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Evening star., 1944-02-28

It is possible that
the forces OF Ad-
miral Lord Louis
Mountbatten might
undertake q stronger
local operation dur
ing the two dry
months which re-
m q In before the
start Of the mon
soon season. II
heavier attacks d o
develop they will be
restricted to local
stabS.
Under the circum-
stances, the best we
Evening star., 1944-02-28

According to available reports, the
highly touted Burma campaign has
fizzled.
Sporadic fighting Is continuing and
Evening star., 1944-02-28
Sees Danger in School Issue
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
May say just few words on the
subject of forcing the issue of colored
children going to the white schools here
In the District of Columbia?
1t seems to me that this will be a dis
advantage to the colored people. They
now have their own schools and their
own teachers who are on the same
salary schedule as the white teachers.
If the colored children can go to white
schools, then the white children can 60
to colored schools-and white teachers
can teach in colored schools. There are
many white teachers who would not
object to this in any way. It seems to
me that the colored people who are
working for this move are working
against their own interests. They have
something now. This move can gain
them nothing Of value and may lose
them some of the advantages which they.
now enjoy. LAURA K. POLLOCK.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
Jan Exclusion Demanded

properly mingle with ours as Ger
man, Italian and other stocks have
tremendously done.
That is something to be worked
out in centuries and millenia, not
something to be arranged by techni-
calities, compromises or doctrines
that overlook facts.
We are faced with a condition of
emergency, an immediate and acute
problem measured in terms of our
lives, fortunes and independence.
Calmly and judiciously, therefore,
with full recognition of the ideal that
emissions the brotherhood of man.
kind, we must still insist on the pre-
caution of excluding the japanese.
Common sense demands it.
The wide and intense objection to
legalistic arguments that would per-
NIT the infiltration of japanese back
to the Pacific Coast, even while the
Pacific war approaches it's climax, is
thus predicated on correct instinct.
The people don't want the Japs
back, and the people are right.
Any government or official at
tempting to contravene this public
decision will find trouble and amply
deserve all blame for the nasty head
aches that would afflict all parties
concerned.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
BY Westbrook
Pegler

The author of this plan IS
II. F. RaushenbuSh and here,
in brief, is what he wrote about
the absorption of industry by
the government:
"The students coming from
the colleges today can be Of
enormous use TO the movement
as government officials. One
good man with his eyes and
ears and wits about him, in
side the department, can do
moro to start the technique Of
control over industry than n
hundred men on the outside.
While the long time aim Is tho
abolition OF the profit system
for private use, our present
strategy should be TO make and
take every opportunity TO prove
that there Is something better
than tSe profit system"
Well, is there?
That is a fair question which
the President, Mrs. Roosevelt,
Hopkins and Raushenbush and
many others in the Roosevelt
government should be willing
to argue openly instead of ac-
cusing Dewey of repeating odd
lies" when he puts a finger on
the issue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16

George Meany and signed by the
others.
What Mr.. Meany thinks of
the majority decision against
him, is only half what he thinks
of the board chairman. Will
liam II. Davis.
Away back in the John L.
Lewis captive mine dispute with
the board, Mr.. Meany was out
of town. An ardent supporter
of Lewis, he wanted to vote by
telephone, a customary consid-
GRAFTON these boards privately
grant ordinarily.
Davis refused to let Meany
record himself, and although
the story never got out to the
public, Mr.. Meany has over
looked no opportunity since
then to let his indignation run
concerning anything Davis
does.
THE political fakery surfac-
Il ing the whole affair is, in
my opinion, conclusively pene-
trated and exposed by the fail
ure of the labor members of
the board to resign and blow up
the whole board setup.
If they do not get their gen.
eral wage increase after cleo
ton, you may be sure this is
exactly what they will do. They
will mean their indignation
then.
So also with the Petrillo
demonstration, refusing TO ac-
cept Mr.. Roosevelt's request to
allow the two big recording
companies TO make musical
records. Why Jim Petrillo is
one of the closest labor friends
Mr.. r. has. He enjoys the run
of the White House. as few do.
For Mr.. Roosevelt's reelec-
ton he would do anything -
even TO rejecting a request. Also
he would even change his mind
Just before election, and in
gloriously accede if that action
could make Mr.. Roosevelt any
more votes.
This is politics, my friends,
not marbles.
Distributed by King Features synd. Inc.
Reproduction In whole or In part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
LETTERS To THE EDITOR

