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The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
Plan Scout Program
Dinner on Thursday
Summer Program
to Be Mapped Out

Macomb District Scout Lead
ers, assistants, committeeman
and council members will meet
at the Presbyterian Church, Pine
and New streets, Mount Glenn
ems, on Thursday at $50 pm,
for the annual Program Promo
ton dinner, council president
Guy Verkler announced this
week
Discussions will take place on
the following topics: the Scout
Drama; Camporee; Advance
ment and the Summer Camp.
willard H. Wells, field execu-
tive, is handling arrangements
for the dinner, which is compli-
mentary to those attending. The
time of the affair is Eastern War
Time.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
Spring Serenade
is Planned in
City on May 10

The first annual Spring Sere-
made of Mount Clemens public
schools will take place Thursday
May 10 at Mount Clemens High
School auditorium, under the
sponsorship of the schools Choir
al Department, with more than
$50 pupils participating.
The initial program will be
offered on only one night.
Participating in the musical
treat will be the following
groups:
Grade school vocalists direct
ed by Miss Lois V. Harper;
Ballet group, directed by Miss
Eugenia Stepkowska;
The Glee club and choir Of
Mrs. Alice S. Wright;
The orchestra, directed by
Mrs. Margaret Simpson, and
The band, under direction Of
Miss Alice Vance.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
Busy-Body Congressional
Tourists Protested

include Chandler (D-Ky), Hill
-Ala), Gurney (R-SD) and
Revercomb (R-W VA).
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
HiehIights
ofTrumon's
First Speech

Highlights of President Tru-
mans address to a joint session
of Congress on Monday:
So much blood has already
been shed for the ideals which
we cherish, and for which
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
lived and died, that we dare not
permi' even a momentary pause
in the hard fight for victory.
l want in turn to assure my
fell Americans and all of
those who love peace and lib
erty throughout the world that
will support and defend those
ideals with all my strength and
with all my heart.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17

to the two missionary speakers.
Services Thursday, Friday and
Saturday will be at 7;;45 p. m.
Miss Cuthbertson has had two
long and thrilling terms of Serv-
ice in the KweichowS Szechuan
section of China. Fifty-four days
of weary travel by row boat over
treacherous rapids intervene be-
tween her station and the coast
al cities of China. With eight dis
tinct experiences of being cap
tured by bandits, Miss Cuthbert-
son has an unusual side of mis-
sions TO present and she is able
TO do it in manner which
thrills her audiences. She treas
ures a personal letter from Mad
am Chang Kai-Shek in which
she calls the missionaries "the
heroes of the present war;"
Rev. Voth, since 1923 a mis-
sionary to East Thailand, has
with his colleagues assumed the
responsibility for evangelizing
some 100000 people in that
section of the Far East. Soon
after the Pearl Harbor incident
he and several others were
caught by the Japanese trying to
escape into Burma and were
confined in a Japanese concen-
tration camp at Bangkok for
more than six months. His is a
storp of physical hardship and
heart-breaking disappointments
but of spiritual victories which
eclipse the tortures experienced
under the heel of the cruel Jap.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17

was discovered
20 years ago by
an obscure Ger
m a n chemist,
but not used un-
til a few years
ago by the Swiss
10 combat a po-
tato p e s t. In
1912, entomolo-
gists at Orlando,
Fla, laboratory
of Entomolo gy
and Plant Quar-
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
No Fuel Shortage There

BASIN, Wyo. - W.D Sign
lights in Basin burned brightly
for 80 days after the brown-out
edict was given. The town re-
ceived the exemption because
it manufactures its own elec-
tricity by generators driven by
motors using natural gas for
fuel.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
Safe Irks Thieves

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - W.D
The persistence recommended
as virtue in their schooldays
was remembered by a group Oh
thieves who hit San Antonio re-
Gently. From a local hotel they
wrote TO the manager OF a Den
YER hostelry: Your safe was
TOO tuff. Well be back"
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17

