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FOUR 'ADRIAN DAILY TELEGRAM, ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942 ADRIANDAILY TELEGRAM TI ADRIAN EVENING Establisbed in 1892 TELEGRAM The ADRIAN DAILY TIMES Established mo 18565 Consolidated April 1914 Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday STUART A. PERRY. Publisher Office 210-214 West Maumes Street, Adrian, Michigan. Entered at the post office at Adrian, Michigan, as la second-class matter. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press 18 exclusively enti.

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85 cents for one month All subscriptions strictly in advance. Subscribers will confer a favor by' reporting promptly irregularity in delivery by mall or carner. Wednesday, April 22, 1942 STATESMANSHIP PREVAILED Chairman Joseph Martin of the Republican national committee sounded the keynote for the Chicago meeting when he declared that the Republicans "would rather win war and win It quickly than win an election." His challenge 1o put the nation's cause above partisanship was taken up by the committee. The resolution it adopted was no quibbling, halfhearted support for the war effort. It demanded "the prosecution of an offensive war, relentiessly and without reservation, whatever may cost in wealth, energy or human life, until the United States and its allies have won a complete victory over their enemies." Having placed the party solidly behind the war effort, the national committee went farther by its epoch-making abandonment of isolationism.

It declared that "after the war the responsibility of the nation will not be circumscribed within the territorial limits of the United States: that our nation has an obligation to assist in the bringing about of understanding, comity and co-operation among the nations of the world in order that our own liberty may be preserved and that 1 the blighting and destructive processes of war may not again be forced upon us and upon the free and peaceloving peoples of the earth." That declaration virtually drives any remaining isolationists from the party, Those who have professed to believe that America could live in cloistered security when the rest of the freedom-loving world was being ravaged by lawlessness are told that the Republican party is not their party. Those who think that America can be free by merely saying it wants to be free are told that the Republican party is not for them. They are told that the Republican party believes that in order for American liberty to be preserved America must see to it that other peoples are assisted in preserving their freedom. The resolution contains the and substance of the stand that Wendell Willkie wanted the committee to take. The wording was changed slightly from that which he proposed, but it stands as a and outright abandonment of isolationism.

It was adopted unanimously and its adoption was a victory for Mr. Willkie and the rank and file Republicans whose leader he became in 1940. There are a few mavericks left in the party's councils but their influence is fast declining. The liberal element is in the ascendancy. Statesmanship prevailed at Chicago and saved the party from extinction.

PLYWOOD PLANES A trainer plane built largely of plywood and plastics is undergoing tests by the navy. Save for the engine it is constructed of wood and plastic, substances, and it is said to be stronger than a plane of metal construction. Not much detail is disclosed, but presumably it is similar to a model for private use that has. been undergoing tests for a number of months and which might have been placed in commercial production had the war not come along. For years aviation engineers have dreamed of building planes under mass construction practices, much the same as automobiles are turned out.

Economies in manufacture were counted on to the price well within the income of people of moderate means. The the use of plywood and plastics, designers likewise were considering counting on these materials to bring added strength and afford short cuts and savings in produclion methods. It was their idea that wings and other parts might be stamped out of plywood much as an automobile's fenders and body parts are stumped out of sheet metal. The plywood parts then could be coated with plastic substances to smooth their surfaces and make them impervious to the weather. At least one company had made such a model before America came into the war and others were expertmenting with them.

If a plywood and plastic trainer, meets the navy's tests it may also be taken up by the army. Using these readily obtainable materials would release large quantities of steel and aluminum for fighter craft. Literally thousands of trainers of different types are used by the army and navy now, and more thousands are to be built to be used by the army and navy for the panding flying services. Plywood and plastics may not be satisfactory substitutes for steel and aluminum in all classes of trainer planes, but if they are approved for even one or two types, the saving in materials is bound to be substantial. Moreover, it is to be expected that planes of such materials could be turned out faster, thus releasing.

skilled workers to building fighter craft at a faster rate. It is hoped that the plywood trainer will get a more thorough test at the navy's hands than did the Sea Otter ocean-going vessel. The fact that a second test of the Sea Otter has been ordered indicates that it will, Aviation authorities, either in the army or navy, are not bound up by the conventions and traditions surrounding the other branches of the service. They have fewer preconceived notions how equipment should be built and used. Military aviation is a comparatively new science.

