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The sub., 1945-05-05

the young plants are set out. Com mercial bait can be used or home mixed bait can be prepared by mix ing one pound of wheat bran and one ounce of Paris green This should( be mixed dry and later moiStened until damp. Scatter in the evening. One pound is enough for 2,0OO square feet. Precautions should be taken in using Paris green because this is a poison.
 Another method of controlling the cutworm is the use of paper collars wrapped around the stems of new ly-set plants. Any kind of durable paper may be used.
The sub., 1945-05-05
Truman Predicted Full Employment
Urged United America i'm Talk
 On AFL Program

Washington. D. C.-Harry s. Tru- man gave a significant indication of his hopes for postwar America on a radio program sponsored by the American Federation of Labor on Jan. 28. during which he fore cast full employment in a reason ably short time after hostilities end.
 Appearing on this program only week after his inauguration as Vice President, MT. Truman said:
 T am especially delighted to be on a radio program entitled Amer ica United Those two words hold the key to our future peace and prosperity. The only real danger to our national security, is peace as well as in war, lies in the possi- bility of disunity. AS long as we Americans stay united. and keep our cherished democratic ideals, we
The sub., 1945-05-05
GARDEN HINTS

In the southern part the state vegetables of the hardy types will have been planted several weeks ago. But north Connecticut where the soil heavier and takes longer
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Our Government
Comes Back

American government begins at home,
and today it is in the process of being in
verted. Or, perhaps, we should say re-
verified, for that is exactly what is happen
ing. A top-heavy pyramid of representa-
ton is being turned around and restored to
its original American concept
At least this is one of the encouraging
trends noted at Washington these DAYS
where government no longer seems to be
the single voice of emergency prerogative.
Instead there IS a sense of broadening out
again and recognition of other prerogativeS
which are the voice and conscience of the
people
For instance, we hear again these days
something like neighborly come in"
around the White House
President Truman expressed something
of this feeling when he invited labor and
management to roll up their sleeves and
sit down and talk things out On the other
hand he expressed something even more
important when he enjoined both parties
to do some thinking and acting for them
selves.
This was the reverting of the pyramid
or the process of restoring prerogative to
1t was putting the broad side where it be-
longs at the base and foundation of the
people, while at the top is the single, rep
resentative individual for administrative
guidance.
Moreover, this was as it should be, for
war with its need for breadth of action at
the top Of the pyramid instead of the bot
tom has gone; and, in its place, we have
challenge to take hold again and practice
our prerogative as Z representative people
We have more than that We have ar urgent
need to take back our own responsibility
before infectious currents of totalitarian-
ism in the world turn the pyramid perma-
nently upSide-down.
For the process of reverting government
isn't just something that happens. 1t entails
an Individual and a popular responsibility
1t means bringing government back home
and placing it on the broad foundation of
'of the people by the people . and
for the people" 1t means taking your place
in the voice and conscience of the people
and doing some thinking and acting for
yourself. 1t means being American instead
of robot echo and response to the voice
OF bidding at the top.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Danger In China

The position of American armed forces
IN China IS becoming very difficult. We
do not believe for moment the Communist
charges that it is American policy to par
ticipate in Chinese civil war, and that our
troops are now doing SO. That. however,
does not remove the danger of involvement
Our forces are caught in situation not of
their making and beyond their control
Our troops are in China for good reason.
They went there in the first place to aid our
allies in war and to prepare mainland bases
against the Japs. They have remained since
VI Day to hasten the diSarming of huge
and scattered enemy army. Delays were
multiplied by the Communist Chinese troops
of the North, trying to take Jap arms and
cutting railroads to prevent the regular
Chinese Army from taking over enemy
occupied areas.
The situation has now developed to the
point where, unless we are exceedingly
cautious, we will be unwittingly participant
ing in civil war rather than in completing
Jap disarmament. That would be very bad
for the United States and for China
The solution of course is genuine agree
ment between the Nationalist government
and the Red faction to settle their dispute
without civil war, an agreement more bind
ing than the recent one. But both Washing
ton and Moscow, which recognize the Chi
ang government and are bound to it by
treaties of friendship, have responsibilities
Chang and the Reds probably will avoid
war If Chang knows he will not get help
from the United States and the Reds know
Stain will not aid them.
An immediate joint American-Russian
statement of hands-off policy, publicly pro-
claimed and strictly observed, might prevent
Chinese civil war Even failing that, it at
least could localize the danger and avoid the
disaster of American and Russian involve
ment on opposite sides.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Our Opportunity
To Serve