ington Carver. who also against
great odds spent a life in devo-
ton TO the welfare of his fell
low man. They perSevered to
the end with a humility that
will place them with the great
forever.
Two other men. still alive, I
believe. belong in the same cate
CORY. They are Senator Johnson
of California and Gov Bricker
of Ohio. They stand like giants
ong men whom the world
may call great.
i hope we can see III TO honor
these last two men. while they
are still alive, for service above
and beyond the call of duty"
l have no doubt that Alfred
f. Smith, although he never
heard the strains of Hail to
the Chief" played for himself.
has now heard the words We'll
done thou good and faithful
servant. enter thou into the
Kingdom"
AGNES CURRAN BROWN
Wayne, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16

surely the Roosevelt govern
ment soon would take il all
and, incidentally, would own
and edit the entire American
press which, of course, is pri-
vate property, subject to such
seizure.
The property could not be re-
distributed when peace came.
And, anyway, a majority OF us
may never witness the dawn Of
legal peace, meaning peace by
treaty and the resumption Of
diplomatic relations.
Already there has been a
serious proposal that the state
of war continue for 20 years
so that Germany and Japan
may be kept on probation.
This might be desirable in
that respect but IL would also
justify the continuation of war
emergency controls.
In 20 years or. for that mat
ter. in four years under the
kind of controls proposed by
Mrs. Roosevelt and Hopkins, a
people reduced 10 that condi-
ton would lose entirely their
control over their government.
They would get the habit of
obedience.
A MOTHER idea offered by
"A Mrs. Roosevelt, pertinent 10
Mr.. Dewey's charge of totali-
tartan planning, was contained
in her recent discussion of So
cial equality as between white
men and Negroes.
AS naive indication Of the
course of her thoughts. Mrs.
Roosevelt suggested that Ne
groes be, deported from areas
where they are heavily pre-
dominant and settled elsewhere.
One Negro journalist COM
pares this TO Hitlerism and
points out that, by this prin-
ciple, Catholics or Jews also
could be deported or dispersed
so that they could not elect
their co-religionists to office.
But let us consider an out
line Of a scheme of totalitarian
infiltration as presented back
in 1929 by a man who at pres
ent holds an influential plan
ming position under Harold
Ickes in the department of the
interior.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16

THE people of the Pacific Coast,
L particularly the people of CaIfor
MIA, are nearly unanimous in the
opinion that their safety and peace
demands the future exclusion of
japanese residents from this area.
AS is true of all solidly popular
opinions, this one is founded on facts
that cannot be argued away on prem
iSes of sentiment or philanthropic
theory.
The first is that Japan is our
greatest and bitterest enemy, an
enemy motivated by the most vio-
lent envy, rancor, malice and hatred.
It's corollary is that the unassimi-
liable japanese, both by nature and
circumstances, must always remain
outside our social life.
Japan is fighting us on racial
basis, with venom and fury possible
only to a people who demands our
extinction and is willing to risk an
inhalation to inflict it.
Reason, nevertheless, will admit
that conceivably there are japanese
who in spite of all this, could and
would be loyal to America.
The difficulty lies in finding the
irrefutable test Of that loyalty, and
even then, to find the way in which
japanese blood might decently and
IO-C the DETRoII,rIME Moudsy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
Brain Game