It is progressive and not alarmed by new ideas and innovations. NEGROES IN THE NAVY When the Navy announced the other day that Negroes would be enlisted for general service and would be promoted on merit as, non-commissioned officers it shattered a precedent of long standing. It was time that it be shattered. Race prejudice has no place in a nation fighting to preserve democracy. Until now the American navy has accepted Negroes for duty only as mess attendants or cooks and has denied them the right to participate in the operation and fighting of the ships.

The explanation. for the Navy's attitude has been that life on board ship is especially intimate and that probable friction between white and Negro sallors would complicate discipline. Under the new order; the Negroes are to be separate units. No discrimination can be charged against that procedure. The army for years has had separate Negro regiments and their records have been high.

Not long ago the 99th Pursuit Squadron, an all-Negro flying unit, graduated at Tuskegee Institute and its members became instructors for new units. A complete Negro infantry division is being formed and in one of the southern camps a Negro tank battalion is under training. What the Negro units accomplish for the army they can do'also for the navy. All they need is the opportunity and now the navy is giving it. The Navy's shattering precedent is a step forward.

Sometimes precedents represent only indefensible customs. When they are that and when they also defy the spirit of the American Constitution and statutes as well they should be discarded. Backward Glances (From Telegram Files) 20 Years Ago Today Loading restrictions on trucks were lifted today by order of the Lenawee county road commission. county leads all counties in the state in farming and has edge in dairying, poultry and domestic animals, according to the latest census. 10 Years Ago Today A large barn and other buildon the E.

J. Marshall farm one half mile north of Billington's Corners were saved in a four hour fight by the Tecumseh and Adrian fire departments. The fire broke out early this morning in a pile of cornstalks. 'The pupils of the Garfield school lawn a maple tree on the east planted at the school today in memory of a classmate Richard Holaday who died February 26. The tree was the gift of the boy's mother Mins.

W. Holaday of Cleveland. ful Alfred Mead received paininjuries when struck in her Mr. right Mead eye by a golf club swung by who was practicing on the lawn at their home on Avenue. 5 Years Ago Today Mrs.

Evans Russell was elected president of the Lenawee County Federation of Women's Clubs at the 32nd annual convention in the Presbyterian Church here today. uating Eight class members of of Adrian the high 1900 school gradthe enjoyed a reunion this evening home of Dr. and Mrs. F. A.

Howland where Mrs. Mina Cole Comings of Seattle is a guest. They were Mrs. Comings, Mrs. Louise Cutler, Mr.

and Mrs. S. Howard Swift, Miss Myrtia Raymond, Mrs. Louis Kelly Mrs. Clyde Harris and Mrs.

Herman Meyer. Deane Byerley was elected presiof the Adrian Rotary Club today, Today THE in Congress By ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate In recess. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold testifies on restraint of trade before Patents Committee. Secretary of Commerce Jones appears at Banking and Currency Committee hearing on bill to probile vide RFC assistance for dealers. House Routine session.

Judiciary Committee resumes study of labor legislation. Ways and Means Committee continues secret tax sessions. YESTERDAY Senate in recess. House approved compromise legislation providing for renegotiation war contracts. WAR BABY READING, April 22 (P) Private and Mrs.

John Lambert's new son is definitely a war baby. He' arrived during Reading's first blackout test last -ight while his father was away serving in the Army. The hospital's emergency lighting system was used, News Behind the News By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON, April 22 No news has been good news from the Atlantic lately. Reports of ship sinkings dropped off nearly to zero after a peak about three weeks back. Permanent conclusions, are not warranted because, nouncements of both our losses and German claims are 'ordinarily delayed a week or two.