Somebody observed this week that the
best way to serve ourselves during these
distracting times is to serve our own i'm
mediate people. By this he didn't mean any
thing like charity begins at home; he
simply meant to look around you and find
interests and associations worth developing
at home.
Expanding his theme, he talked specific
ally of civic interest and the chance to serve
in purely local sense. He said this meant
identity instead of distraction and pure loss.
For some people, of course, this is bring
ing things entirely too close to home. It's
hard to be merely local in a purely local
sense; yet, in an even more homely sense
that's exactly what we areas human be-
ingS Eventually we must live somewhere,
and when we do, it's time to go to work
Civic sense comes next; and at the moment
it's valuable acquisition. 1t gives you an
added sense of purpose and direction IN
world which doesn't always know. 1t also
means growth and a sense OF permanent
association; and when you eventually get
this feeling that's when you take off your
coat and really go to work.
But all of this, of course, leads up to
something; and in this case, it's the OPP
portunity for newspapers = here at home,
anywhere For, in the long run, news
paper is like human being too, and be-
longs somewhere. Even newspapers take
Streaks of running off to greener pastures,
but in the end they know they can't sur
vive unless they do their work where they
belong.
This sense of belonging is civic-minded-
ness and represents our opportunity to
serve We are at home; we recognize our
home; and in the end by recognizing it
sufficiently we get some recognition, too
We eSpouse new causes; we support the
old; but in the end, too, we have the salts
faction of knowing that whatever we did
to help was helping also in the act of help
ing us.
Of course all of this sounds humble and
newspapermen sometimes despiSe the role
of home town editor. But there were great
ones, too, who didn't. They were the ones
who saw that roots grow out from some
where to make the final tree. They were
the ones, too, who saw the weakness in
society when the roots were loose. They
were the roots themselves that helped to
make America.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Art Of Playing
Must Be Learned

Many tired, middle aged business men
are grouchy in their homes and also their
offices because they have never learned to
play. In early youth, they decided to amount
to something" and went at business with
dead seriousness as though the making OF
huge sums of money were the only mission
in life. They considered it crusade and
not a game, a means to an end and not
the end itself. They didn't learn that rest
periods were necessary.
They forgot to laugh, to relax and play
with the result that now they are not even
pleasant companions for themselves. They
sense the futility of their existence and find
themselves facing the end of life with years
devoted to futile purposes. They long for
social contacts no longer available They
are the loneliest of lonely men. They never
learned to play and get along with their
fellow men.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
r WASHlMGTON ~
S'lklAlRsA oTS -
BOTH VALLEY MEN

Sen Butler created a stir in 1913
with his charges that the New Deal
had boondoggled Sc billion in La
tin America to win over unrecep-
tive good neighbors. He later con-
Quoted tax survey of business to
expand employment.
Sen. Butler was born in Missouri
Valley, Iowa. 81 years ago. Grains
from NebraSka'S fertile plains be-
came his business, and he was a
successful miller before entering
the Senate in 1941. He knows the
value of dollar, and Sen. Byrd S
long fight against Government
waste made sense to him.
Sen. Byrd is a valley man him
self-educateG in the apple coun-
tly'S Shenandoah Valley Academy
Started work at Is on The Win
chester tVa.) Star and wound up
publishing it-alSo The Harrison
burg (Va) NewS-Record. Publish
ing a couple of small newspapers
is good way of learning that
money wasn't made TO be wasted
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
land and People

