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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Should COLLEGE
Students Earn
Their Way7

Miriam Dunkin, r. O. Box
III. South Bend, Ind, wins a
$50 prize for suggesting this
contest topic. She thinks
college and high school stu
dents should be required 10
work for at least part Of
their expenses so that they
will better appreciate the
training they are receiving.
What do you think? When
you have TO hold down a job
while going TO school is there
roo little time tCft FOR study,
for sports or for social aC-
tivitlcS? Or do YOU really
get more out OF school if you
have 10 work for it?
Write your answer in 200
words or less. sign your full
name, give your age mot
over 30), include your full
address and send your letter
TO Elsie Robinson in care of
this paper. Prizes for all
letters published Contest
closes one week from today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Approves idea

Out of hundreds of letters we
managed to find two which gave
approval to wives stepping out.
One is from Harriette Pressman
of Los Angeles.
Dear Miss Robinson:
IL can see absolutely no rea-
son why a CT wife shouldn't he
able Ia go out with other men.
MANY of the girls left behind
are employed in vital jobs on
the home front, and they de-
serve their share Of diversion.
4 wOman's place is no longer in
the home-all the time. All
work and no play il bad for the
morale and IL seems to me there
IN no harm i'm assOciating with
other people, he they male or
female. Just having some one
10 talk 10 gives a gal the cOur-
age to keep the home fires
burning till Johnny comes
marching home.
Heavy drinkers, wolves ana
reckless drivers of course should
be crossed off your list. There's
no use counting trouble. But not
all men are dangerous apd girl
only needs to choose wisely.
Johnny doesn't want that
girl he left behind TO become
drab and mOnotOnous. Therefore,
GI wife should go out with
other men during her husbands
absence and become a finer and
more understanding wife when
this war il oxer."
HARRIETTE PRESSMAN. age 81.
IIiI ;. CloverdaIe, Los Angeles, Cal
10 IN priyCl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Garden Club Show al Bay City

the bravo Corp. Wilmington,
Del. Mrs. Alexander is the
former Cecilia Cotter. sister of
Rear Admiral Carl III. Cotter
USN. Eren. who is visiting in
Boston. is the sister of 1t. Col
Birdsey l.. Learman. now sta
toned at Fort Benning. Ga.
AS Frederick Fletcher. home
on a 15-day furlough. and Mar.
got BEDFORD are visiting his
parents al the r. II. Fletcher
Jr. cottage on the Au Sable
River. near Roscommon.
WAC 1t. Arlene Olson, who
is home on leave, was honored
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Ism Launching

Mrs. John II. Thornton Of
Miami, Fla. is visiting her Sis
ter. Mrs. Emmett j. Mclaughlin,
AT her summer home al Donohue
Beach.
Miss Ercn Learman was dcSig-
mated as escort 10 Mrs George
W. Alexander this week for the
launching of Ism ship at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Offices at Wenonah

Headquarters for the couven-
ton will he Al the Wenonah Ho-
tel. Mrs. Louisa Rapp was
named as delegate from the
local unit. and Mrs. Clara
Parker waS elected as alternate
Mr. and Mrs Fred Van
Haarcn will be hosts 10 members
of Sharon Chapter, Q. r. =, at
a picnic supper al $50 O'Clock
Aug. - al their Linwood Beach
cottage Arrangements for all
activity will be made al the
session
Miss Anne DcBold, popular
young Bay City socialite, was
hostess TO a group Of friends AT
tea Thursday afternoon at the
county club in honor of her two
guests, Gloria Gayou of ST.
Louis. Mo. and Regina Mack OF
CarllnVlllc, III.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

at a party which Elizabeth Ann
Petersen gave at Llnwood
Beach Thursday evening Among
the guests were Peggy Schaelcr
and her cousin. Mrs. Kenneth
Krampe of DcS MONIES. Ia, Mrs.
Donald {. DevcT. Colleen Ter
rill. Eleanor Ramsay, Nancy
Rechlin, Betty Olsen and stu
Zanne CrisWcll
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Leaves for Camp
At Higgins Lake

