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Evening star., 1944-12-17
Veterans Aid Agency
Moves 10 Eliminate
Overlapping Services
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

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The Retraining and Re-employ-
ment Administration has asked
every Federal agency dealing with
veterans-more than dozen in all
to explain what they are doing for
veterans and war workers, as first
step toward eliminating overlapping
services, 1t was learned last night.
After determining what law each
agency Is operating under, the IRA
will issue directives to the agencies
fixing their responsibility, an official
explained.
Col. Paul H. Griffith, assistant
IRA administrator in charge of
employment, disclosed that Selective
Service and United States Employ
ment Service officials had reached
an agreement on veterans and war
workers aid after a conference late
last week. Both had been charged
by law with the responsibility for
finding new jobs for veterans.
As a result of the conference, Col.
Griffith said, the USES and its Vet
Grams Employment Service will find
new jobs while Selective Service will
be responsible for getting veterans
their old jobs back. Col. Griffith
added, however, that for the pres
ent-until USES has enough funds
to expand-Selective Service will
f1nd new jobs for veterans in some
communities.
RRA officials revealed these other
steps taken since the administra-
ton, which started out under execu-
tive order. was established by leg
islation:
/. Despite the request of the Civil
Service Commission for service
medical records of psychotic vet
Grams, Brig. Gen. Frank r. Hines.
RIA administrator as we'll as ad-
ministrator of veterans affairs.
ruled that no medical records of
veterans can be given out TO en-
ployers, inside or outside the Fed
eral Government.
This decision, in which most
members of the IRA Advisory
Council were said to concur, appears
to close the door on the District
Governments move to obtain such
records on veterans seeking rein-
statement In the District Govern
ment.
Get Rationed Materials.
2. The Office of Price Admins
tration agreed to release rationed
materials to veterans who want to
return to the businesses they oper-
ated before the war. 1t was ex-
planned that rationed goods are not
made available to new businesses
but that veterans will be treated
as though they had stayed in busi-
ness. Sugar was cited as one of
the materials to be released.
The Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, an IRA official pointed out,
already has amended its regulations
to permit veterans previously in the
taxi or trucking business to get
some euuipment.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
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Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1944-12-17
BY the Associated Press.

BURCOTE BROOK, near Abingen,
Berkshire, Dec. 16.-John Masefield,
Er:gland's poet laureate, said today
he believes Russia will be one of the
strongest forces for peace in the
postwar world.
Russia seems determined there
shall not be another European war,
that the craze for conquest shall not
again get out of hand on this conti-
nent,' the 6s-year-old, gray-haired
poet said in an interview.
Mr.. Masefield predicted Russia
would come out of the war with
plenty of weight behind her convic-
tions; for we have seen an astound-
ing feat in the East. a profoundly
significant rebirth of a vast nation
within a generation
Russia will emerge triumphantly
from the war, knowing her political
system will stand almost any shock
and with the knowledge that she
virtually has saved Europe. Her
voice will be strong indeed in world
councils
Two Danger Points Cited.
Mr.. Masefield said THE two dan
ger points" in Europe as he saw them
"are Germany and the Balkans.
Russia will have her realistic way
dealing with the Germans, and she
may well be means of controlling
threats in the entire Balkan area.
People of those lands, hot tempered
mountaineers, love fighting and
thrive on national hatreds to a de-
gree incomprehensible to us and es-
pecially to Americans.
Most of the other European
countries-eVen Italy should have
had her fill of War-desire lasting
peace. That will provide Russia
with her golden chance 1t should
be our chance, TOTO help build a
practical community of nations in
Europe"
Mr.. Masef1eld said, however, that
what I fear is that most of the
European nations-perhaps all ex-
cept Russia-will be too tired after
the war, just as they were after the
last war, to do what will be required
to keep the peace.
Nations Are Tired.
Nations viii want to rest rather
than to tackle peace problems bold
/ ly and vigorously. Alas, active
scoundrels then will be quick to
take advantage of such unguarded
and apathetic times, just as they
did before.
Mr. Masefield, who smiles gently
but has the inward toughness of a
man who has been a ships cook
farmland, hobo, dock walloper and
New York saloon porter, did not
wish to try to unravel the snarled
skeins of conflicting motives in
Greece, Italy and Poland.
He emphasized, however, that
most of the problems ahead of us
Evening star., 1944-12-17
BrowneH Opens Campaign
To Name Local Officials
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Armed
with the first surplus the party ever
brought out of presidential con-
test, Herbert Brownell, ir., started
the ball rolling today on a four
year Republican campaign to elect
Mayors, Governors, members of
Congress and finally a President.
The national committee chair
man, back from months vacation
in the West, said he hadn't decided
yet whether he wants to keep the
nonpaying job he took over last
summer when Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey became the party's presi-
dental nominee.
But Mr.. Browneu gave every
appearance, as he arranged con-
ferences with Republican leaders, of
a man who intends to keep his hand
on the party reins. That issue will
be determined when the committee
meets, probably early in February, in
a MidWestern State.
Committee members heard that
the 40year-old chairman already
has sufficient written pledges to as
sure his reelection, if he wants to
hold on.
Mr.. Brownell has made it plain
that if he remains as chairman
1t will be with the understanding
that he will run a party, and not
a Dewey, show. He is understood
to have told that to the New York
Governor.
Mr.. Brownell will talk with Gov
Dewey here tomorrow.
Conferences are planned in WASH
ington at which Mr.. Brownell will
talk over his ideas with members
Of Congress, heads of congressional
campaign committees and others.
The Republicans repeatedly wound
up the presidential contest with
S350,o00 in the till. something that
never happened to them before.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
FuN-Time Chairman
To Revive COP Urged
By Nebraska Senator
BY GOULD LINCOLN.