Thanksgiving is simple, folk-like thing
1t is sense of prayer, of bounty, and of
good associations vith the lands and rom
ance of people; and, in this vein, too, it
answers itself, tells its own story in the
harvest symbols of the season
=. So, with Thanksgiving at our door
again, we find no need for words beyond
the simple statement that,-well, yes, it IS
Thanksgiving That and all the word i'm
plies.
: Actually there are things to think about
things to be said and done. We all know
that, Just as we know that the world is still
FAR removed from universal sense of Civ
ing thanks. But we also know that most of
these things will hold for day set aside
for the kind of things we wish more peo-
pie had chance to think about.
! -. So, we're going to let it go at that
Were going to spend the day just thinking
about some of the other things we don't
particularly have to think about-the land,
the bounty, and the goodness of associa-
:tions. And if we can feel like this . like
I'VE did before the war -. it will be some
thing to be truly thankful for 1t will be-
yes, an old American holiday.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Il ew Of The
lib OOk w OrId

enormous sales in Russia Richard
E Lauterbach, Foreign News Edi-
tor of Life. says of it: IF better
novel about this war has been
written, I have not read it." And
Joseph Barnes. foreign editor of the
New York Herald Tribune, who did
the very fine translation, wrote to
the publishers: Il think you have
picked the most interesting Russian
novel in a great many years"
KonStantine Simonov is now only
thirty years old. He has written
poetry, novels, scenarios, and twice
won the Stain Prize. AS a soldier,
he fought on nearly every sector of
the long Russian front His war
dispatches in the Army newspaper,
Red Star, were read by Russian
soldiers with something of the same
pride that our GIs had in reading
Ernie Pyle. He is married to Valen-
tina Serova, one Ct his country's
most elamorous young actresses.
His courtShip brought him certain
unexpected notoriety. He wooed his
wife In a series of beautiful love
lyrics, and when they were col
lected :or book publication, Stain
is reputed to have said that the
edition should have been printed
in only two copies-one for him and
one for her.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
"a OTES From tn.
| Office Of Veterans Affairs

1t is recommended that veteran
requiring atabrine or Quinine for
malaria should Immediately file
Veterans Administration Form 526
Veterans Application for Pension
Or Compensation for disability Re-
sulting From Service in the Active
Military or Naval Forces of the
United States.)
Atabrine and Quinine may also
be secured from contact represen-
tativeS of the Veterans AdminiStra-
ton in the communities where such
representatives are located.
The Office of Veterans Affairs
has also made atabrine available IN
emergencies at all of the County
Health Departments of the State.
Local Veterans CounSelorS will as
sist veterans in securing this alta
brine.
There is no charge to the veteran
for either atabrine or quinine Sc
cured from any of the sources out
lined above.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

The days of August 1912 were
very dark for the Russian people.
The battle of Stalingrad was rag
ing, and the Germans seemed sure
OF winning. Over 1000 Nazi bomb
erS were counted over the city in
one day; there were always fires
burning. The city. spread out over
a length of Sixty-five kilometers.
was nowhere more than five kilom-
eters wide, and along almost its
entire length the Germans had al
ready occupied the city's western
district.
In the midst of this holocaust,
civilians continued to live in cellars,
Red Army units set up headquarters
in Quilted apartment houses, Red
Army nurses escorted the seriously
wounded across the Volga in barges.
The story of the epochal battle
of Stalingrad is the subject of the
novel, Days and Nights" by Kon-
stantine Simonov, the current
Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
IT particular it tells of Captain
Saburov, war-toughened veteran
who vas twenty-nine though he
looked forty. and of his fellow Off
GERS sent in to lead Red Army UNITS
in forays and house-to-house fight
ing.
Days and Nights" has had
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

