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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-14
eTpactant Mother Blames
Plight on Servlceman
WI Prnhlen CImic

War Problem Clinic.
The young man / ann interested
in Wa~ married before mot him
he Stated divorce and th5
week before he was indicted into
the army went TO court n,
showed mo a paper he received
with a seal on N knowing NOTHING
about Tho law / would like 10
knoWgli the divorce was final
The reason for my concern IS
than ] ann expecting q child ami
what can / d0 90 get support for
the child md myself
MISS l.. y.
Dear Miss l. D.:
II he young man Won are in
-lcrCSnd IL Sh1Med Anu a paper
with scIl on IL and told YOU
II was y divorce decree YOU may
verify his statement hv going
10 the office of the county clerk
m the County Building.
" 10 support for Yourself and
child II i difficult 10 tell YOU
what 10 do because of absence
ct material facts in your letter.
Your problem involves the legiti-
macy of Your unborn child.
You should 90 10 tile ReferraI
Center. ~ W Warren. Commu-
nltN Building, and they will
guide and advise YOU As To
prenatal care and making com
plaint against the man rcSpnn-
>lhlr tor Your prcgnaCN.
EnN ARD POkORNN,
Friend of the Court.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-14
order Mar stamp, delivered
t4 your home hN Your Detroit
Times carrier.

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-14
Overseas Engineering
Opportunity Sought

War Problem Clinic
Can Nou tcll mo Of thc 0uahn-
cations hat are required for mcr
trained ln turWCern1g. who are &c
hc sent 20 other countries after
The WW Tor me purpose Of recon
SfE+lfl00 T.
Dear Nr I u:
suggestion - made that YOU
write the Bureau Of Information.
=. Government. Washington,
u. {, for data There j. q gov
crnmcut commission headed nv
DcTn James LandiS which may
be doing this type of work
W INTER- ". r. SCOTT.
Vice commander of the Detroit
Districts association. Amcr.-
can Legion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-01-14

MT -t1t-ttrr IN rTtt1Ur with
Your mother or Your father 10
the Legal Md Bureau. 81 W
Warren, and think they will
be able ia help YOU get a birth
certificate.
FRED VI. BITZEI..
Evening star., 1944-07-23

Amencon
Jolly to multi
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Victory in the Arctic

Little more than year ago the
northern supply line to Russia
through the Arctic Ocean to Arch
angel and Murmansk-was one OF
the most dangerous in the world.
Nazi U-boats, surface raiders and
land-based aircraft were exacting
such a toll Of our Allied merchant
men that for time some authorities
were almost convinced that the
route would have to be abandoned.
But now the picture Is entirely
changed. According to first-hand
account, the British feet, with its
big guns and air arm, has so ef-
fectively smashed the menace that
the number of U-boats destroyed on
the Arctic run exceeds our Allied
losses, and the surface raiders,
which were once so deadly, have
apparently been reduced to feeble
and discouraged shadows ever since
the dramatic sinking of the Scharn-
horst. AS for the Luftwaffe, it is
so hard-pressed in other places that
1t seldom shows its face there, with
the result that our conveys some
times get through to Russia without
a single loss
Like the once-crucial battle of
the Atlantic, the battle of the Arctic
thus seems to have ended in far
reaching victory for the Allies.
There was time when Hitler
thought he could isolate Britain
from America and starve it out.
Failing in that-and it was failure
of decisive importance-he tried to
do much the same thing to Russia
That he did not succeed in either
case, although he came close to
doing so, can be credited to our per-
fected convoy techniques, including
the brilliant use of long range
| planes.
The significance of all this can be
best measured by imagining what
the situation would be today had the
Allies failed instead of the Nazis. If
that had happened the United
States might now be standing alone,
with powerful enemies in both the
east and west. In short, the fact
that Hitler has lost the great battles
of the supply lines accounts in very
large measure for his present des-
perate realization that he has lost
the var as we'll.
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Sacrifice Not Waste
By the Req. Raymond Lee WolDen,
Rector of the Church of the Ascension.

