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page rouit ESCANABA DAILY PRESS. ESCANA8A, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, FEB. IT, 1 Escanaba Daily Press A Nawapapot Published Daily Except Sunday by ths btia of Joha P. Norton, OtcMNd O. Wui Jr.

Bn L. Gundermsn, Editor Editorials- Registration Deadline For City Election Is Saturday, March 8 Merry-Go-Round "Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated ATURDAY, MARCH ie the deadline for registrstion for the Escanaba mcipsl election, City Clerk Oeorge Harvey has announced. A by-product of the recent school bond election was a heavy registration of new voters. That is excellent as all thoee who registered for the first time for the school election this month also are eligible to vote in the municipal election in April. There undoubtedly are some prospective voters, however, who are still unregistered.

Perhaps they were not eligible by virtue of age or residence to vote in the school election but will be eligible for the April city election. To those people and any others not registered, we sincerely urge that they call at the city hall in the next 10 days and complete their registration. The city election is an important election to the people of Escanaba. Four of the five council seats will be voted upon in this election. The 1952 municipal election can ULIL'S AND ETHEL ROSENBERG, convicted traitors, are one step nearer Aggressive Democracy Is Needed In America HITTAKER CHAMBERS, in his story running in the Saturday Evening Post, tries to explain the mysterious quality of Communism which has given it such driving force throughout the world.

He concludes that true Communists are people first of all of immense conviction. But more important still, they have the will and the capacity to act upon their conviction. And in this they are almost alone. Chambers here has hit upon one of the puzzling paradoxes which grip free men. They have the faith that rightly may be prized above all other concept of freedom and individual human dignity.

Yet when they hold these rich prizes in hand they too often act as if they did not value them at all. Men fight fiercely for freedom when they do not have it. They fight, too. when they see it ebbing away, or under immediate and grave threat. But when the danger to their liberties recedes even slightly, they relax their guard and turn a deaf ear to all pleas for militant action.

This puts them at a definite disadvantage in any contest with Communists, to whom militancy is a way of life. In the Communist world, there is no room for relaxation. The cause is an around-the-clock tyrant commanding the believer's energies every second. Perhaps it is in the nature of freedom that it cannot be best used in an atmosphere of self-conscious militancy. In any event, men who have their liberty seem bent mosi upon enjoying defending it.

Its detense is a task they put off as almost an interference with their freedom. In an ideal condition, it may be possible for free men thus to indulge themselves in the fruits of liberty without submitting to the limitations which follow from its active and constant defense. But a world containing an effective Communist force obviously does not fit that description. The defenses the free nations are now throwing up are a response to a threat they see as serious and relatively close. They must be credited with defining and meeting the menace with more speed and fuller energies tnan they have heretofore applied in critical moments.

Nevertheless, they have not yet passed the real test of these times. They have not yet shown that they understand that the Communist threat is always real and great, even when it appears to recede. They have not shown realization of the fact that you cannot combat 24-hour-a-day militancy with no militancy at all. Whether or not it is the natural inclination of free men to do so, they must act upon their faith constantly and energetically in world. Otherwise they may awake one day to find it they saw and recognized the peril it was in.

decide the kind of municipal Eecanaba will have for the next four years bad or indifferent. A number of exlremely important civic problems confront the city and the decisions on these problems will be made by the incoming city council. As a citizen of Escanaba, you will want to play your part in good government. Start by registering foi the election and plan to vote in April. Death Chair Nearer For Rosenbergs the electric chair.

The U. C. Court of Appeals unanimously has upheld their espionage convictions and death sentences. Only the Supreme Court or presidential intervention can now save the Rosenbergs from paying with thru lives for their infamy. The prospects are dim nnieed that either of these alternatives will be favorable to them.

Even those people who oppose capital punishment in principle must recognize the crime of treason is of such magnitude that it cannot be dealt with in the same manner as other crimes. Murder, for instance, is a crime against an individual. Treason is a crime against the entire nation. It has been said that the Korean war probably would not have resulted except for the traitorous acts of the Rosenbergs. Many thousands of persons have been killed in this wai and billions of dollars spent in prosecuting the war.

The crime of the Rosenbergs in selling out their country for money or for Communistic inclinations or any other cause is a horrendous crime deserving of the maximum punishment. We can be thankful that the Rosenbergs have had their days in court, their opportunity for defense. Their rights of appeal still remain. That is the American way. Certainly none of us would want that way scrapped for the Russian way of handling these things.

