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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
Calamity Town

would not smile; the boys, said Sid
ney Gotch, just yelled "Yahhhh"
and took it out on Mueller's Feed
Store three doors up the block.
And the wooden mill had taken on
extra help-army orders.
Boom times, brother! No won
der you couldn't get a room. I've
got an uncle from st. Paul and a
cousin from Pittsburgh doublin' up
with me and Betsy right now!"
Mr.. Queen glanced up at the big
clock on the Town Hall steeple.
Two-thirty. No room. Ell?
Walking rapidly, he made his
way back to Lower Main and neither
paused nor pried until he reached
the shop marked ]. C. PETIT
GREW, REAL ESTATE.
His number lbs up on his desk,
&c. was mapping when Mr.. Queen
entered. Mr.. Pettigrew had Just
come from the weekly Chamber Of
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
BY EIery Queen

women in house dresses and men in
work clothes. Consulting his street
map, Mr.. Queen ascertained that
this avenue Of commerce was Lower
Main; so he made for it.
Here he found the Record office I;
he peered in and saw the big press
being shined up by old Phinny
Baker after the mornings run. He
sauntered up Lower Main, poking
his nose into the crowded five-and-
dime, past the new Post Office build
ing. past the Bijou Theater, past
j. C. Pettigrew's real-estate office;
and he went into Al Browns Ice
Cream Parlor and had New York
College Ice and listened to the chat
ter Of tanned boys and red-cheeked
girls of high-school age. He heard
Saturday night dates" being ar
ranged right and left-for Dance
land, in the Grove, which he gath
cred was at Wrightsville Junction
three miles down the line, admis-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
CHAPTER ONE

II LLERY QUEEN stood knee
r. deep in luggage on the
- Wrightsville station plat
form and thought: This makes me
an admiral. Admiral Columbus.
The station was a squatty affair
Of black-red brick. On rusty hand
truck under the caves two small
boys in torn blue overalls swung
their dirty legs and chewed gum in
unison, staring at him without ex-
preston.
Cramped two-story frame houses
and little stoop-shouldered shops
with a cracker-barrel look huddled
TO one side of the tracks-the city
side, for up a steep street paved
with square cobbles Mr. Queen could
see taller structures beyond.
To the other side of the station
there were merely a garage, an ex-
trolley labeled PILLS DINER, and
a smithy with a neon sign.
Country looks good, by jake, muir
murs Mr.. Queen enthusiastically.
Green and yellow. Straw colors.
And sky of blue and clouds of white
-bluer blue and whittier white than
he recalled ever having seen before.
City - country; and here they
meet. where Wrightsville station
filings the twentieth century into the
astonished face of the land.
Yes, sir, my boy. You've found it.
The Hollis Hotel, Upham House,
and the Kelton among them could
not offer the stranger at their desks
one pitiful room. Boom times had
hit Wrightsville two jumps ahead
of Mr.. Queen. The last room at the
Hollis was filched from under his
nose by a portly man with defense
industry" written all over him.
Undiscouraged, Mr.. Queen
checked his bags at the Hollis, ate
a leisurely lunch in the Coffee
Shoppe, and read a copy of the
Wrightsuille Record--Frank Lloyd
Publisher and Editor.
He memorized as many Of the
names mentioned in the Record as
seemed to have local prominence,
bought q Wrightsville street map
from Mark Doodle's son Grover at
the lobby cigar stand, then struck
out across the red-cobbled Square
under the hot sun.
At the horse trough in the center
of the Square, Mr.. Queen paused TO
admire Founder Wright. Founder
Wright had once been bronze, but
he now looked messy, and the stone
trough on which he stood had obvi-
ously been unused for years. Words
on plaque said that Jezreel Wright
had founded Wrightsville when it
was an abandoned Indian site, in
1701. The chaste windows of the
Wrightsville National Bank, John
F. Wright, Pres, smiled at Mr..
Queen from across the Square, and
Mr.. Queen smiled back: o Pioneers
Then he circled the Square (which
was round) peered into Sol Cow
dy's Mems Shop, the Bon Ton De-
partment Store, Dune MacLean-
Fine Liquors, and William Ketchau,
- Insurance; examined the three
gilded balls above the shop of J. P.
Simpson, the jardinieres of green
and red liquid in the window of the
High Village Pharmacy, Myron
Gnrbdck, Prop, and turned to sur
vey the thoroughfares which radi-
ated like spokes from the hub Of the
Square.
One spoke was broad avenue
the red-brick Town Hall, the Car.
negie Library, a glimpse Of park
tall praying trees, and beyond. q
cluster Of white new WPA-lookine
buildings. Another spoke was 8
street lined with stores and full Of
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
Half-Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
Miss Mary Hoover is in Detroit attending the Michigan
Nurses Association, Of which she is
Over 500 people picnic connection with
the third annual Training Day Training
School lawns The
Todd.
Miss Clara Janet Allison Naples Miss
lnez Graves Miss Estabook Rankin Morrison
VINO are leaving shortly Kiss Rankin and
Miss Graves will visit Norway France Switzerland and England
Miss Morrison will take trip Alaska W n Sherzes
party this
MISS Emily Mutte Howell unusually gifted youthful
lst a pupil OF A. j. Whime will give recital in the First
Methodist Church Detroit auspices Of tho church Miss
Muter has played here several occasions
Fifty ears Ago
w. L. Pack w. H. Guerin W. Sweet Tracy Towner and
w Kief attended the Mystic Shrine concaye At Jackson
N B. Harding L. Shafer Lambert and John F. Lambert at
tended the convention Of the Plumbers Asso
citation at Detroit.
Mrs Nancy Higey and Miss Frances Hgey gave delightful
reception Those assisting Basan Sm Miss Marie
odorne Miss Lilly Strong Miss Day Miss Laura Jennes
and Miss X. Palmer.
George Hammond has shipped horses TO
Detroit for training.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

