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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10
VIGOROUSLY Make the Peace PERMANENTLY Bring Our Boys Home PROMPTLY
Opportunity Knocks Once!
By +. F. TOMPKINS

DIPLOMATIC solidarity among the
- American republics has apparently
been advanced by the action of the
Argentine government in declaring war
on Japan and Germany.
BY the performance Of this formality,
Argentina qualified herself to be par
ticipant in the forthcoming international
conference at San Francisco.
In the same procedure, Argentina ac-
cepted the declaration of the recent Pam
American meeting at Mexico City and
re-affirmed the principles that were
adopted at Havana several years ago.
This should terminate lot of hostile
propaganda against Argentina, mainly
from left-wing sources.
The propaganda was not founded on
facts, and it was bitterly resented by the
Argentines.
CONSEQUENTLY it threatened to be
~ extremely harmful to Pan-American
relations-especially in our country, which
is singulariy gullible in such matters.
With Argentine as an example, the
American government and the American
public could learn good deal from the
British about fostering friendly relations
abroad.
For a while a segment in this coun-
try, including some officials, has been
sHbjecting Argentina to harsh and unin-
formed criticism, Great Britain has found
time, even amidst the efforts of war, to
PROMOTE GOOD WILL in Buenos Aires
PROSPEROUS POSTWAR TRADE.
Several weeks ago Sir William Mccall
lum, head of the British Chamber Of
Ave- c,thp 70
Vice President Peron, as chairman of the
Argentine Postwar Council program of
British-Argentine commerce.
1t was farsighted and comprehen-
sve program.
According to a Buenos Aires dispatch
to the New York Herald Tribune, the
British proposed to supply to the Argen-
tines large quantities Of locomotives,
railway equipment, trucks, automobiles,
machines and other manufactured prod
ucts required to meet needs accumulated
during the past few years, which could
not be filled because of Allied war re-
quirements."
YNHE same dispatch said:
l. VIRTUALLY every ship now arriving
here from England brings SCORES of
businessmen eager to RESUME TRADE
RELATIONS and to FIT INTO THE
MASTER PLAN which the British Cham
ber of Commerce hopes will be accepted
by the government.
"A weekly Argentine publication re-
ports that the offices of purchasing
agents for the state. railways are
CROWDED WITH BRITISH SALES
MEN offering IMMEDIATE SHIP
MENTS."
1t appears that Argentina is both a
solvent and an immediate market for the
wares offered
For not only are the Argentines able
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

ords?-this treaty still has year
to run. s
Nevertheless, as Japan well
knows, Russia probably DOES in
tend to get into the Pacific war
eventually and at time best suited
to her purpose.
Russia has vast interests in the
Pacific to which Japan is menace.
Russia formerly had vast in
terests in the Pacific which Japan
seized from her as the spoils of war.
Russia COVETS vast interests in
the Pacific which have always been
Japanese but which would be very
valuable to Russia if they should
suddenly become Russian.
So Russia, whether or not she
intends to participate in the Pacific
war, fully intends to share in the
spoils of the Pacific war-at the ex-
pense of Japan, of course.
And fer that purpose, Russia will
undoubtedly want to sit at the peace
table following the conclusion of the
Pacific war.
4 CCORDINGLY, Russias act of
"A treaty denunciation looks very
much like her first BID for place
at the Pacific peace table.
Whether or not Russia will feel
compelled to bolster that bid with
actual war against Japan is some
thing for future events to determine,
and something for the Japanese to
worry about-but it is not something
to be counted on YET by the present
enemies of Japan in the Pacific.
The event is important, and it is
even sensational-but it should be
appraised for what it Is, and not for
what we would LIKE it to be.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10
Brain Game

