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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
Readers Prove Runyon
Doesn't Know Everything
By DAMON RUNYON

The elimination of the sons
contribution was a severe blow
to the finances Of this little
establishment, as the lady eX-
plains:
"By the time l pay the rent
and the gas and electric lights
1 have So left to provide food
and clothes and medical care for
four people. 1t just can't be
DONE"
NOW it would seem TO be only
~ fair that the government
make some provision to restore
the deficit in cases of this kind
and without reference TO the
sons army pay, which after all
is little enough for his own ne
ceSsitieS.
Or the pay should be raised to
a point where the soldier could
take care of the home situation
himself and still have something
lett Tor ms pocket.
1t stands to reason that the
military efficiency of man is
impaired if he is constantly wor-
rying about the financial status
of the folks at home.
We are going TO have a big
army in the United States for
many years TO come, and this is
one hardship of the obligatory
service system that the govern
ment should take into considera-
ton at once.
The most important man in
the nation today Is the man
wearing the uniform OF his coun-
try, and nothing should be per-
mitted to stand in the way OF
his physical comfort and his
mental ease.
Copyright, 1941. King Features synd, In
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
It's For Your Benefit

TOR the next three weeks Deroters will be getting one
I of those small but pleasant reminders that they are
living in democracy where they may speak their pieces
and take hand in molding their own surroundings.
A traffic survey for the proposed Harper-McGraW
crosstown superhighway is under way, with ~ men
stationed at 139 intersections between Jefferson avenue
and SixMile road and Chalmers and Livernos avenues
These will ask motorists where they maze their
last stop and where their next stop will be.
From the answers Of Detroits motoring puohc VIII
be determined the proper points the superhghway Tor
exit and entrance ramps.
State Highway Commissioner G. Donald Kennedy
asks your whoeheared cooperation with his survey men,
cheerful answer nice way of giving democracy
a pat the back.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
We Don't Want War

PROPAGANDA for war is NOT persuading the Ameri-
/ can people that they should get into the war
Further convincing evidence of this has Just been
furnished by nationwide polls all OF which md
that from so 90 per cent OF the American people
want to stay out OF the war
In the Gallup poll voters asked
"If YOU were asked TO vote today the question
of the United States entering the against Germany
and Italy how would YOU voe-to 20 into the war or
to stay out of the war;"
The replies as reported by Dr. George Gallup director
Of the Institute of Public Opinion divided as follows;
Would vote to 60 in, l, per cent ,,,, ,,,>r
"WOILD VOTE TO STAY OUT, SO PER CENT
THE institutes question" Doctor Gallup SAID m
dicated approximately the way opinion might divide
today If A NATIONWIDE REFERENDUM WkRE
REFERENDUM PLAN"
THIS current finding by the Gallup poll agrees closely
| with that announced recently by Hadley Cantrl d.
rector of the Princeton Public Opinion Research Project
Doctor Cantr1s analysis showed that 30 Ptk CtNl
of the American people believe should remain out OF
the war -
Very plainly. therefore if the American people DO
get into this war il will be AGAINST THEIR WILL Just
as it will be AGAINST THEIR CONSIDERED JODD-
MENT
The people unquestonaby know that their country
Is woefully unprepared to wage foreign war
Unquestionably the people also know that foreign
war would subvert their Liberties and mpoverlsh ther
economy at home and would involve them either IN mil
tary disaster in equally disastrous political entanee
ments abroad. r,c,rr,
Knowing these things, the people have no DESIRE
to get into the war.
7 TAvING no desire to get in the they certainly
i i have no INTENTION OF dong So II they can nave
their way about it
They may even be THRUST into the war
But assuredly they are NOT being BEGUlLED INTO
the war bv all the hectic war propaganda with which they
assailed =, u.
TRICKED or THRUST into the war they must MAKE
THEIR WILL PREVAIL--at Washington, with their
elected officials and representatives in the government
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18

