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Detroit evening times., 1945-08-12

LumPs on de heod hos Pipkin beeouse he dis.
agreed viii his wife oil men are tyrants.
tennis witt himself almost stark naked yet So dunt
eSk
In escrow is being held now Pincus In de
sanitarium. Und for de bat which flew in de
meantime out from de window, we got outstand.
ing reward 1t is essential should be appre.
hended soon so it'll cooperate by Pincus de
statement.
From you sister Shoiley's oil painting. tt
you donink. would come gradually something
wonderful! She painted last week barn. wot II
was so delighted de farmer dot next week he
wants her to paint for him de two bedrooms witt
de upstairs hail.
Take keer youSelf. dollink.
MOM1LA
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-12
DEAR DoLLINK:

Tooseday night we was up de roof, wot it
approaches over to you fodder de fancy Doctor
Noftolis witt greeting, MOO, professor so how
goes it by you?" Wot it gives him respounce
you fodder Il still managing to keep a roof un.
der mine feet" You should hold, ii boisted out
de whole roof HISTORICALLY letting. A wonderful
man you fodder. Sometimes he could say in a
minute someting dot it'll left people for a week.
Und sometimes he could tink in two seconds to
say someting wot it'll take him ten years to get
out from II.
Odderwice from de neighborhood is de moose
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-12

so. dollink. Heat waves we got some.
ting awful. Wot II stops Toisday by
sidewalk stand you Uncle Pincus for
cup coffee yet. Boiling hot is de
coffee. Next door is air cooled a
moofing picture teeatre. So, it says
Pincus to de doorman, Hey, pal,
how's about you should hold inside
for me for a couple minutes de cup
coffee to cooling him off trine?"
Fife stitches.
It's featuring Mister Pipkin from a
busted broomstick over de head.
Jumps. On accent he failed TO agree.
ing witt de Meesus Pipkin by her in
de diagnosis dot it's all men tyrants.
De charming Gloria Noftolis loins
now to sing in ten hard lessons. Und
de Bloomboigs was dining Friday by
a sidewalk cafe. Mister Grubnick had
trouble lest week to cashing a check,
Evening star., 1945-02-07
We Must Act Quickly

The slightest possibility of neglect
OF our wounded soldiers brought
from the battlefields to hospitals in
this land of plenty should provide
all the impetus necessary behind the
bill to draft trained nurses.
Evidently that is not the case.
Although these wounded boys were
snatched from civilian life and sent
to fight for the rest of us, there is
some opposition to drafting nurses.
Some of it springs from the conten-
ton supported by deadly logic)
that nurses are civilians and should
not suffer the discrimination of
being drafted while other civilians
do pretty much as they please. But
inequities are inevitable in war and
in such pressing emergency as the
shortage of nurses we cannot afford
to engage in any lengthy debate of
pros and the cons when the lives or
comfort of wounded men are at
stake.
To their great credit, for they are
women schooled in a noble calling
and dedicated to a service familiar
with sacrifice, a minimum of opposi-
tion comes from the nurses them
selves. They doubtless understand
the need better than anybody else.
They know there is only one answer,
furnished by flow of 10000 wounded
week who need their care. They
would be the ones who appreciate
the theme of Surgeon General Par
rams testimony yesterday before the
House Military Affairs Committee,
when he said the demand is so
pressing, both from civilian and
military hospitals, that the Govern
ment must assume responsibility of
telling the nurse where she is most
essential. AS he put it, Our limited
nursing skills must be budgeted
wisely so that our sick and injured
may have the best opportunity for
life and health"
The hearings in congressional
committees and the opportunity for
debate in both houses of Congress
are necessary parts in the perfection
of adequate legislation. But there
can be no delay. There can be no
compromise with need so over
whelming in it's implications. That
we, of all people, should invite criti-
cism from the wounded that we have
been too late, with too little, in
responding to the appeal of their
suffering is a thought that should
shame us to speed and more speed
in doing what must be done.
Evening star., 1945-02-07
On the Record
By Dorothy Thombson