In Russia, the Rosen berg-type traitor would be Quickly shot, perhaps without trial at all. Their families likewise would be forced to slave labor, if not quick death, and all of their friends would be as ruthlessly purged. Other Editorial Comments THE CHARTER ELECTION (Soo Evening News) On Wednesday of this week comes an opportunity for every voter to bring our charter down to date. The great majority in Sault Ste. Marie, we believe, favor a comfhission-manager form of government.

With slight changes, we will continue Ihe present charter if we vote This city has had good government under our various managers. We have eliminated politics for the most part and we have the reputation for progressive government. One of the first cities in the Northern Peninsula to adopt a charter that is business like and saves money' for the taxpayers, we have been fortunate in the personnel of our managers. No scandal has been unearthed in recent years and there has been little waste. In other words we have been getting our worth.

The Evening News has been acquainting the citizens with the changes in the present charter. They are minor and if any one of them does not work we can change by amendment at some future election. We think the charter commission has done a splendid job and we hope that the revised charter will be approved by a huge majority. By DREW PEARSON secret meeting which every housewife will be interested will be held at 10 a. m.

tomorrow in the Crystal Room of the Sherman Hotel Chicago. Present at the meeting will be representatives of the livestock industry and the big food processors, and their purpose will be to kill price controls. will be a secret meeting without publicity." wrote C. Watson, president of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association. to various meat, grain and food processors.

However, this column has obtained copies of the correspondence and believes the public is entitled to know what backstage forces are working to defeat price controls. The fiist confidential letter calling the meeting was mailed by the Corn BeR Livestock Feeders on Jan. 31, stating: "Your association wants to get rid of OPS and Drice controls. Our association wants to get rid of OPS and price controls. groups Within industries, such as the national livestock and meat industry conference are doing most excellent work.

But this is much bigger than livestock. All branches of business should work together in a well planned fight. you are willing to work with other organizations, then please attend a meeting at Chicago on Feb. 28. This will be a confidential meeting without INFLUENCE RADIO PROGRAMS The Livestock Breeders Association enclosed a plan of strategy headlined Must which contained highly significant tips for influencing radio programs and newspapers against price controls.

with radio time would be asked to invite in the representatives ol other organizations when some startling bit of information would be broadcast that would bring resentment against the memo advised. deliberate and planned attempt would be to make it as unsavory to the public as was OPA. a set, specific day, not later than April the secret memo continued, members, north, south, east and west, would be asked to paste in their car a windshield sticker carrying the slogan of the campaign Take the shackles off must chairman must also see to it that letters are poured in to each member of Congress from his stale, in a steady stream, all demanding that when and if the defense production act of 1950 is to be renewed, that it first must be amended to drop from DOUGLAS LARSEN that act the NKA The above memo, plus confidential let- PUSAN, Eveiy ter. were sent out by the policy committee day, sometime in the middle of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Asso- afternoon after he has caie- ciation, and signed by C. B.

Watson, presi- checked his daily shipping dent and stock control reports, Capt. WMCVK Runvn unvr Jacob Bornstein of New York de" BEHIND MOVE ddeg jugt what all soldiers in Then, on Feb. 6, the livestock feeders Korea will eat several days hence, followed up with another letter stating that a former baker, the plump the earlier response had been so enthus- genial Bornstein makes up the iastic have decided to go ahead Army menu for the entire Kothe meeting." rean theater. Except for the men will be called to order at 10 a. m.

in the Crystal Room, Hotel Sherman, Feb. I -8. We have no delusions that tables and meat flown in to them, ing OPS will be an easy the letter every man from private to gen- Good By CLINT DUNATHAN LEAP YEAR are two classes ot people who have troubles because of Leap Year: Those who are bom on Leap Day (Feb. 29) and all bachelors. Those in the first category are In the unfortunate condition of actually celebrating a birthday only once every four jeers.

Thus Rossini, the great composer, bora Feb. 29. 1792, celebrated his 10th birth at the age of 72. toeing eat on MrtMay parties and gifts, the Leap Year babies surfer from the attention given them every four years when they do have a People are always remarking about how old they look for their age, and newspapers take pictures of Leap Year who are actually old enough in years to have babies (Leap Year or otherwiee) Of thew own. BACHELORS Off THE hm tradition supports the story that Leap Year is an open season on bachelors.