Yet 'there are many storles circulation in shipping quarters wholly unofficial, of course, suggesting that the navy has accomplished decisive results. One is that 30 German and Italian submarines have been sunk by us in the Jast two weeks. Not many more than this number could have been involved at the peak of the attack. There is another story about the bodies of 29 German seamen retrieved from the waters of the sea and brought for burial to plot near one of our Atlantic ports. Still another (this one Is more unofficial) suggests that an American fishing vessel, hard at work offshore was suddenly confronted by a rising German periscope.

The fishermen expected the worst and were getting ready for it when a German voice, from the now risen conning tower asked if they had any fish for sale. While negotiations were in pro: gress, under the duress of an imminent torpedo, the Germans got some fish they did not expect. A patrol plane spotted the submarine and sank it. Officials in the Navy and War Departments enjoyed their bast laughs of the war listening to the Tokyo radio reporting the bombing. Obviously the Japanese never knew what hit them.

First they said the planes were B-26 medium Martins, then B-25 North Americans. They first announced the planes came from carriers, then from the Aleutians, next from the PhilipThe only thing they were clear about was that they came from the skies. Three days later they did not appear to know whether the planes were navy or army. Part of this may have been put on to smoke us out, but it was too all-fired serious to be anything ex- Difficult Decisions WONDERING WHETHER 10 GO PICK UP YOUR BASEBALL BAT FROM THE STAIRS AND THUS REVEAL THE FACT THAT YOU HAVEN'T 601 10 BED YET, OR TRUST TO LUCK THAT FATHER WON'T STEP ON IT WHEN HE COMES UP IN THE DARK, WITH DIRE RESULTS ALL AROUND 6WYAS 4-22 (Released by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) WILLIANS cept a confession of a break in morale which, of course, was the purpose of the bombing. First Mr.

Roosevelt wanted a new descriptive phrase for the war, then he wanted another word for inflation. It is safe to say the search for an adequate name for the war did not work out altogether sensationally. "The Survival War" does not dramatize the whole case, nor does any of the others offered. Phonetically as good as any was one coined by Mortimer J. Donaghue, a California publicity expert, to whom it seemed to be "War for World Freedom" but that may not fully dramatize Russia's interest in it or China's.

It is just too farflung for adequate pin-pointed description. Protect Essential Non- -War Industry By WALTER LIPPMANN With the appointment of Paul V. McNutt and the War Manpower Commission we can perhaps begin to see in a new light and somewhat more clearly the many labor questions which the country has been discussing. A long step has been taken towards universal service for war. Mr.

McNutt is to recommended the legislation which will be necessary to supplement the powers that Major General Hershey has already developed in regard to deferment under the draft Jaw. Now when a country moves toward universal service, the peacetime labor problem is transformed into the wartime manpower problem. In the broadest terms, the essential difference is that the old labor problem in war industry has revolved around the hiring of men and women by private employers, whereas the new manpower problem will revolve around the conscription of men and women by the government for service to the nation. The difference is so farreaching that it will take us all some time to adjust our minds to it. Yet what has happened recently in the agitation about the fortyhour law shows how confusing it is to think as we have usually thought about the labor problem.

From all parts of the there is a very strong attack on the forty-hour law as an obstruction to the war At the same time the responsible officials in Washington have been unanimously opposed to a change in this law, and heads of the war industries have taken little or no part in asking that the law should be changed. It is a case where the advocates on both sides have been right, but there has been no meeting of minds because they have been talking about different things. The war production officials have been talking about plants which have war. contracts: it is quite true that these plants the forty-hour law does not hold production down to forty hours a It merely increases the weelly wage. A repeal of the law would mean an actual reduction of wages.

The war production officials look upon re(peal as a dangerous nuisance which would open up a new cycle of labor demands to bring total weekly wages back to the present level. For in these plants money is not a consideration to the employers because the government the wage bill. This explains why Mr. Nelson and all the other officials do not want forty-hour law disturbed. On the other hand, the agitation against the forty-hour law does not arise from the war contractors, but, on the contrary, from the industries which do not have war contracts and must therefore pay their own wage bilis.

