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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-14

ton has been possible except for
the electrlfication OF certain scat
tered farms between 1000 and
5000. TO aid war food production.
In each case this required a special
order from the War Production
Board
At the present time, rural Michi.
gan is coo electrified, far above
the national percentage of 403.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-14
JOURNALIST DIES

Ludington. Feb. IL I'll since
Christmas. Edward Oakley Mclean.
IS years old, Of Lansing, former
editor OF the Ludington Chronicle,
died here Sunday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-14

RUTABAGAS-No. l, bu.. s1.1.25.
SQUASH-Huboard. No. /. blu
$l50-2.00.
TURNlPS-Topped. bu.. sl.25.1.7j
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
One Word Led TO Another
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER-

Ny town is again putting in bid for the Republican
and Democratic conventions. 1t figures this 1914 CAM
paign is going to be hotter than Spanish cooking.
We wrote to the different committees. But they
ignored us just like there. And we were.
Back in 1885 put in sealed bid for the big
political meetings but had to settle for lecture blue
delft china by fellow whose last public appearance had
been that of guest artist at flea circus,
We tried for the Republicans first because thought
they going to win We didn't know that Mr. Roose
velt making the White House a home away from
home
We figured on both conventions because they didn't
do thing Madison Square Garden that they can't do
in barn. And there's reason why nominating
speeches should interfere with streetcar service.
Our public address system is good. All depends on
how loud you holler
There will be no gouging of delegates by the hotels
and stores We one-price town. The price is all
the money you got.
We not going to bother with seats We kept
tabs Chicago San Francisco, Kansas City New York
and Cleveland and found the delegates stand up to cheer
they stand up they stand up to boo they stand
up to show respect dsrespect and they stand up to
demonstrate.
rvF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

By DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING

ways on the alert and does bet
ter than the over-confident two
eyed one The sorting girl, on
the contrary, was plenty con-
scientioHs, but simply unaware
of he rhad eYeSlEht.
CONDITIONS of total war
" have certainly brought out
the cyeslght deficiencies Of our
population II Is hard 10 realize
until you think about il that a
person may be sublimely I'M
conscious Of having bad eye
sight. They started out 10 took
AZ the world through their own
eyes, that is the way the world
looks TO them and il never oc-
ours 10 them that II looks any
dIITcfcnt To anybody else. YET
10 them there may be no reds
or yellows, on y different
shades OF grayS and their mid
die distance may be blurred. or
the far distance blurred. or
everything looks like fat
plate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

DUBLISHED rum or has II
i that Marshal Goering, chief
OF the German air forces. is in
the doghouse and may even be
replaced by younger general
more alert 10 the facts of avia-
ton life. Probably the ruHeF
is unfounded, but IL serves TO
underline the fact that a mill
tary leader who has been so
consistently wrong-headed
should have remained in power
this long.
II is a revealing commentary
on the nature of dictatorship.
There are still people who talk
about the superior efficiency
OF the Fascist state.
The case of Goering provides
the refutatfUu. ffe conceived
the luftwaffe wrongly, purely as
an auxiliary 10 the army, there
after adhered TO his mistakes
stubbornly and has reaped a
series of aerial disasters.
In democracy Goering would
have been forced by an out
ragged public opinion to revise
his ideas or get out. In the
German super-state, mistakes,
if they originate in high places,
tend to be perpetuated.
THE Germans had developed
l. tactical aviation brilliantly.
They exploit d it 10 the full in
conquering Poland and western
Europe. But they were dismally
short-sighted on the use of air
power in its primary strategic
role. beyond its function as an
auxiliary in support Of surface
actions.
In the Battle Of Britain they
failed But instead of learning
from his costly mistakes, Goe-
ring had the power to alibi
them Instead Of turning 10
true strategic air power, the
luftwaffe remained stuck in the
swamps Of military illusions.
Lack of long-range aviation
in sufficient strength prevented
the Germans from exploiting
their initial victories over Rus
STA. The same lack gave the
glo-Ameri$an forces the right
Of way in Africa. then in Sicily
and southern Italy.
IN THE United States, too, the
4 second World War found us
with wrong notions on the role
of aviation and therefore wrong
equipment, which is always
reflection of military ideas
Our air forces were not only
inadequate but wrongly con-
ceived as merely supporting
weapons Of the ground and
naval forces. American fire.
power was meager. Our planes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

