THE STATE JOURNAL, LANSING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1942 SlATLt-S Jap Math today's Verse State Press Comments 0 SON OF HEAVIER HON, PROPfxGvNbA DEPT. HAS PROOF THAI WE HAVE RAIDED U.S. -OUR HON.0FFiCtrU RECORD show 19 u.s. carriers Sunk $nce amewca. ONLY HAb CARMK afioat, must be we Sink 12 in shipyards.
mean the land of the free, or perhaps the land of the freed. It was founded by philanthropic minded citizens to provide a home for freed Negroes. Great expectations were held for the experiment, but many feel that nothing more than a gesture was ever registered by Liberia. But perhaps we have reason to feel grateful for the treaty arrangement just concluded. Following the freeing of the slaves in this country there was considerable expectation that many of them would go to Liberia, but no such disposition ever developed in any considerable way.
Booker T. Washington once exclaimed, "We are the only people in America here by pressing invitation, and so we mean to stay." Doubtless the colored people in America are vastly better off than those in Liberia, despite the fact that it is rich in natural resources. The late Harvey Firestone, before his death, established a rubber plantation in Liberia. It is reported as showing encouraging progress. Perhaps the rubber plantation, and the fact that the army is setting up a considerable establishment, pursuant to the treaty of recent days, will give the little country an upward push that will make for its enduring prosperity.
Liberia lies not far north of the equator. The tropical conditions have been highly adverse. Until fairly recently a white man could not live in Liberia but army sanitation appears undaunted. As a whole, Africa seems destined to catch step with the civilized world and its ways. 1 Many New Ships Take the, Sea New York Day by Day By CHARLES B.
CRISCC! TVEW YORK Whenever I set into conversation WSfred Funk, the word expert. I a lot. if only we can keep out of as argument. We tare been carrying on a feud for acme years. As I understand our respective of the argument.
Funk heads if the great majority cf the peome mispronounce a ward perssstenUT and long, the misprocurciarirn a correct. Of course I believe tiiax too. but Funk is much more Uberai about the matur than I am. I have npvrr lot ow nsr irnf agnation against WcbLrT a trrivrsav-tlonal Dii-tlocary sw the popular miaprorsounctaiicm the word nacrtlrruxai. In lis or 1934.
edition. Sacrilegious comra tram rca Latin words, mttslcf to pick up sacred things or one who pics or lifts or swipes or steal hcm things. It is properly pronounced as spelled, the sounded as eat. But a lot of people, not reaiizx the origin of the word, erraneeosiT supposed it had somethaur so Co with the word religion. So the pronounced or mispracoanced is as the last part of the word were religious.
In 1934 Webster surrendered his mispronunciation and aithor-ized it, as a second choice. I wept on Funk's shoulder about it. but he gave me no comfort. said that millions cf people sis-pronounced the word that war. so it was the duty cf the dxScn-ary to record that pracnscascc In conversation with F-rrk Haa other day.
the subject of ranrei coal came up. We had bom ordered cannel coal for our grves. to piece out the heat we can get from our furnaces acr more, and neither of us had had a ce-livery. So we talked about carrrrt eta! Cancel, according to WeSster. ai a corruption of cand.
The ocal was originally called ranri coau, because it bums wzzii a oC steady flame, like a eanrt But the people who mined and scid the coal didn't always candle very carefxly. asd It became cannel. That's an Instance made to order for Funk's side of the armament, so. I tactfully dropped lie whole subject of fuel. I was airx-d he'd tell me that erl is correct nunciation for oil, since snUicra of New Yorkers and Jerseyse pronounce it that way.
Wilfred Funk, a mllurs-uaetf. gray-haired, pin t-cnrnpiervicaxt gentleman, speaks hu wonts aa well as he writes them, wham la very well indeed. Ee is respecter of words. Ee has a great librarr of word books and books aoccs words. When he sees a need for a particular kind of word booc that Isn't In existence, he wrtiea It.
His latest Is "A More Powerful Vocabulary." cleverly done, and more entertaining than a game cf tennis. The State Journal FOUNDED APRIL 28, 1858 Publishea weekday afternoons and Sunday morning by Federated Publications, from the office of The State JourruJ Grand Ave. and Ottawa St Lansing, Mich. Entered as second class matter at the post office in under Act of March 3, 1879. DELIVERED BY CARRIER IN LANSING EAST LANSING AND ADJACENT TERRITORY PER WEEK 3SC PER TEAR S13.00 MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS IN THE COUNTIES OF BARRY.