which apparently exists among his
members.
These men, professionally trained,
are intelligent people.
Il had meeting the other day
with a committee to work out plans
for a coming convention prtgram."
he began. Leaders discussed what
they would like to have. The general
attitude. as voiced in the meeting,
was that our people want to forget
the war. They are fed up with
brass-hat military personalities.
They don't want to listen to war
heroes either, particularly the fiji
lows who are commercializing on
their patriotic service. They don't
want to hear about the problems in
Europe. in Japan. or elsewhere.
They want fashioned entertain
ment, lots of laughs. They want old
fashioned talks about their own
business. Why? Wake up, mister
the war is overt"
A Michigan congressman recently
confidcd to friend that pressure
from the folks back home, who
want their sons brought back at
once frtm Europe or the Pacific,
is simply tremendous.
You have no idea" he said, "of
the heavy volume of mail 1 have
Continued on Page ID
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Michigan Mirror
by gene allenlan

Michigan's first Thanksgiving
Day since the war-Thursday, Nov.
%.
If social doctor" were to ex-
anime our thinking and then an
nouncing his finding, the verdict
might be interesting and perhaps a
bit puzzling.
Such is our guess, based upon a
few observations.
Here's one. The Michigan home
front is mentally and physically
weary. tired and fatigued. After
years Of high-pitched nervous
strain 70 win the war, plus months
and months of continued suspense
and worry, We suddenly wake up
one morning to find ourselves right
in the middle of peace, and unex-
pectedly so.
Peace! Here is the very thing We
sought for days, weeks, months and
years. Peace at last
What happens? Immediately we
want TO forget about the war and
all its consequences in our daily
living. It's a natural and inevitable
reaction, this yearning for normally.
But the emotional letdown is ter
rifle.
A friend of ours is secretary of a
state association with offices in
Lansing, reports he is genuinely
concerned over the state of mind
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
ATABRlNE AND QUININE
AVAILABLE TO VETERANS

The Veterans Administration is
prepared to furnish an adequate
supply O.: quinine and atabrine to
veterans suffering from, or exposed
to, malaria fever.
II, during his service in the
Armed Forces. a Michigan veteran
has contracted, or has been exposed
to malaria fever, he should not wait
for an attack or recurrence, but
should make immediate application
for atabrine or outline to the Vet
Grams Administration, Dearborn.
Michigan.
In writing to the Veterans Ad-
ministration veteran may request
the assistance of the counselor in
the local counseling center. The
veteran should give his name; rank;
serial number; claim number (it
any: date of induction; date of
discharge: theater of operations i'll
which he was exposed to malaria
fever.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
BY James Preston
GRAIN TO APPLES

Onetime grain miller, white
haired Senator Hugh Alfred Butler
OF Nebraska, Republican National
Committeeman, has cut across par
ty lines to team up with apple
growing Senator Harry Byrd of
Virginia, Democratic National Com
mitteeman, 10 save the taxpayers
money.
The Byrd Butler bill proposes to
dc this through giving Congress
authority to find out what has been
and is happening to the hundreds
OF millions of dollars tossed around
by the hundreds of Government
corporations, such as the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, U. S.
Housing Authority and the Tennes-
see Valley Authority.
The picture of sound and
healthy statesman. Nebraskas Hugh
Butler is rising to national stature
III his cooperation with Virginia s
Byrd to cut down reckless expendi-
lures Of the taxpaying public's
hard-earned coin.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
FREE FOR EVERYONE

A publication recently invoked the copy
right law to protect courtesy" campaign
it was staging.
We don't have any brief with the law
it's good law; but courtesy, also, is a good
virtue. If we were all more free in using
it instead of trying to save it we might 60
a long way towards making this happier
reconVerSion.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

The processes of reconversion
have been seriously set back by a
combination of OPA policies and
labor disturbances. P. H. Ny
strom, Prof. of Marketing, Columbia
Univ.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Ration News
Sugar

