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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-06-03
HOUSEWIVES
LEAGUE PLANS
ANNIVERSARY
Election OF
Officers Nears


ON Tuesday evening Iuno ~
Scott auditorium Of Bethel ANt
church ne Housewives league ~
he'roii will hold us fonrtocn,h
anniversary celebration n prom
'ses 70 he a brilliant affair All
units Will be- present Tho presl.
dents Of each mif viii give the
hirhiehts Of her units actiyitlcs
o,hcr interesting features arc
planned
The eharitr members and
workers who ners faithful dur
ing The carly period u mo League
VIII Do presented by Mrs Fannie
y PECK NATIONAL president O.
ilc Housewives league
on June % tho annual council
Will ~ h"ld az thc Lucy Thur
man lNCA This viii he en- AIT.
day session beginning al 2 81
am with reeis'raiion Central
Officers mir president and junior
and Son.pf memhers VIII be- pres
mi ~ the afternoon session a
rroHp discussion viii Ne held on
iho subject The Relation of
Housewives loaruc to Business
and Profession Junior Unit VIII
Furnish ibo program The election
% central officers viii hc held
az The close 81 tho session
Tho senior matron and mair6ns
of Junior units sponsored q Moth
crs Tea SUNDAY May % at tho
Nf Vernon Recreation cen'cr
Awards wcrc nale 70 children
Who won IN The contest al the
third educational meeting recent
IS held hy tho matrons Winners
received Wat saving stamps
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-06-03
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The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

To save fat. tin. paper and other
needed materials
To avoid spreading and rumors
or information helpful to the en-
emy-
To spend some time each week
helping out organizations like the
Red Cross and the USO-
To help build morale in the
armed forces by writing letters to
those who are away and entertain
ing those stationed near your
town
To stick to a necessary job, and
work at it every day until the war
Is won
To avoid unessential travel by
train, plane, bus or automobile
To conserve food
To refute arguments to the effect
that the war Is all over but the
shouting
To buy more war bonds than ever
before.
| GUILT oiooo
All of those suggestions seem like
pretty small things compared with
what our men and women in uni
form are doing. Yet there are
plenty of people who consider them
selves good Americans who will
feel a real sense of guilt II they
| check over that list and realize how
many of those vital things they are
ignoring.
| There is no reason why any
healthy man or woman should moi
be willing to go through the simple
process of giving blood to be uset
to save lives on battlefronts. ye'
the Red Cross seems to be having
difficult time to get nearly thu
amount of blood which Is needed.
There is no reason why materi
ais like tin and paper cannot b.
saved in every home in our coun
try, yet millions don't save then
because 1t is too much bother.
There is no reason why sales o
4 bonds to Individuals cannot Away
overreach the goals set, yet in on
loan after another we fall shor
This in spite of the fact that whe
Christmas came along we had tn
money to buy the largest dolla
volume of Christmas presents sol
! in years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

130 900 900 they often assume tre-
mendous proportions.
Buying a few gallons of gasoline
from a black market, for example,
may seem a trivial matter. But if
every automobile owner did it our
economy could be paralyZed in no
time. The black market operators
and their patrons set the example
for how to disrupt industry and
perhaps lose the war. But, fortu-
nately, their number is few enough,
and the number of patriotic Amer
leans who stick to the rules even
when they see others breaking
them is great enough, to cause only
minor disruptions.
CHECKLIST vistory
To get back to New Years reso-
lutions, | think victory could def
initely be speeded if every one Of
us would resolve -
To avoid boarding and to criti-
cize any storekeeper who says,
"You better stock up on these -
they're getting scarce"
To fight black markets and never
patronize one
To give blood regularly to the
Red Cross
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29
Today and Tomorrow
Re SOLUTIONS
BY DON ROBERTSON

