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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15
N u RISE ASSN.
SHOWS MUCH
PROGRESS
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page II
Thomas Banks, Mrs. Ira Whitby,
Mrs. Aaron Toodle, Mrs. Haley
Bell, Mrs. J. J. McLendon, Miss M.
F. Monroe and Mrs. J. J. Hender-
son.
The purpose of the committee
is to interest the public at large
in the work of the Visiting Nurse
Association. The Great Lakes Mu-
tual Insurance Company has shown
keen interest in the work of the
Visiting Nurse Association and in
May 1885 it asked the Association
to take over the nursing of its
sick policy holders and as a result
the Visiting Nurse Association has
done $S50.19 contract work for that
company.
Doctors of the race have sup
ported the nurses almost one hun
dred percent. On November g. 1895
the committee was invited to meet
with the Booker T. Washington
Trade Association in a joint ses-
sion to discuss the work of the
Visiting Nurse Association. The
Committee is hoping within the
next year to acquaint the public
with the different services that are
available from the Visiting
Nurse"
Mrs. Milton Robb was elected
president in succeeding Mrs. j. K.
Watkins.
The Lucy Thurman Substation
has an adequately permanent staff
of nine nurses and for substitutes
nurses which are kept busy at re-
gular intervals.
Members of the staff are:
Mrs. Wesley assistant supervi-
sor; Miss James, Miss McKeavey,
Mrs. Mullens, Mrs. Merrill, Miss
Phillips. Mrs. Plumner, Miss
Young Mrs. Ann Hutchinson, is
supervisor.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15
ATTENTION MINISTER'S!

We publish church in the Tribune free,
when received this office before Mondays.
We have a job-printing department, however, and
would greatly appreciate being given the opportunity
to print of the tickets, programs, placards,
dodgers and similar work, which local churches
frequently having done. At least, feel this paper
should be given opportunity to make bid for such
jobs of printing
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15
re-Valentine Ball
GiUen at Elks Rest
Proves Big Success

late Hal Green, and was excellent,
and the attendance was large.
The ladies who served on the
various committees included Mrs.
Pearl James, Mrs. Julia Simpson,
Mrs. Lula Stein, Mrs. Yvonne
Greenlee, Mrs. Eta Snowden, Mrs.
L. Bell, Mrs. B. Blair, Miss Della
Bruntley, Mrs. Ernestine Walker,
Miss Rosiland Hart, Miss Villa
Mae King, Miss Mary Watkins.
The members Of the Juvenile
Protective Association will meet
Sunday, Feb. 16 at $50 p. m. al
the home of Mrs. Catherine
Entzminger, 44O5 fireman avenue
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15

The Valentine charity ball,
given Saturday, Feb. s, at the West
Side Elks Rest, SSH Goth street,
was universally acclaimed a sig
nal success The affair was spon-
sored under tho leadership of Mrs.
Matte Jefferson, of goth street,
and Mrs. Gwendolyn Vincent, of
Roosevelt street. They were ably
assisted by a group of ladies pro-
minent in civic and social circles.
The proceeds from the ball went
to the Juvenile Protective Asso-
citation of Michigan.
Music for the occasion was fur
nished by the orchestra of the
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15
Boosters G. | u b To
Sponsor Keno
Party

The Joe Louis Boosters Club, of
Detroit, which supplied more than
three hundred needy families with
food and clothing at Christmas
time, will sponsor a keno party on
Monday night, Feb. II, at the Larks
Club, $40 Adams street. There will
be dancing and refreshments. All
proceeds will go TO the Boosters
charity fund.
charity fund. The public is invited
to attend.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15
|GLIMPSES nv
MIRROR
By Sylvia Penn

glad to publish them, if they reach
us in time each week. With bright
est and best wishes to all our
mirror friends" and promising
to be with you again next week
with another newsy chat, we leave
you until next week.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15
A Correction

In the Card Of Thanks in last
weeks issue, by Mrs. Ella Aber-
nathy, to friends and organizations
the Wolverine Lodge of Elks was
omitted, through an error.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-02-15

reached at 1900 st. Antoine street
until definite location for the or
ganization can be secured.
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Subscribe to the Tribune, Mich
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Price one dollar for six months.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Fans Last Ovation
to Humphreys Best
Memory to Retain
G New York Post.-wNU Service.