TT SEEMS that we pulled an
4 other skuller in stating re-
Gently that the American soldier
is the best paid soldier in the
world, while arguing that even
so the pay is not enough.
We say another skuller, be-
cause we reckon we boot as
many as the next fellow as we
go along here from day to day.
The trouble with us is that we
do not know everything, which
is a most deplorable weakness
in a guy writing column.
Maybe we should not admit
this. Maybe we should try TO
give the impression that this
department is infallible, and 10
tell the truth we think that Is
the course we would pursue If
we were starting all over again.
But II is too late now. Our
readers have long been jerry
to us.
They know that when we are
having bad day we can commit
more errors than rocky short
stop at his big league debut
OUR Canadian customers were
" prompt in informing us of
that best paid : soldier tumble,
but our embarrassment over the
mistake is somewhat relieved by
the discovery that we have a
considerable clientele in the
dominion.
And besides they are the most
genteel bawler-outers we have
ever encountered.
They are downright SYM
pathetic toward us because OF
our ignorance of the fact that
the Canadian soldier is far and
away the best paid.
The private there is paid at
the rate of $1.30 a day and all
found-food. clothing, lodging,
dental and medical care-as
against the S21 month of the
American private.
The Canadian non-coms re-
ceive as much as $3.50 a day.
And in addition the Canadian
government makes dependent
allowances. in cash, to the fam
lies of men in the service.
Ii pays S35 a month TO a wife
and SD each for not more than
two children.
Thus a soldier with wife and
two children collectively receive
1890 a month, and skilled
workmen in the army receive
extra pay of IS to IS cents a
day while employed at their
specialties.
OF COURSE the United States
" is raising a much larger
army out of a far greater pop
ulation than Canada and is
taking few married men.
Also the practice is TO defer
single men with dependents, but
the fact remains that many men
in the service of this country
have parents and other relatives
to whose support they contrib
uted while in civil life and who
are now pinched by the cutting
off of these contributions.
A private soldier cannot send
much money home out of S21 q
month.
AS a case in point, Let us
quote from a letter from lady
whose son had good job al
the time he was drafted and
who contributed Sl2 a week e
the household.
Two other children are non
contributors. The husband get!
S2l q week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
Quiz Answers

They are all sites OF govern
ment arsenals.
2-Robert Louis Stevenson.
31Blubber, source of whale oil;
baleen, whalebone; amber
girls, used in perfumery.
4-Ehaced.
5-Florence Nightingale lived
from 1920 to 1910.
6-Hyde, president; De Valera,
prime minister; George Ber-
nard Shaw. Irish playwright.
Way down upon de Swanee
ribber. far. far aWay."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
Connolly Answers

la Lohengrin; CHI Jason,
(c) Count of Monte Cristo.
Pa Palestine; (b) United
States lin San Francisco
Bay: fc) France.
3-(a) Leo Roster; tb) Marie,
grand duchess of Russia; tc)
Henry Adams.
4 ta) Confederate general; tbl
Russian Soviet president; tc)
English prime minister.
; ta) Bible. (bD Peak, tc)
Falls.
6-Ca) Sicily. tbl Corsica Co
Malta.
la Story; tb) Illinois; tc)
Youth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
BAERING DOWN ON The NEWS:
This IL Good NeIrS
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Mr. Knudsen is avshy satisfied with the defense produc
don and that's the good I've heard since Hector
was both ends Of q frankturter.
It's pleasant to near that the doll factory hasn't
out of sawdust fellow who rabbit
with three
During the war ! scared Of submarines l
wouldn't walk up damp Now. the parachutss have
got shaking like hitchtbiker on a rotary pow
But when Mr.. Knudsen things are all right know
he isn't clipping wool from dead sheep.
He is in charge Of production in the United States same
Doctor Dafoe is In Canada.
D
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
VERNON HARRELL,
Garden City, Mich.
% YEARS AGO TODAY
June rs, 1916

Russians smash Hindenburg's
works and trenches in Dvinsk
area as kaiser rushes troops
from French front 10 check Aus
trianS disastrous losses there.
Germany calls IT, year old
boys to the colors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
ROBERT s. FIELD,
Evelyn avenue,
Vineland, n. j.

TO THE EDITOR:
WE WHO desire TO maintain a
w clean and effective union
were no more aware. and per-
haps not as much, of the pres
ence of Reds than were the
employers at the time when we
established unions in the vari-
Gus plants-for they did the
hiring, not us.
Perhaps it can be explained
why the employers are able to
share tn G ir increased profits
after a strike but can't see how
they can do it before. And why
are their salaried employees
being given increases
I'll grant you that the Reds
must go the same as all the
other trash that we cleaned out
after organizing, but one thing
remains sure, the Go is here to
stay.
VERNON HARRELL,
Garden City, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
June rs, 1910

Hitler and Mussolini arrange
peace terms for France! They
are expected to demand uncon-
ditional surrender Of the French
fleet
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
Lett ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