I was informed by the then provost
marshal that such re-education was
against the Geneva convention. I re-
plied-with the facts-that there was
not word in the Geneva convention
to prevent it,
I recommended organizing German
anti Hitler refugees of political intelli-
gence and experience to aid in such
prisoner re-education as it obviously
could not be undertaken by the military
alone, and to assist in preparing the way
for an anti-NaZi German administra-
tion and police, and to cooperate in
laying foundations for that form of
future German society which might
seem possible and desirable.
These suggestions were made by a
powerless individual They were
espoused by some readers of this
column
But they were also vehemently at
tackled and by organized groups, on the
ground that I assumed there were
good" and bad" Germans, or that
any Germans could be trusted. To that
one could only remark dryly that if
there aren't any we shall have to invent
them.
But now want to ask a question :
What do those critics think of what
the Soviet Union has done?
Miss Ella Winter, upon her return
from Moscow has written a series of
articles in the New York Post on the
status Of the Free German Committee
and the Union of German Oficers.
She informs us that the latter con-
tainS so German generals and thou
sands Of other officers and German
soldiers. Among them are Prussian
aristocrats. German anti-Nazi exiles in
the Soviet Union have been continually
conferring with them. A special paper
dealing with the German future has
been published by them and for them.
Miss Winter says, Nobody here Tin
Moscow theories as to whether all
Germans are paranoiacs, or whether
their aggressiveness goes back to
Wotan"
have yet to see line in our press,
or statement from the groups who
have attacked my stand, criticizing the
Soviet Union for doing some of the
things have recommended.
If my observations and recommends
tions make me an appeaser of Germans,
what about the Soviets?
think the Soviets are preparing
their political plans with extreme In
telligence. Is it crime to wish that
our own were equal to it?
released BY the Bell Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star., 1945-02-07
Patterns in Wood

Late winter or early spring Is a
good time to study rail fences. They
make patterns that blend with the
countryside at all seasons of the
year, but now their soft weathered-
grayness seems to stand forth in spe-
cial beauty. It may be that the
white background of winter-settled
snow emphasizes the appeal of the
shades of brown; or if snow has
gone, the wooden, seasoned rails
mingle with the browns grays and
tans of the frost-seared landscape.
Rail fences are an integral part
of the country scene in many rural
areas. They run along beside wind
ing country roads; they climb over
'thin-soiled upland fields and me-
ander along the edges of woods. On
many farms they form the pasture
lane. Over them lean the slender
saplings; in field corners the red
sumac makes a grove and flaunts the
scarlet, berry-bearing banners above
the ichen-covered rails.
The wild folk of field and wood
like the rail fences. In the brush and
weed clumps that grow along the
fences. birds make their nests and
find sanctuary. The pheasants and
quail live in their protection. On
them. the whippoorwill perches on
warm June evening, and sends his
plaintive call echoing across the
4 fields and pasture. Song sparrows
like to perch on the splintery. dis
migrating tops OF the posts and
carol to summers day. Beneath
them. the philosophical. bewhiskered
woodchuck digs his den and makes
raids on garden and clover patch.
Rail fences are part OF the history
Of nation. Probably they will grad
ually disappear. But In the past,
Evening star., 1945-02-07
. This Changing World
By Constantine Broom

The oficially accredited newspaper
men in the Allied zones Of operations are
not fartng so well. They are caught
between an underlined censorship which
In the name Of military security FREE
quently bars the sending of factual in
formation to the United States and
forces the military authorities Of puppet
governments east Of Italy to keep Amer
nan correspondents from certain terri
tories.
The result is that the American
people. who are footing the colossal bill
In this war and viii soon be called on to
tndorse the postwar arrangements, have
only q vague and distorted picture Of
what Is actually going on in Europe.
The unavoidable mistakes due to an
exaggerated idea OF some of the officers
In charge Of the press at the front are
not OF a lasting nature. These occur
principally when things are not going
too well and the responsible authorities
confident that they can be remedied-
are reluctant to alarm the people back
home by allowing pessimistic, although
factual, dispatches to get through. This,
however, is q chronic situation which
has occurred in every war and is char
acteristic of all warning armies.
But the total blackout of news OF a
political and social nature from coun-
tries which belong to the Allied camp
Is something entirely. new.
~
American correspondents-particularly
those in the f1eld-do not have time to
bother with ideologies. They only want
to send back to the people of this
country true and clear picture of what
they see in the countries formerly occu-
pied by the Nazis and relate how the
newly set up authorities are faring and
behaving.
1t is probable that because of their
well-known thirst for impartial report
ing they are not permitted even q
glimpse of what is going on in Yugo-
slavia, Bulgaria. Macedonia, Albania,
Romania and Hungary. It is equally
probable that the new powers estab-
lished in those countries do not want
the American public to nnd out the new
trends" in their states.
Evening star., 1945-02-07
Wild Plums