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Served by International News Service Served by United Press VOLUME 88, NUMBER 225 How Well Do Planners Plan? These are confusing days in which we live. We go to bed hearing of fabulous earning capacity on the part of some of our neighbors, and then wake up to find that the city is apparently out of butter, with little if any beef to be had. The coal dealer answers the anxious query of Joe, and says, "Yes, I have plenty of coal for you and all my cuscomers, but I am not sure at all about gasoline enough to deliver it." In these days when we think of manufacturing we think altogether of the making of munitions. But there is manufacturing still in progress for civilians, though the civilian may not think so. Some civilians begin to think the day is literally at hand when they shall take no thought for the morrow.
The cuffs of one's nether garments having disappeared, the whole garment may disappear also. And as for eating, despite the fact that one may bring home the equivalent of the bacon, there is no bacon. Much has been said and heard about the abounding activity back in 1929. Why, the activity of 1929 was as if tied to a post, compared with the manufacturing of today. The federal reserve board whose business it is to keep such tab on business conditions so as to be able to say a cautious word to the banking system, has an array of statistics helpful to that end.
Its evaluation of manufacturing activity runs down to a low point in 1932 and 1933. When manufacturing activity went half way back to the activity of 1929. the board said, "we will make this the 100 point for our calculations." But shucks! the board hadn't seen anything yet. By late 1936 and early 1937 the manufacturing rate of 1929 was surpassed. Then it was that President Roosevelt coined his famous phrase: "We planned It this way!" But his exultation was shortlived, for by the end of 1937 manufacturing tobogganed practically straight down.
It was as if manufacturing had fallen off a steep cliff. It took until 1S40 to recover. From mid 1940 the rate of man-facturing has been up and still up and still up. Taking the rate of 1935-1936 as a basis, set at 100, the rate of manufacture has far passed 1929 and has more than doubled the 100 rate. But.
of course, the great increase is due to the war. There seems to be no way to separate the record of goods for the civilian and those for the armed forces, but there is one Indication. Despite the fact that they are none too durable, airplanes and tanks and cannon and all the other what-not of war are classified in statistics as durable goods. It is the "durable" goods that have made the rate of manufacturing to skyrocket. In contrast to the vast output of durable goods for October, the latest month for which there are complete figures, the production of non-durable goods has fallen off.
The production of nondurable goods in October, just past, was considerably lower than in the corresponding month a year ago. Of course, the civilian knows very well that he is no longer the first consideration. He neither expects to be nor wishes to be, but he has sort o' expected that enough would remain of the home activity to make it possible for the civilian to keep on paying taxes. It matters not how much money there is if there is little to buy with it, there is no business. How well are the planners planning? The ci Many words were spoken and thousands more printed concerning Pearl Harbor on that anniversary day.
But more to the point was the number of ships launched December 7. Doubtless the launching of 26 ocean-going craft was definitely planned for the occasion. Not only is such a showing of importance here at home, as bolstering morale, but Germany and Japan, particularly the latter, must have noticed the showing as well. Not only were there 26 ships launched, but more are in process of building. One of the greatest writers on world relationships and world strategy has stated that control and domination goes with control of the seas.
Neither the United States nor Great Britain at present controls the seas, but we mean to do so. Still out of our control is the menace to our highly necessitous We are not hearing as much about the menace of the U-boats as we did, and unquestionably the menace has been reduced, but the fact is that the U-boat menace still remains and in some degree imperils our effort in Africa. We must destroy that menace and when we do victory will be nearer against Germany. Particularly decisive will be the. day when we control the ocean against Japan.
The forces we have in the far east are powerful and those forces have been making headway, but, as one of our admirals has said, we must fight our way to the very shoreline of Japan. When that is done, despite the large army of Japan, we shall so control the situation that the menace of Japan to us and the world will be at an end. Rather curious to relate, one of the launchings Monday was the battleship. New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built. It has just been said that such a launching was curious and it is in the light of all that has recently been said against battleships; but when we think in terms of control of the seas, then surely, the battleship has its place.
Beside the New Jersey, 15 other war craft and auxiliaries were also launched. When the battleship and the 15 other craft are ready to meet the foe. they will make an appreciable difference in the balance of naval power. Beside the crafts for the navy, there were also 10 ships for cargo purposes. This addition is no inconsequential one.
