PAGE SIX THE EVENING- OBSERVER, DUNKIRK, TUESDAY, AUG. 14, 1945 The EVENING OBSERVER Published Every Weekday Evening by the DUNKIRK PRINTING COMPANY Gerald 8. Williams President Keiiry K. SViUlams Jr. Gen.
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Van Bui-en; Nasca Red White Store, Laona; Wayside Camp, Shoridan, N. gig 1 A of the 0 I TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1945 DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH War, Japan is finding, is comparatively easy to get into, hard to get out of. It is not going to be easy to untangle anywhere. All the forces set in motion when Japan invaded China ana Hitler entered Poland must be brought to a dead stop and new forces must be created. The problem of conversion becomes one of reconversion; the movement of redeployment must be changed over into demobilization.
Just as ships change direction, the whole economy must be set on a new course, but that is not as simple as reversing a rudder. Even the ship cannot change course instantly, its course prescribes an arc to allow for the momentum on the old course. The whole machine cannot be stopped: it must be slowed down so that the impact will be less disastrous. A good deal of the slowing down must be directed by congress. That body must also setup the shock absorbers.
Just how all this is to be done will not be decided until September 4 and even then it cannot be decided overnight. Congress has its work to do. Each community also has its little part in the great pattern of transformation from war to peace. More than a year ago we anticipated all this, locally when the mayor's planning board was created. But the local problem has been too big for the local board.
The net result of many meetings and much discussion is hardly dis- eernible to the naked Maybe we'd bet- 1 ter not expect too much of congress either. A.t least the members of the planning board, having 1 done so little on a little problem, will hardly be justified in criticizing the congress for delay on i its immensely mo're complicated problems. I HOW HIROHITCTCAN BE USED i Twice as a president has been through the tense hours awaiting an enemy re: ply to a peace or armistice ultimatum. Once before, a quarter of a century ago, Mr. Truman had the same experience while commander of 5 an artillery battery.
Because of his earlier experience the presi- I dent has some idea of the great tragedy of the aoldier who dies in the very final hours of a war, Every minute saved means that additional men will be permitted to live out their i span. 4 It was the president's humanitarian concern for the lives of the fighting men which probably influenced the decision to permit the Japs to I have their emperor under certain conditions. He knows that the Japanese forces are scattered 1 all the way from Manchuria to Burma, Borneo and New Guinea. The emperor's order to cease firing will be obeyed. Indeed as our puppet he becomes hostage for obedience to the order.
Without his prestige isolated units might keep up the hopeless fight for days, months or even years. All this would exact a needless toll of Allied lives. The president undoubtedly reasoned it were better to accept the emperor on probation until the terms of the peace be fulfilled. After that it will be an easy matter to dispose of Hirohito. What we want above all is to destroy the Japanese power of making war.
If, after that, the Japanese people are foolish enough to retain the trappings of the imperial house, it is their concern and their self-inflicted punishment. From now on and to save space for description as to what the atomic bomb does to human- jty, let bomb. i ought to drop the first bomb on Tokyo, the Hirohito question might never have come up. in on more room in It doesn't seem fair to make discharged wa TM Retrospective of Local Interest from OBSERVER Files TWENTY YEARS AGO--1935 The price of ga'soline is back at gallons for $1 at several Main road stations. The dealers who display signs advertising gas at 25 cents are being passed by these days.
Rollin Cass of Frewsburg will be associated with H. C. Hequembourg in work for -the County Fair, and later in developing the County Co-operative Bureau, Weddings this week: Miss Marcia Long of East Front street to Raymond L. Hart of Fredonia; Miss Laura Gallaway of Westfielri to Harvey Stegman of Dunkirk; Miss Beatrice Rich of Brigham road, Dunkirk to Wymah G. Pratt oC Fredonia.
THIRTY YEARS AGO--1915 A musical program was given at the Willow Brook Country club under the direction of Mrs. W. M. Gibbs. The artists were Mrs.
Russell C. Lawrence, Mrs. Jennie Hofmeister, Miss Mariamne Clark, Lewis N. Murray, E. C.
Oakes, Mrs. Gerald E. Frey, Miss Clara 1 Gibbs. Lt. H.
B. Lyon and 36 men of the Naval Militia leave tonight for their annual cruise on the Atlantic ocean. There were 215 alumni and summer school students at the picnic held at Harrysbourg. Among the well-known alumni present were District Superintendent Judson Wright of Lt. Col.
Edward Moran of Fort Lcavenworth, Kansas, Lucian J. Warren of Jamestown. Two boats have been shipped from New York to be loaned by the U. S. Navy to the Boy Scouts.
