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Evening star., 1945-02-04
5 Postwar Projects
n Montgomery Wait
Decision Of Planners

Resolutions calling for flve Mont
gomery County projects will be acted
on by the Montgomery County Ad-
visory Committee on Postwar and
County Planning at q meeting at
pm. Tuesday In ythe Bethesda Ele-
mentary School, E. Brooke Lee
chairman, announced last night. 4
The resolutions, approved by SUBJ
committees, include provisions for
financing postwar building projects
engthening the county's Juvenile
court system, improving the county
engineering department, appoint
ment OF q county purchasing agent
and establishment Of civil service
system.
"A resolution proposing selection Of
q county manager has been held over
until the February "A meeting to
permit further study by the SUBJ
committee. Postponement was made
at the request OF Richard B. Barker,
who presented resolution at a
meeting OF the County Government
Committee Friday night recon-
mending that the powers OF the
county manager be defined more
definitely than In the original pro-
posal and asking limitations Of the
ordinance powers Of the County
Commissioners.
Resolution on Bonds.
The original proposal had been
adopted by the County Government
Committee at previous meeting.
The Committee on Public Building
Projects, headed by Rhees Burket,
has adopted a resolution recon-
mending that legislation be enacted
by the State Legislature at this
session to permit the County Com
missioners to issue bonds without
referendums to finance public works
which may be authorized for three
years after the war.
Such authorization, the measure
continues, should not be limited
except that the total should not
create q county indebtedness OF 8
per cent Of the assessed value of real
and personal tax property.
The County Government Com
mittee Friday agreed to the pro-
posal, but recommended that ref
erendum restrictions again be placed
on bonds for school projects over
$250,000 at the end Of this three
year period.
Also approved by the Govern
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OPEN AN ACCOUNT At THE NATIONAL
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An attractive, well con-
structed group. Table
has blue bakelite extern
sion top and white en-
alnel finish base. Com
pletc with four chairs,
upholstered seats and
backs.
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ROSEVlLLE

RosEvILLE
rooms; bath; near scholastic $50:
500 down.
S rooms; bath; basement: furnace:
floored attic; =. acre; fruit trees; ga
rage; second house from Gratiot -
Sc. 500: 81 900 down
Nice 5-room home: oak floors: solid
plaster: LOTS side drive: garage;
near Cratiot-l5 Mile-s3. 300 cash.
8 rooms; utility: bath: walking dis
lance TO Gratiot-s3. 500: y, down.
Two acres; room brick house; ga
rage; chicken coop $4,000; $4,000
EAST DETROIT
Very nice 8 rooms: bath; utility:
large lots: several fruit trees; garage
$500; $500 down.
Brick rooms; baths; fireplace;
completely modern; excellent location:
garage-So, $50: $3.50 down.
acre: rooms: bath: basement:
automatic oil hot air furnace; chicken
coop; Rarage-S5. 800: terms.
FRASER
8 acre farm; extra good soil: s-rm
house, large chicken coop; barn -
S6.500 "a down.
tion--S2.50 500: 5000 down or 81 $50 cash.
and bath: stoker: hot water heat:
large lot: on paved road: garage -
$3.50; cash 70 mortgage.
MT CLEMENS
Attractive 5-room home: 4 lots; ga
rage: located out South River road
$500; $1,000 down or bargain for
cash.
FARMS
20 acres. attractive 6-room house
fire place: barn: milk house; garage:
large chicken coop. brooder house: 10
Gated Is miles north of Mt. Clemens
$500: cash 10 mortgage.
Two acres; 5 and bath; utility: hot
water furnace: chicken coop: fruit
trees; near Utica road and ~ Mile
$500; $1,000 down. .
HUGHES REAL ESTATE
oratiot 81 10 Mile Rd. Rosevilis 1901
UTICA ROAD AT ~, MILE FRASER
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BUNGALOW

Close In on Fourteen Mile road be-
tween Gratiot and M-o7: well-built:
double construction: 4 rooms with pro-
vision for more: Edison service and
gas; approximately one-uuarter of an
acre Excellent location on cement rd /:
near Gratiot bus: bus service 10 school
only $3.50 with $500 down: balance
s3S Der month. c
w. G. FENToN. LAWYERS BLDG.
Phone s2si Days. 2973 Anytime
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rooms; toilet; gas; water-s2, $50;
$3.50 down.
rooms; part basement: bath: ga
rage-s2 900; 81 700 down.
houses: 3 rooms and rooms; one
vacant; other rented for sos, 200;
$500 down.
>. acre: room house: utility room:
stationary tubs-s3, 500: $1,000 down.
rooms; garage: flowing well; lot
l00xl60-s3 $50: sl,i50 down. S28 SO
month.
acres: room house: water in
house; inside toilet: garage; chicken
coop-s3.75o.
acres; 5 room house: bath: oil
heat: utility room: garage: chicken
coop: on good roads, 500: half cash.
room; modern: stoker; lot 66xl90-
$4,000: So 600 down.
acres: 8 room; modern house: ga.
rage; chicken coop-S5. 500: half cash.
5 rooms; bath; so II. on canal: so Fl.
on Jefferson-s4.O0 900: half cash
room modern; hot air heat 100 u.
o.. Canal; 100 on Jefferson-s6, 500:
half cash.
10 acres: modern houses: chicken
coop; brooder house--Si0 600
apartments: centrally located: hot
water heat: gross income SIT month
price sl2, 0O0 $500 down: s85 month.
40 acres; good buildings; good soil,
near Mt. Clemens-S8, 000
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f. A. Kerner
ll28 South Gratiot, Mt Clemens
Route 2: Box Phone 548l {

