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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
BY DOROTHY KILGALLEN

/ By DOhOlh1 hlLbA Lin
Janice was a very lucky girl. AL
though she had flaws In her molars
and was q little too wide around
the hips. she sang romantically II
not very well. had hair down TO her
knees and could swim. Therefore,
she became a Hollywood star over
night.
II seemed that the studio OF her
dreams needed someone who could
wear island-natiye clothes, do a
breast stroke. and wouldn't mind
playing second fiddle to a gorilla.
other girls were prettier than Jan.
ice, and better actresses. but
Janice had these peculiar requis.
ties. SO she got her big chance.
And, OF course. she was easy TO
talk terms to. She signed a con-
tract for 500 a week.
In her first picture. Janice
brought out the wolf in young lads
who whistled through their teeth
in neighborhood movie houses all
over the nation every time she ap.
peared on the screen. So the stu
do raised her pay to $500 and she
couldn't believe her good fortune.
She used to tell her friends she
never went TO sleep at night with.
out mentioning her bosses in her
prayers.
Two years later, when she was
really a big star, the executives
tore up her contract again and gave
her $500 week. How she loved
that studio! I'm Just can OF to-
matoes." she used to say. but they
knew how to merchandise me-
And, OF COURSE the studio loved
her, too.
Then jealousy reared its ubiquit-
ious head. A young musical come
dy Coincidence was imported from
New York and Janice. queen OF the
lot, took her under her wing, feeling
that no one-even young Nancy
from Broadway-could possibly
rate as competition.
The little starlet played a minor
role in Janice's next picture, ana
Janice gave her every break. She
was sincere in wanting to help
Nancy succeed in pictures.
Well, Nancy did. She moved
'em down. TO put It mildly. She
went on TO bigger parts and. before
long. much better parts-inclnding
important dramatic roles. While
Janice went on playing the same
tired roles in the same tired plots
She'd never minded the gorillas
and he silly dialogue before-after
all. they were great money makers,
and the public loved her in them
hut when peonle began mention.
ing ACADEMY Award" in the same
breath with Nancv's name Janice
felt terrible surge OF jealousy.
Suddenly she became the most
difficult star on the lot. From u
little ray OF sunshine. n good kid.
swell gal. she CHANGED into n
termaCant She comnlained about
directors and refused roles right
and left and made her friends the
studio bosses wish they Rad never
seen her.
And so II came to pass that one
day. in particularly turbulent
mood. she packed IN her makeup
and strobe or the lot and announc-
ed she was taking a vacation.
And although they don't know It
yet, she's never coming back.
But you can't print that. II
would make Nancy feel terrible.
And what does she want Nancy TO
| do--stop being n star?
ChIckie Is one Of the towns new
crop OF showglrls. Not long ago
she met Bob, a fellow who has
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
BICYCLE STOLEN

Ann Arbor, Jan. 2s-Bicycles
stolen over the week end included
one belonging to Stanley Plugen-
hoch. OF 400 Spring St, taken Sun
day night from in front OF the
Michigan League, and one owned
by Emmett O'Connor, 721 S. Divis.
ion St. taken from a garage, also
on Sunday night.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
DIES OF INJURIES

Ludington- AP-Warren Proper
"a, OF Marquette Township. died
Thursday In Pauline Stearns Hos
pital OF injuries suffered two days
earlier at his farm home when he
was caught In 3 saw mill.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
Hall Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

The third reunion OF the Shezer party ACCOMPANIED
Prot Sherzer on his western trip last
OF Prof and Mrs b. w Pee party was enter
taned for dinner Mrs Peet hostess by Miss
Carrie Hardy and Miss Fannie Beal
owen Ceary supper party 10 group Of people
who had attended the Dunsany play Playhouse earlier in
the evening"
Death: Charles BLOW, his house los y Wash
ingon St Mrs A. Rogers 50. Detroit grandmother Of
Mrs Harry Wood.
Birth and Mrs John Schiller a son Melvin Dean AT
home OF Mrs schers parents Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs
Charles DEAN boy, Carl Harry
Fifty Years Ago
Normal Notes The examinations commenced and there will be
chapel exercises during the week The Con
StTFatoy Lady Quartette Will Armada
ture course F. Hopkinson Smith Normal Hall
on Art Life at Home and Abroad
Death The young child Of Mr. Sydney Case; Elijah
Eeison al his home.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
INJURIES SISTER