RESOLUTIONS 1e45
The most important New Years
resolution any of us can make for
1916 is this: ! shall do everything
in my power to help win the war
In the shortest possible time.
That. OF course, is a very general
promise. To mean anything 1t
needs to be broken down into a Sc
ries of shorter resolutions-a sort
OF a war-winning program for civil
ians.
When the war first strted lot
of US fidgeted around looking for
things we might do to help. We
were told that victory depended on
an all-out effort, but many OF us
who wanted to play a part found 1t
difficult to know what to do.
Since then, however. we have
been told about plenty of ways we
can help. Some Of them may seem
like little things - unimportant
things - but when multiplied by
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29
Coolidge Locals

. Miss Vera Mae Campbell, stu
dent at State Teachers College,
Tempe, spent the Christmas holi-
days with her parents. DR.. and Mrs.
R. v. Campbell.
q Those present for Christmas din
ner at the home of Mrs. Pearl Null
Inns included Mr.. and Mrs. D. F.
Havens. son Jack. Mrs. Darlene
Havens Kennedy, Mrs. Josephine
Odon and Jewel Smith.
Q Mrs. Wayne Clark and Mrs
Harold Rupkey both of Phoenix
were overnight guests at the home
of their brother and wife. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wayne Hall, on Christmas.
Q Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Loucks were
hosts to members of the Friday
Night Supper and Card Club al
their home last week.
. Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Skousen and
son spent Christmas In Chandler
with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ]
N. Skousen.
. Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. WeinholC
and son, Bob Weinhold, were din
ner guests at the home Of Mr.. aIt
Mrs. J. D. Smith on Christmas.
c.~~nu.v oxrnr1n ~ tho homo n
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Apparently there are a lot of peo-
pie In this country who still think
the war is none Of their business.
1t may be little late to convince
those people that their help is need
ed. But maybe a few New Years
resolutions will help.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

. Sgt. and Mrs. M. F. Kelm were
overnight guests at the home of Mr..
sand Mrs. N. T. Olson Friday while
enroute from Langley Field, Vir-
ginia, to March Field, California.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Mrs. Letitia Treadway of Snyder
Oklahoma, is visiting her daughter
Mrs. J. P. Farrell.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Q Mr.. and Mrs. N. T. Olson spent
Christmas in Phoenix with Mr..
Olson's brother and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. N Olson, former Coolidge
residents.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

. Mr.. and Mrs. George MUIR were
dinner guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. M. M. Ware on Christ
mas
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

o Miss Frances Borree, student
at State Teachers College, Tempe,
is spending the Christmas vacation
with her mother, Mrs. Josephine
Borree.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

severe colds during most of Christ
mas week, are now much improved
and able to be about as usual.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Q Mr.. and Mrs. George Dell, who
were confined to their home with
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

O Mrs. Winnie L. Young of Lawton,
ton, Oklahoma, is spending the win
ter at the ranch home of her sister
and brother-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. c. Attaway.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

O Verne Wuertz, student at the
University of Arizona, Tucson, is
spending the Christmas holidays
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Wuertz and family.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Cpl. and Mrs. Don Parker spent
Christmas evening in Phoenix with
relatives.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Christmas included her mother,
Mrs. Mary E. Cotton, and Mrs. Lot
tie Devine, both of Florence, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Grossmiller.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

0 Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce vensel and
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

SUBSCRIBE TO The RED CROSS
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-12-29

Q A family group at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Jameson for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-09
Palmerston Quoted

To the Editor OF The Star:
Congressman Bloom doesn't like the
word foreign" He proposes that we
substitute international" instead. Says
he, according to the press: who is q
foreigner in this day and age?"
hasten to enlighten him: A for
eigner. under the New Deal, apparently,
is an American citizen. Everybody else
comes first with the New Deal in my
estimation.
Thomas Dewey doesn't like the idea Of
peace programs hanging on the slender
thread" of friendship between the
"campaigner-in-chief" Gas an ex-marine
called Roosevelt) and Churchill and
Stain. 1t may be that Dewey remembers
that England's Prime Minister during
the Civil War Uord Palmerston) said:
England has no enduring friendships,
she has only enduring interests" 1t is
well for Americans to remember that
that could be said Of almost every other
foreign" country.
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
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AIbunio