Senator Wherry of Nebraska,
Senate Republican whip, yesterday
proposed that the Republican Ma
tional Committee provide a full
time national chairman with a
four-year term at an adequate
salary.
The Senator praised Herbert
Brownell,. jr., the present chairman,
but added that if Mr.. Brownell
cannot give his full time to the
office, he should resign and permit
the election of another man who
can.
"The Craftsmanship of the COM
mittee is one OF the outstanding
positions Of this Nation the Sem
ator said. 1T carries with it re-
sponsiDilities which go far beyond
mere party aff1liation. The chair
man, to discharge his functions with
integrity and skill, must be stu
dent of national issues and guard
ian of the national welfare. The
Craftsmanship calls for man per-
manent in his position and devot-
ing to it his entire efforts and at
tention. 1t is full-time man-sized
job.
"If any one doubts that this is the
case, he need only remind himself
that the very organization (the CIO
Political Action Committee) that
took over the New Deal, that car
ried on its vigorous Ward-heeling
politics in every State in this Union,
and that claims the lions share in
the New Deal victory, has, already
gone on record that it intends to
consolidate and extend its Influence
in the political as well as the eco
nomic realm"
3-Point Program Offered.
The Senator insisted that the
chairman and the committee should
not work in the interests of any
one candidate for the presidential
nomination, but that they should
see that all potential nominees have
their chance and go before the
people and show themselves.
"If the Republican party is to
prevent a political monopoly from
dominating this country" he said,
I'VE will have to achieve some revo-
lutionary changes in our party or
ganization, nationally, as well as
within the States and local COM
munitieS."
To meet the problem, the Senator
presented a 13-point program, with
the proposal No. l being that the
national Craftsmanship become a.
full-time Job.
The national committee" he
said, Should meet now and change
the machinery to provide for a ma
tional chairman to be chosen for a
four-year term, to take place on
January l or as soon thereafter as
possible"
Would Extend Organization.
This would carry the chairman,
whether Mr.. Brownell or another
through the next presidential elec-
ton campaign.
Another point in the program calls
for the extension of work of the ma
tional organization into the States,
through the State party organiza-
ton II
The office of State chairman"
Mr. Wherry said, also should be
full time, four-year job. Close con-
tact with county chairmen and pre-
cinct workers is absolutely necessary.
Only by such close, direct and con-
slant contacts, can the successful
technique of the PAC be duplicated
and effectively met"
The national chairman, the Ne
hraska Senator continued, should
work closely with other organiza-
tions, such as Governors confer
ences, and with Republican mem
bers of Congress where the issues
naturally arise and the party pro-
gram deVelopS.'
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Dr.. Harris to Speak

