THE WYANDOTTE NEWS - HERALD
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THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1948
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Great Men Are Human
Someone has defined a friend as a person
all of whose faults you know, but whom you
like anyway. No one expects perfection in
a friend—it’s only in people whom we don t
know’ that we expect perfection. Let a man
become a leader among any peoples any
where —let his name be splashed across the
newspapers —and he must be perfect. If he
act3 like a human being and makes mistakes,
or even says things w’ith w’hieh we don t
agree, w r e have a tendency to condemn him
completely.
Benjamin Franklin sagely observed of the
foundling Fathers of this country that “when
you assemble a number of men w*ho have
the advantage of their joint wisdom you
inevitably assemble with these men all their
prejudices, their passions and their errors
of opinion, their local interests and their
selfish views.’’ This has been abundantly
clear in the first meetings of the United
Nations Organization. Too many Americans
have shaken their heads and said. “Why did
we ever hope it could w’ork anyway?” As
the UNO comes to the United States, and its
leaders continue to act like the human be
ings they are, let us accept them, and take
their faults for granted—as we do in our
friends. Selfish men in Philadelphia laid
the foundations of anew nation. Today's
selfish men, in this hour of ourgent need,
can lay the foundations of a new’ w’orld.
We Like The Sample
Some people like the United Nations
Organization just as it is. Others want it
improved as the years go by. Still others
think it is so feeble that they advocate turn
ing it into a World Government w’ithout
delay.
But all of them will surely agree on this:
that we like the sample. The clashes be
tween Bevin of Great Britain and Vishinskv
of the Soviet Union at the London meeting
w’ere something new’ under the sun, and w r e
like it and want more.
There were the Foreign Ministers of two
of the great w’orld powers arguing, and pull
ing no punches, right out in public, like a
couple of aldermen or United States Sen
ators! Not only w’ere all the little fellow’s
—Belgium and Uruguay and Ethiopia—sit
ting there listening to even’ word, but
through newspapers and the radio even
body w’as in on it. It was enough to make
a Richelieu or Metternich or Bismarck turn
over in his grave. They handled such mat
ters quite differently. With them it was all
secret meetings, confidential emissaries,
privately whispered threats or promises,
for centuries —up to the day the war started;
forged telegrams. That was the way it went
and. of course, that w’as how the w r ars
started.
The loud and open argument betw’een
Bevin and Vishinsky is certainly not a guar
antee that another war will never start, but
it is a hopeful sign. At the start of every
war w’e have read about each side accusing
the other of a double cross, and probably
both of them w’ere usually right. But it is
not easy to manipulate a double cross with
out a fair amount of privacy; it is extremely
difficult to talk out of both sides of your
mouth when the w’hole human race is per
mitted to hear everything you say.
The important thing about the argument
between Bevin and Vishinsky w’as not who
won it. nor even W’ho w’as right, but the
size of the audience. They have started
something that should never be permitted
to stop.
A Week To Remember
Today the w’orld is face to face w’ith man
kind’s worst enemy—hate, says the Lay
men’s National Committee, in outlining its
program for National Sunday School Week.
April 8 to 14. “Train up a child in the way
he should go; and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.” Prov. 22.6.
In seeking the w’idest possible support for
asked the President of the United States
Sunday School Week, the Committee has
and the governors of each state to cooperate
in some appropriate manner. Mayors
throughout the country will be asked to
pay tribute in 15-minute radio addresses.
One or more feature radio programs par
ticipated in by outstanding talent, are con
templated. Chambers of Commerce w’ill be
asked to display the National Sunday School
Week posters in cities throughout the land.
The Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire
Girls assist. Editors, columnists and com
mentators aid in the national movement,
w’hile many corporations help create inter
est through their radio programs. Ministers,
fraternal ahd service organizations and fea
ture WTiters w’ill seek to popularize this
worthy cause and urge parents to encourage
their children to attend Sunday School dur
ing National Sunday School Week.
While such an occasion is not a cure-all
for current disregard of Christian principles,
by many adults as well as children, it is a
step in the direction of tolerance and good
will toward all mankind. Never in the his
tory of the world was it so important that
every individual accept his responsibility
for making the future in which we must
live, better instead of worse. Sunday School
Week is a place to start.