The word Albania" has been in
the news for several thousand years.
but in ancient geography it applied
to a region of the Caucasus, border
ing on the Caspian Sea, and having
Armenia on the south. Exactly how
the name was moved across the map
to the western side of the Balkan
Peninsula is something Of mystery.
The Turks who formerly possessed
the territory now being occupied by
American troops knew 1t as Arnaut-
Xix, and the native inhabitants of
the area refer to, it as Shkiperi after
"shkipe," meaning "a rock"
A clue to the character of the
modern Albanian countryside is con-
tanned In the aforementioned desig-
nation. It is composed OF a tumble
OF mountains including peaks rising
to eighty-five hundred feet over the
Adriatic and the Ionian shores.
Montenegro and Navi-Pazar are on
the north, Macedonia on the east.
The drainage system of the network
OF lofty hills is peculiar. Much of it
is subterranean, little of it has been
traced, all of it is a problem for
biologists. So, too, such scientists
as specialize in tracing human mi
grations have found the residents
OF shkiperi fascinating to study.
They speak language of their own.
a tongue not clearly affiliated with
any other tongue and divided in
itself into two dialects-the Ghegh
and the Tosk. Symptomatic Of the
temperament of the folk are great
many words relating to fighting in
all its multiplicity Of forms. Lippin-
colts Gazetteer declares: "The Al
banians are a warlike race, much
given to robbery and brigandage.
Hundreds of legends tell of the deeds
OF the national hero-the famous
Scanderbeg or Castriota, who led
the local resistance to the Ottoman
power in the fifteenth century.
The modern kingdom of Albania
dates from November %, 1912, when
the. principle of autonomy was
asserted at Vlone or Valona. A con-
ference of ambassadors at London
subsequently nominated Prince Will
liam OF Wied to head the new
government, but his reign was tore
doomed to failure and he departed
his turbulent capital on September
8, 1914, after only six months tenure
OF Office. Anarchy followed and then
prolonged conflict between the
Albanian mountaineers, the Yugo-
slavs and Italian intruders. But in
dependence again was proclaimed In
January, 1925, and Ahmed Beg Zogu
became successfully President and
King. Drawn into the orbit Of the
prevailing contest before It well was
started, shhperi has experienced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-09
MONDAY, October 8, 1914
Washington Tragedy

Competent detective work has
quickly gathered circumstantial evil
dence on which to charge a marine
private with the brutal murder of
a young Government worker in East
Potomac Park last Thursday night.
There should be another investiga-
ton, paralleling in speed and eff
cheney the work of the police, to
determine why the Government Is
hiring eighteen-year-old girls from
far away and bringing them to work
in Washington.
One of the tragic aspects of this
latest murder is the youth and in
experience of the victim. She was
barely more than a child. She
presumably left her home in
Wisconsin, with two high school
classmates, in response to recruit
ing propaganda for war work. Her
parents doubtless Uercame their
own misgivings with the thought
that if the Government needed her,
the Government assumed a certain
responsibility for her care and
welfare.
This the Government is unable to,
undertake, beyond the provision of
dormitories and some supervision
from personnel counselors. These
girls, unlike those in the auxiliary
services where the minimum age is
twenty, are not subject to military
discipline and routine. They are
left pretty much on their own.
And crowded, exciting, wartime
Washington is no place for eighteen
year-old girls, suddenly released
from the restrictions of rural home
life, to look out for themselves.
What they are hired to do is
another matter. They obviously
lack training or experience for any
thing save the most elementary type
of clerical jobs and most of them
probably work in Offices which.
Enthusiastically, are overstaffed
with unskilled help. This recent
murder, it is true, might have hap
pened anywhere. But in all its ele-
ments it is peculiarly tragedy of
wartime Washington, with a lesson
that should not escape those respon-
slole for personnel hiring policies.
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Essential Groundwork