The Sadie Hawkins Day aspect of Leap Year has considerable basis in fact and law to warrant the ladies in their husband-hunO- ing privilege. In 128ft the Scottish parliament adapted a law making It legal far maiden ladie. of balth high and Iowa la ye man she In Leap Year. The reaction of the Seot bachelor Ik not a matter ofreeord. France passed similar laws a few years later and Italy got around to it in the llth century.

Army Chow In Korea Battle Area Compares To Typical U. S. Menu at the front who get extra allot- I ments of fresh eggs, fruits, vege- The Doctor Says Slowness of Child to Speak Often Causes Parents Anxiety continued. we believe the fight should be made in the hope that at least the Republicans will put a plank in their political platform condemning price Organizations invited to attend the Chicago meeting tomorrow include: The American Meat Instatute, American National Cattlemen's Association, Associated Poultry and Egg Industries, Independent Livestock Marketing of Columbus; Indianapolis Livestock Exchange, Kansas Livestock Milk Industry Foundation, Missouri Livestock National Association ol Cham Stores, National Lamb Feeders Western ers and the U. S.

Chamber of Commerce. A total of 125 people are expected to attend. Note important to remember that there are no ceiling prices on cattle, only on this, in turn, is supposed to hold down cattle prices. Under this system during World War II, OPA kept the ceiling on cattle at 12 cents a pound. Since the end of OPA, beef cattle have risen in price to between 30 and 41 cents a pound, I causing giound steak to shoot up from 42 some people lealize on then cents per pound during the war years dei cents June 1950.

and $1.12 May 1951. It was at this point that OPS slapped on controls. Note cattle feeders who conspire to end price controls are estimated by the Agriculaure Department to be making a profit of $48 per head as ot this yeai. The ten-year average profit prior to this period was $23 per head. eral gets exactly the same basic chow.

is my favorite, and if it were possible put it on the menu at least four times a Bornstein says. he adds, menu we are now giving the men jn Korea is one that no Army food expert ever thought possible before the fighting He explains: we feed the men in the States is the best diet that money can buy. In a foreign theater our goal is to get as close to the States Meat Pack- Stateside menu as possible. The limitation, however, outside the U. is the amount of perishables we can get.

We are getting plenty here, about one-third of all of the food. enough to make ours the closest thing to the U.S. LOIS OF BEEF for is unloaded at um i ui fui eye of Capt. Jacob Bornstrin. who decides just hImI soldiers wiM every day Korea.

all alt h- U. S. to the front is an improved type of tent. It is packed mi prefabricated wooden and im- sulated with spun glass. As part of the business of fighting a war the American Army way, there are 2000 tons of office menu ever achieved for an Amer- supplies moving through eveiy ican Army outside the zone of the couple of months.

Everything from paper clips to huge filing cabinets are included in the huge area where these items are stocked. About all investments is that they shouldn't have invested. Col. GiHrHe problem of stealing pilferage in Army been especially serious for the QM hi Pusan. And i has been neatly licked the understandable, he says, with 1 QM is the piovidmg of different hundreds of tons of everything kinds of menus for the varied U.

S. BY EDWIN P. JORDAN. M. D.

Written for NEA Service Into The Past Speech is terribly important for getting along in the world, and it is not surprising, therefore, that parents sometimes worry if their children do not learn to talk as fast or as clearly as they think they ought to. effect does a split uvula have on a child's speech? Our little four-year- old boy is slow in talking. Sentences are now being formed but some words and sounds are not clear. Mrs. R.

N. nvuls has very little to do with speech, and the fact that it is spilt can be safely ignored in this respect. Children start to talk at different ages, and at different rates, and practically none of them make clear sounds at first. Unless there Is more delay in speaking than seems indicated by the inquiry, there seems little to worry about in this little boy. son and his family have boils continually, and I should like to know hat causes them, and what would prevent them from coming, Mrs.