NANCY FRENCH. daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter G.
French of Longfellow avenue
VIII spend the remainder of the
summer at Camp Westminster
at Higgins Lake.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Do~"g america Speak,
Prize Winners Letters Discuss
Lively Recent Contest Topic
By ELSIE ROBINSON

~ ALL the questions Young America has fought in
tins department. has set off quite many fireworks
this one have the been unanimously
dnesded good per of you shouted no. And here's
typical reply showing how strongly many of feel
this subject
Il am a Young and mother and my husband has been
in AerAce somewhere He left
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Skaters Return

MR.. AND MRS. J. EDWARD
SLATER OF Fischer avenue
have just returned from Mont
real and Quebec
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
A Thought for Today
Another Change of Jockeys

According to Swedish reports, Hitler has switched jockeys again. The latest reported move is Field Marshal Erwin Rommels replacement by Field Marshal Karl yon Rundstedt as Germany'S antl- invasion commander in chief. This sort of thing has been going on for the past couple of years as military and pontlcal expediency dictated Won Rundstedt IS of the Prussian military clique. Rommel rose from the Nazi ranks. Won Rund- stedt has always been Rommel'S superior. But Nazi propaganda had indicated that Rommel was to command the second front forces. If past performances are any guide, Rommels appointment was reflection of Nazi confidence that the invasion could be stopped The fact that Won Rundstedt is taking more active part might indicate ebbing confidence. When the going gets tough, Hitler falls back on the military clique. Prusslan generals predominated at the start of the Russian campaign, though neither the campaigns nor the Fuehrer'S lntulClon aroused their enthusiasm.
 As the Germans rolled along toward Moscow, early in the war, there were freouent replacements of bunker officers by good party men. Hitler's intuition then was right, and the Junkers were wrong. Some of the Prussian generals "died", others were retired because of i'll health. But after Stalingrad, the re- placements started going the other way. 1t is likely that Von RundStedt has been called in to do an emergency fireman job. and that when defeat appears inc vitable he may be replaced by Rommel or some other Nazi. For Hitler obviously stiu fears the PruSsian Junkers as much as they Scorn him. Their alliance has always been uncomfortable.
 When things were going well, It was to Hitler's advantage to put Nazi generals at the head of the victorious forces and thus build party prestige. But 1t is equally to his advantage to have the army out of Prussian hands when defeat comes. Otherwise they might turn upon nm and his party and take the army with them. They will undoubtedly blame him for defeat. They will be bitter, for they have wanted military supremacy as ardently as Hitler, and they have wanted it longer It's hereditary taint 50 there is little question but that Hitler wants the military clique as weak as pos sible when the Allies march m and the Nazi big-wigs run for cover. But to the Allies it will make no difference who's ln charge. There are too rJany indications this time, Nazi or Junker, their number is up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

the men and equipment to do so, is strongly buttressed by statistics. An es- timated 589 million tons were brought above ground in 1943. If the forty million. tons lost to the nation through strikes in that year are added to the total actu- ally produced, the result indicates that production for this year should exceed by nine million tons the official goal set for 1944.
 Moreover, the coal industry had the foresight to launch modernization pro- gram years before the war started. Ninety per cent of the bituminous coal produced today is mined mechanically, 40 per cent of it is loaded mechanically It hanks to the investment of more than $400, ,000,- 900 in mechanical operating and safety equipment in the past twenty years. These are the facts of the "coal crisis" They show that there will be no serious coal shortage if the industry and the hundreds of millions of dollars of private savings invested in it, are allowed to produce to capacity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
1844 (Stop) 1944