We must have carriers until there is no question about landing goods and war supplies on the other side. Of course we are not privileged to think that while we have been building and launching 26 ships, Japan has been idle, but we can definitely beat Japan in point of resources. MIRACLE Within a learned treatise once I read How every bird at molting time will shed At once a single feather from each wing Stranger it is than any song they sing! Two single feathers at a time no more Thus many balanced pairs make up the score. Pair after pair the balance always true; Such equipoise the birds of Eden knew. Vulture and done, lark and shrike Munificent prevision share alike.
What balance does God employ? What scalrs? Beside them all our human science pales. far beyond this feeble, mortal ken By what strange mathematics molts the wren? Colossus. Peter's Dome, the Taj Mahal, The Coliseum, Notre Dame, and all The fabrics of exquisite symmetry Are nothing to this ornithology. Euclid and Archimedes are but dolts Beside this marvel when a sparrow molts! Evelyn Hammet in Florida Magazine of Verse. Putterville Folks By E.
R. P. 'Special to The State Journal) UTTER VILLE, Dec. 10 Herbie Tubbstander, our ticket agent who plays the five-string banjo, is incapacitated musically. Herbie slammed the depot stove door yesterday after filling the stove with coal and forgot to remove his thumb and it was caught between the stove door and the frame.
Herbie, who swore off swearing the first of the year in 1942, kept his resolution, up to but not including yesterday. Cooley Putter is back on furlough. Coolie has gained 20 pounds since he was inducted and now shaves every morning. Cooley has not only learned to shoulder arms and everything during his training, but he returned to his home town one of the most accomplished harmonica players in our midst. Cooley gave a recital at Sneedy Freewheeler's beer tavern last night and attracted a large crowd of non-purchasing guests for Sneedy.
Sneedy's sales volume remained at non-musical levels but he had to Increase the number of cuspidors from two to six to accommodate the crowd of music lovers. No. 7 off some today. There was a hot box on the coal tender, it is reported. So They Say: Germans con stand another winter in Russia only with the greatest difficulty.
It is now Impossible for the Clrrmnn force to swing bark and make a furious attack in the west. Pres. Eduard Benes of Czech government-in-exile. The sum total of her (woman's) knowledge will be increased In the post war world because more women will have worked at men's jobs. More interests in common should make for better understanding between husbands and wives.
Mrs. Dwight Morrow. Other things being equal, production can decide the issue. Other things being in our favor, production can speed victory and save the whole human race months and even years of anguish. Admiral Harold Stark.
We may have the privilege of supplying a rejuvenated French army which, although it would cause a change in "our calculation, would be a very agreeable burden. Ferdinand Eberstadt, WPB executive. Immediately after the war, government aid to war-torn countries is a foregone conclusion. But not the rehabilitation of their economy or the reforming of their lives. W.
P. Wltherow. president National Association of Manufacturers. There were many Intrigues between Americans and high French officers. There is nothing glorious in the landing.
Mussolini, excusing African invasion to Italians. Side Glances Observer Iceland are frequently flying back and forth. In Europe our G-2 or intelligence division as well as enslaved Hollanders listen to a forbidden radio by courageous Dutch patriots. It broadcasts military information, location of air targets and other secrets for five minutes, then vanishes from the ether. On the next occasion it switches to a different wave length and a new hour so its whereabouts cannot be traced by Gestapo bloodhounds.
The baffled Nazis at length tried a trick to hoodwink everyone. They duplicated the mysterious senders as closely as posslblo in volco and type of news although their facts were purposely faked. But the methodical instincts of the Germans spoiled the stratagem. Nobody was fooled because the transmitter operated every day at exactly the same time and on an unchanging band. The programs lasted 30 minutes.
No illegal station would have dared to stay on the air so long with such rcguJurity. Zero OECRETARY KNOX reveals that one reason for increased Jap shipping disasters is that we have cut submarine construction time by four months and three days. This is cheerful tidings. Unfortunately Germany also is keeping up the building pace despite the poundings her yards have received from American and British planes lately. She started the war with 70 underwater craft.
Although more than 500 have been sunk or badly damaged, she still has an estimated strength of three hundred. That figure indicates that we shall not have any snap moving supplies and reinforcements to North Africa. Certain angles of the situation are in our favor. The Nazis can replace the vessels which have been sent to Davy Jones' locker but it takes much longer to muster "COMMENT on the new czars farm and labor and an idea of Herbert Hoovers have been discussed by Michigan dallies in recent days. There Is also mention of the now gone WPA.
