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The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-06-06

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Evening star., 1946-02-10
1g About That New War>Bride on Their Street

What d ye want?" The Irish in the
voice is unmistakable.
We identify ourselves-too sketchily,
I'm sick,' the woman says. ANY
way, already subscribed to The Star"
We straighten out the situation and
ask our question. The woman brushes
back her steel-gray hair, takes a long
breath and folds her arms on an ample
bosom as she leans against the wall.
What do think?" she says. WHY.
1 think that's what these boys fought
the war about-so this could be free
country. What is this nonsense? What
are we doing with our democracy if
they aren't free to come home with the
wives they want without a lot of silly.
Jealous people sticking their noses in
where they aren't concerned?
Were free here, and we can do what
we want. That's what Woodrow Will
son died for-and President Roosevelt
and furthermore, that's what Jesus
Christ died for. So we could live our
lives our own way and be free. And
we're all immigrants here, except. the
Indians"
She gestures daintily and assumes a
simpering tone
"Hoity- -toity! If an American woman
marries foreign Count or Prince
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him UP. He's all bark and no bite"
On the other side of the street, in
the house next to the one which is the
center Of so much attention, live a
Jewish mother and son. Her grand
father came over from Russia.
sThere'll Be Trouble
Human nature" says the mother,
lis human nature, and there's no
monkeying with it. # this boy had to
do it-well, that's the way it is, and
it's no business Of mine. But it will be
hard for them. No matter how much
they try, there will be trouble for the
family. The family is the unit of life
not just one individual or couple of
individuals in love-and a foreigner
can't be taken in overnight. She will
have different customs, and the family
will not fit together
II don't know, Nom" Her son Is
dark-haired and 20. He spent three
months in a German prison camp. "This
girl may appreciate America more than
II she had been born here. You know
what England's like today. I'd for
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"And he was right and I was right.
I'm an American from way back, but
my people come originally from Eng
land. got no complaint against the
English, French nor anybody else.
That's my opinion, and you can print
it in your paper"
Next door is handsome middle-aged
woman who came to this country from
Italy at the age of 81.
We've been waiting for her for so
long," she says. We've known these
people for years. wrote to the girl all
the time while she was waiting in
England, and got the incest answers.
My boy just got back from overseas
himself-he was down at Union Station
to meet her with Johnny last night.
stood by the window for an hour and
half, watching across the street for
her to come. She's so beautiful, much
better looking than her pictures.
ANY American boy has the right to
marry anybody in the world so long as
she suits him-and he suits her. All
the criticism is just jealousy, and jeal-
ousy's as rotten as anything there is.
Now my husband, he doesn't approve
because he doesn't like the British, I
mean their policies, but Wen soften
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dollar is coming from, whether there
will be any orchestra next year, and
whether we will have competent musi-
Clans" Artistic progress, they know.
must suffer under such circumstances.
And they can applaud, as they did at
the anniversary concert, DR.. Kindler's
hope for an endowment fund, for the
orchestra's own hall, and ultimately for
a conservatory-a complete music cen
ter-to round out the Capitals musical
facilities.
Next season number of the Nations
leading orchestras are expected to be-
gin an annual pilgrimage to the Cap
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Clara" which would pin your ears back.
He told me he just played and the
other guys sang, because he was "a
little lousy on the downbeat'
Maybe one of the reasons the boys
like him is because he always told them
the safest place was behind a gun, to
look out for loaded guns and loaded dice.
Believed in Air Power
Spaatz has been in the Army Air Forces
81 years, beginning a year after he was
graduated from West Point as a second
''looie' of infantry. He said he thought
what caused it was seeing an airplane
flying over the Point" back in 1914. He
decided, then and there, that airpower
would hold winning odds in future wars.
Spaatz. was shot down over Mexico by
Villas men during Pershing's punitive
push when he was one of mix military
pilots-all Pershing had. In the First
World War he received the Dis
tinguished Service Cross for shooting
Evening star., 1946-02-10

