The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-06
Observations
George Bill Seen
as Paving Way to
Help Wallace
~ HELEN EssARY

The capital on the Pow.to-mack
is wonderful pickings this week for
e critical columnist. The most en-
terfaining rows arc going on in
every corner.
Printers ink bubbles and air
waves bounce as commentators
write and talk about the Jesse
Jones.Henry Wallace free-for-all.
About the charge OF Congresswom-
an Frances Bolton that slightly all
ing Army wives keep in attendance
at Walter Reed Hospital special
nurses who might be used to care
for wounded soldiers.
In regard TO the Jones-W Wallace
bout, | believe the bunch some
people have that President Roose-
welt has his tongue In his cheek as
the Senate rears on its hind legs
at its former presiding officer. /
believe the resident has stood
Henry out In front" knowing he
would be knocked down at conn m
alton time. He deliberately stood
Wallace out In front at nominating
time at the. Chicago convention.
Vice President Harry Truman
has told friends he was informed
by several of those close to the
throne boys a few days before the
Democratic convention began that
Wallace was TO be used as "a fall
guy. He would wobble about a
little and then topple over. By that
time Jimmy Byrnes and Alben
Barkley would have been gotten
out OF the way. The v. p. coast
then would have been clear for
Truman.
There couldn't be two men more
unlike In temperament than Wal
lace and Jones. They couldn't uB-
de-stand each others language less
IL one spoke Aztec and the other
Gaelic. No matter how many more
new languages Henry Wallace
learns he'll never know what Jesse
Jones Is talking about.
But Mrs. Jones knows what Jesse
Jones Is talking about. She looks
after him as q good wife should.
Once when he was coming to dine
informally at our house he called
Mrs. Jones, who had recently gone
to visit In Houston, Tex. to ask
her on the long distance phone
where she had put the key to the
trunk in which she had packed his
heavy overcoat.
CONGRESSIONAL FRANCES
BOLTON OF Ohio. who has been
speaking out about the nursing
shortage. is q woman OF courage.
When Mrs. Bolton talks about
nurses she Is discussing a subject
on which she is national author
ity.
For years the handsome Cleve-
land woman has been working with
and for nurses. Five years ago she
and four other influential women
went to the surgeon-general o. the
Army and offered to use their ex-
perience and efforts to start pro-
gram for the education OF nurses
for war needs.
THE Army does not intenu 10
educate nurses" the surgeon-gen-
eral bluntly said. Let the hospitals
do that"
The cadet schools for nurses are
not functioning too well, accord
ing to Mrs. Bolton. There is only
money enough left to finance the
schools for one more year. Some
OF the cadet nurses having only
moral obligation to enter the Army
have gone into private nursing.
Private nursing is badly needed.
Of course. But It should be man
aged on a quota basis. Only those
who really need care should have
care.
Too much attention Is paid to
organization, Mrs. Bolton thinks.
Too much to influential patients
such as the Army wives.
Some day" said Mrs. Potion, ut
will be the patient. not the nurse
nor the doctor nor the board OF
managers OF the hospital, who is
TO be considered first. The pa
tent to be considered first now Is
the wounded fighting man whom
we have sent overseas TO defend
US"