten out
the elbows when second helpings are
passed"
Askov American., 1943-12-23
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters Cd topics Of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
fective but if the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be Withheld)
Askov American., 1943-12-23


one may run into "some decidedly
compromising situations and you
cite the case of Argentina, many of
whose inhabitants - as you rightly
point out - shave their bodies in
Latin America" while their souls
reside on the Champs Elysees."
Although Argentina is one of the
best examples, it would also be pos
sible to find other nations possess
ing cultural affiliations outside of
their region. But in all cases these
cultural ties would be subsidiary to
the main fact of the regional situ-
alton just as, in the case of Argen-
tina, the leaning toward European
culture is subsidiary to the essential
fact that Argentina shares with ten
other republics a portion of the
South American continent. But al
though Argentina belongs in the
American federation there would be
nothing on earth - contrary to your
apparent fear - to prevent the Ar
gentines from taking as many cul-
tural holidays as they desired in an
other regional jurisdiction. In actual
fact, cultural interchanges between
nations or regions would be much
freer under the World Federation
than they are now.
(To be continued)
Askov American., 1943-12-23
From Exchanges
Sandstone.

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
Askov American.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-09
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Calcium for teeth and bones; Iron for red blood.
Evening star., 1943-10-31
Don't Say A-A-A-a!

lHIS constant shooting is getting
me down mentally as we'll as
physically. l have a besieged feel
ing, and dread to venture out of
the house in the daytime. No doubt
these war-minded youngsters are
in tune with the times. They will
probably all grow up to be success
full dentists or riveters, and ought
to become conditioned to them;
but at the too-familiar sound of
their "a-a-a-a" vince as if struck
by an actual bullet.
Lately l have sought to avoid
them by sneaklng out the back
door. through the alley, and down
a back street. Even in the back
street, l am shot. The gunner is
small child named David.
But it is rather a relief to be
shot by David, for David is old
fashioned. When he shoots me, he
just says Bang
Evening star., 1943-10-31

No question shout IT,. dogs like orunchy,
nourishing Milk-Bone. Better still, its
good for them. Made of the finest ingre-
dents beef meat meal milk. whole wheat
Evening star., 1943-10-31
You Can't Spell It

IHEIR peculiar cry - and you
hear it now all over town - is sup
posed to simulate machine-gun
fire, and it defes spelling. 1t isn't
"d-r-r-r-," for it has vowel sounds
in it. And "ak ak ak ak ak"
won't do, because the consonants
slow it up. Perhaps "a-a-a-a-a" is
the closest, though the hyphens
don't convey its staccato quality.
Ifyou are over ID you can't even
utter it, let alone spell it. l know,
because one day when the young
Commandos on the curb launched