You Are The Red Cross
This is the heart of the people . , . the
emblem of humanity ... the hand stretched
out in comfort to the homeless and the
hungry, the lonely and the troubled all over
the world today.
Here come the children, without shoes,
who are hungry. Here come the destitute,
the people without shelter. Here come the
lonely and the cold without comfort. Here
come the men and women who are troubled.
If you would seek them, look about you.
Hear them speak.
It's lonely here in Germany. It’s very cold.
We worry here in Germany about how it is
at home . . . the wives who may be ill, the
child we haven’t seen, the sweethearts who
could be remembering maybe not. But
there’s a man here with us who can get in
touch, straighten out the worry, a kind of
trouble-shooting guy who wears a small red
cross in his cap. That man is you.
♦ * * +
In the hospital the days take a very long
time to go. The hours are all the same But
there's a girl who comes through the wards
with magazines and books and cigarettes
and stops to talk. She’ll write a letter for
you when your hands are hurt. She’ll read
a book or play a game. There’s a small red
cross pinned on her collar. That girl is you.
* * # *
I came home from Tarawa, Saipan, the
islands where we fought. I was discharged.
And I was lonely and discouraged be
wildered, without funds. But there was
someone here to talk to, who loaned me
money, told me where to go for help. On
his desk a small red cross stood. That man
was you.
♦ * * *
The wind swept through our town one
night, leveling the buildings. It destroyed
our homes. That night was very cold, full
of the cries of the homeless and the hurt.
But among us moved men and women pro
viding shelter, food, and warmth. On their
uniforms a small red cross shone. They
were you.
• * * *
We are the lonely, and the anxious, and
the lost. We are the cold and hungry people,
the children who have no shoes, the people
without shelter.
But everywhere among us is the sign of
hope . . . stamped on a sack of flour, a
crate of medicine or milk, worn on a uni
form, painted on a building fresh and red.
It is the emblem of comfort. It is the sign
of hope. It is you.
Pity The Werewolves
The way things are going, it will only
be a matter of months before most'Ameri
cans will be feeling guilty for having fought
and defeated Germany.
This sense of guilt is the goal of a care
fully-conceived and widely-supported propa
ganda campaign to make us pity the Ger
mans. In some parts of the country, fund
raising drives are under way to re-build the
German public buildings which our airmen
“ruthlessly destroyed”. Certain writers, cer
tain preachers, even certain Congressmen,
are expressing deep concern that the level
of nutrition in Germany today is only 1900
calories per person. They express this con
cern despite the fact that there are parts
of Europe recently liberated from German
conquest where the daily food ration is less
than 1000 calories per person. These propa
gandists tell us that we fought a war of pun
ishment; that in eliminating Hitler (did we?),
Goebbels, Goering (we have not, yet), and
a few others, the punishment was completed,
and that now we should extend the hand of
mercy to the “innocent” German population.
A level-headed American desires to be
neither vindictive nor a sucker. He knows
that the German will-to-aggression did not
die when a few Nazi heads were lopped off.
He knows that only by strict limitation of
German industry until such time as Ger
many has proved her regeneration, can the
German - cause -of - war be eliminated. He
knows, above all, and with a profound sense
of American sportsmanship, that it is an
evil and vicious policy that would treat
Germans with more consideration than
Frenchmen, Poles, Greeks, Jugoslavs. Nor
wegians, and all the other Europeans whom
Germany so very nearly destroyed forever.
Nobody should be allowed to go hungry,
but it is a little strange that those Ameri
cans who are the most fiercely determined
that Germans shall not be hungry show no
interest at all in the problem of keeping
the Germans from starting another war.
The Human Cycle
We have heard a lot recently about foreign
trade and balance of exports and imports.
If this means buying British cars here in
stead of our own, which are non-existent,
and sending our radios abroad while they
are impossible to get at home—well, yes, we
see what they mean by this game of eco
nomic legerdemain.
Certainly the emphasis today is towards
concentrating on the exceptional, rather
than the essential. Even this might be al
right, if it weren’t for those obvious shifts
in human affairs which, soon enough, will
be hanging out the old slogans: “Buy
British,” and “Buy American.”