Jackson - APP - Three-year old
David Hunt accidentally discharged
shotgun Thursday injuring his
sister Lorella, % months. The
children's parents we're away when
the accident occurred.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28

so-called democratic government. "
Once the Philippines were occu-
pied. as In North China. the in
vaders lost no time in forgetting
their promises for liberation OF the
Inhabitants.
The destructive regime OF Gen
eral Homma and General Yama-
shita has ended. but the spirit OF
revenge remains with their men,
who were shipped back to Japan
conquest OF the Philippine Com
monwealth.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
. HAT TER and
- q Fact or Two

Lemurs are among the most
curious animals characteristic o.
Madagascar. The name was be
slowed on these mammals by
Linnaeus on account of its noe
turnal habits and odd. ghost
like appearance.
From its earliest settlement.
Iowa has been one OF the most
important agricultural states in
the Union.
In ancient Egypt, the god
Osiris and his wife Isis were the
tutelary deities Of the medical
arts.
A STRUCK eastern dairy was
picketed with an airplane. We
knew there was a demand for
higher wages but we had no
idea II was that high
The United States. we read.
leads the world IN manufacture
and sale OF fur coats. The land
OF mink and eoneyI
You don't have 10 be a Sioiis-
Heian 10 determine from current
figures tho, women Of sedoy cot
less than did their mothers.
Astronomers say the earth Is
constantly swelling and con-
tracing. They call this breath
ing" Those aren't breaths--
those are signs.
Millions OF school children. q
survey shows. have defective
hearing. And their parents will.
too--if the lids don't tune
down the radio.
A Michigan man arrested for
possessing loaded dice was found
70 have but SIS. Those cubes
must have been beomsronS dice.
An American, while staging
q holdup In a Paris restaurant,
had his getaway car stolen by
two Parisians. You Just cant
trust those foreigners!
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
Hints on Etiauette

II a neighbours child becomes
a nuisance. do not complain to
the person In whose care the child
"a. but 10 the mother or parents.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28
Words Of Wisdom

Interest makes some people
blind, and others quick-sigfted.-
Beaumont.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28

terations. however. II you have
an inspiring efficiency idea, write
II down, and execute 1t now. With
the prevailing influences. you
should be inspired to great
heights.
One Minute Test Answers
1. A knob or stud.
2. A projecting member left by
cutting away the wood around It
for the insertion into a mortise to
make a joint.
3. A clasp or brooch. also
setting for q precious stone.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28

ChIckie Is one Of the towns new
crop OF showgirls. Not long ago
she met Bob, a fellow who has
been around Broadway long enough
10 know the score and few other
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28

One-Mlnuto Test
/. What is a knop7
2. What Is a tenonH
3. What Is an ouchef
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-28

Millions OF school children. q
survey shows. have defective
hearing. And their parents will.
too--H ths bids don't tune
down the radio.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
HIGH JUMP:
Important Operation

Amid rumors that other nations
were preparing expeditions to
search for reported uranium depos-
its around the south pole, the U. S.
announced that Rear Adm. Richard
E. Byrd would lead navy contin-
gent to Antarctica in December on
scientific study.
While Byrd's force will make ex-
haustive geological surveys in the
polar wasteland to uncover any
uranium, the famed explorer de-
clared that his band also would
undertake intensive studies of geo.
graphical, meteorological and cleo
tro-magnetic conditions. Weather
developing in Antarctica affects all
parts of the world.
Four thousand men, IL ships and
at least score of aircraft will COM
pose Byrd's operation High Jump,
as the expedition will be known No
part of the task force will be kept in
the region during the Antarctic win
ter but Byrd will establish a small
base capable of supporting a small
party for 18 months in the event of
national need.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
PANAMA CANAL:
Study Alteration