is indicated by their consistent success
ever since the orchestra's founding. At
the first two this winter, hundreds of
children had to be turned away.
But students concerts do not serve
the intermediate age level. Senior high
school students for the most part do
not attend, even when the concert is
given in their own school. Nor, on the
other hand, do many of them attend
the orchestra's regular concerts. Many
college students also find the regular
concerts too formidable, or too expen-
sive for limited budgets.
For this intermediate group, served
at present only by the experimental
1890 series, committee members will
propose a new approach. To edu-
Gators, civic leaders and parents, they
plan to suggest a close program of CO.
operation between the orchestra and
the schools and colleges of the area
to produce concert series with a
definite educational outline. Planned
with the intent of encouraging ap-
probation of good music, and with in
formality as a keynote, these concerts
still could be attractive to both stu
dents and the general public as enter
tainment. There is no proposal, as
there was in 1912, to station bouncers
at the concest hall to exclude fans
over 80!
Symphony Clubs
Apart from this plan, the committee is
hoping to step up interest in schools
through extracurricular organizations
and is considering move to have
symphony clubs" formed expressly for
work with the committee. Considerable
expansion of the committee itself Is
anticipated. Were always on the
lookout for new members" Maj. Howe
emphasizes ANY younger people in
serested in the symphony are welcome"
Committee members have found the
activity stimulating to their interest in
the symphony, as well as good fun.
AS DR.. Kinder remarked, "The more
effort you put into something, the
more you will enjoy It,"
While plans for next year are brew
ing, the committee wants to make
success Of its two remaining concerts
this season. The first, on February %,
will be an all-Tchaikovsky program fea-
turing Earl Wild, pianist An all-request
concert, first of its type in this series,
will follow in March
Fully aware that without funds no
such ambitious program as they are
working for next year is possible, COM
mittee members also are participating
in the sustaining fund drive. They
hope, too, that their own campaign
may lend added impetus to the drive.
When does the National Symphony
come of age? To these young people
the answer is clear. The time is now.
Evening star., 1946-02-10

gotten almost what we had here, and
it all looked wonderful to me- I think
it must look so good to her she'll fit
in better than maybe any of us"
The mother shakes her head. "I got
nothing against the girl" she says.
@She seems like nice girl AL can
say is" tshe turns to us), ''if my boy
had come back with foreign woman.
I'd have felt bad" u
''Well, MON, If I found q girl over
there I loved, I'd have brought her
back"
'Tf you had" says the mother, 'Td
have smacked you down."
She stands there for moment with
her hand upraised. Then he laughs
and so does she. 1t is nice to watch
them-they like each other SO much.
when it happens" she says, 1T hap
pens. There's no monkeying with hui
man nature"
Out In the street again, we pass the
house where the stranger is-it looks
just like all the others-and we ring the
bell to the house on the other side. The
door opens crack.
Evening star., 1946-02-10