Leo Fellows, former navy man, will bo in charge of the boats for the scoi'its. It has rained nearly every day in the present month, and more than half of the July clays had rain. Thomas Goggin of Talcott street succeeds G. B. Morey as manager of the Postal Telegraph office here.
The latter was promoted to the Blnghamton office. Governors of 36 states will in Boston to discuss the ot the states in national defense. Two men were convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for plotting to kidnap Mary Pick- C. A. Weaver of Des'Moines, editor of one of the leading Republican papers in his state, spoke at the Villenova towp picnic.
He is a native of Arkwright, son David Weaver, who now lives in Hamlet. WASHINGTON COLUMN Br DOUGLAS 1ARSEN NEA Washington Correspondent Washington, Aug. 14--The end of the war finds the government less prepared for the problems of peace than it was for in 1941. As the country faces one of the most crucial periods' in its history here's a quick look at the situation: OPA and War Production Bo.ird, the biggest war agencies, most 'closely affecting eacji citizen, are in the middle of a big scrap over reconversion and what controls to drop. Other than meaningless vague statements, no decision has been made as to how much price control to keep.
Treasury, Labor, Agriculture and Commerce Departments arc in the midst of major reorganiza- tions'with new top men. Most ot the officials at the second level are Inexperienced men or about to lose their jobs through changes. No machinery exists to do' any thing for the millions who will immediately be out of work except the various state Social Se- curity agencies. On top of being out of work a largt percentage ot the unemployed find themselves far from home. War Manpower Commission isn't equipped to do anything about it.
Businessmen Can't Plan Quick reconversion ot industry would solve many of the problems but the government hasn't given businessmen a chance to do any concrete planning. Statistical information which the government furnished business. and industry about markets, population, production, i peacetime was not gathered during the war. Vital tor planning, these figures don't exist now. Office of Civilian Requirements admits it doesn't have remotest idea of what uncontrolled demand for civilian goods is.
It only concerned itself with seeing thai production oidn't fall below basic civilian Probably least prepared, for peace is the Veterans Administration, General Bradley, whose duties in Europe occupied him i a few weeks ago, hasn't even scratched the surface of what has to be done to that agency to pre- pare it for the job of gettting about 8,000,000 men' back into civilian clothes. It's admitted now by all- parties concerned that the G. 1. Bill of Rights falls far short of its objectives. But the changes that would really make it amount tc something now lie in an.
idle congressional committee. Even OWI Is At A Loss First thing the veteran is going to do when he get? bacK is try to get a job--his old one or a new one. But the government has this all fouled up. The Department ot Justice, Selective Service and the National War Labor Board aren't agreed on just what a veterans' re-employment rights are or his preferences for. a new job.
The way it stands now it is impossible tor a vet to get a job in the automobile industry for instance. Even OWI is caught flat-footed. For many weeks before V-E Day it had dreams of "Now it can be told' 'information for the press and radio, It wasn't until the announcement of the atomic' bomb that it dawned on them they'd better be -getting to work on the V-J Apparently OWI as well as the rest of the government agencies believed the constant assertions of the War and Navy Departments that it would take months, maybe years to lick the Japs. This was done, of course, to keep and without knowing the atomic bomb -was coming. It is difficult to.assess the blame to either Congress or the Administration for the lack adequate planning, but when the jubilation over peace and victory wears oil somebody is in for a lot ol' explaining.
RAILWAY SHOPS IDLE New Orleans (UP)--Officials of Southern Pacific Railway shops here report that a shortage of labor is now so acute that much of the repair machinery and many of the repair pits are now lying idle. Recently only three of the company's 12 repair pits were being used. At the South Pacific classification yards, Edward terminal trainmaster, said that the yards arc congested 19 out of every 24 hours. -For Bargains Rencl the Ads. you OF THE HUDSON, ROCK STRUCTURES ALONG THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON RIVER WOODPECKERS -4CTASTREESUREONJ TO THE THEV CLEAN OUT THE DEOSYED INTERIORS 'N SEARCHING FOR INSECT AND THE 1NJURV THEN ANSWER: Scotland.
NEWS BEHIN ford. Ransom of $200,000 was to be demanded of Douglas Fairbanks. A New Experience for the All Highest By BMJLMALLON Washington, Aug. 14 Characters in the Petain treason trial looked as if they had- been borrowed from Daumier, the artist who raised cartooning of French justice into imperishable master- Daumier presented weazened attorneys, judges resembling pawnshop proprietors, and juries selected from the gutters late at night. In any of his.
courtroom characters represented benignity. knowingness, honest dignity -in fact any attribute except selfishness I failed to see that picture. His was not the historic conception of French justice occasionally raised by remembrances of what happened to Joan of Arc, Dreyfuss, Danton and most of the other liberators of the revolution, but the utter futility oj justice among men obsessed with thirst for gold, preferments or power. He portrayed justice on the pawnbrokers level. The inside story here on Vichy and the characters of the Palais de Justice never ran far contrary to the evidence hinted in Admiral Leahy's letter.