silent now Is to encourage Rus
STA to make mistakes which
play into the hands OF isola-
tionists and enemies of aid to
Russia. Even though we can
not expect to achieve drastic
change in Soviet policy, any
modification of Ii would be
helpful"
THEY want Stain to help
l. prove TO the average Amer
lean, who is puzzled and dis
couraged about prospects for a
just peace, that American inter-
nationalists are at least honest
and consistent.
Amt that something! They
want Stain to say some nice
words so that their faces might
be saved. And look at this:
"They (the internationalists)
cannot protest against realistic
policies of the state department,
or criticise Churchill for wish,
ing to preserve the British en-
pire, while they remain tongue
tied when the largest country
on earth extends her territory
by unilateral and even ruthless
methods.
"Such inconsistency and I'll
Nudity by so many supporters
of international cooperation
will tend, we believe, to discredit
the moral validity of our cause
with the American people.
IF internationally m | n d d
leaders fail to express construc-
lively what so many Americans
are feeling, they simply build up
the influence of the isola tiOnist
press, which does express that
feeling ION this issue only In a
purely destructive fashion"
DUNK! What they call "the
II isoiationist press" with
which they now agree ION this
issue only" are American ed
itors, publishers, columnists and
reporters who have been think
ing and working for the inter-
ests of the United States of
America and who have refused
TO subordinate their own coun-
try to the interest and will OF
any foreign power. This is not
isolationism; that is patriotism.
This is not sedition in wartime;
that is nationalism at all times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
THESE DAYS
BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY-

EOR years now II has been
Il made a crime for any one
TO question the projections of
Soviet Russia, an earthly para
disc and its master an infallible
paragon. Among those who so
ordained were the brothers,
William and Herbert Agar, lead
ers of the Freedom House pro-
tagonists of Subordination OF
American nationalism to any
thing European.
Now. / hold a letter from
William Agar, Harry d. Gil
deonse. Raymond Leslie Buell..
Christopher T. Emmett Jr., who
give their address at 5 West
saith street, New York, which is
Freedom House. 1t states:
a.. only those who favored aid
to Russia before Pearl Harbor
will he invited 10 sign. This IL
an appeal from friends, not a
threat from enemies"
The object of the letter Is to
help the President open the eyes
of Stain TO the dangers of his
present ito uncompromlsing
attitude" on the Russia-Polish
question. They are worried not
that Stains attitude is wrong,
but over the effect of that at
-titude upon !" the coming
election--not only as regards
the presidency but Congress"
They apologize for their own
position in the following star
Ting language:
I'VE fully appreciate the mo-
tives which have inspired patri-
otto Americans TO avoid criticism
Of Russian policy at almost any
cost, but we believe that to be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
II. ". DURLING

children should be from q 10
30 months. (Note-I was born
when my mother was 81. l was
her last child. My father was
AZ at the time. My mother had
four achildren.)
Ralph Siewert. Majcs league
rookie. He is 6 feet IL inches
tall and weighs 240 pounds.
As a rule the extremely tall
type of pitcher does not last
long. The most successful ex-
cessively tall pitcher was Eppa
Jeppa Rixey, who lasted about
10 years in the big show.
Harry Clork. Playwright and
film Scenarist. He was Nora
Bayes' second husband. His
name was Clark but his mother
in-law suggested ifhe. had an
% in his name he would be
more successful. So Harry
changed his name from Clark to
Cork and from then on began
TO succeedin a large way. Con-
slider the name of successful
people who have an 20" in their
name. Just to name few:
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Doro-
thy Lanour, F. d. Roosevelt. J.
Edgar Hoover, George Woolf.
Eddie Arcaro, Joe Louis, Betty
Hutton, Gen.. Montgomery Joe
DiMaggio, Ty Cobb, Billy Rose,
Dinah Shore and Mike Todd.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

