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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

gets worse. If the streetcars
could keep on time, the SItua-
ton would not be so bad.
On narrow streets. autos will
pull up alongside the StreetcarS
blocking the entrance doors, and
forcing passengers to wait until
a green light comes and the
automobile clears. Then the
Streetcar viii miss the light
Motorists Will break their necks
10 beat the car, and afterwards
will slow down and line up on
the tracks at the next red light
BY the time the Streetcar gets
10 the safety zone. loads and un-
loads. we lose the green light
we should have made easily
Last night l was delayed 20
minutes by a car that stalled
with locked gears on the tracks.
That made me 81 minutes be-
mind the previous car and
there were plenty OF people
waiting and mad
When the passengers are mad
they take II out on me. grovl-
irE and Srarfrng, and also they
all wanted 70 Jam in my car,
although there were two more
cars behind me. That Just de-
laycd me that much longer, and
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
BY George
Rothwell Brown

At SOME future time, il
"A losses should be incurred,
Congress would be asked by
RFC to write off" the losses.
Some years ago Congress did
just that, writing off some 81
700,000.000, of which S97. 100000
was an obligation of the Com
modify Credit Corporation.
1t so happens that at this
moment the Commodity Credit
Corporation is asking a deficit
appropr iation Of S256, 100000
from the House appropriations
committee 10 rectify a further
impairment Of its capital struc-
ture.
II also happens that CCC is
about TO obtain from Congress
an increase of from one-and-a-
half 10 two billions in It's
authorized capitalization. Some
things cooking!
THE authority of the treasury
Il TO purchase the obligations
of the manifold government
corporations is contained in
various amendments TO the
RFC Act of 1882.
This scheme to finance the
postwar world with American
money, without going TO an in
creasingly cynical Congress for
a thin dime, reveals how vast
and powerful a thing is this
institution we know as RFC.
1t reminds us of what Jesse
Jones told the Senate commerce
committee, that RFC could lend
anybody, anything, in any
amount, at any rate of interest.
1t also suggests a reason for
getting rid OF Jesse Jones and
turning RFC over 10 a real
spender, with an 18-karat global
mind.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

dinner in praise of Washington and
his armies?
How much will be said about the
great feats of American arms under
Macarthur and Eisenhower?
And cannot Henry Morgenthau
find some filter place to speak on the
birthday of the greatest American
than at dinner sponsored by such
patriots" as Corliss Lamont, Arthur
Upham Pope, Herman Shumlin,
Louis Adamic, Lillian Hellman,
Langston Hughes, Paul Robson,
Rockwell Kent, Michael Quill, DR..
Thomas Mann and dozens of others
whose mental breaths reek of
vodka?
Do you know, Mr.. Secretary, that
Feb. % has nothing to do with Rus
sia and communism?
Do you really know what that
day means?
BOSTON, which is questionably
ID honored- by branch of this
American-Soviet front" has spoken
in these terms Of this Council
through a statement by Michael j.
Ward, chairman Of the Boston school
committee:
These are the people who are
trying to undermine and overthrow
our government"
Of all the sinister "fronts" to
Sovietize the American people this
National Council of American-Soviet
Friendship is the slic ckest and
sleekest.
The oily, sucker-bait word in
their title is Friendship"
Russia is our alleged military
ally, but there can NEVER be
friendship" between free America
and slave-state Russia.
And we wonder whether on Feb.
% Secretary Morgenthau is going to
tell these Russian firsters of the
greatness of Washington, Of the
meaning Of the INDIVIDUALISTIC
DEMOCRACY he founded, or is he
going to obsequiously glorify Lenin
and Stain and talk to the latter,
from his table, in the only language
the Stain understands.
"How many billions do you want,
Joe, out of our capitalistic treasury"
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

