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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
Library Our, Copy
Of Records Voted

Washtenaw County supervisors
have turned thumbs down on plans
for a county library but are In
favor OF providing quarters for the
Washtenaw Abstract Co. TO make
photostatic copies Of documents on
file in the office Of the register Of
deeds.
The abstract company IS to have
space In the basement Of the
county building on a $40 monthly
rental fee and is to make avail
able TO the county copies OF rec
ords II al any time in the future
the copies should be needed.
The board decided to table the
library project for the duration.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
BY Paul Mallon
NEW DEAL IS DEAD;
HERE'S WHY:

HERES WHY:
WASHINGTON.-Mr. Roosevelt,
dismissal Of fourth term question,
as "picayune" seems to me prac'
tically an avowal OF his candidacy.
No other conclusion is reasonably
possible In the light OF the facts.
Consider what he might have said
as an alternative. He could have
said no." yes" or perhaps"
Instead, he chose 10 shunt aside
the question as too small for his
consideration, a time-worn and OBJ
vious stratagem he employed four
years ago when he told third term
inquirers to go stand in 4 corner
with a Ounce cap.
But what seals this Interpretation
Has his simultaneous announcement
Of a new program-apparently the
beginnings Of a change Of political
front forecast in this column last
month.
He is dropping the phrase New
Deal (but not any New Dealers).
can thus forget the economic fall
ures and unsuccessful policies Of
same, and can cover them over with
a new world program based on an
agreement with Russia to promote
revolutionary new world.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not only dead
right in consigning New DEAL te
the limbo Of obsolete terms. but he
could have gone much further. The
terms liberalism" 'conserva.
tism," ''internationalism," and "iso.
lationism' within the next year OF
two, will be smothered similarly by
greater events which are at hand.
The orthodox, unimaginative poll.
cies Of professional liberalism (di.
rected economy, security, leisure.
etc) already have been over.
whelmed by the greater events Of
the war So have the stodgy doc.
trines Of conservatism (get back u
normalcy).
II is no longer a question Of which
road TO take. But what road you
can get, if any. Our thinking may
have less to do with our future than
events force US to do. Already. we
see we cannot contrive a Utopia,
but soon we may be forced to do
what is necessary to prevent chaos.
revolutions and a greater war.
People do not understand yet that
the rise Of Russia already DEGREES a
revolutionary new world. although
the statesmen dealing with the de.
tailed conflicts and prospects (Which
cannot easily be discussed In public
IN wartimes for diplomatic and pa
triotic reasons) obviously can al.
ready see IL.
DEAD FOR TWO YEARS
The New Deal, Of coorse, has been
dead for two years. II was knocked
out by the war while dying on its
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
The Mongoloid Fold

One feature that deceived US
and led US 10 our under-estimation
of the enemy is the Mongoloid
fold. This can be seen on the
inner portion q the eyelids next
TO the nose. The eyelids Of the
white races at this juncture come
together in a sharp point. Be-
tween them a small red knob jutS
out--a papilla lacrymalis which
helps to divert the tears into the
tear duct. In the Mongoloid races,
on the other hand, the upper eyelid
comes into the nose in a gentle
curve covering the papilla lacry-
malls entirely. This is the Mongo-
loid fold. 1t is due to a thickened
eyelid partly due TO a larger
amount of fat in the orbit than the
white races have and partly to diff
ferent muscle implantation.
The American Indian has the
same fold, and he was always sup
posed to be pretty good shot.
This fold, and the larger amount
of fat in the orbit, causes a mar
rowing Of the palpebral fissure in
the Mongoloids-slit eyes. Meas
urements on different races show
the average width Of the palpebral
assure to be: Chinese, 26.6 nm;
japanese, 2S.9 NM; European,
80 NM; Greeks, 1923 MN. This
narrow slit also created the mis-
apprehension of bad vision among
the Japanese because it made the
eyeball look fiat.
Many Wear Glasses
The habit of wearing glasses
among the Japanese is far more
widespread than among Eu-
ropeans and is ascribed to poor
lighting coupled with much read
ing. Then the imitativeness of the
Japanese plays a part-wearing
glasses marks the individual as Of
q higher cultural level. Such ideas
are not unknown among US. have
known many a young doctor to
adopt a pair Of window panes on
graduation so he will look older
and more intellectual. And then
the European habit Of the monocle
is as close to pure affectation as
one can get in this world. Nobody
has one eye so badly distorted that
it needs a lens, while the other
is perfect. But the monocle gives
decor!
The fact is that Japanese eyes
are just as good on the average as
those Of any other race. Vision is
granted to all mankind as an equal
birthright. Training makes some
tribes or groups more usually
acute.
Again, rumor hath 1t that the
Japs are relatively poor fighter
pilots because their habit Of read
inf up and down has not exercised
their peripheral fields Of vision as
much as in the white fighters who
read across the page. But this is
hearsay, and has not been scien-
tifcally tested. It would not be
good practice to depend on it.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