Like those issued at the close of
the Russian phase, the official state
ments marking the conclusion OF
the Chinese phase of the Dumbarton
Oaks Conference.-The end OF the
conference as whole-are highly
generalized. Undersecretary OF State
Stettinius, DR.. Koo and Lord Halifax
all express optimism over the pros
pect of setting up world security
system revolving around the Soviet
Union, Britain, China and the
United States, but they make clear
at the same time that only broad
set Of principles has been agreed
upon and that even more important
meetings will have to be held later
to reconcile differences and work out
a full understanding in detail
The conclusion Of the Dumbarton
Oaks talks must, therefore; be re-
garded only as the end of the be-
ginning of ALL that will have to be
done before an effective interna-
tional organization is created to
maintain an enduring peace. Yet,
even in this limited sense, the con-
ference has undoubtedly accom-
plished much in establishing basic
areas Of agreement and building the
groundwork essential to the formu-
lation OF definitive program to be
adopted eventually not merely by
the so-called big Four" but by
the United Nations as a whole. In
Lord Halifax's opinion, the results
have far exceeded expectations and
are definitely happy augury for
the future.
The full texts of the proposals
agreed upon are to be made public
momentarily. In view OF the meager
amount Of information released on
cially during the conference, they
will be read with the nveliest in
terest, but too much ought not to
be expected of them, since they will
cover merely the preliminary part
OF the worlds great peace-building
task. That part, however, is of i'm
mense significance, and If 1t has
been carried out as well as the vari-
Gus delegations have indicated, the
place name Of Dumbarton Oaks will
surely be written in large and bright
letters in history.
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Wendell WiIIkie

News OF his sudden death came
to the countrymen OF Wendell Will
kie with shock which revealed to
them, perhaps with more dramatic
clarity than ever before, how much
he meant in the turbulent picture Of
modern times. The immediate reac-
ton of his average contemporary
was one Of sorrow that he had gone
so young and with his work unfin-
ished. What longer span of life
might have permitted him to accom-
plish is purely academic question
now. The crusade in which he was
engaged naturally will continue,
though for the moment 1t has lost
leading figure.
Mr.. Willkie was useful, q helpful
and a valuable character. He did
not rise from obscurity by accident.
He was an expression of a trend. He
represented the average middle
class American in a period Of dy-
manic change. His mind was neither
radical nor reactionary. He fol-
lowed a rational line, honorably at
tempting to AVOID extreme angles of
opinion. In the best sense of the
term he was a "libertarian," as sig
nif1ed by lone who upholds the prin-
cipleS Of liberty"
Mr.. Willkie wanted an integrated
but not a regimented world. He was
himself a confirmed individualist
and he wished the personal rights
OF others protected against mass
pressure as well as against arbitrary
dictators, however beneficent. He
tried to make himself a politician
IN order to win political battles. In
this he remained an amateur, but 1t
is not accurate to say that he re-
NAMED a novice. He learned as he
advanced and his position at the
end was that of a statesman of au-
thentic ability and power. He con-
tributed constructively to. American
theology. Skilled in argument, he
helped to teach a numerous public
to realize that government is every
body's business and peace and order
among nations everybody's duty.
His earnestness never was chal-
lenged, nor his courage. No other
leader OF his generation was more
patiently sincere or brave. The re-
porters who travelled with Mr..
Wlllkie in the campaign of 1910 de-
veloped an affection for him that
had nothing to do with their attitude
toward his ability as a politician.
Cheerful, good humored, kindly.
open-handed to fault, he made
friends, If not faithful supporters,
everywhere he journeyed, and his
crusade ultimately took him to the
uttermost ends of the earth.
IT only one affirmation could be
registered about Mr.. Willkie it Justly
should be that he was essentially a
good man. He sought merely what
most civilized people seek-a free
dom which springs from tolerance
and prosperity which all can share.
Worn out by his exertions, dead
much too soon, he did not sacrifice
himself ineffectively. His example
will be remembered.
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bulk OF the resistance forces loyal to
the Polish government In London. Not
from moral viewpoint, but in power
politics, 1t is major defeat for that
government. This Is obviously not
unsatisfactory to the Soviets. They have
allowed the Nazis to destroy that part
Of the Polish movement to which they
are antagonistic.
Furthermore, the preference given by
the Soviets in this moment to the Bal
kan campaign cannot have only military
reasons-as the British occupation of
Greece is not motivated by purely mill
tary considerations. The Allies are map
ping out spheres of influence. In
peace settlement it Is easier to confirm
accomplished facts than establish new
ones. The accomplished fact will be
Soviet influence through the Balkans
and Poland, and British influence
throughout the Mediterranean. Military
arguments, sound as they appear to be,
fit marvelously into political ambitions
and plans.
And the Nazis see the collapse of their
realm-but even in defeat seek to secure
their influence. Their purpose is to
make the occupation of Germany so
hazardous, difhcult, and dangerous as
to maintain certain grip on the Ger
man and European population and live
in memory as something better than
what came after them.
To this end they are preparing In
three ways. First, they are exterminat-
ing as many potential German oppo-
sition leaders as they can lay hands
on: Second, as Howard K Smith of
CHS reported from Switzerland, they
destroy official identity records and
falsify personal documents so that with
out organized German aid, it will be
all but impossible to find the Nazi GRIM
inals; and, third, having learned from
the Russian, Yugoslav and Western Eu-
rope resistance movements, they pre-
pare guerrilla warfare and the secret
court martial of collaborators with the
Allies.
The Nazis know-from experience
that il you want to govern a nation by
foreign rule, military or civilian, you
have to split of the nation at least
minority who will temporarily support
the foreign rule in the expectation of
better days to come. The Nazi program,
from the beginning, has been to present
themselves as the entire German people,
and to make it clear to the nation that
the fate Of every German and Of the
nation itself, Is inextricably linked with
theirs.
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Sad Example
From the Muskeson Chronicle.

