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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

rHAT fame often is fleeing and
the memories of most men and
women short-has been brought
home once more by the pathetic story
OF Anna VI. Jarvis, who is the founder
of Mothers Day
If il hadn't been for the philan.
thropic spirit OF a few Philadelphians
who came 20 her rescue recently, the
blind and penniless S3-year-old woman
would have been doomed TO spend
a charity hospital.
1t was exactly 81 years ago that
Miss Jarvis. middle-aged spinster,
got the idea of having a day set aside
when men and women throughout
the nation would pay special honor
10 their mothers.
Live this day as your mother
would have you" she urged. and sug.
geSted a letter, a visit home or hav.
ing ones mother for a guest. Some
real act OF kindness was an alterna.
tive for those whose mothers no
longer were living.
Anna Jarvis own mother, Mrs.
Ann Reeves Jarvis, had died on the
second Sunday in May. 1905, and that
iEWhy this particular Sunday has
designated as Mothers Day. II
was first celebrated in a tiny church
in Grafton, w. Va, the town where
Anna was born.
Although a sincere devotion and
a deep realization of her loss un-
doubtedly were behind the movement,
the real beginning of Mothers Day
might be said to go back 10 the time
just after the Civil War when Annals
May ID. 1915
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

Claude Jarvis, bachelor brother
and a shrewd business man. thought
that he had left both of his sisters
well provided for in his will when he
died in 1926. But as a result of
various legal and technical complica-
tions, the Jarvis sisters failed TO re-
ceive the inheritance the brother had
intended for them.
They struggled along as best they
could until the day when Anna Jar.
Wis eyes began to get dim Finally
she was nearly as sightless as her
sister. BY this time few people re-
membered that this shriveling little
old lady once had been an interna-
tionally known figure.
No one paid any heed TO the
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

own mother organized the Union and
Confederate mothers Of her little com
munity in an effort TO get the boys
in blue and the boys in gray to be
friends again.
Anna carried this memory on.
In those early days in Philadelphia
Anna Jarvis paid out of her own
pocket TO have carriages take old peo-
pie and those who were invalids TO
church on Mothers Day. She bought
and gave away hundreds of carna.
tions-the emblem she herself had
designated.
There were expensive trips abroad
to spread the custom of Mothers Day
in Europe. Anna wrote personally
to editors, ministers, presidents and
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13
even to kings.

even TO kings.
Gradua ally, as
she got more and
more wrapped up
in the thing she'd
created she lost
contact with most
Of her friends and
her only close
companion was
Elsa, the blind
sister with whom
she lived alone in a
rambling Philadel-
phia house. There
the two aging
women kept the
furnishings as
they had been
d uring tn cir
mothers lifetime.
The years went
by and Anha's s
money dwindled.
II was all spent
on the cause that
seemed 10 have
become her one
interest in life.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12
Jail
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cally a prisoner. but was re-
leased to the custody of her
mother so that her child will
not be born in Jail.
There isn't a thing Sheriff
Harley Ensign, his matron or
his deputies can do about the
situation. They keep the cells
painted, hose them down as fire.
quently as they find possible
and then have to sit helplessly
by and watch normal, healthy
girls and women suffer as in
concentration m s because
Macomb county insists on over
looking their rights to treatment
as human beings.
There is no room for expan-
sion to take care of the steady
increase in women prisoners. A
barred door separates the wom-
ems, section from the rest Of the
second floor Of the cell block
Off the narrow passageway be-
hind the door are the two cells,
one seven feet square, the other
about seven by 10 feet. In the
larger cell are two iron COTS
and in the smaller but one.
There is no room for more cots,
so the rest sleep on the floor,
fighting a constantly losing bat
tie against vermin.
SLEEP ON FLOOR
The prisoners had to get up
off the floor to make room for
the sheriff and this reporter to
enter the section. Two of the
women patiently continued
swabbing the walls with a wad
of paper soaked in disinfectant.
Hanging to the bars of the cell
were drying clothes, and the
single towel apiece which is sup
piled them.
The floor was wet ana the
blankets, which authorities re-
ported are dry-cleaned monthly
washing them makes them go
to pieces too fast were stretch
ed in the wet, being walked on
constantly. One of the toilets
had overlooked because news
paper had clogged 1t.
ANCIENT EQUIPMENT
The antiquated heating sys-
tenn requires that steam be kept
I'D to provide hot water, and
though the radiators were turn
ed off, they were more than
slightly warm to the touch. For
tunately the day was cool.
The days haul Of prisoners Is
not unusual. Records show tina,
the crowded conditions have
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12
Ohio Kidnapping Takes
|New, Bizarre 7wist

