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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
Cynics' Reactions

Then came the cynical observa.
ton Of the INSTRUMENTATION poll.
ticians. It sounded a little like the
comment Of my first-quoted observ-
er except that it was favored more
heavily with party tabasco.
pure politics" they sneered. HE
had no labor program. He knew it.
So now he losses the hottest con-
troversial question on the Boards
labor draft-into congress. He prob
ably hopes we won't pass il. II we
don't, he'll say: See, give them a
labor program and they turn me
down."
Well. there are the two surprises
which are scheduled to breed others
in their trail and you and every
body else will interpret them in
terms Of your or their prejudices,
sharpened 10 a knife-edge Of devo-
ton or hatred in this year Of the
ballot.
What is really behind these two
sharp and unexpected moves? 1t Is
pretty hard to be really objective.
Anyone who has watched political
campaigns in the making, has
hard time not TO attribute partisan
motive TO any act or word spoken
in Washington in an election year.
AS far as taking the railroads over
goes, that might have been prompt
ed by a real and honest fear that
transportation would have been in
terfered with at a. moment when it
was as vital to the war effort as a
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
THEY SAY

Cleveland: Alya Bradley, presi.
dent of the Cleveland Indians, in
recommending that baseball CLOSE
shop" if it can't maintain high
quality: You can't fool the public
by putting on minor league base
ball. If We put on poor quality base
ball. it will hurt the game.
New York: Il. W. Gallagher.
president Of the Standard Oil Com
pany Of New Jersey; Finding
good Jobs which offer Advancement
to returning employees who have
grown in experience and judgment
as a result OF serving in the fight
ing forces will be one OF American
industry's postwar problems"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
Half Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Club meetings. Pyhian Sisters dinner Mrs.
Clarence Holey adournng the home Mrs Aeck
tell: members Of WRC honoed Julia
sion being her birthday The Dinner Club with
Davis Tuesday Bridge. r. Thompson; Junior Bridge,
Mrs Ernest Goodwin Hamilton Whist Mrs Henry
dustrial Pleasure Club Mrs William Horn; LaIu Club,
Mrs McCilveray- Sheridan Ave
There have been $500 automobile by
Of Commerce since December 20.
Ypsanti Independents defeated Henry 22l5
Members Of the Zone Citizenship League being invited
meeting in Pease Auditorium President Charles McKenny will
speak the subject Training Citizenship silver pins
be awarded officers Of the league
Members OF the City rejected proposed
amendment which would abolish Ward highway
situte general fund for highway maintanence
Death Mrs. E. T. Kollmorgan following illness
Hospital.
Railroad traffic has been delayed days by heavy
Fifty Years Ago
Misses Mary Lang and Gertrude Sheke
from drowning while skating on the river.
The vested choir Of IS boys and which has been under
training by Prof Felix Lamond months gave
public rehearsal evening before appearance
In Luke's services. They sing Sunday
hereafter
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

his campaign and his policies and
why be had turned against Taft.
But about--a new bird he had just
found
Undoubtedly, Franklin Roosevelt
will reveal a nature OF even more
surprises than his distant relative,
T. R.. as World War II moves on.
and the 1914 election day comes
near.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
so He SOUNDED DEE

FREMONT. O.--INS-I. j. Frank
did not want to take any chances.
what with many automobiles at
Fremont being ransacked. so he
tied his bird dog TO tree near
his garage. He reported to 20.
lice the next day that someone had
stolen the dog-anI that his car
had been rifled.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
SAMSHtPS

LONDON ms Most OF the
Liberty ships lend-leased by Amer
lea TO the British government have
been given names starting with
the letters Sam" as a compliment
10 Uncle Sam. Examples are Sam
ouse, samesk and Samtweed."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
BY BAUKHAGE

