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Evening star., 1945-11-15

Communists when that officer, after the
japanese surrender, was trying to make
his way back to the American lines
accompanied by four GIs. Incidents
involving encounters between Ameri-
cans and Yenan forces are reported
once in while from China. But the,
reports Ore incomplete and do not give
out the whole picture.
The Chinese situation is of vital
interest to the people in this country
who, because OF the taciturn mood Of
the administration, fail to understand
why American forces are in the con-
tested areas. Only small segment OF
the public realizes that our presence
In China is in keeping with treaty obli-
cations, as is our carrying Of central gov
ernment troops to Manchuria. The re-
lationship between the central, Yenan
and Russian governments is Of major
Importance. Yet the public is given
only fragmentary information.
y **
It is, of course, quite in order that
the government should keep tempo
rary silence on matters which are under
discussion with the governments of
other nations. Diplomatic negotiations
do not thrive in the light Of publicity.
But 1t is one thing to keep conf
Dental negotiations which are actually
in progress and another thing to keep
the nation which is footing the bill from
having even a vague idea as to what is
going on all over the globe, particularly
when the policy of this country is now
global
1t is one thing to keep under the
Presidents or the Secretary of States
hat what is being done to tempt Russia
back into the fold Of the United Ma
tions, and another thing to withhold
vital information on what is going on in
the countries in which we are expected
to invest hundreds of millions of dol
lars, or what is far more important,
additional American lives.
AS matter of fact, few persons ex-
cept those who make 1t their business
to follow the day-to-day dispatches and
reports have come to realize that as yet
there Is serious schism between the
Western powers and the U. S. S. r.
The citizen who only casually reads the
newspapers is influenced by the opti-
mistic official statements from the
highest quarters.
For instance, on September Is when
1t was obvious that the London Con-
ference was on the rocks, 1t was en-
phatically stated by President Truman
at his press conference that reporters
must not Jump too quickly to conclusions
and that a positive agreement among
representatives of the Big Five was in
the of1ng.
The official optimism displayed even
after the failure of thategathering kept
the American people from realizing the
full import of the rift, which has not
yet been closed.
Evening star., 1945-11-15

To any one who knows Andrew jack
son Higgins, the news of his deter
mination to close up shop Is no sur
prise. Mr.. Higgins Is man Of inn
pulse, Of something close to imagina-
tive genius, OF boundless energy and
ambition. To close the books on ambi-
ton is no hardship for such per-
sonality. His vivid genius can open
dozen others. Heaven knows what will
come next, but something will come.
This impasse with the AFL is not
only the end OF manufacturing prof.
ect, but probably Of = political one as
we'll. Friends of Mr.. Higgins in 1912
and 1943 were talking about what
natural he, with his unparalleled al
lance with the AFL. would be for
political career, even for President.
These would be the constituent ele-
ments in this dream boom: A candidate
born in the North, with career In the
South; a Democrat with an Irish name
and the gift of Old Hickory's name as
we'll; friend of F. D. r.; color, vitality.
vigorous eloquence, large and ro-
bust family and ideas by the boatload.
There was also the AFL, devoted to Mr..
Higgins and ready to go to town for
him.
**S*
This dream is gone. But man who
has gone through the Higgins expert
ence will emerge with unexpected plans.
He has lost his businesses before, but
those failures were due to depressions.
In 1912, he startled the country with his
plans to carry out 20O-ship contract.
The Government Cancelled this contract.
but President Roosevelt personally super
vised substitute In the shape Of an
assignment to build plyWood planes. The
Higgins vitality was just Is fully occupied
with the new project as IT had been
with the lost one. I was in New Orleans
and saw him in both years. He was
resilient as the bottoms of his Eureka
boats or as the new form Of plywood
that he planned for his planes. Then
after he had got into the foothills Of
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Palestine Inquiry