No man could possibly fill the
tremendous void left by the
passing of that noble soul
(Franklin D. Roosevelt). No
words can ease the aching
hearts of untold millions of
every race, creed and color.
The world knows il has lost a
heroic champion Of justice and
freedom.
Both Germany and Japan can
be certain. beyond any shad-
ow of doubt. America will con-
tinue the fight for freedom until
no vestige of resistance re-
mains.
In the difficult days ahead,
unquestionably we shall face
problems of staggering pro-
portions. However, with the
faith of our fathers in our
hearts, we fear no future.
O.
The responsibility Of the great
states is to serve and not domi-
nate the peoples of the world.
o
Hope showed the way to VIC
tory - but We must have
faith enough to work with other
peace loving nations to main
tain the peace.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17
COmpariSOns

An average house contains 700
feet of electrical wiring; a four
motored bomber needs $4,000
feet (about two and one-half
miles,; and battleship requires
845, 900 feet Cor more than 160
miles, of copper wiring.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-04-17

Automobile shortages are COM
plicsted by a horsepower"
shortage revealed by a census
showing that the equine popula-
ton of the country is now $780,
0OO-feWest since 1878.
Evening star., 1945-11-08

ton which lead Senator Vandenberg of
Michigan, Republican, to suggest to
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach, a DEM
ocrat. that similar tactics could be used
TO avert Nationwide industrial war.
Just as clearly it is evident that unless
this conference can produce results.
there Will be in this country a period of
chaotic labor or-management relations
which will set this country back, with a
prospect of huge unemployment. lack
of production, bread lines and either
devastating imitation or defiation.
Free enterprise and democracy are
facing a great test Either there must
De industrial peace and production or
there Will be, in the end, some measure
OF naturalization of industry with a
breakdown OF free enterprise as it has
been known in this country.
Three forces can block success of this
industrial peace conference If given
enough play-selflshness on the part of
management, selflShness on the part
OF lahor and, more sinister and cynical
than tfese, the selfishness of politicians
VINO nohe to make capital for them
serves by throwing monkey wrenches
iii'o .iiese generations OF management
and labor
10 Presldeft Truman must 60 credit
lor demanding that both sides enter
upon tnese dlscbssions with reasonable
mlnos' wiling to see the other fellows
argument. HIS warnings have been to
both sides. He hassm made no attack or
threat against management, and no at
TACK or threat agalnstNlabor. He has, it
~ true' IN ms ADDRESS to the country,
suggested that industry ean stand some
wage increases without bhnging about
increases in prices. These are matters
which can be demonstrated one wav or
another through a frank disclosure of
all the facts in the individual Industries
by management and by labor.
IL is to advance this kind of dealing
between the two that the conference
has been called.
Evening star., 1945-11-08

been suffered had the country had
wiser and less criminal leadership
eventually Is to be replaced by a
peace treaty which presumably will
permit 1t to get back on its feet
again. Meanwhile, II the treaty is
too long delayed. the United States
may move for a general revision of
the terms still in effect. The lot OF
the Italian people has been tragic,
and no one OF good will, wishing
them a brighter. self-governing flu
ture, wants to see them burdened
by surrepder conditions any longer
than necessary.
Evening star., 1945-11-08
The Italian Amistice

There was a time when all sorts
of dark things were being said of
the Italian armistice. Speculative
stories spoke of it's "harshneSs" It's
terms. we were told, would create a
shock" sensation" when made
public. There were hints of terri
torial grabs by Britain. There were
hints of every kind, and all of them
breathed of scandal or worse.
But today. with the armistice at
last published after having been
kept secret for more than two years,
we have not scandal or a "sensa-
tion." but a kind of fizzle. dud. a
great anticlimax. For the terms do
not involve any divvying up of
territory or any shock" or unusual
"harshness." They are merely the
terms of unconditional surrender
under which Italy-just as other
Axis powers did later-placed itself
at our mercy because it could do
nothing else, short of inviting sui
eide through continued resistance.
A reading of the armistice raises
the question why it ever had to be
a subject of such long secrecy Some
of it's terms, in view of the good
faith shown by the Italians and the
help they gave us as co-belligerents,
never went into effect and others
have been greatly softened from
time. to time. The decision to with
hold publication appears to have
been based in part on an Allied de-
sire to prevent the Nazis from dis
torting the document and using it
as a psychological weapon to stiffen
German resistance and weaken the
morale of the anti-Fascist partisans
in Northern Italy. This is plausible
enough, but still 1t is difficult to see
why the secret had to be kept until
now. In any case, however, now
that the terms are known. past spec
ulation on the subject is shown to
have been more mischievous than
which is another example Of
why secrecy in public affairs should
be avoided whenever possible and
why commentators and the like,
when secrecy cannot be avoided,
ought to resort less to uninformed
guesses.
As for Italy itself, the armistice-
Q penalty which never would have
Evening star., 1945-11-08
The Political Mill
BY Gould Lincoln