Many men and women today are
In state of sullen and rebellious
confusion over what appears to them
to be senseless and wasteful
squandering of all that is best and
finest in our civilization, leaving only
the inferior and the weaker elements
to carry on.
Not long ago we were talking with
a woman whose husband. young
offlcer In the Navy, had lost his life
in action in an airplane. This lady
and her young daughter were not
only grief-stricken. but embittered
by what they could see only as tragic
and futile waste and destruction.
why" she asked, should this have
happened to my husband, who was so
fine. so valuable, and who had 50
much to give the world? Why was
1t not some one who better could be
spared? He could have sent some
one else on this particular mission.
but he would not do It,"
We tried to comfort her by saying
that this gallant onicer would not
have been so fine as he was II he had
saved himself by avoiding danger and
sending another in his place.
**
But as we left the house, the ques-
ton kept pressing for an answer. Is
the sacrifice of so much brave young
life unrelieved and senseless tragedy
and waste, and nothing else? Is it
without meaning and without rea-
son? Would it not be more under
standable If the inferior, the weak,
the old were the ones whose lives
were being required today?
And then we thought of Calvary and
the crosses that were raised on that
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Our Potential Voters

The Census Bureaus estimate of
potential voters in the 1914 elec-
tions, made public today, is inter-
esting nationally because it shows
for the first time that the female
OF the species Is not merely more
deadly, but is now more numerous
than the male. And 1t indicates
the possibility of a record breaking
popular vote this year, while care
fully refraining from estimating its
size or the effect on the size of the
wartime dislocations of population.
There is an important item of
local interest in these estimates,
however, which has distinct bear
ing on the Districts claim to the
right of representation in the Amer
ican Government. The estimates
show the District, in l94o, with
474,7s3 potential voters-that is.
men and women of voting age.
These potential voters In 1910 rep
resented about II per cent of the
District population, a higher per-
centage OF potential voters than
shown for any of the States, and a
greater number of potential voters
than in any one of thirteen of the
States.
There are various estimates of the
number of District residents who
voted in the States in 1910. Some
OF the political party leaders esti-
mated $4,000, which probably is too
generous. But even the highest es-
Inmates leave in Washington a sub
stantial number of good Americans
who, otherwise qualified, are barred
from the ballot by the accident of
residence in the District of Co
lumbia.
We probably shall always have in
Washington higher percentage Of
potential voters than anywhere in
the country. And there is no popu-
lation anywhere which surpasses it
in intelligence, loyalty and ability to
vote. Some day wise men will COM
pete not only for the voting favors
OF this population, but for the honor
OF removing that negation of our
widely advertised principles OF
Americanism which so notoriously
exists in the American Capital.
Evening star., 1944-06-04

comfort for an employer who may
desire to defy the WLB and then
force a test on the question of the
extent Of the Presidents powers.
1t might be added that the ap-
pellate decision is a clear cut answer
to those members of Congress who
have been saying that employers
ought first to comply with the
boards orders and then invoke the
aid Of the courts in settling their
grievances. The plain fact is that
Congress, in clothing the WLB with
statutory authority, did not confer
right of judicial review on dissi-
dent employers, and the courts, if
this decision stands, are not going
to grant the right by any process
Of judicial Interpretation.
Evening star., 1944-06-04
War Monpower Plan

1t should be emphasized that the
new, or, more accurately, the broad
ened manpower-c plan is
product of wartime necessity.
The plan is predicated on the as
sumption by War Manpower Com
mission officials that no form of
national service legislation will be
adopted this year. Opinions differ,
of course, as to the merits or de-
merits of compulsory service, but
there can be no difference as to the
need for tighter voluntary" con-
trolls If Congress is not going to act
on any of the pending compulsory
bills. And it is obvious that Con-
gress does not intend to act; Ger
tainly not prior to the November
elections.
To plug up this gap in our system
of manpower controls, the VINO
shortly will put into effect on a ma
tional basis plan of priority re-
ferrals" which has been used sue
cessfully for some time In a number
of critical labor shortage areas
Broadly speaking, the intent is to
require all employers OF eight or
more people, except farmers, to hire
their male help through the United
States Employment Service. or by
arrangement with the service. Job
seekers, in their turn, will be ex-
pected to apply for employment
through USES. There they will be
exposed" to job opportunities in
order of urgency, the thought being
that enough people will be willing
to take jobs where their services are
necessary to the war effort to solve
the problems presented by current
and prospective manpower short
ages in some localities.
The Manpower Commission refers
to this as its voluntary program, al
though 1t obviously embodies sub
stantial elements of compulsion
since pressure can be, and pre-
Evening star., 1944-06-04
WLB Court Victory

