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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
MRS. FLETCHER-SMYTHE

MRS. FLETCHER SMYTHE
WI sat down on the highly
polished wooden bench in
front of the prize picture al
the Surrealist Exhibition.
Her perfectly marcelled
gray head tipped TO one side
and her brown eyes con-
tracted 10 narrow Sits AS she
tried conscientiously to study
it,
The leader of the art class
had pointed out that this
position heightened the effect.
brought out the intensity OF
the colorS.
my Tommy could do as
good as that In first grade"
a disguised voice with a
midwestern burr as strong
and fresh as a prairie breeze
cut through her abstraction.
She glanced around TO find
two women of about her own
, age seated beside her.
There was. however. nothing
worshipful about their frankly
skeptical contemplation of the
masterpiece.
TN say" The stouter Of
the two nodded emphatic
agreement. "Ain't II the limit
what gets by in New York.
You wouldn't never see any
thing like that in River june
ton"
Not River June ION.
Iowa ." The eagernesS of the
voice met a responsive stir in
Mrs. Fletcher-Smythe.
SMALL WORLD
That was the way she felt
when out of the wilderness OF
New York she suddenl!
caught the words San Fran
cisco"
Nothing but. My sakes"
The thin woman's delighted
exclamation rang through the
huShed rooms with shrill eX-
plosive echoes that brought
disappearing frowns from a
group of art students. Don't
tell me you're from Iowa ."
Born and brought up in
White Pine" the other said
proudly. Hadn't never been
out of the state till l come to
New York"
me neither. Well, well.
Amt II a small world"
Mrs. File c h r. Smythe
reahzed that she should be
one in spirit with the now
frankly outraged art students
who were glaring at the noisy
exchange of names and con-
fidences, bat somehow she
wasn't.
The nostalgia that she had
been fighting for months
swept over her as she shame
leSsly listened to Mrs. Mary
Reynolds explaining how she
had come to New York TO get
out of Tomrhy's way.
II didn't want to he on his
mind with him not six months
married. and Milly already in
the family way. She's fine
girl, MilIy is, and she's right
pleasant and kind. but after
my Tom died and the house
had to be sold. couldn't see
myself cr0wdin' i'm on Tommy
and her.
~ knew Tommy'd have
ut havin' me in rOomin'
house in River Junction, so |
Just took my savin's and lit
out for New York. l figured
l might get me a JOHN
real good at cookin' and
SEWN, hut jobs are kind Of
scare
II got somethin' from Toms
insurance. He always kept IL
up. bless him.-but IL don't go
any too far in this town."
Mrs. Fetch r-Smythe's
mind shifted from the voluble
contribution of the second
lowan that she was a widow,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
Daily Short Story

charityseboards she was on?
She granted they were neces-
sary, but somehow they left
her cold.
Everything had left her
cold. ever since Sam died.
But what right had she 10
stay cold and aloof from life
at "a? Surely there was
something vital and warm and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10

human that she could pat her
hand to
Her eye fixed on an upside
down telephone with its re-
ceiver al a mad angie. It's
wire CURED like a lariat in
one corner of the prize
canvas. She was about "a
unrelated TO reality as that
How could she get in corr
munication with life again?
EloiSe didn't need her any
more. now that she was mar
ried and living in the social
limelight she had always
craved. Only too we'll did her
mother know that though
Eloise was fond of her. she
was nevertheless relieved 10
have 5000 miles between
them.
a scrap Of conversation.
lower and moro confidential
now cut across her thoughts
JUST CLEAR OUT
Looks like after you're 80.
the best thing you can do for
your children is to clear out.
II don't seem right natural,
though.
81 was thinkin' the other
night of what store we all Act
by Grandma Perkins on the
farm, when I was a girl. But
there now" Determined
CheerfulnesS wiped out the
wiStful note. Times change.
and we got tn change with
EN-"
ages don't mix up the way
they used to-" the other one
unused. "But what I've been
thinkin' lately. is this. II the
young people all want to he
together i'm a separate layer,
why can't we 50-ycar-o,ds
have a layer Of our own?
"Take my roomin' house up
in Amsterdam avenue, now.
There's six or eight lone
driftin' women like me there.
Why don't we get together
and cook n Sunday dinner for
all of us, say? It's mighty
lonely Just cookin' for your
self"
II know" Mrs. Reynolds
nodded doubtfully. "but New
York's funny. Every ones
kind of afraid of every one
else. Yon amt got any neigh.
bors. even when you're Twin
in the same house with folks"
That's right. You get out
of the way of bein' friendly.
that picture hadn't been
SO plumb awful I'd probably
never have spoke to YOU"
Il hope you won't mind
my speaking to YOU"
SUSPICIOUS
Both women looked in sur
prise and some suspicion
al the fashionably dressed
woman who leaned toward
. them from the other end Of
the bench.
you see. overheard you.
and-well, I don't happen to
he from Iowa. hut I'm lonely
in New York. too. NV name
Is Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Samuel
y. Smith"
pleased 10 meet YOU
Mrs. Reynolds ventured. but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10

