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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-04-21

A. The matter Of pension
comes under the Jurisdiction of
the Veterans Administration. 1t
is suggested that you contact
the headquarters Of that agency
at Providence, r. I.
@. If a soldier is under age
and cannot marry without coll
sent Of his parents, if he ac-
knowledges paternity is his
child entitled to receive Family
Allowance?
A. Yes, the child Of the SOL
dier is eligible for Family Allow
ance If the soldier is willing to
submit a certified statement Of
paternity.
Q. My husband has been in
the Army four years but has not
been in combat. Last month he
was examined and placed in the
Infantry. I understand that if
he was 80 years old he would not
be placed in the Infantry: is
that true? He will be 80 in July
of this year.
A. 1t is impossible to say that
at 80 he could not be transferred
to the Infantry, because so much
depends upon the need for men
and the physical condition Of
the man himself.
@. II a grandmother, who is
a dependent of a soldier serving
overseas, dies, who pays her fu-
neral expenses if she is impe-
cunious?
A. According to Vermont
Laws, 1912, No. 49, there is a
State burial allowance for indi-
gent Veterans of World War II
and their widows. The writer
may wish to contact Leslie VIII
son, Executive Secretary, Gov
errors Committee on Veterans
Affairs, Montpelier, Vermont, to
determine whether any provi-
sion is available for other de-
pendents.
@. The 13ldier I married had
Government insurance payable
to his mother and she received
an insurance certificate. Now
he has changed it over to me
but have nothing to show for
it. He spoke to his personnel OF
f1cer and was told that another
certificate would not be issued
but that the change was in tie
War Dept. records Is this so?
Os should his mother give me
the certificate?
A. The soldier advised you
correctly. Another certificate
will not be issued but your
name will be listed in War Dept.
records as the beneficiary if the
soldier filed request for that
change. 1t is not necessary to
have a certificate in order to re-
ceive payment of the insuranc :.
@. My brother has been re-
ported missing in action. He did
not have an allotment payable
to my mother as she is not de-
pendent upon him. What hap
pens to his pay now?
A. 1t accrues to his credit. At
such time as he is returned to
military control 1t will be paid to
him. If he is declared dead, the
accumulated pay viii be paid to
the next of kin.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-04-21
The Foe Within

In our battle for justice we
must realize that there are
thousands of traitors within
our ranks-men and women
who, having mortgaged their
own craven souls to our en-
emieS, are willing and anx-
ious to sell out our group for
a mess Of pottage. In myriads
Of instances they have al
ready done so. Many Of these
beings are like moles which
burrow beneath the surface,
and they have by their perm
icious activities placed the
entire structure Of our rights
in peril. The vilest, cruelest,
most brutal, craftiest, most
cold-blooded outspoken en-
envy is far less dangerous
than the vile, crafty, Sinking,
snake-like burrowing foe
withinl
-LLEWELLYN LEWIS
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-04-21
"The Army Has
The Answers

The Answer"
@. My husband is serving in
the U. S. Army, overseas. 1 ex-
pect a baby in August. Who will
have to apply for the allowance
for the baby, my husband or L?
A. You may file application
on behalf of the child after it
is born. The Command, 800
Commonwealth avenue, Boston,
Mass. The application, with a
certified copy of the child's birth
record, should be mailed direct
to Office Of Dependency Benefits,
213 Washington street, Newark
2, N. j.
@. 1 am a discharged soldier
of this war. Can I get commits
sary card to trade at a camp
commissary?
A. Commissary privilege is
provided for discharged veter-
ans only when they are receiv-
ing medical treatment and are
actually living and sleeping in
a Veterans Administration Fa-
cility or hospital in an in
patient status.
@. l came into the Army as
limited service but was reclassi-
fed as general service and eSat
overseas. Recently I came back
On rotation furlough as infan-
try unassigned. I understand
the minimum eye requirements
for infantry are 1920, while my
eyes are approximately 2O-4O0
correctible to 1920. Could you
give me any information on this
point?
A. WD Circular 447 provides
that individuals whose vision IS
10000 or better and correctible
to 2O-4O in one eye and 1920 in
the other, and are already
trained as riflemen (Infantry) a.,
will not be reasgigned merely
| because of defective vision.
@. I was released from the
Army in May 1942 into the En-
listed Reserve Corps. I have now
received an honorable discharge
from the Army. Am I entitled to
mastering out pay?
A. Men released to the Enlist
ed Reserve Corps upon their re-
quest, to accept employment, do
not receive mastering cut pay
unless they have served overseas.
@. I have two sons in the
Army and now my third son is
about to go. I have never re-
ceiVed Family Allowance from
the other two as the boy at
home supported me. VIII I be
entitled to receive it now from
this third boy, or must one Of
the other two apply for it as
they have been in service long
er?
A. The boys now entering
service may file application for
Family Allowance on your be-
half. If he is your chief support
he would file his application on
that basis, and if the $50 re-
ceived was not sufficient for
your living expenses one of the
other two boys could file, claim
ing substantial support. The
fact that they die not file before
would not make you ineligible
now.
@. I was an Air Cadet from
May through August 1913. Was
my wife entitled~to receive Fam
lily Allowance for that period?
If so, as no application was ever
filed, can it be fled now?
A. The dependents of an Air
Cadet were not eligible for Fam
lily Allowance until the amend
ment of the Servicemen's De-
pendents Allowance Act which
was effective November 1, 1913.
Your wife was not entitled to
payment from May through
August 1913.
@. I was discharged from the
Army in March 1945. My wife
| had a baby in Februarv 1945.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-04-21