DEMANDS for wage increases
H. are often based on the the
DRY that companies showing IN
creased earnings should share
them with their employees. Is
this theory sound?
To the extent that increased
earnings are due to better man.
agement, management and stock
holders are entitled TO them. To
the extent that they are due 10
monopoly or evasion of the anti
trust laws, they rightfully belong
10 the consumer.
Only TO the extent that labor
does more or better work should
increased earnings be paid out
in higher wages.
The employe of high-profit
company who works no harder
nor more skillfully than the en-
ploye of a low-profit company at
the same class of work, surely
has no moral claim to higher
wages simply because his en-
ployer makes higher profits.
All too frequently there are
unjustified differences in wages
for the same kind of work in the
same industrial region. These
should be eliminated To vary
wages according 10 profits would
not eliminate but accentuate
them.
II the aim is a better diStribu-
ton of income-certainly very
worthy aim-wages as the in
strument are inferier to taxes.
TNEC studies disclose a high
concentration of wealth; so per
cent of corporate dividends are
received by $4,000 individuals.
But they also show that about
4.5O0.000 stockholders receive
less than 500 annually in divi-
bends.
Wage increases designed 10
enlarge labor's share at the eX-
pense of capital hit these small
stockholders along with the big.
Steeply graduated income and
inheritance taxes can accomplish
the same purpose and without
penaliZing the savings of wage
earners or small business men.
ROBERT s. FIELD,
Evelyn avenue,
Vineland, n. j.
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COMMUNISTS in the Go and
~ the Guild organization sup
ported this proposal. II gave
promise of actual civil war in
California. And the situation was
so grave that the entire voting
strength of the nonmendicant
and non-Communist population
was required to save the state.
During the North American
Aviation strike one of the lead
ers of the mob. or picket. line,
was an officer OF the California
Go Industrial Council
III you will look at the mast
head of the Guild Reporter. the
official organ of the guild. YOU
will observe that Inc Is listed
there as an officer of that organ
ization, too.
Copyrighted BY United Features synd., Ina
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-18
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31
EARLY MATCHED
CHICKS SHOW TO
MORE ADVANTAGE

There are a number of advantages
of early Matched over late Matched
chicks for laying flock replacement
purposes, not the least of which is tc
aid in increasing egg production, &C.
cording to DR.. Morley A. JUL, heaC
of the University of Maryland Poul.
try Department. He says that buy.
ing early Matched chicks from bred.
today strains helps in securing high.
er egg production.
DR.. JUL points out that market egg
prices are considerably higher on the
average from July / to December
80 than from January to June 80;
hence it is important to secure as
many eggs as possible during the
late summer and early fall months
Leghorn pullets should commence
laying when about 160 days old and
Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island Red pullets should COM
mence laying at about $50 days of
age. Pullets of all breeds should
commence laying the latter part of
September. Leghorn pullets should
be Matched not later than the first
of May and pullets of the heavier
breeds not later than April l.
Some Maryland farmers order late
Matched chicks because they say it
costs less to brood them late in the
spring when the weather is warm.
DR.. JUL says they overlook the fact
that early Matched chicks usually
grow faster than chicks brooded
when the nights are hot. Attempt
ing to brood late Matched chicks is
a mistake because usually they do
not begin laying until the season of
high priced eggs is over.
Some pullets of the heavy breeds
might well be Matched during jan
uary and February in order that egg
production may be obtained during
July and August. Leghorns Matched
in February and March should COM
mence laying in July and August.
Early sexual maturity is one of
the important factors that determine
the number of eggs laid during the
first laying year. Farmers who or
der chicks from hatcheries should
make sure of securing chicks Matched
from bred-to-lay strains.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31
AUTO TAGS TO CARRY $40.
GAN DRIVE CAREFULLY

After Maryland automobile own
ers receive their new license tags,
which will be available after Febru-
airy 14th, they will carry a safety
slogan on their cars for the following
year.
Stamped on each tag will be the
words "Drive Carefully" w. Lee Ell
gin, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
said last week.
Only one other State, Illinois, is
stamping similar slogan on licenses
for 1941. This read "Drive Safely"
BY adding the slogan to the usual
license numbers, the commissioner,
it was said, is cooperating with the
Highway Traffic Safety Committee
appointed by Governor O'Conor.
Issuance of the new licenses will
begin February 18th. They may be
attached to cars. on March 18th and
must be displayed by April 1st, Mr..
Elgin explained.
The new tags will have black num-
erals on an aluminium background, the
first time this combinatin has been
used in license plates for many years,
it was said. Application blanks for
licenses will begin moving from the
commissioners office on February
10th. All are expected to be out
within the following week.
Mr.. Elgin urged all automobile
owners who have moved during the
past year to notify his office as soon
as possible of the change of address.
Postoffice authorities have been re-
quested not to send applications to
forwarding addresses. If the owner
is not at his old address, the applica-
ton will be returned.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31
WIFE-BEATER RECEIVES
10 LASHES IN CECIL co.