A lot q water has gone under the bridge since May 1844, when that famous message went over the wires Today it is common-with certain war time reservations - to say "hello'', send condolences, or say meet me at the Grand Central Station" or Happy birthday to you!" Telegraph messages are just everyday occurrences.
 But one hundred years ago it was something of marvel when Samuel Finley Breese Morse sent his first mes sage = "What Hath God Wrought . That was a great day in the history of modern invention and the quiz features of the week are reminding you of that day in their programs this week.
 Morse was a portrait painter and ln- Ventor, which facts you have read ana Te-read this week. This famous message of his from the old Superior Court room in Washington to his friends in the Bal timore railroad station was not the nrSC telegraph message, it is said, as several test messages were previously sent.
 Morse set the pace and tapped out the beginnings of one of our greatest of ln- ventions. The methods then were crude. Today we have perfection. It is in keep ing that the event of May 24, l844, be given notoriety today. Other things fade into insignificance with the passing years, but the Morse code still taps on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Stamp of DisapprovaI

A report drifting out of Germany states that Nazi officials may no longer put a rubber stamp. They must henceforth write it in by hand to make it seem more personal and sincere.
 Hitler may find that this has been one of his graver physiological errors. To the German people, after 10 years of being told what to think and say and do, the rubber stamp must have become symbol of Nazi rule. Now, into their rubber stamp lives, there comes spectacle of minor officials doing something personal and of their own volition-even if it is only parroting the old prescribed greet ing.
 It may we'll seem like the beginning of the end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
At Long Last

After nearly two years of red tape. WIPE Chairman Donald M. Nelson has gone over the head of the WIPE require ments committee and approved $2,000,- 900 project for od-hydrolysis alcohol plant in Oregon. This is the process of making industrial alcohol from wood waste long used by Germany and other foreign countries, and convincingly proved by pilot-plant tests here.
 This one plant will not do much toward saving the millions of tons of wheat and sugar that have gone into alcohol pro- duction while equally effective wood waste has been burned to get rid of it. But if the war continues long plants such as this one could ease our food problems immensely .t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

controversial Brewster Aeronauti- cal Corporation will be the first to feel the axe of discontinued war production.
 This is good news for the coun- try in that it means that war losses of airplanes are less than expected and that the Navy will not need so many replacements. actually our losses in the Pacific have been about 50 per cent less than estimated.
 Also, the news is extremely sig nificant for the airplane indus try, because Brewster will be the first big plane company to be turned loose on its own to manu- facture commercial planes-if 1t can get prioritieS. If it can't get them, 1t will have to fold.
 The Chance vought company, also making Corsairs (the same type of plane as Brewster), will continue operation, largely be- cause they were the chief piO- AACCAo VA OVA o4AhSs kAAoOp tAhC Goodyear company will continue, they being about to start on a big new Navy plane.
 But the Brewster company will now have to fight either for new war contracts or else for priori- ties for commercial planes. It will be an uphill fight.
 NOTE: The Brewster plant near Philadelphia, built with U. s. gov- ernment funds, will be taken over by the Navy and will work on modification" - in other words, planes that need minor changes. The other Brewster plants around New York will finish up what they are working on and then fold.
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Selected Poem
ROADS THAT CALL

(o. Gill in The Christian Science Monitor) Oh the roads that call on a summers day New roads, old roads and far away Roads that sweep OCT the distant hill
 That twist and tarry twine at will, That thru the forest and OCT he burn
 By field and fallow and leafy fern By height and hollow, or mountain Till
 Call to me silently. Reckon me still. Over the rivers snow-fed blue,
 Up to the mountains purple hue Down by the oceans wave-swept shore Where the wind the waves continuous roar. Where the grasses pillow and curce and dip, And the bees at the honeyed clover sip Oh the roads all sing song to me,
 Of ways to follow and things to see Of days all golden and laughing skies
 Of white clouds sailing the wild birds cries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Facts About Coal

People are wondering whether the coal industry can meet the goal of 620,000,000 tons in 1944, set for 1t by government officials. Coal men believe it can, pro- vided: First, that there be no more strikes in the coal mines. Second, that the government fully recognize the min ing of coal as a vitally essential war activity by exempting trained mine work CTS from duty in the armed forces. Those already in the service should be returned 70 their regular occupations, as it is to- day impossible to replace those trained and experienced men. Third, that an adequate amount of mechanical operat- ine and safety equipment and supplies he made available to the coal industry.
 Xlae belief of the coal operators that la8 can act out the coal needed f given
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