Petain, in his upper eighties, was not believed in Washington to have a mind of his own. He was never able- to control, but was always controlled. A man whose intentions were accepted as senilely honorable" by such an astute, intimate observer as Leahy (who was sent to Vichy by Mr. Roosevelt for that observing purpose.) Petain suffered more ill-health mid -way in his regime, and when the Nazis moved Laval in on him, no one paid attention to him thereafter, either here or in France. We did.
not need an observer in Vichy then. We could see him plainly in all his acts, at any distance. Laval, on the other hand, has a mind perfected in duplicity from long zeal and practice, and an original talent for political villainy to the point where no one xnastom- arily trusted him, even before France fell and he'went to Vichy. No one could possibly know for sure what side he was on at any time, for the art of his mental mobility in commercialized French politics of the day was what distinguished him in that sordid world. Swarthy, shifty-eyed, he presented no other claim to fame.
Since, he dealt with President Hoover as premier of France, his inner record has been challenged successfully only by certain Japanese 'statesmen. His was the perfect type of mind to control debilitated Petain at Vichy for Nazis. As for the other characters at the trial, most came one way or another from the cesspool of French political leadership before the war, a leadership which always fell before Hitler whoever was premier, and which should have stopped him at his first step into the Rhineland when it was powerful and enjoyed the backing of the world, with the best army in the world, while Hitler had nothing. They came out of the pre-war chamber of deputies, which was a political pawnshop. Their deteriorated and degrading civilization and governments, handed from one to another and back again like a corrupt legacy, developed such violent troubles 1'or the world as the sitdown strike, the commercial political leadership of labor and non-payment of war debts, while collecting exorbitant reparations.
Their greediness was the real cause of the failure of the treaty of Versailles, and the ensuing ruiu to the world. Their policies permitted a housepainter to build himself up against their in- eptncss in representing our democratic civilization. A legitimate case ef treason against the world might be mad- out against them. A strong and honest democratic government in France would have kept Hitler down, would, never have given Japan the opportunity oC European involvement to attack us, and there would have been no war. Their indirect responsibility will be measured heavily by the cool reflections of history.
Now from ratholes, their familiar names and Daumier personages have emerged to restore themselves, after the shooting is over, by pointing to a senile armv- hero and saying: "He was a traitor, I was honest all the time" By joining and trying to lead the natural and popular clamor to nans' Petam, they seemod bent on re- blaming i on Vichy court and' memoirs (sold' a good Ice) Uley may clrou DeGaulle, the only French leader who even tried to do very for our side, and by connivine now with the Communists, or us 8 or any element with money (the Communists are reputed to highest stack of ready rash both Italy and France) they i create a brave new world and friend, in people want to know what the insiders here really think of the. Petain trial, let them go back over the record of what all the grotesque French political personalities on both sides, defense and accusers, did to bring -the world to its current condition, which would be worse if we had relied on them to the end. Our Day aud Wr W. SMITH is doubly brutal. It can mean that soldiers who have fought for their country may be forced to seek elsewhere for the post-war jobs they prefer to have in the city of their boyhood.
Most of us would have just as much respect for a creature who spoke ill of America, and well of the unspeakable Japs as for the one who refrains from, speaking well of the city where he lives and upon which the welfare and prosperity of his friends and neighbors are so very much de- ancient. That Body of Yours By James W. Bvttc, Ul Public memory is short, if What would one think of a person went about among strangers speaking only ill of his home and family? Wo would think him a poor type of individual, would we not? And wherein does he differ from one who also in the presence of strangers, speaks only ill the town in which he lives and in which his relatives and friends reside? Arj not the two very decidedly the a The foregoing was inspired by a request made of me by two Dunkirk business men within a period of a few days. Both made the same statement, that if I wished to do something to benefit my town I should "knock.the knocker." They were emphatic in saying that the greatest handicap to Dunkirk's future progress and prosperity lies -in a type of resident (I cannot call him citizen) who seems determined to do everything within his power to give our city a black eye when opportunity affords. One prominent business man in a position to possess the facts made this damning statement! Some time ago an important firm had in mind locating a branch industry in Dunkirk.