The Adrian Telegram deals with Mr. Wickard as head of food rationing. It puts the matter thus: In making Mr. Wickard the nation's food czar. President Roosevelt has asked a cabinet member to take on added responsibilities.
In the secretary of agriculture is lodged "full responsibility for and control over" the nation's food program. That is a Job of unprecedented size, for it contemplates not only feeding the nation and its armed forces fighting in the far corners of the earth but helping fed our Allies and liberated countries as well. Appropriately enough, Mr. Wickard is placed on an equal footing with Donald Nelson, chairman of the war production board. His responsibilities are of comparable magnitude.
The Muskegon Chronicle com-, mends Paul V. Mcnu*tt as labor czar. It puts its opinion as follows: The Indiana statesman, also director of the national security administration and suspected still of being a candidate for the presidential nomination, gets less satisfaction out of his victory than he might. To land the assignment only after attempts to make it elsewhere had failed, one only a week before when President Roosevelt tried to make a three-way shift that would have landed it in the labor department and the labor department in the hands of the irascible Mr. Ickes, may not be wholly soothing to his pride.
Anyway, he has the job. The Kalamazoo Gazette sums up the business of the new czars as follows: There can be no doubt that the changes Involved in this 'executive grant of power are drastic in the extreme. But neither can there be any doubt that this whole problem of manpower in wartime is extremely difficult or that its successful solution is essential to the efficiency of the war effort. Under the selective service system the government has already taken vast numbers of men from their regular occupation because of its belief that they were more urgently needed elsewhere namely, in the army. Through the broad-ended authority of the war manpower commission It can now regulate the hiring of workers for civilian industries and even prevent an employer from retaining the services of an employe who is believed to be more needed in some other kind or place of civilian work.
The Ann Arbor News takes notice of an idea recently expressed by Herbert Hoover. It adds: Former President Herbert Hoover has put his finger on what is perhaps the greatest weakness in the war effort the muddle caused by conflicting and unclear distribution of authority in Washington. On several occasions President Roosevelt has attempted to straighten matters out, but has nucceded in doing nothing more llinn imposing committee on top of committee. As Mr. Hoover Bays, "We can no more administer civilian activities in war with a committee than we could direct a battle with a committee." Mr.
Hoover advocates single heads, rather than boards or committees, to direct the various branches of the war effort. The Grand Rapids Herald discusses the WPA, now at its end, and in course points out: Yet, with all its faults and they have been very, many, indeed many very worthwhile public works have been built through the aid of WPA and many men have been employed who otherwise would have been left standing on the street corners. Like everything else, WPA has had its good and its bad features. Perhaps the one most unhappy phase of WPA has been that those administering it in many sections of the nation, in order to make their own jobs seem worthwhile, have encouraged men to accept WPA work when it was entirely possible for them to have found employment in private industry and in useful occupations. Barbs CHOPPERS have found that ny-Ion stockings are about on their last legs.
The great silence today is the little kids kicking because Christmas vacation is coming. Don't let the price of butter upset you. It can be made from grass. All you need is a cow and a churn. Too many little blue boys are blowing their horn.
Germany has ordered the Italians to evacuate Sicily. They don't want anybody in their way. Be careful of too much plumpness it's charm gone to waist. Speaking of styles, the latest thing in pajamas is the last one home. Maybe rationing will make parents stop nstering the baby who refuses to cat.
It's easier for a woman to make a man a good husband when she makes him a good wife. The report that Mussolini is seriously ill may merely mean that he Is just sick of it all. Women now are busy buying Christmas presents so much down and the balance overdue. These winter days it's a grate life if the open fireplace doern't weaken. cow's milk.
Goat's milk is practically certain to be free from tubercle bacilli, whereas cow's milk frequently contain: tubercle bacilli. Families that can have fresh milk from their own goat or goats are lucky. Silly prejudice of ignorant folk keeps many from enjoying this boon. (Copyright, John F. Dillt Co.) Neglected Milking Machine It is said that the army and navy must not want for butter.