Inc country attention is centered on
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT conference in
Wasnlngton-an adventure whose re-
SUITS Will be far feaching whether the
conference is SUCCESS or a failure.
President Truman, at the opening of
the conference. warned both parties that
II there is failure to axree on a con-
structive program leadiras to industrial
peace, then the American people will
look elsewhere for solution Presurna-
bly, he meant either to Congess or tn
the Executive, who still retains war
powers and will continue to have these
powers until final end of war hiss been
proclaimed either by the PresideAt or
by concurrent action Of Congress. -
Labor and management have BEN
represented in this conference by theh
outstanding leaders. What they agree
on. II they agree. should have the effect
OF mobilizing public opinion on a grand
scale. In country as free as this,
public opinion is dominant force.
The labor leader or industrialist who
sets himself up against public opinion,
particularly In period when the whole
country Is anxious for reconversion.
production and when jobs are the hope
OF the people, may find himself in a
tough position. Failure to arrive at con-
structive agreement at least on funda-
mental principles. will be a blow to
democratic ideals and to the system of
free enterprise.
Months ago in San Francisco so ma
tions sat down together in conference
to write Charter for world peace. The
United Nations Organization was born
there. The miracle was that with so
many diverse views, such a Charter
could have been written at all. The
great demonstration in San Francisco
was that when men of good will face
each other across the conference table
agreements. even on the most difficult
subjects, can be reached.
1t was in large part this demonstra-
Evening star., 1945-11-08
Military Planning
By Maj. George Fieidine Eliot

Advocates of unification of the War
ano Navy Departments into a single
department of the armed forces have
not made convincing case for their
proposition
Last week the Army's detailed pro-
posals were presented to the Senate
Military Affairs Committee by 1t. Gen.
J. L. Collins, calling for a department
OF the armed forces with a single secre-
tary. OF cabinet rank, and a chief of staff
OF the armed forces as his principal
military adviser and executive. Under
them would be the Army, Navy and
Air Forces, each with its own chief
of staff.
Great emphasis was laid by Gen.
Collins in his testimony on maintaining
full equality between these three, so
that no one component of the armed
forces should dominate the military
thought OF the department" But the
devices suggested for this purpose are
rather tenuous. and bring into question
the validity of the whole scheme as
opposed to an improvement OF the ex-
isting organization.
Consider, for example, the suggestions
as to the joint chiefs of stan. It is
proposed that this body should con-
sist Of the chief of staff Of the armed
forces, the chief of staff to the Presi-
dent, and the chiefs of staff OF the
Army, Navy and Air Foftes-the last
three being the military subordinates
OF the chief Of staff of the armed forces.
The joint chiefs OF stan are to de
velop balanced military program with
which budgetary requirements are
thoroughly integrated." Each chief of
staff OF each component would sub
NIT his ideas with full freedom and
vigprp and then the chief Of stan as
whole would iron out any differences.
The result would be submitted to the
secretary, who would forward It with
out modification to the President, to-
gether with his comments thereon
In cases the joint chiefs of stan were
not unanimous, any dissenting MEM
ber would be supposed to submit q
minority report.
Consider, in this set up the dominant
position Of the chief Of staff Of the
armed forces. He presides over the
meetings Of the joint chiefs Of staff.
fivc in all including himself. Three OF
them are his military subordinates and
we all know what that means. Then
the result goes to the President through
the secretary OF the armed forces, to-
gether with the secretary's comments.
And who is the secrctary's military adj
wiser, from whom he must draw the
necessary military advice as to the
nature Of these conments? Why, the
chief of stan Of the armed forces.
Evening star., 1945-11-08