ne IeCenI rullng Dy the United
States Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict in the case of the motor freight
carriers clearly places the War Labor
Board beyond the reach of any Judi
cial proceedings designed to chal-
lenge the validity of it's directive
orders" If the Supreme Court
should incline to the same view, as
suming that the case is taken there,
1t will simply be waste of time for
any employer or any union to appeal
to the courts from ruling by the
board.
This is complete vindication of
the position which has been taken
on this question by the Attorney
General and his staff and also by
the board itself. The appellate rul-
ing, OF course, Is not applicable to a
situation like that presented re-
Gently in Chicago, when the Mont
gomery Ward mail order house was
seized, but it plainly seems to be
controlling in suits such as those
which have been filed to challenge
the right of the WLB to direct en-
ployers to sign contracts containing
maintenance of union membership
clauses.
In holding that the boards right
to issue these orders cannot be chal-
lenged in the courts, the appellate
judges concluded that the boards
orders are advisory, not mandatory,
and that the party to whom they
are directed is not injured in any
legal sense by the fact of their
issuance.
This victory undoubtedly Is graft
flying to the board and its legal ad-
visers. But from their point of view
it may not prove to be an unmixed
blessing, for the judges expressly
recognized that dissatisfied en-
ployer, while barred from the courts,
is not under any legal obligation to
obey the boards order. The obliga-
tion is a moral one, and it may be
ignored without penalty so far as
the board is concerned.
Should an employer refuse to obey
an order, however, and If the issue
involved seems important enough,
the board might refer the case to
the President, and he, in turn, might
direct that the employers business
be taken from him. This undoubt-
edly would injure the employer and
raise question as to the extent of
the Presidents powers. But the
Court of Appeals, while recognizing
that such an issue might arise, care
fully refrained from expressing any
opinion on it in the carrier case. 1t
did refer, however, to the broad
constitutional power" and "the
broad statutory power of the Presi-
dent to take and use property in
furtherance of the war effort"
Those words are inconclusive, but 1t
Is not easy to read into them any
Evening star., 1944-06-04

green hill far away. Somehow we
began to understand a little how 1t
is only the best that can offer the
effectual sacrifice. Gods own Son,
the Perfect Being, was the only one
whose sacrifice could save the world.
There was no other good enough
To pay the price of sin"
The two thieves, crucified with
Him. could not save the world. They
came to their end through the course
of human frailty. But He knew no
sin. His was the perfect life. He
paid the price because He would not
save Himself. He would not COM
promise with evil. He was the young
Prince of Glory, the finest and the
best. He alone could save the weak,
the sinful human race.
1t always has been so. The world
always has been helped by the sacri-
flee Of the best, the strongest, the
bravest. 1t is the high privilege of
the flower Of humanity to give itself
for the LESSER, the weaker, the ig-
norant and the sinful.
II
This sacrifice Of the best is not
waste. 1t is the planting Of seed
which will come to life and fruit In
world full Of gladness, peace and
salvation, instead of its present dark
ness, terror and confusion. The
sacrifice Of the best of our race today
is akin to that of the Lamb of God,
who after He had laid down His life
for His friends, rose again on Easter,
triumphant and vindicated, bringing
the assurance Of the victory that
must come, of truth over falsehood,
of right over wrong, of love over
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Mr.. Churchill
From the Ottawa Journal.

Great men are not always distin-
guished for their tact; and it is true
that, in the past, Mr.. Churchill has
been more remarkable for his audacity
Yet those who have followed Mr..
Churchill's career from its earliest days,
with its share of wrong turns taken at
the crossroads, sense that destiny in
world crisis has brought him, to an ex-
traordinary degree, what Mr.. Gladstone
once called measure. Everything that
he touches he seems to adorn, exhibiting
qualities of understanding, insight, tact
and philosophic Judgment such as are
rarely combined in a human being.
Truly fate has been kindly TO the British
cause In day of need.
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Our Schools
From the Victoria Colonist.