The complaint comes from the smaller business. men who do not deal with Mr. Nelson or with the war-procurement agencies. For them the forty-hour law is a real impediment to a longer workling week and to the more com- Fighters Get Chance To Buy Share In Nation They Defend ATLANTA, April (P) The men who are fighting the war are being given full opportunity to "buy a share" in the nation they are defending. While high pressure is out-and definitely--in promoting the recently approved pay reservation plan for buying war bonds, the War Department is doing a thorough job of educating all its personnel in the program.

The logic that men should want to help pay for a war while they are fighting it was summed simply by Secretary of War Stimson when he expressed confidence that soldiers would be anxious to buy, bonds because they "understand better than others the great task the nation has before it." But the educational program doesn't rest solely on this recognition of war's gravity. The investment advantages are being stressed as well. The educational program was begun three weeks ago in the Fourth Corps area and at about the same time elsewhere. Authorizations for pay reservations 'are just now beginning to go forward and details of the buying plan were made public for the first time here today by Col. E.

C. B. Danforth, paign for funds for the Navy Reliet Society. Knox said the would be awarded probably at the end of this week. At the ceremony were Admiral Ernest J.

King, Comander in Chief of the fleet and chief of naval operations; Rear Admiral J. H. Towers, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics; Rear Admiral Randall of the Bureau of Navigation; and Captain F. E. Beatty, aide to Knox.

CLINTON Fire Department Called The Clinton fire department was called to Evans Lake at 1:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A mattress in the ward at the William Demuth cottage was burning and Mrs. Susie Mc-Henney, occupant of the cottage was afraid the fire would spread to the long dry grass near the buildings. There was no damage. Three Drivers ArraignedThree men were arraigned yesterday before Justice L.

J. VanDeusen on charge of violating traffic laws. Richard Spenser of Detroit was charged with speeding and paid a fine of $1 and costs of $3.35. Samuel Lambright of Litchfield paid $1 costs for failure to have his car under control and Harry Wolff Detroit paid a fine of $1 and costs of $1 for having a nexpired operator's license. Wilkinson-Duffy Miss Alice, Duffy, niece of Mr.

and Mrs. William McMahon Detroit, Donald Wilkinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wilkinson of Detroit, were married at 11:30 o'clock this at St. Leo's rectory in Detroit.

Rev. Fr. William Welch read the service. Mrs. E.

J. J. Kehoe of Clinton was maid of honor and Mr. Kehoe served as best man. The bride wore a powder blue wool suit with navy accessories and an orchid corsage.

Mrs. Kehoe chose powder blue for her costume and navy accessories. Her corsage was of gardenias. A wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride's aunt and uncle. The bride formerly lived with Mr.

and Mrs. Kehoe and was graduated from the Clinton high hchool in 1938. The couple will live in Detroit where Mr. Wilkinson is branch manager for the Detroit Times. To Start New Class A class in home hygiene will be started in Clinton next Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Red Cross sewing room.

Mrs. Harold Kiebler is to be the instructor. A class of ten persons is necessary. Registrations should be made at once with Mrs. E.

R. Quigley, local chairman of the American Red Cross. Clinton Notes Mrs. W. B.

Hornsby and daughter Roberta were in Ann Arbor yesterday. Leroy Williams was in Benton Harbor over the week end as the guest of Miss Florine Webber. The Congregational Woman's Union will meet Friday afternoon lat the 1 church. o'clock Circle luncheon. No.

6 will Mrs. serve a E. R. Quigley is to act as the hostess. Mrs.

A. D. Woodward, Mrs. Edward Judge and Mrs. Howard Schmidt were at Onsted today to attend the funeral of Percy Denslow.

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Heath were in Jackson Sunday to attend sessions and the banquet of the American Legion and Auxiliaries of the second district as delegates from the Clinton post and unit. Mrs. W.

