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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-28

inside my brain pan. That is the
difference between a vague dream
er and a scientific discoverer.
The idea which was thus OBJ
Scurely looming inside me is that
perspiration is a good growth
medium for the fungus parasites
tina. infest the skin-athlete's foot
and the like. And the scientists
WI made actual proof of this are
two Chicago psychologists, Drs.
Theodore Cornblect and Esther
Meyer.
They collected perspiration by
incasing human subjects. up to
their necks in rubber bag while
they were seated in an electric
light heat cabinet. They would
obtain 200 c. c. Of perspiration IN
about twenty minutes-about a
water glass full. ! guess when you
get that much you stop calling it
perspiration and begin to call It
sweat.
Sweat Supports Growth
Putting this sweat in culture
tubes after it had been auto
claved, and inoculating it with
common skin fungi it was shown
TO support growth of trieophyton,
nicrosporon, etc. The tricophy-
tons are responsible for the vari-
Gus forms of ringworm.
Anyone, as | have indicated,
might have guessed that this was
true because the favorite places
for ringworm infections are the
moist crevices Of the body always
bathed in perspiration-the arm
pits, the crotch and spaces be-
tween the toes particularly. In
fact it is a safe bet that many Of
these have been called hyperi-
drosis, or miliaria-that is to say
the eruption was ascrihed to the
irritating effect of the sweat
alone.
No wonder then ringworm is so
common. Not only does the per-
spiration furnish a natural medi-
UNI for its growth, but the keratin
Of the skin does also. The keratin,
as you know if you have read this
column lately, is the upper, horny
layer of the skin. The tricophy-
ton likes TO grow on this to such
an extent that you can often find it
growing on the leather of chair
in damp weather, or any similar
leather goods.
1t was once thought that the
Tactic acid in perspiration which
is what makes it taste so sour was
a detriment to the growth Of skin
fungi. But it has been shown that
when the perspiration dries it
quickly is attacked by saprophytes
which alkalinize it and also form
sugars which probably increases
its desirability as a growing field
for the fungi.
Preventive Measures
The lesson of this is obvious
to battle particularly the armpits,
crotch and toes morning and eve
ming during this hot weather and
after drying the skin apply a mild
antiseptic liI-e boric acid or a
dilute alcohol solution.
There is q new preparation for
athletes foot (which, of course,
is form of this fungus infection)
called "Soretone," which is, if
yor are chemically minded, 4
Beta-Ethyl-H exyl-Phenol. 1t was
used first in ~ cases Of severe,
stubborn epidemartophytosis Of
the feet, which had resisted other
regular forms of treatment. Most
of the cases 1891 showed marked
improvement within 10 days and
complete cure at the end of 20
days was the rule.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
C. A. Kin excessive drink
ing is there a disease that affects
the feet?
Answer: Yes - alcoholic nsu-
rita
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-28
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

C. A. Kin excessive drink
ing is there a disease that affects
the feet?
Answer: Yes - alcoholic nsu-
rita
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Constantine Br01Un

these fraternities have gotten together.
They intend to present common front
by reminding the administration that
by the terms of the Atlantic Charter.
the weak are protected from the greed
Of the strong.
No such pressure can be exercised on
Prime Minister Churchill. Whatever
Poles there are in Britain and in the
British Empire are citizens of Poland.
They are principally soldiers and ayia-
tors. There are at least two Polish di-
visions now fighting the Germans on
the italian front and more are likely to
be sent. Polish aviators have done an
excellent job in England and other parts
OF the empire.
The situation is different In the
United States. People in this country
have taken the articles of the Atlantic
Charter to mean that the defeat of the
Axis would mean international Justice
to all concerned. This country believes
that, despite its loopholes, the charter.
II sincerely applied to Europe at least.
might avoid another world war.
The Americans of Polish descent w,I,
be supported by descendants of citizens
OF other European countries whose sov-
erelgnty now Is threatened. There is
no question that their rising voices win
have an effect on Americas FOREIGN
policy. The representatives of these
groups say that there is no reason whv
America should remain diplomaticallv
voiceless while Moscow and London are
playing an intense diplomatic game with
the eastern and southeastern countries
as pawns
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Corrects FEPC Story