“A smiling America is a happier, stronger
America.” —Jav Burton, Washington, D.C..
promoting “National Laugh Week,” April
1-6.
“The war is over, and babies have fewer
diapers than ever. This is serious.”— C. A.
Cannon, Kannapolis, N.C., textile mfr.
“Price control at present is unfair and
unworkable.”—Ralph E. Flanders, pres. Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Boston.
“I still feel able to give the people of
Kansas as good service as ever.”—Senator
Arthur Capper, on being 80.
“I spend S3OO a month for food. I can’t
cook.”—Mrs. Erna Ruberstein, Hollywood,
asking alimony.
SPIKED I
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HI ieliigan Mirror
b J gene all email
Will Kim Sigler run for gover
nor? Well, it's possible.
All of which illustrates the more
than average confusion which pre
vails today at Michigan's capital
city, Lansing—one place in Mich
igan where being confused is a
normal state of mind.
The sudden turn oi events in the
Ingham county grand jury, which
has been investigating state legis
lative graft for more than two
years, has sent politicians into
huddles.
First, the acquittal of Frank
McKay, Grand Rapids politician
and former Republican national
committeeman, was the turning
point in Sigler* record as a grand
jury prosecutor. This led to the
senate resolution, adopted by a
voice vote, au’horizing a special
committee to look into tht grand
jury’s disbursements.
Disclosures of grand jury spend
ing kicked up anew controversy
as to whether a state witness, pay
off man for interest seeking to cor
rupt certain legislators, should be
retained at stiff fees and expenses.
When the circuit court judge sus
pended Sigler temporarily as a
prosecutor and Sigler retorted by
a sizzling condemnation, the fire
works really began to fly, winding
up with Sigler being ••fired" by
Judge Louis E. Coash and Richard
Foster, a young attorney and for
mer prosecuting attorney, being ap
pointed as his successor. Foster
will get the same rate of pay—
sloo a day—which isn’t peanuts.
• * r
Why should Sigler want to run
foi governor?
In the first place, it is human
nature of an individual, who is
frustrated by opponents, to seek
vindication of his position m some
manner.
If the state supreme court would
decline to oust the Ingham county
circuit judge from direction of the
grand jury in iavor of a private
attorney, who had happened to be
the starring prosecutor. Sigler
might adopt a ‘ watchful waiting"
policy to see what happens to the
two jury indictments which he
had previously groomed, one of
them being ready months ago for
serving of warrants. If the new
prosecutor exhibits a zeal to see the
bank and gambling indictments
through to a finish V assuming that
the previously gathered evidence
stands up under re-examination)
then Sigler’s case would be weak
ened in the eyes of the public
which is interested chiefly in re
sults, not personalities.
But therein lies one of the main
complications.
The deadline for filing of pri
mary petitions is Tuesday, April 23
—just about a month away.
A “watchful waiting” policy
vould automatically exclude Sigler
from running for office, since there
time at hand in one month
for the new prosecutor to accom
plish the ends which Sigler de
sires—the indictment and convic
tion of a score or more persons in
Michigan who are next on the list
in the bank and gambling cases.
* • #
Entry of Detroit Mayor Edward
J Jeffries in the Republican gub
ernatorial race, as formally an
nounced by Jeffries last week, was
predicted in this column ’ast Dec.
2;. Jeffries’ candidacy was first
launched March 6 in the form of
a trial balloon, but his formal
statement was released March 12.
Jeffries’ candidacy introduces
several interesting elements in the
primary campaign. He is the
spokesman for the big cities and
other governments which seek a
cut in the state sales tax, as a res
olution of their tax troubles. In
terestingly enough, the election of
Jeffries as governor of Michigan
would put a C.1.0.-sponsored mem
ber of the Detroit council in the
position of acting mayor. Detroit
C. 1.0. unions might like to see Jef
fries elected governor just to get
rid of him as mayor of Detroit.
It was Jeffries, you will recall,
who defeated a C. 1.0. official,
Richard Frankensteen, for re-elec
tion as Detroit mayor last year.
