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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Your Problem

The Presidents last budget message to
Congress forecasts public debt of $780,
000000,000 by June 80, 1916, and an annual
interest bill thereon of ,500,000,000. That
breaks all records for public debt, and is
far beyond that of any other nation in the
world. One would naturally take it for
granted that facing such terrific financial
burden, our country would adopt policy
OF economy in peacetime government ex-
penditures.
But what are we planning? For one
thing, an announced Federal program for
seven Twas to blanket the nation at a cost
that will run into billions of dollars. Up to
June 80, 1943, the original IVA had received
$667, 969,27O in appropriations from Con-
greSS. No one knows what the seven Twas
will cost, but they will take billions
The desire in Washington for nation
wide government ownership of electric
power, is not motivated by an urge to render
an otherwise unobtainable service, but
rather to extend the field of tax-exempt
government-owned business to the ultimate
destruction of one branch of private tax
paying enterprise and the expansion of state
socialism.
The United States had the most pro-
gresSive electric industry in the world be-
fore IVA was ever heard of, and it still has,
as is evidenced by the fact that no section
of the country which depends on private
electric service has been rationed on cleo
tricity
After seeing hundreds of thousands of
our boys killed and manned, and virtually
bankrupting ourselves fighting the evils of
state socialism abroad, it is difficult to
understand why we at home allow its
clutches to be fastened on us in any way,
shape, manner or form This is not pri-
marily a problem of the private electric
industry; it is political problem that af-
fects the very foundation of our whole
philosophy of government.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Emphasizing Success

The country has had forceful demon
stration of the essentially of coal mining
to the war effort. Railroads, electric util-
tiles, homes and the entire public have felt
the pinch of government directives aimed
at conserving the use of COAL Justified as
these measures are, they should not be taken
to indicate coal famine or failure on the
part of coal producers. All of the conserva-
ton measures combined will save at the
most only about 25,000,00O tons of coal,
whereas total coal production has been at
the record annual rate of nearly 700,000,000
tons.
The furry of alarm over coal short
age in reality but emphasizes the terrific
production job that has been done by the
coal industry. If it had not been on its toes
for the past 20 years, developing the art of
mechanical mining, learning in the hard
school of competition how to dig more coal
faster and cheaper, and if mine operators
had not been independent, profit-seeking
individuals, the United States by this time
would have known the meaning of a truly
disastrous coal shortage.
Other nations not so fortunate as to
have coal industry equal to the test of
war, have suffered greatly. And whatever
the technical reasons that may be advanced
to excuse their failure, the greatest single
cause is the non-exiStence of the type of
independent, risk-taking enterprise that has
always hourished in our country.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

day came, and at last the hour.
put on my uniform again for a
long, long time, and sent my civ
ilian clothes to a friend in Los
Angeles to keep for me.
1t was night when We left San
Francisco. We flew in a huge four
motored land plane, operated by
the naval air transport service. In
the navy they call it MATS, as
though it spelled a word.
The army's equivalent is the ATC.
I've flown on both of them so much
I feel like a stakeholder. They fly
all over the world on clock-like
schedule, over all the oceans and
all the continents, carrying war
time mail and cargo and paSSen-
gers.
I've flown the Atlantic four times,
but this was my first flight across
the Pacific You go nonstop from
California to Hawaii. It's about the
same distance as crossing the con-
tinent, yet it was as easy as flying
from Albuquerque to Los Angeles.
We left shortly after suppertime,
and were over Honolulu a little after
daylight next morning. There was
simply nothing unusual at all to
report about it.
Shortly after we took off I got
some blankets and lay down on the
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Heading For A Crisis

