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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Peace Unit Warns Of War

CHICAGO, Aug =. tins -
Sentiment for peace has increased
TN the tinted States since The
outbreak Of war, but minority"
has brought the country closer ia
war, according 10 r. Douglas
Stuart JT, founder and national
director Of the America First
Committee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Times Picture
Identifies Boy
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never have let him leave my
house II had known anything
was going To happen 10 him"
she said
Young Tommy. his mother said
was born in September. 1897 Hc
weighed only three pounds Al
birth and was placed in an incu-
hatOr in 2 hospital.
Re remained in the hospital fof
a year and the parents. a. The
suggestion Of hospital authorities.
boarded him oui.
He needed n lot 81 care, and
a. both of ~ were working. We
were unable Ia give il 10 him"
NJ fL A
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
2,855 in Draft
For September
State Boards Get
Months Quotas

LANSING. Aug. "A total Of
$50 men will be called by draft
boards in Michigan during Sep
tcmbcr. SclecilVe service officials
announced today.
The Detroit induction station
will furnish 20l0 men. many Of
them being inducted here from
boards in neighborIng counties.
Following is the list of Wayne
County draft boards and the num-
Der of men 10 be called by each
Board No ! so, No. ,. 80. No. .
L. - 10 - % u
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Mother Meets
Her Missing Boy
In Tragic Scene
BY VERA BROWN

JACKSON. Aug. q" He
doesn't even know me-"
That was hysterical mother,
cry here tonight as a Chicago
Herald American representative
put her son, Chicago's little LOST
boy. into her arms.
The woman is Mrs. Walker
Argo. %, whose husband aban.
doned his 3-year-old son in Chi.
cago's Broomfeld 200 three weeks
ago.
Tommy. Tommy" the boys
mother cried As She held him
close, her tears dropping on his
face.
want 10 get down." Tommy
announced in a matter-of-fact
way. not understanding in the
least what II was all about.
Then he went into the next
room.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Or. Norris Plans Tour

DR. J. Frank Norris. pastor Of
Temple Baptist Church, Satur-
day announced that he will leave
the United States September 2
for one-month evangelistic tour
OF the British Isles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
His NeU Momn,ie'
There was a cry
"My new mOmmie. "

And he rushed into the open
waiting arms OF another woman.
who for two years has been
TommyS new mommic
II was from this home that
Walter Argo took his son. Just
three weeks ago tonight drove
him in his truck IN Chicago whore
the child was left alone with the
great Sunday crowds AT the roo.
Such hugging and kissing there
uaS-- Tommy. laughing and shout
ing. turned 10 see another Trend.
his foster-mOther'S 2f-year-old son
who saw Tommy'S picture and
came TO The Detroit Times Tor
help. Tommy calls him lggle
fggIe tossed the laughing chliu
high IN his arms.
"Iggie. Iggie, YOU went away"
the child cried
Surt1 laughter and excitement
and in the rest room the PROSTATE
figure of Tommy own mother
shook with Sobs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Van Wagner Hunts Dem
Able to Suing / COP Vote
BY DON GARDNER
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING Aug Governor and Superintendent OF Public
Strucon Eugene B. Elliott
non-commttal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
Never Lost

Tommy wasn't lost any more
In fact he never had hecn. ht
tried 10 explain II was his daddy
who is lost and hc knew ms name
He kept saying over and over
again with his baby lisp
"My daddy II Mr.. Argo."
But Try hard as ChicagoS kind
hearted people would. nobody
could understand II came out a
tumble. and Tommy didn't know
he lived in Detroit
Every body cried a little ~ the
childs utter 10Y. Miss Minnie
Jones. representing Probate Judge
Frank II. Beck Of Chicago turned
away from the scene.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03

for Tommy's board. ] kept tell
ing him that II We spent that
with what we ourselves paid for
our housekeeping apartments,
we could get some place for the
three Of us. But he would never
talk things over.
II can't believe my husband
has done this thing Ia our boy.
can't believe II IL true. lOn
read about such things in books.
hut they sound No impossible.
lie must have been mad. Per
hapS he wanted Ia find n good
permanent home for Tommy.
Whatever u IL. neVe want To
zee or hear from him again.
viii FoiioW Judge
'In the future. am going 10
think only Of our hoy. put my
trust I'm Judge Bicek Whatever
the Judge thinks best. will
accept. n ne believes Tommy
would he better off adopted into
some family who can care for
him and give him the love he
needs and Graves, Ill accept
whatever he says.
You wonder why ] say this.
! have never had my baby with
me. | almost died when he was
born and for that first year he
was In a Detroit hospital
II must do what u best for
my boy now. There has been
suffering and trouble enough"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03
SLACK SUITS.