WILL SELL HOUSE UNDER CON.
MISUNDERSTANDING fun acre Iocat-
ed at Hoover and 1914 Mile road for
$500 as is. or will complete 10 make
room and bath for 81 $50: excellent
neighborhood: liberal terms; discount
for cash. Phone Mount Clemens 5674
for more particulars. c
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ALL 6EDBU0S. reaches. moths e.
stroysd IN SIX hours: guaranteed. Me-
comb Fumigatin Service. $3.50 g. River
Phone SAL.
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Schooling in Germany

It now appears that the cradle alton of the
military training conducted by the Nazis in
Germany almost from the cradle to well into
adolescence for so many years preceding the
educational problem when the Allies take over
in that benighted land 1t will be among the
ly or quickly. Nazism and all its accompany
ing evils have been too deeply instilled in
German youth to be overcome readily. But
more serious even than this is the problem
Of educating the German masses IN primary
and fundamental subjects and to teach them
to do their own thinking, at least in a moder-
ate degree.
An American educator who was travelling in
Germany when Hitler moved against Poland
and precipitated this war, and had used his
eyes and mind to good effect, has just re.
vealed to this desk some of his observations
while in the Reich. AS he made his escape
after the fighting started with the connivance
of anti-Nazi friends it is inadv;sable to men
tlOil Ills IldlllS, VI HoAAiS WV Nity WASiI ht-
made his most careful observations
Suffice, that it was city of half million
population. It's high school had an enrolment
of only 500 pupils and but so of these were
girls.
The pupils, he found, had been carefully
selected for former achievement in the city's
equivalent of our grade schools, but the re-
rI1i rannentS of nd oirlc
o. average intelligence had no chance to en-
roll
He says that he mingled with all classes of
citizens and found that the great majority of
them had gone no higher than the German
equivalent of our sixth grade Given time and
plenty of paper they could add simple sums,
or subtract multiply or divide if the amounts
we're not large; could write their names and
compose simple letters. But very few, he de-
clared, had more education than this, and
fewer could think any simple proposition out
for themselves.
He appears quite right in concluding that
this lack of general education accounts for
the centuries-old German herd instinct - the
willingness of the masses to follow the lead
err We say this seems to be reasonable de-
duction, granting the premesis is right, on the
score that people Of average education could
not have been so easily fooled or led astray
by Hitlers fanaticism and allowed him to
lead them into conflict from which they
could hope to emerge only in defeat.
1t the Germans, whom the Roman emper
ors sought as unsuccessfully to appease as
Chamberlain at Munich, are ever to be cured
OF their superman fetish, the education of the
German people to a point where they can
reason logicallymust become a primary I'M
dertaklng of the Allies during many years
of occupat on.
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Get Wainwright

1t is easy to conceive the thrill with which
General Macarthur saw the Stars and Stripes
rise again over Corregidor after nearly three
years of japanese occupation. Eut we suspect
the Pacific commander also crowded back
lump in his throat because his second in
command, General Wainwright was not pres
ent to take part in the ceremony but was
instead a prisoner of the Japs recently re.
moved from the Philippines to Japan or the
Asiatic mainland to prevent his liberation by
the returning Americans.
BY any yardstick General Wainwright &C.
cupies a position among the top heroes of
this war, regardless of theater, even in tie
humiliating experience of surrendering when
further resistance was useless and sacrificial.
What little has been heard of him since the
What lettle has been heard of him since the
Tokyo took over administration in the islands
confirms the general high opinion of the man.
He has borne confinement, abuse, disease and
hunger with the same fine spirit that char
acterized his leadership up to the surrender,
Macarthur has done a great job in the
advance from Australia to Manila, but no SIM
gle campaign will be so great, no act so
laudible, as the release of Wainwright from
japanese captivity
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Rhineland in nine days and the world would
=. n..cef,, TODAY. But that is hindsight, al
ways better than foresight.
The United Press dispatch offers po"eriui
lesson. To err once, as France DID, is natural
But taallow the same mistake to happen again
is foolish. And it WILL in all probability, I'M
less Germany is made powerless - and kept
that way-to fight another war. This should not
be an exclusive assignment for France
Whether the German army ever marches again
is the concern of the whole world. How well
if takes up this responsibility will determine
whether another generation OF young Ameri-
cans will have to smash the Hun Oft his we'll
worn and brutal path of conquest
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BY w. G. ROGERS
Apartment In Athens" by
GIenWay WeScOtt (Harnar.