close to Russia's borders curing Stains
vacation.
It Is even uncertain whether Anbas-
sador Hartman, who was ordered by
the President to present a communica-
ton to the Russian Premier at his vaca-
ton retreat, actually saw him Mr..
Truman's message reached Stain all
right and an answer was given to the
American Ambassador the next day.
But whether Mr.. Hartman actually
visited him is question which will
remain state secret" for some time.
Rumors, often based on half truths,
speculations and conjectures, are in
evitable when figure Of the world
wide importance OF Stain Is involved
The political structure of Russia today
depends on Its leader, and w .leayals
which inevitably follow the disappear
ance from the political scene Of man
who personally controls vast empire
like the U. s. S. r. can have wide effect
throughout the world.
A period of confusion followed
Lenin's death. In the fight for power
Stain won over Trotsky. But at that
time there were only national reper-
cussions. Today Russia is one of the
foremost world powers, with an i'm
portant stake all over the globe and
a direct interest from the Oder River
to the japanese home islands. Hence,
not only the United Nations group, but
every other country, is keenly inter-
ested in what Is happening in that
great and, to the outsider, still closed
empire,
Since he took over the helm Stain
has never failed to make a momentous
address on the anniversary of the Boil
sheviSts' rise to power.
The capitals of all the nations were
awaiting his usual address more eagerly
than ever before. They fully expected
the Russian leader to reveal his views
on many Of the matters which are
keeping the world in political suspense.
The views exchanged privately be-
tween Washington and Moscow since
the failure of the London Conference
nave brought no tangible results. The
highest authorities here expected a
definite clarifcation when 1t was hoped
That Stain would speak and outline
his views on such delicate subjects as
Turkey, Japan and Southern Europe.
Instead we read Commissar Molotovs
speech, which was couched in good
diplomatic language but lacked the
pungency and the directness to which
the unchallenged master of the U. S.
S. r. had accustomed the world
Evening star., 1945-11-08
Tk Past

HotD ,oould we CID the attic nj tbe ,,,r1
Where years he left n,m OF IN
and dust,
Here youths briN dreams IN 1or.u-
ness consignt,
Lie dark ,Dith nSdeu. operlnid min
rust.
How soon the slo4 decav must hn,,e
begun
Where hopes perAtored. HE nil. a.
old brocdde:
NoU t0e Dould haul u the noon -,phita
What long lag bukd In tenebyous
shade.
And yet HON strangdthese patteyns
brought to light.
Not the rich fabrics hat me .Ddcked
atDap;
The silks are faded, dhnsks touche6
NTH blight,
And din0y beneath the knber GLARE of
day.
o let US leaue the noldsrik past alone
And seal the attic Of tn mind, IKE
stoMs.
NAE wINKLER doDMAN.
Evening star., 1945-11-08
Abandoned Orchard

There is something poignantly ap-
pealing about an old abandoned
orchard. The tall gaunt trees lift
bare, twisted limbs toward the sky.
The gray-weathered. barkless wood
Is dotted with holes where the wood
peckers have drilled. Sometimes
there is life in a few of the trees
and long, slender sucker sprouts bear
small apples. Sometimes small ap-
Piles cling tenaciously to their anchor
twigs and as fall crawls toward
winter the applies become brown,
shriveled mummies of fruit that
chickadees and downieS will peck at
on thawing days in midwinter.
On the country roads that wind
along far from the main streams of
travel one finds the abandoned
orchards-in little valleys among the
hills, on the brows of low mountains
where farm homes f1ourished in the
days Of yesteryear. The area is us
ually dense with pines and scrub
oaks that have sprung up to reclaim
the soil wrested long ago from
Nature. Here and there Scraggly
branches of staghorn sumac lift
wine-red conical banners to the sky.
The old orchard is a favorite rem
devious for wild life. In spring and
summer the flickers raise their
broods in the cavities of the ancient
fruit trees; in the fall, in the New
England area, the hedgehogs and
coons come pushing around for a
taste of the fallen fruit. Partridges
come at dawn to eat the fruit buds
on the sparse living branches.
Time was, half a century and
more ago, when these Baldwins, Rus
sets and Blue Pearmains were
thrilling, well-tended orchard. Some
farmer set this orchard. In the gold
and-blue days of October barrels of
solid, crisp fruit were picked and
hauled to the farmhouse cellar.
Voices Of happy young folks rang
Evening star., 1945-11-08
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,On