OF the birth record until now.
Can we file for Family Allow
ance for the child nowP
A. No, as an application was
not fled on behalf of the child
before you were discharged it
cannot be filed now.
Q. My son has recently mar
ried. He is in the service and
has Government insurance pay
able to me. He wants to change
it over to his wife, but don't
feel that he should do this. Can
he do this. Can he do it without
my consent?
A. Yes, he can designate his
wife as beneficiary for the per-
son previously designated as
beneficiary in order to make this
change.
9. My son went into the
Army about four months ago.
After he was in a week I re-
ceived a Family Allowance check
for $50, but since then my
checks have been for $37. Why is
this?
A. The soldier requested in
itial payment Of Family Allow
ance for you, claiming that You
were dependent upon him for
chief support. The amount pay
able is $50 and no evidence Of
dependency is required to sup
port the claim at the time INF
tial payment is made. However,
it is then required that you file
certificate of dependency
showing your monthly income
and living expenses. If this does
not establish the fact Of chief
support the $50 cannot be paiu
to you. The evidence submitted
apparently showed dependency
for substantial support only and
the amount payable is S37.
Q. My husband is overseas
and I receive a Glass E allotment
from him, although it soes to q
bank to be deposited in my
name. I am going out of the
state for the summer and wish
to have the check mailed direct
to me. Where do I write to have
the change Of address made.
A. Your husband would have
to request this change. Your al
lotment is made payable to the
bank, to be deposited to your
credit; if you wish to have it
sent directly to you this requires
a change in payee and the ser
viceman is the only erson who
can make this char e. 1t would
be necessary for him to cancel
the allotment payable to the
bank and set up a new one
naming you as payee.
@. I have been discharged
from the service. While in the
Army my commercial insurance
was paid by the Veterans Adj
ministration. How long do I
have to pay back the premiums
they covered for me?
A. You have two years from
date Of discharge in which to
bring your payments up to date.
@. My son purchases war
bonds each month. He is over
seas and says that the Govern
ment is holding the bonds for
him. Could he do this?
A. Yes. The soldier receives
a receipt for each bond he pur-
chases and when he submits
these to the Treasury Dept. they
will release the bonds to him.
@. My husband has been in
the Army for four years. Does
he get an increase in pay each
| year?
A. The soldier receives 5 per
cent increase on his base pay
for each three years Of service.
@. I've been honorably dis
charged from the Army and re-
ceived my mastering out pay.
Can I apply for a pension.
|
. III
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

WISELY, many Detroit boys and
w girls who have been doing mems
and women's work during the war
emergency have elected to return to
school.
1t is hard but wise decision for
them. Called from their classes by
their eountry's need, they have
proved that they can hold their own
in an adult world. Because they
achieved this status, it may seem to
them a step backward to return to
the school room.
Fortunately, most youngsters
realize that in our increasingly COM
plicated civilization, education is be-
coming more important than ever.
The Tightening standards which
must inevitably accompany the re
turn to peacetime competition will
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

prove rude awakening to many of
the young people whose only work
ing experience has been during the
war BOOM
Those Dho get ahead WiU be
those with the best preparation. A
youth who goes back to school norO
and completes his schooling, eUen
though it takes several years, rOil in
the long run haze an advantage oUer
his friend Dho stays on the job at the
neglect of his education.
The recent record of American
youth, both on the war fronts and the
home front, is a spectaCularly fine
one. We congratulate the youngsters
on the big job they have done, and
wish them we'll in the even bigger
Job they have to do.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11
Speak Up---Amlerica!
By LYNN PERKINS