"All this happened to a Greek
family named Helianos''. so this
book starts, somewhat casually, on
the tone of an essay more than 2
novel. The authors attitude is cool
and seems detached. It's the clas-
steal manner, as BELTS novel
about Greece.
But the material is fiery hot.
Here are hunger, want, debase-
ment, humiliation, insult, anger
raging hatred, torture, death as
gruesome and bloody as the most
lurid atrocity.
Father and mother Helianos lost
son early in the war, have a sec
ond son and daughter left. A Ger
man officer CHARTERED in their
apartment treats his hosts like
slaves.
After a short furlough in Ger
many, he comes back greatly
changed. His family has been WHIP
ed out, he confides to Helianos,
and In grief and despair he longs
Tor peace. Internationally he al
lays Helianos' mistrust to such an
extent that the incautious Greek
voices an indirect criticism of Hit.
Ter and Mussolini. Then ira gedy
piles up dramatically.
Wescott has no mercy on Ger
mans. The spokesman for h e
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Seventh War Loan

The goal of the Seventh War loan cam
paign has been set at IA billion dollars. That
lot of money but we are having lot OF
war amid threat of even greater imitation.
Buying bonds is a two-edged weapon against
both.
The pockets of the people of America are
welI-lined with plenty of cash. This is per. cd
of great prosperity but don't expect it to last
forever Instead of indulgng in all kinds Of
useless luxuries, people would be wise to in
vest some of their extra income. And there is
no better investment than War bonds.
Nobody knows what the future holds post
war; is sort of magic Word-everything is
supposed 10 be lovely IN that vague era. Ev-
erything will not be lovely. There will be
plenty of troubles, and the person with a nice
nest egg of War bonds will certainly be fitted
better to meet them than one who spent all
Money isn't everything but the lack of it
is terrible. Save through bond purchases and
avoid the terror of being broke, maybe with
out work, certainly without t h e fabulously
priced work based on wartime needs Lots
OF people blowing bubbles. Blow yours
with a solid core of War bonds against the
day that the bubbles burst.
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Protection

The free advisory service offered by the
Wilmington Community Chest and Council to
residents interested in checking the reliabili-
ty of national and international philanthropic
agencies asking contributions is much more
than its name implies. It is, in fact, real pro-
lection against many a war-borne hourishing
racket.
''While the majority of philanthropic organ
izations are sound,'' E. L. White, president
of the Chest, said, ''intermingled among them
are number of substandard agencies and
quite few outright rackets. Because it is
difficult for layman to SIT good from bad
organizations appealing to him throughout the
year, we are glad to provide this professional
advisory service to gvers without charge"
In establishing this function, the Chest is
filling a need that has existed here from the
start of the war. Numerous appeals have been
made and the majority have been worthy but
there have been questionable cases. There is
no longer any cause for a generous Whining
tonian to be victim OF racket. If in doubt
when solicited, just call write the Com
munity Chest before giving. Its officials can
tell you whether your donation is going to a
sound cause or into the pockets of some thev-
ing individual attempting to take advantage
of your generosity and patriotism
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Don't Let 1t Happen Again

The serious error of Frances failure to lift
her hand against Germany's standardization
Of the Rhine-the first major step toward the
war are now fghting-was brought out in
. dramatic manner in United Press dispatch
yesterday.
The short article said, in part
Mine years ago today, at 1890 pm. German
troops entered Cologne, ending the demili.
tarization of the Rhineland
''Then the Nazi papers jubilantly reported:
To-day Cologne saw the first gun of the
German army within its walls
German troops passed in review before
the town hall
Adolf Hitler himself visited Cologne or
March %, 1886. He said In speech that No.
vember 1918, did not finish the physical life
Of the German nation.
To-day, newly arrived American troops
were consolidating the U. S. First Army's grir
on Cologne. a day after the richest single
prize of the war in the west fell
It has taken nine years to rectify the error
made by the French. Perhaps, If they had op
posed this bold, gambling stroke by Hitler
his army would have been thrown out of tn
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The Literary Guidepost