Working under special con-
gressional grant, top meteorologists
and hydrodynamic, dredge and ex-
cavation engineers are busily en-
gagged in studying the alteration of
the existing Panama canal or con-
struction of a new waterway to ac-
commodate heavier modern traf-
fic and decrease vulnerability to
atomic warfare.
Erected at the turn of the CEN
tury, the canals narrow channel
and locks are too small for the
latest warships and merchant ves-
sells. Water storage capacity of
Gatun lake reservoir will be in
sufficient to handle prospective traf-
fic by 1860 or diversion Of traf-
fic from Suez canal in event that
vital artery is closed by war.
To meet modern needs en-
gineers are considering increasing
size of reservoirs, lengthening locks
from 1000 to 1900 feet and widen
ing them from 10 to 200 feet.
Against these plans, some techni-
clans argue that it would be better
to build a new canal with fewer
curves and wider turns. However,
it would be necessary to clear the
bordering jungle, install sanitary
facilities, and erect dock and ad-
ministrative installations. The U. S.
also would have to dicker with Pan
anna for land rights.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

her traditional enemy" to her
bosom.
The story was broadcast and that
was the end, until, some 10 months
later, it was confirmed in a matter
of-fact statement of the French min
lister of population, then touring
America.
A copy of the original dispatch
which / exhumed from the files re-
fleets my feeling in its incredibility
as I stood amidst the ruins of a
German city with the memories of
a twice-devastated France clear in
my mind. The idea now apparently
is accepted without comment.
How well the plan will succeed,
I do not know. But to me it is
a comforting thought that it has
been proposed because it shows so
clearly how war hates are artificial
things, and bear no part in the re-
lationships between individuals.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
NEWS REVIEW
DecOntrOl Boosts Prices:
Polar Expedition Planned

Price rises all along the line &C.
companied decontrol of the nation
economy, with producers hiking
items for full coverage Of higher
wages and material costs and prom
Using lower prices when output
reached volume proportions.
Biggest manufacturer in the
industry, International Harves-
ter boosted prices of farm inn
plements and tractors 8 per
cent to Offset wage increases
amounting to 60 per cent since
1941 and higher material costs.
Declaring its intention of keep
ing prices at a minimum, the
company stated that it based
its increases on present costs
and did not anticipate future
higher operating expenses.
Zenith Radio corporation an
nounced an increase of from
to 20 per cent on radios and
radio phonOgraph cOmbina-
tiOns.
Leading shoe manufacturers
expected 10 per cent rise in all
standard lines as a result of the
increase in the cost of hides
from 151a cents a pound to
80 cents.
Previously, General Motors and
Crosley had boosted the price OF
passenger cars by $100 and indus
try spokesmen predicted increases
in some steel items, building mate
rials, clothing, batteries and lum-
ber.
Long held within rigid ceilings de-
spite mounting janitorial and main
tenance expenses, landlords peti-
toned for a is per cent boost in
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

sonal adjustments, the national in
come hit new record level of $780,
SOC, 100000 This was three per cent
above the wartime peak hit in Feb
ruary, 1945.
Part of the increase was attribut-
ed to the fact that some workers
already are working longer hours.
Average work week in all manufac-
turing industries in August was 40.3
hours.
Coupled with an average wage of
Sill an hour, this brought the typ
ical manufacturing paycheck to
$44.61 a week, six per cent lower
than the wartime peak of $47.50 in
January, 1945, but nine per cent
higher than the .$40.87 in Septem-
ber, 1945.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
PRODUCTION AT PEAK
More Work Urged To Fill Needs

WASHINGTON. - To meet its
mushrooming industrial needs, the
nation will have to work harder or
return to longer working hours, the
government warned.
Although the nations economy is
running at top peacetine speed, de-
mand for most products still is un-
satisfied, an agriculture department
report maintained. Harder work or
longer hours, the report added, ap-
pear as the only means of boosting
industrial production.
Shortages Persist.
Production of many basic ma
terials is now near capacity, de-
mobilization is virtually completed
and unemployment is now at level
generally considered to be close to
a practical minimum" it said.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

Further substantial. increases in
industrial production will have to be
attained to a larger extent by long
er hours of work and by more out
put per worker"
The report said the September in
dex OF industrial production stood
at 1T per cent of the prewar base
1859 and five per cent higher than
September, 1945.
despite large increases in the
production of almost all types of
consumer and producer goods, acute
shortages persisted in various key
lines" it added.
Incomes Still Soar.
Individual income payments,
meanwhile, are soaring to new
highs. In August, allowing for sea-
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