Washington-Lt Gen. J. l.. De
Witt, former West Coast Army
Commander. in his final report on
the evacuation Of japanese after
Pearl Harbor: THE continued pres
ence OF a large. .unassimilated.
tightly-knit racial group. bound 10
an enemy nation by strong ties
OF race. culture. customs and reli-
gion along a frontier vulnerable 10
attach constituted a menace that
had TO be dealt with"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
Today's Horoscope

With more self-reliance the
person who has birthday today
is assured Of success. Work hon
estly and diligently. and you will
find happiness and pleasure in
your work. March and Novem-
Der are the months In which you
should begin important business.
Tuesdays and. Saturdays are your
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
One-Minuie let

Where docs the long. long
trail enc?
. Who wro e EXCELSIOR
.. What dance, famous in the
courts Of Europe. was made pop.
ular IN the United States by
George and Martha Washington
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

Don't make fun Of people who
are bewildered in new surround
ings and uncertain what 10 do
and how 10 DO IT, Understanding
is what they need and 1t is better
manners. too.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
MaI|on |nterprets Move
as Avowa| Of Candidacy

feet. Its theories and its personnel
were not sufficiently competent or
efficient for the tremendous war Job
OF production and msrshalling Of
war forces.
But what we are coming into Is
not as easy to recognize. apparently
not even to Mr.. Roosevelt as he
did not attempt to define It very
clearly. Indeed. II would be neces-
sary to hear from Mr.. Stain and
possibly also Mr.. Churchill to find
that out. II they yet are certain.
A Russian victory will place Stain
In at least indirect control, econom.
ically as well as politically. of Eu
rope and no doubt Asia as well.
Our capitalistic countries will
come out Of the war saddled with
great debt for generations. but Rus
STA has no debt and will emerge
with greater productive capacity
than when she started. She also will
have the superior world army, we
the navy Is to / over Britain and
more over RUSSIA.
This situation in itself will require
revolutionary changes on our part
all along the line.
@ @
PUTTING AN END
TO JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
The incontestable answer TO all
this juvenile delinquency in the news
Is one word-discipline.
This is not old-fogeyism, but ultra
modern psychiatric doctrine. The
instructive tendencies Of children
must be curbed by discipline until
they have reached the age where
seH-restraint enables them to con.
form to social customs and to take
advantage Of social opportunities.
Too many parents and children
themselves enormously believe that
modernism permits free expression
Of their instincts. This leads to the
current savage eyesores Of our
Wanted civilization In which prosti-
tuition has. been Haunted conspicu-
ously in cities by grade school girls,
thefts and crime before the age Of
reason has been reached, and muir.
der Of parents by children who find
them troublesome.
have seen. in Times square, New
York, girls barely past puberty with
soldiers and sailors, not In small
groups, but in droves, while police
look on shaking their heads in ap-
parent helplessness. I could break
that up in Is minutes. And here is
the method:
Everywhere that soldiers and sail
ors 60, there are MPs. II the mill.
tary police were ordered 10 detain
and question every serviceman &C.
companying a girl Of doubtful age,
and terms In the guardhouse we're
provided, the practice would soon
lose It's current trend.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
Half-Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
Returning from vacation trip Florida Walter has
an interesting story alligator chase Pictures
ter which measured feet published
the Florida Sportsman.
AT the first annual meeting the stockholders
Manager George Swanson reported profit
first year.
Club Meetings: Dinner Club Mr.. and Mrs Nelencamp
Tuesday Bridge Mrs Kyle ordway; Hamilton Whist Mrs y p
Wallace Twenty Club, Fred Goron Riverside study Club
Mrs. Harvey Holmes.
The Normal College basketball defeated
Winning from Dexter 2717 Ypsant Independents are
with three other for first place Michigan
Basketball League.
Born To Mr. Clifford T. Ellis an eight pound boy
Thomas Hurley.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
Words OF Wisdom