F. Warner was in Morenci today to attend the funeral of her aunt Mrs. Ella M. Roosa. Mr.

and Mrs. E. E. Hoyt spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Cornwall at Flat Rock. Born, April 18, to Sgt. and Mrs. Barron Hills in Foote hospital, Jackson, a daughter, Barbara Joy. Mrs.

Hills formerly was Miss Betty Watson of Adrian and Clinton and is the daughter of Mrs. Glen Hindes of Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hoyt of Belleville visited his parents Mr.

and Mrs. H. P. Hoyt Sunday. Mrs.

Robert Chandler and children Marilyn Thomas and James who spent several days with her sister Mrs. Benjamin Mahrle and Mrs. John Kelly returned to Ypsilanti Sunday. She also called on another sister Mrs. David Mackey, a patient in Tecumseh hospital, whose condition remains unchanged.

war bond officer for this area. Col. Danforth explained that reservations may not be made by, enlisted men for less than $1.25 or by other Army men and nurses for less tha $3.75 per month. For civilian employees, the minimum is $1.25 per pay day if they are paid weekly and $2.50 if semi-monthly. Because of accounting mechanthe deductions must be in multiples of $1.25.

No advance specification is necessary regarding how many bonds will be purchased and the reservations may be cancelled at any time. Bonds will be purchased by the War Department in the name of its employee. Co-owners and beneficiaries may be designated. "Many are reserving $18.75 a month," Colonel Danforth said, "and by so doing will have a $25 bond maturing each month after 10 years." War savings stamps also will be made available at post exchanges, but Colonel Danforth said this phase is not to be stressed. While officers declined to predict results, War Department instructions provide that reservation blanks be available at each post to supply 80 per cent of the personnel.

2 NON-WAR SPENDING TO BE G. O. P. TARGET Martin Says People Want NonEssentials Cut Out But the news that Mr. Roosevelt is searching for a substitute for the word inflation, just before sending a message to Congress to stop it, has aroused more interest.

It sug. gests that he has found and is preparing the way for an entirely new conception of what we have and what be done about it. Common speech and common thought is along the line that rising prices and economic factors mean inflation and that it should be met by stopping those economic factors arbitrarily. If the President wants to call it something new, he must want to do something new it. Leon Henderson's organization is known to have prepared an order to freeze prices at the highest levels between February 25 and March 25.

This period was selected to nip a few smart fellows who started increasing their prices after March 25 to beat the game. Both wholesale and retail prices would be affected simultaneously. His legal division is supposed have decided it has the power to go that far, but does not possess the legal mechanics for handling interest rates, wages, hourly rates of pay, without legislation, a and its farm price power is on a flimsy basis. The only thing certain is that efforts to anticipate the President's message are apt to be wrong. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Reproduction in full or In part strictly prohibited. 1 SAYS AUSTRALIANS BOMBED UNITED STATES WARSHIP BY MISTAKE NEW YORK, April 22 John Raleigh, CBS correspondent in broadcast from Australia, said today that the United States destroyer, Peary, acknowledged by the United States to have been sunk Feb. 19 at Darwin when the Japanese scored five direct bomb hits, previously had been bombed by the Australians by mistake. As she was nearing Darwin after successfully undergoing many bombings at Manila and in the Indies, Raleigh said, "Australian planes mistook the Peary for an 'enemy craft and bombed her, unfortunately, more accurately than the Japanese. "Her fire control and fore masts were carried away by direct hits.

The ship, though frantically signalling, did not fire back at the Allies, who honestly believed the vessel an enemy one. "Finally, a bomb fell on the setting afire the ammunition stacked beside four-inch guns. A seaman rushed to the danger, spot and hurled the shell, cases, overboard. For this he -was awarded the Navy cross." The Peary finally reached Darwin, short because mosquitoes nesting in green camouflage used in the islands had infected 25 men with malaria. A new fire control apparatus was on its way when the Japanese at-! tacked, Raleigh said.