L BELIEVE in America, and | believe
Il in the system of free enterprise which
has built this country into the mightiest
enterprise of freedom which the world has
ever known.
There is certainly nothing newsworthy
in my believing this. Millions of people
have the same belief The only unusual
fact, in my case is that believe it and
also happen to be young
That combination is quite a rarity
today!
The truth is that youth has lost It's
belief in free enterprise. Few are actually
OppOsed-but few are i'm support. During
the last 20 years the growing genera
ton has been submitted to constant
barrage of propaganda which has dis
credited capitalism and private enterprise,
Even the huge mass appeal mediums,
whose very life depends upon capitalism,
have taken part in laughing at private
business.
Magazines, newspapers, movies, comic
strips the radio and most other mass ap.
peal mediums have, IN a roundabout way,
promoted the ridicule Of private business
and the businessman. Success has been
consistently sneered at as bourgeois.
THE SANE SUBTLE SNEERS HAVE
BEEN SANDWICHED INTO THE
TEACHINGS IN SCHOOLS. The net re-
suit is that the vast ma ajority of youth
is either neutral or in opposition to
capitalism. Capitalism has to the minor
ity become monster-and to the ma
jority a ridiculous fat man with the
money bags
Synchronized with this planned ridicule
of private enterprise has been a wide
spread but little seen machinery which
has tirelessly worked in the promotion
of socialism. 1t is known as liberalism"
to those who cannot or will not see II
too clearly. To those who have wanted
a more naked name it is known biuntiy
as Communism.
Communism has marched behind the
banners of the progressives,
Talk to any young person of any in
telligence and you will, 80 times out of
100, get the reaction that some more or
less vague sort of socialism is progress
sive'-that capitalism is "reactionary."
FEW ARE IN FAVOR OF COM
MUNISM BUT BECAUSE THEY NO
LONGER BELIEVE IN FREE ENTER
PRISE, MILLIONS OF YOUNG PEOPLE
ARE POTENTIAL PUSHOVERS FOR
THE PLANNERS AND PROMOTERS
OF AN ALIEN IDEOLOGY.
However, alien or not, this ideoogv
has offered ideals and something to be-
heve in. Because it has talked loudly and
widely of improving the lot of the COM
mon man it has drawn TO itself those mil
lions of young people who naturally yearn
for a forward-looking ideal.
Communism-and the socialisms and
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

. WILLIAM S. Bullock, DSR gen
w eral manager, issued detailed
public statement yesterday, explain
ing why streetcar and bus service is
bad.
1t is due, he said, to manpower
shortage among operators.
This deficiency is being overcome
and he hopes in the very near future
he will have enough trained bus and
streetcar operators to man all avail
able rolling stock. Until then he asks
the Detroit riding public to be
patient.
A careful reading of Bullock's
statement prompts this newspaper to
endorse his request. We are confident
that Detroiters, if only they read his
report, will agree 1t is candid doc
ument, innocent Of albis and worthy
of their approval.
sGT1HE DSR'' WOrtime operating
Il problems did not end tUhen the
shooting stopped" BuIlock's statement
said. Insofar as operating nanpotDer
is concerned, our n1dnpoUer shortage is
more critical today than II eUer has been
before. The fact is We had so feWer
operoiors on W Day than on We Day,
in spite OF our unreritting effort to re
crUIt operators"
In June, 395 operator candidates
applied and 80 successfully passed
the training requirements and were
hired. But, in the same month, l03
operators were lost through death,
retirement discharges, etc.
In July, &c operators qualified out
Of 472 applicants.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