10 wear 10 conform with her lace ana
figure and good taste. l would say not one
in a 100000. but do not want to he mean
about II. Do you ever see round-faced
man with little hat which makes his face
seem twice as round and fat? Well. hardly
ever But how many moon-faced females
do you sec wearing itsy-bitsy, ducky-wucky
hats? At least 20 to every block. Note the
number of long girls wearing TOO short
skirts. And have you ever seen a dream
walking around wearing a fur coat and
Stacks? l have. Hundreds of them.
CERTAINLY started the new year off in
- grand and unusual fashion. Reached
into my pocket for pencil and found one
reached for match and found one Why,
sir. haven't had a pencil and match at
the same time since the Fall of 1921
On 1871 list of weeks to be especially cele
brated appear as usual Doughnut Week,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10

the life you live in your home. in your
office-that is what you think of when
say your life"
But that is not your real life That is
only a reflection of your real life.
Your real life is lived inside you. 1t
has nothing to do with touch and taste,
sound sight and feeling 1t is lived in
your thought. There, in the secret places
of your spirit. you build the pattern of
yourself; you plan your destiny; you decide
what you will or will not be. And your
outer life only copies that pattern and
carries out that plan.
There is nothing occult or mysterious
about that statement You can prove its
truth very simply Look around at the
furniture in your room-the chairs, tables,
pictures. curtains, books, radio. These are
material things now. Before they were
material things, they were immaterial
things and existed in the mind. But that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
Elsie Robinson
TUo Lives

NO TRUTH will be of until you know something OF
~ the mystery of your own life
When speak Of life think of that existence whcn you
express and which other observe and contact
through their The life of touch taste sound sight eeng
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10

substitute in the reducing diet
for meat as II supplies almost az
much protein but not as much
caloric value. 1t is easily
dieested and very good food
for both adults and children.
DIFFERENCE IN MEATS
What is the difference in the
nutritional value OF good beef.
veal and pork?
This is an important economic
question. OF course. beef is the
most expensive and for most
people the most palatable. How
ever. there is very little real diff
ference in the actual nutritional
value and chemical composition
of these meats. Veal contains a
larger per cent of water. and for
that reason II may take a little
more veal to Mako up for the
nutritional. lack. as compared
with beef. but various cuts Of
veal and beef vary widely in
percentages of water, protein
and everything else. Either beef.
veal or pork is a wholesome
food
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10

TTERE pleasant game that will give mess &c
every a puzzle designed to spell out
letters first name the number
is subtract the number Is less han
your number Start at the upper left
check one OF your Key
numbers left right the letters under
checked figures give you re
c.pvt,sT tpu ) Features Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
CHEWING GUM

Is the chewing gum habit
harmful?
wish I could say il were. but
I honestly can not. II is cer-
tainly useless and unaesthetic.
During prolonged gum-chewing
by hardened chewers, the ptyalin
content of the saliva diminishes
because chewing stimulates the
flow of saliva and in the course
of time the salivary gland 5
simply become worn out. How
ever. they quickly regain their
activity when the gum rs placed
under chair and the next meal
begins.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10

written In the seventeenth century, more than
Earl Carroll girls Hollywood
canares To down the alarming
compulsory in conversation
established all public schoosEND)
INCREASING number of females exporting telling
Il very condescendingy too. Extremely
presumptiou call it. Let the solve their what to
problems extending their artora advice activities
the slightest idea Of the right thing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
On the Side
By E. V. Durling