FROM the Victoria Colonlst.
What matters now Is the future.
The public school system of Canada
Is basically good one. All that it
has needed in the past was the in
fusion of good deal more money, a
little more attention and perhaps more
of the can-do attitude that has distin-
guished Canadians in other fields.
There will be balance in this land when
our education bill outruns our drink
bill, and when the young progressively
are taught to think for themselves.
Monkeys may be taught tricks. Man
should be taught to think and to act
as free, God-given individual-each
with his own special contribution for
the world. Let us at least remember
when we speak of "our schools" that
they are ours-that we are responsible
for them and for all that goes on in
them. That would be gain.
Evening star., 1944-06-04

sumably will be, put on both en-
ployers and job seekers to stay
within the framework of the plan.
But pressure alone will not be
enough. If this latest plan is to be
successful, 1t must have the support
Of employers and workers, and II
both desire to avoid compulsory
service legislation, as seems to be
the case, the needed support should
be Forthcoming.
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Rock Creek Windows

A friend from home, having an
appointment to meet the late Right
Reverend James E. Freeman, Bishop
Of Washington, at Canterbury in the
summer of 1880, found him in the
south choir aisle of the beautiful
cathedral there, studying the win
dows which are part Of the build
ing's glory. "Colored glass;" he ex-
planned, may be older, than white.
You remember that Saint Paul said,
We see through glass. darkly.
Perhaps it was many centuries after
his time that men learned to make
glass as bright as light itself"
Bishop Freeman, of course, was
most concerned about the glazing
OF Washington Cathedral. But he
was not unmindful of the windows
of the parish places of worship in
his diocese. Up to the last days of
his life. he maintained his interest
in the mission of the graphic Word
the story of religion set forth in
pictures simple and. direct enough
for a child to understand. There
was ample precedent for his en-
thusiasm. 1t is a duty of diocesan
leader to be jealous for the service
OF God in terms of art. The work
currently being done at Saint Paul's
Church, Rock Creek Parish, reflects
that at Mount Saint Alban. In both
instances Wilbur Herbert Burnham
of Boston is the master craftsman
In charge. A past president of the
Stained Glass Association Of Amer
lea, he believes in the power of
modern designers to achieve the
quality characteristic of the glass
= of Leon in Spain and Chartres in
France.
And Mr.. Burnham justifles his
faith convincingly. The Rock Creek
windows may be inspected at close
range and thus are subject to more
intimate appraisal than similar
compositions more remotely located
in higher walls. In each case the
theme is historical. The first shows
Sir Francis Drake worshiping be-
fore a rough-hewn wooden cross in
California in 1879, settlers and the
old State House at Saint Marys City,
Maryland, and the Reverend Doctor
Thomas Bray, commissary of the
Bishop Of London in the American
colonies; the second, the Reverend
John Frazier preaching in, the East
Branch Hundred in 17l2, the Rev.
erend Jchn Stuart ministering' to the
Mohawk indians, andsGeorge Wash
ington as churchman, patriot and
statesman; the third, the Reverend
Jacob Duche praying as chaplain of
the Continental Congress, the con-
secration Of the Right Reverend
Samuel seabury of Connecticut as
the first bishop of the Episcopal
Church in America, l784-the actual
laying on OF hands and full-length
portrait Of the central figure of the
sacred ceremony. . 'a- Pas
Mr.. Burnham wastes nothing.
Every tiny fragment Of his creations
interprets an idea. Thus brakes
ship is pictured in relation to him,
the Indians have their thunderbird
symbols nearby, Bishop seabury is
represented with a cluster Of thistle
behind him to hint at the fact that
he was descended" from the Church
of England in Scotland. If the spec
tator searches for them, he will find
Washington's fabulous ak and cherry
tree.
Evening star., 1944-06-04
Our Buses in Russiu