have them fight for a people. who
do not want us. And what is more,
II any American army Is fighting
anywhere. it will fight under Amer
lean generals in the American way,
without asking the consent OF any
body. II de Gaulle does not like the
amount OF wages American soldiers
receive and how they spend their
money. he can lump it, Until he mas
the wherewithal to do his own
fighting, he must limit himself to
taking what We give France and the
way we give it.
And another thing: get around
a good deal and ] listen TO all the
fattening refuses who infest our
country giving us instructions on
how we ought to live, what we
ought to do at present and in the
postwar era, OF how much of our
money we ought to spend and how.
These folks are doing their own
countries incalculable harm and
are partly responsible for the re-
currenee of intensified nationalism
among the American people. II
these refugees butt into our presi-
Dental election, we are likely to
get rough with them. Many OF these
volunteer lounge-lizard advisors are
responsible for the messes in which
their countries now are. When the
American people need their help.
If ever. Wen ask for 1t. but today.
we're feeding them. lending them
money, leasing them the munitions
of war. and presenting them with
plenty that we could use for our
selves. And we don't owe any OF
them anything. Therefore, they
ought gracefully to shut up and IL
they insist upon yapping, they may
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

man army as speedily as possible
aud to get out of Europe. including
France, as speedily as possible We
have no wish as a people to keen
our children away from the United
States one day more than is abso-
lutely necessary.
1t ought also to be made clear to
General de Gaulle and all French
men. even those who are enjoying
themselves as refugees in this coun-
try, that during the next few
months we shall be conducting
political campaign and we shall be
calling our President lot OF names
and we shall criticize everything
that he has done from the day he
was born. including all OF his ideas
and policies. But that is family
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
A Tip 70 The French
These Days S N?e gso 9ti e.! soxoI;xY

Whatever is published in the
newspapers from the war fronts
passes military censorship There
fore the accounts OF our difficulties
with de Gaulle and the French are
not 10 be taken as the personal
opinion Of a correspondent but rep
resent what military censorship is
willing 10 permit the American peo-
pie 10 know.
think that It ought to be made
clear TO General de Gaulle and the
French people that our boys are
dying in France for the liberation of
France and for nothing that any
American can get out OF il. We
want no French territory. We do
not wish to govern Frenchmen. We
desire to defeat Hitler and the Ger.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
THEY SAY

L. S. goth Bomber Command
Base in Western China-Brig. Cen.
Kenneth Wolfe. commanding gener'
al OF the Superfortresses: This Is
the beginning of the destruction OF
the Japanese industrial empire"
London-Herbert Morrison, min.
lister of home security: The enemy
has begun to use his secret weapon
-pilotless aircraft. The damage
done is relatively small. The new
weapon will not interfere with our
war effort and our sure and steady
march to victory"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
Casualties

Washington. June 19-INS-Bob-
bic Clarence Weaver. aviation ordn-
anceman, first clas-, L. S. Naval
Reserve, was reported today by
the Navy Department as wounded
in action.
His wife, Mrs Eleanore r.
Weaver. resides at 6347 Floyd ST.,
Detroit.
He is the son of Mrs Louis
Leadbetter, Plymouth, Mich.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

MILWAUKEE, ms Friends
Saturday mourned the passing of
Mrs. Meta Berger, II, known ma.
tionally in educational circles, who
died at her home in suburban
Thiensville Friday. Mrs. Berger, a
former teacher. was the first wom-
an ever elected president of a
school board in e major city of the
United Sites.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

find themselves on the unpleasant
side OF the argument.
At-any rate. there are enough Of
us, Democrats as well as Republ-
cans, who feel that way about II
to make this attitude stick. The
best thing a guest can do is 70
watch that he does not wear out his
welcome.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