To the Editor of The Star:
Will you do me the kindness to make
correction of an understandable slip by
your reporter in writing the news &C
count in your issue Of March 2, referring
to my testimony before the Smith Com
mittee regarding the Fair Employment
Practice Committee Your article quoted
me as calling the Presidents Fair EN-
ployment Practice Committee an "im-
pudent tribunal" I did not use that ex-
preston. The word I used was "im-
potent"
I pointed out that FEPC admittedly
has no power to issue summons, a
subpoena or any kind Of legal writ or
process. said: II assert in passing that
that is a strange posture of impotence
for any court, or quasi-judicial tribunal,
which claims, and attempts to assert,
power to issue legally valid and effective
compulsive orders, or what the bureau
Gratis prefer to describe by the more re-
sounding yet euphemistic term 'direc-
tives.'"
I further said: "Such an impotent
tribunal Is an anomaly in American
constitutional law and is unknown even
to the modern development called 'ad-
ministrative law"
SIDNEY S. ALDERMAN,
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Favors Amendments
To the Editor OF The Star.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The Constitution of the United States
from which all governmental powers
are derived and concerning which the
great English publicist, Gladstone, has
said, 1T is the most remarkable work
OF modern times produced by the hu-
man intellect in its application to
political affairS'D has been amended 81
times.
More recent of these amendments,
such as change in dates of the terms of
office of the President Vice President,
Senators and Representatives, and re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment,
were induced either by practical consid-
Grafton or changed public sentiment.
The war in which we and all the
rest of the world now are engaged has
brought to the front more serious ques-
tions (perhaps constitutionaD than
any others that have confronted the
Nation since 1865. They are: What
constitutes a legal soldiers vote cast
in foreign lands, and national serv-
ice act.
While both of these questions possibly
might be settled by acts of Congress,
suitable amendments to the Constitu-
ton, while slower, undoubtedly would
be better, safer. Action by State Legis-
latures or conventions, in view of the
urgency of the situation, might be ex-
pedited.
In any event, who knows that this is
"the war that will end all wars; that
our children, or our childrens children,
may not be called upon to fight in for
eign fields-perhaps while national
election is again in progress on the
home front? WILBUR CLOSE,
Evening star., 1944-03-09

COP Victory

On the voting record since 1910,
the Republicans undoubtedly have
substantial basis for the significance
which they read into the returns
from Tuesdays special congressional
election in Colorado.
In that district strongly Demo-
cratic since 1882, the COP elected an
antl-NeW Deal businessman, Dean
M. Gillespie, by margin of approx
mately three thousand votes. His
opponent was an Air Corps major,
retired from active service because
Of wounds received in fighting the
japanese. The successful Republi-
can candidate based his campaign
squarely on his opposition to the
New Deal, and majority of the
voters of the district, who registered
a sixty -thousand-vote Democratic
majority in 1886, apparently saw eye
to eye with him.
This makes three House seats that
the Republicans have taken from the
Democrats in ten special elections
since 1912. At the same time, they
have lost only one seat to the Demo-
Gratis, and in that contest, in Cali
fornia district, two Republican can
didates polled greater total vote
than their Democratic opponent, but
lost the seat because of the split
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Americans in Burmo

News that American ground
forces are fighting for the first time
in Northern Burma-for the first
time anywhere on the Asiatic con-
tlnent-seems at the moment to be
more significant for what it fore
shadows than for i is immediate
meaning. The numbers involved,
including veterans of Guadalcanal,
apparently are not large and the
reports indicate that their mission
is limited to helping the Chinese
in localized drive to gain an area
needed for the construction of a
new overland supply link with India.
Both as symbol and a sign of
coming events, however, the develop
ment serves as an impressive ex-
preston of our close ties with China
and an earnest of American inten-
tions to search out and punish the
Japanese not only in the air or on
the sea or in the islands of the Pa
ciflc but on the mainland of Asia
as well, with ground forces whose
size will one day be vastly greater
than the unit which has Just in
troduced itself in the jungles of
Burma. This is merely the begin
ming; it is merely notice served on
the enemy that he is likely to meet
our forces wherever he is, no mat
ter how remote the place.
In addition, the news suggests
that from now on the Japanese
will have to worry about more than
one front in Burma. For it is quite
possible that the new Chinese
American action, having begun sue
cessfully, will be expanded into
operations on larger scale to keep
the enemy fully occupied while
British forces increase their actiy-
ity in the western part of the coun-
try. Although spectacular develop
ments are not likely in the little
time left between now and the
monsoon season, positions can be
improved in preparation for an all
out Allied Burmese campaign next
fall. In any event, the arrival of the
American unit is clear sign that
this theater has not been forgotten.
Evening star., 1944-03-09

