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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-03
Al Smith Memorial
Al Smith Memoria
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My friend. Judge Jonah Colds
TEN. told me that the Al Smith Me
mortal Fund is short on its est
mate. The fault must be with the
fund. Even /. who adored the
Happy Warrior. have not yet con-
tributed to It because | did not
know about II. had seen some
item somewhere hut II did not sug-
gest contributions. And really the
Committee is right. No one should
be asked TO contribute TO a me-
mortal for Al Smith Dollars ought
to pour in like a spring rain.
don't even know the address OF
the Committee collecting this fund,
but | shall send mine through the
Grand Street Boys Association
for Al belonged to Grand Street, TO
that old world OF equal opportunity,
Of hard work. OF individual initia-
tive, of honest and moral living. OF
thrift that marked our lives in the
tough days OF our boyhood.
| hope a memorial to Al Smith Is
not a memorial to a passing era
in American life. The other day.
| heard OF the death of Vincent
Bendix whose inventions make your
cars go. Vince was another boy
like Al-except that his father was
a Methodist preacher while AIS
was a truck driver. Vince started
his youth as a Socialist and used
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SideHghts on The News

The shipment was full of beetles,
scale, rash, and all the other dis
eases that can affect a tree. The
experts killed the beetles. squash
ed the grubs, and burned the trees.
Then, you can bet, there was he'll
to pay in the State Department.
The striped pants and spats boys
s. i'd this was an insult to Japan.
an international crisis. They pass
ed the buck all the way up to Sec
rotary of State Philander Knox.
who finally went 10 call on the Jap
ambassador, Count Yasuya Uchida.
After some hens and haws Knox
told the ambassador that he sure
was sorry. but those trees were
menace and had to be destroyed.
The ambassador did an Oriental
double-take and said he would noti-
fly his government. He did, too. be-
cause a couple Of years later came
another shipment of trees. These
were disease-free. The plant quar-
antine people made sure OF II.
So all right. Mrs. Taft planted
the nTSI one. he dI1DdSSduOI
wife planted the second. Latorers
installed the rest and the blossoms
have been making the capitals
springtime beautiful ever since.
Before the Japs forgot about
their everlasting esteem, hundreds
Of thousands OF Americans came
to Washington annually TO see the
pretty flowers. Cops counted 25.-
900 automobiles circling the basin
in one 12-hour period. The city's
filling stations reported 100000
extra gasoline business-them were
the happy days-during the week
the trees were in bloom.
Since the attack on Pearl Har-
Dor, Wsshington's japanese cherry
blossom festival has been soft
pedaled The trees are as colorful
as ever but somehow the citizens
don't get a thrill out Of EN-. There's
something wrong.
You're doggone right there Is.
Its been wrong since December z
1871.
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World Monetary Plan
Seen as Trade Boom