The agreement entered into by the
American and British governments
for joint committee of inquiry
into the thorny problem centering
about Palestine may mean much or
little, depending upon how and when
1t is conducted. Thus far, nobody
seems to be genuinely pleased with
the idea. and for quite obvious
reasons.
Jews in general and Zionists in
particular condemn the decision as
familiar device to gain time and
evade responsibilities. They note
that this is the latest of dozen
similar Investigations, none of which
has produced notable results. They
claim that the facts are already we'll
known and need only to be acted
upon. So far as Palestine is con-
cerned, this is undoubtedly true,
though it should be noted that the
joint committee is also to investi-
gate the larger question of European
Jewry in all its phases. There is
likewise the future status of Pales-
tine itself to be considered. Later
this month UNO's Advisory Commit
tee on Trusteeships is slated to meet
In London, and one of the points on
Its agenda will be the transfer of
Britain's League of Nations mapdate
over Palestine to the UNO under
some formula of trusteeship not yet
elaborated. The chances are that
Britain would be glad to associate
the United States in its responsible
ity, though whether American public
opinion would approve the commit
ment is far from certain.
AS Foreign Secretary Bevin set
forth in his statement to the House
of Commons, the basic difficulty in
the Palestine problem is the SEEM
ingly irreconcilable clash between
Arab and Zionist nationalism. What
Mr.. Bevin did not say is that both
these nationalist movements have
been stimulated by the alternate
false hopes and Illustrations dealt
out to them not only by the British
but also by American diplomacy.
The unedifying record starts with
the Balfour declaration of 1917.
The studied ambiguity of that IA
nous document was undoubtedly
calculated to win both Jewish and
Arab support for Britain in her
darkest hour of World War I. Since
then Palestine has been a foot
ball, alike of British and Ameri-
can politics. 1t is sufficient to re-
call that the Zionists were indorsed
by British Labor party platforms so
long as the Laborites were out of
office, while in this country the rev.
elation of the correspondence be-
tween the late President Roosevelt
and King Ibn Saud throws curious
light on presidential speeches and
Democratic platform pledges.
In view of all this, it is not strange
that the Jews in Palestine have de-
clared a protest strike, that Zionist
adherents and sympathizers every
where are crying "Sell-out!" while
the Arabs wait in suspicious silence,
ready to make trouble in plenty If
they feel their cause is being
preiudiced. Confidence is univer-
sally lacking because the past record
does not inspire any ones conf
dence.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
This Changing World
By Constantine Brown

There are; few governments in the
world which are better informed than
the American government. There are
also few peoples in the world-With the
exception of those living under totaii-
tartan regime-who are told less by
their government than the American
people.
The American diplomatic officers and
other tens OF thousands of special
observers" who are being kept In the
four corners Of the world are, on the
whole, able men who give excellent re-
ports to their Washington chiefs.
There are dispatches from Germany
outlining dramatic story of suffering,
strife, dark intrigues and discordant
relationship among the various armies
of occupation whenever they happen to
share certain occupied area Equally
unpleasant reports are being received
from Austria
There are daily reports from Poland,
Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
giving tragic picture of the social,
economic and political life of the un-
fortunate inhabitants. These dispatches
also describe the self-imposed govern
ments which exist either with the sup
port Of foreign bayonets or through the
excellent organization of secret police.
The American people, for instance,
read dispatches from Belgrade announc-
ing that the Yugoslav people have cast
"a per cent of their votes-the standard
. established by Hitler for all the "elec-
tions and plebiscites'' in Germany-in
favor of Marshal Tito.
The American newspapermen who are
In Belgrade or we're allowed to travel
a few miles outside the capital gave,
without additional comment, pictur-.
esque descriptions of the voters Joy at
the marshal's victory. Dispatches from
some Of our official observers described
the whole thing as colossal hoax
y
The political drama which was played
last week In Bucharest, when citizens
demonstrating in favor of King Michael
were machinegunned by the puppet
government OF Premier Groza, had
many important political facets. This
could be gathered from reading between
the lines Of the press reports that the
shooting subsidized as soon as the Rus
sian commanding general In Bucharest
ordered the disturbances to cease"
The whole story-which is said to be
highly significant-is contained in the
reports from our diplomatic and military
observers in Bucharest. The reports
have been classified as top secrets" and
are available to only few of the re-
stricted high oficials in Washington.
Long dispatches are reaching Wash
ington from Chungking and other ten
der spots in China. They are all marked
top secret. although they deal with what
is happening to the American soldiers
and sailors in that area. No one has yet
been officially informed about the mur-
der of a Capt. Birch by the Chinese
Evening star., 1945-11-15
The Last Prussiun?