TO LIVE in the presence Of
i great truths and eternal
laws, to be led by permanent
ideals-that is what keeps a
man patient when the world ig-
nores him, and calm and un-
spoiled when the world praises
him.-Dr. A. Peabody.
find the great thing in shis world
is not SO much ,Uhere tOe stand, as in
Whdt direction iUe are moving.-OL
iuer Wendell Holmes.
Regret is an appalling waste
OF energy; you can't build on it;
it's only good for wallOwing in.
Katherine Mansfield.
Aggressive fighting for what
you think is right is the noblest
sport the world affords.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
COP Win Stems
From Many Causes
Marianne .Forgives Fritz

Twas the day after Christmas in
Frankfurt, Germany, 1945, when all
through the ether there was static
enough to make a transatlantic
broadcast impossible. I had an ex-
elusive sstory,sso l. sent it as a dis
patch to David Wills, my substitute,
in Washington. .,t.....i.s. .ig.
Theastory Il said in my dispatch)i
would probably be denied, and ! ad-
mitted it seemed incredible, for. il
revealed plan of the French gov
ernment to help re-populate France
by admitting German war prisoners
to citizenship. It seemed impossi-
BILE, that, with the ancient Franco
German hatred so recently famed
to new fury, Marianne would take
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
Parties Split
On Hot Issues

Il
It may be that after the next cleo
ton we can get down to the old par
ty lines again, but it can't be done
yet. There is still pretty bad
scramb1ing Of Democrats and Re-
publicans on many issues which will
split parties as it has before.
It win be q relief If we do get back
to honest labels again.
Tho British are still having
their troubles on this score. The
Conservatives, who are the
''outs," have discussed changing
their name. They have done it
before. They have been known
as the "Tory," the "UniOnist"
and the 'NationaP' as well as
the .Conservative." Sir Hartley
Shawcross, brilliant British
prosecutor, tainted them about
this recently and even went as
far as calling them .'neo-Nazis."
This sounded strange from those
dignifed lips which hurled one of the
most restrained and yet most dew
astating charges against the Nuern-
berg war criminals that ] have ever
heard ii courtroom.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
Workers Role in Politics AnoIyzed
ILabor's Interests Fused
With a, Average Citizens
BY BAUKHAGE
NetUs Analyst and Commentator.

lantic City last spring, were all re-
elected with one exception (and that
was Representative Slaughter, beat
en- by the Presidents own special
efforts in the primaries); when
things like that happen, you know
that plenty of perfectly good union
members in perfectly good standing
were voting against the preach
ments of the PAC. Perhaps if it
had not been for two other circum-
stances PAC's views might not have
been so vehemently opposed up and
down the line. Both have to do with
good old American customs which
spring from frontier days when
emergency situations had to be met
with emergency measures for the
sake of simple self-preservation.
One of those customs which has
precedent implied all through the
constitution is that too much power
isn't good for anybody, and in a
republic you don't elect people for
life, or put one party in power in
definitely.
That is one thing that accounted
for most of the votes against the
Gins" regardless of the candidates
persuasions. Another factor which
added to the landslide quality of the
vote is the old law Of action and re-
action. Americans have a habit of
going to extremes. They have GER
tain tastes inherited from pioneers
that make them like their music
loud, their horses fast, their stakes
high, their goals worth winning.
They are not as fast to start either
a fight or a frolic as some nations,
but when they do get "het up'-oh,
my! Failure to recognize that fact
has caused what was the greatest
military nation of its time to be
licked twice in a generation.
1t was this characteristic, !
feel sure, which caused Amer
leans of all sorts to swing much
farther toward the conservative
side than they normally would
have done. Their patience had
been exhausted by the efforts Of
a screaming minority to implant
Communism on our soil and thus
attempt to bring to this country
the very thing from which
America was supposed to be the
escape, tyranny of the minor
ity.
OF late it has become the style to
sneer at the majority. The vulgar
herd' and the "mob" were the con-
temptuous epithets of kings. The
modern majority-scorner is more
careful of his language. He phrases
it so that it will appeal to the "peas-
ant and worker" or to the readers
of persuasive and expensive page ad-
vertisements in metropolitan papers.
The language differs when it comes
from the extreme right and the ex-
treme left, but it's purpose is the
same: minority rule. Totalitarian-
ism as produced by a Hitler or a
Stain is not too different from that
more subtly suggested by the power
full pressure group in capitalistic
country.
The Both congress has a tougher
job than the 10th. We hope it will
be able to handle it. It was not
elected to smash labor. It was elect
ed to carry out a mandate (among
others) to help keep labor from
smashing itself.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