AS the time nears for new wage con-
tracts to be signed between coal miners and
the coal industry, the cry is again raised
that if there is any trouble the government
will fix it by Selling the coal mines The
notion that government ownership is a sure
cure for every ailment afflictS the thinking
of some people like plague
Before we wreck our coal mining in
dustry, we should take good look at what
this plague of naturalization, government
ownership, socialism, or whatever you wish
to call it, has done to the British coal min
ing industry.
An American commentator in Britain
points out that coal is the key to Britain's
industry and the faltering coal industry just
now is very sick Production has declined
steadily during the war until today it is
under 2O0,OOO,O0O TONS
1.-THE real sickness of the industry has
its origin in the last war and in the con-
troversy over naturalization of the mines,
which followed it.
Mine owners gave as their reason for
not mechanizing the mines the fear that
they would be nationalized and their invest
ment lost or written off, The unions con-
stantly urged naturalization. Methods
which made large-scale production possible
in America were not introduced here.
Miners in some mines must walk two or
three miles underground to get to the
diggings."
American labor leaders and government
officials with their constant urging of
greater government control over the
American coal industry, are heading into
the same moraSs of stagnation that has
brought coal crisis to England.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Partition Of Poland

Representatives of Polish-A m eric an
newspapers set forth their opposition to the
partition of Poland when they met at a
conference in Chicago recently.
The Polish language press sought justl-
fication for the sacrifice OF Polish American
servicemen in Europe when at the same
time, the United States, in the conference
at Yalta, approved the fifth partition OF
Poland. Before Yalta, our State Depart
ment declared that it recognized the Polish
government in London, on the basis of the
five years of the nations resistance of Ger
many. Then at Yalta, complete about
face was made, and 'we recognized the pup
pet government of Lublin and helped dress
it UP with few new rags to hide the ugly
truth"
ave are partners in the fateful job OF
creating a new order in Europe solely be-
cause of Russia's military power and I'M
Welding cynicisrn," the United Polish Press
of America writes "The moral principles
of the Atlantic Charter have been discard
ed the idea of collective security has been
pigeonholed."
The United States has always refused
to recognize any seizure of land by force
of arms-and has entered a World War to
uphold these principles. Yet, while now on
the verge of victory, we have turned our
back on these very ideals and sanction the
partition of one of the first countries to
have suffered under Hitlers aggression
Still worse, we recognize what is nearly
the same partition as was agreed upon by
Hitler and Stain in 1899.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Captive Or Master?

The United States was developed with
the outpourings of billions of dollars of capt.
tai supplied by the savings of millions of
private citizens. Transportation, electric
power, mining, mills and agriculture all We'd
with each other to increase production and
distribution and create new payrolls, there
by adding conveniences for the public and
taxable assets for the various states. The
people progressed with their own capital
and initiative.
Today, as political pressure is exerted
to have government compete with its citi-
zens in the field of business, government
would substitute its judgment for that Of
the individual. When it assumes this atti-
tude of superior wisdom, it follows that
those of inferior wisdom must not question,
must not criticize. All they are to do is to
obey.
American industry, through concerted
advertising campaign throughout the nation,
is presenting facts to the people to show
that the inventive and productive genius
of this nation is still alive and ready to move
forward as never before in the postwar era.
The advertising emphasizes that the future
of private enterprise, and millions of indie
pendent jobs, rests in the hands of the
people.
The people control American industry
as well as government. They will decide
whether private enterprise will progress as
in the past, or whether it will be restricted
by government competition which follows
the deadly parallel of the liberty destroying
tactics of fascism or state socialism. 1t will
be I'D to the people themselves to say
whether the individual winds up the captive
or the master of the bureaucrat.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

noise of the engines, so great was
their racket
We cut our speed and began losing
altitude, breaking through the clouds
over Waikiki Beach. The two gravy
ladies ceased their noise. The Royal
Hawaiian Hotel at Waikiki looked
magnificent, and I picked out many
other familiar landmarks as we flew
low over Honolulu.
There was a tremendous ripping
sounds as over three tons of airplane
hit the water at high speed. I
thought surely the bottom had been
ground off, but all was well as we
TAXED to the dock and made fast.
1 thanked the pilot, stepped out of
the ship and walked up the dock.
The flying boat was as had orig
inally found it, rising and falling
with the gentle afternoon swells.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Jeeps Need Juice

