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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

cratic methods harder has at least
gained a frmer foothold.
An outspoken senatorial opponent
OF the workers draft said critical
war conditions had grown SUFFICIENT
ly bad to justify the legislation.
The unions have gathered so much
power in the last year that a ques
ton has arisen as to whether Mr.
Roosevelt might not like to get
Elm on them himself.
People now laugh at the politl'
cal-minded unionist In the White
House having such q thought. but
talk about a possible national coal
strike In the spring is being heard
Would not the president like to use
a draft act on John L. Lewis? More
ardor from the White House for the
legislation Is possible this year. ]
think.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Macarthur in Manila
TheseDayss~y f Gso '' T: 5oxo53%1

No matter what happens further
in the Pacific War. from a Far
Eastern standpoint, the japanese
have lost their war General Mac
Arthur has defeated them. In Asia.
the conquest of Manila reduces
Japan's prestige 10 the lowest 1t
has been since the Sino-Japanese
war in 1895, For in Asia. prestige,
face. as IL Is called. lies not 80
much in taking territory as in not
losing 1t again. The conquest must
stick The japanese knocked US
out OF the East OF Asia by taking
the Philippines. We recovered
and took Manila back from them.
The same general whom they de-
feated. has now driven them out.
They have lost face. They cannot
regain their prestige without driv-
ing the United States out OF the
Philippines which they cannot
possibly do
From now on. Americans would
be wise to watch for political
changes In Japan. Already the
military strategy has been radical
ly altered. because the Philippines
must be regarded as within Japan's
inner defenses and they have not
defended themselves at Manila.
MacArthir's advance met little re.
slstance. The Japanese had ap-
parently decided against losing
more material and manpower in an
obviously futile attempt TO stop
Macarthur. And now Formosa,
which Japan has held since 1895,
Is in danger. Macarthur is in a
position to raid the Fukien and
even the Kuangtung coast OF China
which includes Hongkong. Ameri.
can troops might make a beach
landing on this coast.
|. There is small city called
Waichow in that region which used
TO be a center OF piracy when I
lived in China. Its inhabitants in
clude Hakkas, an extraordinarily
brave and competent aboriginal
people long accustomed to fighting
Hakkas were among the leaders OF
the TAPPING Rebellion and they sup
ported Sun Yat-sen in his revolu.
tionary activities They love free
dom and have fought for that ideal
for centuries They would wei
come Americans Also not far
from Hongkong is Canton, the reyo-
lutionary base Of China, the seat OF
modernization and repuhlicanism
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Confusion Marks Work
or Fight Legislation

Their technical objections
have been announced. but the
real reason Is that both Ger
many and Japan have labor
battalions, and they want TO
maintain their democratic set
up Of the military force.
WANT CRIMINAL PENALTY
What they want is law imposing
criminal penalties for not working.
This would be the direct, democratic
way Of handling the problem. .
On the industrial draft the stu
alton is somewhat reversed. The
army and navy want it land Mr..
ROOSEVELT but apparently not
many others. Yet 1t. too. follows
the Nazi and Japanese way Of
doing things by compulsion.
In that connection, Vice Presi-
dent Truman received some in
teresting evidence in a letter from q
large aircraft factory in Wichita,
Kan, not long ago. The off,
cials Of that plant reported they had
a difficult problem Of keeping their
men from drifting away to other
business, so difficult that they final
ly threw up the threat and freeze
ideas in despair and posted notice
to the effect that anyone who
wanted to quit, could do so. I'm
expectedly that solved the prob
lem.
Drifting fell on. II was quite
plain that the psychology OF
compulsion or threats had worked
In reverse, causing the men to
cOnnive to escape. But II they
could quit at any time, there was
no reason for quitting.
When General Knudsen was asked
about this he told the committee:
"Ahaa, that employer pays bo-
muses."
But the employer did not mention
this in his letter, and it could be an
important factor only II the employ
err started paying the bonuses after
the free-quitting notice was posted.
His point, therefore, does not seer
to have been soundly made.
Furthermore, two senators have
come back from a Norfolk naval
plants inspection to report more
workers needed there. and more
than essential wage rolls have been
observed in some other factories.
This development no doubt will re-
suit in congress authorizing the plac-
ing Of wage ceilings in plants.
But what else will come out
Of all this conflict and confusion
over methods-with labor OPP
posing practically all compu[
sion and business (NAM openly
resisting similarly-the best Of
congressional authorities will not
yet predict. There will probably
be a bill Of some kind.
1t may be some very limited form
Of work or fight" to include at least
the AIS. and the nurses draft,
possibly not even that much.
Perhaps the current publicity may
have helped solve much Of the prob
lem before congress gets to the
end OF this matter.
A great many congressman are
impressed with the seriousness OF
manpower needs in certain spots,
but q great many more believe a
well coordinated manpower ad-
ministration could solve most OF the
problems, without additional legisla-
ton. and the idea Of trying demo-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
ADJUDGED INSANE