• « •
Another possible contender u
Raymond J. Kelly of Detroit, name-
sake of the present governor, whose
qualifications for the executive of
fice include being a veteran of
both World War 1 and 11, a past
national commander of the Amer
ican Legion and a former corpora
tion counsel for the City of De
troit.
Detroit citizens have a veakness
of voting for name candidates.
Frank Murphy was publicized wide
ly as mayor of Detroit and then
governor of Michigan; at a subse
quent state election the voters
v hooped it up lor a Democratic
namesake, the late Frank Murphy,
then an unknown lawyer, to run
as lieutenant governor with Mur
ray D. Van Wagoner. The main
Similarity between the two Mur
phys was their name.
If he becomes a candidate for
the G.O.P. nomination, the ex-
Leglon commander would possess
the same political charm—posses
sion of a well-publicized Irish
name.
These two men are possible con
tenders against Lieut. Governor
Vernon J. Brown of Mason, long
experienced in state governmental
affairs, at the June 18 primary.
April 23 is the deadline for filing
primary petitions.
• • •
In the Democratic party a
wealthy manufacturer. George D.
Schermorhom. is running for gov
ernor on a platform to reduce the
state sales tax 33 per cent, cutting
it from 3 to 2 cents.
Know Your
Schools
TEACHERS* PAY
Until recently the inadequacy of
teachers’ pay has been given little
publicity. Not many citizens real
ize that the highly trained people
to whom they entrust their chil
dren are among the financially for
gotten men.
Very lew college trained profes
sional people receive so low a re
turn from their educational prepa
ration as do the teacher* in our
public schools. The teacher pro
gram of education is long and
costly. Most teachers spent at least
$?.500 during their four years in
college. This, however, does not
complete their education. In order
to keep puce with rapidly changing
tiends and to occupy a position
with high professional standards, it
is necessary for the teacher to get
l Master’s degree. Alter that teach
er. must continue their study in
summer school. In spite of some
adjustment in teachers' salaries in
Wyandotte during the last few
years it is still extremely difficult
to maintain a suitable standard
c\ living without some other added
income. Men with families find it
necessary to supplement their in
come by working nights. Saturdays,
and during the summer.
The public gets what it is will
ing to pay for. The best is not the
cheapest. It is not real economy
to hire inadequate, underpaid
teachers for the children who will
have to solve the most complex
problems the world has ever known.
Rising prices and increased de
mands upon teachers is developing
an unenviable financial condition
that is rapidly growing worse. It ii
not only causing discontent, but
also a large turnover in the profes
sion. Teachers’ salaries are woe
fully inadequate for even the nec
essities of life. Average salaries for
state employees and industrial
workers have Increased about 60
per cent since January, 1941. Dur
ing this time Wyandotte teach
cf living *adjustment yet living costs
of living adjusment yet diving costs
have already risen 33 per cent and
are still rising. The education of
our children is important enough
to deserve competent teachers with
adequate salaries.
Next week's article covers, “Our
School Building Needs.”
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture will resume publication of
iU yearbooks of agriculture late
in 1946 or early tn 1947. The first
yearbooks vu issued in 1895.
Othman Looks
at
W ash in gto n
By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON. (UP) —I thought
I had good news today for ragged
Americans. Now I’m not so sure.
Neither is Sen. James M. Mead
o' N. Y.
One week ago there appeared in
these precincts a dispatch about
11,000.000 shirts and 5,500,000 pairs
o' shorts declared surplus by the
Navy nearly six months before and
still doing nothing to ameliorate
male nakedness.
The War Assets Corp., adver
tised the shorts for sale the next
day; that, goodness knows, was a
start. The federal haberdashery
salesmen also told the war investi
gating committee, headed by Sen,
Mead, that they were sorrowed by
aiy story. They said they'd sold all
the shirts long age and could have
sold 10 times as many if they'd had
’em.
Only these shirts still are in the
packing cases in Navy warehouses
n Utah and New York, while the
experts shuffle the papers, claw
through the red tape, and announce
their hope that it won't oe much
longer before the> reach 11,000,000
masculine backs.
I’m not denouncing the WAC, or
the Navy. Neither is Sen. Meau. but
something somewhere is gumming
up the shirt situation. You'll get
some idea if you 11 join me on the
trail of one batch of blue cham
bray work shirts, which the Navy
declared surplus last Oct. 4.