Though the son of a tenant
farmer. Field Marshal August Won
Mackensen was an almost perfect
personification OF the Prussian mill
tary aristocracy. He looked the part
and he lived it. Slender. straight
backed, menacingly handsome in
the deaths head shake of the Hus-
sars, he spent the greater part OF his
ninety-five years thinking war and
waging it. One Of the foremost
cavalrymen in German history. he
was in the field against France in
1901. and from 1914 to 1918, dur
ing which he shattered the Cars
Russian armies, he was an intimate
of the Kaiser and formed with Hin
denburg and Ludendorff that formi-
dable triumvirate which for time,
as was the case later with Hitler's
high command. seemed invincible.
In the true Prussian tradition,
however, Mackensen looked upon
Germany's defeat in the First World
War merely as temporary mis-
fortune to be compensated for in
another war at the earliest possible
date. With Hindenburg and Luden-
dorff, he was growing old, but not
too old to do as they did-to throw in
his lot with Hitler. Possibly linden
burg did this with some reluctance,
but Mackensen, like Ludendorf1, was
enthusiastic about it. and In 1887,
though himself no longer fit for
battle, was openly preaching to Nazi
youth to get ready for another glori-
Gus march against Russia. His fidel-
ity to the Fuehrer did not go un-
rewarded, of course; for lending
his prestige to the cause, for spread
ing the doctrine of blood and iron
and promoting the new era of Ger
man aggression, he received splen-
did country estate in Pomerania
But Mackensen lived to see the day
when that gift-"graft" is what 1t
would be called in this country-was
taken from him by the Poles. He
lived to see the day when the Rus
slams, whom he crushed In the First
World War, swept all OF Hitler's
legions before them and marched
into Berlin, once the proudest and
most arrogant center of German
militarism. He lived to see the
downfall OF all that might to which
he had been so ardently devoted
from the time of his boyhood-saw
1t win glory in the relatively simple
period OF 1901, saw 1t defeated but
unbowed In 1918, saw 1t recover in
the sos, saw 1t destroyed entirely In
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Luwless Picketinq

The Connecticut authorities are to,
be congratulated on recapturing
some measure of authority over the
instigators of what has amounted
to mob rule masquerading as
strike in the city of Stamford.
For eight days the plant of the
Yale and Town Manufacturing Com
pany has been closed by a mass
picket line. Only persons able to
present union-issued passes were
permitted through the line, even the
president of the company being
refused admittance to the plant last
week. This is not the sort of
peaceful picketing" which the
Supreme Court has said is immune
to State regulation, but is mob rule
pure and simple.
Now, after a week of indecision,
the State and city authorities are
moving to regain control Of an out
rageous situation. BY threatening
to use tear gas against the pickets,
the Stamford police have succeeded
in getting seventy management en-
ployes into the plant and Governor
Raymond E. Baldwin has said that
he does not intend to let the good
labor relations record of the State
be tarnished "by strong armed
methods by representatives OF either
labor or management"
1t is obvious that in the Stamford
case, as in several other recent So
called strikes, the strong armed
tactics are being employed exclu-
sively by labor. Hence, it will be
instructive to watch the results of
Governor Baldwin's effort to restore
order in his State. The real need,
however, is for a more comprehen-
sive approach to this problem. Past
decisions by the Supreme Court dis
courage hope of relief from that
source. The remedy must come from
Congress, which ought to recognize
and act accordingly on the PROPOSE
ton that contempt for law on the
part of union is just as injurious
to the public interest as is contempt
for law on the part of an employer.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
This and That
By Charles E. TrdceUelI.

Autumn brings wind-swept streets and
dust in the eyes, and pumpkin pies to
delight the palate.
time of the year hereabouts. 1t has
better weather, as most people like
weather, and 1t has fewer grouches.
Dust in the eye Is the fate OF COM
paratively few persons. who over many
years have learned how to watch out
for such incidents, but pumpkin pie is
something without qualm.
Unless, of course, you happen to be
a stickler for the real thing.
It Is difficult nowadays, what with
shortage of shortening, etc., to get the
real thing in the old-fashtoned pumpkin
pie, preferably known as plain punkin
pie.
There are all sorts Of things mas
querading as pumpkin. One variety of
sweet potato will do it, aided by few
spices. Even certain sort of squash
will fool almost any consumer. if a
little sugar is added, and it doesn't
take much.
All pies of this type may be good pies,
but they are scarcely pumpkin pies In
believes that no pumpkin pie can be
right unless it is made in Indiana
Out there they have real pumpkins
grown in rich black earth, and the ladies
know how to make crust which will
melt in your mouth.
It is the true pumpkin flavor; however,
which wins With glass of cold milk,
one needs nothing else for meal.
just how many slices can be consumed
in this way Is every mans secret.
Pumpkin pie is, above everything else.
q mans pie.
Or are all pies peculiarly the property
of the masculine part of the human
world?
Maybe pies are part of the lure Of
the feminine half. Perhaps they were
invented for this purpose, to appeal to
the cruder bipeds who make wars. But
there is something peculiarly masculine,
one may think, about the golden pump
kin pie, with its genuine right-off- the
farm taste.
This taste is like nothing else in the
world.
Every other sort Of pie filing is as
good, or sometimes better, in some other
and berries and cream, and chocolate
candy, and lemonade-all Of these are
instances of good taste, through the use
Of various pie filings in other ways
But who on earth, at least of the
human persuasion, ever ate pumpkin by
itself?
1t would make an odd dish, indeed.
Put it in a pie plate, however, and
it becomes something fit for the gods,
as the older saying had it.
It goes with colder days. To be
exactly right. it should be slightly warm
at consumption time.
This is partly to bring out its deli
cate flavor, partly to make the supreme
contrast with the glass of ice cold milk.
Cold pie is better than none, certainly.
1t may even have charm of its own.
Certain types undoubtedly are better so.
When 1t comes to pumpkin, some
warmth Is essential, and 1t should be the
warmth from just being baked. Warmed
over pies are not so good.
Better cold than warmed oyer.
There is something old-fashioned
at the "horse and buggy days will make
the American people give up their
memories of pumpkin pies, even if they
can't get the real thing in the restau-
rants they patronize.
These pies are peculiarly a part o.
the American tradition. There can be
no new deal in pumpkin pies. They are
either the old thing, which is the rea
thing. or they are nothing ct al except
fller.
Evening star., 1945-11-15