Give yourself 10 tcr each correct answer
through question sir. 40 each for the re-
maininE two questions Any score 80 or
higher IL excellent. .
Identity two Of the following
three Smiths: (a) a Holly
wood actress; (b) Holly
wood character actor; (c) a
radio singing star.
2RegardIeSs OF the length OF
a World Series, what per-
centage of the gate receipts
goes to the players
3-If some one offered TO show
YOU a sample of topiary
work would you expect TO
see, ta) iewelry with small
stones set under micro
scope? (b) an artificially
shaped shrub or tree. the
forma design sometimes
being as elaborate as the
figure of bird or an ami
mali tc) the products of
dlStillery?
i-What is the difference be-
tween velvet and velveteen7
5-lionShu, kyushu and Shi-
koku, three main home
islands Of Japan, almost en-
tirely surround a body Of
water in which the remnants
of the Jap fleet were hunted
down by L. S. Navy fliers
recently. What is the name
Of this body of water?
6-The city of Ketchikan takes
its name from the Ketchikan
tribe of Indians. Where is
this eitya
Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher
~ commands one Of the most
~ fam Gus Of T. s. fighting
units in this war. Can you
identify II?
(Answers on Opposite Paxe)
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
WYE THE Postal Employees of Detroit join in inviting
w your attention to and asking your support of
salary reclassfcaton bill before Congress- known
H. r. 2071 This legislation has long been needfu not only
for the benefits it will provide for the employees them
selves but also in the interest of maintaining efficient
mail service.
The mail service is the center of the nation
essential part of any business and important factor
in the general economic welfare of its people It's
poyes highly skilled in their duties and deserving of
compensation commensurate TO their responsibilities and
loyalty Unsatisfactory salaries result in but
service Unsatisfactory service is
caused by underpaid unqualified dissatisfied
poyes. Equitable salaries serve TO stimulate morale
efficiency and improved service.
Postal employees have not had pay raise in
than 20 years. Living have increased third
have steadily increased industry Despite these
conditions postal employees have faithfully cOnScentsy
years feel justified in asking for that will provide the
American standard o living. This bill Will provide annual
increase Of 500 current salaries
The Postal Service
Courier of and knowledge
Instrument of and industry.
Promoter of mutual acquaintance.
Urger OF peace and good Will among nations.
Messenger Of sympathy and love-
Servant Of parted friends.
ConsoeF Of lonely.
Bond Of the family.
EnlaFger Of the life
Won't you letter TO yolr congressman and
United States Michigan
good Offices in having II. z z07l enacted into law
EMII ?. WILSON. Chairman,
Detroit Postal Employees
salary ReclsSsifcation Committee.
&c THE DETROIT TIMES April = I94s
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

WE DO not hear that these agencies
w are competing with the British in
Argentina.
Neither do we hear that the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce-now
under the authority of Mr.. Wallace as see
rotary of eommerce-is doing anything in
our interest
And we do not hear that scores" of
AMERICAN statesmen are permitted to
visit Argentina by every ship in order
TO resume trade relations" and fit them
selves into an AMERICAN master plan"
The New Deal is now asserting that
we must export 10 billion dollars worth
of merchandise annually after the war to
support sixty million jobs
The developments in Argentina, in
which country alone more than half
billion dollars worth Of export trade lies
awaiting us call for SOME KIND of
action on behalf of industry and employ
ment in the United States.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

to supply merchandise to the British in
exchange for British products: Argentina
also has an enormous bank account" in
England.
AS the Herald Tribune reported:
'The Argentine government wants to
liquidate part of the 62,OOO,000 pounds
($248,000,000 at current exchange) frozen
credit which il has in London by accept
ing British goods.
THE British government has not yet
indicated how it intends to dispose of this
large credit, which represents Argentina's
favorable wartime balance of trade with
Great Britain.
"THIS is CAUSING SOME ARGEN-
TINE BUSINESSMEN TO LOOK TO
THE UNITED STATES FOR IMME-
date POSTWAR SHIPMENTS.
Argentina has credit of /, Ills, ,00O, 900
pesos (S429,5OO, 900 at current exchange)
i'm the United States. SOME OF WHICH
SHE WOULD LIKE TO CONVERT
INTO MATERIALS SHE NEEDS"
Thus the Argentine balance with this
country is nearly TWICE AS GREAT as
that with London: which ought to mean
that the immediate market for AMERI-
CAN GOODS in Argentina is TWICE AS
GREAT as that for British goods.
In THIS situation. What are OUR repre-
L sentatives doing to insure OUR COM
mercial interests?
Before the New Deal, the u. S. Depart
ment of Commerce always had its eyes
open for foreign trade opportunities.
It's bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, under competent hands, served
as both adviser and advance agent for
American enterprise.
Under, the New Deal, we have had
instead the Board of Economic Warfare
of which Henry A. Wallace was in
charge until his famous quarrel with
Jesse Jones over his profligate policies"
led to his ouster-and the Office of the
Co-ordnator of Latin American Affairs,
which distributed billions of American
dollars mysteriously below the Rio
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