LIE HAD been leaning forward
L L from one of the padded leath-
er chairs in a corner of the Garden
boxing office. Felt hat carefully bal
anced on one knee, he had been
listening eagerly to the brisk gOS-
sip, watching Marge dispose of too
presumptuOuS free-ticket seekers,
breathing again the breath of what
had been life to him for almost
fifty years.
Then the crowd had drifted
away. I looked at him again.
After all, times change, old
friends drop off quickly. When a
man who has been out of close
touch so long is showed again into
the spotlight he must wonder if it
will be the same. He-I thought
that noted one gnarled hand trem-
bling slightly. We fell to talking,
not about the illness that came
three years ago, but about other
brighter days.
There were stories about boyhood
moments on Oliver street when he
used to play marbles with the
Governor" a gentleman who is
known more familiarly to most 9TH
ers as Al Smith.
About how Murphy, who seldom
went to fights, once sat beside him
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
FIRST AMERICAN LIBRARIAN

THE first American librarian was
l. a Frenchman! He was Louis
Timothee, the son of a Huguenot
refugee who left France when the
Edict of Nantes was revoked.
learned printing in Holland and
from there emigrated to Philadel-
phia. Soon afterwards Benjamin
Franklin hired him to work in his
print shop, and when Franklin and
his associates in the famous Gum
to- pooled their book resources
and established what was in fact, if
not in name, the first public library
in the United States, Timothee was
placed in charge of it.
On November IA, 1882, he and a
committee of directors of the
"Junto" signed articles of agree
ment which provided for the libra
rian's attendance in the rooms from
2 to p. m. on Wednesdays and
from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Satur-
days. Only subscribers might bor-
row books but, all "civil gentle
men" could use the library as a
reading and reference collection.
Eventually Timothee American
lied his name to Timothy and
moved to Charleston, S. c., where
he purchased the Carolina Gazette
and opened printing and publish
ing shop which soon became one of
the leading establishments of its
kind in the South. -
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
ARE YOU AVERAGE?

A CCORDING to DR.. H. L. Hol-
L \ lingsworth of New York, here
is composite picture of the aver
age American man. He
has vocabulary of Z, 800 words.
cannot put into words the diff
ference between poverty and
misery"
believes a couple of quinine
pills and a stiff drink of whisky
will cure a cold.
believes that the Masonic order
goes back to the time of King Sol
ONION; that all Swedes are dull;
that red-headed people always have
quick tempers; that tan shoes are
cooler than black; that dew falls;
that morals were purer 20 years
ago; that the winters were more Sc
we're when he was boy.
talks great deal, but always
about personalities and trivialities.
is responsible for prices being
made $3.95 instead of Sc, and
watches worth SIS being sold in
side streets for "21.75 reduced
from $30."
How do YOU fit into the picture?
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

Leaguers aver that
Charley Gehringer was the
best American circuit performer in
the All-Star affair, with Lou Gehrig
ranking very close second
Eddie Stuart, best of all lacrosse
gOalies when he operated in front
OF the Mount Washington and Cres-
cent A. C. nets, has moved from
Westchester to a better business
proposition in Boston Watch
Southern California next fall. The
acknowledgements dope is that How
ard Jones again has assembled one
of the nations best football teams
:. It's tough preparing for an
Olympic invasion. A recent letter
from Berlin cOnfides that officials
have been working overtime stock
ing up sixteen different brands of
chewing gum for the athletes
Max Baer's average income is S5,-
900 a week while providing those
transforming boxing exhibitions at
the various Texas centennials. Nat
urally he will not consider doing
any big league fighting until he has
milked such rich regions dry.
Unless he takes a salary cut Jim
my Wilson may be looking for a
new job next year. Now that the
once great catcher no longer is
very active on the playing field his
boss seems to feel that a SIT, 900
annual salary is too much for a
mere Phillie manager Van
Mungo is not surprised at the I'M
justified rumors that he misbe-
haved before the All-Star game.
When he checked in at his hotel on
Monday morning he was assigned
to Room 313 and when he paid for
his breakfast he received a So bill
in change. After that he was pre-
pared for anything in the way of
hard luck In spite of nasty
mems who cannot understand the
higher things in life, Leon Kettchell
must have had fight. At least the
7 foot 3 inch heavyweight, who
shortly will appear under the be-
nevolent auspices of the eminent
Champ Segal and the equally cele-
brated Hearst A. c., has a cauI-
flower ear.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Call for ''Beaut'' Started
Famed Announcer's Career