L. J. A Roils are canned by infections involving the akin and pert lens Immediate ly beneath. They land la eeme Mara often and are mare difficult te gat rid ef In per- aans whe are under par physically, either beeaass ef eeme dleeeee aneh as diabetes, er beeeaee ef sbvlaus physical dleebll- Thar ara alee fairly In wheae skin It Irritated hr rubbing, ai Mi mat. Where a whole family is involved in recurring boils, medical aid should be sought in an attempt to eliminate them.

have been told I was perfectly I healthy except that the womb is slightly tipped. Could such a condition prevent conception? Mrs. could. would like to know whether drinking a bottle of a cola drink every day would cause an acid condition0 C. would be millions of us with an acid condition if this were true.

There is no reason to believe thst it is. danger might there be. if any, from a fairly solid lump about egg-size, on the upper arm, where an injection had been made? Reader. is slmost certainly no danger. In all probability, the injection set up a tissue reaction or irritation which resulted In a certain amount of scar or fibrous tissue.

which is responsible for the present lump. NOTE ON QUESTIONS Di. Jordan is unable to answer directly individual questions from readers. However, once a week, in this A' umn he will answer the most and the most frequently asked questions received during the week. stored in a crowded area where troops.

Hard Work Is Restoring Greatness Of Rotterdam 10 YEARS AGO Batavia. N. E. more enemy troop ships, a naval and freighter were torpedoed by U. S.

submarines in the great counter-offensive against the Japanese invasion train massing in the waters off Java. British submarine, nosing deep into enemy waters, hunted down and crippled a Nazi cruiser believed to be the lugitive Pnnz Eugen while that larger comrades in a previous English channel escape lie in German docks, knocked out ot the war for some time, the British government reported. by Mayor Sam Wickman, a five-man city civilian defense board composing, besides the mayor, Peter Logan. Carl Wickman, Fred Earle and William J. Duchaine, was approved by 1 Gov.

Van Wagoner. George Curran, 34. cashier at the Hermansville First National Bank and head of the Hermansville Lions, enlisted in the Army Quartermaster Corps. 20 YEARS AGO Japanese army and air i navy fleets combined forces for a fierce bombing attack on the Chinese forts of Woosung. times in quick succession, the Reichstag voted confidence in the Bruening government then defeated thrde opposition motions regarding procedures whereupon the National Socialists called the ses.Mon a "monkey and walked out.

The men at the front, and every other place in Korea, back up this claim. And there is unanimous opinion among the men that in the way of personal ing. tobacco, shaving gear and are also the best equipped Army in history. An inspection of the huge, crowded Quartermaster Corps the Koreans need so desperately, I taste section of the busting Pusan waterfront reveals the amazing story of why UN troops are faring so well in Korea this Winter. Giant, newly-completed cold storage warehouses daily receive the hundreds of tons of perish- 1 ables brought in by ship from Japan, and in some cases straight from the U.

S. Thus, trains leave Pusan for some distribution point farther north every few hours loaded with the fruit, meat, potatoes, flour, butter, salad dressing and even a proportionate amount of catsup, mustard, salt and pepper all done neatly and efficiently according to a working formula. The goal is to keep at least a 30-day supply of food ahead at all times in the Pusan warehouses. Of course, this possible on some perishable items, but if something should close up the docks here permanently for any period of time, the troops would be assured of at least a supply of food while other points of supply could be created. On clothing and other equipment for the troops, an attempt is made to maintain a 60-day backlog.

According to Lt. Col. Shelby L. Gillette, the QM officer in charge of the dock operation, there are the need is worst. on the theory that the troops need it more, however, and maintains a heavy guard at all times.

It also forces extremely careful supervision of the Korean workers who help handle the supplies. For some time, Gillette explains. the most serious problem was Hie stealing of string from the flour sacks. The string could be secreted out easily and made excellent wicks for the Korean lamps. Unfortunately it ruined a lot of good flour.

Another knott.s problem which WOMEN OF these days, however, it would take a woman of oour- age of either or lowe eetait" to approach bachelor with en offer af marriage. Women have thrown off the yoke and stand revealed as equals if not the superiors of mere men. It would indeed be stooping for a 20th century women to the hand of a man in marriage. Besides there are other and effective ways of winning and why wait until Leap Tear? 8a the women of today, aided by the witoe af a poodle hair cut and a eouree In current events, can charm their men Into a par- riage troth whenever they are aa Inclined. As man defenses fell before the ascending supremacy of women there is the possibility that bachelors may appeal for pro- I teetive legislation.