Grand Rapids. Mich.-Carl v.
Gilbert, IL, former Kalamazoo Hos
pital inmate, who killed his five
year old daughter. Jessie Pearl,
with an axe last month, has been
adjudged insane. state sanity
Tuesday announced.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
THEY SA Y

Luzon, Phllippines-Gen. Dou-
glas Macarthur, Hailing the liberia
ton of Manila: THE Australia
saved. the Philippines liberated
and the ultimate redemption OF the
East Indies and Malaga thereby
made certainty, our motto be-
comes On to Tokyo"
Detroit-SeL. --lt lur II. Nanden-
berg (RMich.) The Army that
gets to Berlin first does not win
for its nation the right to settle
Germany's future. No nations
army would have reached Berlin
at all except for the heroic. COM
mon combat OF all the other ma
tons armies"
Topeka-Assistant Secretary Of
State Julius c. Holmes recalls Rus
so-Anglo-American 1943 pledge to
enforce surrender terms upon Ger
many: The three governments
have worked diligently together in
the formulation OF plans for such
joint action. These plans are rea-
dy to be put into effect at mo-
ment's notice"
Washington-Rep. A. L. Miller
R-Neb), recommending "freez-
ing of all excess war goods until
establishment OF a single govern.
ment disposal agency: Some of
the factories which made material
now being sold are still working
- hours a day turning out the
same material for the military.
There ought to be a way to stop
this extravaganza"
Luzon, Philippines-Capt. John
Dugan OF Milton, Mass, Army
Chaplain rescued with 500-odd 9th
ers from Jap prison camp at Caban-
atuan: I've seen more than one
American beaten to death because
he lacked both the strength and
the will to keep up the bsck-break-
ing labor our captors demanded"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Todayis Horoscope

tOuhyN HOTO5COpo
Yours Is an analytic nature. in
clined to probe and study things
about you. Be careful lest you
analyze your friends too much.
Try to be more cheerful in your
attitude toward the world. You
possess excellent taste and judy
ment. and will hnd happiness and
contentment In your home. Your
ideas about nrasyeSs should Be
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

upon a suicidal policy as being all
that is left to them; or they may
try to open negotiations. MacAr-
thurs appearance in Manila is the
crisis in Japan's war.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Hall Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
Ethel Hughes and Lena House Sutherland we're
membership OF Torch Club and books
piled by Miss Wnifred Thompson used for the first time
presented fine baton made OF walnut
taken from church Hartford. Conn II given by W H.
Latham.
Officers Of the newly Woodruff
School DeanR Michos Virginia Kay
Margaret Ball, treasurer: Verna Jean KEGS scribe.
Births To Mrs Irving Packer daughter. Dorothy
Ann. at home Bagey Mr. Mrs Julius Luckhard
boy at Boyer Hospital MIR and Mrs William Nsuber daugh
ter Meta Lucille.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
HALT PRODUCTION

Detroit - 4 dispute involving
1850 workers on two shifts closed
the Mack Ave. plant Of the Briggs
Manufacturing Co. today, hating
production OF aluminium aircraft
and tank parts.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