Why, of course, that is so. But it is also said that a man has to eat to work. It is even true of the girls unless they think more of their figures than their work. What boots it, though the soldier is willing to turn his butter to a good account, if he finds the man at home, making the ammunition, ran out of things needful at the grocery store. The milking machine has apparently been neglected for the lathe and the milling machine.
I met J. P. McEvoy. wrlier of plays, radio scripts, movies and magazine stories, the other ea. on the sidewalk In frsr.t ct is Algonquin, up to his atcut cera In tdpas, as usual.
McEvoy Ultra to talk, not Jtart hear hlmxrlf talking, but bersusa he makes money by It. He la aa interesting eonversaaenaiias. moo, like all good talkers, brtr.n out the best in the conversation of others. It's almost impexvubie Zzr Mac. as he's called by ics franca, to indulge in a conversation without salvaging from it ccmethmg that he can sell Ideas pour out.
Mac grabs a tag-line of somebody's conversation, hunches over the tide." moves his chair up closer, and begins to dig, spade, rake and rJ. the ground. Tomorrow he wtl plant there the seed he has gathered at today's conversaticn. The Ideas he grasps at the taryhenn table are indeed the least cf seeds, but when they are grown up ther are great trees, and. many Mc-Evoys come and rest la tee branches thereof.
Work on the capsized Ndnran-die goes on. day and night. Progress is slow. But the experts say the big ship will be ready ia S22 to carry to Europe the Arrerscaa reviewing delegation for the vx-tory parade in Berlin. i Relented by jrcWcarax SgndicmTa racu Red Hot Kegler PITTSBURGH.
(J Jain "Red" MacConr.ell of the Oaii'and Rod and Gun club, almost stopped the bowling at the Elba ae-s when he rolled games of 247. and 232 in a central Pittsburgh duckpin league game. Pnenca claim the 757 total is highest ever reported in a league game. By Gaibraitli vilian public is not only curious anxious as well. to know, but Decision on the bus problem has been deferred for a month.
This is the polite way of saying there is no solution. he News Behind the Day's News fresh crews. The silent service is extremely technical and requires carefully coached experts whose nerves can stand the gaff. New York merchant marine skippers are alarmed to learn that hostile submcrgers have revived their old wolf pack tactics. But many navy officials think this change proves that we have been taking a terrible toll and that the Reich is running out of veteran captains.
Great skill in navigation is needed to bring a U-boat into position for an attack. So now one highly trained "leader" plots out the course for his subordinates to follow. They take their bearings and speed from him. They are too inexperienced to put their tinflsh into action alone at the zero hour. Tots t.IIGHLY placed Swedes In this country are planning a campaign to interest American citizens of Scandinavian stock and national welfare agencies in helping Dutch mid Belgium children.
Stockholm has been especially concerned about the pllglit of little ones in the low countries because the late Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold, was the niece of the king of Sweden. About a year ago wealthy people in the Norse state collected funds and bought food and clothing in their own land for distribution to the needy tots of their neighbors. Axis leaders permitted this charity but transportation problems, such as floating mines in the paths of relief vessels, caused difficulties. Original proposal to adopt a thousand refugees and place them in Swedish homes had to be abandoned. The community chest has been exhausted hence the appeal to the United States.
What sums are available now are being used to carry out similar work in Norway including shipments of baby outfits sewed by Red Cross women and edibles purchased abroad. period of tetanus is usually from four or five days to three weeks after the infection that is, the first symptoms appear then, but general convulsions follow a few days later. I have not said that human beings do not have rabies. I don't know whether rabies ever occurs in man or not. I have said and I now repeat that I do not believe rabies occurs in man.
I believe that in most cases so diagnosed the victims actually have tetanus. Therefore the only treatment I would take or give in a case of bite or wound by an animal presumed to be rabid is immediate ordinary surgical disinfection of the wound and immediate injection of a dose of tetanus serum, and a second injection of tetanus serum five to seven days later. The only advise I give any one who asks my advice in such an emergency is, do as your doctor deems best. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Wind Instrument Please state whether it is harmful to a potential T. B.
victim the type likely to contract T. B. to play a wind Instrument. (R. Answer If the individual has tuberculosis he should be guided by the advice of his physician.
If not, it is harmless to play a wind instrument. Interested I am interested in your booklet Why Have Headache. (Mrs. A. V.
