The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1946-01-11
Observations
Criticism Against
Pearl Harbor Probe
Dying Out
Rr HELEN EssARY

HV HELEN 70 Az 7
stock taking IN the capital today,
I lind that many OF the critics OF
The Pearl Harhor Investigation have
had a change o. heart and now are
saving. Let the probing take
couple 81 years u necessary. But
keen At the Job until the truth
comes 10 light. There was some
Thing behind Pearl Harhor The
services. state. War and Navy de
partments. have presented such
varied versions that Is Is going u
be long drawn out fob 70 dig out
all the details. But let US keep at
st.
Here is a new slant on military
training for the young GIVE the
training on farm. Put every boy
Of IS out for u months OF work
with crops and livestock and wealth
e-. He will learn something worth
while this way and at the same
time be OF great value 10 the farmer.
III you insist on actual military
training, take a few hours week
rom the farm work for drilling and
the study OF firearms and explosiv'
es AZ the local fire house or Elk's
hall. A year OF some work and
more iileness at an Army camp
nav not be the asset TO young Amer
leans that is hoped.
You need 10 season the military
point Of view with realism. such as
how TO get living out Of the land.
You'll develop strong young bod
ies on a farm"
And what about the girls?
1--WE got an idea for them, too
spoke up my adviser. Give them
a wear OF training in how 10 run
house-cooking sewing, marketing
looking after babies, nursing, ser
want management, keeping &C
counts.
might throw in a few extra hours
on How TO handle your man. I'm
telling you theorists, II you can
get such a program as this through,
You won't have to worry about the
morals OF the young and what
kind OF mothers will bobby-soXers
make? ?"
From the social battle front, l
get several holiday reports. one
explodes the old theory that you
meet some OF the same people in
every Washington group. This is
true no longer. Washington has
grown so amazingly during its war
time activities that you ARE con-
stantly running into perfect strang-
ers. my dear"
During the holidays the debu-
tante crowd ran the social show
young girls, anxious mothers, recon
ciled fathers. Dangling young boys
home from college. Veterans back
from battiefieids and few OF ma
mma's and 'papa's old friends
down at the Sulgrave club.
The old Washington crowd you
met at the Christmas parties had
a Chevy Chase Country club flavor.
Slightly tweedy and golf gameish.
ne O4LlNldi tlONh 90 ScAAANNA A-aa1
else again. Rather Missouri waltz
ish. A chung OF Americana from
the nearby and far-away places.
Finally, in the last group, were
the New Workers and other such
metropolitan flora and fauna. Here
for the duration, and what bore
having to live in this wretched
little shoe-box arrangement. In
the type OF hospitality offered by
this variety OF the social species,
you almost never see your host and
hostess.
There is never a bright, welcom'
ing smile, no familiar figure wait
ing near the entrance door. Oh,
dear. no. You enter by the Eng
lish basement floor. Upstairs in
the drawing room, you see strange,
staring faces and extremely sleek
physical proportions plus a clutch
cd glass in one hand and cigaret
in the other. No chance for hand
shake.