down two German planes and chasing
third until his own plane ran out of gas.
The general always has been an in
dividualist. He demonstrated this in
1916, when he proposed toast to Billy"
Mitchell, who then was battling the War
and Navy Departments over airpower.
Again, there was the incident at
March Field, Calf, back before the old
war. Gen. Fetchet, then head Of the
Army Air Forces, said he was going to
send Spaatz to flying school,
What the hell do I want to 20 to
school for?" Spaatz asked. Unless
maybe you want me to waste my life
like you have yours"
1t was all in fun, so Spaatz wasn't
shot at dawn.
Spaatz is rather well known for his
sayings.
He took a look at what Goerings
Luftwaffe was doing to England by
helter-skelter bombing and said:
Those damn fools are running any
decent respect for air power"
Blast Everything
When Spaatz blasted Europe, paving
the way for We day, he tore up the
Normandy coast in systematic fashion.
He said the only way to establish a
beachhead was to blast. progressively,
everything that could be used by the
enemy
He said the ceaseless pulverizing Of
enemy war power by his B-29s was more
important to victory over Japan than
the atom bombs. He thinks the Japs
were whipped before the atom bombs
gave them an excuse to give up. But
he credits the bombs with saving the
Army and Navy landing forces tre-
mendous losses.
Spaatz developed the high-level pre-
cision daylight bombing by our flying
Fortresses and Liberators, which the
American high command considered
more effective than the constant pound
ing by British night bombers.
He has squalled for air power ever
since the days he few rickety old crates.
No Secret Weapon
In 1910. he said:
France and England must realize BY
this time that they began too late to
build air power. For us, second best
air force is like a second best hand at
poker-no good at ALL There is much
talk of Hitler's secret weapons, but the
British weapon that will defeat him liz
no secret-it is just plain guts!"
Spaatz says the recent slightly more
than four-hour flight of an Army fighter
plane from California to New York was
merely token of things to come. He
foresees the day when battle planes will
soar like shooting stars through the
Stratosphere
He recalls that in 1911 Congress
swarmed up with $125,Oo0 to buy two
Army biplanes and appropriated funds
for only Is pilots.
In this war it kicked through with
s13,000,000 900 for aircraft and 5000 900
were trained to man them.
"Tooey" Spaatz and his flying ma.
chimes have come long way together.
Evening star., 1946-02-10

truth in the story that he deliberately
allowed famous Russian general visit
ing him in Europe to win at chess on
the advice OF friends who said the Rus
sian didn't like the short end of the
shingle.
All they could do was sit and stare
at each other and make their moves,
because Spaatz didn't speak Russian and
the general didn't speak English.
Drove His Own Jeep
'"I," said Spaatz, did my damndest
to beat him. The guy was terrific.
When lost I couldn't help it."
But he said it was true that he did
ram around North Africa in the midst
a battle plotting his own jeep-a four
star general-to the amazement of dog
faces"
And, of all things, this fighting gen.
eral-adored, I'm told, by all his boys
plays a guitar at informal meetings with
them and sings made up verses to Aunt
Evening star., 1946-02-10

toothbrush with most of the bristles
pulled out.
His eyes are bright with mystery. His
chill petulance gives you double help
ing of curiosity because he sort of bites
his mouth shut. using words as though
they cost him money.
His Voice Sizzles
You get the feeling he is one guy you
wouldn't want to rassle or tie into with
an argument. His voice sizzles like
branding iron-maybe phrase. maybe
a six-word sentence-and then silence
as thick as an Indian blanket.
crept out of his Office feeling was
something a cat wouldn't drag in
They tell me that even his closest
friends get the old business treatment
during duty hours, but that afterward
he pitches into poker, pool, checkers or
chess. And he plays as hard as he
fights-to win.
Spaatz told me there wasn't word of
Evening star., 1946-02-10
THE sUrpAx a4sz, sgAa g!as Wassalngon, y 81 c.
Pioneer Army Flyer Takes Over
Gen. Spaatz, New
Air Forces Head,
Was Witness 5 to
Three Surrenders
BY Frank L. Weller,
Associated Press stan writer.

When Gen. Carl Andrew Spaatz
shakes hands you think he is going to
throw you down and cut your leg OF.
He is succeeding Gen. Henry H. (Hap)
Arnold as commanding general Of the
Army Air Forces. Arnold Is retiring.
Spaatz is 81, lean, wiry and hard-bit-
ten. He saw his winged warriors
boys from the plains, the valleys and
mountains-die over all the battle
fields of this war so short a time ago
that battle still flares from his nerve
less, glacial eyes.
He was commander OF the United
States Strategic Air Forces in Europe,
which he headed during the invasion
and until final victory. He started
blasting Hitler's hordes in North Africa,
then Italy and finally Germany. He
supervised the final strategic bombing
of Japan by the B-29s, including the
atom bomb missions.
He is the only one among American
military "top brass" present at three
signings of unconditional surrender by
the enemy-at Rheims, at Berlin and at
Tokyo.
The Flying Dutchman'
Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower
thinks this Flying Dutchman" from
Boyertown, Pa, is one of the truly great
personalities in American military his
tory.
Gen. "Ike" is quoted as saying:
Hes the best air commander I know.
I've spent months trying to figure out
how he does it, and still can't do it.
But he's right 80 per cent of the time"
Spaatz pronounced "spots"D is 5-feet-
10 and weighs 155 pounds. He is ram
rod stiff and as snappy as a teen-age
West Pointer. His once freckled face
and red hair are little grizzled now,
and his mustache looks like tired old
Evening star., 1946-02-10
The National Symphony Orchestra Sounds New
Note in Answering the Call of Bobbysock
America for Good Music to Calm Its Nerves.