Then one night, when Chuck Con-
nors was meeting Billy Welsh at
Maisch'S Little Casino down on
Bowery near Pearl, the regular an
nOuncer did not appear. A spec
tatOr stood up and demanded that
"JOe the Beaut" be given the job.
Joe got it. Whether the "MayOr
of Chinatown" that was COnnOrs,
beat the Little John L." that was
Welsh, on this occasion is some
thing he could not remember. But
he did remember that it was one
of the happiest nights of his life,
though.
The very happiest? No, those
were swell times when he and Sam
Harris and Terry McGovern were
in the fight business. Best fighter
that ever lived, that Terry. Best
little.
(There was a halt here. The
hand that had by his own esti-
mate quieted more than LOG, ,0OO, 900
tumultuOus people at more than
$4,000 fights undoubtedly was trem-
bling now. So / did not ask about
the days when he and his idOlized
Terry appeared on the stage in
''The Bowery After Dark" and the
''Road to Ruin. Instead, steered
off to other things.)
Secret of success? Well, what
you had to have to handle a crowd
was a voice, personality and col
or. 1t ought to be a deep, bass
voice with lots of vibrations. You
shouldn't ought to antagonize the
crowd either. What you should do
was use good judgment and try to
keep them friendly.
What? Well, yeah, maybe he was
sometimes misquOted. But what of
it. Suppose he did stand up in
the old Garden that last night there
and demand silence so he could
pronounce a "apostrophe" to the
famed statue of Diana. The point
about that was that he'd an
nounced fights in this state under
three boxing laws since 1899 and
he'd been good enough to do the
aA11OuuCInS kOE Luc last uSUL dL the
old Garden and the first one at
the new Garden.
Besides, what if some people did
laugh at that crack. 1t made them
happy and so kept them satisfied,
didn't it? Well, that was the real
job of an announcer and if some of
those birds who.
The ebb and flow of a boxing eve
ming had brought the crowd back
into the little Office again. Jimmy
Johnston was waiting to 60 down.
stairs with his old friend. l rose
and shook a hand that no longer
trembled.
$50 long," he said. "PH be-hey,
] tell you what. You're always u.s.
ing Old-time pictures on those
sports pages of yours. Why don't
you come out some day? I've got
a lot of them and we could sit
around some more and"
Along with so many others I am
going to miss Joe Humphreys.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