This is the season Of surprises-1
won't mention at this moment the
big one which will cause your eye
brows to- go up at an early date u
they haven't already.
I'll mention two others-on the la
Dor front-since they represent two
of the neatest problems with which
congress still has TO deal and which
are particularly full of dynamite be-
cause OF the coming elections. And
elections are bound to color the acts
Of every public man from now until
the ides Of November.
We are used TO it now because it
happened some time age, and the
effects were not visible TO the naked
eye-but one big surprise that shook
Washington as the year ended was
the sudden announcement on
balmy Monday evening in Decem-
Der which ordered the army to take
over the railroads.
All over Washington the day be-
fore, that day too, as matter OF
fact, you could have collected fine
odds against such thing happen
ing. Not that people were betting
on that subject itself; what they
were betting on. those who ought to
have been land l still believe were)
in the know. was that there would
be no railroad strike.
The second big surprise is still
having its sharp repercussions al
though it happened not so much
more recently than the other event
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
SOMETHING ToNJAW ABOUT

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ].
A. Topnsan has decided that there
are tiheA when a man doesn't need
dodtorl Thoroughly disguised,
and open plouthed perforce, otter
futileE seskihg relief for his dislo-
catedi inv lat the city hospital. he
leaned his chin on his hand and
the Inv fhapped back into place.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
One-Minute Test

/. Under existing laws. could a
woman be elected president Of the
United States?
2. Which United States presi-
dent became blind In one eye on
account Of friendly boxing bout7
3. What Is the location Of the
republic Of Venezuela!
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
Words Of Wisdom

That man Is to be accounted
poor, Of whatever rank he be, and
suffers the pains Of poverty.
whose expenses exceed his re-
sources. and no man Is. properly
speaking. poor. but he.-Paley
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
ToaaY'a Horoscope

Iou are very frank and scrupu-
lousy honest In your business re-
lations and your love You are
shrewd. have a strong personality
and command respect from all
with whom you come In contact.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
Hints on Etiquette

II you are at home wnen a
friend Of some other member Of
the family comes. II u your duty
TO chat pleasantly until the one
on whom the guest 10 calling Il
ready TO see them. Do not. under
the circumstances. read or listen
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

You are fond Of children and will
have a happy home life. The out
look for the next year Is Of good
augury Gain through property
and the aged Is evidenced. as well
as by possible speculation. Go
ahead confidently. The child born
today will be fortunate. enjoying
the goodwill and valuable help Of
elders. A high order Of intelli-
gence and many fine traits are
portrayed.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

confused thinking Doctors are as
likely to get mixed up on them as
patients. i have known, in my
time, four and twenty captains Of
revolt said the old cardinal, in
Browning's play. Well, | have
known four and twenty kinds Of
headaches in my time-neuralgia,
pelvic, bilious, gastric, intestinal
absorption, uric acid and some of
them are still mentioned but most
ly they have gone their way.
"The occasional, or acute, head
ache is not usually hard to figure
out. Any oncoming fever or infu-
enza, or stopped nose, or spell Of
overwork will bring it on. The
hangover headache should be an
awful lesson, but too often it isn't.
The young occasional drunk has
the hangover headache. The old,
regular boozer doesn't have a
headache-he feels bad all over,
every morning-and ascribes it to
the whole world. That hangover
headache is Natures warning TO
the young drunk.
Acute Headache
"The acute headache is easy
enough 10 cure. Treat the cause,
or go TO bed, or take that good old
forgotten. reliable-5 grains of
acetanilid. But don't take it daily
or you'll turn blue, like that orna-
ment TO the circuit bench, who was
once a patient of mine.
"The chronic headaches, the
everyday headaches-in the sense
that the doctors see them every day
have been ascribed to everything
on earth. But my observations
teach me that they can be reduced
10 four kinds:
Eye strain, the people who neeo
glasses, or, if they have glasses,
properly fitting glasses. You can
spot EN- because they are all right
in the morning, but in the evening
after using their eyes all day the
head aches.
you can spot the high blood
pressure headache, too, because it
comes on in middle age. ...
"The other two kinds are worry
headaches and migraine.
Worry headaches, or nervous
headaches, are a good deal like the
dyspeptics. use worry in a broad,
generic sense-people for whom
the world is too much, the malad-
justed, the grouches, and, espe-
cially, the idle. Dyspeptics belong
to the same classes.
"Some people are weak in the
stomach and some are weak in the
head. When the world doesn't suit
'em that's when they ache.
Psychology for Worry Headaches
Medicine won't do the worry
headache any good-just forms a
habit. They need psychology. Di-
version is a splendid remedy for
them. Sometimes it has TO be dras-
tic. | knew a woman who found
when her husband died that in
stead Of being rich he left lot Of
debts and a shaky business. She
had TO pitch in and get the business
back on its feet, and she did good
job. And it cured her lifelong
headaches.
"Migraine, or sick headache, is
real enough. 1t comes on periodi-
cally. The victim usually knows
ahead Of time when one Of my"
headaches is coming on. That's
one way Of spotting it-they own
it; it is my" headaches. 1t IS
called sick headache because there
are often stomach symptoms too
lack Of appetite, nausea, or vom-
ting. Sometimes the stomach
symptoms show up without the
headache. Then they may be called
"bilious attacks" They ought TO
be called abdominal migraine.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
G. Pillow do you keep false
teeth in?
Answer. q niata that So.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