Just follow the direotions--measur
your waist and pant length-cheek
your color and the way you want TO
pay-then clip the ad and mail il
with 25c down payment. Your suit
will be sent Immediately.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
Report Tells



New York law and administration of
insurance companies, conditions of
bigness, and the methods of handling
elections developed by Ecker's own
company preclude any possibility that
the policy owners have any control
over Metropolitan
4. The facts in the Metropolitan
case are that anyone who wanted to
elect an independent or non-Ecker di-
rector would first have to get $4,000
policy owners to sign a petition to
certify an Independent candidate. I'm
der the law, a policy owner could not
get list of policy owners from the
company earlier than eight months
prior to the election. Then he would
have to file the $4,000 signers not
election. Agents testified they forged
names of policy owners to proxies !;
that it was a common practice Met
ropolitan has not had one election
contest since it was 'mutualized" in
1915. In fact there have been only
five contests for all insurance COM
panies operating under New York
laws since 1906 and there was a spe-
cial reason for each of those five.
5. Members of board of directors
use their power and place to get bust
ness and favors for other institutions
with which they are associated, and
from which they profit. This is par
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26

On the one hand such a program
will be of little use to southern Brazil,
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and
Chile, which are the principal source
of seven OF Latin Americas major ar
ricultural exports today. On the other
hand the plan envisages the growing
of tropical and semi-tropical products
most Of which would take many years
to develop.
Rubber is being discussed as one OF
these new commodities. But it takes
seven or eight years to grow mature
rubber tree and it would take longer
to secure enough plants and adapt
them to Latin American conditions.
Manioca flour from which Sizing"
is made is generally grown in tropical
Latin America but fresh capital, inn
proved processing machinery, and bet
ter organization of the industry on a
business basis would be necessary"
according to the department Of COM
merce.
The expansion possibilities of fibers
are much acclaimed, but the depart
ment of commerce states that while
the physical conditions are favorable,
large capital investments and "a plen-
tiful supply of cheap labor" are great
ly needed.
The other products listed as having
great future include cinchona bark,
from which Quinine is made, camphor
and tea. Silk is also mentioned. All
of these would take many years to
develop even If sufficient capital were
available.
Apart from the fact that this whole
plan for tropical and semi-tropical
Latin America is directed toward con-
yerting these countries into a colonial
empire of the United States it does
not solve the export problem of the
rest of Latin America nor can it be
realized in the near future.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26