PRAYING FOR PEACE TOKYO (From Japanese Broad-: cast), April 22 (AP)-The Tokyo radio broadcast today a Domei dispatch quoting Toyohiko Kagawa, most famous of Japanese christian leaders, as asserting that among Japanese christian "prayers are being said daily for an early conclusion of the war and the restoration of peace throughout the world." purpose of this broadcast! by the government-controlled is obscure but it might be the beginning of a Japanese "peace offensive." leaders may be counting on Kagawa's reputation in the United States, where he has lectured widely and where his books, in translation, have had considerable circulation, to gain attention for the suggestion that. Japanese christians, at least, want peace. observers have predicted that Japan might begin a peace drive as soon as she had conquered the territories she wanted to include in her "greater East Asia Co-prosperity Japan proper, which occupies 56 per cent of the whole empire, is larger than -England or Italy: O'Hare Gets Decorated, Promoted WASHINGTON, April 22 (P)- Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare, intrepid naval aviator who destroyey five Japanese bombers and damaged a sixth in five eventful minutes, received from his Commander in Chief, President velt, Tuesday the Medal of Honor and a promotion the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Standing at attention, with eyes blinking rapidly, O'Hare heard the Chief Executive read a citation which called his feat "one of most a daring, if not the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation." Then, while the President clasphis hand, O'Hare watched bride place the medal around neck.

Calling attention to the stripes a Lieutenant junior grade on sleeve of the young officer, President remarked that O'Hare had not yet time to get the fixin's of a Lieutenant Commander then handed O'Hare the promotion papers boosting him two grades. Almost inaudibly, O'Hare acknowledged his promotion, "that very nice, thank you very much." Reads Citation Then the Chief Executive read the citation, which he said more important than awarding promotion. It said: "The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare, United States Navy, for services set forth in the following paragraph citation. "For gallantry and intrepidity the area of combat, at grave risk of his life above and beyond call of duty, as section leader and pilot Fighting Squadron 3, when on February 20, 1942, having lost the assistance of team mates, interposed his plane between ship and advancing enemy formation of nine attacking twin-engined heavy bombers.

Without hesitation, alone and unaided, he repeatedly attacked this enemy formation at close range in the face of their intense combined machine gun and cannon fire, and despite this centrated opposition, he, by gallant and courageous action, extremely skilled marksmanship making the most of his limited amount of ammunition, shot down five enemy bombers and severely damaged a sixth before they reached the bomb release point. "As a result of his gallant action, one of the most daring, if not most daring single action in history of combat aviation, he doubtedly saved his carrier from serious damage." Meets Mrs. O'Hare Before the ceremony in his office, President Roosevelt had called over Mrs. O'Hare, saying he wanted her, too, and greeted Mo.) who Representative Cochran appointed O'Hare to United States Naval Academy. Then, after reading the citation, Mr.

Roosevelt took the highest award the nation can bestow on one of its heroes, the bronze and silver star of the medal of honor, from a leather case and fumbled with the snap on its blue ribbon, failing to open it. The Chief Executive said he would have to ask Mrs. O'Hare whose hands were more skillfu! than his, to put the medal around the neck of her hero husband. With a bit of coaching from the President, she unfastened the clasp and hung the medal around O'Hare's neck. The recipient, showing his nervousness, was a little more at ease when the President began informal conversation by asking how long he would be here.

O'Hare remarked he would have to refer the question to some of his superior officers who were present for the ceremony. Secretary Knox said he was sending O'Hare out to St. Louts to present to the city the naval for excellence. as the tirst big city which went over the top in a CHICAGO, April 22 A main target of Republican big guns in the fall campaign, Chairman Joseph W. Martin of the G.O.P.

national committee believes, will be the Roosevelt Administration's non-war spending. "The people are willing that we spend all that is needed in the war effort but they are getting fed up on other expenditures," Martin said yesterday. demanding a reduction of normal governmental expenses and they want nonessentials cut off." Martin said the party, from coast to coast, "is knit together as it has not been for more than a year," and that its financial condition was the best in history, virtually debt free." have very little money on "We hand, however, and we'll run a poor man's campaign," Martin said. "But I think we'll be able to get enough money for a moderate campaign." A campaign program, he said, will be drafted at a conference of all state chairmen, vice chairmen and publicity directors about the first week in June. The meeting will be in Cincinnati or St.