She hos thousand charms
To captiuate my heart:
Her louelv eyes are CWpid's arms,
And ererg look dart;
Bat lcben the beau'eous IDIOT speaks,
She cures me Of mp pain
Her tongue The serrice letters breaks
And trees her slave again.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

w. W.:-"Please tell me IL
tea is harmful to person with
high blood pressure"
Answer-Tca ha s no effect
upon blood pressure whatever
and neither has coffee. In fact.
both of them proba ly do
good by strengthening the heart
muscle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-10
LIVER SPOTS

What can be done for the
brown spots called liver spots"
on face. shoulders and arms?
Liver spots have nothing to do
with the liver. although people
who have them ore frightened
with this idea. They are dis
turbances in the production OF
pigment which may come on at
any time in life. most frequently
after IS. Beaches will remove
them temporarily. but the funda-
mental mechanism which in
wolves their production is a mvs-
terry which is beyond our meth
ode of control
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
TAKING SOLDIERS cIGARETS

Aniee legal problem has arisen with
regard to the operation Of post ex-
changes in the numerous military posts
scattered through every stote.
Hos the stote q right to tax cigorets
and other similar supplies sold through
such agencies? 1t depends whether O
post exchange is on fundamentally Of
the federol government conducted as q
necessary port Of army operation. A
post exchange is usually q voluntary,
unincorporoted setup, virtually a non
profit cooperative, supervised by, but
not actually run by, army authorities
II it is q federal institution tied in as an
indispensable part of army operation,
stotes probably cannot tax supplies sold
through them. But if running store is
q mere convenience to soldiers, and its
stocks ore not property Of the United
Stotes, stotes may assert land some Of
them hove) their right to tax.
Army conteens and post exchanges
are likely to be around for long time
in increasing numbers. Their volume Of
business will be on item. So there's one
for legal wits to whet themselves upon !
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST3

1t is good to see sudden soIicitude
for women and children. The to|ons
ore reported to be seeking on orange
ment to evocuote to sofety 80, 600 wo-
men and children, coIonists in Ethiopia
We hope it will be possible to do
this; that the British will be able to blot
out for the moment the picture Of their
own women and children blown to bits,
buried under walls, noneIed ond torn
by shell fragments, orouohino night Of
ter night in sinking cellars as the
bombers (some Of them toIon) rum
BILE overhead. Yes, we hope the British
will be able to rise above thoughts like
thot, ond to protect the helpless.
Terrible things might happen to
these innoeents. For the Ethiopions
have probably not forgotten what hop
-pened to their women and children
when their villages bloomed with Wit
torio MussoIini's ehostIy roses"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Capital Of lneo Empire
Was Located in Ecuador

QUITO, capital Of the republic
< Of Ecuador, pictured on the
map stamp above, has been one
of the most important cities of
South America for centuries. Be-
fore the Spanish conquest, Quito
was the capital Of the vast Inca
empire. Under Spanish dominion,
IL became q cultural and art center
Of the New World.
The equator, from which Ecua-
dor derives its name, crosses the
republic near the capital. but the
ALTITUDE OF the city makes its Gle
mate temperate. Most Of the cul-
tivated area of the country lies
in q high plateau between two
ranges Of the Andes.
Construction Of the railroad be-
tween Quito and Guayaquil, the
principal seaport, was one Of the
worlds greatest feats of engineer.
ing. At one point, trains ascend
1900 feet In FIVE minutes, along q
zig-zag road cut in the mountain
side.
Ecuador lies between Colombia,
of which Il was once Q part. and
Peru. Eastern boundaries are still
In dispute.
The country is rich In unde.
veloped mineral resources. Agri-
cultural products include cereals,
fruits. cocoa and coffee.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