AAAS 4cSt 1AAd1 Jul 1AllICI1CdIl 1lkIlG-
ers and bombers now have their own
bases in Russia speaks volumes not
only for the steadily deteriorating
position of the Nazis, but for the
degree of unity and cooperation
existing among the Allies in the
prosecution of the war. For If ever
Hitler hoped that he could some
how effect split between us and
the Soviet Union, this is the final
blasting of that hope, symbolically
and physically.
With these new bases, the whole of
the enemy's European fortress
every corner of tiles within the
range of our Allied air power. In
the words of Major General John r.
Deane, head of the American Mill
tary Mission to Russia, the develop
ment means that from this point on
shuttle bombing from west to east
and from east to west will become
common-"bombing that makes vul-
nerable all the industrial facilities
Of Eastern Germany, bombing that
can be carried out when weather
prohibits returning to British or
Mediterranean bases and bombing
that will require redistribution of
the German fighter defenses."
The gloom Of the Nazis must be
deeper today than ever. For in this
development-described by General
Deane as "the first large scale phys
ical collaboration of the air forces
OF Britain, Russia and America
they can see the approach of their
own doom accelerated. Their Luft-.
waite is desperately hard pressed
everywhere, and now, with new and
greater battles impending in the
south and west, they must cope with
an additional threat in the east
a threat which involves not only the
expansion of Americas dread day.
light precision bombing Of strate-
gical targets, but also the prospect
that when the Red Army unleashes
its next offensive. it Is likely to have
considerably more direct support in
the sky than at any time since
Hitler sent his legions crashing
againstsit g5
But 1t is for more than purely.
military reason that our new east
ern bases are of high significance.
Beyond this they mark historic
milestone In our relations with the
Soviet Union, and from that. stand
point they are profoundly mean
ingful, promising as they do
through direct cooperation In bat
tle7-to promote greater political IN.
derstanding and sympathy between
our two peoples. For when men of
different nationalities fight side by
side for a good cause against COM
mon enemy, they tend to develop
mutual respect and friendliness
which endure long after the shoot
Ing Is over, so that 1t does not seem
too much to hope that that is how it
will be with us and the Russians in
the far future.
Some may wonder why all this did
not come about sooner. But that
seems rather beside the point now.
The big, towering fact is that we
and the Russians have at last estab-
lished historic contact on Russian
soil. The name of our headquarters
there Is ECUSSAF, or Eastern Com
mand, United States Strategic Air
Force. 1t is a name that must
trouble Hitler very much, and even
the Japanese must be bit disturbed
by its possible implications and the
precedent it represents.
Evening star., 1944-06-04
No, Indeed!

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Elmer Davis asks advertisers not to
exploit D-day. In other words, the D
doesn't stand for dollar.
Evening star., 1944-06-04

the Natural History Building. When
his appeal was denied, he asked Secre-
tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to
intervene In the Smithsonian's behalf:
but his endeavor was fruitless-the adj
ministration just then was opposed to
further building activity in WASHINGTON,
But in 1899 President Roosevelt in
olcated that he was considering "a
series OF relatively small buildings as
part of the development of East Capitol
street to house exhibits now cramped
for space" Dr. Abbot. informed of the
Chief Executives concern, remarked
That every annual meeting of the Board
OF Regents for Is years had been faced
With the same question: How to accom-
modate the institutions possessionsp
ferlodlcally In one way or another
nope Tor an answer has been aroused
only to be frustrated again. The present
revival OF interest, exemplified in the
story OF the young officer who died in
Italy, has brought out the disclosure
that the Smithsonians treasures are
increasing in their intrinsic as well as
thelr cultural worth from day to day.
since the prevailing global conflict be-
gan in 1899, many foreign museums have
oeen wrecked. their contents destroyed.
Much OF the loss is irreplaceable. All
the more imperative is it then that the
American people should guard the relics
which still are safe in their own GUS
tody
The Smithsonian will be a century
old In ls46. If new building devoted
TO history is to be ready to dedicate
during the celebration of its Tooth
anniversary. steps toward that end
should be taken by Congress soon.
Evening star., 1944-06-04

Half a century ago, Great Britain
wanted the United States to know that
the growth of the Ameri-
Navy can Navy was not sub
Influence ject Of anxiety. When