The quandry in which government war
time regulatory agencies sometimes find
themselves when it comes to allocating
strategic materials to industry, is humor-
ously illustrated by the Petroleum Industry
War Councils recent question: (which
came first Tin order of priority the jeep
or the juice that makes 1t rum"
While the question was humorous, the
problem back of it is deadly serious. In
order to meet increased military demands,
the petroleum industry has mapped drill
ing program of $500 wells for the second
quarter of this year. Because of Stepped-up
military needs, the oil industry may have
to cut this contemplated number of wells
in half. The steel that was destined for ex
banded well drilling, may be diverted to
armament production.
AS the PIWC warns, Zone thing is GER
tain, if the industry does not receive enough
materials to meet anticipated increases in
military demands for petroleum products,
the military may find themselves in the
tragic position of having mechanical units
that have no fuel and lubricants to operate
them.
petroleum not only serves as the power
for combat units of the air, land and sea;
it is also potent factor in synthetic rub
Der for tires, in TINT explosives used in am
munition, and in long list of various and
sundry items, including medicines. The tom
mage of petroleum products shipped from
our shores to combat areas continues to be
greater than the tonnage of all other sup
plies combined"
The petroleum industry is proud Of the
fact that all military demands to date have
been met. It would be more than tragic if
task so well begun should falter now be-
cause of lack Of materials.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
TEST FLIGHT - PB2Y
"CORONADOp

I had always wanted a ride in q
flying boat, so when I got the oppor-
tunity to accompany a test flight
in one of the big Navy planes here
I didn't hesitate.
The ship was huge, and as 1
stepped through the door 1 found I
could either ascend or descend for
there were two decks from which
to chose. A quick trip of exploration
seemed to be the immediate neces-
sity and I proceeded to do just that.
The flight deck was as crowded
and complicated as I had expected
it TO be, and the maze of instruments
focused in my mind realization of
the intricate mechanisms that these
modern airships really are. The rest
of the ship was sectioned off into
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Notes From
Bacon Library
WANT TO MAKE
SOME MONEY?

This isn't a day that the poor
suffer along on no money-not at
all. Today most any fair writer can
hit the jackpot. This is by way of
reminding you that Metro GOODWIN
Mayer announced June Is to July
as the dates between which you
may submit that novel you're writ
ing for their sl25,0O0 prize award.
Last year, you remember, the prize
money was won by Elizabeth
Goudge's GREEN DOLPHIN
STREET. That novel, practically
written in technicolor," has sold
more than 100000 copies to date and
is still going strong. The book is
now being adapted to the screen
and production will begin in the
spring.
If $125,OOO doesn't satisfy, you
might, if your novel becomes best
seller to stop all bestsellers, make
more than that by waiting a year
to sell it Though A TREE GROWS
IN BROOKLYN brought only $780,
600 and this is unusual for first
novel0 A. j. Cronin usually gets
$1,000 for all his books and $780,
600 is top price for a book.
If that still doesn't satisfy, try
putting your novel on the stage be-
fore it becomes a movie. That's
more remunerative. Warner Broth
ers paid the Day family and CO.
playwrights, Howard Lindsay and
Russell Grouse, $500, 900, plus a per-
centage of the gross of the picture
for LIFE WITH FATHER. THE
VOICE OF THE TURTLE brought
more than half million. So let's
try not to even guess the top figure
a motion picture producer will pay
for stage production. Who knows
what fantastic sums may be offered
for the picture rights to OKLAHO-
MA?
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Book