be ready TO reap the pOutlcal DenefltS
which may be gained from our mill
tary victories as well as to mop up the
battlefleids themselves.
Our political course naturally must
shape itself in accordance with mill
tary necessities as long as the war is
in progress. That will mean in some
cases, that we shall have to play prac-
tical politics while dealing with armed
and dangerous enemies. This has hap
pened before, and it has caused a great
deal of unnecessary screaming among
liberals and idealists here at home.
while providing political opponents of
the administration with material for
heavy sneering. But the results would
have been far better, and far less open
to question either on moral or on prac-
tical grounds, if there had been greater
unity of purpose and effort in the po-
litical field among the major Allies.
x X
Take, for example, this matter of our
present arrangements with the King
of italy and Marshal Badoglio. Hardly
a day passes that somebody doesn't
throw 81 dead cat at the President or
the State Department or the British
government about that We are be-
traylng democracy, being false to our
ideals, undermining the moral founda-
tions of our war aims, and so forth, ad
inf1nitum. But look at the facts-the
military facts, which in this case were
controlling.
We had two chief military purposes
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Samuel Grafton

King to police italy for us. we saw. we
stih defend that policy in a dav r,
wnlcn we are policing Italy for the Kim
What Is left OF sense is drowninc i,
the sea of contradictions and naradoxe.
into which we so blithely plunged of orr
own free will. w.
The chain Of events would have beeo
otherwise had we made orr al,;onc.
with the Italian people throuoh the,r
leading parties. But Mr.. Ch,1rch,r has
frankly said that in that case the italian
people might have resisted "as much as
uiey dared the demands made upon
tnem py the Italian armies" They
example. N'A
Wen, we cannot expect people To fight
DeSlde us, and with us, for freedom and
stlll not have minds of their own We
ieareo 10 undertake in italy the ad.
venture In freedom we shall have tn
UNDERTAKE with the whole wide world
we might have had the help of the
l1anan soul and the Italian heart. we
settied cheap for the italian ships and
uie Ita1an King. We wanted an aIlv
VINO would both abjectly surrender tn
US ana yet gayly fight with us. who
would help us with all possible enthusi-
asm and yet not disturb us by a hunger
1or democracy.
IN other words, we went lookino for
KIND OF political monster. We fo,,nd
II. 1t is now freely spawning it's chill
oren, such disordered progeny as ever
men OF strong stomach ike not to
look on. INV "
Evening star., 1944-03-09

ship of Ignace Jan Paderewski, the world
famous pianist. 1t established q Polish
Army, which was sent to the European
battlefields.
The principal objective of the Buf-
falo convention will be Ito defend Amer
ica's pledges as embodied in the At
lantic Charter" and to defend the SOW
ereignty of Poland, described as the
first of the United Nations" because
she was the first country in the group
to suffer from the greed of aggressive
totalitarian states.
The convention will be headed by
Charles Rozmarek. an attorney from
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The Poles do not want to mix ma
tional with international politics. Hence
their slogan that they wish to defend
Americas pledge given in the Atlantic
Charter.
The fact that the convention has been
called for the middle of May gives
certain political touch.
X Il X
1t is being held few weeks before the
Republican and Democratic conventions
in Chicago. The fact that there are
some 5,500,0O Polish votes in this coun-
try is certain to be taken into considera-
ton by both parties. The Polish vote is
large in some of the most important
States such as Illinois, Michigan, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts and Ohio. Politically they have
been divided in the past and the rela-
tions between the various clubs and fra
ternities were not always too cordial
But since the existence of Poland as
a sovereign state has become threatened
Evening star., 1944-03-09