concerts can be given as Washington
needs. In 1912, for example, total
OF IA children's concerts, most costly
type on the orchestra's schedule, were
given in the public schools. This year
only seven can be offered. A mere three
concerts comprises this years 1890
series. Even rehearsals are limited
they, too, drain the exchecquer
Stanch supporters of the orchestra echo
DR.. Kindler's sentiments when he points
to the burden this financial situation
places on the orchestra, upon its con-
ductor, and equally upon the community.
They can exclaim, with DR.. Kinder,
Il am sick of worrying where the next
Evening star., 1946-02-10
BY Newbold Noyes, Jr.

There are hundreds of streets like
this in Washington Two rows of little
houses, one against the other, slightly
dilapidated, paint beginning to peel.
Two rows of trees, shady in summer,
bare now except for a few brown leaves.
Practically no sound but the twittering
of the sparrows. The street deserted,
wet with rain.
But behind the closed doors, where
life varies SO little, people are. excited
and talkative today. There is a stranger
in the street. An American boy went
away to the war and brought home
a foreigner-an English girl-as his
bride. 1t has happened in lot of
other streets, of course, but this one
is their street.
These are all good Americans, you
understand. People named Popkof,
Callahan, Schumlin, Richards, Bondini,
Samopoulos and things like that. The
issue regarding foreign brides is hot
one, debated in and out of the press,
and the feelings of these people are
important. We can, If we wish, go into
the houses and see what those feelings
are.
No Complaint
A door opens, and wondrously old
woman offers us chair in the parlor.
''I1l tell you straight" she says, "I
make no objection to this thing in any
way, shape or form. was 80 years old
last summer, and know my own mind.
wouldn't listen to any one who
objected to this girls coming here to
be an American.
IT had boarder before the war, a
fine young man, and he came to see
me as soon as he got back to this
country from overseas. He said he was
married and that his wife, French
woman, would be coming over.
Il says, Bill. why couldn't you have
married one of your own people, good
American grip
HE says, She's nice girl, Granny
That's what he always calls me. They
all do.
'I says, 7 understand that, but why
not an Americana
"And he says, Granny. love her.
so says, IF it's good enough for
you, its good enough for me-
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ital. Some already pay regular visits.
DR.. Kinder is not disturbed about this
competition. After ALL" he said, 1--WE
can always learn from Others" But
National Symphony hackers see this as
one more reason for looking now to the
youthful audience which only Washing
tons own orchestra can serve in full
measure. This young audience, they
know, must be the National Symphony's
bulwark of the future.
BY February 81, when the current
sustaining fund drive is set to close,
the National Symptoms 1880 Com
mittee expects to have sounded the
start of a new campaign to bring
Evening star., 1946-02-10

symphonic music to younger Wash
ingtonians. This program, as COM
mittee members conceive it, like the
present approach will be two-fold.
Student Concerts
On the elementary level it will be
directed toward an extension of the
present students concerts to the point
where every school child in Washington
will be given the opportunity regularly
to attend. DR.. Kindler's declared goal
is at least one of these concerts each
week, with wide geographic coverage
including, as now, nearby Maryland
and Virginia Need Of these concerts
Evening star., 1946-02-10