Three on horse and room to spare,
Old Jenny tpds gentle and ,Ds wers
small:
on dallying road dast-mayked and
lone, s.
No hurt II one should jan. !
Our shouts matched the clatter OF thss
old red bridge, !
We sang tDtth the tpdter u1teel turni,.ol
the mill,
And led BY the haseps ripentng hedoex,
Found the plum trees on the hui;
The tDild plum trees, Just heapen,s trees E
For no asking. the summer yield ,cd&
ours,
And the scoldin1 blue jays aud th(.
bees,
And the sonth ptnds and thS.
showeTs'.
Ours tDhen the days trefe short ana 6ark.s
And all the tDorld mas lost IN sAoW, So
70 shine like gold on csotrded elsSlpoiss :
And match the frslighre Hlosc.
nIR r AM1HRMAN.
Evening star., 1945-02-07

The remarkable thing, from the Amer.
lean point Of view, Is that We are treated
almost as enemies. We are sending them
millions Of dollars. worth Of supplies and
1t is because Of this that they have been
able to establish themselves in the var
tous areas, but American citizens rep
resenting the American people are not
allowed near any Of these territories.
The various authorities who have
clamped down an embargo on reporting
do not even bother to explain their
attitude with the usual platitude that
they could not guarantee the safety Of
the American reporters because Of dis
turbed conditions In their country. They
are just informing us bluntly that Amer
ican correspondents are mot wanted"
Two reasons are suspected as being
the underlying reasons why the Amer
leans receive such treatment One is
that there is now a terrorist regime in
Yugoslavia and the other Balkan coun-
tries which those who have been estab-
lished as 'liberators" do not care to
have publicized. Any news coming to
the attention OF the American public
indirectly can always be denied.
But the factual dispatches Of the eye
witnesses, regardless of how much the
local censorship may water them, are
bound to make bad impression on
the American people. This might prove
disadvantageous to the various govern
ments which are seeking material as
sistance from the United States
The other suspected reason is deeper
The U. S. 8. r. intends to establish
complete domination over the entire
Southeastern and Central European
area. There are millions of people
who still have great faith in the power
of the United States. They remember
that after the World War America was
their last court of appeal. But If the
prestige of America is lowered by this
cavalier treatment of her official citi-
Zens, the masses may become dis
couraged and resign themselves to their
fate.
Evening star., 1945-02-07
The Secret Is Out

Inc TACT CnaC BrltlSh labor lead
er's announcement of the opening
of the "big three" conference should
receive front page display in Amer
lean newspapers is a remarkable
commentary on the workings OF CEN
sorship in this country.
The newspapers are not supposed
to publish anything about the move
ments of the President or other high
officials unless authorized to do so,
the theory being that secrecy is
necessary to insure their safety. In
theory that is sound enough, but in
practice it often is absurd.
There are a great many people in
Washington who have known that
the President had left the country
for the conference with Marshal
Stain and Prime Minister Churchill.
The Germans certainly have known
it, and they are the ones who are
supposed to be kept in the dark.
Last week a very high official an
nounced at a public dinner that the
President was meeting with the other
Allied leaders. The newspapers did
not publish the statement, however,
because the official said he thought
he was talking "off the record"-to
$50 miscellaneous guests who were
not told that the remark was in any
sense confidential
The White House (not to be con-
fused with the sensible attitude of
the Bureau of Censorship has re-
fused to authorize any newspaper
announcement that Secretary of
State Stettinius or Harry Hopkins
are in Europe. Yet both Mr.. Hop
kins and Mr.. Stettinius have been
posing freely for news photographs
in Europe, and those photographs
have been published around the
world. They do not even pretend
to maintain secrecy as to their
whereabouts. But the newspapers Of
the United States are supposed not
even to mention that they have left
the country.
This senseless suppression of news
reduces censorship to an absurdity
and does nothing to insure the safety
of public officials. 1t Is merely an
embarrassment to those American
newspaper and radio managers who
have been trying to make system
of voluntary censorship" work eff
GENTLY in the face OF pompous
"you can't print that" attitude by
Government officials, which is exas-
perating because it is ridiculous.
Evening star., 1945-02-07
The Manila Decision
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

