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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
BETTER THAN A GIFT
FROM HOME"

BETTER THAN A GIFT
FROM HOME"
Tc The Editor
News-Herald
Dear Sir:
This is Pfc. L. Quinn again. l
thought I would drop you a few
lines to let you know what a swell
job you did with that article 1
sent about the ships being used to
take POWs home.
The article was sent to me by my
folks and when the fellows over
here saw it, they felt better than
if they had received a package from
their folks.
1t seems to me that no matter
what angle a person finds to work
on against the way the army does
things the government always finds
loop-hole.
I'll close now I want
to thank you again and with that
thanks goes a million more from
al! the boys who feel the same
way.
When a fellow sees an article like
you printed in the Wyandotte
News-Herald he begins to believe
there is such thing as freedom of
speech and freedom of the press.
Leonard Quinn
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24

We Americans are good fighters all right.
can fight our way out of difficulty. But
now, with the atom bomb and other marvelS
of science, we are confronted with another
and even greater difficulty: how to pre-
vent another war which, if and when it
comes, will probably blow most of us to
kingdom come.
We can't fight our way out of this diff
ficulty; we have to think our way out and
the next few years will show whether we
are as good thinkers as we are fighters. A
group of eminent citizens recently met in
New Hampshire and issued a declaration
that the only way out is world government
"a world government with the power to
make laws and force obedience to them by
everyone everywhere.
They made out a good case. But most
Americans are unwilling to admit the neceS-
Sity of such world government, first, be-
cause we are quite nationally attached emo
tionally TO our own national sovereign state
above all others, and second, because to
think ourselves into the idea of a world
government represents probably the most
difficult mental advance the human race
has ever had to make.
1t is no belittlement of the heroes of the
batlefields to say that in way it is harder
to think than it is to fight. Most of them
slwould understand that and agree to it. Thief
had to fight or die Now all of us, the heroes
included, must either think or die.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
PROTECT SCHOOL CHILDREN

PROTECT SCHOOL CHILDREN
To the Editor
News Herald
Dear Sir:
I'm writing this letter TO you in
hopes that you may be able to do
something for us taxpayers.
The red light here at Eureka and
Twelfth has been out of commission
for a month now. The people around
here all have phoned the police
about it. All they tell us is that
they are waiting for parts.
If they are waiting for parts to
fix it, why don't they put a cop
out here during the time that our
children go and come from school?
TAXPAYER
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Quotes Of
The w eek

unless we get production quick
IL we're either going to have a bad
oeflation or a real. extreme infla-
ton. u. S. Senator Homer Cape
hart, Ind
Its an attempt to rob men OF
their freedom" Pres. William
Green, AFL, on proposed fact-find-
ing law.
There's not 80 cents worth OF
cotton in a So shirt. Rep. A. S
Camp, Ga, protesting proposed
OPA price ceiling on cotton.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24

lures for military requirements all
contribute to the postwar picture
of high taxes.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-24
Letter Box

To The Editor
News Herald
Dear Sir:
We, The A Capella choir, wish to
extend our deepest appreciation for
the recognition accorded us in your
paper. Thank you very much.
A Capella Choir
Evening star., 1946-03-17

OLlLiS AcetOSelld.
Dutch clover and the name shamrock
was accordingly transferred to this
inhabitant of the cultivated fields.
This surmise is open to objections on
botanical grounds and is contradicted
by linguistic evidence While it is safe
to assume that Ireland, like all other
countries of the cool temperate zone
with similar amount of rainfall, was
covered mostly with forest yet there
must have been interspersed treeless
areas, barren hilltops, sand dunes. gravel
moraines or districts where forest
growth was destroyed by man or other
agencies Clover grows on many such
areas; hence, 1t Is safe to assume that
both wood sorrel and clover were always
common in Ireland. A change in their
relative abundance is scarcely a sound
reason for assuming a transfer of the
name shamrock from the less abundant
to the more abundant plant.
A study Of the history of plant names
shows that people living close to the
soil have very accurate knowledge of
the nomenclature of plants in their
surroundings and do not readily trans
fer names of plants so different as the
sour wood sorrel is to the sweet clover,
without adding a qualifying adjective
that will prevent confusion. Old names
for wood sorrel in English are ladies
clover sour trefoil." but not clover or
trefoil without the qualifying adjective
Similarly in German. this plant is COM
monty called sauer-klee or wald -klee,
Evening star., 1946-03-17

