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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
Flowers
Of
.StGrddU
(AnCient China)
BY WILLIAM CROWDER,
Naturalist and Artist.

10 PEOPLE on earth have surpassed Chinese
N in the and cultivation of Towering plants Not
y Y the least Of the many rich heritages that have
descended to of Chnas dead dusty cultural past
the strkngly handsome and coorfu blooms
that were developed by her ancient gardeners
From time immemorial agriculture has been held in
higher estimation in China than perhaps, in any other
country Of the world every available Of ground
exploited the utmost for the purpose growing plants
but not all the plants food plants many indeed
of kind that afforded both the rural and the urban cul
tvator merely the pleasure Of its fragrance of it's
blossom.
Not without good reason has China always been
by its lovely epthet The F1owery Kingdom"
That the ancient Chinese devoted to flowers
TO seek in them almost TO the exclusion of all other natural
objects the fundamental features their decorative art
forms obvious from their and other ornamented
objects Yet this prediction profound that flowers
frequently formed the theme of pretentous poetca
and ambitious literary compositions
There numerous legends surviving today both writ
ten and oral that relate TO flowers of these
startling in their maginatveness In fact several such
gravey assert the existence of luminous lilies and of phos
phorescent
The camelias azaleas and gardenias Ito select but
few from multitude, common with today
well known to the ancient Chinese gardener for 1t
that it owing to his wzarry that out of less
imposing species of blooms present popular varieties
of these plants derived 1t he also who first
learned the mellow flavor impaired by camea leaves when
these mixed with tea
Like the camea plant which grown for it's leaves
we'll for it's flower many plants of old China
raised for double purpose Perhaps the poppy with its
opium is the commonest in point.
Still another nearly widespread in its cultivation,
the ginseng plant This plant fChnese "n-tsan
"jin-shen" ginseng; said to signify "the
blance of man. mans thigh, in ausion to the fire.
quently forked root really typfes China apty to
the informed person than does the nvdousy celebrated
poppy plant.
Although the flowers of the ginseng plant incon-
spcuous the leaves graceful and snowy while the
curiosity of The appearance of the
root has led TO curious Chinese supersons but TO
the Chinese the has for centuries been also of
tcal value 1t today esteemed potent tonic
and to it is ascrbed almost miraculous powers No greater
cureal has been known to the history of nation
yet modern medicinal research has proved that its only
effect is that of mild aromatic stmuant
The Chinese foricultursts of old also recorded
having perfected f this is not too loose term)
rather odd if not genuinely fresksh flowers. However
there trace of these other than in their tera
today unless except of gigantic size such
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Let Simplicity Be The keynote
Of LincoIn's Birthday Party
BY PRUDENCE PENNY

LITTLE DID Abraham Lincoln think that day
parties would be planned and schened his
mode of living They're lots of fun. particularly
the old time setting leans toward informally
Before arrange the house, let's get invitations
They might be written small brown paper you're
quite artistic miniature log
ton paper. Write the message a contrasting ink
Whether it's living in which you'll enter
tain scatter plenty Of braided about and
chairs even boxes, with patchwork quilts Don't the
newest quilts they should be those which
Hang silhouette of Mr.. Lincoln the
prominent place the large piece Of
brown cardboard heavy paper
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
I94I Valentine Sprink|ed
With Pepper and Salt
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Do know have asked for the coStest things
Ever made since the world began
a penthouse apartment your clothes and board.
And the heart of modern man?
You have asked pay your beautyshop bills
To give up my clubs for you,
Now stand AT the bar, while light cigar
And ask a few questions,
You require I shall give you my name
That is clear
require that you take the job of wife,
And give up that darned career!
A nurse I am seeking, to my brow.
cook and a valet
A playmate, pal and glamour girl!
Now, tell me-w7l do?
am welI-groomed now but the fuzz will grow
m cheek, day;
Will love then, with a two-days beard
And hangover Darlng,-say?
you all of your wedding clothes,
Before asking for sweet maid7
Will you make the things in your hope chest last,
Till the honeymoon bills paid?
Will you never get peeved question
When too long with the boys have tarried?
For a popular finds Heaven He'll,
On day that he married.!
require all things n the girl we'd
A one-woman harem,-see?
And if, day. can't pay the bills
Will take up stenographyl
If you can do o this, my
I'll be your Valentine.
strong mans tfmoroIs thing,
u When he signs the dotted line
p. S.:
GOOD sALEsMANsIIIP the art of getting want
buy wedding ring he only dropped in for a cup
and few kisses.
MODERN HEARTS seldom break; they dry up from
lack out from overUork.
1butsdb
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Homespun Centerpiece

