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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-27
|'5trikers FACE
Draft Order
Rehabilitation Begun
as War Work StoIls

PASCAGOULA, Miss, Feb. 81
Up Draft boards began to-
day classifying la the striking
employees of ingalls, Shipbuilding
Company, while activity at the
shipyards was at a standstill.
The strike, called by the Metal
Trades Council (AFL) of Pas
cagoula, effects 10000 workers
at the shipyard which makes 49,
O00-ton vessels for the govern
ment.
Monroe B. Lanier, president
of the ingalls, Company, said l.
400 men reported for work yes
terday, but that they couldn't
work because "the electricians
refused to turn on the power"
Lanier also said he had been
told by James McIntee, secre-
tary of the AFL's Metal Trades
department, that the strike was
illegal and improper" and that
the strikers would be directed to
return to work.
However, F. L. Mancil, pres
ident of the Metal Trades Coun-
Gil, said he had received no word
from national headquarters Of
the union ordering the men back
to work.
Previously he had said the
strike was called because of the
War Labor Boards delay in act
ing on list of union grievances
including a demand for a closed
shop.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-27

ON MARCH YOU MUST VOTE YES OR NO ON THIS
PROPOSiTlON.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-27

partment officials regularly to
the Teaneck fire school.
Yes, ladies, you are perfectly
justified in asking questions
Don't let the opposition pass off
your question lightly when you
ask about Dayton, Ohio, which
was the first large city TO adopt
the council-manager plan. Day
ton is a city Of 100000. They
had to pioneer in the idea. We
don't. Other cities have shown
us the way. When the new com
mission took office in 1914 its
members realized that success
depended in large measure on
the personality and equipment
Of the man they selected rs City
Manager. The job was offered
to Colonel Goethals, builder OF
the Panama Canal, at $4,000 a
year He declined. The com
mission then discovered II. NJ.
Waite, city engineer Of Cincin-
natl. He refused an offer of
$4,000 a year from a private
corporation and took the Dayton
managership at $4,000.
Books have been written
about Dayton. Suffice it TO say
that Dayton has had successful
government so long that her
citizens now take good govern
ment for granted.
Yes we threw away the kero-
sene lamp for electric lights.
The modern airplane makes the
one of even 10 years ago look
like cigar box. The electric
iron replaced the old hand iron
you set on the stove TO get hot.
So it is in government. progress
must come. The old order must
give way to the new.
Vote March 5th for the
COUNCIL MANAGER PLAN,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-27
Red Gross Director
10 Speak Friday
Will ReIote Experiences
in lndio Chino Theatre

Glenn Auten, returned 10 Red
Cross Field Director in the
a-Burma-lndia theatre. will
be in Mount Clemens TO speak at
the Community Room of Mount
Clemens High school Friday at
8 p. m, it is announced today.
All Red Cross work crS
throughout the county, and next
of kin of men serving in the Obi
theatre are urged 10 be present
at the meeting. Auten Will dis
cuss the work of the Red Cross
and give information on care
and facilities in his experience.
He will be introduced by Rob
ert l. Winslow, 1945 War Fund
drive chairman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-27
NINTH IN A SERIES
For

FOR
AS l light a cigar, or what Is
supposed to represent one, and
try to visualize what the city
of my birth could be am Won
dering if we can get in step with
other cities which have had the
same problems we have and
have solved them with this same
plan successfully.
One fact becomes increasing
ly clear. That is: the Women
are interested in this proposal.
That is really something to be
thankful for. For long time l
have felt that if the women had
more to say about critical prob
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-27

