The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-24
Observations
Victory Seen as
Real Liability
For Winner
By HELEN EssARY

LN HELM AaDeAAkA
This PEACE with Europe that
IS about to come true-what are We
going to do with f.?
We knew what 10 do with VAR,
when We got around TO the doing,
War was a relatively simple bust
ness. II meant simply killing as
many of the enemy as quickly as
possible. by every conceivable
means
Il meant turning out as many
weapons for killing as We could.
II meant roar and fury and ter
rible kind of eXhileration.
War was concrete. II was &C
ton.
Peace is inaction. Confusion, De-
,astationl Bewilderment. An d
there is even fear of the very forces
of destruction We have turned loose.
What's TO be done now-that Ger
many is hnished? What 40 We
do next?
Nobody knows. There's Japan. OF
course. Another war TO be fought
Some military authorities in Wash
ington say the war with Japan
will be shorter than expected. Not
because the japanese will give up.
hut because the United States, and
all the Allies. viewing the desola-
ton OF Europe, realize that victory
ran BECOME a staggering liability
for the victor.
PROSTATE countries must be
propped up again il the world is TO
go on. And it is we-the United
Siates-who become responsible
for much OF the propping.
4 long war with Japan would
entail the killing of thousands OF
American invaders II would also
add another PROSTATE country
this time Japan.
THE SHARPEST CRITICS OF
Mr.. Roosevelt must admit that
without his presence, victory over
Germany has no special flavor. He
represented the struggle and labor
ed for the triumph. In his own
life, he represented struggle; a
triumph over physical handicaps.
Mr.. Roosevelt had become almost
n legend: a legend inseparably as
ISOLATED in ones consciousness
with victory and the finish fght.
Without his dramatic personality
there seems TO be no one OF I'M
portance with whom 10 rejoice.
One feels definite let-down with
.oaI the bgoyaRIsmile and eoundept
Irfrt OF sae thar Syg.l.s - 1fse
late President. II would have been
thrilling to have heard him say to-
day:
I'VE knew We would win, you
and L."
EVERY TIME ! go among people
',in-the-know" someone starts talk
ing about that new medical SCH
ence.7 Almost every time l'glance
through a knowing magazine | see
an article about that new medical
science"
The name OF this new medical
science is ''psychomatic medicine y.
Psychomatic medicine is a new
technique developed by the United
States Army Medical Corps. Psy-
ehomatic medicine. when boiled
down, indicates that almost every
ache and illness is the result or
mental and spiritual turmoil. II
YOU have "a code In de he'd, you've
been letting yourself get scared or
mad. II your heart beats too fast,
you've been locking a rage within
your bosom or having wicked
thoughts about somebody.
In fact, psychomatic medicine
leaves one no privacy. don't think
] like il at all When I'm sick ]
want to think | got that way be-
cause I'm a frail flower; not
spiteful cat. And | refuse TO be.
lieve that a pain in the back of
my neck merely proves that I'm
coward. wishing TO run OF from
the chore OF facing life.
The Army doctors don't agree
with this desire to be ailing in my
own way. They are going to make
you and me snap out OF our COM
plants. The war. so they say, has
taught them that most OF our all
ments are self-inficted
I have discussed this scientific
attitude with several Washington
doctors who have not been TO war.
1.-The theory is doubtless good"
say these gentlemen. But frankly,
we are not prepared 10 cope with
IL. We who have stayed at home
and learned about illness at med
zeal schools and by routine medic
al practice. have no knowledge
o. what 10 do with this new ap-
proach. There has been nothing In
our teaching to show US how 10 be
psychiatrists and medical men in
The same afternoon call"