to a radio program. Ignoring the
newcomer.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04
National Service Act

The first, l discussed in a recent
column in connection with the seiz-
ure Of the railroads. Then the Sec
ond, the Presidents demand for a
national service act as a part OF his
legislative program outlined in that
annual message. came tumbling aft
er, and we haven't gotten over ell
Their yet.
One astute and neutral observer
OF affairs in Washington-an old
timer, who sees parties come and
20 without loss of sleep over his
Job, said something TO me after the
roads had been seized that | have
had occasion to ponder upon often
since,
He Is one OF the men who was
ready to give odds that there would
be no strike and he knows all Of the
people who participated in the con-
ferences, employers, union heads,
officials, by their first names-ex-
cept the President, OF course. whom
nobody but his mother as far as I
know, perhaps his wife when she is
here. first names. One just doesn't
first-name Presidents.
Anyhow, this friend Of mine,
aghast at the suddenness Of the seiz-
ure Of the roads, remarked:
do you realize this? Overnight,
instead Of being the object Of all at
tacks for babying labor. the Presi-
dent suddenly is in the position now
of defending the people against la
bor?"
That was the quick reaction Of a
technical man TO whom politics is
only an interesting sideline.
When the Presidents message
was droned out by the reading clerk
in congress and the President came
to point five in his five-point legisla.
tive program. there was sharp in
take Of breaths. You recall the first
reaction. Hardly anything but a
frigid reception for the suggestion
for what was Immediately called
''the labor draft"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

one-Mlnute Test Answers
I. Yes.
2. Theodore Roosevelt.
3. II IL the northernmost eoun.
try OF South America
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-04

Is It true that Billy Roses Sew
en- Lively Arts" may embrace the
talents OF George s. Kaufman.
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammer
stein and Fred Allen?... Do you
know that the Ronson Lighter peo-
pie will take your old lighter. re-
pair 1t. and send 1t to any service
man you name. anywhere. Does
Constance Talmadge - his good
friend and former wife--know that
Townsend Netcher and attractive
divorcee Ethel Hunter are too
too twosome?... Wnat two top
flight millinery partners are feud-
ing so fercely that they may not
even present a spring collection
because each keeps cancelling
the others workroom orders?
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Nozis Fed Prisoners Poor Diet
ToCouse Slow Death, Dutch Say

according to the report, that they
began to die. Then, due to the
cumulative effect of the diet made
quacies, approximately 200 dropped
of in about a month. A man was
given an extra 100 grams of bread
for volunteering to bury a COM
rade.
I'VE became like wild beasts" +"
says the man making the report.
I'VE used to fight for the chance
to get on one of these burial par
ties. I think we were actually dis
appointed If only a few had died
during the night 1t meant so
much less opportunity to get an
extra crust"
IT. condition continued until
about the end of October, the Dutch
sergeant making the report says.
Two hundred out OF 600 died.
Then the commander of the camp
a sadistic doctor who had devised
this form of torture, was removed
and the new commander at once
ordered the diet improved, although
not materially increased. He not
only agreed to let the men eat
grass, but made efforts to get more
edible green's for them.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Russian Says Germans
Tortured Prisoners