to find sources of revenue which will
replenish Uncle Sans depleted cot
fers and make possible continuation
OF the present program.
For war is an expensive business.
Just one example might illustrate just
how expensive it is. The 16-inch gun
now used by the United States costs
100000. 1t is capable of being fired
200 times before being renewed That
means the gun depreciates $4,000 each
time it is fired.
The shells for this gun cost $4,000
each, which added to the salaries for
the more than 100 officers and men
attached to each battery, means that
it costs us-the people of the United
States-$5,000 every time a 16-inch
gun is fired!
And that is just one item in this
grim, expensive war.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
u. S. Plays Its
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no more think of playing Grab and
Keep without it's army and navy than
a highway robber would think of ply
ing his trade without his gun and
blackjack.
The rulers of the U. S. have been
learning to play Grab and Keep since
early colonial days when they seized
the land occupied by the Red Indians
and imported millions of African Ne
groes and European peasants to do
the heavy work of subduing contin-
ent. With the Spanish war. of 1898
the masters of America began playing
the game in big way.
President Roosevelt and his New
Deal supporters, many of them liber-
ais, have denounced the international
Grab and Keep game, but have played
its North American variant with pro-
digious enthusiasm and utter devo-
ton. AS they became skilled in the
game they heaped up vast quantities
|of keepings. When they had grabbed
all they could lay their hands on at
home, they began venturing abroad.
The military establishment needed
by the U. S. ruling class to insure sue
cess in the World Game is to cost
Is billion to rs billion dollars year
for at least three or four years. The
bill is being sent to the American peo-
pie in the form of higher prices, high
er taxes and lower standards of living.
1t will be paid in installments for at
least a generation.
Economic royalists the world over
are trained from childhood to play
Grab and Keep. The British Pluto
Gratis, the German Durocrats, the
French Two Hundred Families, the
Sixty Families who ride the U. S. like
Old Men of the Sea, think and live
in terms of winning the game. They
use the common people of homeland
and colonies for factory fodder and
cannon fodder and tell them to thank
their lucky stars that their rulers are
SO skillful in playing the game.
Do the people in homeland and col
onies care? Have they any concern
for their lives, their wellbeing and the
future Of their children? Are they
ready to organize and do their bit to-
ward the establishment of law and
order in a World Federation of Peo-
pies Republics?
Until they are, the Grab and Keep
game will go on in the future as it
has gone on through the past 5000
years. In country after country the
rulers will play the game for victory,
wealth, glory and power. In country
after country the people will pay the
costs of the game in sweat, tears and
blood.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26

ticularly true of directors of insurance
companies who are also directors OF
banks.
6. There are 1876 directors on the
boards of the five largest insurance
companies which own 54.2% of the as
sets of all life insurance companies
in the country. Among these are di-
rectors of 100 other insurance com
panies, 145 banks and other financial
institutions and 534 industrial and
other corporations. This provides for
a powerful interlocking control by
Wall STREET finance over the economic
life of the U. S.
7. Absentee directors merely turn
over power, uncontrolled, to officers
of companies with salaries from $685.
900 to s125,O00 year.
8. Many policies are written and
sold without regard to the interest OF
policies-the sc and 10c and 25c a
week policies bought by the poor
are so unfair that even insurance
company officials apologize for the
wrongs.
g. In Massachusetts and New York,
the states have developed what is
known as Savings Bank Insurance"
companies publicly owned and pro-
NOTED. The cost to the consumer of
these policies is far less than the cost
of profit insurance company policies.
TO- The insurance companies have
their gigantic Hobbies and they use
them to get what they want from leg
islative bodies and state insurance
officials.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
LOW INCOMES
Share IN
Var COSTS

During the past week the most u.s.
ual greeting to be heard around the
Capitol in Washington was: Have
you made out your income tax return
yet?"
This year, according to the Bureau
If Internal Revenue, thousands OF new
taxpayers will begin to contribute to
the national treasury The lowering
OF the exemption ON single persons
from $1,000 to $500; and on married
ersons from $4,000 to $4,000 has in
creased the number of paying citizens,
so far as income tax is concerned.
Also, it has materially increased the
amount paid by the small taxpayers
Then, when the ten percent defense
tax is added, some Americans have
found they have to contribute quite
sum for the maintenance of the Fed
eral government
But, from now on, this burden Is
bound to increase. The passage OF
the Lease-Lend bill with its promise
of about aid against the axis powers,
and the subsequent immense appro-
priations to buy the planes, tanks,
guns, ammunition, feed and other
"sinews of war" will call for herculean
efforts on the part of the government
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
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Osmund K. Kraenkel, constitutional
lawyer, asserted, "The bill has no
safeguards at all +. 1t will result in
the Matchmaking and framing of de-
PENDANTS" He said that statements
made over the telephone are notori-
ously liable to misinterpretation, par
ticularly in period of hysteria.
Evidence was introduced to show
that during the last war overlapping
was not resorted to; in fact the gov
eminent opposed overlapping not
only as dangerous to the Bill of Rights
but as likely to result in the disclo-
sure of government secrets and conf
dental matters. President Roosevelt
recently went on record in favor of
overlapping although stating that the
Hobbs bill goes entirely too far"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
Farm SURPRISES
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plies of these products more nearly to
the levi of the existing demand" This
latter is described by L. A. Wheeler,
chief of the office of foreign agricul-
tural relations, as possibility that
is being explored"
Officials discussing hemisphere
unity" slide over this major problem
and propose instead to transform
Latin America into a source for raw
materials which can no longer be OBJ
tanned with ease in more distant
places. While this is presented as an
answer to Latin Americas search for
export outlets, it frankly applies only
to tropical and semi-tropical products.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
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rent. Yet even SO thousands of farm
ers were in default Instead of scaling
down debt levels inflated during the
last war, farmers have been required
to bear this excessive overhead, with
the result that each year more than
100000 farms are lost by their owners
and many thousands of tenants are
forced to move on.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26