The Japanese Army has chosen to
yield up the city of Manila without
making q fight for it.
That may be q fact of tremendous
significance. It may mark complete
change of policy on the part of the
japanese leaders as to the future con-
duct Of the war. But 1t is not easy to
form q correct estimate of just why
the japanese have done this surprising
thing.
What appears to have happened is
that the Japanese commander on Luzon
has moved with all the troops and ma
terial which he could move over High
way No. during the time he could keep
1t. open. He fought hard along the
lateral roads leading to it, but in delay
ing actions only.
Caught with his forces separated,
north and south, by Gen. MacArthur's s
thrust into Lingayen Gulf, the Japa-
nese commander reacted along perfectly
normal lines in seeking to concentrate
his divided troops. But he chose to
concentrate in the difficult terrain Of
Northern Luzon rather than bring troops
south for the defense of the capital.
There. may be some Japanese troops
left In Southern Luzon, but apparently
they are only the troops that could not
be gotten out In time. A small Japanese
force appears to have been left in Ma
nila itself to make "face-saving" de-
tense in the old walled city. The bulk
Of the japanese Army on Luzon, how
ever, seems to have been taken into the
mountains Of the north and will doubt
less make its stand there.
It must, Of course, be understood that
on Luzon we have for the nrst time
presented the Japanese Army with the
problem Of fighting our powerfully
armed and fully mechanical units In
large-scale warfare and In fairly open
terrain.
The japanese Army has politely de-
clined the challenge. BY so doing, are
the Japanese leaders tacitly admitting
what many observers have long con-
tended, that the japanese Army is not
fit to fight western army under con-
ditions in which the latter can use to
the full its superiority in weapons, fire-
power and mobility?
II 80, this Is certainly most signifi-
cant admission, and one which promises
well for the future.
The considerations which lay behind
the Japanese decision not TO nght for
Manila must have been very strong
ones.
Never before have the Japanese siven
up anything without . nght. Never
Evening star., 1945-02-07

I would like for purpose Of clarity, to
recapitulate certain aspects of the Ger
man question which is certainly con-
corning the Big Three, wherever they
may be.
Two years ago-on the day after the
announcement at Casablanca Of the un-
conditional surrender formula this COL
umn argued as follows: The Nazis will
never surrender, for surrender is suicide
No German group can or will under
take the rise against the regime without
previous assurances that such a hazard
Gus enterprise will favorably alter the
German position.
Therefore, unconditional surrender
applied to Germany under any and all
conditions closes certain possibilities
and. in lieu Of them, eventually will put
on us the responsibility for governing
Germany. In that case, it is essential
that there be agreement between Brit
ain, the U. S. S. r. and the United
States on principles and personalities
for the reconstruction. of Europe and
Germany For unless there are common
principles, programs and people to fill
the vacuum created by collapse we shall
have ungovernable chaos, and all but
certain dissension between Allies.
Since then we have regularly-and
perhaps annoyinglY-asked Of every
single policy which has been advocated:
What Is the reason for it? What inter-
ests will it serve? What new problems
Is 1t likely to create? Are we prepared
to meet those problems? And. above all,
are all three Allies agreed?
For obviously 1t Is impossible to take
over the military, political and economic
administration Of large nation, fol-
lowing q war of monstrous destruction,
without having principles, program, a
long grange objective, and Germans Or
ganized to help carry it out.
I have recommended certain definite
measures.
It is a year since I called attention
to the lack of any far-sighted policy in
dealing with German prisoners of war.
pointed out that the conventional pro-
cedures for applying self-government in
prison camps led, inevitably, to the
Nominations of the prisoners by the
most unified and ruthless group, which
was Nazi. recommended systematic
division Of prisoners into Nazis, nom
politicals and anti -Nazis, beginning with
the isolation, not Of the anti-Nazis but
of the Nazi leaders. advised that the
re-education Of Germans begin right
here in the United States, among pris-
oners of war, who sooner or later would
have to be returned to Germany.
Evening star., 1945-02-07
Lord Churnwood