Now for the food setting you're serving buffet style
Why not large piece Of corrugated brown paper the length
Of the table, Or cover with bright red and white checked
cloth.
For the cenerpiece stand another silhouette in
standard and surround With miniature log cabins Or if you'd
prefer cabin he centerpiecc 6nei II
corrugated paper and surround artificial grass
BE with low uncoored candles
holders Use them only the table
What about the food II in and
served on red. white and blue dishes a
red cocktail perhaps beet celery onion uce blended
red raspberry juice and
cabin cookies for light refreshments
To complete the supper men6 cut
hot Swiss hot potato vegetable bowl assorted
spced fruit reshes bread Qogs cherry coffee
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Jacket Dresses Lead
Spring Parade
By JOAN DEAN

THE -SuIT-LOOK in dresses-its quite important this
Spring The slogan hoisted high might read mo froek
without its jacket And without further foon the fashion
designers have proceeded to live up to it.
American girls like suits that's been proved true So
you have suit if you buy print frock. little
jacket right along with it. following inevitably
Marys little lamb.
1t be of the longer fitted jackets, of sheer wool
flannel Or prhaps it's boero, that outstanding Spring
style Boeros of Latin American Greek orgintheyre
the -favarite ehider this season.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Other Food Specialties

OF you wish cake or brownies
simply four by one-inch pieces miniature
wood pie the serving plate perhaps log
would At into your plans
To make this drain whole stringess bcanS from
and Barinae for al least dressing Combine
sliced celery and shredded carrots and
also marnate. Now pile the beans
oRidual salad plates about l6
centerS with the celery and Top
Even though you're unable sharp foods logs
YOU give practically dh topping with
tiny American flags fine way IN which TO- remember
Abraham Lncons birthday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Country Farm Motifs

In sheer wool the paidonbege dress with beige flannel
jacket Upothe minute in colorng (pad bright red and
green and style it's little job you can't afford to miss
And then there's the Country Farm print crepe rayon
in dove gray and white black and white with the gayest
of short red brassbuttoned jackets top it.
The dress has Puritan collar and fattering lines And
could resist the prinwith ducks chickens, churns
ptchforks and mlkmaids stools scattered
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Chic Indefinitely

Four little treasures pictured this pageeach
of them perfect for Spring and Summer Take
the little brown and white print dress with matching flannel
double breasted jacket of cinnamon tint
It's just the type of dress you'll and on-and
on-until September, mebbe geomerc print in a rayon
with skirt having plenty of smart peats to give it
rhythm It's topper has novel pockets-doube onesthat
will please the younger set.
jacket dress for trip Southland to be snatched
and guarded previously for Summer wears the white
creation with striped silk jersey top The dress
gives wopiece effect but it's really all Only the jacket
is separate.
brief bolero, it is. with fancy pockets too, braided
And looks adorable sung your shoulders contrast
ing with the bright red yellow black and white stripes of
the sweater-silhouete blouse.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Two-in-One Costume

But whatever its color nationality it's jacket that
accompanies Spring dress And who would gansay
such attractive idea? gives you instead
of one, and adds to the dressness of your outfit
Also know a famous New York designer who insists
that jacket falling open pretty frock gives softer
aurngy feminine appearance And he promptly made
all suit dresses for his Spring collection, because of this
conviction.
We've discovered quite group of varied and chic little
jacket frocks local department store And happy
share discovery you. (No point being selfish
nd HOARD nds
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Blood for Britain and Victory