The Capital View Civic Associa-
tion will hear DR.. Edward F. Harris,
Federation of Civic Associations
president, and Capt. Albert I. Bull
lock of police precinct No II, speak
at their regular meeting at 8 pm.
tomorrow. The meeting will be held
in the Capital View Baptist Church.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Miss Edgar
To Wed

Mr. AND MRS. FRANK NJ.
EDGAR of Glendale avenue will
be hosts at the rehearsal dinner
in the DAG tonight for their
daughter. Martha Jane. and
Navy 1t. Gordon Arnold Sol
berg. who will be married at
40 p. m. tomorrow in St.
Matthias Episcopal Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar returned
Sunday from Washington. where
they have been living for the
last year.
Martha Jane, her SiSter-in-
law. Mrs. Frank NJ. Edgar Jr. Of
Arlington. Va; 1t. Solberg and
1t. Frederick Dietsch. one of the
ushers. were 10 arrive this
morning from Washington.
Also TO be present at the re-
hearsal dinner are Mrs. Jennie
Solberg OF Manistee, mother of
the bridegroom-elect, his sister,
Lucille. Mrs. Edgar Jr., who will
be matron of honor; Miledore
Liebeck and Jeanne MeServa,
the bridesmaids. who will come
from their homes in Chelsea:
Lester Solberg of Manistee, who
will be his brothers best man.
and Ward Solberg, who comes
from Chicago to be an usher at
his brothers wedding.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Honeymoon Red Run I
At Niagara PartyJuIy I9

MIR. AND MRS. EDWARD
LEWIS OCHAL are at Niagara
Falls on their wedding trip, fol-
lowing their marriage here at 2
p. m. Saturday in the Dodge
Community House. The Rev,
Henry d. Jones officiated.
The bride is the former Beth
any j. Ziegler, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. l.. Ziegler OF Flint,
and her husband is the son Of
Mrs. Frank Wojciechowski Of
Detroit.
The bride wore a white chif-
fon gown with an inset yoke OF
lace. edged in seed pearls. The
dress was fashioned along prime
ess lines with a fitted bodice and
full skirt. She wore a fingertip
length veil of tulle and carried
a cascade bouquet of white car
nations, centered by a white
orchid.
Mrs. Stanley p. McRae was
matron OF honor. She wore
gown OF blue chiffon with a
fitted bodice and full skirt, with
full-length insertions of lace
and carried an arm bouquet OF
blush pink carnations.
Edward Capper was best man.
A reception was held in
Community House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ochal are both
students in the Wayne Univer-
sity law school and will make
their home here when they re-
turn from their wedding trip.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

RED RUN GOLF CLUB will
give its second summer luncheon
and bridge on the afternoon OF
July IS. Mrs. o. l.. Trainor 10
social chairman and Mrs, E. L.
Casey Jones will assist Mrs.
Trainor as hostess OF the day.
Serving on the entertainment
committee are Mrs. George L.
Carr, Mrs. Gust f. Headbloom.
Mrs. Frank c. Mark, Mrs. Harry
W. Brown and Mrs. T. w. Bus
sing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Masons Aid Recreation League

AT MEETING of the Army and Navy Recreation League
Yesterday home of Mrs. Charles A. Dean Jr OF Ridge
road Crosse Ponte Farms, president of the board
nouncement made Of generous gift from the Grand
Lodge the Masons with which to carry on the work
the money will be used in constructing portable
boxing ring at Percy Jones Hospital -.
Boxing matches Mrs. Dean said the disabled service
mems favorite entertainment
hundred dollars will be devoted to fund for the
furnishing of a library at Percy Jones.
The WAC headquarters in the Bull Building already has
been furnished with portion of this money
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

In this interesting family
group are Mrs. Eugene
O'Keefe and her delightful
children, Dennis, 2; Judy,
II months; Douglas, 6, and
Nancy, 5. Their home is
in Sunningdale drive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Sylvia Madorsky
Engaged TO Wed

MR.. AND MRS. MAX MA
DORSKY of Richton avenue and
Mt. Clemens announce the en-
gagement of their sister. Sylvia.
TO Louis Fish. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Fish of Sioux
City, la.
The wedding will take place
in early September.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
John Schwar1 Best Man