LIVERY cruSading newspaper
- man has discovered that his
lie IS Just "A bed of thorns.
Truth is as red flag 10 the bull
In cretain groups . During the
Revolution a great American
aimed his pungent pen al those
bho obstructed the battle for
freedom. The powerful men nc
irked launched a campaign of
villfication against him and
drove him out of the country.
lie later returned and died IN
poverty Now he is remem-
bered as one of the most elo-
quent voices of American liberty;
Thomas Paine.
Like all tWo-fiSted news
papermen, Horace Greeley's
reputation was target for
fnudsiingers. One OF his detrac-
tors howled that Greeley was
influenced by powerful interests
"a low blow that is still popular
today Greeley's reply to that
was simply;
"fes, | am influenced by pow
erfui'interests, bat please keep
my wife's name out of this"
James Gordon Bennett was
another fighting newspaperman
He refused 10 compromise
with his opponents. no matter
how influential they were. He
insisted that a free press must
servo as a shield Of liberty by
welding a sword against It's
enemies When friends urged
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

not hesitate to point out mis-
takes and to insist that they be
corrected. A free press and
radio shoute d embarrassing
questions. Every official alibi
was torn to shreds.
The force of public opinion
swept all barriers from its path.
Officials were obliged TO revise
their views and equipment. and
our countrys productive genius
quickly came through with bet
ter planes.
We are today In the midst of
a great strategic offensive
against Germany, aiming to
knock that nation out of the
war. Only two years ago such
an undertaking was considered
by cur top leadership as impos-
sible and even ludicrous.
Distributed by Mcknight synd., Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
Quick Answers

800 years.
PIT was set aside. under
Lausanne Treaty. as the
cemetery for members Of
Allied EXpeditionary Force
that tried ~ invade Turkey
in lel5-16A
3ZJoscph Z. Wheeler. Confed-
crate general in Civil War,
became L. S! general in
neutrality-suspicious. War D
4-lSeVen, II arc tho missing
words.
, thl Is the answer given by
Congressional Record
6 Shoemaker awl farrier an
vii. printer, impoSing-form;
tnSmith. solder.
Copyright, 1914, by KinE Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
THE BRIGHTER SIDE
BY DAMON RUNYON-

CINCE I lost my voice or
- about 90 per cent Of IT'S
once bolt like tirbre. 7 have
rfNCUtrrC1 r7HUy 1HCOnESUTCUCCS
aA-Mcll- AS yuTnc striking con-
VcnIenCcS.
The greatest inconvenience is
that u involves explanations to
friends on meeting them for the
first time since the vocal abate-
ment and they are griev-d by
he absentee of my former thun-
dcrouS saluiatlons.
You see IN my set warmthNof
greeting is rated by the size Of
the helloS you give and receive
and was always noted for
issuing the hood rive, or top
size. the good old Hello. hello,
hello hello, the old well. well,
well. hello. hello. hello.
Now that l am perforce down
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

were not arrnored. We had no
self-sealing fuel tanks. We pos
sessed no long-range fighter
planes capable Of conveying
bombers.
Our Flying Fortresses were
UNDERMINED and d void of
arrnor, and without gun turrets.
Our main fighter planes lacked
altitude and were deficient in
armament.
The lessons Of the Battle of
Britain were lost on the gen.
erals and admirals who had the
final say on our air power, just
as they were lost on Goering.
DUT in the American democ-
- racy, the leverage OF public
opinion came into play Indi-
vidual airmen, ignoring the dis
pleasure of the brass-hats, did
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

70 the So size hello for one and
all which IS Just A nubbin Of a
hello and the brush of kind you
glNe q gee YOU DO not ike my
friends are inclined 10 huffness
toward me until l explain about
the voice
=
THlS is bit OF strain in itself
L but fortunately they soon
start telling me about remedies
that cures other blokes they
know so all ] have 10 do is 20
stand there and nod my head
at intervals.
find the nod wonderfully
non-committal, especially when
some one is delivering a biz
knock against some one because
word cannot be carried 10 the
knockee that Runyon was a
party 10 the knock At least
they cannot quote a nod
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