he makes a comeback Rab-
bit WarstIer, obtained from the AS
recently, should be of real help
to the Bees. He is one of the
best defensive infielders in the busi-
ness and when he is happy, hits
300 in the clutch. His Philadelphia
trouble was that he did not like the
way Connie Mack treated him
Incidentally Mr.. Mack would be
something less than a popular ia
vOrite in Boston even if he returned
all that dough he has been taking
out of the town since he located
the Yawkey bakery. The fans are
sore because he was in town on
Sunday for a regularly scheduled
contest but would not wait over
for the aIl-star affair two days later.
Another hot Boston blast is di-
rected at the National league. The
fans, who esteem Wally Berger so
highly that the Bees were afraid
to make several very promising
deals for him this spring, cannot
understand why he was kept on the
bench during the dream game in
his home park Larry Benton,
a great pitcher when he served
the Braves and Giants, soon will
be released by the Baltimore club
Rudd Hoyle, 185-pound triple
threat star at Hun school in Prince
ton, is an unreasonable lad. In
spite of tempting offers from two
major colleges nearer home the
youngster, who is tabled as
''surefire varsity" plans to enter
Harvard this fall.
The best minor league buy right
now is Cliff Melton, who once had
a tryout with the Yankees. He is
a big, young, timber and not too
smart Southerner possessed of
very good fast ball and a sharp
breaking curve. Baltimore is ask
ing S50,000 for him and will take
20 G's Iess-Don Lash, who possi-
bly, is the best Olympic distance
star ever developed in the U. S.,
did his first running as a bare
footed boy of thirteen. That was
in the cow pasture back of the
little red school in his home ham,
let of Auburn, Ind. Could it be
that Penn, the team which may
end PrincetOn's football winning
streak early in October, already
has started practice?
The New York state athletic
commission has dug up an old
rule which DEGREES that all prize
fight contracts must be signed at
the commission offices. This, nat
urally, will not improve the very
messy boxing situation but should
give the matchmaking state Off
cials some swell extra chances to
get their pictures in the papers
A Boston restaurant features
a Bill Terry hot plate on it's Gee
lebrity" menu. The dish is ''Fresh-
ly made corned beef hash with
dropped egg" Jimmy But
well, who came back from the
World war to continue his career
as one of the an-time great jock
eys, now is a patrol Judge.
Jersey City hopes to get the To-
ronto, International league, fran
chise next year. Mayor Hague's
new stadium, which will seat $4,000
for baseball and $1,000 for fights,
being the reason for revived sports
interest across the river Even
though the Giants are slipping
there is no danger of Eddie Bran
nick losing his title as the best
dressed secretary in baseball. On
the clubs last Western trip he
packed As brightly striped and dot
ted neckties !. Aside from win
ming prize fights lightweight con-
tender Leonard Del Genio likes
nothing better than to read Charles
Dickens.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

Americana

BY Elmo Scott Watson
PAGE MIR. WEBSTER

IhOE WIN. WLDSlEn
IF YOU like to "talk high, wide
and handsome" you might prac-
tice up by learning the text of this
letter which a Louisiana clergyman
once wrote to gentleman in Vir-
ginia with whom he seems to have
had a disagreement. Here is his
letter:
"Sir:-You have behaved like an
impetiginous acroyli-like those in
quinate orosscrolest who envious of
my moral celsitude carry their mu-
gacity to the height of creating SYM
posically the fecund words which
my polymathic genius uses with
uberity to abiligate the tongues of
the weightless. Sir, you have GRASS
ly parodied my own pet words, as
though they were tangrams. / will
not conceroate reproaches. l would
obduce a veil over the atramen-
tai ingratitude which has chamiered
even my undisceptible heart. am
silent on the foscillation which my
coadful fancy must have given you
when 1 offered to become your fan
ton and adminicle. I will not speak
of the iptitude, the ablepsy you
have shown in exacerbating me;
one whose genius you should have
approached with mental discalca-
ton. So, I tell you, Sir, synco-
phically and without supervacane-
Gus words, nothing will render ig-
noscible your conduct to me. I
warn you that I will vellicate your
nose if I thought your mental di-
atheists could be thereby per-
formed. If I thought that I should
not inpfgorate my reputation by
such a degladiation. Go tagy-
graphic; your oness inquinate
draws oblectation from the great
est poet since Milton. and draws
upon your head this letter, which
will drive you to Webster, and send
you to sleep over it.
knowledge is power and pow
er is mercy; so I wish you no ro-
vose that it may prove an external
hypnotic.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

Pennsylvania, spoken two hours and
turned loose enough oratory to fill
about nine gas balloons. But of the
subsequent and Incidental remarks
of another man, an awkward, shy
man from Illinois, who had spoken
just two minutes, it said, "The
President was also heard briefly.
The applause was formal and scat
tering."
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
ut%t .
g Y~1ti1i II
Nurb1 about
Avn Immortal Oration

d EVERLY HILLS, CALF
ID The future has rotten trick
of mussing up the judgments of
the present. What pity it is that
we can't wear our hind-sights in
front.
When I read where some pom
derous performing pachyderm OF
the literary elephant quadrille says,
''This story will live forever"
I get to thinking about time-yel-
lowed copy of a metropolitan news
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