a knowledge Of the laws OF our
country Is an highly useful, and I
had almost said essential part Of
Of liberal and polite education.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

most favorable days. Your next
year Will be productive Of good
fortune in varying ways. but do
not spend your gains solely on
pleasure. Conserve some Of your
resources. Born today child will
succeed best in a novel occupation,
but will need to check extravagant
tendencies and over-generosity to
friends.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

One Minute Test Answers
I. In the land Of my dreams.
?. Longfellow.
3. The mlnuet.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
Fifty Years Ago

high school chorus has been organized BY Howard Pratt
and VIII hereafter furnish music the chapel exercises
John Van Cleye has accepted position
OF the National Printing and Engraving Chicago lie has
bis house on Hamilton street Mrs Helen c. Swift
DEATH Mrs Mary Hammond Cross, widow William Cross
She was born In Maryland but Augusta Town
ship in 1884 with her marriage TO Mr. Cross she
Ved Tor 5 years In the house he had built
ner OF Summit and Congress SITS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
FULL EMPLOYMENT HELD
KEY TO WORLD PEACE

Washington, D. C.-Full employ
ment and full production are twin
keys to world peace in the postwar
period.
A program of international eco
nomic collaboration aimed at using
the keys was laid before the Senate
in a joint resolution introduced by
Senators Ebert d. Thomas 3D., Utah
Harley NJ. Kilgore 3D., West Va.), and
Harry S Truman 3D., Moussouri).
The resolution would set up a for
eign economic commission to serve as
a clearing house for the many diverse
thoughts and opinions on economic
policies. On it would be representa-
tives of government, business, labor,
agriculture and the public, all work
ing through single medium and
building in an atmosphere of hope to
open up new horizons for the economic
progress of our own and other ma
tions.
In a joint statement, the three Sen
ators said "the future peace depends
upon an economically healthy U. s.,
and we cannot have economic health
without volume of foreign trade
above and beyond anything we have
ever had before
The Senators warned that "the fu-
ture peace depends on the abandon
ment of political nationalism and eco
nomic imperialism and autarchy (self-
sufficiency); they called for extension
of the Good Neighbor Policy and said
that by doing so quickly 1--WE can fore
stall the growth of areas of economic
disaffection which eventually enlarge
enlarge into world wars"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
ARPLANE PRODUCTION
SETS NEW HIGH MARK

American aircraft workers have
done it again. During February they
produced planes at an all-time record
rate of $50 day, for a total of 8,760,
Chairman Charles E. Wilson of the
Aircraft Production Board reported.
Wilson said that in terms of weight
the total output was per cent ahead
of January, the previous high mark.
Recalling that February was "short"
month, he implied that if it had been
of normal length, the total number of
planes would have passed the 5000
mark.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
FRIDAY, MARCH "a, 1914
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT?