CHlCAGo-lNS-- Everyone was
dissolved Tuesday OF any intentional
misstatements in obtaining a S..
z74 tax reduction on a business
property owned by Secretary Of the
Interior Harold l.. Ickes in Chica-
COS shopping district. but Cook
County authorities announced they
would retrieve the S4,274 or sell
the building o.. delinquent taxes.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
One-Minute Test

l. Who was the only person TO
receive the Nobel prize twice?
2. What two men served as
members Of the presidents cab
met under three presidents
}. what Revolutionary war
general was known as the
Swamp Fox'f
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

CD. W.: Is there a cure for I'M
dulant fever"
Answer: Yes, the use of sui
fanilamide in tablet form.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

sound under the sanction Of the
planet Neptune. II you need an
artistic article. you should pur-
chase 1t today. You should get
more than your moneys worth.
Answer belated correspondence
today. Someone important may be
waiting to hear from you.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Fifty Years Ago

Chief Worden OF the fire department made changes
among the nremen The hose house number dis
charged and Ed Ryan and Charles Fuller charge
No Ed Reemer has been added the
necessated by Capt Grsham departure Hotel Judson
Fred Fisher IN New entered
the bench show, in progress.
Death Charles Long the Of his sonInav in Detroit
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Hints on Etiquette

II Is correct to 60 without a
aat when wearing a dinner dress:
or TO wear a dinner hat. An ordl-
nary daytime bal n eAat e nlaea
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
Words OF Wisdom

SANDER is the revenge Of
coward. and discrimination his de-
fence johnson.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07
one-MlHite Test Answer.

l. Nine. Curie.
2. Henry l. Stimson under Tan,
Hoover and Roosevelt; Andrew
Mellon under Hoover. Coolidge
and Harding
= Cen Francis AarioAL
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

A nautical mile equals the length
II one minute Of latitude.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

On April 18th to June 18th,
the Forest Service will go into &C
ton in Michigan on a wartime for
est fire prevention campaign. Pac-
ed by the slogan Another enemy to
conquer, the drive is a plan to
protect war-needed lumber. already
critically short.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

An extra-quota paper grant has
been made by WPB to Boating In
dustry. a magazine published at
St. Joseph. Some l.57 tons are
inv olved.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

Congressman John Dingell, OF
Detroit. who wants war buttons for
members Of the war congress, has
switched his pressure to get some
thing better than the "penny-pinch-
ing" plastic emblem now handed
out to veterans. He says these re-
turning fighters deserve some
thing better.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-07

YESTERDAY we spoke Of the
pneumonia in general, but partieu-
larly as it occurs in adults, and
we outlined what the public should
know about it in order 10 help a
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Showdown in Jupun

1eneral MacArthur'S emancipation
proclamation has already produced
notable results and may soon engen-
der consequences as sensational as
they would be deep going. The term
emancipation" best characterizes
the generals directive, issued last
Thursday. Under it the japanese
government is ordered to repeal all
laws restricting freedom of thought,
assembly, religion or speech, to lib
crate all political prisoners, and to
dismiss all key members of the re-
presSive system which has held the
japanese people in authoritarian
bonds, from the Minister of Home
Affairs down to members of the
secret, metropolitan and provincial
police who carried out his commands.
Only those acquainted with Japa-
nese history can appreciate the
sweeping nature of General MacAr-
thurs decree. For centuries, Japan
has been an intensely regimented
country, its people being not only
"policed" in the ordinary sense of
the word but also subjected to
ubiquitous system of thought con-
troll" which nodded their minds
and souls from childhood to old age,
thereby rendering them passive in
struments of the ruling caste that
guided their destinies. Japan's ca
pitulation to the victorious Allies did
not make any immediate change in
It's domestic setup. The cabinet
formed on orders from the Emperor
at the moment of Japan's surrender
was composed entirely of the old
ruling class, and it soon became OBJ
vlouS that, while the government
headed by Prince Higashi-kuni has
tened to comply with all directives
concerning Rehabilitation of it's
armed forces, it hedged and stalled
wherever internal political reforms
were involved. Macarthur has now
broken this covert resistance at a
single stroke by smashing the con-
troll system to bits. The entire cab
met thereupon resigned and Japan
is in the process of forming a gov
ernment at the very moment when
thousands of political prisoners are
emerging from their dungeons and
when every form of criticism OF the
old regime is, for the first time,
being shouted without let or him
drance- indeed, with the express
approval and encouragement of our
occupational authorities.
What this amounts to is a delib-
crate encouragement on our part to
the I spanese people to make a rev.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Autumn ReyeIs