Renewed speculation concerning Pre-
mier Stains health cropped up in
oficial and diplomatic quarters in
Washington after 1t had been definitely
ascertained that for the FIRST time In
28 years he had failed to attend the
celebration of the Bolsheyik rise to
power In 1917.
The first dispatches from Moscow
mentioned that Stain was present, at
the celebrations. but let Foreign Com
missar Molotov deliver the usually i'm
portant political speech. Later the
press reports were changed and it was
admitted that the Soviet leader had
absented himself altogether from the
Russian festivity, which is the equiva-
lent to our Fourth Of July.
Premier Stains health is OF great
concern to the world at large. The dis
appearance OF Russia's leader from the
scene might have serious consequences
IN the internal affairs OF the USSR and,
by implication, the rest of the globe.
The health of Premier Stain has
been q matter of discussion for several
years. Varying reports have bobbed up
from time to time that MIR. Stain was
not well, although at the Teheran and
Yalta Conferences with President Roose-
velt and Prime Minister Churchill the
Russian leader appeared to be In the
pink of condition.
AT Potsdam. however, those who had
seen Stain at the previous meetings
gained the impression that his heavy
wartime duties had left definite mark
on him. He was not the same ebulient
and Jocular Stain they had met earlier,
but was somewhat sad and soft-spoken
man. An illness described officiany as
head cold kept him confined to his
quarters for two days. There were
rumors around Berlin that Stain had
more than cold.
And finally. when he took a much
needed holiday at resort on the Black
Sea, where the climate was mild and
pleasant. rumors cropped up again that
his health was not good These rumors
were further accentuated after Mar
shal Zhukov at the 18th hour cam
celed his off1cial visit to the United
States In answer to a personal invita-
ton from President Truman. The ex-
cuse given was that he had a slight
hroat Infection. But confidential re-
ports from American sources in Berlin
stased he had been asked by Stain
ninself to put of the visit and remain
Evening star., 1945-11-08
helping the Joponese
By David laurence
From thu New York Times

FROM thSFew York Times
The fest decree Of Gen. Macarthur
is anotff step in the liberation of the
Japanestthemselves 1t shows, them
the mea1pg Of freedom and it should
bring ind the open those remaining
democratf elements in Japan which
sne ponce ehrror has heretofore locked
penlnd oaf or forced into hiding. It
should encNrage the formation of free
ana responAle political parties in prep.
aration for lf government. 1t should.
above all. bPg new freedom to Japa-
nese scnoiarfnd scientists to inyesti-
gate the histf and theological state of
tneir own pede as first step toward
sweeping awaA the myths and oficial
Iorgeries on wfth the present Japanese
regime has bed constructed.
Evening star., 1945-11-08
x-Roys> Anniversary

The average lay reader is not likely
to be able to understand the nature
or character of those "radiations
which, in the general spectrum of
electromagnetic waves, occur after
ultraviolet rays as we pass toward
the shorter wave lengths" Scientific
training and experience are required
for the comprehension OF even the
simpler discussions OF the activity
thus referred to. The whole subject
is exceedingly technical.
Yet most ordinary citizens have at,
least working idea concerning the
utility of what Professor Wilhelm
Konrad Roentgen, a member of the
faculty of the University OF Wurz-
burg in Bavaria, discovered half
century ago today. The find was
"semi-accidental." When the ex-
perimenter passed an electric dis
charge through an evacuated tube,
"he noticed that some crystals OF
barium -platinocyanide which were
in the vicinity became brilliantly
f1ourescent although the visible light
from the tube was screened by black
paper" Further, various substances
placed between the tube and card
on which barium- -platinocyanide
crystals were spread cast shadow"
Roentgen, "for the sake of brevity,"
called the new rays X-rays. The
news'of his discovery went round
the world Immediately. 1t was real
lied at once that the radiations he
had found had the power of pene-
trating objects Opaque to ordinary
light. Four days after the x-rays
were known in America they were
used successfully to locate a bullet
embedded in the calf of a patients
leg.
Many other early experimenters
who labored over the Wurzburg pro-
fessor's achievement paid for their
zeal in terms Of suffering and death,
but Roentgen himself lived to be
seventy-eight. The Nobel Prize for
Physics was awarded to him in 1901.
He Is "of the company" of modern
scientists whose names are immortal
because OF their aid to mankind.