In the first public whipping in
AZ years, Sheriff David Randolph,
laid cat O. nine tails 10 times a
cross the bare back of wife-beater
Glenn Doyle, a carpenter of near
Leeds, Cecil County, in the Jail yard,
last Saturday afternoon.
Forty persons-all who sought ad-
mission-witnessed the lashing, to
which Doyle was sentenced last
month by Judge S. R. Collins, of
Chestertown, in addition to a 60-day
Jail term.
Not since 1894 had q man been
whipped, Jail records showed, but
Judge Collins, incensed by the de-
tails of the beating Doyle admitted
giving his wife, Pearl, after she had
objected to his mistreatment of one
of their 10 children, said that it was
the only fitting" punishment for
Doyle.
A special whipping post had to be
erected in the Jail yard and a cat o.
nine tails borrowed from the sheriff
of New Castle County Delaware,
where whippings are frequent.
Doyle, wearing a leather jacket,
over his bare back, was brought into
the yard by Deputy Sheriff Ralph
Robinson, who read the terms of the
sentence before stripping him to the
waist.
Then Robinson counted the strokes
in loud voice as Sheriff Randolph
carried out the sentence with 10 even
strokes. Red welts showed on Doyle's
back at the conclusion, but he made
no outcry during the whipping.
Doyle was arrested early last
month and was the first prisoner to
face Judge Collins, recently appoint
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31
UNDERGROUND
CABLE IS LAID
FOR DEFENSE

In q move that will assure addition
al coast-to-coast communication ia
cilities to meet future defense needs,
the Bell Telephone System has begun
construction of 1000 mile under
ground cable line costing nearly $780,
100000 from Omaha Nebraska, to
Sacramento, California. At those
points the new line will link with
cable networks of the east and far
west to provide the first all-cable
transcontinental telephone line. An
nouncement of the start of work was
made this week by the Long Lines
department of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company.
For protection, the new line will
be buried underground along a care
fully selected right-of-way which a
voids highways. Supplementing sew
eral existing "open-wire" aerial trans
continental telephone lines, it will
increase trancontinental circuits init
tally by about 30 per cent and will
ultimately almost triple present
cross-continent facilities. The. plan
ned increase is expected to meet prac-
tically any demands for telephone
communication between the vital CEN
tiers of industry, railroads and troop
concentration points on either coast.
Construction permits have been is
sued for the Omaha Denver section
and applications for the remainder
will be submitted to the Federal
Communications Commission in the
near future.
The line will consist of two cables
buried for almost their entire length
by a special tractor-hauled "plow
train" This plows a deep furrow,
lays the two cables in it and covers
them with earth-all in one contin-
uous operation. Long Lines con-
struction gangs now moving west
ward from Omaha and Grand Is
land, Nebraska, expect to reach Lara
mic, Wyoming, by the end Of the
year. Gangs of the Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company will
start eastward from Sacramento. The
route touches Denver and passes
through Cheyenne and Salt Lake
City.
The cables will employ equipment
whereby IL talking channels can be
set up for each two pairs Of wires.
One crli- taias th,- wi-nc e.
vest -1eaj channels, II Other for
ee 4wp4tg ne .xclits
nearly 100 e1-L--. sva, lJns will be
needed along the 1000 mile route,
six of these are already under con-
struction between Omaha and Grand
Island.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31
HOT OFF THE CREDIBLE

At the end of every season there
are always clothes to be put away.
Before doing so it is we'll to remove
all spots. Dry cleaning is the best.
Leave impressed, since gasoline odor
discourages moths.
Nildew stains, if the stain is not
too old may be removed by applying
soft soap and powdered chalk, keep
ing it moist and laying it in the sun.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31

Wooden sweaters and dresses
should be measured before wetting.
Use tape measure with the garment
flat on a table.
When cleaning copper or brass,
it is best to use cotton waste or worn
soft brushes for rubbing.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31

ed to serve an unexpired term. He
pleaded guilty.
Two physicians, DR.. Herbert Bates
and DR.. Vernon Mcknight, were in
attendance at the whipping, exam
ined Doyle before and afterward.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31

Furniture should never be stored
unless it has all been thoroughly
cleaned first. Brush and clean with
a vacuum cleaner if possible.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-31

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