ner made a two-bid, you had to
bid two no trump If you had
less than a trick and q half.
Sometimes this two no trump
response concealed six or even
seven card suit. In the 1941 re.
quirements, any six-card suit
and any fair five-card suit
should be shown Immediately
even though the hand Is practi-
cally worthless so far as high
cards are concerned.
Today's hand represents a
frequent bridge tragedy. Prev.
iously East had to respond two
no trump over the two spade
bid, because of his weakness in
high cards. When West bid three
hearts. East was then afraid to
bid four diamonds, lest West
might have singleton or void
in diamonds, and the hand
would thus be played at no
trump.
The best place to play the
hand was never discovered. In
this hand West went down one
at four spades. and In fact the
contract cannot be made.
The new requirements would
permit East to bid three dia-
monds over Vests two spade
bid, West would then raise to
four diamonds and East would
60 to five diamonds, which
contract would easily be made.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD - Practical
Joking in an airplane sounds
like a thoroughly impractical
idea, and not very funny. But !
do think the frame-up on Ernst
Lubitsch is worth telling about,
if only as an example of how far
the Hollywood crowd will 60 for
a laugh.
Over at Palm Springs for a
vacation, the producer-director
was invited to 60 for a scenic
hop in a large airliner along
with an assortment of screen
cuties and other flicker figures
Presently, the ship began to
waver. The forward door OPP
ened and from the control cabin
came two men in pilots uni
forms struggling into parachute
harnesses.
why should we all die?"
asked one Historically. Moth
ing can save the ship" agreed
the other. Lets CO." =. ."Hur
ry up; l can't stand this any
longer!". Landing gear jam
med. out of gas. over noun
tainS. -"
AS Lubitsch and some Of the
other fright-paralyzed guests
looked on, the two men opened
the side door and jumped. AS
they hurtled into space, their
falls soon checked by their
'chutes, the plane began to wob-
BILE weirdly...
Well, the two jumpers were
movie stunt men, hired for the
gag. The real pilots, as you've
probably guessed. were at the
controls all the time. And for
tunately, none of the passengers
had a weak heart and dropped
dead from shock.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
IT'S THs PRINCIPLE OF THE THING


We are all accustomed to cotch-
words. and the old business Of dis
agreeing With every word you say and
fighting for your right to soy it," is
accepted as q commonplace.
As q general principle. Utmost every
American accepts it. Only when the
principle comes down to application IS
it sometimes difficult to stick by ones
GUNS. Vet it must be obvious that only
insofar as it is applied is the principle
Of any practical value.
Out in California there is q court
cose brewing. 1t concerns on oPPlieo-
ton for naturalization by one Hons
DiebeI, who quite fronkly and openly
announces thot he is an onti-Semite.
The u. S. Naturalization Service OPP
posed the grant Of citizenship.
A memorandum was then filed with
the court by the American Civil liber-
ties Union as friend Of the court"
oskine that Diebers application be
granted. A. L. Wirin, veteran attorney
for the A. c. L. IT,, bases the nemoron-
dunn on the contention that the Notur-
oIizotion Act "mokes certain behavior,
not beliefs, ground for denial Of notur-
oIizotion," and thot freedom Of
thought and Of speech is guaranteed
to the alien as we'll as the citizen, and
>. includes freedom for the thought
that we hate"
The Civil Liberties Union has often
been accused of q too-reody defense OF
those espousing radical causes when
their civil liberties we're infringed upon.
Yet the Union has defended Henry
Ford's eight to air his views, ond here
defends the position of q man whose
confessed point Of view is probably
thoroughly rePugnont to Wirin person
oily and to practically all the officers
and members Of the Union.
Is it foolish thus to defend those
whose views ore completely at variance
with bosic American ideas? Our whole
American way is built on the belief thot
it is not. For what is the alternative?
If prospective citizens are to be barred
for beliefs not covered by the Consttu-
ton to which they must swear oIleei.
once, we ore forcing men into q mental
mould. And we believe that the stote
hos power to regulate action but that
thought and speech must be free. else
more is lost than could be gained by
regulating them.
We hope. thot if DiebeI gets his
citizenship he will have learned q lesson
in federation, for he will owe it partly
to the intercession Of those who utterly
disagree with him.
Nay he then go, os certain lawyer
was once hidden, and do likewise
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
/. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