council at the time of the italian
decision, it could have spoken out bold
ly and plainly on behalf of all the
powers concerned. 1t could have said
nluntly: We are making this deal with
the only men who can give us what
military necessity requires us to have.
Later on. Italians shall choose their
own government, when they are free
to Go so.'
That, in effect, was said at Moscow
afterWard; but the point is that it
should have been said at the time, be-
fore all the uproar started. The much
greater point is that we must have
some such agency for reaching de-
clsions, and some such centralized and
authoritative voice to make them clear
to the folks at home and to the soldiers
on the battlefield.
We have plenty of troublesome de-
clSionS to make. Poland, Finland, Bull
garia are right on the horizon: the
future of Germany itself may we'll be
next. We cannot put these things off,
and we cannot allow military needs to
be hampered by political uncertainties.
We have our combined chiefs of staff.
We need combined political staff
United Nations Council.
Copyright, 1914, New York Tribune, Inc)
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Boy and the Clock

He 1Uho has told the time bu soma
and sun,
By dusk and stars appearing one By one,
By morning lOaking him, by davs
fdreUeH
Sealed by his mothers kiss, no1U learns
to tell
The time upon the clocks round face.
He'll kno1U
HoU intervals, deliberate and slo,p,
Can change their lethargy and snail
like tread
In youth, to eagles flight to1Uard
SunSetred.
The slender hands upon the dial ,0iH
hold
His pedding hour like q band of oold,
The time that marks his sons Glad
natal day,
The graying t1Uilight and its misty
Sprdy
When NTH his last and SlolUly ebbing
breath
He asks the time o'clock 1Uhile ,0aitinq
death.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1944-03-09

to serve: To get the italian fleet and
air force out of the way and to secure
the surrender of the italian garrisons
in the Balkans so that the Germans
either would have to replace them with
German troops, or let the Yugoslav
patriot forces get real start.
Nobody in Italy could have delivered
these goods except Marshal Badoglio,
backed by the Kings authority.
Badoglio delivered them. The Italian
fleet surrendered. The Italian air force
ceased to trouble us. The Mediterra-
mean became an Allied lake. British
heavy warships were released, at a time
when they were badly needed, for serv-
ice in the Far East, to cover the naval
communications of Lord Louis Mount
batten's forces and to close the Bay
OF Bengal against Japan.
That policy is paying dividends now.
The italian garrisons in the Balkans
folded up Marshal Tito got his start.
He is cashing in on it. The Germans
have been busy in the Balkans ever
since, increasing their forces there by
8 to 10 divisions Those divisions are
out OF the war as far as the Italian or
Russian fronts are concerned, or the
western front either.
X X X
But still the Allied governments, ours
particularly, are blamed for continuing to
deal with the King and Badoglio as the
interim government of Italy. In other
words, it is urged that now that the
King and Badoglio have carried out
their part of the bargain, we should
give them the boot and replace them
with some sort of provisional govern
ment more representative of the Ital-
ian people"
Aside from the impossibility of find
ing out what the great majority of the
Italian people want, because they are
still German slaves, is it advisable to
establish Uncle Sam in the reputation
of a double-croSser? If so, who will
make a deal with us next time, when
perhaps we shall need it even more?
The trouble, it seems to me, is that
we do not have enough plain talk and
simple language. The reason we do
not have it is because we do not have
real political unity among the major
Allies.
If we had had . United Nations
Evening star., 1944-03-09
'Buby Broker Bill

The baby broker" bill has more
outspoken support and less visible
opposition than any pending local
legislation. 1t has twice passed the
House. Yet its passage in the SEN
ate is by no means assured by the
generally approving nature of the
testimony before the Senate sub
committee For while the highly
confidential nature of the circum-
stances surrounding the disposition
or placement of infants by their
parents has led to commercialism
and all nature of abuses by un-
scrupulous persons, it is most nee
essary that the sanctity of records
OF parentage, adoption, ETC.. be pre-
served. The difficulty of finding the
formula for safeguarding records
and at the same time making the
placement of children subject to
public regulation has been a major
stumbling block in the past and may
prove so again. But that difficulty
should by all means be overcome.
1t is scandalous that there should
be an unregulated underground
traffic in babies. subject to no
standards which guarantee the re-
sponsibility and fitness of the indi-
viduals or institutions concerned.
The District of Columbia, Nevada,
South Carolina, Alaska and Puerto
Rico are the only Jurisdictions which
lack regulations for the placement
OF children. 1t should be possible to
obtain agreement on phraseology of
legislation which will be acceptable
to at least a majority of the persons
who have given long study and
thought to the question. If there is
continued opposition, it should be
discussed openly on its merits and
not be permitted silently to stifle
what is essentially desirable
measure.
Evening star., 1944-03-09