rfoHi tne Muskegon Chronicle.
The recent battle Of words between
former Ambassador William c. Bullet
ana the Soviet newspaper Pravda may
be only minor skirmish, but nonetheless
depressing. Mr.. Bullet wrote a maya
zine article from Rome which contained
q catalogue of fears and indictments of
the Soviet Union, credited to sources
generally defined as "the Romans !"
Pravda answered in the rich and unin-
hibited prose for which it Is noted.
calling Mr.. Bullitt several varities of
liars.
Apparently Pravda could not realize
that Mr.. Bullitt is no longer q member
OF our Government, that he was writing
as private citizen in country Of free
speech and . free press.
Too many such impetuous Incidents
are going to jeopardize international CO.
operation and good feeling.
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then use their forces to bring within
their Jurisdiction the territories which
now owe allegiance to the Generalissimo
and the Kuomintang.
The attitude Of the Chinese Commu-
ntsts will be regulated In accordance
with the wishes Of Moscow. But In any
event they do not expect to be sent
against the Japanese until the Red
armies have descended into Manchuria
and can establish contact with the
Chinese Communists and supply them
with their actual combat needs.
Gen. Chang feels that he has been
badly let down by the Allies. He Is said
to appreciate the difnculties we have
encountered in sending him supplies
after. the Burma Road and the ports In
Indo- China were closed to him. But he
maintains that these dificulties might
have been overcome had President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill
insisted at Teheran that Premier Stain
tell the Chinese Communists to fight
alongside Gen. Chang rather than
threaten him.
The Generalissimo claims the inability
OF the United States and Great Britain
to persuade the USSR to change its at
eituoc tOWdIo Ilc OluIkAluk regime las
had very bad effect. Not only was he
compelled to continue to maintain some
of his best divisions to watch the Com
munists, but his prestige also has suf-
fered considerably.
Some Of Gen. Chiangs most influen-
tial generals, believing that the Cen
eralissimo's regime may not last much
longer, have abandoned him. Most of
these men. however, preferred to join
the puppet Chinese regime OF Marking
rather than the Communists.
\ \ X
There is little that this Government
can do henceforth for China. The
schedule established for the Pacific by
Gen. Macarthur and Admiral Nimitz
will bring us spectacular victories this
fall and winter. But 1t will not ma
terially help Gen. Chang and his tot
tering government. A British offensive
in the Indian Ocean having Burma and
the Malay Peninsula as its principal
objective might be more helpful. But
the most optimistic observers do not
believe both these territories could be
freed in time to bolster the waning
power Of Gen. Chang.