CUSTER ELIZABETH KENNY, the
~ Australian nurse who originated the
wonderfully beneficial Kenny treatment"
for infantile paralysis and who has been
devotedly applying and teaching the
method in the United States for the past
five years, has issued an appeal she
should never have had to make.
She has asked the medical profession
to conduct new research into the subject
of paralysis so that fresh knowledge may
be available as a weapon AGAINST
paralysis.
Indeed, it is largely because she has
been DENIED the weapon Of fresh knowl-
edge that she has finally become discour-
aged and announced her intention of
returning to Australia.
TTNHE benefits of Sister kenny's treat
i ment are proved in countless cases.
Unnumbered children rescued by her
methods from hopeless Gripping by in
fantile paralysis, now run and play.
Yet strangely Sister Kenny has en-
countered instead of the eager support
that might have been expected from medi-
cal and research groups, apathy, indiffer-
ence and open hostility
one mas DeeH SUBJECTED 10 UNJUST
criticism.
She has been impeded in her work by
interference and obstruction.
Only recently the Minneapolis Board
of Public Welfare, meeting without the
knowledge of its president, Mayor Kline,
ordered the removal from the Kenny
Institute of two child victims of spastic
paralysis.
This action was taken on the spe-
cious technical ground that Sister Kenny
was authorized to treat only paralysis
caused by poliomyelitis or infantile
paralysis, and while the mayor subse-
quently ordered the patients returned to
the institute, the incident undoubtedly
contributed to Sister Kenny's decision to
resign as head of the institute and leave
America.
TNHE- people of Minneapolis, like the
i American people in general, are filled
with grateful appreciation of Sister Ken
ny's work. They have contributed money
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10
knowledge Test
By DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

Give yourself for each Of the hrst ave
questions and for the last question:
$40, brilliant; y-s, briEht; 80. average;
Oh, dull.
1-As a rule, how many eggs 10
pound? q? (a) eight eggs; (b)
10 eggs; (c) II eggs?
2-BotuliSm is word that
housewives should know. II
means: (a) food rationing:
(b) food grinding; (c) food
poisoning.
3-The Levantine countries are
those on the shores Of the:
ta) Eastern Mediterranean
CHI Northern Black Sea; (c)
Western Pacific.
4-The outer boundary Of a
figure is called the: (a) per-
imeter; (b) radius; (c) di-
ameter.
5-The Boston Symphony Or
chestra was founded by: (a)
Ethelbert Nevin; tb) Victor
Herbert; (c) Henry Hig-
ginSon.
6-Matche these columns cor
rectly; the man and the
place:
tS Gsribsidi 80 Pscine
tci Leonidas ~, Alps
"a Bsibos ~ Thermopyiss
co. hannibal 90 Tippecsno.
(Ansvers on Opposite Paxe)
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

Japan, in the light of their past rec
ords?-this treaty still has year
to run.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

TNHE people of Minneapolis, like the
Il American people in general, are filled
with grateful appreciation of Sister Ken
ny's work. They have contributed money
generously for its support.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

Give yourself 10 for each correct answer
through question sir, 40 each for the re-
naming two questions. Any score 80 or
higher is excellent.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-10

&C THE DETHOlT TIMES
Evening star., 1945-10-16

play an important role in eliminat-
ing some of the artificial barriers
that stood between the people and
the judicial processes. For the sat
isfactory discharge of this RESPONSE
bility 1t was essential that the ad-
ministration of the new appellate
court be under the direction of
some one whose sympathies and
background were closely identified
with the Capital City, and in these
respects Chief Judge Richardson
was peculiarly we'll fitted for his task.
Under his direction, the Municipal
Court of Appeals has functioned
with a singular lack of friction. It's
relationship with the Municipal
Court has been harmonious and sue
ceSsful. 1t has won and held the
confidence and respect of the law
yers practicing before it-perhaps
because the chief judge was one
OF their number for so many years.
His death, after little more than
three years on the bench, will be
deeply felt by the community, by
his associates and by those whose
business brought them into his
court. Yet he leaves behind him
tribunal which, largely through his
own efforts, is credit to himself
and to the Capital City which he
loved. He would have asked no more
than that.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
The Teachers Suffer

