The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-26
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
Of course the conference has

Of course the conference has
been going only seven weeks,
but to many of the delegates, 1t
does not seem day less than
$500 years. In fact, some of the
wags say that you measure the
age of a delegate and the length
OF time he has been in San Fran
cisco in exactly the same way
you measure the age Of one Of
the big trees-by counting the
rings.
There's a circle and q wrinkle
in the bags under the eyes for
every week spent in San Fran
cisco.
Still another idea is that con-
ference time should be told in
the same way they measure the
age of Mt. Shasta, which was
once an active volcano erupting
molten lava all over Northern
California, or of Ell Captain, Half
Dome, or Cloud Rest, the mile
high promontories of granite
which were carved out by the
glaciers here in the Yosemite
back in the ice age some six mil
lion years ago.
The eruption Of oratory, the
mountains of ice cubes that have
melted and poured out overSthiS
landscape in the past seve
weeks have made it seem longer
than the seven days OF creation.
The human rights provisions
are definitely Neanderthal in
their concept of culture and ed
ucation. The voting formula is
highly volatile an d therefore
early carboniferous. The ideas on
trusteeship, independence and
sclf-government were carve
whole out of the Pleistocene. The
small nations have feeling they
have been pushed back into the
Miocene under the Russian for.
o.gn policy khich is unquestion-
ably glacial-large masses of ice
moving down from the Polar cap
TO shift land masses and bound
aries about like sO:many termin-
al mOraines.
ANYTHING TO ESCAPE
CONFERENCE
AS a matter of fact it may take
a geologist to pry some of the
secrets out of the silent rock
strata into which the committees
and commissions of this confer
ence have been divided. No won
der the delegates flock to the
Yosemite to get new perspec-
tives. Trying to reconstruct the
body and breathe the breath Of
Life into the fossilized handouts
of progress in drafting the Uni
ted Nations Charter is just too
much.
Though it was announced at
the outset that the writing of this
charter might take two months
or more, only half that time
had passed before the conference
news was off the first page OF
the newspapers, driven back in
side by news of new wars and
rumors of wars still to come.
Today the conference is rating
Only third or half column in
most papers, nothing at all in
others.
NO SEX APPEALING GAGS
The sad truth is that nobody
seems to give a damn about
peace. Too dull, no sex appeal.
No gags. Phony. Phooey.
When Gen. Omar Bradley
doing the "Pocatello Polka" on
Broadway. and a H o lyw % d
rooster with a yen to be hen
rate more space than confer
ence which is to create a new
world organization that will the
oretically maintain peace n d
security by ending wars, some
thing is wrong.
Maybe what the conference
reeds is a good press agent. The
show is dead. Somebody will
have to pass a miracle. President
Truman's scheduled appearance
for the final curtain may do a
lot to save the performance but
the play needs something more
than that-new stars, new lines,
better lighting, fewer blackoutS
Of secrecy, less action behind the
scenes, more action on stage-if
il is to be a popular hit.