The "Old Lady Of Thread
needle Street this year OBJ
served an anniversary. Is she
(a) Is, 100. 200 or $50 years
old; CD What is her correct
name?
2-Movie star Gary Cooper is
married 10 .........?
3-Name the capital city of Es-
tonia.
&C hristy Matthewson and
Hooks Whites set a two
pitcher record of so victories
in one season in 1908. For
what team did they pitch?
5-Macadam roads were the in
vention of a man named
McAdam.
6-Who was Lydia Liliuokalani ?
Queen Liliuokalani wrote
many songs, one of which has
become very popular. What
is il?
8-What is a writ of mandamus 4?
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
FAIR ENOUGH

nov. DEWEY made charge
VI in his Charleston speech
which concerns the whole flu
ture of the nation, as to
whether we shall ever go back
to free enterprise with freedom
TO work where we will and at
occupations which we prefer.
For proof of the Roosevelt
governments intent TO take
over most of our industry and
tell each of us where we could
work, at what and for how
: much" he quoted from a report
by Adolf Berle, a veteran BRAIN
truster now in the state depart
ment.
Berle disavowed any such
plan. insisting that he was
voicing a warning, not a desire.
But. would that cut the
ground from under Mr.. Dewey?
/ HAVE cited much more draS-
Il tic and emphatic proposals
by Mrs. Roosevelt and Harry
Hopkins which cannot possibly
be diSavowed. They were not
warning against these controls.
They were demanding them and
Hopkins spoke in the voice of a
boss giving orders.
1T does mean you," he wrote,
"for IL isn't just talk and IL
won't blow over"
Both Mrs. Roosevelt and Hop
kins wanted government au-
thority to chain individuals to
their jobs, 10 shift them about
and, of course, to fix their
wages. Hopkins wanted gov
eminent power to confiscate
the peoples money and prop
erty.
These were his words on
that point:
Nobody should be allowed
TO decide for himself how much
he will give"
These being the sentiments
of these two individuals closest
10 the President, why don't
they and the President openly
fight for their beliefs in this
campaign? The voters could
decide more intelligently if
Mrs. Roosevelt and Hopkins
would frankly argue for their
ideas and state the advantages
which they believe would re-
suit The people might decide
in their favor.
Of COURSE, all they pro-
" posed is unconstitutional
and there is no authority TO
suspend any part of the Con-
Stitution even in war.
A few years ago Mr.. Roose-
welt fired out of his advisory
circle a peripheral member
who had written a magazine
article that displeased him.
But he did not repudiate
either his wife's plan or Hop
kins' nor has Hopkins been
fired.
Hopkins still makes policy
and we have a right to sus-
pect, therefore, that when he
made his radical suggestion, he
: expressed views which were
not offensive TO Mr.. Roosevelt.
Hopkins escape clause was,
Of course, that he was propos-
ing a war emergency measure.
But the fact is plain that
once the deed were done we
never could recover.
II private property were con-
fiscated under the government
power to decide how much each
individual should give" then
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
knowledge Test
By DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

Score 4 for each Of the hrst Ave cues
tlons and 3 for the last question;
If you go from Great Salt
Lake to the Gulf of Califor-
MIA, you travel. (a) North;
(b) out h; Cc) east; I'D
west?
2-The president who died in
San Franci SEQ was: (a)
Woodrow Wilson; (b) Theo-
dore Roosevelt; (a) Warren
Harding?
3-The Pope during the World
War was: (a) Benedict XIV;
(b) Leo XIII; tc) Plus XI?
4-In fencing a plastron is: Cal
a foil; OBJ a shoe; (c) a chest
pad?
5-The circumference Of a circle
is: (a) 80 degrees; (b) 800
degrees; (c) 800 degrees?
6-The Giants Causeway in Ire
land is: (a) marble; tb)
slate; (c) basalt?
(Anaeers on Opposite Page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
BY Paul Mallon'