than the word semar in Old Gaelic. The
family OF languages most closely related
10 the Gaelic family is the Cymbric. which
includes Welsh, Breton and the extinct
Cornish. None of these languages has
a word corresponding to shamrock. A
search of the other Indo- European
languages likewise gives no clue to the
origin of shamrock
1t may possibly be pre- Celtic word
There seems to be no evidence of Druid
ical use of the shamrock as an emblem
or in association with any ritual. Clover
leaf needles or stilettos have been found
IN the early Bronze Age in France but
can scarcely be construed as predeces-
sors Of the shamrock as an emblem.
Dlneen offers the interesting suggestion
that the shamrock is possibly a sur
vival of the trignetra, christianized
wheel or sun symbol"
AS to which species of clover is the
shamrock, the overwhelming majority of
the Irish consider the small yellow
Towering trefoil or hop clover as the
shamrock. This usage of the people of
Ireland has the force of a living ira
dition and outweighs the evidence of
some of the dictionaries and lexicons
which refer the shamrock to Trifolium
repenS, the white or Dutch clover. Bo-
tanical names. unless used by svste
matte botanists, are often misapplied.
The plant meant by the people of Ire
land has much greater claim to accuracy
than botanical name in a dictionary.
Rev. (Col., U. S. A. Patrick Nolan
Lakeland, Fla, recalls that as a boy in.
Belfast he learned to- distinguish the
shamrock from the white clover 1T
repens) by the white spots commonly
shown on the leaves of the latter. The
mop clover does not have spotted leaves.
AS collected in early March for ship
ment to America for use on st. Pat
rick's Day, this clover is in the form
OF low rather matted growth. In sum-
mer, when in flower, this clover looks
very different. This stage is clearly
demonstrated by specimen collected
oil stone walls near Cobb Cork and
sent here by our veteran botanist, Ivar
Tidestrom of this city.
To sum up: The shamrock of the
Irish and Scotch Gaelic language and
literature and tradition is a clover and
in the living tradition of the Irish, the
hop clover (Trifolium dubium-T. minus
Relhl. The shamrock Of English writ
ers Is the wood sorrel.
Evening star., 1946-03-17

Sure, everybody knows the songs
about the shamrock, but what now
do the same really and truly
refer to?
What plant may it be that Dion
Bouclcault was thinking about
when he wrote:
Then take the shamrock from
your hat and cast it on the
sod,
1t Will take root and flourish still,
though under foot it's trod"?
And what plant was it that An
drew Cherry was singing about in:
There's a dear little plant that
grows in our isle,
Twas st. Patrick himself sure
that set it;
And the sun on his labor with
pleasure did smile
And with dew from his eye often
wet it
The sweet little shamrock, the dear
little shamrock,
The sweet little, green little sham
rock of Ireland?
Well, Father Hugh O'Neill of
Catholic University of America,
skilled botanist, has dug deep into
the science of the matter and here
reports on what he has found.
Evening star., 1946-03-17

screens can be IA by 20 inches or larger.
Manufacturers have not been inclined
to talk prices, but suggest $500 and up
as the price range for projection models.
Sound to Accompany
Televised Pictures
All television sets will provide sound
to go with the pictures. More expensive
models also will pick up sound trans
missions on the standard broadcast band
and from frequency modulation, or
"staticless' high-frequency stations,
which are expected to become increas-
ingly prominent in the broadcasting
picture.
Manufacturers plan television sets de-
Evening star., 1946-03-17
BY Rev. Hugh r. O'Neill.