Wood consists chiefly of cellu-
lose and lignin.
Evening star., 1945-09-26

tive system equal to all the others
combined and if We have the atomic
bomb exclusively in our pocket, how
can the others dare resist us?
The other nations know more about
the real nature of power A tank air.
plane, battleship and atomic bomb are,
in themselves. not power. They are in
struments for the exertion of force,
with all the consequences. A nation
that will not exert such power does not
possess 1t. And what all the rest of the
world Is observing is that we not only
will not use force to back up our policy,
but will not maintain at sacrifice the
responsibilities we already have taken.
In this moment it is doubtful whether
We can maintain an adequate Army
for occupation purposes. Every poll
tician knows that his constituents have
but one concern-to get the boys home.
After that, it is to get them job; and
after that to get higher wages. The
average American is reading first the
advertisements, to see what is coming
back into the market, and when he
can get radio batteries refrigerator, a
washing machine.
The induStrialist is reading the re-
conversion reports, the domestic in
tentions of the administration, the
strike news, and the outlook for tax
alton. Only when he has digested all
this-if he still has time-he giances
over foreign political reports Neither
the average citizen. the leading busi-
ness men, nor the trade union leader,
is concerned with free elections in Bull
garia. or Italian colonies. He feels: We
are stronger than the rest of the world
combined; we have the atomic bomb;
and SO why worry?
But that is no basis for world power
1t is unconscious isolationism, paying
only lip service to world -mindedness.
Others know that Congress and the
administration are more interested in
being elected than in preventing
Russian hegemony over Eastern Europe
They know you can't bring the boys
home and police the earth. They know
London is paralyzed by Detroit They
see that peace has broken out in the
United States with vehemence of
hurricane destroying the fundamentals
Of our military strength before any
thing Is settled. Satisfied with our
potential power. we leave the political
field to less self-confident nations.
Nobody should blame the admins.
tration, which is acting under the pres
sure of the American people, if the
peace does not turn out as we hoped.
Evening star., 1945-09-26
This Changing World
Bv Constantine Brown

Secretary Of State Byrnes is return
ing from London, a disappointed man.
He and his colleagues discovered there is
a great difference between discussing
lofty ideals. such as those expressed at
San Francisco, and the stark realities of
territorial adjustments" when the
power complex of the victorious nations
emerges as strong as 1t has existed for
thousands of years.
The American Government has sought
to end the old philosophy of balance OF
power and has attempted-at the price
OF giving up many Of its ideals about
international justice-to put into ef-
feet the thesis Of ''one world" Pre-
viously our policy trainers had re-
luctantly thrown overheard such ma
tions as Poland and Finland. But
there was a firm belief among them
that these were only temporary situa-
tions and eventually, after peace and
political sanity were re-established in
the world, the nations would all regain
their freedom.
The same thought governed the
American policy trainers in regard to
other states in the Balkans, where the
Russian liberation" hand laid heavily
on the liberated" peoples.
Mr. ByrneS was convinced that when
the representatives of the Big Five
nations, which had suffered so much
devastation from the war, sat around
the green table, they would make con-
ceSsions-not necessarily to each other
but to peace-hungry world. They
all had pledged themselves to work in
full harmony and cooperation at San
Francisco. The American Senate.
known in the past for its fear of in
ternatlonal entanglements, had almost
unanimously voted Americas full par
tlclpatlon on international affairs. Yet
Mr.. Byrnes Is now reported to be
sadly disappointed men.
II
Not only was he met with a challeng-
ing attitude on the part of Foreign
Commissar Molotov on all matters
which were discussed in London, but he
was told plainly that Russia does not
intend to yield on any matter in which
her interests are involved Her in
terests" meant plainly the complete
domination Of all the areas in Europe
where her forces have been stationed
as temporary war measure with the
consent of the other Allies, and the ex-
panslon of her influence to far areas
such as the Red Sea and the Eastern
Mediterranean.
The Far Eastern situation was not
discussed officially. But unofflcial agents
who frequently voice Russias point of
view before Russia takes an Official
stand let it be known that America S
privileged position in that area will
have to be thoroughly reviewed in the
near future
Mr.. Byrnes would have been happy
to make concessions to the Russians
Evening star., 1945-09-26