that body for a dozen years need
look no farther than itself to
fix the responsibility.
Briefly, the administration
Breton Woods bill, now before
Senate and House. TO set up an
international monetary fund,
and an international bank, by
passes Congress completely. If
the administration can get away
with il,
The American contribution Of
S2,750,000,000 TO the monetary
fund, and S3.175,0OO,0O0 to the
bank. are 10 be made by trans
ferring 81 ,S00.000,000 of the un-
expended profits" of the gold
StabiliZation fund, and the bal
ance from the sale of securities
under the second Liberty Loan
Act.
IT SEEMS incredible, even in
Il this era of magnificent nom
sense, that the Roosevelt ad-
ministration could make an
international banker of Uncle
Sam without first going through
the appropriations committee Of
the House, as the initial prelimi-
nary step toward draft on the
treasury.
But this is the way members
of that committee figure out
how the biggest game in high
finance the world has ever
known can be-and probably
will be--played.
Back in 1885 or SO, they say,
Congress ina c I g d legislation
authorizing and directing the
treasury department TO purchase
obligations issued by great
number of government corpora
tions, which obligations. under
law, are guaranteed by the u. S.
government. There are some 40
of these corporations, many Of
them Incorporated, like any
monopoly or trust back in the
days of Mark Hanna, under the
laws of Delaware.
The legislation referred TO
provides that the treasury may
use funds derived from the sale
of bonds-yes. our war bonds
10 purchase these government
obligations.
CONGRESS authorizes the Re-
~ construction Finance Cor
poration, and the Commodity
Credit Corporation, TO issue
these obligations. In this case,
IL is pointed out. RFC doubtless
has the authority TO issue its
obligations for the purpose OF
purchasing for the government
stock in the international Bank.
The treasury will give the
money TO RFC and RFC then
will own the amount of stock
taken in the international Bank,
and the treasury will then buy
it through the stabilization fund.
The secretary of the treasury
would then be directed-by a
presidential executive order
to vote this stock.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

In wartime, the usefulness of
Allies who help to kill and MAIN the
enemy is beyond question.
However, unless we use words
with care, we tend to become self.
deluded, and as a result of such COR
ruption we may lose our sense of
ultimate values.
In the circumstances, John w.
Bricker as a private citizen continues
to serve the public interest we'll in
calling the shots as he sees them in
these historically significant, yet
frenzied, times.
BY thus expressing himself, Mr..
Bricker demonstrates the astuteness
of an observation by William Town
send, the eminent statistician, who
recently remarked:
Seldom, if eUer in the history of
this nation, has there existed a
greater opportunity for some leader
to capitalize on cdndor."
For courageous facing of the
realities now will obviate the cyni-
cism of disillusionment later.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

3-Name two recent movies in
which Linda Darnell and
George Sanders appeared.
4-lf IT is 1865 miles from New
York to Gibraltar would you
guess that San Francisco
IS 4,436, $3.50. or 6,536 air
line miles from Tokyo?
5-ln removing stains of egg,
sugar, fruit or blood would
YOU use hot or cold water in
each case?
6-True or false: MuShet steel
is a low carbon steel capable
of welding -?
do YOU know which Ameri-
can was the most notable
exponent Of absolute state
sovereignty including the
right Of secession?
8-You know, of, course. what
Indian summer is. What then,
IS Squaw winter
(Answers on opposite pseel.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
An Insult!
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

ONE of the greatest insults ever
" offered to the memory of George
Washington and to all UNITED
STATES Americans is announced
for Washington's birthday, at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1t is a dinner to be given by the
fellow-traveling National Council of
American-Soviet Friendship to cele-
brate the 9th anniversary of the
founding of the Red army.
The circular-letter sent out by
this American-Soviet friendship"
bunch (of which the chairman is
Corliss Lamont, thes barefoot pro-
letarian millionaire of Riverside
Drive) carries at the top Old Glory
and the sickle-and-hammer Gree
state and slave state) lovingly
crossed.
On the upper left side of the cir
cular is "WASHINGTON'S BIRTH
DAY" On the right side is RED
ARMY DAY ANNIVERSARY"
NV ot1ON you HOW COlHpleIely lHlS
Il organization is Soviet-Red propa-
gandist the announcement says that
this dinner on the natal day Of the
great founding father is "a joint
tribute to our American armies and
the fighting forces of our Russian
ally" while the nine closely typeWrit-
ten pages that accompany the cir
cular contain ONLY the history Of
the slave-state armies of Russia and
NOT ONE WORD about the Ameri-
can armies either in Europe or in the
Pacific-Asiatic area and, further, not
one word of tribute to George Wash
ington, behind whose name, like that
of Lincoln's, the, Communists of
America now carry on their designs
against our institutions.
But worst of all on this great day
in our hiStory-Washington's birth
day-the principal speaker of this
pro-Soviet feast will be (the an
nouncement says) the secretary of
the treasury of the U. S. A., Henry
Morgenthau Jr.
This is all the more significant
because Red Russia is now angling
for a $6,000,000,000 postwar credit
"lift" out of our treasury.
How much will be said at this
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

TO THE EDITOR:
THE committee asked me to
l. express its sincere thanks
and appreciation to your worthy
newspaper on its contribution 10
the cause of Poland in following
the truth and condemning the
wrongs in its defense.
BY doing so, you are contribute
ing to the Polish and American
nations efforts 10 preserve lib
erty and justice in this world Of
ours for this generation and
many generations to come.
May we look forward to the
continuation of the splend d i d
patriotism shown by your under
standing of the problems con-
fronting us.
ROMAN v. CEGLowsKL.
Pres.
Certral Citizens Committee.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
BEHIND
The NEWS
By Paul
Manon