NJASHfNGToN, Oct. 16-
w Labor's anguish at failing
to get another wage increase
out of the War Labor Board
has been described in the press
reports as bitter" L
1t was an ordinary, regula-
ton bitterness-and restrained.
Labor leaders Green and Murray
Illuminated Indignation. 1t was
a routine Indignation. No one
got shot-and no general strike
was called.
Things are not always as they
seem. With a presidential cleo
ton day three weeks away they
are apt to become less and less
what they seem.
For some weeks prior to the
WLB report pleading insuffi-
Gent data to enable wage ac-
ton, the best labor reporters
were able to write from Wash
ington that the Roosevelt coterie
thought another wage increase
granted just before election
would be too raw. Indeed what
could be gained by it, in the way
of votes, and even wages are a
secondary consideration to this
most vital electoral matter
here now.
The Go is already in Mr.. RS
vest pocket, at least the leaders
are. The AF'L is fairly we'll
split, but labor, as such is
counted definitely for Roosevelt.
This is not enough to win.
THE votes of white collar
l. workers, business people.
farmers and others are those
for which he must campaign,
the ones he must lure. What
better appeal could be made
than the decision of WLB!
My studied and informed inn
pre- sion is that the wage in
crease now denied will be
granted after the coming cleo
ton. l, furthermore, have sound
and full reason for believing the
increase will not be II cents an
hour in the steel industry (labor
never really expected that, but
will be around half, probably
Z or 8 cents.
1 think the labor leaders deal
ing with Mr.. Roosevelt on the
matter have for some weeks eX-
pected this delayed conclusion
to their plea, whether they OBJ
tanned their knowledge from a
wink and a nod, or promise.
On the surface, it was made
TO appear WLB had handed the
President a blazing potato, but
that is not true either The
public members of the board,
YOU will note from details of the
action, decided to hold the ques-
ton open for further investi-
gdtlOn.
THE White House, TO save
l. itself the embarrassment Of
immediate action or comment.
had the report sent directly 10
its economic stabiliZer. Judge
Vinson. In this way, the po-
tato. rather cold as il is, can
be fumbled comfortably about
the government until after cleo
ton.
One superficial phase Of the
development betrayed some gen.
uine bitterness. but this was
possibly personal rather than
a labor matter. The caustic
protest Of labor's four members
on WLB was written by AFL's
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
The Communists and
THEIR FRIEND

THE Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations Communsf organization by virtue of
evidence before Congress proving its predominant Communist
leadership has made nationwide distribution of political posters
proclamng President Roosevelt "our friend"
MIR ROOsszs 5exd chosen words oE NIL that
Communists in his fourth term campaign 49,, u,.u, DIT .Nc
and CONTRIVES to get it,
Mr. Roosevelt has in fact maintained the most intimate
political alliance with the head of the Communistic Political
Action Committee, Mr. Sidney Hilman
MR. ROOSEVELT permitted the Headquarters of the commit
M tee in Chicago to become the authority through which the
policies and decisions the Democratic national convention mad
to be CLEARED.
Mr. Roosevelt permitted Mr. HIman himself VETO
POWER the vice presidential nomination.
Mr. Roosevelt not only SOUGHT and the sup
acknowledged ab its authority and YIELDED to it
The Political Action Committee according to the records OF
Congress, has total of 142 members.
Of these 19 have been identified in testimony before Con-
having affiliations with Communist or communist
controlled organizations"
of them have been affiliated with TWENTY
such organizations.
All of them together have had affiliations" with 245
Of course Earl Browder former member of the Communist
Comintern at Moscow, is supporting Mr. Roosevelt.
Of Mr. BrOwders Communist Political Association OF
which Mr. Browder is president is supporting Mr. Roosevelt
81 spokesman of Americas organized Communists
said Mr. sDss for No o%E
So naturally Sidney Himans Political Action Committee in
conjunction with and in harmony with other Red radical bodies
phrase and along Communist lines
MIR ROOSEVELT perfectly well that his campaign is in
NA COMMUNIST HANDS, is being directed by COMMUNIST
METHODS and is being largely financed by COMMUNIST
MONEY.
His apprehensive avoidance merely of the Communist
NAME knows that has become symbol of all
that is evil to the American people.
not made pretended disavowa of the COM.
MUNISTS THEMSELVES who have taken the Political
Action Committee who took the Democratic national con-
venon and party and the fourth term campaign
Mr. Roosevelt is "OUR FRIEND" to the Communists, be-
cause they already taken his administration in sub
government dangerous par-and they hope take his
fourth administration completely and DOMINATE AMER
ICAN POLICIES.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
As A Detroiter, may I send
"A the Times my commenda-
ton for the part you have given
in making the King home a
happy one, in the return of the
kidnapped baby.
The Times spontaneous offer
of a thousand-dollar reward
meets with increased admira-
ton from every good citizen of
our commonwealth.
Certainly I speak for thou
sands of Detroiters in express
ing the warmest appreciation
of your generous reward and
assistance.
A. PETER KENNEDY,
1l2 W. Fort
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16