Louis, probably St. Louis. The chairman said the national committee, in setting down a war and Monday, handled all controversial questions "with wisdom and in a remarkable spirit of operation that amounted to statesmanship." declared "there was complete unity" and it was "a great day for the Republican party." In a resolution the committee demanded an offensive, uncompromising war until peace with victory was attained and expressed realization that the nation has an oblition gation to help bring about co-operaof the nations in the post-war world. plete use of their machines and plants. For them the Jaw worksthe days of the depression it was meant to work-namely, as a severe penalty on longer hours in order to compel them to hire more men.

ment. They are not paid by the governThey cannot raise prices or Mr. Henderson will put a ceiling over them. They cannot easily hire more men because men are being drafted into the Army or lurinto the war industries, where they get deferment and also higher pay. The feeling in Congress comes from them, and it is no accident that the feeling is strongest in the South and Southwest, where there are relatively few war tractors.

It is plain, I think, that as Mr. Nelson proceeds with the conversion of industry and as Nutt and General Hershey proceed with the mobilization of manpower, more attention must be paid to the problems of producers who, though outside the war effort itself, are nevertheless very necessary to the country. At the peak of mobilization for total war they will probably still represent something like 40 or 50 per cent of the national economy. Even after all the civilian luxuries and conveniences and gadgets have been stopped or converted to war, there will still remain a very large civilian industry that must be kept going and must be encouraged. Because they do not have war contracts and government subsidies, they need separate and different treatment in regard to prices, wage policy and taxes.

What is a good and workable pollcy for the war industries is almost certainly not going to be a good and workable policy for the other industries. And while they must, of course, give the right way to the war industries on priorities of materials and manpower, the very fact that they have given the right of way makes it all the more necessary that they should be specially considered and protected. There are many obvious reasons why the essential non-war Industries must be protected. There 1s one 'reason, which is perhaps less obvious, that is worth emphasizing. As more and more materials and men are mobilized for war, there is an ever increasing need to develop substitutes to keep the life of the country going.

These substitutes can in many cases be discovered and suggested by the government. But by and large this is a field where the inventiveness and private initiative and the enterprise of the people can do much and are in fact indispensable. Where we do not have to regiment for war we ought, I believe, as a matter of deliberate policy to put a premium on private enterprise in the belief that it can solve many problems which the government is too busy to think about. For that reason we ought in our laws to favor enterprises which develop substitutes out of materials that are. not pre-empted for war.

We ought to revise the 18- bor laws to promote these enterprises. And we ought to think carefully about price ceilings in this field so as to be sure that in the rush to freeze everything we do not freeze out the incentive for invention and ingenuity and initiative. (Copyright. 19420), Ridgeway Mrs. Jennings Frayer entertained at a tea at her home Friday afternoon in honor of Mrs.

Howard Landin of Detroit. The other guests were Mrs. Chester Beach and Mrs. Virgil Tucker of Tecumseh, Mrs. Gladys Smith of Britton, Mrs.

W. E. Benham, Mrs. Everett Netchu and Mrs. Melvin Bishop.

Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Bridsell spent Sunday in Detroit.

Their daughter Mrs. Howard Landin who had been visiting here the past week returned to her home with them. Friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Byrd who were married recently gave them a misceilaneous shower in the Methodist church parlors Saturday evening.

Pictures were shown and social time was enjoyed. A lunch was served. Mrs. Byrd formerly was Miss Dorothy Austin of Ridgeway. Mr.

and Mrs. Fay Hindes spent the week end with Miss Ruth Wittet in Detroit. Mrs. E. A.

Bachman of Detroit and Raymond Bachman of Jackson spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. E. Bachman. During the last fiscal year, 4,727 vessels passed through the Panama canal, paying toll charges of 157,740.

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