When any salaried group must
wait lis days for a pay check, as
was the case with the Districts
school teachers this year, it is in
evitable that considerable inconven-
ience and even hardship will re-ult.
The problem, from a teachers
point of view, is discussed in letter
appearing elsewhere on this page.
And an article in last Sundays Star
dealt with the matter from the
standpoint of the school authorities
and the District auditors office. On
the face of the statement by Super
intendent Robert L. Haycock, how
ever, 1t seems evident that steps can
be taken to speed up the process of
getting the checks out to the teach
ers after the opening of the fall term
of school. There Is no doubt that
bookkeeping difficulties and prob
lens arising from war-created con-
ditions at the District Building pre-
sent substantial complications, but
there can be equally little doubt that
the checks can be distributed sooner
If the authorities are determined to
do so, and the assurances which Mr.
Haycock has given in this respect
will be welcomed by the teachers.
They, like other salaried workers.
have obligations to meet, and the
size of their salaries is not calculated
to enable them to accumulate much
reserve to cope with such contin-
gencies as the failure of pay checks
to arrive on time. The condition is
one which need not and should not
be tolerated.
Evening star., 1945-10-16

by national transportation system
The railroads were built up under a
centralized state system. Two-thirds
OF the electricity comes from the Ruhr
and Rhineland and is carried through
out Germany through a high-tension
grill system. To break that up would
fly in the face of high costs and low
cred efficiency. There are also gas
pipelines and canal systems which
know no state boundaries.
\ X X
Russia is unpredictable, but there is
every reason to believe that the Soviet
Will oppose the French idea. The weak
enlng of Germany essential to Russian
safety is going on in Eastern Germany.
Russia needs the products of Western
Germany. and further division there
would destroy production for export.
Britain anticipates profitable trade with
measurably restored Western Europe
There seems to be no sentiment in
America, officially or unofficially, for the
French idea.
Nor is France likely to get her wish
to manage the Rhineland and Ruhf
under some international control The
french have no capacity for the man
agement OF such an industrial system,
and mismanagement would intensity the
problem of the Americans and the
British.
The ideal is the retention of eco
nomic unity with restored federal
system in Germany. With a federal
government, under constitution which
strictly defines the distinction between
federal and state power, Germany can
work toward rehabilitation.
tReleased by the Associated Newspapers. Inc,
Evening star., 1945-10-16

lon. Suppose We had a law that if
poor farmer sold horse to a rich
farmer he could enforce payment of the
contract but that if a rich farmer sold
a morse TO poor farmer he could not 90
INTO court to protect his rights. Suppose
that were the law of our land and ey-
tend that to all human relationships.
The man who could carry the biggest
club when the other fellow reneged on
MS contract would go to him and would
say with references uncomplimentary to
ms ancestors, Pay me or l will take il
out of your hide"
Mr.. Robertson made it clear, however
that 1t was Just such a situation with
which the country is now confronted
so lar as the responsibility Of labor is
concerned. "A law" he said against
the repudlation of contract has always
neen regarded as the fair and proper
way OF adjusting disputes between in
olVlouals. The proper way is to let
them go into court and prove the con-
tract, and the breach of contract, if
there has been breach. and let the
guilty respond in damages"
x
There Is an increasing demand in
CoLeleSS tnaV something be done to
ameliorate the situation brought about
by the strikes which are DELAYING re-
conversion Of industry, preventing the
people from getting what they want in
goods of all kinds. and which are clog
glng the rolls of unemployed. President
Iruman's recent demand that we "cut
out this foolishness and go to work"
struck an immediate and responsive
chord on Capitol Hill
1t remains to be seen, however
whether the Chief Executive will recon-
mend any revision of the Wagner Labor
Relations Act. 1t was impossible to get
administration support for such a move
during the Roosevelt regime. Labor
unions and their leaders have resisted
any legislation which would undertake
to place necessary responsibility on
them-and they will continue to resist.
unless present signs are erroneous.
Mr.. Robertson will have plenty of
support in both the House and Senate
for some measure of amendment to the
Wagner Labor Relations Act if he per-
slsts in such demand. Senator VAN
denberg of Michigan, for example. all
ready has urged there be mutual re-
sponslbility for contracts entered into
by management and labor.
Evening star., 1945-10-16