TO THE EDITOR:
LEW men of public life will be
Il entitled to wear the mantle
that Alfred E. Smith wore. In
my time, 1 can think of but one
other whe belongs now to the
ages. I refer to George WASH
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-16

Monday, Oct. 10. 1874
Evening star., 1944-03-07
+ BEDS OF THE ANClENTS =

or six legs. Some beds In Greece
were so high from the floor that
person needed to step on a foot-stool
to get into one of them.
Certain Greeks had ivory beds,
and sometimes the ivory was COW
cred with thin sheets of tortoise
shell. The legs of such beds were at
times made of silver.
We are told that a man named
Heliogabalus had bed made Of
solid silver! Some of his friends were
content with solid bronze.
Either a wooden or a metal bed
will give little comfort unless it is
coverel with something soft. Leaves,
moss and wool are among the things
which were used in early times to
give softness to persons who wanted
sleeping comfort.
| But Greeks and Romans had pill
lows, and some of these had cases
of colored cloth.
Thousands of visitors to museum
in Naples have seen three beds-or
"bedsteadS S"-which were taken from
| the remains of the city of Pompeii.
One bed was 71a feet long and 4
feet wide.
The beds from Pompeii have
helped give us an idea of sleeping
customs in Roman times. We also
have records which show that the
Romans used mattresses which were
stuffed with wool or feathers. The
most expensive Roman mattresses
were filled with down taken from
geese or swans.
Both Romans and Greeks had
what we may call "couch-beds.
These served as couches in the day.
time and as beds at night.
Evening star., 1944-03-07
I~eA A1

''Sishts in Strange India" is the title
OF picture leahet. 1t contains 10 pic
lures by Frank c. Pape and several
hundred words of text by Uncle
Eay. To obtain copy send a self-ad-
dressed envelope bearing scent
stamp to Uncle Ray in care of this
newspaper.
The 5oOth red ribbon signifying
eight Red Cross blood donations and
membership in the "Gallon Club"
has been awarded Mrs. Lillian Bron-
stein, a Red Cross nurses aide.
Evening star., 1944-03-07

West opened the spade four be-
cause of his partners spade bid.
East played the 10 and South
checked-up on his prospects. Even
if he could get three club tricks
he could win only eight tricks unless
the diamond suit could be estab-
lished. And If South won the first
or second spade trick and led his
high diamonds, even If all the op-
posing diamonds should drop, he
would 60 down because he could not
get back to his hand to run the
remaining diamonds.
South solved the problem by let
ting East win the first spade trick
and letting the spade king win when
East continued with that card. Now
when East led third spade South
won with the ace and discarded
a diamond from dummy. After that
he could clear the diamond suit
by leading the ace and king and
the suit was no longer blocked. He
ran his four remaining diamonds
plus dummy's three high cards and
made his contract with an over
trick.
Yesterday you were Theodore
Lightner's partner both sides were
vulnerable and you had so on score.
You dealt and held:
AQ6
VQ5
AKQ8753
4 AK
The bidding:
You Jacoby Lightner Schenken
10 Pass IA Pass
90 90 Pass 81 Pass
Answer-Four clubs. This shows
that you have the club suit con-
trolled. Your partner will not drop
you at four clubs because his three
spade bid was a partial acceptance
of your previous slam try. In view
of the partial score he could have
passed three diamonds had he been
weak.
Score 100 per cent for four clubs,
40 per cent for four diamonds, moth
Evening star., 1944-03-07
Uncle Roy's Corner

Ancient beds were of many kinds,
just as beds are today. Poor folk
had simple beds. An old rug might
serve the purpose, or bag of straw.
When we read in the Bible the
words, Take up thy bed and walk" !"
we may call TO mind a bag of straw
which a man could carry around
with him.
Much better beds were used by
ancient kings, mobiles and other rich
men.
In the home of well-to-do Greek
you might have found bed with a
wooden framework, and with four