Botanist, Catholic University of America
w yHEN the traveller in Ireland
A asks a peasant to show him
wv shamrock, the Irishman
picks up the small clover at
his feet. When st. Patricks Day nears,
it is the annual custom of many Irish
folk to send to their kinsmen in this
country as the shamrock not variety
of plants but only one plant, the small
clover. The Encyclopaedia Britannica
states that this small hop-clover (Tri-
folium minus Relh. ex Smith of the
botanists) is the shamrock The Oxford
Dictionary confirms that the name
shamrock is now commonly applied to
the lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium minus
which is the plant commonly worn as an
emblem on ST. Patrick's Day"
When botanical manuals, encyclo-
pedias of horticulture and such refer
ence works are consulted, there is
usually found the statement that several
plants have been called the shamrock
or even that ANY green plant may be
considered shamrock. However, the
only plants deserving serious considera-
tion as the shamrock are either kind
of clover or the cloverlike wood sorrel,
(Oxalis acetosella ID
How the wood sorrel came to be men,
toned as the shamrock can be under
stood by noting the earliest references
to the word shamrock in the English
language, viz. Campion Q57D, Stony
hurst u57D, Spenser 1896, Holland
Q610), Withers d613 and 1889 and
Moryson d61D. From these writings
it is clear that the plant designated by
them shamrock" CD grew in the
woods of Ireland, 90 grew In association
with watercress, 90 had a sour taste,
(4 was commonly eaten by man.
OF all the plants wrongly or rightly
identified with the shamrock, only one
has all these four characteristics. It is
the wood sorrel (wood-sour or wood
soweD, Oxalis acetosella L. This plant
is certainly the shamrock of these Eng
lish authors and from their usage it
has become the shamrock of English
literature
Various attempts have been made to
explain the discrepancy between the
shamrock of English literature and the
shamrock used as an emblem TODAY.
Perhaps the most widely accepted con-
Dutch clover and the name shamrock
lecture appeared In the London Daily
Evening star., 1946-03-17


is a clouer, TrJoliuna dubiuna.
"the shamrock of the Elizabethan
writer's"
Once Campion had mistakenly identi-
fled the shamrock as the wood sorrel.
evidently later English authors followed
him. In Scotland, however, this mis-
take did not occur. All early Scotch
Gaelic dictionaries translate seaman
and seamrag as clover or trefoi: only
one dictionary, and that comparatively
recent, fives wood sorrel as a second
meaning. The latest 1882, most con-
Vlnclng Scotch source is a dictionary
based directly upon the living language
of the older inhabitants of the Glen
garry district The Benedictine author,
Henry Cyril Dieckhof gives only one
meaning of seamrag, viz. clover.
In Irish dictionaries, trefoil or clover
is always given as the first meaning of
seamrog. In some works, wood-sorrel
is given as second meaning. Con-
versely the first Gaelic word given for
wood-sorrel is seamSog not seamRog.
SeamSog never means clover In the
Irish alphabet the character for is
+ and for S is r. This resemblance
may explain how Campion confused
reamro5 with reAmro5.
Finally. the word seaman exists in Old
Irish as semar with the meaning of
trefoil or clover, not wood sorrel
There is no evident trace of the word
shamrock in any language earlier
Evening star., 1946-03-17


York's Chrysler Building.
That encircled is for color
tr1nSniSSiOnS.
telecasting will take place in the eve
ming hours, when maximum audience
can be obtained.
The television baby is f1exing its
muscles, and, from technical stand
point, there appears little reason to
think it will not provide all the magic
expected within the next few years. It's
handlers, enthusiastic but little nerv-
Gus, are aware only process of trial
and error will determine the tricks the
public fancies most
A new profession is being formed
that of television producer-from among
dabblers in radio, stage and screen en-
tertainment. The present experimenters
may not be equal to the task when 4
demanding audience develops, and un-
knowns may arise who possess the Pc
culiar talent required-ability to watch
as many screens as there are cameras
on a set and blend the various pictures
into smooth show while keeping track
OF voice and music cues as we'll. There
are no cutting rooms in television; there
is no opportunity for patchwork once
a program takes the air.
Washingtonians may nave a chance
to judge commercial productions before
l947, but a realistic estimate indicates
next year will provide the new mediums
first fair test here.
Evening star., 1946-03-17