grand smash OF '2e.
How is this warfare to be re
strained?
Quid pro quo. Of course. In the
vicious fight for trade after the
war a large number Of nations will
have three strikes on them to start.
They are wrecked. some physically
and a great many more financial
ly, politically. economically. Those
which will emerge less affected by
the war scourge. like the United
States. will be equally affected II
they have nobody with money or
credit enough to buy their goods,
Therefore in exchange for an
agreement to abide by certain fair
practices as we might call them.
and contributions in cash or Its
equivalent. under the Breton Woods
agreement a nation would receive
membership in an international
bank which would guarantee pri-
vate loans-make some Director
the purpose Of reconstruction and
development so they can build fac
tories and do other things necessary
to create goods to sell and earn
money to buy. These loans would
be loans in which the risk Is too
great for a private institution to
take. and which II they were made
and bonds offered to the public the
public wouldn't touch. But guaran-
teed by the international bank over
a long term. private bankers would
lend the money and the public, with
the word Of A nations behind the
bonds, would hardly be skittish.
The monetary fund would be
created for the purpose Of stabiliz-
ing exchange. and facilitating the
growth Of international trade. The
members would agree TO tie their
exchange to the gold standard and
not change il unless the governors
and directors of the fund APP
prove. This would stop. among other
things, what amounts TO impos-
ing hidden tariffs on foreign goods
by changing the rates Of exchange
Of a country's currency in terms Of
other nations currency. In their
mad efforts to export goods at any
price and get credits abroad, the
Germans had all sorts Of different
kinds of marks that had one value
here and another there.
AS to the administration Of the
bank and fund. very careful
system has been worked out regu-
lating the amount Of financial
responsibility each country would
have. The figure would be based on
the trade of a nation over a certain
past period with some other modi-
fications. For instance, the United
States would assume roughly one
third Of the financial response
bility and have one-third Of the votes
on how the money or credit is tt
be handled.
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eminent and who look forward to
remaining dependent upon govern
ment from the cradle to the grave?
What are we 20 do for them when
they get out OF the ARMY
Well. as he spoke I could not
help thinking OF what Al Smith
would have done for such boys7 l
am sure he would have devoted
more money to teaching them how
TO be independent than TO making
them dependent. am sure that
he would teach them how to do
things: that he would have opened
schools to train them TO earn a
living; that he would have fought
down any restrictions on the right
OF a man to earn his own living by
his brains, his mind and his will.
There was no hooey about AL. His
was moral way of life-depend-
ence only upon the mercy of God;
independence from the charity and
benefits OF any man or any govern
mental agency. That used to be
America. II must be America
again.
Therefore. let us all contribute
to this memorial to Al Smith that
Judge Goldstein telephoned to me
about and that New York's Park
Commissioner Bob Moses heads.
II is a memorial to American ideals.
1t is a memorial to the equality OF
opportunity. to equality before the
law. to the absence OF class or
caste in American life.
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gress. Many other objections. some
highly technical, are set forth. The
main suggestion In the report Of
committee Of the American Bankers
association is that because OF IN
settled political conditions througH-
out the world. any action ought 70
be postponed until these conditions
stabilize. They say that the nations
should agree TO certain changes in
the program before it Is presented
to the congress.
Some Of the changes sugges:ed are
prompted by honest conviction,
some are due, according to treasury
officials, to a misinterpretation Of the
program. There is a group in the
United States which says that the
United States will come out Of the
little end of the horn under the ar
rangement and that the British sold
us a bill Of goods. There is group
in England which says that Brit
ain will come out Of the little end
OF the horn and that the United
States sold their representatives a
bill Of goods.
That is one thing which. quite
aside from the arguments pro and
con on the various disputed parts of
the program, demonstrates that II
must be pretty good.
Some weeks ago in this column I
tried TO explain why Germany
came back" after its defeats in
France.
May be permitted to explain
Why the Nazis couldn't come back
Tor the second time?
Once again we have to consider,
aot the military organization OF Ger
many alone. but the civilian Or
ganization as well. Nazi discipline,
because II was built on an entirely
anti-human foundation, finally col
lapsed. II was a discipline Of Cd de-
ceit, ca force. Both were bound to
Tail in the end because 1t failed
to take into consideration one thing
which the Nazis refuse to admit
exists-the human soul.
Naziism with threats, brute force.
and an organization which could
carry out the threats and exercise
the force, was effective up 70 GER
tain point. Then 1t failed.
Its strength was in bending the
wig" as l tried to point out in my
earlier analysis. Youth worshipped
he false god Of Naziism as long as
It's clay feet could be concealed.
Youth knew no other god. But the
moment the clay feet crumbled in
the defeat of its armies de. force
.ailed) youth deserted.
Even the older people. despite the
aunbing fear Of the espionage Of the
gauleiter, the fear Of the concen-
tration camp. fear Of the firing
SQUAD, began passive resistance.
The Volkssturm (the military unfit
drafted by Himmler) refused to
light, refused to assemble when or
dered, hid. Regulations were evaded.
Taxes went unpaid
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Relief for u. S.
Bonkers1 Risks