During the last six months of 1910
U. S. agricultural exports were valued
at 579o below exports for the same
period Of 1889, though the decline for
the twelve-month period was less than
half as great-21To. At the same time
increased 1881 for July December
1910 as compared with July Decemb Der
1899.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-26
HOUSE ROLL
CALL Vote ON
FL. EVEN bills

II. 3. 52-RepeaI of Primary Law.
n. B. 69-Against WPA.
H. 3. 74-Silicosis Bill.
n. B. 152-lnsurance of State Bldgs.
H. 3. e6-Rights of Labor.
II. B. f0o-Old Age Pensions.
H. B. 252-Home Guard Bill.
n. B. 27O-EquaI Valuation Bill.
H. B. 337-Against WPA.
H. 3. 3o4-Appropriation for lns.
H.B. 102-Diverting Highway funds.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
Nearby Defense Grants

Badly needed assistance in the
form of large Federal Works Agency
grants has been given to Arlington
County, Virginia, and Prince Georges
County, Maryland. The former re-
ceives S5670O0 for improving it's
water distribution system and the
latter 1922 900 for new schools. The
grants indicate Federal recognition
of the fact that by bringing large
numbers of workers to the Washing
ton area there has been created a
condition which calls for more ex-
penditures for public facilities than
the localities could afford.
The Arlington grant will be used
to provide new water storage reser-
voir and pipe lines. This will enable
the county to take care of the de-
mand during peak hours as the
population grows and avoid strains
on the system which several times re-
Gently have led to water supply fall
ures. While some Federal projects in
the county are served by special
main over Key Bridge, the major
portion of the county's supply still
comes across Chain Bridge. 1t has
been pointed out that this still leaves
the county of more than $4,000 per-
sons more vulnerable to possible
breakdown in its water supply than
any other section of the Washington
Evening star., 1941-12-27

have almost doubled since that time
Some say it would cost $4,000 to move
the Patent Office to New York, let
alone the rental to be paid and the
difficulty of keeping in contact with the
Government Printing Office, War and
Navy Departments, and other defense
agencies. For s500000 a very large
building could be erected to house the
new war Offices
Another fat to be considered is the
relatively longer time that the employees
of the Patent Office and the attorneys
and their staffs have been residents and
home owners in this city, compared
with the workers in other, newer Offices
who have no family or property con-
nections in Washington.
Without being an alarmist, I also
might suggest that the thousands of
tons of valuable and irreplaceable files
of the Patent Office are much safer in
their present subterranean bombproof
storage place than in New York
skyscraper.
If it were shown that moving the
Patent Office out of town is absolutely
necessary to the prosecution of our war
effort, I know that my friends in the
Patent Office and those practicing be-
fore the tribunals of that Office will
do their duty willingly, but 80 far
such removal does not appear to be
requisite either in the interests of
economy or the public welfare.
MRS. LETA M, PEARSON.
Evening star., 1941-12-27

would be we'll advised to remember
how often in the past sound military
judgment has been overridden by
political considerations, and with
what disastrous results. We have
every reason to believe that our fleet
and our other armed services are
under the direction of our ableSt
commanders. In their judgment we
must put our trust in military mat
ters, realizing that final victory,
under the most favorable circum-
stances, will be long in arriving and
that it would be foolhardy in the
extreme to put the ultimate result
IN jeopardy by engaging in rash ad-
ventures at this or any other stage
of the fight.
Evening star., 1941-12-27