1945. Hindenburg and Ludendorff
went before him. without knowing
the finish. He was the last OF the
lot, the last of the powerful pre-
Hitler Prussians, and he saw it all.
II there is any lesson to be drawn
from his life and death-beyond the
usual one about glory and the grave
1t is simply that militarists of his
kind must never again be allowed to
flourish in Germany.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Rolling Stone

A rolling stone, some killjoy said,
Will neUer gather moss;
But tDGs neper one to think
OF that as any loss.
/ like clean boulders, that possess
Ambitions OF their oton,
Far more than those in some dark place,
With MOSES, oUergrot0n.
l hdDe enough, and nothing more;
liue from day to day,
Enjoying things rich men hare built.
Without q cent to pay.
1 earn my salt, 1 hare no cares
+ 90 my tDuy alone.
And all the ,DorId belonps to rss.
or any rolling stone.
ANNA II. PRIESTLEX.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
If Any!

From the Knoxville News-sentinel.
Few rights can survive II coun-
try's character so deteriorates that
severe limitations upon self-government
come to appear the only possible means
Of survival.
Evening star., 1945-11-15
Contagious Habit

From the Waterbury Democrat.
Who saysI the Japs aren't quick to
catch on to the American way Of life?
Students ut : Tokyo high school already
are out on strike over the issue Of re-
moving the school principal
Evening star., 1945-11-15

An old proverb says: "No one ever
has seen tomorrow" Unfortunately,
a multitude of people act as II they
likewise had not seen any yesterdays.
Evening star., 1945-11-15

It wasn't Wendell Willkie who in
vented the phrase most notably
identified with his n&me. George
Herbert, in "The Temple" 1888,
wrote: Man is one world"
Evening star., 1945-11-15

II proof be needed that a new age
has dawned with it's own full quota
OF troubles, it may be discovered in
the change of between the devil
and the deep sea" to read between
the devil and the atom"
Evening star., 1945-11-15

All's still we'll that ends we'll
providing the desired conclusion is
not arbitrarily delayed beyond
endurance. %N
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-03
Calendar OF Social Events
TODAY


Lutheran Church 80
August Maurer.
Rebekahs OF
o'clock. Odd Fellow Hall.
Temple ss Pythian Sisters o'clock Knights OF
Pyhias Hall
Ypsant Fatena o'clock 1914 E. Cross
Wives OF Men Service Gilbert House, 1880 election.
THURSDAY
City Tent Hive of Maccabees meeting
Hall
Women Guild meeting 23O with Mrs
Robert Daley.
Priscilla Guild Congregational Church, o'clock with Mrs Le
land Randall.
Presbyterian Womens Union o'clock group two
hostesses.
Methodist Womans Society Service dessert lunch
o'clock at church. Mrs. j. o. Walker Conference
W.S.CS president will speak.
Lutheran Brotherhood, s O'Clock, at church.
lpsanu Commandery number 81 Knights
$780, followed by school Of instruction.
will be conferred, Masonic Temple lodge
Prospect Child Study Club with Mrs Ralph
St. 745 p. Program, School, Experiment in
Democracy, speaker, Superintendent Schools H.
Chapele.
meeting election Of officers KNIGHT,
OF Pythias Hall, 1880.
St. Luke Auxiliary Guild morning. communion 70
luncheon $780, annual business meeting, 230, Church
House
Red Cross surgical dressings five welch o'clock
knights Of Pythias card party. o'clock X. Hall.
Hpsilanu Lodge number 54S LOOF,
Girl Scouts: Harriet
o'clock; troop H. 315 St John; Brownies Roose
Welt O'Clock; troop 49, o'clock troop
"a ST. Lukes Church House. 345; Brownies
ruff School, $3.50.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-03
G.. O. P.