Then, when Chairman Dies him. self quit cold. they got worried. Now, the defeat of California's Rep. John M. Costello, least active member of the committee, finally has concinved them that the CIO has an effective political organ ization.
 This, plus Dies decision to retire, means the end of Dies
 Committee. Rep. Wirt Court
 ney of Tennessee, who, will be
 the ranking member after Dies,
 Starnes and Costello have gone,
 voted against funds for the committee in February. Another member, Representative Herman
 Eberharter of Pennsylvania, has consistently opposed the cOm-
 mittee majority.
 Important in the defeat of California's Costello was the fact that his opponent. Hal Styles, a Warner Brothers radio announcer, had conducted a radio program called Help Thy Neighbor," as a part of which he had secured jobs for 35,000 people in seven years. This is a job-getting record bet- ter than most congressman have.
 The manager of the broadcasting station. Harry Maizlish. conceived the idea of running Styles for Congress and managed his cam paign. Costello had been needing some of the motion-picture people and they felt they needed a new Congressman.
 In Alabama also. Representative Starnes' defeat resulted partially from the one-man newspaper cru- sade of young newsman Carroll Fitzpatrick of the Birmingham Age-
 BREWSTER AXED
 The Navy has decided that the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Views Of The Press

Educators Association last Satur- day, Commissioner Grace made a suggestion that is capable of pre- cipitating violent argument among various groups of educators, and to a lesser extent among the general public. It was that students be ad- nitted to college without regard to the number or type of courses they have taken in high school but rather on the basis of aptitude and ac- cumulated knowledge. Put into more specific terms, this formula would put the premium on the ability to read well, to write and speak ef- Actively, on the amount of inforIna- tion the student had assembled, and on his capability in learning. Ac- cOrding to this plan, boy or girl who had studied any of the busi- ness or craft courses in preparatory school would be eligible for college on the same basis as another per- son who had concentrated on the subjects in the pre-college course.
 To Dr. Grace's suggestion, some of the members of his profession are going to make substantially this re- ply: Who gets into college ought to depend on what kind of work the college offers A barber college, an agricultural college, an art college require students of certain aptitudes and backgrounds. If, on the other hand. a four-year college is de- voted to liberal arts and scientific education. that is another matter. The students who have shown the capacity and the taste for certain subjects in high school are likely to be the ones to pursue them suc- cessfuliy in college. The students who have avoided particular courses in high school are not likely to de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

started out upon It's world miSslon, 1t was confronted with the question. What is Christianity going to do about the Gentile?"
 It Is comparatively easy to make Christian principles work within the family circle or within our circle or close friends. But the shoe begins to pinch when we go beyond these lim- tied circles and try to make Chris tian principles operate among peo- pie of another race, another social class. another nation. The labor sit- uation is crying out today for the application of Christian principles on the part both of employer and employe. The race problem. which mounts in intensity with every pass ing year. can only be settled on the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
CITY SALARIES CLASSIFIED
(Hartford Tines)