Te orcheStras future 100 cent bound ith yout
declares Conductor Hans Kinder Young supporters the Ma
tional look ON as Wallace Manu. first aus plays at
rehearsal With Conductor Kinder to right Mary Whit
and Cecilia Aluarado, Immaculate Junior College, Phyllis
Camp Immaculate Seminary Maj Bruce HoaOe 1880 Commit
tee chairman Jean Ann Topa Eastern High School, Put
Dasouas Central High amnus John Corn, Cheuy
Chase High Sue Burgess George Washington University and
Sheila McCabe, WOODROW Wilson High Star Stan Photo
Evening star., 1946-02-10

whoops, my dear, it's too, too ducky.
But when good, plain English girl
comes here as the wife of one of our
soldiers, you cannot hear yourself think
for the din some fools put up.
Let 'Em Come
I've no love for the British, the good
Lord knows. But say let EN- come,
and who's the worst off. Let 'em comel
I'd say the same about the Germans
or the Japs, but for one reason-they
don't understand democracy yet. They
wouldn't understand what it was made
this country and their coming here
possible, any more than the people do
who talk about these girls from Eng
land like some people talk"
So it goes, up and down the block.
All are interested - all speak their
minds. Not all are uniformly approv-
ing, but there is not one piece Of
bigoted criticism.
At last, we knock at the door through
which, last night, the English girl and
her year-old baby were carried.
The baby is asleep upstairs. The boy.
the girl, and the boys sister are at the
table, finishing their lunch. The girl
is truly lovely. She holds in her hand
the first banana she has seen in six
years.
She'll Be Happy
Il am quite confident" she says, that
I shall be happy here"
The boy is tall and smiling. He puts
out big hand and cradles the back
of her neck under the dark hair. She
leans back, closing her eyes.
After few seconds, he takes the hand
away and points to the banana. Go
ahead, peel it," he says. els it ripe
enough?"
yes she says, "it's quite right.
think I can still remember what it
tastes like"
Ten minutes later we wait on a streets
car platform, looking at a newspaper
picture of the girl taken when she ar.
rived In New York. We tell a man
beside us that we have been talking
to this girl-that she married an Ameri-
can soldier and is now living few
blocks down the street.
He ficks his cigarette into the gutter.
That limey," he says. II wouldnt
take her on . silver platter"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-04
Four.Power Government Rule

There is little doubt that military government or 6apan is coming along remarkably we'll while our program logical explanations for this situation without beneht of firstkand observation.
 Japan though heavily bombed, was spared the clash of armies on her so Hence her basic economy is less damaged than Germanys The American attitude toward the Japanese may be mpersona and hardboed than cannot be overlooked the single uniform plan of ent for Japan opposed to the fourway setup in Ger many The former to be enstng the cooperation of the Japanese emperor and his subjects The latter be- ginning to show signs of coming apart at the seams
 An American military intelligence team recently made survey in the American of Germany to find out what the natives thought of their fate in general and our occupa tion policies and practices in particular.
 The survey showed that most Germans are still unre- pentant in maddeningly pigheaded way still mdugng III sefustifcaton still protesting their innocence else braZ eny extolng Hitler Comment American mistakes IS snug and contemptuous digest of the teams report dscouragng it's parts and douby dscouragng in its sum- dashe the hope of immediate perhaps even an eventual German change of heart.
 It isn't business to make the Germans happy or to treat them softly But it business and that o our former Allies that their military government is run smoothly sterny and that their reeducaton as it may seem-goes on.
 Instead doing that however to be facing the growing threat of unified German opposition which is smary exploiting every sign of dscord confusion cross purposes among the four powers governing Germany.
 In the face of this situation it seems unfortunate tnat the foreign ministers meeting in Moscow has decided upon fourpower control of Japan The agreement may have been something of horse trade but after the sad example of too many cooks which Germany offers it to prom ise appeasement than improvement
 This country has wisdom, nor does our al most sngehanded conquest of Japan constitute in itself
 right to sole authority in that country But we nave done we'll And might that the better wisdom TOT all concerned would have been to let well enough alone