liberalismS which II uses as smoke screen
talks so well of the wonderful things
which it does for people, 1t has talked
so much that liberals and progressives
never think to ask for any proof. Doped
with % years of devious propaganda the
younger generation believes in vague
sort of way that socialism and planning"
will automatically bring about the pros
porous conditions which communism has
talked about and which capitalism
has brought about all around them with
out their realizing it
ALL THE COMMUNIST WRITINGS
FROM MARX AND ENGELS TO HAIR
OLD LASKI AND EARL BROWDER
HAVE NOT A SINGLE FACT OR FIG
URE TO SHOW THAT COMMUNISM
HAS DONE ANYTHING TO MAKE
LIFE MORE INTERESTING, MORE
COMFORTABLE, OR MORE AMUSING.
Communists talk of "dialectic material
ISM and their whole ideology is based
on material things But all their writ
ings and all their words are not one
thousandth as impressive as single page
torn from the classified telephone direc-
tory of any town in the United States
For there, IN black and white, are
goods and services which stagger the
imagination.
Unless capitalism can regain the faith
OF young America, it will inevitably be
defeated by totalitarian socialism All
the strength and power and wonder of
free enterprise will avail it nothing if it
has lost the belief of thinking Americans
under the age of 30.
HOW FANTASTIC 1T SEEMS THAT
THE AMERICAN "COMMIES" COULD
TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY, AND
HOW FANTASTIC TT SEEMED, IL
YEARS AGO, THAT A FUNNY LITTLE
MAN WITH A TOOTH-B BRUSH MUS
-TACHE COULD FAkE- OVER EUROPE
Capitalism has got to stop laughing
at itseif-has got to stop apologizing.
Using it's whole giant machinery Of
persuasion, capitalism must sell the truth
to the nations youth.
Capitalism must create an ideology TO
tell its story and its purpose-an theology
as attractive and progressive as socialism
seems.
Youth must be shown that through its
own lack of faith in free way of life.
it stands in peril of living in rationed
world.
Amusingly and dramatically free en-
terprise must tell its story to the young
people of America-tell it in all the mass
appeal mediums of which it is master.
Capitalism must create an theology to
tell the truth about itself; young and
vigorous theology managed, planned and
promoted by young men who are master
mechanics in the vast apparatus of opin-
ION and amusement
Capitalism has the voice. 1t has only
to find the words
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11

In August, 85 qualified out OF 9o'
applicants processed.
Yet, in spite of their best efforts
at recruitment, the DSR, for the
reasons above mentioned, suffered
net losses of IA operators IN June, 70
in July and At in August.
NTOW that reconversion has eased the
local labor market, it will be simpler
10 get an ample supply OF satisfactory
empoyes for bus and Streetcar operation
We repeat-the Bullock statement aP.
pears TO be a straightforward recital OF
hsmpering conditions.
1t is especially impressive because IL
lodges no issues, despite the tact that II
was prepared hguratively at the point OF
gun.
Mayor JeAres is quoted as having
warned the DSR manager last Friday that
unless he delivered Immediately satisfac-
tcry reason for the poor transportation
service he would lose his job.
An INEFFICIENT or bootlicking job
~ holder. confronted with such per
emptory demand. almost certainly would
have flustered into furry OF plausible
excuses.
Bullock didn't fluster al all. He told
what looks like the unvarnished truth and
he didn't try to shift responsibility 10 any
body else.
People respect that type Of public serv-
ant who stands on his own two feet and
faces heavy weather.
People don't like that kind of man
made whipping boy for situations be-
yond his control.
The people of Detroit will feel Bullock
has given them reasonable explanation
of real DSR problems. which is more than
bis superiors. the DSR commissioners,
have eondeseended to do for long time.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11
knowledge Test
v DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY


The only president 10 be 4
graduate OF Amherst College
was Cal William Taft; tbD
Calvin Coolidge, Co Warren
Harding.
"A street IN New York is
called the BOWery because
oa) Bowie knives were used
there; (b) II means farm IN
Dutch, tC) II IS a crooked
street.
; Alexander Vasilevsky's name
should be familiar 10 YOU. Is
he taD soldier, tbl writer;
tCD musician?
Patrick Henry's &c me
liberty or give me death"
was said IN 1al Boston: tbl
Philadelphia. lcl Richmond
) Suppose you take a guess At
which of these mum b eTS
comes closest 10 The age OF
Gen Macarthur: "a 30,
CbI so; rc1 %,
6 Match these columns cor
rectly; the sense and the
business that uses II:
A chlropractor Y. hearing
b gourmet W. sight
G. auditioniSt y. touch
d. oculiSt v. smell
. thurifer Z. taste
Answers on Opposite Page
8-C rHE DErRoII TIMES
Sept. J. ls+5
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11
Brain Gan