Sugar
Stamp No. 80, Book Four. valid
through December 81 for five
pounds.
Red Stamps
Red Stamps Fl-KI good through
November 80: L1-Pl, good through
December 81; R1-V1, good through
January 81: W1-N8 tgreen) good
through February %
Liquor
Stamp No 6, Book four, valid
through November 80 for one quart
of whisky.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
On Abuse

an ABUSE
Remember that it is not he who gives
abuse or blows who affronts, but the view
I'VE take of these things as insulting When,
therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured
sthat it is your own opinion which provokes
you."-Epictetus
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Quotes of the Week

I'm the atomic bum, and very
restless - Jerome Stern, 20, of
Chicago, starting walking tour TO
San Diego and Phoenix.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

The GlenWood village council
held its last regular session prior
to the villages annexation by the
city of Wyandotte on December l.
Population of the village at that
time was $500.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

I'D have beaten him to a pulp
If I'd caught him" Congress
woman Jessie Sumner, Ill, who
chased attacker in Wash. D. c.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
40 YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

A total of $5,5728O in primary
school money was distributed by
the state superintendent of public
instruction for Wyandotte'S 1904
school children.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

Ed NeiliS was awarded a $500
loving cup for winning the single
paddle championship at the Amer
lean Canoe association regatta the
previous summer.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

The 5OO-foot steel freighter, w
K. Birby, was launched in the
presence of a large crowd Mrs
Hugh Mcmillan, Detroit, sponsored
the ship.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Ablest Navigator

The winds and waves are always on
the side of the ablest navigators." = Glib
son, Decline and Fall
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

Labor has a stern responsible
ity to see that demands for wage
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

Then maybe Congressman would
stay in their seats and maintain
decOrum." = Rep. NJ. T. Bennett.
Missouri, urging soft chairs in the
House.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

Smoking is generally accepted
today. - School Supt. r. A. Tai
bot. Oak Tree, n. J., permitting
teachers to use tobacco.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

increases are reasonable" - Presi-
dent Truman.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19

This latest reduction in gas means
a saving for every householder.
Typical savings are shown in the
examples of average bills at right.
This reduction is possible
because, through the combined
efforts of the City of Detroit, the
County of Wayne, the Michigan
Public Service Commission and
ourselves, we have been able to
obtain from the Federal Power
Commission an order reducing
the pipeline rates on the gas
which we purchase. And this en-
tire saving of S3,961,OOO is being
We plan to continue expanding
finer service at the lowest posi-
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-11-19
Every Gas User viii Get HIS Share
of the $3,901,OOO AnnuaI Sauine!

Michigan Consolidated Gas Company will reduce gas bills
$39o1 900 annually the Detroit District starting November
18th
years. Gas you have been steadily decreasing
The chart below gives quick picture of the definite upward
swing in house furnishings typical Of the increased Of many
other commodities except Gas.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-22

before they again went celebrity hunting ;.
No sooner were they In their house than Mrs
Willoughby, their next-door neighbor, bounded in.
Mrs. willoughby. fftyish and garrulous. was very
excited.
What shame you two were away she said
What a shame"
Harry and Mary regarded her wearily. "Why?"
asked Mary.
Mrs. Wnloughby clasped her hands
Haven't you heard?" she cried. There were
two men here from picture magazine They were
writing big story. with pictures. about typical
young couple in a typical small town. Don't know
how It happened-but you two were the ones that
had been picked"
Harry gulped. He leaned forward in his chair.
Co Co on" he said.
Mrs. WiIloughby shrugged. isn't much more
to TELL" she continued They waited two days
and you didn't come back. So they did their pic
lures and story about the Grahams down the
block.
"Its a shame, that's what II Is. You'd have
been famous. II was the chance Of lifetime for
you two TO have become celebrities"