italians are sound asleep politically,
then we have to explain how it is that
they are talking in their sleep, shouting
in their sleep, vigorously demanding,
through all these supposed slumbers,
the end Of their incredible monarchy.
do not believe the Italians are asleep.
Sometimes I think it Is we who are
dreaming.
Finally, when an italian volunteer
army is recruited by the liberal philos-
opher, Benedetto Croce, to fight for
freedom alongside us, we disband that
army on the ground that it is against
the King; then turn around and crit
icize the people of Italy on the ground
that they are not giving enough mill
tary aid to democracy.
In a word, we tie the Italian people,
hand and feet, and score them for being
immobile. When they twitch we pull
the ropes tighter and remark that they
seem unwilling to move.
And all these wonders and anomalies
flow from the original anomaly that we,
the liberators, made an alliance with an
outworn monarch and his accommo-
dating marshal instead Of making an
alliance with the people. We did 1t to
win Italy easily, with the Kings help.
We didn't win Italy and we are left
helping the King.
n
Having made this original political
mistake, we now find ourselves in a kind
OF political sideshow, q world of two
headed boys and human skeletons, in
which everything is distorted and
nothing makes sense. We needed the
Evening star., 1944-03-09
Motives Hard to Discern.
70 the Editor OF The Star:

70 the Editor OF The Star:
I cannot follow the reasoning which
gives rise to the opinion, expressed
twice lately by correspondents of The
Star, that Americas participation in the
League of Nations would have prevented
this war
In England and France, the two most
powerful and vitally concerned members
OF the League, and both located on the
very doorstep of disarrned Germany,
could not discern the motive behind
Germany's rearmament program, which
all evidence indicates was the case.
then on what reasoning is the opinion
based that a nation elss vtally con-
cerned and located more than 5000 miles
away could have discerned that motive?
The fact that Japan is now using our
scrap iron to wage war on us is not
very good evidence that our leaders are
more capable of perceiving motives than
the leaders of other nations. In truth.
the regard that is now being paid our
beloved Atlantic Charter would indicate
that our leaders may have lots to learn
about motives j. j. SPERRY.
Woodstock Va
Evening star., 1944-03-09
G0Hld Lincoln

dent will veto 1t is another matter ue
has indicated he will be guided by the
number of men in the armed forces
who will be able to vote under the
pending bill or under the 1912 law
II it seems to him that the new hill
Will give the ballot to the greater num.
Der, then he may sign it. ONLY two
members of the Conference COMMITTEES
handling the bill refused to SIGN the
conference report-Senators Green NJ
Rhode Island and Hatch of New Mex-
leo, both Democrats. Senator Green
maintains that more soldiers will he
able to vote under the existing law
But that is neither the view of the
majority OF the conferees nor of OBJ
servers generally.
4
Postcards already have been going In
the soldiers under the 1912 law Twelve
Hliinon OF these postcards have been
printed The law called for their dis
trlbution beginning February 1. The
new Dill provides for the use of these
postcards and for the printing of fur
tner cards II necessary, in slightly diff
ferent form
Finally will come the task of dis
trlputlng the ballots in reply to the
postcard requests, and returning them
10 the States for counting in the elec-
tlon. The War and Navy Departments
nave protested that the job of dis
Grioutlng State ballots is too heavy.
Iney VIII now have the job of ham
unng Vhe ballots: If they cannot do
IL, tnen many soldiers will use the Fed
eral ballot.
II seems incredible that State ball
loss cannot be distributed and collect
ea IN the armed forces in continental
ontea states. And it does seem pos
sIDie ior the distribution Of State ball
Iots 70 the, great majority Of men