CHRISTINE is sure Of other attendants Anna
Petzod as flower girl George Frschkon Wilson ring
bearer.
But il is doubtful whether the bridesmaids dresses will
be finished in time
John Schwarz will be best
cocktail party to have been gwen tomorrow by
George Frischkorn uncle of the bdeelecbu has been
Cancelled
The spinster given last night in the home Of
Mrs Petzod and the bachelor dinner IN the DAG with
Tom Petzold and Miles OBrien hosts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Entertains Board Members

AFTER THE meeting, Mrs. Dean entertained the mem
bers of the board a buffet luncheon.
Present . Mrs. Allen Sheldon, vice president
Mrs Howard Freeman Smith, second vice president Mrs
Lester Ruwe secretary Mrs James Turner corresponding
secretary. Mrs. George f. BUSHNELL treasurer Mrs
James O. Murhn Mrs. Frank P. Book
- Mrs William 1. McCverin. and Mrs Glenn Anderson
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
In N ay ia a,..,.... VT,

ENSIGN WILLIAM PETzoLD CLARK son Of the
Bernard Carks few into town Unexpectedly Wednesday
night in a bomber
He will marry Christine Wall tomorrow in ST.
Ambrose Church
Although wedding plans being made, no definite date
had been set.
Fortunately Christine and her sister, Marilyn who IL
10 be maid of had ordered their dresses time
ago and ready
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Gloria Morris
Troth Revealed

MIR. AND MRS. HOYT EV-
ANS NORRIS of Detroit and
Monterey. Mexico. announce tho
engagement OF their daughter.
Gloria Jean Morris, 10 Aviation
Ordnance Man lie Daniel Dele
hanty Kobbe. son OF Mrs. Mary
Kobbe OF New York.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Vacation in Canada

MIR. AND MRS. CHARLES
DALYANES of Brentwood ave-
rue have left for a three-week
trip to Montreal and Quebec.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-03
German Morale

Since the tide of war started running
against the NaziS, we have been getting
q variety of solemn and authoritative
statements on the subject of German civ
tlian morale. They have come from peo-
pie who had been in Germany after the
war started people who had lived there
earlier, people who had taken a Cooks
tour of the Rhine country back in the
twentieS, or from folks who were just self
confessed to an uncanny intuition.
They assured us that the German people
have caught paranoia from their fuehrer
and that it was spreading in epidemic pro-
portions. We have been told that they
could only hold up while they were win
ming, and that when they felt the weight
OF Allied bombs their propaganda-built
belief in invincibility would collapse, and
they would go entirely to pot. Well, these
things may all come to pass, but they
haven't yet. And the latest story out of
Germany, from a readily believable
source, makes it appear that they won't
in the immediate future.
This latest story is the composite opin-
ion of some 600 Americans, diplomats,
newspapermen, Red Cross workers, and
others, who recently reached Spain in a
prisoner exchange after Is months in
Germany. They emphatically state that
they saw no sign of an internal collapse
such as took place in 1918. The bomb
ingS and the steady chain of defeats in
Russia, they report, have only served to
Stiffen morale. Before that, one of the
journalists in the group reported, cit
seemed as if the mass Of the German peo-
pie did not have a war on their hands"
Their report indicates that the average
German is either extremely stoical or eX-
tremely confident. 1t may be that he has
been so stuffed with assurances of certain
victory, sweetened by early Nazi triumphs
and later distortion of fact, that he is
only now beginning to realize the serious
ness of his plight.
This news is little disquieting for
most of us have INDUCED in Wishful think
ing about crackup in the Nazi home
front. Coupled with Prime Minister
Churchill's rather gloomy summation Of
the Nazi ground forces strength in his
latest speech, it makes it appear that Mr..
Baruch's "X Day" of German collapse
may be long way off. Perhaps this is
another pessimiStic story that Allied au-
thorities have been Directing to. But II
it is true we should know it here at home,
and plan and act accordingly. Surely
and eventually we shall beat Germany,
but it appears that it is going to take con-
siderable doing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-03
Should We Aim to Please?