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Feb. IA (p,.
|-Beatings, torture and death from
cold and hunger are the lot of Rus
sian prisoners in German hands,
five Red Army soldiers who have
escaped from the Axis declared yes
terday.
The men now are at q British
camp in the desert near here, await
ing repatriation after reaching the
Allied lines in italy. 'n
Pvt. Valentin Sizakim, formerly
an electrician in Moscow and later
an anti-tank gunner in the Red
Army's 96th Division, was captured
in February, 1912, near Chernikov.
He said Russian prisoners were
herded into vast German prison
transit camps, then selected like
cattle for heavy labor squads.
Conditions were 50 bad in one
camp at Belaya Tserkov that % 900
Russians died Of cold and hunger,
he said. At another camp the daily
death rate among a shifting popula-
ton OF about $4,000 was $50. Women
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Song Service Marks
Race Relations Sunday
Al Asbury Church

Race Relations Sunday was OBJ
served yesterday at the Asbuty Col
ored Methodist Church, Eleventh
and K streets NV, by a congrega-
ton of more than 1000, with a mu-
sical service, under the sponsorship
of the Race Relations Committee Of
the Washington Federation Of
Churches.
An inter-racial chorus of 100
voices, representing white, colored
and the Chinese Community
Church, presented a program under
the leadership of Prof. James Nc
Lain of American University and
Prof. Warner Lawson of Howard
University.
There was worship service, with
no sermon or speeches.
DR.. j. Warren Hastings, pastor
|of the National City Christian
Church, offered a prayer for the
brotherhood. DR.. c. c. Hung, pastor
OF the Chinese Community Church,
led the call to worship, and the Rev.
DR.. Stephen Gill Spottswood, pas
tor OF the John Wesley A. M. E.
Zion Church, conducted the re-
sponsive readings. The Rev. DR..
Frederick E. Ressig, executive secre-
tary of the Washington Federation
of Churches, presided. The Rev. DR..
Robert M. Williams was host pastor.
1t was the 22d year in which
such services have been held. DR..
Howard Stone Anderson, pastor of
the First Congregational Church, is
chairman of the Race Relations
Committee of the church fedora
ton.
The day was also observed in a
number Of other churches with
brief programs.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Staff cnrrssnonAant