CHARLESTON. 6. c., Feb. 19
" The war cities down this
Atlantic seaboard, bulging at
their seams, are worried and
confused about their postwar
prospects (as every collection OF
people everywhere).
Food is good, money plentiful.
Rationing has been less painful
than in Washington and New
York. The people have gotten
through the war better.
But lust about half OF the au-
thoritieS are apprehenslvely an
ucipating depression and unem-
ployment, while-slngular as 1t
SoundS-the other half expect
the opposite result, good post
war business, built on great pri-
Vate spending, with the towns
holding much of their growth
and the people retaining much
of their improved financial po-
sitlon.
TIIE peSsimiSt side, as l find
Il il. is based upon logical rea-
soning running like this;
People have money in banks
and bonds in unprecedented
amounts, 1t is true, but their
very apprehension about the fu-
ture Will keep them from spend
ing il 10 buy all the things they
need.
The constantly advertised at
titude of the labor union leaders
who are trying TO pry big post
war spending appropriations out
Of Congress, has strengthened
the already latent fear among
the people that a depression
must follow a war.
But perhaps the most impress
sive line of new thought on the
subject is that our war produc-
tion has been so greatly eX-
pandcd that this nation cannot
possibly absorb the products OF
its own machines.
GONE means must be found OF
- selling our production abroad,
but no foreign nation has much
with which 10 buy or barter, and
il takes a long time to build up
an equalzed foreign trade, not
founded on credit (Which in
most instances would amount to
giving our goods away at the
American taxpayers eXpense).
Then, furthermore, this much
is true:
There never has been so much
money in the hands of the peo-
pie and never A time when peo-
pie needed everything for living.
The government has control
over the rcleaSe of men from
the services, control over buSi-
ness reConverSion through war
contracts, control over every
aspect of the economic Situa-
ton.
l cannot bring myself to be-
lieve that there could possibly
be depression in this country
during the two and half years
following peace unless the gov
ernment makes a bad job OF
this, too.
Every ingredient for success
is present. Wisely managed
capitalism, working under imag-
NATIVE, clear minded leaders,
should cel tainly make all these
ends meet.
Mr.. Roosevelt had better
send out a hurry call for brains
before 1t IS too late.
Distributed by King Features synd.. Inc.
Reproduction in whole or in part
strirt1v prohibited
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

long wait for a coach, two,
three and sometimes as many
as four buses will come along
together, one passing or leap
frogging the others, one packed
to the doors, others with one or
two passengers.
Or explain why one bus pulls
away from the end-of- the-line
as another pulls in, with disap-
pointed transfer passengers
vainly running after the one
that's gone.
After riding a bus, my wife
often arrives home half scared
to death by reckless driving Of
drivers who would be ticketed
if they drove their own cars
in the same manner. And if
any one criticizeS, a driver some
times will slow down 10 10 or
u miles an hour to deliberately
antagonize the public further.
Detroit will always be known
as a hick city, an overgrown
town, until such time as public
indignation forces the officials
to correct this state of affairs.
More power to you in your eff
forts 10 correct bad situation.
CHARLES G. COOKE, Mngr.
Gratiot-Pennsylvania Branch
Industrial National Bank.
TO THE EDITOR:
WELL, it's about time the
w newspapers did some shout
ing about the DSR and the
waiting passengers, the crowded
streetcarS.
OF course, no one Is going 10
find fault as long as they drive
their cars. No one m the tax
payer bracket is going 10 hol-
Ter, he or she knows it is futile
now-because Of the war.
What's the matter with hav-
ing our city council and our
mayor ride the streetcars and
buses daily during this war
period? And how about a law
10 force all city and county Off
cials TO ride streetcars and
buses.
OF course the officials will
howl about the system then.
This has been my city for 35
years. have spent great deal
Of time during these years trav-
cling the world and America,
and l can say right now, our
transportation STINKS!
A TAXPAYER.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
knowledge Test
BY DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY

What general in the Civil
War was called the American
Sphinx? ca General Lee,
'bl General Grant, CO. Cen
Cral Meade.
. -SIrs.a is in. (al northeast
Germany, tb) southeast Ger
many, lc) southwest O. cr-
many.
5-Dpgh-an-doriS means: (a)
Han and farewell. tbl From
The frying pan into the fire.
tcIA last drink az night.
. The greatest lyric poet in
The Bible IS. laI Moses. CO.
Elijah, lc) David.
What musician ls the most
popular Of the Sc8ndna-
Eeb. I945
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
POLITICAL PARADE