standing, he gained success, wealth
and political honors under the Third
Republic which he so basely be-
trayed in the hour of it's extremity.
Laval hailed from part of France
which does not enjoy the best of
regulations. Auvergne is a sterile
tract of hill country in South Cen
tral France. There the struggle for
life is hard, and the inhabitants are
traditionally grasping and unscru-
pulous. willy as an Auvergnat" is
an old French proverb which, like
most popular sayings, probably con-
tains a modicum of truth. Laval
certainly exemplifled it to the utter
most extreme from the moment he
left his native hills for greener pas
lures OF opportunity. His extraordi-
nary cleverness long enabled him to
take big chances and get away with
II. But overweening selfishness and
greed at last betrayed him when
ne gambled on the permanence of
Hltler's new order" in Europe-and
lost For once, there was no way
out.
Lava's execution comes as the
climax to a series which has rid
France of its outstanding traitors
One by one they have expiated their
crimes. Both France and the world
are the gamers.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
Another Casualty List
rom the Detroit Free Press


The f1ve-year death toll were 4s5 900
American lives. From December 7, 1e41.
to June /, l945, 1t was 1886 900, while the
total for injured was $4,000 900. The
frst figure compared with 376 900 killed
in the approximately f1ve-years duration
of the two world wars.
The 485,000 were not killed by war.
nor we're the $4,000 900 injured in con-
f1ict. They were the casualties of care
lessness; they died or were hurt by ac-
cidents.
The death toll for 1914 alone was the
equivalent of the total population of q
city the size of Waterbury, Conn. One
person is needlessly killed every five and
a half minutes, and there is a prevent
able injury every three seconds.
These shocking accident statistics,
complied by the National Safety Coun-
Gil, do not, however, shock. If they did,
the trend would be reversed instead of
intensifying each year. We have become
so hardened that such statistics are
about as shocking as those for the year.
ly rainfall in given area, the wheat
yield or the national debt.
Such figures don't mean anything
until a member of the family or q
friend becomes digit in the ghastly
audit. And in the death toll the figure
means nothing to those who comprise
it, for the dead are past the power
of being shocked.
We have often been called a wastef,u
people. In high places, in the category
of waste. is human life.
Evening star., 1945-10-16
The Political Mill
BY Gould Lincoln

the need OF mutual responsibility for
contracts voluntarily entered into bv
management and labor is forcing itself
more and more on the consciousness of
congress Representative Robertson.
Democrat. of Virginia brought the
issue squarely to the attention of the
House during the debate on the tax
Dill last week. In this bill, he pointed
out. Congress was attempting to help
labor through reduction of the Federal
income tax and also to aid industrial
reconversion. Notwithstanding, he said
there are now four or five hundred
thousand unemployed due entirely to
strikes.
The Smith Connally Act, instead of
preventing strikes, has actually stinu-
lated them, Mr.. Robertson said That
act, he added. should be repealed. He
continued:
When we approached what was
known as labor's Magma Cf1arta and
wrote into law that which all of us ad-
mltted freely should be there. the
inherent right of labor to arrive at
wage contracts by means Of collective
bargaining, We apparently acted on the
assumption that it was only the. heart
ICos col poIdLloHS WIN no pants TO be
kicked and no soul to be damned that
could not be trusted to live up to con-
tracts arrived at by collective bargain
ing, that the unions could always be,
trusted to do the right thing So we
wrote into that law a provision that
put all the powers of government be-
hind any demand of union to make
a corporation live up to its contract,
and put no legal responsibility what
ever upon union to do the same
thing.
In my opinion, if we are to avoid
labor friction that is going to impede
seriously, impair, hinder and maybe
defeat successful reconversion to an
era of expanding economy, the Wagner
Labor Relations Act should be amended
to provide for mutuality of respon-
sibility"
Mr.. Robertson also pointed out that
the fifth amendment to the Constitu-
tion-part of the Bill of Rights-pro-
vided for the sanctity of contract and
property right; no Legislature could pass
a law impairing the validity of con-
tract, under the Constitution.
suppose" said Mr.. Robertson, I'VE
had not that provision in the Constitu-