Continued from Page one)
Ypsilanti. Permanent organization
and order OF business, Fred Green
street, Ypsilanti, chairman; Frank
DeVine, Ann Arbor; James Kenne-
dy, Ann Arbor; Fred Mckay, Ypsi-
lanti; and Edward Foster, Saline.
Resolutions, Carl Stuhrberg, Ann
Arbor, chairman; Fred Sodt, Ann
Erbor; Mrs. +. n. Menefee, Ann Ar
Dor; Mrs. James lnglis. Ann Ar
Dor Township; Joseph Thompson,
Ypsilanti; and Albert Stein, Ann
Arbor Township.
The committee on credentials re-
ported quorum present. The COM
mittee on permanent organization
reported to make the temporary Of
fcers OF the convention perman-
ent, and read the apportioment OF
delegates. Only two changes were
made since the last convention
Ypsilanti Township gets two dele
gates instead of one and Manches-
ter gets a delegate. After a re-
cess when the delegates caucused
on state delegates, the groups re-
ported and the convention approx
ed their choice.
The resolutions endorsed all the
| state, county and legislative officers
elected last fall and voted to allow
the state delegates to go unin-
structed as to the state officers to
be nominated at the Grand Rapids
convention. Mrs. Leone Burrell,
Ypsilanti, was endorsed for re-elec-
ton to the state central commit,
tee.
Delegates and alternates respec-
lively are: Ypsilanti city, first
ward, Walter Dixon and Ray Van
Sickle; second ward, Joseph
Thompson and Fred NJ. Green
street; third ward, Ray Burrell
and ]. Stuart Lathers; fourth and
fifth wards, Effiner Kramer and
Albert Esslinger; Ypsilanti town
ship, first and second precincts,
Nelson Boutell and Joseph Shep-
pard. third precinct, Otis Tooze
and Miss Marina Osband; Ann Ar
Dor township, Eugene Power and
Albert Stein: Bridgewater. Saline
and Saline City, Edward Foster and
Erwin Klager; Lima township,
Stanley Vaughn and Albert Think
lie; Augusta and York, Thurlow
Sanford and John Cosner; Ann Ar
Dor first ward, Walter Garthe, Fitch
D. Forsythe; second ward, (two)
Martin Remp. Ceilon Hill; Harold
Finkbeiner, Clyde Fleming; third
ward, George Sidwell, Leonard
Tappy; fourth and fifth wards, Will
liam Saunders and Louis Rhode;
sixth, Mrs. Ruth Dana, and Henry
Vandervelde; seventh ward, Har-
old Beatty, George P. McCallum
and George Langford, delegates
and Glen Ault, J. c. Hooper and
Carl Stuhrberg. alternates.
Roscoe Bonisteel was named del
egate at large and was made chair
man Of the county delegation with
instruction to fill all vacancies.
Delegates and alternates were
not named In Salem, Dexter, Free
dom, Webster, Sharon, Lyndon,
Mortified. Manchester, Pittsfield,
Sylvan and Superior township.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-03
Veterans Add Six
Names to Roster

At their meeting Tuesday eve.
ming, in Veterans Hall, Ypsilanti
Post. No. 240s, Veterans OF Foreign
Wars, received six new members.
Frederick Franks, BENJAMIN Gil
more, Nelson Waiting, Robert
WaWles, Fred Wadke and George
Fioury. Interesting talks on their
experiences overseas we're given by
Comrades Wadke, Waiting, Jack
Hewitt and Donald August, which
showed that war is no picnic. They
are due soon to report to their re-
spective stations. Comrade Hewitt
joined overseas but was obligated
here and is now home on furlough
Comrade August joined a Kansas
City Post while overseas but has
been transferred to this Post.
Commander Edward Livingston
issued a special invitation to every
member to attend ten next regular
meeting, Jan. 16( as specially i'm.
portant business will come up.
A luncheon was served before
the meeting was dispersed.