IT WOULD scarcely be imag-
l. ined that President Roose-
welt could find a way TO finance
Breton Woods to the extent of
$5, ,925, 900, 900, without going 10
Congress for a penny, but it
would appear that he both can
and will.
If this unbelievable thing hap
pens TO Congress, the Demo-
cratic party that has controlled
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

vianS? (a) Pietro Nascagni,
tbl stephen Heller, (c) Ed
ward Grieg.
5-FIll tho blank with the
name of a place: CaJ Pale
hands / love beside the ...."
lb' On the banks Of The
..,.... far away (c) The
harp that once through ....
halls. t8l "On the road
to....... lel Flow gently
sweet .......
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

TO THE EDITOR:
As A taxpayer, III tell YOU
~ what l think is the answer
20 your question; What's s the
matter with the DSR
As you know the DSR has not
enough help. The reasons are
rs follows
Ito be a conductor, motor
man or driver you must have a
certain height.
2-You also must weigh in
proportion 10 your age and
height.
3-You must have some edu-
cation.
I'm not saying these require
nents are entirely wrong but l
viii say, nothing beats a failure
but a trial.
IL a man or woman has a will
Ing mind. why can the DSR
give them A chance. II would
aid the shortage Of help and re-
lieve the present employees, many
Of them oHerWorked and with
no time for personal affairs.
Suppose lhe army or navy
was bound by such restrictions.
Would We have the forces We
have today The average person
is tall cnOI2r for the pSR.
Hence / can truthfIlly say
the DSP is too strict IN us en-
ployTnent stan 0ards to ade-
quately provide for irs public.
! know for I've tried.
Sincerely.
MARY BENFORD,
2j3 BeeChWood,
River Rouge.
10 THE EDITOR.
I JUST read your article about
4 tne DSR 7 have been
m0torman for "S wears and
could tel p I0t Cf things. But
one thing that burns mo us 10
the Use # tho car track, rv
AUTOMOBILES. II the Jaw vas rr-.
forced IN that respect. service
would be Improved greatly
Nearly every cay. autos viii
be driving slow iy ahead Of me
and when ] ring my gong. the
drivers thumb their noses a' me,
and there Is nothing I can do
When a streefgar gctS late.
naturally there VIII be more
people 70 pick up and the delay
N n TuE nETpoIT ware
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

What common food was
known as the love apple?
TO which period Of American
history does The term stand
pafters bolonE2 lal Pre-
revolutionary. thl Civil War,
lcl Early 10th century.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
Brain Game

ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

RE 1T ceded that Mrs.
~ Roosevelt correctly an
Swered the question, as put. But
a more ding informant
would have expanded with ex-
planatory matter.
/ found a similar peculjaritv
in the many explanations of the
cost OF her trip TO the Pacific
war zone 10 visit her friend,
Joseph Lash, who presently be-
came engaged TO another friend
OF Mrs. r., and later returned
home 10 marry the lady unde Z
Mrs. Roosevelt's social auspices. '
1t was a sentimental journey
but not IN the public interest
and the answers 10 questions in-
varlably gave truthful but mis-
leading and irrelevant asSuranoa
that it had not cost the Rea
Cross a penny.
That was not the question at
all, The questions were How
much did il cost the American
people ?" and, How much did
Mrs. Roosevelt give the Red
Cross from the royalties of her
column ?"
Neither OF which h ever has
been answered.
ia45. BY United Features. synA
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

Feb. l945
The Valley settler., 1945-10-19

The ST. MIcHAELrs BAZAAR will be held ees'lrday evening In the Palm e, Community Hall at P.M. The weather Is nst too bad after the snow and cold weather. It is hoped that good grswd will be Tn atte>ldance. Now is the lime to get or1e of those Chris tmas pre- sonts for folks back home.
The Valley settler., 1945-10-19

PALMER ORGANIZES A LIBRARY ASSOC. At meeting calle q for that pur- pose a Library ASS sc fat ion was
 Formed to establi sh a. Library in =, Palmer. The following officers we're elected: MT. H. Thuma., President; Lloyd Olson, Vice Pres..; Mrs. Fine- man, Secretary; Mir. Emery, Ire surer Commi t te es were appointed to raise. money, draw up Articles or Byalaws locate a space for the library, ant. another tc find out ways and means of getting books. The next meetinig will be called in the near future smmi t tees are, to report them
The Valley settler., 1945-10-19
HEALTH COUNCIL MEETS

