The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-19
Observations
Southern Senators
Recipe For Keeping
Good Spirits
By HELEN EssARY

A. stories. proved By iactual evil
dence. reach the tayathomes Of
much disgraceful lootiug BY United
States Soldiers, the question Is be
ink asked by troubled civilians:
Why did not the officers IN
charge Of troops SOP such shocking
outrages? And there were many IN
cidents best described as "outrag-
ss." Was il not their duty to control
the men they we're supposed 70
command
Heaven knows. cannot answer
any OF the messy questions peace
has brought 30 light. NOT did ever
think that the wholesale killing
and destruction that is war could
bring about a paradise OF four free
doms.
mentioned my anIieties to Sena-
tor Burnet Maybank (D) OF South
Carolina with How do you man,
age 10 look so cheerful when things
are in the state they are?'
Il tell you it's this way said the
senator. There's just so much 10
worry about. Strikes and unemploy-
ment and atom bombs and what to
do with veterans and initiation and
do we feed Europe and give money
all over the universe and the next
war Not TO mention such minor
complaints as where does the butter
go?
ITO tell you the honest truth
there are so many troubles In my
head, / Just can: concentrate So I
have figured out the only thing TO
do is not TO worry about anything
and do the best 7 can with each
problem as It comes along"
American ingenuity. dista:t side.
meets the capital bus mad stree:
car strike as maiden standing on
a corner Of 14th and F streets,
Washington, holds aloft placard
reading in large letters: CON
NECTICUT AVENUE AND ORD
WAY STREET"
I asked the maiden II she was
having any luck Been doing Il for
weeks" she said. And then jumped
TO take her choice OF four private
cars IN the act Of drawing up 10
the curb to offer lift.
we have walked into the crisis
OF civilization" said Representative
Glare Luce, as she sat with other
memoirs OF the House Military AZ
fairs Committee. listening to the
testimony on the atom bomb.
Absent minded professor from
Cambridge. DR.. James r. Conant.
president o: Harvard University.
wore a War Department Identified
ton tag pinned TO his conservative
gray coat when he appeared at the
atom bomb congressional hearing.
He forgot TO return the label that
had proved him reliable citizen in
the Pentagon Building.
Getting ready for spring at 1900
Pennsylvania Avenue: In the flow
er beds in front OF the White House.
gardeners are at work digging up
the big red cannas from around the
fountain. Next the gardeners will
put in tulip bulbs. Clear pink ones.
such as they planted last year. It
is the opinion OF connoisseurs that
either pink or red is effective
against the white walls OF the
White House. Especially so, since
the walls have been painted.
Don't tell me anything more
about the war. I'm sick Of IT," you
say. Perhaps you are right. But
there are some echoes OF extraor-
binary goings on IN the European
and Pacific theaters that ought to
be given an airing.
For example. the caretree activ-
tiles o. many high-ranking officers
who quite forgot the wives they left
behind. There were open examples
Of extra currlcular life that, speak.
ing politely. we're not a pretty eI.
ample 10 enlisted men.
You hear criticism OF the triv-
olousness OF some women in uni.
forms I've inquired a BIT into these
situations. To every such question
I rot the same answer:
This Is one time when YOU can't
blame the women You can't say the
girls stalked the men The situa-
ton was quite the opposite. The
girls with few exceptions we're nice
girls. But the men-thev we're sillv
and vain. Determined 10 he friskv
regardless of the spectacle they
made OF themselves