|
LONDON, Feb. (By MaiD AT
least one case of deliberate vitamin
starvation as a means of torture
has been reported from German
prison camps.
Men are said to have starved to
death on a diet from which the
essential vitamins were systemati-
cally removed.
The story of the torture has come
to the Netherlands government here
through underground channels which
are maintained with Holland. It
told of prison camp in which pris-
oners died slow death, but said the
situation was corrected to some ex-
tent when it became known and a
new commander was ordered by the
Germans to take charge Of the camp.
Prisoners Ate Grass.
The story, as related here, follows:
The victims were 900 noncommis-
stoned officers of the Dutch Army
who were confined in a prison camp
in Czechoslovakia. Each man re-
ceived per day 800 grams of bread
(about half pound) and a little
over pint of water. In addition,
he got a couple OF drops of vinegar
and slice of sweet pickle, which is
interpreted as planned stimulant
to the appetite to increase the tor
ture of such inadequate rations.
In the camp inclosure were two
trees. In few waaks, according
to the man who reports the story
and who since has escaped, every
green leaf had been eaten OF these
trees, and it was not long before
all the bark had been stripped OF
for food. Both leaves and bark
contained something for which the
men had developed an Unsuitable
craving.
When this source of supply was
gone, they began sticking their
heads under the bottom strand of
the barb-wire fence around the in
closure and eating the green grass.
Within few days all the grass
within foot or so Of the fence had
been gnawed down to the roots, as
II sheep had grazed on 1t.
The tortured prisoners begged
their captors for more green grass
or leaves, but were laughed at. These
men were not considered prisoners
Of war, but as mutineers in the
German Army. They had been sent
to the east to form part of a labor
battalion. They were placed in the
camp last May.
Maladies Soon Appeared.
Pellagra, beriberi and various OBJ
scure maladies soon appeared. The
hair Of the prisoners fell out. Sores
covered their bodies. But they lived
on. The diet they were given was
intended to keep them alive to suffer
the full effects of the vitamin starva-
ton.
1t was not until early September,
Evening star., 1944-02-14
big Chinese Airfie|d,
Being Rushed 10 Raid
Japan, StiIweII Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Feb. 14.-Lt. Gen
Joseph w. Stilwell has pledged that
the American Central Pacific drive
to establish land and air forces on
the Chinese mainland will be sup
ported by an aggressive land and air
offensive from the interior.
The commander in chief of United
States forces in China, India and
Burma, who now is in the Ledo
sector of Northern Burma, declared
in statement yesterday that IA
cilities were being prepared to ac-
commodate the largest and newest
cargo planes available, since vital
China-based air operations can not
wait for penetration of the block
ade by land or sea-"
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese
laborers are toiling day and night
to build the largest airfields ever
constructed in China, fields which
probably will be used as bases for
long-range blows against the Japa-
nese as we'll as landing grounds for
the huge cargo planes.
Gen. Stilwell's announcement
noted that Admiral Chester w
Nimitz, commander in chief of the
Pacific Fleet, had stated that the
Navy intended to thrust across the
Pacific to land ground and all
forces on the Chinese mainland.
An American 14th Air Force com
munique, meanwhile, announced
that bombers and fighters had
struck widespread blows at japanese
concentrations in China, Indo-
China and of the China coast
Friday and Saturday.
At the same time, Chinese
communique said Chinese forces in
Northern Burma captured Kadn-
1aga February 7, in an advance
from Taiphaga.
The enemy, after leaving many
bodies behind, fled in the direction
OF Laawnga," and the Chinese are
In pursuit, it declared.
Evening star., 1944-02-14

and children were imprisoned and
treated the same as soldiers, he
declared.
Sizakim said he escaped while
clearing up debris from an Allied
air raid. lived in mountain cave
Tor four weeks, and stole grapes
from vineyards before making con-
tact with an American advance
force.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Man Elected Mayor
Despite No-Votes Plea
By the Associated Press.

BY inc Associated Press,
D1GBY, Nova Scotia. - When
Frank L. Anderson was nominated
as a candidate for Mayor of Digby
he declined because of Ill health,
but his refusal was ignored. Then
he advertised in a newspaper beg
ging people not to vote for him.
But his campaign in reverse
failed. He received 100 votes in YES
terday's election, against 163 for his
opponent.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-05-18
E DI T 0 r IA
MORE WACs NEEDED

Probably the disappointing of all enlistment campaigns has
been that WAC The army has said needs hum
deds of thousands additional for nonombat service and
that drafted considerably reduced if
join up but be very difficult izable
number of to enlist
The for this has been clarified Polls made
show that the majority of the faer favor the enlistment
of and large number favor the idea of drafting
but voluntary ensments still far below minimum
Lowering the limit to include girls just of schools
being considered and be the the prob
lem Many girl looking for her job might be interested in the
WAC whereas after she has been working office factory
years she will be hesant change her way of life
The chief trouble that the demand for feminine
schools and other place
poyment that doesn know which
And somehow the Rosie appeal to
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-05-18
Christian Science Services
235 North Potomac Street

''Soul and Body" will be the sub
ject of the Lesson-Sermon in all
Churches of Christ, Scientist, on
Sunday, May 81.
The Golden Text will be from
Phil. 800, 21-"For our conversa-
ton is in heaven; from whence also
we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who shall change our
vile body, according to the working
whereby he is able to subdue all
things unto himself"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-Isaiah CLIO
Il will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he hath clothed me with the gar
ments of salvation, he hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness"
The Lesson-Sermon will also in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page ABA dem
onstration of the facts of Soul in
Jesus way resolves the dark visions