area. Prince Georges County's $222,-
600 will be used in conjunction with
county funds to erect new or addi-
tional school facilities at eleven
places.
While the grants will be of great
help, they will leave many difficulties
facing the counties still unsolved.
Addition to its sewer plant remains
a major need in Arlington. Prince
GEORGES may obtain the necessary
plant facilities for it's educational
system, but the school board has
found it necessary to seek power
from the county commissioners to
pay bonus to its teachers in order
to help them meet the rising cost of
l'vin". 1t is inevitable that local au-
thoritieS in the area which is the
general hcn ndouarterS of Americas
war cert rust depend more and
more CT TIE Federal Government for
aid in bo2ring tho emergency bur-
dens imposed on the National Cap
ital and its envirOnS.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
One Lost Leuf

With what tenacity you keep your
hold,
While your companions pitter in
the dust,
Scornino the challenge offered by
the cold,
Your feeble strength surUfueS each
angry gust.
Last of the old trees flock, you hneer
there
Your beauty faded and your utoor
spent
Nothing but courage lett, ptth
,Uhich to dare
The days of ,Ointer's Wrath and
discomfort.
SO may our faith remain, ,1hen, all
around,
The hopes and aspirations OF our
youth
Are lying scattered on the sodden
ground,
And talsehood's icy touch has
bliohted truth.
While that one leaf still has the
poWer to cling,
The heart has promise OF another
spring.
ANNA M. PRIESTLEY.
Evening star., 1941-12-27
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1DeU.

there, I fed peanut crumbs to a red
winged blackbird; he would fly down and
get them from the running board of the
car. Seems to be favorite place for
the red-winged blackbirds, near the
parking space at Reaches Run.
"We always enjoy your column so
mucn - h dav, usually reading it aloud,
I thouelt you would be interested to
krcW about the Zoo and wild ducks. You
may rest assured I have not INDUCED
my imagination. What l have related
1 have seen, often. too"
-
The National geological Park is the
most convenient place we know to study
water birds.
Few of us will have mallards in our
back yard, no matter how many feed
ing stations we have, or how fond We
are of bird life.
If you want water birds, you have 70
go to the water
SportSmen are the authorities on
ducks, geese and the like
But one may be interested in the wa
ter fowl without being a sportsman.
Truly, they are among the most mag
nificent of all birds. Ordinarily one
must go to the lakes, the rivers, the
shore, to see them
Often their identification is difficult
for beginner. Studying the silhouette
is one of the best ways to identify them.
There is one pocket manual which spe-
cializes on the outlines of the birds. and
this method IS particularly good in iden-
tifying water birds of all kinds, for so
often they must be watched at some
distance
At points along the Potomac River
various herons are to be found They
come into the grounds of the Army War
College
At the Zoo. however, are many water
fowl, and they are so displayed that the
visitor gets grandStand view, as it were.
And the Zoo, above everything else, is
convenient That is, the average person
who is not willing to go to the river or
seek ducks in their native haunts, still
may have chance to study them.
They constitute but one of the many
features of our great Zoo, so success
fully managed by DR.. William Mann and
his efficient staff
There are all varieties of wild things
at the Zoo now, from noxious insects
and snakes, through the ranks Of ami
mails from all parts of the world to fishes
and hundreds of birds.
As pointed out here the other day,
there also are forms of wild life. includ-
ing squirrels and chipmunks, which are
not Gagged, to say nothing of sparrows
and other wild birds
These are all part Of the Zoo "exhib-
its" although not listed in the catalog
The visitor should get over his pre-
diliction for bears. lions and monkeys. As
/ wonderful as these are, they constitute
but part Of the exhibits.
We knew one person who went TO the
Zoo merely to see the vicuna.
And the animal was worth it.
There is no telling which animal or
exhibit will make hit with the IN
dividual.
Give them all a chance. Do not Just
keep on staring at monkeys. lions and
bears when you go to our great National
Geological Park. 1t is great deal bigger
than that