Answer Postcard message welcomed, but if you want a copy of the pamphlet "Why Have Headache?" sand a stamped envelope bearing your address, or Doc Brady provides the information and advice you pay the freight. Goat's Milk Please state whether goat's milk has any virtues that would make it as good as cow's milk for infants and children? (J. M. Answer It is as good as cow's milk for anybody. Difficult to feed infants and invalids often thrive on it when they can't take cow's milk.
Nutritively there is little difference between goat's milk and The National Conrludrd from Pare On bogged down." Agriculturalists and shippers protested to the Truman and house interstate commerce committees. So ODT has kindly consented to waive the need for the unready papers until January 31. Harding REPUBLICAN chiefs have been mumbling victory to themselves ever since November 3. They have also been consulting old political records and foresee a 1944 triumph in the presidential campaign. If history doesn't double-cross them.
Their research demonstrates that an off-year sweep as they en-Joyed last month is followed almost invariably by recovery of the White House. The pat to the Executive Mansion lends through Capitol Hill, to wit: The 1882 balloting showed a slight weakening of the control which the grand old' party 1ms possessed during the "bloody shirt" era and In 18B4 Cleveland was elected. Tiie year of 1910 reflected a Progressive-Democratic surge and two years later came Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The OOP cap-tured congress in 1918, even though the conflict was already won, and landed Harding at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue in 1920. The Democrats regained the house by a narrow margin in 1930 and the new deal was born and christened in 1932.
In 1933 events did not quite run true to form, for Republican recovery was too spotty to upset precedent completely. This year's gain, however, reached such proportions that, despite war and peace issues in 1944, the outs expect to become the ins. Homesickness A PPOINTMENT of Paul V. Mc-Nutt as director after months of hemming and hawing means that the government at last will come to grips with the over-all manpower problems, but industry' itself has discovered it can remedy many hampering conditions, especially labor turnover, by probing for the real-but often hidden-reasons why workers quit. Progressive corporations are setting up "exit interviews" in which a personnel official talks heart-to-heart with a disgruntled employe after the toller has resigned and tries to win him back by removing the grievance.
In one factory feminine machine operators walked off without explanation. Subsequent check up disclosed that they hated the night hours. The management rotated the shifts every three months and all were satisfied. Another firm popularized the graveyard stretch by paying a bonus. One concern learned that married women preferred the odd time as it interfered less with family chores.
Twenty-two thousand kicks were recently compiled through a nation-wide questionnaire. Until the survey it had been supposed that less wages than in a rival plant was the chief cause for severance. Actually the overwhelming majority of replies listed homesickness. Men and women had flocked to new defense centers and then pined to return to their own folks. Inadequate transportation and housing; realization that one lacked aptitude for a particular task; desire to reenter school and other excuses offered.
But the investigators found that most of the trouble centered on emotlonnl reactions, including those of girls who tossed aside their careers for wedding rings. Faked 'T'HOUGH our lads are far away on 65 fronts, the army keeps close tabu on every theatsr. Apart from routine communications lines it has access to the underground and to Its own official messengers. General Marshall told a New York dinner party the other night that on a single day there arrived at his headquarters staff officers from Alaska; Milne Bay, New Guinea; Guadalcanal; Chungking, China; New Delhi, India; Moscow; Basra, Iraq and way points. Others from the British Isles, Labrador, Greenland and Daily Health Talks By WILLIAM BRADY.
M. D. After Thanksgiving comes Christmas and soon after Christmas, the 5 percent withholding payroll tax There is the fellow who did not know if the bus were crowded because he did not manage to get near enough to A Citizen Here a World Genius One of the outstanding reasons for American greatness is what we call Yankee genius and the fact that that genius has had to face the competition of the world's best. This fact was well attested by Albert Kahn, just deceased. He was born in Germany but his parents saw that America was the place for the wide imagination of their child.
Albert Kahn died in Detroit, but his career as a builder reflects on all Michigan and on our whole nation. Further than that he was truly a world citizen. Albert Kahn was a great builder. Buildings have been the great monuments to the human race since the dawn of history. Albert Kahn catered to beauty, but he never forgot the practicalities in his building.