Europe. you could live like a
prince"
Jones pushed him out of his
office, replying
"Yes, hut I'm my heart I would
know that l was snake"
Jacob Riis, the famed re-
porter, never stopped smuggling
the dirty elements in our society
Many times his work
seemed futile, but he never gave
up. Later in life he always
advised cub reporters:
"Never become discouraged.
When nothing seems TO help, go
and look at a stone-cutter ham
mering away at his rock, per-
haps 100 times without as much
rs crack showing In IL. Yet,
at the l0lst blow II will split in
two, and you know that II was
not the last blow that did II but
all that had gone before"
HERE'S 10 the Press: The
IL tongue Of the country, may
IL never be cut The news
paper: May il fight like an
army in the defense of right
with strong columns and good
leaders The pen: May IL
ever be a sword TO pierce wrong
and falsehood 10 the heart
The press Where 1t is free the
people are free. Where IL is
fettered they are slaves. Sam
uel y. Babcock
Copyright oy Daily Mirror inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

EALSE teeth and glass eyes
L and the toupce have long
been standard items of Jest
among eur iekesters.
A person who Is compelled TO
resort 20 a hearing device. one
OF the greatest boonS 10 af-
fllcted humanity ever invented
Is said 10 be wired for sound"
which is supposed to be good
for hearty laugh.
And not only is infrmitv one
Of our leading topics OF humor
but il is often brought UP by
men in moments of anger
against the infrm. as when
they say things like that one.
legged so-and-So." as II the
infrmity itself was reproach.
0F COURSE The humor that
~ deals with infrmities is in
bad taste.
Most American humor is In
bad taste and growing worse
under the present vogue for the
suggestive and the downright
obscene in the spoken and
written word.
But even the suggestive and
the obscene is not as unkind as
the humor dealing with bodily
affliction
The hale and hearty shun the
afflicted and I cannot say
blame them much.
II can we'll imagine that 7
am a great trial 10 my friends
who have 10 bend their cars
close 10 my kisScr 10 hear what
ana saving
Maybe il would be better for
all concerned If I did not try
TO talk at all because every
body else IS talking these days
and I would not he missed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

EDITORS NOTE - This IL
from one of the men who have
gone into service from the
Times circulation department.
The writer: S/Sgt. Walter l..
Bolin, former home delivery
branch manager, who was in
New Guinea at the time of writ
ing.
DEAR BOSS:
7 AN still kicking around in
Il the iuneleS of New Guinea
and getting along swell,
Things seem 10 be going well
over hero so far our squadron
flies combat every day and still
doesn't run across any Japs be-
cause they Just won't come out
and fight ANYMORE.
Ne-h5attt AeNH- aver WeMak-
Saidor and other places in New
Guinea and over Cape Glou-
ccStcT and Arawo in New
Britain lately and still haven't
seen Jap around
/ personally think this New
Guinea deal ought 20 wind up
within five or six months.
Weather here is the same as
ALWAYS. hot as hell. We still
get that daily rain without fail.
bat it is always welcome be-
cause it cools things off for
few hours
We found a new swimming
hole the other day, back in the
Jungle II was about Is feet
deep.
The chow isn't bad and. the
other day we, had pork chops
for supper We also had chicken
last Sunday, which was a treat
OF course. the old standby
,iS Stih corncd beef and hash,
something / never want 10 see
when / Get out Of the army.
We get plenty OF canned
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

Think this idea has been given
up. AviatorS have the finest
vision of the sons OF men
The relation OF error and ac-
cidcnt IN work 70 defective
vision = tia HiaHyy Instances due
70 whether the individual
knows of the defect in vision.
The onc-cyed chauffeur is al
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
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SUGAR
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rIrE Apply local board
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
DEAR Boss:
LETTERS FROM TIMES SOLDIERS

fruits and dessert and, in gen.
eral, they are good meals con-
sidering our remoteness.
Some of the boys brew up
Jungle juice" back in the
iungles, but most of us stay
away from the stuff.
We get plenty Of American
candy and cigarets, usually
about once every month.
WALTER.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
ON THE SIDE