perin1ental teIevision station
atop the Harrington Hotel.
Star Staff Photo.
suance and have the station ready with
in six months. However, the FEC may
grant extensions upon satisfactory
showing of inability to comply. The
apparently successful applicants are
going forward with plans, but none has
ventured prediction of probable date
OF readiness, in view of building mate
rial and equipment supply problems.
NBC has prewar transmitter ready for
delivery, and either Du Pont or Philco,
both manufacturers, probably would be
able To supply their own equipment
needs promptly, if given permit.
The commercial grants here place
Washington in position second only
to New York in the television picture
and assure local dealers a generous
share of the first postwar receivers
However, Capital distributors for ma ior
manufacturers report they have re-
ceived no indications as to when ship
ments may be expected. Production is
Just getting under way, and even DEM
onstrator sets are not available here.
One maker testified at an FEC hear
ing. he hoped" to begin Offering re-
ceivers here by midsummer. Another
estimated he would be able to ship the
Capital market $500 sets before the
END OF the year. Present indications
are the eager Washington buyer with
out industry connections" will have
little chance of getting set before late
fall
The sets will be of two .types-direct
viewing and projection. The former
presents its images on a glass screen
which actually is the fat head Of q
Evening star., 1946-03-17

vision cameras will be present at major
sports events here when regular opera
tions begin, as has been the case in
New York. Telecasters are convinced
sports holds first place among the types
of television material wanted by viewers
They feel the practicability of televising
boxing, basket ball, football and other
contests already has been proven. How
ever, whether the owner of small
screen receiver will be willing to attempt
following plays through football games
is matter Of conjecture.
On-the-spot coverage of Capital news
Evening star., 1946-03-17

commercial operations in the higher
frequencies in which the system op-
crates. CHS argues that both color
and black-and- white transmissions are
more effective in the upper band.
For the most part, however, the bal
ance of the industry has viewed the pro-
posal without enthusiasm and gone
forward with plans for monochrome
work on the channels approved by the
FEC. Leading opponents of the CHS
position have called commercial color
five years away and maintained it
should be held in the laboratories until
an all-electronic system is perfected
which will eliminate the necessity of
Evening star., 1946-03-17

Apartment houses and hotels which
do not permit individual radio aerials
will have to install master antenna
system with an amplifying unit if
tenants are to have television.
When the Washington television fan
finally gets his receiver and has the
aerial installed and tested, what will he
see? Television producers and direc-
tors, breed of unbounded enthusiasts,
promise everything untrammeled imag-
nations and substantial bankrolls can
produce.
There is general agreement that tele-
Evening star., 1946-03-17

events, including important meetings,
arrivals and departures of celebrities,
also are in prospect. Speaker of the
House Rayburn has said the next joint
session of Congress will be televised.
Such news reporting will take two
forms-direct pickups which are trans
mitted Immediately and filming of the
event for later inclusion in a television
news commentary.
Dramatic programs, song-and dance
acts, soloists and household arts fea-
lures will be prominent in the sched-
ules, but it is doubtful familiar big
Evening star., 1946-03-17

cathode ray tube. These images can be
enlarged somewhat by a special curved
glass plate fitted over the head of the
tube. table model of this type, with
picture by inches in size, probably
will be sold at retail for less than 5000
and will be the cheapest form of re-
celver available. The largest direct
viewing set probably will show a 12-by-
l2-inch picture. The projection type
flashes the tube-head image by mir
ror-and-lens arrangement onto a glass
screen in the front of the cabinet. Such
Evening star., 1946-03-17

comes our English word shamrock
means trefoil, clover or shamrock, while
seaman Collie and "semar Gear" mean
respectively, wood-clover and sour-clov-
er, lie, English wood sorrel. Dineen
1rish-English dictionary, ed. 2. Dublin,
1920 correctly states this last plant is
Evening star., 1946-03-17
BY Chris MathiSen