One Of the chief arguments as &c
the direct value Of the program foI
the United States is this: 1t Is esti'
mated that in the postwar pc
riod. the United States bankers will
have to do the bulk Of the world
lending. Estimated on the amount
we did after the last war, perhaps
as much as 80 per cent. Rather
than have the lenders risk the loss
as they did last time, il would be bet
ter to have the government and the
governments Of the rest OF the ma
tons bear two-thirds Of the risk.
This they would do under the inter-
national bank. It is pointed out by
treasury officials that not only will
most Of the money be borrowed
from private bankers in this coun.
try for the next FIVE or ten years
(since we have most Of the money to
loan) but most Of il will likewise be
spent here since we have most OF the
things foreign countries need.
There are two chief reasons why
such an international financial pro-
gram will be to the disadvantage Of
the private banker although by no
means all bankers oppose it. One
is. that the governments Of nations
will control the world fiscal policy
and not the leading private inter-
national bankers who had the con-
troll before. The second Is that In
the long run, as sponsors Of the plan
admit. it will lower interest rates.
Those two reasons are not stressed
by the vocal opponents Of the
measure before members Of con-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-03
By FREDERICK C.~OTHMAN

BY FREDERICK C.~OTHMAN
Washington-The cherry trees
which the japanese gave US as a
token OF their everlasting esteem
and affection are in full bloom. |
think maybe they are blushing.
These trees are beautiful phonies.
They make with the silvery flow
ers with red spots in the middle
which cause 'em to look pink from
a distance), but they PRODUCE no
cherries.
The Japs gave US 1900 trees, but
only 1929 ore left. A misguided
patriot went to work on one a
couple of years ago with an axe.
(As II that would do any good)
The trees around the Tidal Basin
and even Tugs like me are inclined
to get poetic in attempting to des-
cribe EN-. will skip it and re-
port that Jap cherry blossoms have
no odor The only smell | could
notice in their vicinity was flshy.
Some people claim that this
consignment OF trees brought along
a blight which spread through
cherry orchards that really do give
cherries. Federal experts insist
this is not true. What actually hap
pened makes one OF those weird
stories about East meeting West:
Mrs. William Howard Taft was
making a tour OF Japan In 1897. see,
and a Jap newspaper reporter ask
ed il she didn't think the land was
beautiful She said she certainly
did. particularly the cherry trees in
bloom.
There was a piece in the Jap
papers about this and speeches in
the Diet (meaning the Jap con-
gress) and pretty soon the govern
ment OF Japan sent over con-
signment OF young cherry trees.
The Jap ambassador said these
trees were a token Of he coun-
try's everlasting love for our coun-
try. He said lot more and then.
good gosh, The plant quarantine
guys unpacked the box and immedi.
ately started swatting
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TO follow Eugene V. Debs around
He called himself Debs' waterboy,
because he always saw TO II that
the old radical had a pitcher OF
water on the rostrum 10 lubricate
his forensic throat. In time. Vince
became a six-day bicycle racer and
out Of that developed an inventive
genius which produced for America
valuable group of industries. In
1889. Vincent Bendix went broke
because he moved into the real es-
tate business instead OF sticking to
industry and invention which he
understood. But making money or
going broke was small matter for
his creative mind. He was busy.
when he died. on a helicopter which
he felt would reyolutionize Amer
lean transportation. He died work
ing. for which, am sure, he thank
ed God.
Such men are never dependents.
They never ask favors. They never
need moral crutches. They stand
on their own feet producing out OF
the greatness OF their characters
and their will TO produce. Such
men shovel snow before they take
from WPA. They are good citi-
zens.
The other day, a veteran from
the last war dropped in to see me
10 talk about the future. OF course.
he has a SON in this war And OF
course, he has trained his son to
stand on his own feet. But OF
course. he has trained his son to
stand on his own feet. But, he
said, what about all the boys who
have lived through the depression
years and who cannot stand on
their own feet-the boys who have
learned to be dependent upon gov
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-03
Aim to Stop
Economic Warfare

The reason for that statement,
boiled down to its essence is this:
you can't stop international warfare
unless you stop economic war
fare.
Economic warfare in this sense
means International trade practices
not in the common good-spe-
officially some Of the practices in
dulged in by nations competing for
foreign trade before and after the
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PASTOR DIES