Willow Run Community Church
Prayer meetings are held in the
church auditorium each Wednesday
evening at 3 p m. The prayer group
is now making a study OF the book
OF James.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

Cleveland-Tom VI. Girdler. steel
and aircraft manufacturer: When
the war ends. industry. Just like
millions OF soldiers in the ranks,
will want and should have, an hon
orable discharge"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19

Prospect Park Church OF chrlet
Wednesday evening Bible Study
and Prayer Meeting S p. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
Church Briefs
BAPTIST Tabernacle

Prayer service Wednesday az
Z 80 p. m.
All boys and girls from the ages
of.three to II may attend the Daily
Vacation Bible School beginning
Monday, June 10 at 9 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-19
Your Health
Dyspepsia Only
symptoms, Which
Need Diagnosis
BY Logan Ciendennlns, N. o.

THE TERM dyspepsia" de.
notes not a diagnosis, but a group
of symptoms related to digestion
for which a cause or more usually
a group Of causes must be sought
by the scientific physician. The
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
The legislative Assembly

The legislature goes into session next week We
wish that could look hopefully forward to the final results
of the assembly, but cannot We know too WELL the siren
activity of the special interests in the past election d
rected toward the election of safe or them) representa-
tives and the apparent success of their efforts
is perhaps unfair to PREJUDICE the character of the
assembly whole We know that there will be quite
liberals seated both of the houses Whether
not they will be able to exercise great amount of nfu
the actions of the assembly, depends largely
it, two things CD How well they organize for effective
action group and 2 the amount of support which they
from the "grass roots Throughout the state.
We have time after time in this column that the
people, Montana of the nation often fail
discharge the fullest extent their responsibilities citizens
democracy Too many follow laissez fare "e George
they have their
representative legislative assembly This cannot be done
desired results to be obtained All that you have done
actually hire a do job 1t is your responsibility
in the way should be done meet your
desires And actually unfair to your hired to fail to
keep in touch with him during the session. YOU falling
down YOUR job if you do not.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29

Although it is somewhat artificial to draw lines of de-
narration between the capitalist groupings each
group actually Shades off, into another perhaps
factions:
CD The "OId Guard" moderately rightly Banking and
heavy industry still strong for constutionaism fondy
hopes normacywth labor unions and govern
ment controls either extinct emasculated Exampes Ma
tonal Association of Manufacturers and House of Morgan
with interlocking interests
(2) The "New Guard" (moderate "left) Light industry
and services willing to make certain concessions to labor
tending toward bureaucracy and controls favor
able business Examples: u S. Chamber Of Commerce. and
Chas E. Wilson of General Electric.
Certain individuals in light industry services small business
and the professons attempting to salvage private enterprise
by extensive social reforms and greater to the
working Glass; increased government controls bordering
state capitalism Example, Marshall Field Publications. Henry
A. Wallace and the pre-war Roosevelt
az The "Natve Fascists Militant Reactionares Eek
rightly Certain individuals in both heavy and light
dusry their political hatchetmen and pubicists would
protect capital and control labor tending toward
abandonment of constitutional rights for the people, would
attempt capture rens of government already set to make
udice Examples Col Robert R. Mccormick of Chicago Tr
bune Henry Ford and Martin Dies
present balance of power lies with Groups and
Group definitely "ou, while many powerful interests
Group and would easily swing in line with Group
the economic crisis That is the the align
nent % stand at the Observation-Disclosures Action
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
Good Bye. Soldier

years friends and loved have learned
say Good Bye Now, they must learn to say Hello
Soldier" Nor will this be easy.
The war isn't yet. We all know that. But it is
over for good many been in the Service steady
flowing back those thousands who for some
reason being mustered out How are they making it?
sprnkng of exsoders in towns and villages
What the civilian wecome Cordial cold just $3.50?
the American Revolution down. the role of returned
soldier has never heroic When the the
glamour gone Also the gratitude of the nation.
So while Service Stars and Good Bye, Soldier may thrill
us today "Hello Soldier everyday life with its prob
lens rctions multiplied times beyond the day of
induction When veterans organize they will look like
other bloc to exploited crcumvented They spell
taxes more than freedom or glory
These of the things for civilians to ponder The
meeting will easy either side The rookie who left
the who returns Civilians too unknown to
themselves changing There is no one in America I'M
Even hate has become habl
habits continue after the first cause has van
ished Perhaps people began to think these things
now there might less bitterness better understanding
more consideration later Hello Soldier must show
than just cheering hrongs and flowers
from the balcony time to start nowFrom The Inter-
County Leader.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
SCHOOLS TO THE PUBLIC