Reich saws: what if we do lo'
now, there'll be victory Tor us S0'"'
day. Helianos in his last letter w
clares:
For if we all continue to tax Ak:
our cue in world-politics from w
Germans as we have done ..,r,
reckless appreciation OF IL 5Ds ,s
when they are on their aoou .aev
havior, only fighting "ieH .s .e,1
choose to fight and plying l .aSa.
whenever they ask for plly-s ,,.s,t
err or later they will get Ia-.
they want: world at their '"'''
Except for one brief TelaP 81.
Wescott's German characters o ~
painted black. and they ale ..;rr,
vincing portrayals. Their 'tC rsri,
have these alternatives 10 s..' n.
to the more brutal ones, oI " ,ss,
more subtle ones, but m eI'"e'
the end is death. 49, vi.
The author of Good Bye W.,
consin' and "The Grandnlo'I oor,.
is an expert craftsman , ne IN m
bines sensitive phrasing VIVA n.
usually keen perception INA.
passion in characters ana sr
tons, so stirring in theiiS,T,' %
had managed more geneTsH' Pr.
break through the forila. MI
velope, this might have been 1,, MI
best war novel, instead Oh ''
our best.
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shoulders and said that, within a
month or two, you would have to
90 to the black market to get tic
kets and pay two or three thousand
lire.
Those who attempt to analyze the
italian situation always add, OF
course, that nothing can be final
so long as northern Italy remains
in the hands of the Germans. FROM
Northern Italy, particularly from
Milan, in the past came the politi-
cal forces that gave direction to
the entire country.
In the north, too, is the greatest
concentration of industry, and
therefore also skilled and polite
ally conscious workers. The south
which we inherited by conquest,
has been additionally poor.
house and a museum for tourists.
In the German-held north today
are many prominent Fascists who
escaped at the time of the Allied
sweep up the Italian peninsula.
They we're effective operators with
in the Fascist framework and they
have left behind an administrative
vacuum which appears to be diff
cult to fill.
In this connection, in talks have
had with Allied officers. They al
most invariably shake their heads
with something like despair, and
say that, after all, Mussolini did
do ''some good for these people,"
and how else except through die
tatorship can you make anything
of sl1ch q country Then the,1 odd
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SO THEY SAY

We flushed them along the west side of the
beach through pillboxes and underbrush, and
at night we stood up in our foxholes on the
front lines and fought off their counter-attacks
with bayonets, grenades and knives. - Gun
merry Sgt. Earl M. Heacock of Ell Centre,
Calf, at Iwo
The problem which society faces in deal
ing with runaway girls who have fallen into
bad company has become acute These minors
are not hardened Grim mails and we should not
deal with them as if they were. - Sen. Fred
A. Young and Assemblyman MacNeil Mitchell
in New York State Legislature bill.
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WASHINGTON CALLING s
by M!EMM
MARQUIS CH1LDS G,1iaaI

ROME Almost every Ameri-
can and British officer with whom
1 have talked about the plight OF
Italy uses one word to describe the
situation. That word is hopeless. -
The Italian people have been on
22-year political debauch. The
hangover from Fascism is terri
BILE. 1t will not be cured in day
or year or decades.
The government of Premier Bon
omi represents next to nothing.
There seems to be no force with
in the country that can make it.
self felt Prominent Italian anti
Fascists who survived both inside
the country and in exile have said
to me that. if Italy ultimately goes
Communist, as many fear it will,
it will be by default for lack of pro-
per direction from any other sour
ce. That seems to me to be cogent
appraisal of the existing situation.
The Bonomi government makes
many plans, but most of them new
err get beyond the paper stage. Re-
Gently, after much prodding from
the Allied commission, the govern
ment announced a series of urgent
reforms that included abolition of
the black market, raising Of wages
and taxes, and the confiscation OF
all wealth in excess of What was
owned in 1922, the latter measure
being based on the assumption
that increased riches must have
come as a result of Fascist con-
nections. No one, however, has very
much confidence that these re-
forms will be carried out.
The machinery does not exist
to take such steps, many of them
essential if the Italian economy is
to be rescued. And so the Allied
commission has had to do some
more prodding.
During nearly year, that COM
mission has been trying to make
some kind of sense out of this Fas-
cist-ridden, war-weary country.
The same thing has happened over
and over again. It's been a little
like trying to restore a sick octo-
pus to life.
Repeatedly, the commission has
told the government that it must
take steps to carry out food dis
tribution rather than rely on Allied
officers to do the job. The govern
ment agrees and then promptly
falls into prolonged cabinet wrang-
les. The result is exactly nothing.
'Black Market is a loose term
but, used in the broadest sense to
describe transactions outside the
theoretical price and ration con-
troll, it would cover perhaps 70 per
cent of the Italian economy, ac-
cording to informed sources farni-
lier with the long struggle to get
the Italian system restarted.
Today everyone takes the black
market for. granted. Only few
weeks ago, rail service from Rome
to Naples was reopened for civil
ian passengers. The price Of the
journey was fixed by government
decree at l25 lire, with the lireI
equal to one cent at the official
rate exchange. That's a reasonable
price. but Italians with whom l
have talked have shrugged their