About year ago, the writer, Glen
way Wescott, was at work on a
novel of France, and it seemed to
him he was getting nowhere with it.
Then he met a member of the Greek
underground, and from the fantas-
tic stories he heard, started writing
a little piece about that country's
struggles.
It grew into a short story, and
then into a novel He intended at
first to incorporate it into his French
story, but Greece had hold of his
imagination. He called his novel
Apartment in Athens" and it has
been made Book-of-the- Month
Club choice for March.
"All this happened to a Greek
family named Helianos." So begins
his tragic story, told in almost clas-
sic simplicity. The action takes place,
as the title suggests, in an apart
ment in German-occupied Athens.
The Helianos family comprises the
father, Nikolas, a mild-mannered
intellectual thoroughly convinced
that he has nothing of the hero in
him; his bewildered and rather pas
sive wife; their twelve-year- son,
Alex, already warped and condensed
to single passion-the lust to kill
Germans; and the little daughter,
Leda, clouded in mind and cloddish
of body.
On this household, already dazed
by the impact of the Greek defeat
is quartered one of their oppressors
Captain-later -Kalter. His
arrival terrifies Nikolas on two
counts; he fears lest they not get
along with the Nazi; and he fears
the scorn of his two revolutionary
brothers, should he get along toe
amiably.
Though he never belabors his mo-
raj, the author makes two very
strong points in his story. One is
that you can never trust the NaZi
enemy, even in his good moods. The
other. that even very mediocre peo-
pie, when faced with crisis, car
grow in wisdom and courage
Glenway Wescott was born in 1901
on a farm in Wisconsin, the eldest
of six children. The whole family
was considered a bit eccentric by
their rough German farm neighbors
Poor as they were, they had butter
on their bread instead of head
cheese. They drank tea, had ambi-
tons and spoke a beautiful Eng
lish. Glenway was much too smart
in school and had the unorthodox
habit of reading books during re-
cess. He didn't like Wisconsin farm
ulC, tAlOOSii ~ woo dDOuo IL S4ldt 1le
wrote some excellent books many
years later when he was living in
France-notably 1.-THE Grandmoth-
ers," a Harper prize novel in 1927
Now, he lives on a farm again
an 1100-acre dairy farm in New
Jersey, belonging to his brother,
very different from his childhood
home 1t was there that he wrote
Apartment in Athens"
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Letter Box
Wyandotte, Michigan
March z, 1915
Wyandotte News Herald
Wyandotte, Michigan

4NCHo-44C4d
Wyandotte, Michigan
Dear Mr.. CAN'T:
You have crusaded for most every
thing else, so please take up the
cause Of the vanishing garbage cans.
Why, oh why, in these days of
scarce metal, scarce this, that and
the other, must the garbage men
bang and smash our cans, carry off
the covers, ETC.?
had one just two weeks and the
garbage man banged it on the truck.
bent it In so that In a months
time there was great hole In it.
Yesterday. he carried off the cover
to a perfectly good can.
I know this sounds like a laugh,
but it's more like q cry. Here we
have the city bowling about dirty
alleys, rats, stinks and goodness
knows what all And how can we
help II? The garbage men aren't fit
for that job even. Why can't the
city find someone who has brains
and decency enough even to collect
garbage?
I don't give q boot about ration
ing or the curfew law, but It's driv-
ing me crazy to buy q new garbage
can every six weeks. The worst Of
it Is that the situation Is totally
unnecessary.
! remain darned mad and
4 Riverbank Housewife
p. 3. e might be well to add that
the collectors are very rude and do
not take kindly to any criticism Of
their methods.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

-Iy OlIc VI lllCIn
1 welcomed with
a big embrace. 1
felt like saying
to it "Ah, my
love, you are the
day Of m Y
dreams. You are
my one mere
day Of security
how I cherish
you
But the final
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Served by Natives
In Tropical Setting


our WOODEN winter uniforms. But
when We stepped out Of the plane
in honolulu, those heavy clothes
almost made US sick. BY the time
We got through the formalities and
left the field, we we're all dripping
and swabbing ourselves.
In Honolulu I stayed in the home
of a naval friend. The first thing We
did was take a shower bath, change
to light khaki clothes, and eat a
plateful of beautiful yellow papaya.
A naval houseboy named Flores,
a native of Guam, took care of US.
He washed our clothes and made
our beds and fixed us fruit juice
and papaya all day long.
A squat Hawaiian woman, In blue
slacks and with a red bandana
around her head, watered the lawn
over and over and over again, very
slowly.
The sun shone brightly and white
clouds ran an embroidery over the
ridges of the far green hills. Palm
trees rustled like rain, and the deep
whistles Of departing ships came
from the harbor below us. This,
truly, was the Pacific.
The trip over had not exhausted
me, but the change of climate did,
and for a Gay I did nothing but
loaf-and recover from America
and bask in being warm.
There is no rationing Of anything
Continued on Page 16)
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
IS YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