New Haven has joined the cities which, after much deliberation and delay, as a rule, have adopted plan for the scientific classification of municipal salaries. The Elm City thus follows Hartford in the mat ter by about three years. In the former city comprehensive sur- vey was made by Griffenhagen As- sociates, the firm which also sur veyed the State personnel organ ization few years ago. The result was as expected ted-Some employees re- ceived more compensation than their work desired while others re- ceived less than they deserved.
 The New Haven Board of Finance has accepted the survey report and will put the plan into operation. However, to avoid any bad feeling in the munitipal family no salary is to be reduced while present incum- bents continue in their jobs. At the death or resignation, of present workers, the new appointees will be started at the prescribed lower salaries. Those entitled to more pay will receive increase at once.
 Hartford's experience with the classified salary system is that the prescribed annual salary increases total more than was formerly ap. propriated for such purposes on the hit-or-miss basis. That has not been occasion for criticism while cost of living has been going up. A special wartime bonus has had to be added to the scheduled raises.
 Guard has to be set against preaching the system by effort of those who seek to have their jobs or positions reclassified into higher salary brackets. Occasional adjust- ments may be necessary as when new responsibilities are added to given position but. barring such ex- captions, the soundness of the plan depends upon faithful adherence to the prescribed schedules of mini. mum salaries and the rate of in. crease up to the maximum
 If these schedules are allowed to be disrupted by individual pressures the result would gradually be on Q par with old system and scientific classification of compensation would become a farce. The classified sys- tenn is good but 1t calls for honest administration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
THE INERADICABLE RESIST. - ANCE NOTION

For forty years, writes Q reader who, I know, has extraordinary inc sight into questions of hygiene and health, I made a practice of spend~ ing weeks or months in remote secs tions of the Rockies, alone with Q pack-outflt. There were times when for weeks on end got dry only when in bed. I canot recall that ever once caught cold" (W. B. SD
 Nothing remarkable about that. Rarely does a human being catch a respiratory disease from Q horse or a mule, and there was no one else, I mean no human being from whom the man could catch anything. His experience parallels, in small way, that of Stefonsson and his party during their five years in the Arctic-or rather during the pe- riods when they were not in contact with other people or with civiliza- ton.
 But our good friend is not con- tent to accept this explanation. I imagine he might if he were think ing of diphtheria, meningitis or scarlet fever, but unfortunately he is not thinking of any such specific respiratory infection, but just vaguel yof "colds," and So he goes on:
 T infer that I owed immunity
 in some degree at least to the
 fact that there were fewer bugs
 about and to the fact that my re-
 e,4e nk n a3afaAv t1NAAa-
 hold. Per contra: Times without
 number, when in town and work
 ing hard, was subject to repeat
 ed severe colds that seemed to
 have close casual relation to get-
 ting wet or chilled or unduly fa-
 tigued-or insufficient sleep"
 suspect our friend mentions the "fact that there were fewer bugs about" rather to humor me than by way of conceding that infection has anything to do with the question, Note that he ignores the possibility that there might have been moro "bugs" about on those occasions when he was subject to repeated colds" Gas he previously calls them) in town.
 The good man obviously takes 1t as self-evident that getting wet or chilled renders one more suscep- tible to some vague illness he calls "cold." There is no scientific evi- dence to support this quaint notion. On the other hand there is a great deal of evidence, in the actual ex- perience of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Arctic explorers, hunters, fishermen, woodSmen and just plain folks like you and me, that getting ones feet or clothing wet, or get- ting chilled does NOT make one more liable to have any illness--it is simply uncomfortable and that is all there is to 1t.
 Whether fussing and worrying about the dire consequences of get- ting wet through or getting chilled through has anything to do with immunity, don't know. I know of no good evidence that it does.
 For the steenteenth time I aSert
 without fear of successful con- tradiction by any physician or health authority-that no one can define resistance" and no one can determine in advance whether an individual has any so-called resist ance."
 There is such a thing as immu- nity, and a doctor may determine in any instance whether the inoi- vidual has protective degree of i'm munity against, say diphtheria.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24

basis of Christian understanding. If, after all the pain and bloodshed which this war has involved and will involve, we neglect to build the peace on firm foundations of Chris tian consideration for others, we shall have sacrificed in vain.
 When we have answered the ques- ton. How should We treat the out- sider?" We have gone long way toward answering the further ques- tior, How can we put Christianity into operation?"
 All Rights Reserved
 Bahson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-24
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at lO:3s p. m. Cwar time) Sun rises at 5:27 a. m, sets at 8:0i D. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 Rhododendrons are THE thing in floral display right now. And that sweet whiff from the gardens Is lly-of-the valley.