Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-17
Blind Dates,
Beer Urged
For Soldiers
Elsa Maxwell Advocates
Parties With Zest
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

disciplined being. You'd think
that would be enough. wouldn't
you? But no, for all the busy
bodies, the professional uplifters,
the goody-goodies, the ideal
lists" the "moralists" and all the
rest of that fry and kidney begin
to regiment him plus and plus
and plus. until our soldier boy
begins TO wonder whether he's
a man or just a guinea pig in an
experimental Fascist concentra-
ton camp
Elsa Maxwell. the celebrated
party-thrower, hurls the hook
into this sort of thing in the fol-
lowing interview she gave 10 a
writer for the New York World
Telegram:
"Our soldiers must have girls
and beer II the morale Of our
army Is to be kept up.
And i don't mean that I'm n
bad sense. Give the boys blind
dates with nice girls. Put some
fun and adventure into II.
Heaven knows their lives are
drab enough.
These men are not going to
stand for old-fashioned, super
yised, rationed entertainment.
It's the bunk to them. Tiddledy-
winks II no substitute for a girl
or pink lemonade for beer. They
were free and Fl before they
went into the army. Why treat
them like children now"
That's about the best bit Of
common sense I've read in con-
nection with our new army.
/ flung some Scallions at this
goo-goo attitude toward our
soldiers in this column some
months ago; but no one can say
a thing more courageously than
Miss Maxwell. whom l salute as
Soldiers Boy Friend No. l."
HIS jaws showed out like Al
pine lodges - jaws that
MuSSolini and Jack Oakie must
both envy-hi wide military
shoulders doing a staggering
challenge. his eyes narrowed 10
a couple Of no-back-talk Sits,
his hat pulled down TO an angle
that says. Justice has arrived"
Jack Holt still holds me an
the Riddles in breathless awe.
Jack Holt is never out Of
job. He has been the great social
avenger since my mind runneth
not to the contrary. Stars of the
SllentS and talkies may come
and 90, but 6-footer. big-fsted,
steel iawed Jack goes on for
ever
The minute Jack ICONS into
scene in the first reel Of a
Grade a or Grade 4 picture the
Kids howl with glee and my own
heart leapeth like the doe in
Maytlme. for | know the creep
ing menace will not creep much
longer. that rank treason will
be routed out that the mort
gage will be paid on the old
shack and that crime. far and
wide. is going 10 get a kick in
the roundhouSe that will land II
in the pokey.
Me an the Riddles are not
Sophlsticuties. We like 10 see
sin scuttled, the wicked wal
loped, culprits cudgelled, male
factors m au @ d. blackguards
biffed, whelpS whipped, ruffians
rolled, varletS vanquished, out
laws ousted. rascals rebuffed
and, wheresoever found, work.
erS OF inlquity worsted-and
who hath ever done this better
than Jack Holt for 80 years
Jack Holt. with the unshatter-
able jaw and the eye that never
knew blue mouSe"7
Long life TO YOU. lack Holt
Iron me an the Riddles.
GONE one-I think il was
~ RauSchning said that
Adolf Hitler was "a primitive
force. Maybe he is. But so
are hyenas and hawks.
One hundred years ago Hem
rich Heine. greatest of German
lyrical poets, foresaw the rise OF
such natural philosopher" in
Germany in this amazing fore
cast.
HE will be terrible because
he will appear I'm alliance with
the primitive powers of nature,
able to evoke the demoniac en-
ergies of the old GermanIc
pantheim-doing which. there
will awake I'm him that battle
madness which we find among
the ancient Teutonic races who
fought neither TO kill nor con-
quer but for the very love of
fighting. Then will come crash
ing and roaring forth the wild
madness of the old champions
the insane berserker rage of
which northern poets sing"