by CnflS MathlSen
-ELEVISION, with it's sparkling
promises of new entertainment
delights, has been in the news
increasingly of late as it emerges
from a wartime limbo and takes steps
toward the fabulous future heralded
by its sponsors. The news has touched
Washington repeatedly, but so far it
has meant little to the average potential
viewer who continues to wait for the
promised living room view of football
game or boxing contest.
Television programs have been avail
able here for many months, but only a
select few. principally Government off,
clals and members of the industry, have
been able to see them regularly because
OF the shortage of receivers. The Allen
B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc, has been
operating experimental studios and
transmitter in the Harrington Hotel,
and Philco Products, Inc, has been
using its experimental transmitter at
Lee highway and Florida street, Airing
tom Va, in point-to-point relay tests
with Philadelphia.
=
About so sets are in the hands of
civilians here, and another so or go are
being used by the Federal Communica-
tions Commission, the Navy Depart
ment and other agencies interested In
observing transmissions. Except for two
or thfee received recently, all are pre-
war models.
The Washington appetite for tele-
vision has been whetted additionally by
thA recent FEC announcement of its
proposed decision on applications for
commercial station construction permits
In the Capital area. The FEC revealed
1t planned to issue permits to The
Evening Star Broadcasting Co., Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. and Bamberger
Broadcasting Service, Inc, subject to
oral argument by unsuccessful appli-
cants, and award the fourth local permit
either to Du Mont or Philco, after hear
ing further presentations by these
firms.
Evening star., 1946-03-17


names of radio will be seen regularly
in the early months of regular tele-
casting. The stars appear on sponsored
programs. Although the television in
dustry will make strenuous efforts to
interest advertisers, it is not expected
large slice of promotion budgets will
be given the new medium until there
are sufficient viewers to support the
message.
In addition, most prominent per-
formers have contractual ties to Holly
wood, which is conscious of television's
potential threat to motion picture pat
ronage. So far, FINLAND has not shown
its hand in the television game. but it
Evening star., 1946-03-17
md Clover Vie for Name and Fame of Shamrock

Express where attention is called to the
fact that Ireland in earlier times was
predominantly wooded, lie, it was the
habitat of the wood sorrel. Later, as
the woods gave place to cultivated or
pasture lands, the wood sorrel likewise
gave place to the common white or
Evening star., 1946-03-17

has taken steps to become a major
factor through investments and crea-
ton of experimental production organ
izations
Film May Provide
Early Entertainment
Washingtonians probably will see
much film at first, and indeed, Aim
may continue to provide the largest
share of televised entertainment
The mechanics for network opera
tions on small scale are at hand. and
programs will be exchanged with New
York and intermediate points
Stations here will be able to share
the recently completed coaxial cable sys-
tenn of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co., type of line peculiarly
necessary to television, which connects
New York and the Capital and will bs
extended to other cities on progressive
basis.
Network stations also can be linked
by point-to-point relay, using repeater
towers about so miles apart.
A third method, "strato-v vision" as
yet not adequately tested, involves use
of a high-f1ying airplane which picks
up transmissions from a ground station
and rebroadcasts them This system is
designed to extend the range of local
station, since the pictures, in general,
only reach the horizon as seen from the
top of the transmitting tower. 1t also
is considered possible to transmit from
plane flying over one city to another
above one 200 miles away and thereby
provide network service without cable
or relay towers
Trial and Error
To Evolve Best Forms
Because of the limited amount of
suitable program material expected to
be available in the early stages of COM
mercial operation and the fact it is
expected to be a loss operation fnan-
cially for several years, few stations will
care TO exceed the transmission mini
NUNS prescribed by the FCC-at least
two hours per day and not less than a
total OF % hours per week. In fact, be-
cause of present programming limita-
tions, the FEC has suspended enforce
of lit
Except for outstanding events, most
Evening star., 1946-03-17
Star staff Photo.

signed to pick up black-and- white
images, since this is the type of tele-
casting to be done on commercial
basis. Color receivers also will be pro-
duced in limited numbers, however, be-
cause polychrome telecasting is in
progress experimentally in the higher
frequencies.
The Columbia Broadcasting System
has been campaigning for industry
wide adoption of color now, contending
the mechanical system developed by its
director Of engineering and research,
DR.. Peter Goldmark, justifies beginning
Evening star., 1946-03-17

moving parts in the receiver. The Gold
mark system uses a rotating plastic
disc of three colors in the set and
similar mechanical scanners at the
transmitter.
Type of Aerial
Important Factor
Paul A. Porter, until recently chair
man OF the FEC, has expressed the
opinion on several occasions that the
future of commercial television lies In
the higher frequencies,. but there has
been no indication the FEC intends to