Leap Yeer may yet be- come a respite for the pursued male, last refuge of bachelorhood, in which they wiM be safe from marriage at least one year out of four. WHAT IT Up to this point there, may be some confusion concerning the true meaning of Leap Year, which actually has nothing to do with marriage customs. Leap Year has 966 days. or one more than the ordinary year. yeers aaeur.

in every year which oan be divided by the years which mark the even hundreds, as 1500. Only century years which can be dl- vided by 400 are leap years, snch as MM and 2000 Leap years were added to calendar to make the calendar year near- the same aa the solar year, whleM Is the length of time required far the earth to completely circle the sun. In this time compenssting process the i extra day is added to February end bs- 1 comes Feb. 29 only once every four MAY BE United Ms- tions, we hope, will in 1956 sdopt the proposed World Calendar which will make Leap Day a thing of the past. This day will be switched to June SI.

i Thus the calendar will have four equal quarters with an extra day at the end ef the year which will be called December or Worlds day dedicated to international understanding and peace, Year has largely lost its significance so far as husband-snatching is concerned anyway. The proposed new World Calendar will bring an orderly proceeeioa ot days and months with each month aquas in number of days and every date recurring anually on the same day of the week Power With Words By Dr. C. I. Funk of the other than WASHINGTON, D.

postwar revival of the port city of Rotterdam is an inspiring example of determined rebuilding after devastation, the National Geographic Society reports. The German bombing that leveled the center of on May 14, hours after negotiations for surrender of the city had one of the horrors of the early part ot World War II. Also extremely damaging was the systematic demolition of port facilities carried out by the retreating Nazis just before the end of the war in Europe. The demolitions left much of the finest harbor cranes, loading barges, floating grain unloaders and floating dry- of broken concrete and twisted steel. Land Returned to Sea Rotterdam, like much of the rest of the Netherlands, is at or below sea level, protected by 44.000 separate quartermaster dikes.

Much of the modern city items in what they call the II and IV categories, other than food and petroleum. That group includes everything from razor blades to tent poles. As Col. Gillette puts it. to satisfy the needs of the individual." Newest major quartermaster item to be arriving for delivery rests on polders, land recovered from the ocean.

It is one place the Netherlands where land has been given back to the sea. The Waalhaven, largest dock basin in the world, covers the former pold- Becau ers of Plompert and Robbenoord. is projected area. Rotterdam, now a more than 675,000 population, has caused numerous other villages to disappear as they were absorbed by urban expansion. Some of these villages were older than Rotterdam, which began in the 12th century as a tiny community on a dike along the Rotte, one of the numerous streams flowing into the network constituting the mouths ol the Rhine and the Maas Marshall Plan Aid The rebuilding of Rotterdam is only one of the miracles of reconstruction achieved by the Dutch since the war.

Much of the lovely island of Walcheren was flooded with sea water when the Allies were forced to bomb its dikes to flood out German defenders October, 1 A few months later, 50,000 acres of Wieringermeer Polder, reclaimed from the Ijsel Meer, formerly the Zuider Zee, were flooded by the retreating Germans. Energetic and resourceful Dutch engineering and labor, aided by Marshall plan materials and dollars, rebuilt the dikes of en. New processes speeded recovery of the soil from salt water the IJsel Meer likes and is not to TEST YOUR VOCABULARY Alter each definition select one of the four following words which agrees with tht meaning. Be honest with yourself ane do not look at the answers below. Check your pronunciations also.

rely on: (a) depend; (b) (c) append; (d) perpend. fitness: (a) altitude; aptitude; (c) attitude; (d) amplitude. ooal dust: (a) Lquette; (b) plaquette; (c) briquette; city of burette. block or wedge: (a) check, chick: (c) chock; (d) chuck. tinkle, as of glass: (a) (V clank; (c) clink; (d) chink.

pulpit: (a) nostrum; (b) roeteum- (c) tantrum; (d) plectrum. a star: (a) starling; stoiV ling, (c) stellar; (d) stelar. charge with a crime: (a) (b) indict; (c) convict; (d) indite. Answers depend (di-PEND); Lstin pendeo," to hang on. must depond their (b) aptitude (AP-ti-tyood or toaa) Latin fitted.

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trees sblaae witd stellar indict (in-DITE); Late Lain, publish. may be indicted tor a crime, but not convicted af commit ting.