Dairy industry's radio commentator
assures public that spoilage of 20,-
100000 pounds of butter is nothing to
worry about. 1t would, he said, amount
to only small percentage of pound
per person divided among the 130,-
100000 citizens of our country
Of course, the fact that this huge
amount of much-needed butter was
permitted to spoil is bad enough, and
the fact that the experts of the War
Food Administration were dunn b
enough to hang onto it until it be-
came unusuable was worse Any way
you look at it, the public had been
deprived of a great deal of butter
Labor strikes; labor gets sick; labor
gets mad; and labor gets hell. Gets it
from everybody from big metropolitan
newspapers to the lowest radio COM
mentator. Labor is impeding our war
effort; labor must be disciplined; we
must have law.
But here we have 20 million pounds
of butter needed by our citizens and
by our armed forces, produced at
great cost and stored at great cost,
and administered at great cost. 1t is
allowed to spoil, to lay idle and kill it
self, while you ordinary citizens are
being exhorted to save your fats in
tin cans and turn it into provide ma
terials for our boys abroad.
1t just doesn't make sense; it is
even more than dumbness; it is play
ing right into the hands of Hitler.
And it is being done by experts who
are hired to avoid just that sort of
thing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24

This is necessary not only as an eco
nomic measure, to spread the available
supply of jobs, but as a health meas
ure. Labor should get set now to re-
new its drive for the thirty hour week
in the postwar period.
If victory in this war is going to
mean anything to the millions who
have given blood and sweat and tears
to achieve it, America will have to
give more attention in the future to
the conservation and strengthening of
it's human resources, as we have in
dicated
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24

history two paragraphs were typed by
a fellow operator for insertion in the
edition of that date. They comprised
an editorial commenting on the loyal
ty of father who remained at his
work despite the fact that he had just
received telegram from the War De-
partment that his son had been shot
down over Germany and was listed as
missing.
Ray Phelps, faithful union printer
and loyal soldier, was that father.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
FACING
The
F FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

The rapid depletion of our natural,
material resources due to the heavy
demands of war has given rise to
concern in high quarters. Efforts are
being made to concentrate public at
tention on the dwindling oil supply of
our country and to drum up support
for financing pipe lines across Africa.
Similar sob stories appear in print
with regard to the loss of our reserves
of metals and minerals.
But in all this talk you will seldom,
if ever, hear any mention of the effect
of the war on our human resources.
Strange, isn't it? How can people
get so excited and alarmed over the
loss of oil or coal or iron ore and re-
main silent and Indifferent to the eff
feet upon our country of the loss of
manpower? What sort of society do
we live in where material things take
precedence over human life?
The drain upon Americas human
resources which this was has occa-
stoned cannot be measured only in
terms of lives lost on the battlefelds,
of arms and legs shot off by shrapnel
OF of minds destroyed by the horrors
of warfare.
Child Labor Causes Heavy Toll
The widespread employment of
child labor will also cause a heavy
toll. The depopulation of our schools
and colleges will deprive the next gen
GRAFTON of needed technical and pro-
fessional experts. The drafting of
young men from factories will result
in loss of workmen skilled in the
various crafts.
But no one seems to take these
things seriously People don't stop to
realize that our economy is not run by
machinery but by men. Do you re-
member the lines :-"Ill fares the land,
to Fastening ills prey, where wealth
accumulates and men decay?" Never
were the words of the poet more ap-
plicablel
Surely the lessons we have learned
from the operation of the Selective
Service System should wake US up to
the dangerous depletion and deteriora-
tion of our human resources! Surely
the high percentages of those reject
ed by the draft because they are ply
sically or mentally unfit should warn
US of even greater danger in the post
war period! Surely the deplorable fact
that in this day and age many thou
sands of American young men cannot
read or write should shock us out of
our complacency!
Last January when we attended the
AFL Executive Council meeting at
Miami, we saw thousands of young
men in the Officers Training Schools
cavorting on the tropical beach and
backing in the health-giving sun. We
thought it was wonderful thing that
the Government could afford to bring
those young men to such salubrious
climate for training And the thought
struck us that if the Government could
afford to do this to promote the war
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
"The Paper Must Go To Press
(From the Typographical JournaD

(From the Typographical JournaD
For almost year Linotype Opera
tor Ray Phelps, member of the New
Haven, Conn, typographical Union,
had boasted that every line printed
in The Beaver, weekly newspaper pub
lished for the Army Air Forces
Training Command School at Yale,
had been set by him on his machine,
says an AP dispatch.
He was proud of this record because
his son Ernest (Red) Phelps was an
aerial gunner with the Air Force.
But Rays record was broken Jan
13. For the first time in The Beavers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
Women Urged To Enlist