Just as the best book on the Amer
lean commonwealth was written by
an fisherman who was British Am
bassador in Washington from 1907
to 1913. the best or at any rate the
most notably readable book about
Abraham Lincoln was the work Of
an Englishman who likewise was
possessed of a sympathetic under
standing of the United States, its
people and their chosen leaders.
Lord Charnwood, dead at eighty,
leaves this country in his debt for
a number of other friendly services;
but he will be remembered especially
in relation to the biography of the
sixteenth President, published in
1915. His study of Theodore Roose-
velt was we'll worth reading, yet
fame resting upon it alone would
be insecure. Exactly how it hap
pened that he attempted the
analysis of Lincoln has not been
told in any detail. All that the gen.
eral public on this side of the Allan
tic knows about the matter is what it
finds in the result of his endeavor
The opening paragraph of the VOL
une begins with an affirmation of a
purpose which triumphs over the
accidents of life. At the end of the
story, the author asserts the spiritual
refinement of his hero. The effect
of Lincoln's suffering is summarized
in this passage:
Not many conquerors, and certainly
few successful statesmen, have es-
capped the tendency of power to
harden or at least to narrow their
human sympathies; but in this man
natural wealth of tender compass
sion became richer and more tender
while in the stress of deadly conflict
he developed an astounding strength.
Such doctrine possibly might be
applied to considerable number Of
men and women in the period of
tumult and trial in which Lord
Charnwood labored. The global con-
tests of this era conceivably may be
justified by the constructive changes
in human character and personality
which they should entail. II it be
otherwise, they must be regarded
simply as monstrous crimes. AS
Lincoln was made" by the strife
between North and South, so the
heirs of his example may be re-
made by the prevailing struggle
between tyranny and freedom.
Lord Charnwood never said any
thing of the sort; but the impact Of
his achievement has that signif1-
canoe. His name originally was
Benson and he belonged to a family
Of celebrated people. The course of
his career led through Winchester
and Oxford to the House of Com
mons In 1892 and the House Of Lords
Evening star., 1945-02-07

before have the Japanese yielded so
much as a little coral atoll without
exacting grim price for it. Now they
have virtually made the American Army
a present of the city of Manila, place
of tremendous strategic as well as po-
litical importance.
Is this surprising action a result of a
change of political objective? Are the
Japanese preparing the way for a
coming peace offer when the Germans
60 down?
It is possible that the Japanese are
thinking in just such terms as this
Perhaps they reflected that it would be
poor preparation for such policy to
fight great battle in the open valleys
of Central Luzon and suffer, in conse-
quence, a resounding defeat.
Perhaps they assumed the loss of face
which will inevitably result from the
yielding of Manila rather than the even
greater loss of face which would have
resulted from defeat on the battlefield.
Perhaps they realized just how over
whelming and thorough that defeat
would have been had they ventured to
stand up against Gen. Kreugers guns
and tanks and low-flying aircraft, work.
ing in close coordination with his we'll
armed mobile infantry.
\
Perhaps their minds ran on to a
future in which our problem on Luzon
will be either to 60 into the mountains
after them and hight them there ON their
own terms under conditions in which
their weapons and training will have
every advantage and our own advantages
will be to some extent offset, or to MAIN
tain strong forces in idleness In the
central valleys In order to protect
Manila from possible Japanese offen-
sive return.
Perhaps they are thinking that when
Germany goes down and the time comes
for them to make their peace offer-an
offer which will. Of course, allow them
to keep some Of the loot and retain q
chance to try again-it will be better
for them to have an army In being
on Luzon than an army crushed and
broken and scattered by the western
weapons which it cannot cope with. In
the open field
But II this is indeed the Japanese
motive for their actions on Luzon,
one may be permitted to wonder
whether the japanese perceive the fatal
admission Of ultimate weakness which
underlies what they have done.
II they must refuse battle In open
country on Lu1on they must refuse It
elsewhere under similar conditions.
(copsrisht 1p4E. New York Tribune. lne.)