To that end- it sent scouts ahead to learn everything possible concerning conditions in this city. These scouts frequented restaurants, drinking places and every other spot where men congregate and talk freely. So much adverse criticism. did they heau concerning Dunkirk that their reports decided the firm, against selecting this city as a site for 'their business venture. They located instead in a small city 'in Ohio, where residents were friends, not enemies of themselves.
Why in the name of common sense, one asks, will any sane individual deliberately knock his own city any more than he would injure his own home, his wife and children? What satisfaction can he possibly get from such habit unless it be that the people of the city en masse have done him some signal injury for which he harbors feelings oC revenge? If that is the explanation, then the knocker is branding himself in the eyes of everyone who hears his poison talk. He is telling them in effect: "I have failed to make good in. this city and 1 lack the Ruts to get out and try my fortunes in a better place." That is exactly the impression he gives to any intelligent person who hears him talk. Knocking one's home town is about as heartlessly selfish as any act a person can do. It tloes an injury to thousands of innocent person's whose hopes of employment are dependent the growth and prosperity nf the city.
At the presen-t time it We, The Women RUTH MILLETT When the wife of a sailor, credited with having the largest family of any service man in this war, set the number of their children at 14, her husband contradicted her. he: "Fourteen ain't right. I've only got 13." But on a later recount the sailor admitted: 'By golly, 14 is right! Must have just lost count." Any father ought to know better than to argue with the little woman on any point that concerns the children even on such a minor statistical matter as which one had whooping cough. Because in all such matters the wife has better' reason to remember and remember correctly. Mama Isn't Hazy Never a day goes by that a woman isn't aware of exactly how many children she has to feed, clothe, check up on, and get off to school.
A man might go off to war and grow hazy about all the little darlings he left at home, but Mama is still on the job. There is never a moment in the day when she can be vague about how many small fry there are around the house. If the sailor had stopped to think about that, he never would have argued with Mama about the number of children the two Of them had brought into the world. He wouldn't even have considered she might be wrong if he had remembered one thing. Any woman today is perfectly certain about the number of ration books she has.
But then men are so in the habit of correcting their wives' statistics it was probably just automatic with the sailor. You know how it is, "Women just never get things straight." SEVEN SISTERS ATTEND Akron, O. (UP)--Eight sisters stood together at the altar of a Methodist church here recently as the eldest of the group married a returned serviceman. Joan Marilyn Mann was the bride and her seven' sisters, whose ages range from seven to 21, were her attendants. Dressed in pastel gowns modeled after the white one worn by the new Mrs.
James Heminger, Jorjean, Joy Annette, Janet-Lous, Jette-Lee. Je'nine, Janice and Jac- stood solemnly while the vows were read. The girls' mother. Mrs. LeRoy Mann, made the gowns for the wedding.
EXPENSIVE DRUG Penicillin, the new rival of the sulfa drug costs about S60 per gram to produce, but the first- gram produced in the United States cost 86,000. --Observer Arts Bring Results. ONE SIDED HEADACHE 3HGRAIJJE--A NEW TREATMENT A routine treatment for Mei. eres syndrome (group of' synf. toms)--head noises, partial ness, dizziness, nausea and rani ing--is to cut down on salt foaj and give daily doses of ammct um chloride to rid the tissuaj-! water.
Another method of trefrf nient is by injection under skin or into the vein of hisiamk! Owing to the fact that some of fcl symptoms of Meniere's syntax resemble those of migraine, one sided headache (occurs at tervals with-no symptoms in tween, nausea and vomiting), Dn Stuyvesant Butler and Thomas, Chicago, felt injections of histamine into a vein a cases of migraine might give satisfactory They give a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association of resalli obtained in 34 cases of migrant Before falling a gemia migraine the symptoms mustsnos the usual migraine symptoms that is, headaches occur at intervals on one side, usually backtl the eye. There are often ceriai syptnms present just before tti attacks such as disturbed visfe, hearing, taste and smell and various sensations of the skin and disturbances of balance. There a family history of allergy especially to certain foods such a chocolate. The attacks involvi nausea and vomiting and characteristic of migraine is.a freeaon from symptoms between "The 34 patients, severe or nw- erately severe, (none with attacks) were given injections into the veins of 1 mg. of histamB as 2.75 mg.
of histamine and pto- phate. This is diluted in 500 tt (pint) of isotonic salt solutions- injected very slowly, espe injection usually starting at aW rive drops per minute, the rate ing increased as rapidly as is erated by the patient. The ennrt injection usually takes from at to eight hours. Three to four''; jections are given with a rest between injections." Of the 34 patients 24 were cure(kept free of symptoms) ana 'were improved. I have spoken before ol other methods of treatment'!) graine-ergotamine tartrtje the tongue or by -'J breathing in of 100 per gen.
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