With bold lips blowing through his
fingers,
The night 1oind sounds the sharp
tattoo OF day.
1he streets are dark and all his SINGERS
Pursue their autumn reuels, ioild and
gay.
They press down from the ancient
mountains,
Themselves as ancient as primepul
night
They gather ripples from, the fountains
And blotD them into sticks OF frozen
light.
They spin the leaoes with roaring
laughter
And ,olaen the bluster OF their breath
is losI,
They spangle pine and sod and ratter
Before the da,Dn, NTH fligrees of
frost.
Then ere the first church bell is ringing.
Their hoary Diols, lutes and lone
bassoon
Are hid and hushing all their singing,
They scatter to the Nengdr OF the
moon. FRANCISSANTHONY.
Evening star., 1945-10-06

olution, even If this involves violence
and the sweeping away of the entire
politico-social fabric which has
nodded the national life for ages,
including the complex theology of
emperor worship and hierarchical
feudal system resting on religious
sanctions. This revolutionary trans
formation is destined to take place
under all the aggravating circum-
stances of defeat, humiliation, dis
illusionment and extreme privation
on a universal scale. It is well-nigh
impossible to visualize just how the
breakup of traditional Japan will
take place or to what extremes the
revolutionary process may go before
a new order will emerge. Of one
thing we may be sure: General Mac
Arthur has started political
typhoon which will almost certainly
cause a lot of wreckage before it
blows itself out.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Report on London

The report which Secretary OF
State Byrnes has made on the un-
successful conference of Foreign
Ministers in London deserves high
commendation.
He does not despair of an eventual
agreement with the Russians on the
central issue which wrecked the
London conference.-the question of
permitting all of the nations which
fought this war to participate in
making the peace. Yet Mr.. Byrnes,
while hopeful, was also firm, and it
is not an exaggeration to say that
for the first time since we entered
the war public notice has been served
on the Russians that they cannot
achieve their aims through resort to
truculent and intranSigent tactics.
1t is more than possible that part
Of the explanation of the failure at
London is to be found in our atti-
tude toward the Soviets during the
war. Our primary concern then was
to hold the Allied coalition together
to the end that the war might be
won as quickly as possible, and in
that process we paid high price in
diplomatic concessions to our Rus
sian ally. If Premier Stain and his
Foreign Minister, Mr.. Molotov,
thought this would continue indef-
nitely, that would not be at all
unnatural. But if they have enter
tanned such a belief, and if that
contributed to Mr.. Molotov'S un-
reaSonableneSs at the London meet
ing, Mr.. Byrnes has now put the
record straight. eve are willing"
he said last night, ito make many
concessions but the United States
does not believe in agreement at
any price"
In the main, Mr.. ByrneS' report
was an explanation and a defense
OF his position in London. At sev-
eral points he sharply disputed
statements made by Mr.. Molotov
in the interview the latter gave to
reporters after the London meet
ing had adjourned. He stated
very plainly that, at London, none
of the other delegations was pre-
pared to yield its views and con-
victions to the Soviet delegation,
and he served blunt notice that the
United States will not be coerced
by Russia into debating peace terms
to its Allies.
The principal consequence of Mr..
Byrnes' statement should be clear
ing of the air. The Russians know,
or they should know, that we are
not going to yield to them on is
sues involving matters of basic
principle. This means, if there is
to be any successful negotiation,
that they must abandon the atti-
tude adopted at London and &C
cept the proposition that compro-
mise cannot always be one-way
affair, but must require some con-
cessions from both sides. Whether
they will do this remains to be seen.
But Mr.. Byrnes has made his record,
and if the Russians persist in their
present course the responsibility for
the consequences will be theirs.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Says People Did Not Know


