The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-09
Observations
Problems Thick
as Traffic Lights
in L. S. Capital


crown, are as thick as traffic lights
in the Capital on the Potomac. And
every problem is tagged with red
and says stop"
Some people say the problem light
should be green. not red. And the
signal should say go" not stop
such advisers are the full-speed-
ahead girls and boys who say we
have 10 do something about Rus
sia. we have 10 do something about
labor" we have 10 do something
about the atom bomb" I'VE have 10
DO something about taIes" And
what is the matter with Mr.. Tru-
man? Why doesn't he do some
th.ng?'
In all the hectic, wordy years l
have lived in Washington, have
never heard anybody say. 81. my
self. me, mus; do something about
this" whatever this may be-. The
refrain is usually why doesn't the
President do something about
this?"
The cry, when hurt, used to be;
Why doesn't Congress do some
thing about IT," The :une changed
when the Roosevelt Administration
came into power. Mr.. Roosevelt did
so much about everything, here
and everywhere else, We groaned,
I'VE have q dictator! This is tyran-
ny! This is blasphemy! This is
ruin!"
Now we have no dictator. The
new cry is, I'VE have only an aver
age citizen in the White House.
Congress won't do anything with
out the crack OF his whip. We need
a strong man in the White House.
Why. when Roosevelt ran things.
there was no nonsense.
Maybe the country does want
dictator. Maybe II does want 10 be
bullied % hours and "a minutes a
day and cajoled the remaining six
minutes. Maybe nations are like
women and banyan trees, the more
You beat them the better they be.
This question Is one OF the un-
certainties that the infant 1916
will have 10 solve before II grows
I'D into a battered adult year. To
this and the other thousands OF
problems that confront US (remem-
Der the old political speeches that
always began with Among the
problems that confront u.s." l
should like to add my query.
According 10 Secretary OF State
James Byrnes' report on the three
power meeting in Moscow recently
the only real point Of disagreement.
the only issue on which Russia
could not see eye to eye with Brit
ain and the United States, was the
proper treatment OF Romania and
Bulgaria.
Why should We, IN the United
States. worry about what happens
TO Bulgaria and Romania? Haven't
we suffered enough and paid en-
ough in lives and money from the
inducements OF Central Europe?
Do we have 70 go back again and
risk another war-this time with
Russia about Bulgaria and Roma
mia?
What happens in Bulgaria and
Romania is not Of the slightest IN
.erest to the average American. Let
Russia do as she pleases there.
would like a little peace OF mind
and normal living and thinking
right here at home.
This reminds me OF the remark
able dream" a precocious lady,
aged five, whose name is Helen, re-
ported TO Their astonished family at
the breakfast table. Helen, Il
seems. just happened to know
wha., she thought. would make
pleasant life. Here are her ideas,
and they might well be the wagon
10 which you and l hitch our 1916
stars:
81 didn't exactly dream these
things" said Helen. They Just
came in my mind before | went to
sleep last night. This morning,
when ! walked up, there my mind
was. thinking them again.
I'D like a nice clean house, a
big house. With lots OF gardens
around it-only the flowers would
bloom even when 1t snowed-and
a doorman who always smiled and
said Good morning when you went
home.
q wish we had lots OF servants
who Just love TO work all day and
all night and they would bring US a
big steak to eat on a clean plate
every day al dinner.
Il wish every day was Christmas
and the toys you got would have
steel wheels that wouldn't fall off
before YOU got them home from
your grandmother'e house that you
had 10 20 TO every holiday. wish
the DAYS that weren't Christmas
were Sunday so my father would
stay home and read US the funnies
and take US riding.
Il wish I didn't ever again have
TO pick up my toys or anything up
off the floor OF ever again fix my
hair. ] wish ! would wake UP every
morning with my hair combed and
a ribbon on II!
81 wish nobody would ever tell
me 20 do anything and that our
automobile could get lot OF new
tires and We some new play suite
! wish wish / would get all my
wishes