There were 8.296.903 shirts in
this consignment: they cost the
government 85 cents each, or a to
tal of $7,587,867.85. On Dec. 7, the
WAC decided to sell 'em to whole
salers at 58 cents each, to large
retailers at 66 cents, and to small
retailers at 70 cents.
The orders flowed in, enough to
inundate the shiit sellers. On Jan.
17 the Navy changed its mind and
said it needed to keep 3.060.016 of
its shirts. One month later the
WAC counted is orders for the
5,866,887 shirts remaining. The cus
tomers wanted 48.254.335 shirts.
The WAC parceled out its shirts
as fairly as it could to veterans,
retailers, wholesalers and otiier
government agencies. Came the
Navy again, with another change
ol mind. It said it couldn't let go
o* 2,031 shirt* in small sizes. The
WAC said, yes, but it already had
sold 'em.
The Navy said, all right, give us
back those little shirts and we'll
declare 1,929.000 more as surplus.
That seemed lair enough. The WAC
made another recount, of its orders
and gave each customer a few extra
shirts. That took time, because the
regional offices of the sales depart
ment had to do the counting and
report back to headquarters.
The regional shirt departments
then asked each client to mail in
his check for his shirts within
seven days. The shirt buyers did so.
The WAC forwarded the orders to
the Navy clothing depot in Brook
lyn.
The Navy had decided meantime
to decentralize its shirt supply.
Some of these shirts still were in
Brooklyn. Some were in Scotia,
N. Y. Some were in Clearfield,
Utah. That's what they remain.
Or so the Mead committee has been
informed.
The official explanation is a
magnificent example of govern
mental phrase makmg. It goes like
this: “There has been a further
element of delay in the transfer of
documents between these points,"
meaning Brooklyn. Scotia, and
Clearfield. The report adds that it
hopes the transfer of documents
can be speeded. So does Sen. Mean.
He is delighted the shirts ha\e
been sold.
“And I will be pleased still more.”
he said, “when these shirts are re
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by
John M. Carlisle
> Roving Reporter
The Veteran’s Administration had long been a political foot ball before it
was taken over by Bradley. With the close of World War 11, and the
addition of millions of veterans with their attendant problems, the old
system was found to be utterly inadequate.
A review of the old and new systems, together with a keen analysis of how
the present Veteran’s Administration is functioning under its new head
are offered in a timely series by The News* roving reporter, John M. Carlisle.
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THE DETROITNEWS\
moved from tlie warehouses and
placed on the backs of the men
who need them.'’
So will I. I'm one of the fellows
i»' heed.
Happy the heart that keeps its
twilight hour.
And. in the depths of neaveniy
peace reclined.
Loves to commune with thoughts of
tender power.—
Thoughts that ascend, like angels
beautiful.
A shining Jacobs-ladder of the
mind!
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Indian tribes found in Nebraska
by early explorers included the
Otoes, Omahas, Poncas, Pawnees,
Sioux. Cheyennes and Arapahoes.
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“A refreshing bath is so nice to come
home to after a busy day! Beside*
relaxing tired muscles, hot water and
soap kill bacteria and help me ward
off colds. ”
l se plenty of hot water. An auto
matic gas hot water heater supplies
all the hot water you want, all the
time. And now that gas rates are
lower, automatic hot water is supplied
cheaper than ever!
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25 YEARS AGO
:N WYANDOTTE
Down River Elks were notified
that a Wyandotte Elk charter
would be forthcoming in the near
luture, according tc word from
Grand Secretary Robinson of tiie
B P.O. Elks. Enough signatures had
already been secured to guarantee
the charter.
New gas rates went into effect
ir Wyandotte when the DetroC
City Gas' Cos. declared that the
company’s Wyandotte franchise
provided that rates here should be
the same as in Detroit. All rates
were subject to a 10 per cent dis
count for prompt payment.
The city commission separated
the $85,000 park bonding proposi
tion into two parts. A $41,000 esti
mate for a pavilion was to be pre
sented io the voters and on a sec
ond ballot voters were to make
known their decision on a proposed
$45,000 expenditure for a sea wall,
retaining wall and walks in the
park.