point Of view II he thought he could
obtain some sort Of quid pro quo from
Commissar Molotoy. But the further
the discussions went the more apparent
1t became that Russia was more in
terested in territorial matters than in
the lofty ideals contained in the UNO
Charter. The Charter, it became obvi-
Gus to the American Secretary of State,
was to have as principal function in
the future the guarantee of the terri
torial grabs.
This also was the opinion of Brltain's
Foreign Secretary Bevin and Frances
Foreign Minister Bidault. Britain and
France are in much weaker position
than America; are closer to the U. S. S. r.
and consequently have an even greater
practical interest than ourselves in not
opposing Russia.
Yet their representatives could not
see how Russia's demands could be
met fully without giving up everything
for which the United Nations have
fought so desperately since 1899. They
impaired the view to Mr.. Byrnes that
If Russias territorial ambitions-which
are far cry from what was discussed
at San Francisco-were granted, the
world would be placed under a to-
talitarian system far more dangerous
than anything we have ever seen.
1t was this thought that put halt
to the policy of yielding which had been
characteristic in all the previous negotia-
tions between Russia and her major
Allies.
The breakdown of the London Con-
ference may result in division of
Europe into two power blocs: The east
ern, extending as far as the Elbe River
and down to the Balkans as far as
Greece, and the western, the rest of
Europe, including Scandinavia
Such division would present even
greater dangers than the former Euro
pean power alliances. 1t may mean not
only another armament race with all its
devastating consequences, but also an
open economic warfare. Russia is not
interested in establishing merely politi-
cal hegemony over the territories she
now controls. AS evidenced in the
economic agreements with Romania and
Hungary she has placed them under an
absolute economic tutelage which pre-
cludes their trading with any other
country
Russia has established a complete
monopoly over all productive activities
OF the nations under her domination. If
any trade is to exist between the west
ern nations and those in the east it must
go through Moscow, which will be the
clearing house and the banker of her
puppets.
Mr.. Byrnes and his colleagues never
had in minG the organization of two
such blocs in any part of the world. But
this new phantom is creating an even
greater uncertainty for the future and
cannot be ignored
Evening star., 1945-09-26
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

Foreign politics are made at home.
American power is made at home-not
in Tokyo, nor Berlin, nor at the Con-
ference of Foreign Ministers in London.
AS far as can see through our policy,
we hope to maintain our power mega
tively-by checking or weakening others.
In the first line came our enemies, whom
we have eliminated as sovereign enti-
ties from the power picture. But no
power is ever totally eliminated. even
though its sovereignty may be removed.
What remains, even in Germany, and
even in Japan, is geographical posi-
tion, which has its significance in any
power world. peoples-millionS of them
who are always potential manpower
and economic power.
Although our politics are essentially
based on the intention to keep that en-
emy power in permanent suspension,
having succeeded. 1t will eventually
consultations among the Allies-and
that is the basis of nervousness among
the thoughtful.
AS Britain. Russia and the United
States see this ultimate possibility, each
VI W cSldUllSil OWll hS
far as it can This spread of influence
is made the more tempting because the
siX-year war has not only eliminated
the enemies, but defeated the smaller
Allies, who now can only borrow power
from one of the major nations. BY
this process they are brought into the
orbit Of great powers.
The United States would like to check
this. In Europe We wish to prevent the
Russians from establishing themselves
as exclusively sovereign in Eastern Eu-
rope and the Balkans. We do not favor
the western bloc policy of the British.
In the colonial sphere-at the moment
in the question of the Italian colonies
and in principle the whole trustee
ship proposal, our policy is for gradual
dissolution of the colonial system, the
creation of Independent peoples, and an
open-door policy.
This policy of checking other great
powers is resented because they consider
us as overwhelmingly the greatest power
at the moment. The atomic bomb has
not helped us in this particular. 1t
frightens and drives them to seek to
increase their power or hold what they
have That is the background of the
deadlock in London.
But the question may be asked: If
we are the greatest power, with an
undestroyed country, vast produc-
Evening star., 1945-09-26
Traffic Menace

The National Safety Council, with
President Truman's blessing. now is
engaged in an effort to make the
American people conscious of the
fact that lot of them are going to
lose their lives within the coming
year unless they travel with care on
the highways of the Nation.
During the war. because Of meas
ures like the rationing of tires and
gasoline and the posting Of 35
mile-an-hour speed limit, motor
vehicle travel dropped 80 per cent,
and accident fatalities on the roads
decreased 80 per cent. With peace,
however, the sometimes doubtful
pleasures of motoring are back, and
the statisticians of the National
Safety Council gloomily predict that
1946 is likely to set a new all-time
high in the number of traffic casual
ties, exceeding the record of 1941
when 10000 persons were killed and
100000 injured.
The warming signs are many. A
great number of drivers. including
returning veterans, are out of prac-
tice. Roads are not in the best of
shape. After the wartime decline, it
may take while for pedestrians to
readjust themselves to heavy traffic.
Police controls are inadequate. Tires
are worn. There is shortage OF
mechanics. The current average age
of automobiles is over eight years, as
against only four and half years in
1910. And lot of irresponsible joy
riders are back again behind the
steering wheel. All the factors exist,
in short, for widespread mayhem on
the highways.
Accordingly. the National Safety
Council Is urging every possible effort
Evening star., 1945-09-26
Picking Apples
When summer has turned