The latest bizarre develop
ment in the case came in Munic-
ipal Court late yesterday, Police
Chief William E. Marks report
ed. when the woman said she
really was Phyllis Ann Webster,
wife of Staff Sgt. Ernest Web
ster serving overseas. She re-
vealed they were married seven
years ago and said she recently
made an unsuccessful divorce
application, police reported.
When she was taken into Gus
tody' Tuesday she gave her name
as Mrs. Phyllis Lanman, wife Of
Estel E. Lanman. Mansfield, O.,
candy salesman.
On arraignment in the Court,
Mrs. Webster pleaded guilty to
a charge of carrying away a
child under IL and was placed
| in Jail in default of $4,000
bond.
The Police Chief said Mrs.
Webster told him she adopted
Lanman's name for a thre.-
month period during which she
feigned pregnancy by stuffing
her clothing with cotton bat.
ting and bought baby clothes
and a bassinet.
In Mansfield, meanwhile, re-
Gently divorced Lanman vigor-
ously denied that Phyllis was
his wife, explaining she was a
former employe and lust Z
good friend"
He said he went to Marion
Sunday night after Mrs. Web
ster's landlady telephoned him
and announced he had become a
father. He visited Phyllis, he
said, land waited around until
4 a. M, trying to figure it out
Phyllis close friends thought
she had become a mother and
were indignant when police sub
jected her to a medical exami-
nation which blasted her story
that he baby was her child.
A footprint check identified
the baby as the missing daugh-
ter of Tech. Sgt. and Mrs. John
l.. Creviston. Mrs. CreviSton Is
a Marion socialite.
Mrs. Webster is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Parkinson
of Mansfield. Informed of de-
velopments yesterday, Mrs
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12

been steadily growing worse for
years, as the population of the
county and its resultant in
crease in women's crimes, swell
ed against the unyieldln2 walls
of the cell-block.
The mems section, designed to
accommodate 80 prisoners, is
constantly over-croWded, too,
with between 40 and so accused
persons frequently damned into
the restricted quarters. That
problem, however, is not yet as
acute as that in the tiny, dis
NAL women's quarters the sher-
if declared.
The county Jail building was
built in 1891, and the cell-block
was constructed in 1920. Ma
comb county has tripled in pop
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12

MARION. o.. July IL - R,
The attractive 29-year-old
woman who admitted taking
baby Jean Eileen Creviston from
City Hospital Nursery and tell
ing friends it was her own new
born child also posed as the wife
OF a man other than her hus-
band.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12

A new five-ton gadget which
grinds propeller blades to within
one ten-thousandth of an inch
tolerance may spark a revolu-
ton in established production
methods. Time saved per blade
exceeds one hour.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12

ulation In the intervening years,
but the two cells for women
prisoners have not changed in
size.
An insane woman must be
placed in the only padded cell
there is - outside OF the wom-
ems section. in the main corri-
dor.
This is the only place in Ma
comb county in which TO house
women prisoners. This is the
place where city police must
place their women prisoners,
too. These are the conditions
into which any young girl or
woman even one in your
own family - could be thrown
if she became involved in even
a minor brush with the law.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-12

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Evening star., 1945-03-26

of the marvels OF the modern world.
But it has been marred by the flaws
in utilization of manpower and the
waste from voluntarily idle man
power which in the main resulted
from failure. at the outset of this
war, to strike some parallel between
the obligation of the citizen drafted
for service at the front and the
obligation of the citizen who is ex-
empt from military service for rea-
sons OF sex, age, physical condition
or the nature of his employment.
This legislation makes an attempt
to establish that parallel, to the ex-
tent that is practicable at this stage
of the war. It's compulsion, which
will be used only when and where
necessary, is not to be compared
seriously to the compulsion under
which men are fighting against the
Germans and the japanese But it
is suggested. And clothed with the
dignity of law of the land, it is
reasonable to believe that the legiS-
lation will be accepted by our people
in the realization of the pressing
necessity not to weaken here at
home until Germany's unconditional
surrender in Europe has been dupli-
Gated by Japan.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
This Is 1t