Repre- senta tives of many of the local organizations met in the Health Center on Thursday evening. The following organizatio were represented by--Ameri can Legion, Lloyd Olson; Lutheran Church, Ed ueek; Seventh Day Adventist Church, Mr. Eddy; Uni ted Protestant Church, Rev. Alfsen; Hospi tai, Mir. Emery; Extension Service, Will fam nogers; a1s 0 Mrs. Bernice Johnson School, Nell: 5. Miller; PTA. Mrs. DeVries; Infantile Paralysis Chapter, Mrs. Dorothy M. Bell.
 committee on occ'1pat ional Ther- apy was appointed ts see what could be done to provide something useful for. the T.B.' Patti ents of the Hospi- tai to dc.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
Food for Thought

Harry-There's only one trouble
with most New Years resolutions.
Jerry-What's that?
Harry-They usually 20 In one ear
and out the other.
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
Makes Philips for
Her Soldier Hubby
With Aid Of Photographer,
She Turns Out Supply.

CLEVELAND. - The little worn-
an" saw to it in this case that her
husband didn't spend his free mo-
ments in France gazing at the lus-
cious curves of movie stars.
Cpl. Nick Schowinsky's 23-year-old
wife is clever. She made sure that
her husband had plenty of pin-ups
-and good ones at that-but not OF
movie sirens.
The thought of Nick admiring the
picture of some movie queen, of his
posting it in his barracks or carry
ing it in his wallet, disturbed Irma
Schowinsky. Then she got an idea.
If her soldier boy wanted pretty fig
ures and nice gains to look at he
should have them.
Irma engaged a photographer to
come out to her home and fix his
camera lenses son her for whole
evening. With the accent on CLAM
our, she posed in scanty, revealing
costumes. Her legs, which Incl
dentally, are of the Cradle variety,
played prominent part in the pho
tOSIdpilS.
The sef-acclaimed pin-up added q
personal touch by inscribing a spe-
cial greeting on each of the six pic
lures she sent France-ward. Such
phrases as "To my cup cake"
"Your loving wife," "Your straw
berry jam" - Nick loves straw
berry jam-and "Your brown-eyed
Dickens" adorned the photos.
What did the soldier think Of the
idea? He summed it up in one word,
"terrific!" He couldn't help but like
the one in the slinky, low-cut eve
ming gown and the one in the bath
ing suit. But, two to one, Nick espe-
cially went for the picture of Irma
at her desk with her typewriter be-
fore her and courageous "I'll be
waiting" smile.
When asked about the other SOL
diers who might see and ask for one
of her pictures, Irma replied, "You
forget. My husband carries a gun"
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
Date for Atomic Bombing
Set More Than Year Ago

GUAM. = Brig. Gen. Thomas F.
Farrell, Albany, N. Y, disclosed re-
Gently that the August Omitted
States) date for dropping the first
atomic bomb on the enemy was set
''well over year ago."
Farrell, aide to Maj. Gen. Leslie
r. Groves, Pasadena, Calf, veter-
an army construction engineer who
was in charge Of the bomb develop
ment program, said at news con-
ference the goal was set in order to
lay out schedule for completing
the huge project.
For while, he indicated, Ameri-
can and British scientists thought
they were racing against time with
the Germans who had been known
to have started work on an atomic
bomb of their own.
Zone of our major worries over
in Europe was that some secret
weapon was being developed by the
Germans comparable to this" said
General Spaatz, commander of
strategic air forces in the Pacific.
"We were vitality concerned. All of
the stories were that they were
ahead of u.s."
The midland journal., 1945-09-14
QjzlNj,iGGa -
IUnh daazz IS

One long stitch and three ac-
coinpanying short stitches are ex-
cellent stitches to use when bast-
ing.
Cereals cooked with prunes,
raisins, or dates need little sugar
to sweeten.
Cover photographs in folders
with a piece of cellophane pasted
inside the folder. Then when the
cellophane gets soiled, slip it out
and replace it with clean piece.
In this way the photograph is kept
clean.
II is not practical to unravel q
machine-knit sweater with side
seams. Best you can do is treat
it like regular fabric and cut into
small pieces for remaking. If this
is done, seams must be carefully
overcast.
IL seams In Hour bin or sugar
drawer aren't tightly sealed, pour
melted paraffin over them and
let 1t harden.
To brighten overshOes, rub with
a cloth moistened with diluted am
monia, wash with soap and water,
then rinse.
Early digging reduces the pota-
to yield. The crop may be left in
the ground as long as a month
after maturity provided insects
are not present in great number.