A big day for Wyandotters was
the launching of the ship. Juvigny,
that was successfully launched In
the Wyandotte Shipyard at noon.
The christening was done by Mrs.
M. E. Farr, who is the wife of the
president of the company who built
the ship.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
Ernie Pyle With the Nary:
Quick Trip Over Pacific
Brings One To New World
Changing Climate, Vast Distances,
Different altitude Is Confronted
BY Ernie Pyle

HONOLULU.-The hour of leaving at last.
Usually when starting you don't get away the
day the transportation people originally set for you emem
Der when first started going how impatient at delay
would be- and how would fret myself into frenzy
every day of waiting But time changes things like that
time also Wasa
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

Tragedy struck in the Michaels
household when Mrs. Michaels went
out to get some bread and left her
two and half year old child in
the house alone. When she returned,
she discovered that the next door
neighbor was trying to extinguish
the flame from the childs clothing.
Burns were so bad that the child
died. Origin of the blaze is not
known.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

Declared as an about success
was the Milk Fund Drive that was
staged In Wayne County. Things
were started rolling with Q meeting
at the Grange Han in Flat Rock ut
which over 800 people attended.
Miss Coral Ravens talked on the
subject, The Stuff That Sturdy
Children Are Made OK"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08
SPEAKING OF SINCLAIR LEWIS

An item intended for last weeks
column I omitted because of space.
Here it is, as written for last week,
though in the meantime you may
have read 1t elsewhere:
Sinclair Lewis will become "ES-
quire's" book critic beginning with
the June issue. Bennett Cert, from
whose column, TRADE WINDS, in
the Saturday Review Of Literature"
I quote so frequently. gave up "Es-
quire's" FIVE MINUTE BOOK
SHELF with the January issue.
william Lyon Phelps, you recall.
conducted this column until his
death in 1913.
Lewis is planning, at 'Esquire's"
request, TO undertake q somewhat
different coverage of the subject Of
books" Instead of discussing large
numbers of the routine run Of books,
his will be selective criticism, giving
attention to writer's he believes un-
usually significant or promising. The
aim Of the department, when he
takes 1t over In June, will be to
consider certain trends, certain
dangers. and certain exciting prom
ises in present-day American ntera-
ture"
Meanwhile Lewis new novel, CASS
TnMBERLANE, Is scheduled for
Continued on Page I'D
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BOOKS INTO FILMS
AND VICE VERSA

Remember MacKinlay Kantor's
ROMANCE OF ROSY RIDGE? 1t
was serialized in the Saturday Eve
ming Post" in 1887 and published In
book form later the same year. On
cidentally, I believe you will also
enjoy Kantor's latest book, AUTH
OR'S CHOICE, a collection chosen
from his earlier publications) But
to return to ROMANCE OF ROSY
RIDGE. It was sold last week to
MGM for $4,000, which is slightly
more than Kantor received for the
serial rights.
With his Forthcoming novel Mac
Kinlay Kantor tried a system new
to him. BACK FROM THE SWORD
was first written as a screen orig
inal for Samuel Goldwyn. Follow
ing that, Kantor adapted it to book
form and has just turned the manu-
script over to his publishers.
MacKinlay Kantor, whose HAPPY
LAND was so successful both as a
book and a movie, is only one Of
the well-known novelists writing un-
der similar arrangements - that is,
first for the screen and secondly
for serial and book publication.
Among these authors are: Louis
Bromfield MRS. PARKINGTON)
Robert Nathan (PORTRAIT OF
JENNIE), Booth Harrington (THE
MAGNIFICENT AMB RSONS)
Nordhoff and Hall CMUTTNY ON
THE BOUNTY and w. r. Burnett
O1TTLE CAESAR, to name just a
few.
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floor in the rear of the plane When
1 woke up it was just getting day
light, and We had only an hour 20
go. That's the way like 10 fly an
ocean.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

Two basketball games were staged
at the Arbeiter Hall for all you
basketball fans dancing fol-
lowed the games.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-03-08

Please limit your calls an
advertisement in the paper from
the Michigan Bell asking the resi-
dents Of the city to please limit
their calls to five minutes.
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This time also there delay:--
of few days Every of them floor "; The rear OF