when a few turn up the colonies
and other officers get them"
QUERIES FROM CLIENTS;
Q-I divorced n 6-foot-2 man
90 marry one whose height was
$40 inches. My husband is mar
velous. Who said short men
were not good lovers
A-WhO said n man 3 feet 10
inches In height was short
man? Men OF 5 feet g inches
and under are i'm the short class.
Q-The sergeant says that in
Texas there is an armless dem
fist but he forgets his name.
How could such a thiHg be pos
sible?
A-The armless dentist in
Houston, Tex, il not a HE" but
IL DIR. Margaret Jones. She il
armless but her activity i'm den
tistry t. confined 80 lectures and
radio talks on dental health.
IT WAS DR.. Alan +. Cutt-
Il macher Of Johns Hopkins
University who said for the best
results a woman should have
her first baby after 20 and be-
fore 25. Her c hildb caring
career should end at 80
The ideal father is between
% and "a. It is safe for a nor
nal woman 10 have as many as
seven children but Ufwise 10
have eight or more.
The period of birth between
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

THERE are all sorts OF para
i doXes that come up about
vision In one factory a girl on
the asserting line turned in
aeafl Y twice a. much work as
her fellow workers then SeHfe-
thing went wrong: when they
came 10 examine the quality Of
her work IL was way below
par. when they examined her
LNlSion that was way below par
too. She worked more rapidly
than tho others because her
poor vision did not allow hcr 20
sec Tho defects III the materials
she was sorting This was
common experience IN certain
war factories. until more care
ful eye examinations began 10
he fffF4t4e.
A chauffeur or truck driver
on the contrary with only one
eye is found by statistics To
have fewer accidents than a
two eyed man with 80 per cent
vision IN eaeh-eS
0NE would think that color
~ vision was ii necessity fer
the safety Of a motorlSt But
statistteaily the traffic eeeaf=
meh's Of many cities show
there arc almost no accidents
due 30 this defect among color
blind drivers. They learn 20
compensate they learn the po-
sitlon Of the red and green
lights IN the stop signals and
hence can tell which rs shoW-
ine They stop and start with
crowds and conscious OF their
defect are always on the alert.
For a while II was said that
color-hlind aviators did better
than normal ones In some iohs
that they could SPOT Camou-
tagged objects in the field bet
ter FOR lack OF color sense bat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
Answer TO Question No. 3

Answer 20 Question No. 3
My feeling. after much study,
is that race prejudices arr chiefly
due 70 education and environ
ment and are only 10 a minor
degree Unborn. An American
reared am ong The japanese
would in all probability never
know such a thing as prejudices
toward these races. OF course,
whore two races are forced 10
dwell IN the same region. strong
probably justified
do arise due 10 difference in
habits and culture. and possibly
TO some difference in intelligence
and temperament. But these
develop only IN mature people;
if they were natural they would
probably exist in babies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
Connolly Answers

J - tC). p tbl. 3 tcl "A:
; fbtt 6-(a) green; th)
rcd lcl purple; Cd white;
fel yellow.
Copyright ia44 ~ KRIS Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

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ON BROADWAY

him to soften his blows he
roarcd.
II will enter the Hall of Eame
by breaking down the door with
my bare fists"
No man had a healthier in
flucnce on American Journalism
than William Allen White. He
was as American as the Liberty
Bell But not even that great
man was above the low blows of
politicians. A certain congress
sional committee once charged
that White was member Of an
un-American organization!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

teacher caused this7 More about
what Illustration does TO you
later And IL does a let
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-24

JOSEPH p ULITZE Err once
" stated.
There il not crime, a
swindIe, vice which does not
live by secrecy"
That's also why some politicos
consider fearless newspapermen
their most bitter en- m c 5.
When the ~. Y. Times spot
lighted the notorious Tweed
Ring, editor George Jones had
his reputation dragged through
the mud. His political targets
threatened and cajoled him in
an effort TO stop the exposes
Finally. a Tweed ring
leader offered him a five million
dollar brlbe. pointing out
with that much money in