What amendment 10 the Con-
stitution had a 25th annlver-
sary on Aug. 26, 1945
2-Franz Werfel died recently.
Which of his books was made
into an outstanding Amer
ICan movie?
3 True or false. (a) Tn Eliza
bethan England. table forks
were ridiculed as a foreign
novelty? (b) AS you descend
into a deep mine the tenn
perature becomes cooler?
4 If the opposing pitchers in a
major league baseball game
are announced as Ruffing
and FerriSS, can YOU name
the opposing teams?
) How many Colors would you
say are combined in white
light?
S A troglodyte is fa) a kind Of
calcium formation found IN
caves: (b) a member of a
" lDt liltiliIblltu III Nilt hflbiFt
'C) a prehistoric cave owell-
or or cave man
You know that the word in
Crement means the act OF
increasing or enlargement.
Can YOU give a word which
means the opposite, decreaS-
ing or waning?
S Hidden identity. He was The
20th president Of the United
States. He was born on an
Ohio farm in 1881 He served
in the Civil War and WAS
mustered out a major gen
eral. He was opposed for
the presidency by Winfield
Scott Hancock, the Demo
cratic candidate. He died
from an asSaSSinS bullet.
Who was he?
ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11
The Golden Light Of Peace
By HARRY n. SCHLACHT

SCHlACHT
LIE HAS made "Batasn' once symbol Of
i i hope now a symbol Of victory.
Triumphant and immortal Bataan and Cor
regidor.
They hold deeds that shine ike stars above
our shrlnes.
They live again.
They are resurrected
They are vocal today with songs Of rejoicing.
May the glory of her yester eve live In the
splendor of her tomorrow.
rTHANK God for our glorious soldiers Of
L human liberty.
They have made rainbow Of peace which
.now spans the clouds of war
They have built the roads for the hammered
march of crowned humanity
They have enriched the human race
They are the precious legacies of the centuries.
They are indeed, the true spirit of America.
IN THE Metropolitan Museum of Art New
Il York; one may behold great dream in
bronze.
There stands Father Time beating the sword
into the plowshare and the spear into
the pruning hook.
At his feet the lion and lamb lie sleeping
peacefully together.
That was the dream of Isaiah in the long ago.
TTNHEN we look again.
i We catch the dual vision of Tennyson
With one eye he dipped into the future and
saw the pilots of purple twilight with
their airy navies dropping bales of de-
struction upon the world below.
Wlth~the other eye the great poet beheld the
coming Of the hour when the drums
.--weuld throb no longer and battle flags
would be furled in the parliament Of man
and the federation of the world
TNHE hrst vision became a tragic reality.
Il May we not have fath in the greater
vision -\NN.. ~
May this day of the ages, when a monstrous
enemy lies prone in the dust of defeat
be the golden door into the future where
none shall oppress and where mankind
IL great through gentleness
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11


He hath not deoH 30 wjH ony notioa.'
PSALMS. 20.
4 MERICA rises to greet the golden light
May we go forth with the love of God in our
hearts.
May We give voice to hymns Of prayer and
thanksgiving.
May His Word be the fortress Of liberty
which will grow as generations rise to
share its blessings
WE HAVE stormed the blackness of night
w We have set in the darkness a light.
Our flag shines today in radiance over Japan
Yes, she's up there-Old Glory-how bright
the stars beam, and the stripes like red
signals of liberty gleam.
1t is the inspiration of mighty race.
II is ever growing in grandeur.
YNODAY the angel of peace sits crowned
i above the bronzed tipped pinon
Liberty has thrown aside her crown of thorns
and now stands radiant and beautiful be
side her.
The blue sky bends serenely above us.
Huu NHcH yOHutI SUM- SHHllIlS III all Its Hld-
iectic splendor, shall go into camp for
the night, starry sentinels will in turn go
duty and keep watch and ward over
the peaceful hearts and homes of our
people.
ONCE again We shall see the eager sails Of
" commerce whitening the skies
The cattle on a thousand hills:
The golden harvest laughing in the sun, y
And the smoke of industry painting the sky.
HISTORY will crown Gen. Douglas Mac.
Il IArthur with the halo of Immortality
His name and fame will ring down the corri-
dors of time.
He is great soldier and patriot.
He is a citizen of the kingdom of man.
He has performed the greatest military feat
In all history.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-11
Paul
NfALLON
Behind
The News

WASHINGTON, Sept 10
w The most momentous SeS-
sion Of Congress in peacetime
history" is what the radio
voices are saying of the quiet,
uneventful. duh reconvenlng OF
the Seventy-nlnth. after hoh-
days.
This sounds strange, with no
outstanding reconverslon pro-
gram proposed, no peace treaties
yet ready, no tax reduction
from war in prospect, no new
spectacular spending program
To enliven things, as the ad-
miniSTat1on IS preparing 10 run
its 60,000,000,000 annual post
war spending rate down IN 10
months to a tidy and permanent
S25, ,000.0O0,000, and needs no
appropriations or legislation for
this. or lend lease, or any pend
ing matter of corresponding Inn
pOrtance.