To the Editor of The Star:
If the radio and newspapers kept the
people informed on the Nations .prewar
relations with Germany and Japan, as
Firman H. Bailey suggested in a recent
letter, then apparently those in charge
OF defenses at Pearl Harbor did not
listen to the radio or read the news
papers. or else they certainly would have
had the defenses there prepared to meet
the Jap attack.
The truth is, the people did not know
the Nations actual relations with Ger
many and Japan. That is, they did not
know that Japan was preparing to at
tack. They knew that assistance was
being furnished England and China, but
they virtually were assured by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his followers that
this assistance would keep war away
from American. In fact, when the
lease-lend debate was going on In Con-
gress a group of so-called experts were
called to testify that the measure did
not mean war.
Furthermore. Mr.. Bailey's assertion
that he would be willing to die for Pres
ldent RooSevelt's brand of Americanism
makes one wonder which brand he has
reference to. The brand represented by
the statement, "And while I am talking
TO you fathers and mothers, I give you
one more assurance. I have said this
before, but I shall say it again and
again. Your boys are not going to be
sent into any foreign wars; or the
brand that, but short time after this
statement. was sending American boys
TO foreign Iceland to assist foreign Eng
land in foreign war against Germany?
j. j. SPERRY,
Evening star., 1945-10-06
UNO in America

It now seems certain that the per-
rilanent headquarters of the United
Nations Organization is to be located
In the United States, very probably
Sin San Francisco. In nine-to- three
vote the Executive Committee of the
UNO's Preparatory Commission has
SO ruled, and although the three
issenters-Britain, France and the
Netherlands-apparently intend to
continue appealing for Geneva, there
is little chance that the committee
will be reversed when the final deci-
sion is made at the first meeting of
the UNO's General Assembly in
December.
AS expressed by the British and
French delegates before the commit
tee vote was taken, the main argu-
ment for Geneva was that the site
should be European because the
biggest peace problems will center in
Europe. AS against this view, how
ever, the Russian, Chinese, Austral-
ian and other delegates argued that
1t would be psychologically unwhole-
some to establish UNO headquarters
in the home of the Inflated League
of Nations, that the United States
is midway between Europe and Asia
and that it would be good-symboli-
cally and otherwise make new
start on international cooperation
amid new surroundings in the new
world.
Our delegation, of course, disso-
ciated itself from these discussions
and abstained from voting, its posi-
ton being that the United States,
although it would welcome being
chosen, was interested chiefly in the
kind of site that would best help the
UNO. The committees decision
seems wise and logical on this
ground. not least of all because the
American peoples interest in inter-
national affairs is likely to remain
keen If the central organ of world
eo-operatioh is itself on American
soil. This va historic change from
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Our Source of Government

The letter from Chairman Ken
meth P. Armstrong of the Federation
OF Citizens Associations Committee
on Fiscal Relations and Taxation,
printed in an adjoining column of
this page, asks The Star to explain
the connection between city budget
making and representation for the
District in Congress.
The connection, in The Stars
opinion, is very close. There are
many things wrong with municipal
oudget-making now, a process which
eliminates the taxpayer from the
councils of those who spend his
money. These things will never be
corrected until Congress corrects
them and it is to be doubted that
Congress will correct them until
there are chosen representatives of
the people of the District in Con-
greSs to work for their correction.
Congress is the Districts sole.
exclusively = controlling, legislature.
Men IN Congress, elected by and
responsible to the people of the
District, would, of course, work for
the remedy of an unsatisfactory
condition which persists now largely
because there is no incentive on any,
oody's part to change it. There
is no one responsible to the peo-
pie who are governed. The Star
believes that correction can only
come from the source of local gov
ernment, Congress, and until the
people of the District have their
voice in this government, no bene-
ficial or constructive change will
be made.