1t is difficult to read the exultant
dispatches from the western front
and also restrain the hope that the
war in Europe is very near an end.
Perhaps this is the time for opti-
mism, and it may be that the bitter
disappointment which succeeded the
premature hopes of last summer
and fall will not be with us again
this spring. But there are certain
aspects of the crossing of the Rhine
which, for the time being at least,
suggest the advisability of waiting
while before concluding that the
war is over
In period of little more than
nine months the Channel Wall, the
Siegfried Line and the barrier of the
Rhine have fallen to the advancing
Allied armies Front dispatches tell
US that the Doughboys are coming
up to and crossing the Rhine in the
shouted belief that this is it, The
remaining Luftwaffe. which Hitler
supposedly was holding back for the
last great battle, is nowhere in evi-
dence. General Patton'S fast moving
tanks are at or in Frankfurt-more
than forty miles across the Rhine.
And along the whole of this great
river front the assault is moving at
pace which equals or exceeds the
hopes of the Allied commanders.
Nevertheless, the fact remains
that the decisive last battle in the
weSt-if there is to be one-has not
yet been fought. Although the Rhine
crossings have been secured, the
huge masses of men and materiel
which have been piling up on the
west bank of that river cannot be
taken over in day or a week. 1t
will be some time yet before the Al
lies can bring their full power to
bear against whatever forces the
Germans have for a last ditch de-
fenSe. 1t is also worth noting that
the Nazi commanders apparently de-
cided against making their final
stand at the Rhine. Our crossings
were made against relatively light
resistance and only one rather minor
counterattack has been attempted.
This may mean, of course, that the
Wehrmacht has gone the way of the
Luftwaffe. But more reasonable
assumption is that Field Marshal
kesselring deliberately pulled the
bulk of his troops back from the
Rhine, possibly in fear of the Allied
air-borne army which might have
been landed in his rear, or for other
tactical reasons which have not yet
become apparent.
On the basis of past performance
we must expect that the Germans
will fight, and fight hard, at some
point east of the Rhine No one sup
poses that they can turn back the
vastly superior armies driving into
Germany. But if they elect to fight
to the end, and we have seen no evi-
dence that they intend to do other
wise, they can still make us pay
high price for final victory. If this
war in Europe has to end in a deci-
sion reached on the field of battle,
we cannot take it for granted that
the last shot will be fired this spring.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Seven Salient Points
BY Rarm 0nd M0Iey

Herbert Hoover's proposed seven ad-
dltlons to the Dumbarton Oaks plan
should be one of the bases of the Amer
lean delegations contribution at San
Francisco. Neither political differences
nor the personal antagonism of the Ad-
mlnlstration to Mr. Hoover himself
should lead our delegation to ignore
suggestions like this. The President as
sured Senator Vandenberg that the
delegates were to be free agents and
thus they are not bound by the stubborn
Washington policy of refusing to use
the great ability and rich experience of
the former President.
TWO general principles dominate all
seven OF the Hoover proposals. The first
Is that peace plans already prepared or
TO be adopted at San Francisco should
recognize that the ultimate building of
peace should be evolutionary. Plans
should provide room for change and
growth. First steps should be cautious,
but should be carefully aimed at long
time goal. In short the direction, not
the length of the step is important.
In line with this principle, Mr.. Hoover
proposes a periodic revision of treaties
at intervals of say, 10 years. Provision
should also be made for progressive
disarmament of the United Nations
after the complete disarmament of the
enemy has been assured. This would,
presumably be slow but progressive
process The final Hoover point on this
score is that peace making should be
Evening star., 1945-03-26
A Helpful Review

The National Industrial Confer
ence Boards review of the Wash
ington controversy over public versus
private low-cost housing presents an
excellent condensation of the pros
and cons elected during weeks of
testimony before the Burton sub
committee last year. But it is chary
of reaching any conclusions of its
own on matters which 60 to the
heart of the controversy, properly
confning itself, for the most part,
to an epitome of salient testimony.
1t finds that construction costs for
comparable undertakings are lower
on private than public jobs and that
management expense in public
housing is substantially in excess of
the same item for private property.
The facts, in this connection, are
not as debatable as the merits. Pre-
senting factual review of evidence,
the researchers are content to let
the reader judge for himself as to
the validity of points made in de-
bate. For that reason the review is
not apt to change opinions already
formed, although it is most helpful
In explaining the background
If private builders were not quite
so lnSiStent on making the virtual
elimination of public housing a con-
dition precedent to their large-scale
participation in postwar low-cost
housing, it should not be so difficult
to reach agreement on slum clear
ance or urban redevelopment legis-
lation. The builders argue that
necessary private capital will not be
attracted to the field as long as the
threat of expanding public housing
remains competitive factor.
Yet if private enterprise is to dem
onstrate it's ability to work, with
Government support, in providing
low-cost housing, at the same time
assisting solution of complicated
social problem, that demonstration
in itself should be enough to liqui-
date public housing agencies. 1t
would be wise public policy to en-
courage by every practical means
the large-scale participation of pri-
vate enterprise in a job which, if it
is ever to be done satisfactorily,
must be done by private enterprise.
But until testimony as to willingness
and intent has been supported by
tangible evidence of the ability of
private enterprise in normal times
to find legitimate profit motive in a
field largely ignored up to this time,
1t is doubtful that Congress will
agree to legislative bans on public
housing in order to give private in
terests a clear field" Private build
ers should be able to clear the field
themselves by showing that they
can best serve the public interest in
It's domination.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Litigation vs.. Sliding Scale