Senator Ralph o. Brewster of Maine, and
former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies have
made two interesting observations in
recent speeches on what might be called
the personal" aspect of this country'S
diplomatic relations.
eve must" said the senator, grow
up and assume among the nations OF the
earth a position commensurate with the
great power that is ours"
And Mr. Davies said, GAS to the future,
the situation will depend largely upon
the degree with which the Soviet people
will trust the avowalS of purpose and
good faith of ourselves and England.
Neither they nor we will enter into
long-term contract except on the basis
of trust and confidence and good faith
of the other party.
$50 far as future peace is concerned,
it may be more important as to what the
SovietS think of us, than what the west
ern democracies think of the SovietS."
It is neither imperialistic nor isolation
list, we believe, to agree with Senator
Brewster and to question the wisdom
of part of Mr.. Davis statement. We have
been, throughout the war; rather largely
an altruistic nation. We have taken the
lead in trying to implement the vision
of better world to come.
But when the vision has threatened to
clash with reality, we have shown signs
of diffidence In the world of social con-
tact, individuals can safely and handily
be divided into two groups - those who
defer, and those who expect difference.
And the fact that the people who defer
are often the nicer and more livable
group of the two does not alter the fact
that these people are often imposed upon.
The same division holds true as regards
countries. But just as there is no rea-
son why four people of the Difference
exacting type cannot live happily side by
side, so there is no reason why the United
States, England, Russia and China can
not exist in harmony, even though by
reasons of size and strength they are des-
tined to dominate the postwar world.
There is no reason why any OF the four
should defer to the other in days to come.
Each is differen, each strong and import
ant and necessary to the other three. we
do not think that it is more important
what the Soviets Cor the Chinese or the
English) think of us than what we think
of them We have sufficient strength,
and dignity, and reputation for honor, to
live with our allies as "groWn-up," ana
in friendlineSS, without worrying TOO
much about whether we are being liked,
or whether we are always being pleasing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-03
Democracy For The Negro

"At the very moment when America
is proving one of the leaders of the world
in the crusade for democracy in Europe
and Asia, thirteen million American siti-
zens are deprived of the democracy for
which the sons of America have gone
forth to war;" writes Otelia Cromwell in
the May number of "The American
Scholar.
The author, who is a public school
teacher in the District of Columbia, urges
that "the time is past for temporizing
with Americas greatest problem .. >. To
solve the Negro problem America faces
the necessity of uprooting the deeply
entrenched practice of Negro segregation.
Segregation is the root Of the trouble.
The Negro and his friends oppose segre-
cation because segregation connoteS
inequality. -.
"Obvious evidences of inequality are
the customarily inadequate playground
spaces for the Negro schools and the loca-
ton of these schools, as rule, in or near
vice-ridden areas or in sections planned
for future Negro developments. Not quite
so obvious, but of greater significance, is
the basis of the charge made by Negro
teachers that supplies and equipment IN
the Negro schools are curtailed even
though classes are invariably over-croWd
ed and teaching loads are well-nigh
unbearably heavy. -.
"But even if an ideal of absolute
equality could be achieved in the segre-
gated school, such an institution, I'M
democratic in principle, would still be
fraught with potentialities of trouble.
The separate school >. introduces chill
dren, black and white, to the hitherto I'M
suspected fact of race prejudice and thus
establishes 'mind-set' -.
'The Negro seeks to achieve his Con-
stitutional rights in both letter and in
spirit. The Negro would realize con-
cretely the ideal of American citizenship.
-. Further, he would enjoy all the privi-
leges in the way of protection, education,
and other benefits that the federal gov
eminent, the state, and the community
provide for citizens. Inasmuch as rights
and privileges imply obligations, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-03
Selected Poem
ELEGY

Catherine Bryant Rowles)
Say that she died because they murdered beauty
And trampled truth TO the ground with lies;
That malice and injustices were challenged
BY the daring and the candor in her eyes.
Saw that she died because her heart was broken
For a love resigned or a grief too deep.
Her sensitive soul was poetry and music
Sing softly, o We birds, that she may sleepl
Across the darkened world the guns were thundring
Tall lads flew off in the wind to die.
Young blood had strewn the Seven Seas with
Our sons o Mary, mother Of Jesus . why2
Say that she died because her soul was angushed
BY the tunult Of those battle years
That shook the stars and hurled the world in terror
And left the songs Of angels touched with teaEsl