Detroit-The Rev. Father Ter
renee T. Kelly, pastor OF All Saints
Church here, died Monday al the
age Of 60. Born in Albion and
raised in Lansing. Father Kelly be-
came pastor OF St Edward Church
at Mendon. Mich. after his conse-
Grafton as priest in 1912. He was
pastor of Holy Maternity Church at
Dowagiac from 1921 to 1929.
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SET RECORD

Detroit-The regional War Labor
Board handled POI cases, a record
number. during the first quarter Of
1945, Chairman Louis c. Miriam
said today. The board also ruled
on 2134 cases OF voluntary wage
adjustments during the period. And
imposed penalties amounting TO
S1,036.6S0 for violations Of the wage
sterilization act up to March 10.
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scALDEo BY WATER

Detroit -Twoyear.old Sally De-
lemate. scalded Monday when she
fell into tub OF boiling water
while playing in the kitchen OF her
home. died early today at Receiving
Hospital.
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Your Health
Disease of Liver
One of Main w ar
Ailments

AllIubulS
By II. \. BCNDEsEN. NJ. D.
ONE Of the most important dis
eases Of the present war IS a condi-
ton known as infectious hepatitis,
or Inflammation Of the liver. Not
only has it affected thousands OF
soldiers but also large groups OF
the civilian population.
Just exactly what causes this
disease rs not known, but it is
thought by many TO be due TO a
virus, that is, an organism so
small it can pass through the
openings in a porcelain filter.
The symptoms Of infectious hep
Atitis consist Of fever, loss Of appe-
tite, prostration and usually the
development Of jaundice or a
greenish-yellow discoloration Of
the skin and tissues. Widespread
epidemics Of the disease have been
reported.
Thus, Doctor Joseph Stokes, Jr.,
OF Philadelphia and his co-worker,
Captain John X. Neefe Of the Med
ical Corps Of the United States
Army, studied an epidemic which
occurred in summer camp for
boys and girls.
Because of the fact that measles,
which is also due to virus, can be
prevented by the injection Of con-
valescent serum, which is blood
serum taken from a person who
has recently recovered from the
disease, as well as by newer prod
uct called gamma globulin, pro-
TEN derived from blood plasma,
these physicians attempted to pre-
vent the development Of hepattis
by giving injections Of gamma glo-
bulin TO exposed persons in the
camp.
Three hundred and thirty lone Of
the group had not developed the
condition when the study started.
Fifty-three of them were given the
gamma globulin by injection under
fhe skin. The remainder were used
as controls. Thirteen per cent Of
those who were given the injec-
tons developed hepatitis while 60
per cent of those not receiving the
injections developed the disease.
OF the SO persons who got the
gamma globulin, not one developed
jaundice Of the skin. Three devel-
oped some discoloration of the lin
ing membrane over the eyeball, but
this lasted only four TO seven days,
as compared with jaundice which
lasted for IA days in those who
were not protected. The hepatitis
developed in those receiving the
injections within 10 days after the
treatment was given. No further
cases occurred after that time.
However, in those who did not re-
ceive the protective incubation
cases continued to appear for some
80 days.
From this study, it would ap-
pear fairly certain that the injec-
tons Of gamma globulin served to
aid in the prevention Of hepatitis
or liver Inflammation, much as the
injections do in preventing mea-
sizes. Furthermore, it is suggested
that even after hepatitis develops
the injections of globulin may
serve to make the disease milder
and shorten its course.
Should epidemics Of infectious
hepatitis develop, it would appear
that injection with the gamma glo-
bulin of those exposed would be a
good procedure. This substance is
available, since much Of it has been
prepared from blood which has
been donated by persons through
out the country.
Tomorrow, DR.. Bundesen Will
discuss Foot Disorders in Chill
dren."
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DIES OF BURNS

Detroit-Mrs. Ruth Harper, AZ.
died late Monday Of burns suffered
last Thursday when, according to
police, her clothing became ignit-
ed as she was lighting a cigarette.
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Today's Horoscope

You are careful and deliberate
in thought and action, but must
develop tenaeity Of purpose and
the courage to rise above occa-
sional failures. You find II difficult
to adapt yourself to changing
conditions You should marry
early. Keep your desires within
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Fifty Years Ago

