The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-08
Observations
Wives, Service
Men Obtaining
Many Divorces
BY Helen Esssry

was discussing the frequent
and sudden divorces Of husbands
serving abroad from the wives
they left behind them. With man
who lips in plane around the
world and back again every month
or so.
DO you suppose it is the wives
who are getting the divorces
! asked.
Not If the men are in Austria
la" ! was told in voice OF con-
Yiction. no stree, Nobody be-
lieYes ho-r attractive those Aus
tralian girls are, unless he has
known them.
They've got everything. They're
smart They're soodIookins with
the most-the most-thc most
Anyhow. they've got swell figures.
And that isn't all
Il tell you, seriously, American
women will have to lOoN sharp 70
keep up with girls like that
. The globe dying man continued:
II think it is outrageous 10 keep
the WAVES at home. The Navy
needs them abroad Especially IN
a place like Australia Why
shouldn't they have chance 10
get over there as the WACS are
doing. Let all OF the seryiceWom-
en- have their romances and marry
nice men. And, believe me, they
will be a darn sight likelier 10
marry Americans if they 90 abroad
where the American men are than
II they stick at home, just waiting
around
SPEAKING OF AMERICAN
WOMEN ABROAD, there's that
Latin American trip Of Mrs Roose-
velt's. a few people in the State
Department are now recalling how
eager the wife OF the President
was 10 go to South America several
years agO. There were many re-
ports OF her immediate leave-tak-
ings. But somehow she never left.
The reason for this was the OPP
position Of the then Undersec-
tary OF State. sumner Welles. He
fought the trip steadily. Thought
the Latins would not understand
Mrs. Roosevelt She didn't go
south OF the Rio Grande until
Weiles had been succeeded in the
State Department by Edward
Stettiuius
AT THE ARMY AND NAVY
CLUE ! met the famous Dr. Was
sell. hero of the movie Or. Wassell
Comes Home. shown by the Navy
LEAGUE for the benefit OF the
American Red Cross.
You remember, the President,
in one OF his broadcasts praised
Dr. Wassells courage and skill
in bringing wounded men back from
Java
Dr. Wassel is a celebrity TO re-
store your faith in celebrities. He
is a wild. unaffected sincere gem
tleman. You believe in him. insta-
antly. and realize that after the
Horrors OF Java and the hurrah OF
two years in Hollywood whore he
went TO help direct the picture, he
still has a simple, proud faith in
pNOPAC anu IL ANANAAg.
If COULD FORGET the lake
at Charlottenburg near, Berlin as
] saw il one summer day. might
feel less certain that a long, fear
full struggle with Germany awaits
US
You have seen little ponds and
creeks in this country. sbuEz with
Swimming water insects, cutting
across the ripples. racing as II their
lives depended on moving gaily
and swiftly.
This was the way the lake be-
side Charlottenburg looked when
watched it enyiously, a tourist in
a sightseeing bus. Instead OF in
sects. however. J saw German boys
and girls diving and swimming and
frolicking in the water.
The lake was-I hate the word
but il suits-the lake was live
with healthy, happy German youth.
They padded in canoes. They
rowed in boats They propelled
bicycle rats and contraptions that
looked Ike water ferris wheels.
They proved their strength and
toughness by feats that would have
appalled, young America as It was
then. Likewise, they proved the
foresight Of their own government.
"On this very August afternoon.
back home" ! thought. hundreds
OF thousands Of American girls and
boys are riding in automobiles, sit.
ting in the movies, watching base
ball games, getting lazy and soft
muscled. What will happen 20
them Il ever again they need 10
fight these terrifying youngsters?
What is wrong with US that we
so stupidity fail to look after our
own"
Certainly young American men
and women, too. have responded
gloriously to this brutal Job 81
World War H. But while a perfect
postwar world is being tied up
in cellophane gift wrappings,
would like TO ask for the sort Of
education that will produce 10000
replicas of that lake at Charlotten.
burg in this grand, magnificent and
somewhat careless United States