The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-29
Observations
Ingram, Former
Navy Grid Coach
Popular
BY HELEN EssARY

You may pass these on as your
n. You will-if you're a true
ashingtonian
Adm. Jonas II. Ingram, com
lnder in chief Of the Atlantic
q; who has twice warned in
clear voice against the dancer
robomb attacks on this country,
one of the most popular officers
the Navy. Everybody likes
mas" his colleagues say. He
the most enthusiastic fellow you
or knew. Used to be coach OF
. Academy football team. And
v he could whip the boys up to
after the Army"
Jonas dsn't necessary to add the
gram in Navy conversation Is
,ig fellow with a big voice, When
a captain he gave orders from
q bridge his big voice doomed
loud II could be heard over al
,st thee length and breadth OF
a shin. Don't bother with the
Idge phone. Jonas" someone be-
deck advised him. we can
ar every word you say without
A good Jonas Ingram story tells
his conversation with Josephus
aniels, then secretary OF the
IVY and none to we'll liked at the
slant because Of his rigid tenn
rance attitude. Secretary Dan
wore his hair in a statesman
bob. Said Jonas, then probab-
a lieutenant commander:
III YOU were really a member of
e Navy, Mr.. Secretary, we'd cut
ur hair"
$50 you want to cut my hair"
piled Daniels, eyes twinkling
Veil. that's mighty considerable
you. Most people want to cut
throat
The great foreign policy speech
Senator Arthur Vandenberg was
I hashed out with the aid OF a
ost writer.
The senator from Michigan wrote
Oh brilliant sentence, edited II.
d toiled over words and phrases
st as anybody with ideas must
II II those ideas are TO be effec-
ELY presented.
Vandenberg was a newspaper
an before he went into politics.
was editor and publisher OF the
and Rapids Herald. Especially
As he the editor of the Grand Rap
S Herald. Indeed he wrote the
tire editorial page himself Said
was easier that way TO express
policy of his paper
The Vandenberg foreign policy
eech, one OF the best addresses
ard in the Capitol in years. was
ped out at home on a battered
4 typewriter, not once, nor twice.
4 three times. The final draft
rs full Of those interlinings and
ratchings out that make writer's
unpopular with printers. Only
is time IL was the Monograph
who had TO cope with the au-
or's struggle for perfection.
$50
Two cheerful Chinese tales:
The Chinese OF the lower class
Q as simple as children. II some
them do wander off to their enc
les side It is because they quite
turally go where they will re-
i've the best treatment. A friend
Chungking reports that he heard
young Chinese soldier say:
Those Americans they are won
srful people. Why they feed
u! They feed you every day.
I'd all they ask you to do is to
,ht!"
General Joseph Stlllwell, recent
recalled from the command OF
. United States troops in China.
ys the men driving the bulldozers
. q brave lot. On one push
rough a Chinese forest the man
the wheel of a certain bulldozer
d been laying low trees and flat
ming out rocks for half a day or
This sure is one swell machine"
: Erinned at the general through
'eat and CRIME Look at II,
NOR front and back. And all
ound everywhere. | couldn't be
tier protected from the enemy.
by. general. nothing sticks out
I my head
Feeding the Chinese by airplane
one OF the miracles OF the war
, the Far East. Many kinds of
nd, including eggs, are carried
. ross the enemy lines and drop.
d by parachute. Rice Is let
In protected bags that fall OF
cir own weight.
Even this mama that falls so
nerously from the American hea.
a IL likely 70 be inadequate for
q a