Last year the Public Utilities Com
mission held protracted hearings on
the rates of the Potomac Electric
Power Company. on the value of the
property devoted to public service
and on the amount of return it
should be allowed to earn on that
property.
During the course of these hear
ings. the sliding scale arrangement
for the annual review and adjust
ment of rates was vigorously de-
Tended 1t was pointed out that
under the sliding scale the accumu-
lated savings to consumers had been
more than $86,000,0OO from 1925
through 1912. In arguing that steady
progress had been made in reducing
rates, it was recalled that monthly
bills for 100 kiloWatt hours had fall
len from 1924 in 1924 to So Sc in 1912
in the District, whereas the average
for seven other cities showed a drop
during the same period from $574
to only $399.
On the other hand, the Federal
Works Agency-which sought aboli-
ton of the sliding scale-and the
Procurement Division of the Treas
ury argued that from 1925 through
1912 PEPCO had earned $16,OOO,-
900 more than the rate of return
set by the commission. Under
the terms of the sliding scale the
company is permitted to retain this
excess over the rate of return, since
the excess Gf any of one year is
used only as measure to determine
the extent of the reduction the fol-
lowing year.
Last years decision Of the PUG.
reducing rates by $1,037 900, was
taken to the courts by the company
and the Government-by the COM
pany because the reduction was too
large and by the Government be-
cause 1T was not large enough. The
result is that the PUG has had to
postponed the 1945 hearings and. if
the case is carried to the Supreme
Court, there is no telling when the
issue will be settled Meanwhile.
rates set by the commission in 1e43
are still in effect.
The 1914 decision of the PUG did
not. of course. abrogate the sliding
scale so far as the commission was
concerned. But the slowness of rate
making when it becomes involed in
litigation should serve to strengthen
the hand of those who believe that
comparatively unspectacular but an
nual adjustments under the sliding
scale are preferable to abandonment
OF the arrangement, with the pos
sibility of more frequent litigatio
than has occurred since it's adoption
in December. 1924.
Evening star., 1945-03-26
Jews Praised as Patriots

To the Editor OF The Star:
c. E. Herring, in The Star for March
IT, asks: Don't the Jewish people con-
countries?"
The answer definitely Is: Yes. A
person of Jewish extraction born in the
United States is an American one born
in Poland is a Pole, etc
Convincing testimony of this is found
in the 1000 refugees at Fort Oswego.
N. Y. Although the majority of them are
of the Jewish faith, they do not speak
Of or regard themselves as Jews They
consider themselves Poles. Yugoslavs
Austrians, etc, each fiercely patriotic to
his native land
The Jewish problem" arises when
country refuses to recognize its own
native citizens as belonging to it. Thus
Germany disfranchised its own citizens
because they happened to be of Jewish
extraction. Poland, Romania, Hungary
and other countries at times during
their history have made the Jews state
less by disoWning them or by forcing
Ni'NiAA AAito SNNoiiN -Sie''~> SieiHciioiiip'
But in countries such as the United
States, England and Russia. which &C
cord equal rights to all their citizens,
the Jewish problem" is raised as a
oogey only by those who do not wish
to give them equal rights.
Palestine and Zionism are for the dis
placed, dislocated. "stateless" Jews The
countries which give their own citizens
opportunity and protection-no matter
what their origins-find in the Jewish
person patriotic, working citizen
MICHAEL CROSS.
Evening star., 1945-03-26

slow The chief reason for this would
be TO permit the hot passions of war
TO die away before the shape of the
world is fixed
The second Hoover principle is that
we should avoid putting too much
weight on general world organization,
at least in the first years of its exist
ence. Hence. his belief in regional Or
ganlzatlons to provide means close to
each nation to deal with matters which
are not OF worldwide concern. He would
provide regional councils in each great
area to deal with matters affecting the
nations in that area. Asia, Europe and
the Western Hemisphere might be such
regions
Probably the most original of Mr..
Hoover's proposals deals with the con-
troVerslsl issue of whether our dele
gate on the Security Council should be
empowered to authorize the use of
force without the approval of CONGRESS.
Mr.. Hoover would not give such power
to our representative but to the Presi-
dent. But he would bind the President
by majority of the Joint Senate and
House Foreign Relations committees on
the question whether the final decision
should be submitted to Congress. This,
IN effect. would provide a restraint on
the President and at the same time.
would make prompt action possible in
crisis
Mr.. Hoover's suggestions embodv the
wisdom of experience.
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