WQen SUMMER has tuIHeu t-4e COI -
ner into fall, when mornings are
bright and crisp and evenings have
an edge of chill, comes the time
when the farmer gets his equipment
together to pick the apples. The
countryman is particular about the
Job. The fall apples are not so i'm
portant, though he is as partial as
any member of the family to the
first apple pies and applesauce. But
when it comes to the Baldwins,
greetings. russets and Northern
Spies, it is touchy proposition.
These varieties. that mean good
food and good eating far into next
spring, must be picked at exactly the
right moment. If allowed to hang
on the trees too long they get over
ripe and do not keep well. If picked
too early they do not develop their
full, rich, satisfying favors. But
there comes day, late in the month,
when a man knows that it is time
to pick his apples.
Picking apples is a peculiarly
satisfying work. 1t is not a Job a
man can rush. It requires care to
set the tall ladder so it will be firm.
Then a man harvests the fruit as
he works his way up through the
tree. The big plump apples come of
easily if one gives just the right
twist OF the wrist. The half -bushel
basket with its wooden hook or a
+ leather thong hangs from a rung OF
the ladder. Clinging with one hand
to the ladder, a man can reach fal
to either side. When the picking
Is good the basket fills quickly and
the full boxes on the ground in
crease rapidly In number. BY the
middle Of the AFTERNOON it is time te
hitch old Jerry to the farm Wagon
Evening star., 1945-09-26

and pull the loads to the cool, earth
floored cellar.
Picking apples is work, but 1t is
work the countryman enjoys. On
sunny September day a man likes
to pause moment to look over the
land from his vantage point high
on the ladder. There is a brooding
spirit of seasons end over the
meadows, fields and upland pastures.
Crickets chirp in the grass and
pheasants call from the woods
edge. Fall is the beautiful interlude
between summer and winter, and
apple picking is one of the enjoy
able tasks before the King Of the
Northland sends his legions of snow
and cold.
Evening star., 1945-09-26

The postwar policies Of the Soviet
Union seem to center on the idea of
security. This leads Soviet statesmen
into the somewhat paradoxical posi-
ton of insisting on the formation of
an association of closely knit states
around their own frontiers, for the bet
ter protection of their own country,
while opposing any close association of
Western European states as being nee
essarily anti-Soviet in character and
therefore dangerous to Soviet security.
Thus, in effect, the Russians say to the
western states: You must trust us, but
we do not trust YOU
Upon the dissolution of this paradox
depends to great extent the future
security of the world. There may not
at present be any imminent danger of
the world dividing into eastern and
western groups, .of increasing hostility
to each other; but such danger may
appear unless present tendencies can
be checked, and particularly unless a
greater degree of confidence can be es-
tablished between the Russian people
on the one hand, and the American,
British and Western European peoples
on the other.
The cynical observer of the postwar
world might point out, with consider
able truth, that it is a curious commen-
tary on the congenital weaknesses Of
the human race that this whole struc-
ture of fear 4nd suspicion is largely
imaginary; that, as a matter of fact,
the western powers have no designs
whatever upon. the security and we'll
being of the Soviet people; nor is there
any real reason to suppose that the
Russians have any designs upon the
security and well-being Of any Of the
western nations. But this is no mo-
ment to listen to cynics. nor to airy
dreamers, either. It S . moment for
Evening star., 1945-09-26
Spoken From the Heart