The Belevle Enterprise and Detroit papers ara
talking about mammoth dam that Is at Beeyf 70
station from which copper will
the power surrounding cities on paper as yet
Thomas paid 81 during past year 10 tie
farmers OF this vicinity Michigan Central
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Halt Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

j. stuart Lathers will read famous Barrie NAV A rive
Pound Look" at the meeting League of Women Voters
Mrs Fanny Eugena Glover Ryan Democratic candidate ,r
member Of the state Board of Education il known TO many Of ~
city She graduated from the College and ber cou
sin and classmate Lola Chapman first Mrs Ben d
Thompson.
Mrs C. Carpenter celebrated her birthday her home
Pearl St
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The petroleum used In automo-
biles contains the energy that was
stored up by plants and animals
thousands OF centuries ago.
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THEY say

Guam-Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, announcing invasion Of
strategic Okinawa, 800 miles south
OF Japanese home islands: Our
sea and air blockade cuts the
enemy off from the world and as
our bombing increases in strength
and efficiency, our hnal victory is
assured"
Warrington Donald Montgom.
cry, member of CIO cost-of-liVing
committee. We believe that food
supplies are now short because the
War Food Administration planned
it that way"
New York-Msgr. Fulton j..
Sheen: The Russian is nobodys
son, nobodys father but everybo-
dys brother.
New York-Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler. president OF the Carnegie
Endowment for international
Peace: Public opinion will sup
port the American government in
tn accomplishment OF its effort TO
offer guidance and commanding
influence to the establishment OF a
world organization for protection
OF international peace and preser.
vation OF resultant prosperity"
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hEXI 10 NE BIBLE AND SOME
or sAAkEsPEAREs PLAYS NE
BOOK IS TAE WORLDS MoSf
ENDURING CLASSIC
Words Of Wisdom

Habit, to which all Of US are
more or less slaves .--Fontaine.
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WATERMELONS have been
shipped to those heroic Marines
on Two Jima. When it comes to
the fruits Of victory. we can't
think of a better one.
A new-style jacket. we read,
buttons up both front or back.
We know there is a upper
shortage-so don't rub ii in!
Postwar mail may be delivered
by rocket. That's q pretty fonsY
way fer q penny postcard 10
ride.
=! ~
In Chungking. China, bar Of
soap now costs $4,000. Boy. Just
imagine taking a bath so lux
urious that its cost comes to
about, say, one buck per bubble!
! =!
By now even the worst lingo
lin Tokyo must have come TO the
EresIizstion that that Pearl Hsr-
Dor Trick was a dumb idea.
-!
julius Caesar was the first
} general 10 cross the Rhine. He,
TOO, found the country beyond
filed with soVaass.
II the palace of the Mikado
I in Tokyo isn't bombed it won't
be long before it runs COM
pletely out Of neighbors,
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Hints on EtIouette

Hints on Etiquette
DO not slam doors behind you
1t is very annoying and often
shocking 10 those present. and so
y bad nAnpfrG
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reason on this. your birthday. be-
cause the planet Mars lie in
belligerent mood. and this Is no
time to be difficult. Leave your
pioneering aspirations In the
background for the time being.
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.HAT TER and
~ q Fact or two

Kings chapel, Boston, was the
first Episcopal church in that
city. Under the rectorship of Rev.
James Freeman II became the
first Unitarian church in Amer
lea.
almost 10000 ships were add
ed to the United States Navy
during 1914. It Is estimated that
80 per cent of them were built
in privately operated shipyards,
Silver Falls, in the Ozark
mountains, is one of the beauty
spots Of the state OF Arkansas.
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One Minute Test

l. Are totem poles idols
2 In what other city than
Rome was the headquarters Of the
Roman Catholic church?
g. Who wrote a book a number
of years ago titled, Why Not
Try Cod"
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One Minute Test Answers
1. No. the carved symbols de.
pict Indian family or clan histo
ries or legends.
2. Avignon. France.
3. Mary Piekford-
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Tomorrow, DR.. Bundesen Will
discuss Foot Disorders in Chill
dren."