~Vo AAuIII PIIIoJ on him years later.
There was the proud boast that,
for years, he had been able to
smoke cigarette, chew gum and
announce a fight at the same time.
How did he come to get into this
racket? Well, he was a newsboy
when he was ten years old and
folks who used to listen to him on
the old Produce Exchange corner
used to admire the power of his
voice even then. After that there
was a lot of distinction to be
achieved as master of ceremonies
at balls and parties in the neigh
borhood.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Virtues of Philosophy

In the Eighteenth century there
was still a widespread and innocent
belief in the virtues of philosophy,
and Rousseau, the great social phi
losopher, received two separate
calls to prescribe for the maladies
of France.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

at a pulse-strum-
ming bout an d
punched his ribs
black and blue in
the midst of the ex-
citement. A bou t
how Sullivan named
him "Joe tn e
B e a Vi t." a title
which he much pre-
ferred to the Bow
cry Demosthenes"
which some news
paper guy tagged
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Benedictine Monastery

About half way between Rome
and Naples is Monte Cassie. Four
teen centuries have passed since St.
Benedict, the monk, established
monastery there-the beginning of
the widespread and influential Bene-
dictine order.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Marriage Ceremoniaps Aim

According to anthropologists,
much of the marriage ceremonial
among primitive peoples is aimed
at removing the possible evil in
huences of taking a stranger into
the family.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Concord. n. III.

The site of Concord, N. H., was
settled in 1725 and called Penna-
cock. In 1888 the village was in
corporated as the town of Rumford.
This later was called Concord and
became city in 1853.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Play Ball!

Employer-You've attended the
funerals of two grandmothers in
the last month, and now you want
off to bury another. How do you
get that way?
Office Boy-Well, boss, the doctor
was wrong in both cases.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

would win the pen
nant easily Al
though they do not
deny that the big
boy may do it, the
smarter and more
honest boxing peO-
pie feel that Joe
Louis will need
more than the ex-
ira foot of banda ge
permitted him by
the ever = Obliging
New York boxing
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Transfusions Long in Use

Blood TRANSMISSION is by no means
new development in science. Ref
erences to it are found N ancient
Egyptian and Greek writing and
1t IS mentioned in the seventh book
of Ovid.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Increase of Formulation

The human population is expand
ing at rate that it doubles every
third generation, and in our own
country it doubles, excluding the
immigrants, about every second
generation.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Preiudices of Critics.

OFTEN, 'twould seem, the pro-
" fessional reviewer makes up
his mind beforehand that he
doesn't like you and behaves ac-
cordingly.
A friend sent me clipping from
a small city-it dealt with the open
ing of the picture, "Everybody's S
Old Man." The writer was quite
severe in his analysis. He didn't
like the film. Passionately, he
didn't care for me.
The joke was that the theater
where the picture was to have been
shown burned down just about the
time the paper went to press, and
the picture wasn't ever shown in
that town.
The next best illustration of the
point I'm making dates back years
ago. I was discussing various nov
elists with that gentle wit, the late
Oliver Herford.
collie" I said, ''what do you
think of So-and-So's books?" "My
dear Cobb" he softly n1urmured,
something I once wrote about him
in a critical way-so prejudiced
me against the man I could never
bear to read any of his books"
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30

paper L saw OLlSC, q
paper that was print
ed on November 20,
1868.
1t devoted G r e a t
gobs of praise and
nine solid columns
very S o Ii d-to the
eloquence Of t h e
Hon. Edward Ever
EFT of Massachusetts,
who, on the day be-
fore, after months of
preparation had, on
q battlefield down in
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Practically the Boss

Arthur-So your new job makes
you independent?
Albert-Absolutely. I get here any
time l want before 8, and leave just
when I please after five.-Canadian
National Railways.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
City Noises Preserved

In the cornerstone of a New York
building, for future generations to
examine, are sound records of auto
horns, newsboy shouts, and other
traffic noises.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
AS TIME PASSES

Bug-So you are on your way to
propose to Miss Jane Snail? Why
you're an old man.
Snail know I am but wasn't
when I started out.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
No Talent

John-You say Bert doesn't have
much of line?
Don-No, he can't even string
banjo.
The Ely miner., 1936-07-30
Too RoSfJeSS

Anglr-You've been watching
me for three hours. Why don't you
try fishing yourself?
Onlooker-I amt got the pa
tience.