A high light in yesterdays testi-
mony before the Senate Judiciary
Committees subcommittee in charge
Of the Summers Capper national
representation amendment came
from young naval officer, Lieuten-
ant q. g. James S. Beattie. He
left hospital to come to the hear
ings and tell his own experience as
one Of the more than $4,000 serv-
icemen from Washington who were
unable to vote-when the voting
was going on-because of their resi-
dence in the Capital of the United
States. He was unaffected, simple
and direct in his unprepared state
ment and he got into his statement
that touch of genuine eloquence
which comes from the heart. He
was no constituted spokesman for
his comrades nor did he claim to
be, but he was putting into words
what thousands Of them, as we'll as
their parents here at home, must
have felt. For in the long history
Of Determinations against the resi-
dents of Washington, no other quite
approaches, in its cynical mockery
of what we preach, the denial of the
vote to our men in uniform. Be-
cause he felt it so deeply, Lieutenant
Beattie's statement of what 1t
meant to him made lasting i'm
preston on those who heard him.
1t was reflected later on in the
statement of President Wilbur S.
Finch of the Federation of Citizens
Association, himself the father of
three sons in the service, who spoke
Of the letters from his boys, asking
"Why?" One may hope that the
men who come back to Washington
after the war will continue to ask
that question and will accept no
degrading substitute for their rights
as American citizens.
Evening star., 1945-09-26
The Old House Sleeps

Wrapped close in its crimson 10y shawl
The old house 1tuddles. hushed and
dark,
No sound OF lite in its empty hall,
Upon its heGrthstone no liping spark.
From all OF its neighbors it stands aloof.
For ldmpht greetings returns blank
stdres
A maple scatters its gold on the roof
But the old house neither kno,os nor
cares.
husk
Is all that Is left Of Its youthful pride.
1t Is grateful no,0 for the deepening
dusk
IN tphich a tired old house may hidG
ANNA M. PRIESTLEY.
Evening star., 1945-09-26
A More Balanced World
BY Maj. Georae Fielding Eliot


practical and reasonable consideration
of the facts. and for action based on
facts and not upon either prejudice
or illusion.
AS matter of fact, there exists an
Anglo-American unity which is poten-
TALLY the greatest power in the world.
The hard facts of the war have DEM
onstrated that the United States and
the nations of the British Common
wealth form a natural military unit,
conformable to the conditions of mod
ern war. They possess between them,
today, not only the dread secret of
atomic warfare, but also the sea power,
the long-range air power, the indus
trial and technical resources, and the
worldwide system of bases by which
the split-second. highly mobile military
forces of today can best be operated and
supported.
The hard facts of the postwar world
have demonstrated that on almost every
conceivable phase of policy the inter-
ests of the American people and the
interests OF the peoples Of the British
Commonwealth run IN conjunction, or
at least in parallel. These two collec-
tions OF hard facts-military and politi-
cal-dictate to both nations that they
must find means to achieve an eco
nomic community Of interest, in order
that their military and political unity,
upon which their safety has been DEM
onstrated to depend, may not be i'm
paired.
Yet when all this is recognized it
Is not yet fully recognized by every one
there still remains the necessity for
finding policy which will promote
the growth Of confidence and friendship
between the English speaking states and
the Soviet Union.
(Copyfighk 1o4Sl
Evening star., 1945-09-26
How to Be Trumun
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.

FioW the 81 LOUIS foSI-DSpatcn.
BY verdict of Circuit Judge Ruddy,
Martin Weisenberg can take another
surname If he pleases, but in spite of
his admiration for the President, he
cannot become Martin S. Truman. The
occasion, however. should not be with.
out a consoling thought for him.
There is always, one would think, .
possibility that the passing years will
bring him an opportunity to confer
any name he pleases without let or
hindrance from the law Harry Truman
Weisenberg, for example. does not
sound at all bad. And If Weisenberg
adopts another surname, Harry Truman
Brown or Green should be a good
monicker to start any lad toward the
presidency in his own account.
After all, the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joneses and Woodrow Wilson Smiths
are already so numerous legion that
Mr.. Truman's admirers, handicapped
by late start, will have to get very
busy If they ever hope to catch up.
Evening star., 1945-09-26

to set up preventive safeguards, en-
phasizing particularly that schools,
civic groups and other agencies of
instruction preach caution through
out the country to young and old
alike and that licensing authorities
see to it that no one be turned loose
on the road until he really knows
how to drive. If Americans take
this program to- heart, 1t is at least
possible that 1946 will not be quite
SO bad as 1941. though it will
certainly be bad enough.