interests common to other citizens.
They didn't look at themselves as
a political unit.
In analyzing the new congress,
some people have made the mistake
of pointing to the defeat of candi-
dates conspicuously endorsed by the
CIO-PAC and the victory of those
marked for purge. Then, because
the PAC is an institution which has
behind it one of the two big interna-
tional union organizations, these
people imply that because of the de-
feat of the PAC, labor itself was
defeated. AS matter of fact, la
Dor was not beaten by any oppos-
ing group. 1t was not question
of labor, politically organized, meet
ing organized political opposition. 1t
was a case of a lot of men who haps
pen to belong to- unions plus lot
of others who don't going to the
POLLS and utterly disregarding the
wishes of group which had tried
to attach itself to the labor union
and thus proving Gas my friend said)
that American labor is an Aneri-
can citizen first and a lot of other
things next and when he sits in his
union meeting he is member of
that local and not member of
political party.
/ haven't the slightest doubt
that many an American citizen,
who otherwise might not have
voted, did so because of the en-
ergetic efforts of persons in
spired by the CIO-PAC booklets
and contacts, the chief aim Of
which was to get voters to the
polls. / am equally certain that
of these voters who exercised
their franchise chiefly because
of CIO-PAC nudging, many vot-
ed quite the opposite to what
the CIO-PAC wished.
COP Win Stems
From Many Causes
But this election was something
more than a revolt against the frank
effort of CIO to reward those who
had espoused specific measures or,
to punish those who didn't. When.
Guffy, Mead and Murdock were.
moved down in the senate, men who:
certainly spoke the speech as labor
considered it should be spoken,
when 20 congressman, marked for
the purge at the PAC meeting in At
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

Spok en- to me
several years ago
by an official who
h e lpe d writ e
some of the most
important N ew
Deal labor legis-
lation a decade
ago.
The reasons
given were that
workers in Amer
lea were individ-
u ais first and
members of Ia
Dor unions after
ward-they were
prim arily citi-
zens with groun
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

rentals. An estimated 16 million
housing units have been under rent
al control in addition to hotels, room
ing houses and tourist camps.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
WNU Service, 1916 Eye Street. NV,
Washington, ID. C.

WASHINGTON. - ''There never
will be Labor party in the U. S."
In the aftermath of the election, l
couldn't help cogitating these words,
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
PERSONAL

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MISCELLANEOUS

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available. Domestic, Indian and Mexican
Jewelry. Cat. Free. Expert watch repair.
Bluebonnet jewelers. Exchange, 25OO Car
ter, Ft. Worth, Tex.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29

NOT ENOUGH NEW CARS
Or consider motors. We simply
are not getting anywhere near the
planned number of new cars be-
cause strikes in factories producing
minor parts far down the production
line are holding back the whole line.
The impact loss of these strikes does
not fall most heavily upon the man.
agement, but upon other workers in
the automobile industry who cannot
afford to lose the wages, and the
public which cannot spend its money
for a new car while it still has the
money.
This is our condition. It is only
politically unwise for the party in
power to have it talked around be-
fore an election. For our economic
salvation it is of the utmost neces-
sity that it be talked about, and solu-
tions be found
True enough this nation has every
basic factor present for successful
high economy for years to come-a
natural ability to produce fully, a
plentiful availability of land upon
which to grow and factories in which
to produce, an adequate supply Of
labor and machines, "a market
yearning for every type of product.
The midland journal., 1946-11-29
WANTED TO BUY

WANTED: ALL KINDS of woodworking
machinery, planers cingle and double sur
facers, moulders, stickers, hand resaws,
rip saws and saw mills of all kinds; also
power units. Give full description and
condition, also prices
TOM NORTON, Dealer
p. o. Box 1929, Petersburg, Va, Phi. S16.