An appeal to women, particularly
those who were engaged in defense
work at Kings Mills, to enlist in the
Women's Army corps was issued by
Lieut.. Ruth C. Morrisey, officer in
charge of the Hamilton Recruiting
station, 119 Court street.
These women employees, who have
completed splendid job, are urged to
continue their services in another vital
capacity-with the United States
Army.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
ARBITRARY FBI METOHDS

Six months ago agents of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation de-
manded the books of Bricklayers'
Union No. L, local in Washington.
D. C. And they still have the books.
The secretary of the union, of
course, turned over to the agents all
his books, even though he was re-
fused any information as to why this
government agency wanted them. He
was not told who had made charges or
what charges had been made. In fact.
he was told nothing.
Any official of any local union can
imagine what this secretary has been
up against since his records were
seized. He has found it necessary to
set up new books to take care of cur
rent business. And when and if he
ever gets his books back from the FBI
all his interim business must be
transcribed into the old books.
Bear in mind that no charges have
been made public; no warrant or SUBJ
poena has been issued, but this local
union is under a cloud and subjected
to embarrassment and inconvenience
Even the lowliest criminal is entitled
to know with what he is charged and
by whom.
This could happen to any local
union, any international union, any
business firm, or for that matter. any
individual. a9
1t would appear that somebody-the
international union, or even the AFI
should be sufficiently interested ir
an infringement Of this kind to dc
something about it.
0-
vryry n, HYnvna
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24

Ciole, ouiSly II ouSue W NC dbIS w
bring thousands of slum children to
Florida in the postwar winters to
build up their health and save untold
suffering and loss of life.
Sound Social Insurance
That may sound like quixotic or
socialistic project But it appears to be
a sound, common-sense investment to
us. If country is only as strong as
its citizens, if country is only veal
thy because of it's human resources,
surely it ought to develop those re-
sources to the highest extent.
E d uc t on, health building and
training are the means by which we
develop human beings to capability of
rendering greater service to their fell
low citizens and to their country.
If we neglect our human resources,
if we reject social insurance, and con-
centrate only on material wealth, we
are contributing to the decay and dis
mlegfatlon OF our civilization.
This doesn't pretend to be weighty
treatise on complex subject. We're
just sounding off at random. And the
thought occurs to US at the moment
that there is another angle which we
have overlooked. The millions of work
ers now engaged in war production
and toiling at high and sustained
pace through long hours without suffi-
cient recreation are going to be burned
out inside just as machine that is
overworked burns out, just as a SOL
der who has served too long at the
front burns out.
When the war ends, those long
hours will have to be sharply reduced.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24

Issued Weekly at sac Market Street
Tslephsns 1885 Hamilton, Ohis
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
NEW BUSINESSES
Hamilton

Hamilton
Earl Rogers, 1876 High street, musi-
cal instruments.
William Sewell, (Bells Inn), 309
Riverside Drive, restaurant.
MiddletOwn
Berry Williams, 2201 Waneta, sue
ceeded Bruce Lawson, groceries and
meats.
John H. Berg, 1929 Central avenue,
photography.
DR.. VIM. H. Henry, 1000 First ave-
nue., oculist.
George c. Lambeis, 26 South Main
street, restaurant.
Hilbert H. Martin, 1913 Tytus ave-
nue., used cars.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24

Entered at the Postofice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24

period after the war include chemi-
cal which will provide an invisible
raincoat for anything dipped in it,
without leaving a film, and rubber and
rubber-like materials made fr m
wheat, garbage, limestone and other
products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
through his personal efforts.

through his personal efforts.
Charles F. West, Jr, labor con-
sultant for the Southern California
War Finance Division, will present
Treasury citations to the union and
individual members in the near future.
Mailers' Union, Local 8, consisting
of 1913 members, sold $25,OO0 worth of
bonds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-03-24
WISDOM

Too long, that some may rest,
Tired millions toll unblest.
William Watson.