air and being given a shot of
oxygen by the men who appar-
entity had jumped overheard.
All they'd actually done, OF
course, was write the note, open
the windows, cut in the auto
matte pilot, ring tor the hostess
and hide in the baggage COM
partment.
COLONNA
CENSORED
REMARKS made from screen
to audience, and other situations
in which players step out OF
character, are still winning
some of the best laughs. In Re-
public's new musical, isis Hop
kins," there's a scene in which
you'll see Jerry Colonna coyly
immersed in a bubble bath.
Finally the upper part of him
energies and he's wearing an
old-fashioned striped bathing
suit. In an aside to the audience
he explains alphabetically: 1.-THE
Hays Office insisted on it,"
OTHER evening, Hal Roach
sneak-previewed Trooper Re-
turns" for which Rochester
Eddie Anderson) was borrow
ed for a role in which he does
not play himself. The custo-
mers' loudest whoop came when
he tells Billie Burke he doesn't
like the ghostly goings-on. a.. :.
doors openin' by themselves;
people talkin' to nuthin' :. an
gettin' answers. No, ma'am; I'm
goin' back"
Back where?" asks Miss
Burke.
Back to Mistah Benny!"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
THE HOSTESS
TAINTED

THERE'S a similar tale about
couple of pilots who were fer
rying a plane to another city
with a brand-new hostess as
their only passenger. Sitting In
the lonely main cabin, the girl
saw a signal she was wanted
up ahead. A gale of air blew
the door open at her touch. The
cabin was empty. Windows
were open. Clipped on the in
strument panel was a note:
Port engine vibrating-ship
going to pieces-we've bailed
out"
The girl tainted. She was sur
prised, on coming out of her
spin, to find herself still in the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY

Y There is not the fointest reason why
u single American youth should return
trom his year Of miIitoy service with
o&st taking home with him sound and
ytoskoble knowledge Of the English lon
0sxupe.
During the World War, thousands
~ drafted men were found to have
oitttef no knowledge, or completely
iDodeQlote knowledge, Of English.
pfse Of them even hod to be troined
M ofhesrs speaking their own
X NJ problem IS not as ocute this
)Iore will Be Fewer such coses.
X 16h OlxSis pioneering the woy
xlpssss in English for fore
I'M CT tofoion-speokino recruits.
m % ibcm who thus leorns his
0epe while In service will
IN ~ Him for later life.
H.; Wv cot uni-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-12
. Highliehts From
The Latest Books .

II you tDdnt to knoD precisely
What has heppened to Chino IN
three years OF 1ndecldred tcdr,
uhdt China expects to do IN the
merit three-or JO-you should
read Madame Chidng kui-Sheks
frank, illum mating book, "Chind
Shall Rise Again" (Horpers: SJ).
Written at odd moments, be
tWeen crucial conferences, field
trips uith her distinguished hus.
band, during air raids, this 10 q
book to stir the sternest. And
IL Is q bitter Indictment Of the
democrdctes. Says the Mdddme:
Democratic statesmen have
fallen far short Of that lofty
ideal of honorable recognition
and fulfillment of obligations
that has been set up before our
people as the precept to which
responsible nations should al
ways strive to adhere. A u
around us we have witnessed
how the mighty have fallen
from grace. ..
It is the opinion of the Chi
nese people, too, that the mega
tive attitude of the democracies
toward Japanese aggression In
China constituted in itself q vio-
lation of treaties and interna-
tional undertakings which. was
as reprehensible and as disas-
trous to international honor,
good conduct, and respectable
ity, as the positive abrogations
and acts of violence Of which
Japan was guilty when she in
vaded Manchuria In September,
1881, and China proper IN July,
1897.
Japan's easy conquest Of Man.
churia by unscrupulous means
was but an example of how an
agRressor could safely kick irk-
scme principles into limbo. /.
japan had tested international
reactions 70 undeclsred warfare,
to the wholesale abrosation of
treaties, and she found them
empty Of danger-either i'm
mediate or remote.
II, unhappily for the democra-
c;os al well M for China. we
were defeated In the end, At
least the world ought to know
that we were beaten not be-
cause Of lack Of coarage-either
moral or physical-but because,
by the concerted action Of the
democracies, China was stran-
sled to death by m economic
moose fashioned by japan out Of
British appeasement, American
profiteering and French fear.