ton of Labor Referring to education
and the war effort, Fred Conboy
mayor of Toronto, has said:
Labor has stood for education;
education has stood for US in good
stead in the time of our great need"
The Importance of education in tn
national defense is emphasized in tn
following telegram from Presiden
Roosevelt to the American Federation
of Teachers in August, 1914:
Despite certain widely publicized
educational weaknesses revealed by
the strains of total war the schools
and colleges of the nation have
made magnificent contribution to
the war effort American fighting
men have proved in combat the mi
tiative self-reliance, mental alert
ness, and devotion to duty that are
the products of the training they
have received, not alone in military
training camps and stations, but in
homes and schools and occupational
life as we'll"
| 4NotiOicl uCIChoC, tHCl ClOiC, DC
come one of the primary responsible
tiles of American education and fol
that reason, the labor movement be
lieves that the schools deserve much
more extensive financial support, in
Guiding federal aid.
One of the most important respon
sibilities of the public schools is to
demonstrate the democratic process in
the schools of the nation. 1t is UNI
fortunate that many of our public
school systems are among the most
undemocratic institutions in the ma.
ton. The American Federation OF
Labor, at it's last annual convention
in Botson Mass, in October, 1913,
stated:
I'm order that American education
may render its greatest possible
service to our nation and to the
postwar world, we urge that every
schoolrOom in America be made a
living laboratory of democracy.
Hundreds of American school sys-
TENS are operated as almost exact
counterparts of the Fascist states of
Europe. If America is to point the
way to a successful, and peaceful
democratic society in the postwar
world, we must first of all place
our own house in order and demo
cratize those school systems of
America which operate on a totali-
tartan basis"
In many school systems, rules and
regulations are handed down arbitra-
rily from a dictator at the top, teach
ers are held down by rule of fear,
and administrators too often are ap-
pointed by political ability rather than
by professional ability. Such condi-
lions in the public schools smack en-
tirely too much of the Fascist and
and Nazi methods of Europe. In
many schools, teachers are practical
ly compelled by their .superiors to
join non-union organizations not of
their own choosing. In many schools,
also, principals and superintendent
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
OPINIONS OF
READERS

Publications of communications
under this heading, does not imply
that The Voice agrees or disagrees
with the opinions expressed. Let
tiers submitted for this department
should be brief and the subject mat
ter discussed to some degree at
least, effectively. Anonymous let
tiers will receive no consideration
for publication. Names will be with
held on request.
Whitefish, Mont, Dec. 81, 1914
To the Editor and Owners of
The Peoples Voice. Helena, Mont.
l want to thank you for publishing
such a fine educational newspaper as
The Peoples Voice, for even the re-
publicans as well as some of the dem
ocrats could learn a great deal by
to and reading The Peo-
Pies Voice instead of reading the cor
poration owned and prostituted press.
do wish that organized labor and
all the Christian people as a whole
would read The Peoples Voice or
other papers that print only the truth
ior the truth would set us free. | will
De sending you check in a few days
will try to get few more readers.
So by wishing you all a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy and Prosperous New
Year. as ever,
Comradely yours,
j. p CAVANAUGH.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-29
BY GEORGE A. HABERMAN
President Wisconsin
State Federation of Labor

Since the organized labor movement
of America was largely responsible
for the free public school system OF
the nation, the Wisconsin Federation
of Labor is vitality interested in the
responsibility of the schools to the
| public. For many years, it has been
the position of the American Fedora
ton of Labor that the first respon-
sibility of the public schools is to edu-
cate citizens so they may participate
intelligently in a democratic society.
Many books and hundreds of articles
have been written about the import
ance of education in democratic gov
eminent, but there is no better state
ment of the basic purpose of public
education than the following state
ment adopted at the very first con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor in 1881:
eff the state has the right to ex-
act certain compliance with its de-
mands, then it is also the right of
the state to educate its people to
the proper understanding of such
demands"
The eleventh convention of the AFL
in 1891 declared:
1--WE urge the necessity of a
thorough education of . children
so that they may be able to judge
in after years of their standing,
rights, and liberties that are guar
anteed to free people of which
they are part and factors"
Throughout it's entire history, the
American Federation of Labor has
fought for the public schools as the
basis of the fundamental philosophy
that public education is indispensable
to the success of democratic govern
ment. In 1888, the annual convention
declared:
"the more complex or democratic
society becomes, the greater the
need for education as protection
for democratic government"
World War II has proved that ma
tional defense is a vital responsibility
of the public school system. The 1910
convention of the ALL declared:
1--WE now realize as never before,
that defending democracy is as
much an educational as a military
task"
The 1941 convention of the AFL,
just before Pearl Harbor, declared:
Education is the first line of ma
tional defense, and as such, should
be extended rather than curtailed
The vocational schools of the nation
have trained in regular and special
classes almost as many skilled work
ers and technicians for the war effort
as there are men in all of the armed
forces combined These vocational
schools were established largely
through the Smith-Hughes law which |
was sponsored and enacted through |
The efforts of the American Fedora