Yesterdays in Lansing GOVERNOR VAN WAGONER declares the corrections commission erred when it suspended without pay the warden and deputy warden of the Jackson state prison and the prison industries manager on misconduct charges. Declaring the war has made it ob-ONE YEAR vious that Michigan draft boards AGO should prepare to deliver bigger quotas for the armed forces, selective service headquarters says that 7,500 will be called for physical examination in January. Ingham county defense council meets for several hours to set up important committees to work on plans for civilian defense during the nation's total war. RECOGNIZING the great need for additional facilities in northern Michigan for treatment of tuberculosis but handicapped by lack of funds, the state tuberculosis sanatorium commission postpones definite action on selecting a site for a new hospital. New offl-TEN YEARS cers are elected by Lansing Old AGO Newsboys' association at a meeting in the municipal courtroom and additional plans are made for the annual sale of papers next week Charles Fratcher, insurance man.
is named president to succeed O. H. Bailey, retiring president. Leo White, 9. of 718 Fairfield avenue, is slightly injured when he runs into an automobile near Everett school.
Hydrophobia Phobia HAVE strung along with you for years in most or the things you preach (writes J. C. However, I'll have to turn back when you keep on insisting that human beings do not develop hydrophobia. I've seen that statement in your column time and again. I believe (continues J.
C. that you should admit the possibility of human beings developing hydrophobia. I know it is, for I had a 15-year-old brother who died of the terrible disease, and there was not the slightest doubt as to the cause of his death. I too was bitten by the same dog, and suffered years of torture because I did not know the period of incubation was Just a few short weeks, and neither did the physicians who attended us. With my family I labored under the assumption that one might develop hydrophobia even years after being bitten by a rabid dog.
I had that lear until I became a grown man and a kindly physician guaranteed there was no possible danger after so long a time. My brother unquestionably died of hydrophobia. Every symptom and every convulsion testified to that fact. He did not froth at the mouth or bark like a dog, as some people seem to believe, but he died in positive agony as a result of being bitten by a rabid dog some three months previous. So it is my belief it would be a safer gospel if you would preach the possibility of human hydrophobia and urge the many thousands who follow your column to take immediate precautions against the possibility of such situation arising.
(Signed, J. C. I fervently wish it were as simple as that. 'my friend. But it isn't The proper name of the disease is rabies, pronounced ray-bi-ease.
"Hydrophobia" is not a proper name for the disease, as it means fear of water and of course the animal with rabies does not fear water. What you say of your brother's death suggests tetanus although the incubation Liberia Is Back in the News Right on the southwest rounded corner of the westward bulge of Africa is a little spot of territory which bears the name of Liberia. Liberia has come back into the news in recent days. The United States stands in particular relationship to Liberia, though the two nations are in no degree connected. Liberia is a republic of black people, so in fact and so in law.
No one may be a citizen of Liberia who is not of African blood. Just the other day the United States and Liberia concluded a treaty which gives location to our armed forces in Liberia. Liberia is in a strategic position. Wednesday there was news of a treaty that gives possession and use of Dakar, the most westerly port of French Africa. Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and Dakar are something Lke 500 miles apart, Dakar being northwesterly along the coast from Monrovia.
Dakar has numerous values for the United States. It is expected to form a valuable base of operation against German U-boats which still so greaUy menace the shipment of supplies to our armies and our allies. Liberia may conceivably share in. tie kind of value that attaches to Dakar. Liberia is represented by a small spot on the map of Africa, and, of course, it is small in comparison with the vast area of that continent, but it Is of interest to know that Liberia is nearly as large as New York, without Long Island.
It is 120 years since Liberia was founded. The capital city of Monrovia locates its founding time with respect to our Presidents. The city is named in honor of President Monroe. The name Liberia seems to be what we call these days a synthetic word. It may be taken to PROFIT ceiling on sugar is three-quarters of a cent a pound and on flour 15 cents on each 25-pound sack, according to George A.
Pres-cott, federal food administrator for Michigan. December will be a slim month for the city treasurer's office if the first week of TWENTY -FIVE tax collecting is any criterion. YEARS AGO says City Treasurer Gilkey so far only $12,091.21 has gone over the treasurer's counter. R. E.
Olds, president of Reo Motor Car company, returns from the south to attend a meeting of a number of the larger Reo dealers. Palen J. McDaniels of the auditing department of Robert Smith company, leaves this week for Columbus, after having enlisted in the United States medical corps. g-e "Doc, you know a lot about human nature suppose yon explaJa why it is that customers of mine who never bought coffee before want to buy it now Just because it's hard to get!" 1 mmmm ammmMhM mmm a aa A a aajaaaai.a.........ts.a.....s.....a.A.... ruiA ri ft r- i ft -1 A non ri 1.