Should the patient who had my blood
ever complain of hearing firebells. just
tell him it must be false alarm. Don't
forget Doc, if you want any more just
let me know and I'll be right on the
spot"
prominent physician who has charge
of blood TRANSMISSION work in a royal in
firmary in Western England said that
he and his assistants had gone out into
villages and towns and taken donations
from volunteers on the spot.
On one of those trips in late winter,
he related, I'VE were received in lovely
Georgian house. Our hostess was elderly
and too frail to serve as donor She
had. therefore. requested that she might
entertain the local donors and help the
doctors and nurses.
1T was a scattered parish and the
donors had some distance to come. Most
of them worked on farms, but some were
employed in a munitions factory about
8 miles away and although they had
cycled over straight from work they were
neither too tired nor too hungry to give
blood before proceeding to the village for
their evening meal and rest.
Many came that day." and when the
Evening star., 1941-12-21
Air Navigation Aid

the scale is 10 miles to the inch, and the
problem calls for speed of 800 miles an
hour, the Navitrainer will move 80 inches
in an hour. With little patience,
sofa pillow or TWO, and enough chicken
sandwiches the student could cross the
Pacific, bomb Toxic and return the same
afternoon, all without running of the
hangar floor.
In front of the student navigator are
the radio, a direction finder, plotting
table and an instrument panel with an
air speed indicator. chronometer. DRIFT
meter compass and thermometer, the
essential navigating instruments. A
navigator compass is mounted near his
seat Below the wooden frame is sus-
pended a "windtroducer which at the
whim Of the instructor produces all the
Vagaries of the wind a student could
possibly encounter. Beside the plotting
table hangs a set of earphones TO re-
ceive simulated radio bearings and dl-
rections from the instructor. and trans
mitter to give orders for changing course,
speed or altitude.
During the class period, the instructor.
or an assistant if the instructor IS super
vising several students at once. manipu-
lates the radio compass signals. the wind
PRODUCER and other instruments TO illus
trate conditions facing the student on an
actual flight The student navigator
takes his drift measurements from
high or low altitude. compares 1t with
instrument readings on his panel and
computes his position. If he is off his
course. he communicates the necessary
compass bearings to get back on. EX-
changing his role of professor OF WINDS
and weather for that of pilot. the instruc-
tor corrects the heading of the plane
by turning the round platform on which
the student is seated in his cockpit. and
makes whatever other changes in the in
strument readings that naturally would
follow.
Thus the instructor can track his
student and watch how he employs all
the little tricks of the trade 10. answer
the all-important question, Where am
-" Night and instrument flying with
their special problems in celestial navl-
cation and dead reckoning can be slmu-
lated by covering the student with cam
vas tent. Precomputed data is given the
student from which to solve his prob
lens. He performs all other operations
except actual taking Of SeXtant sight.
one part of the training which is better
practiced in the air. where he Will eX-
perience rough air minor turns and such
hard realities not easily simulated.
Aside from teaching air navigation,
the Navitrainer also can be used to show
how to install and test instruments 1t
operates in any kind of weather and
costs less in time and money than in
struction in a plane. Those who have
tried it claim it is realistic enough to
cause beads of perspiration to dampen
the navigator's brow when the instructor
asks the inevitable question, Where are
you now and why?"
Evening star., 1941-12-21
By Ben H. PearSe

Extension of the battlefront to the
farthest corner of the globe has thrown
new stress on air navigation. Where
hundreds OF miles were involved here
tofore, thousands are commonplace
since the outbreak of war in the Pacific
two weeks ago. Finding ship, or one
Of the countless small islands in the
newest war theater, often a difficult
enough feat on a slow-moving surface
vessel, is somewhat akin TO looking for
a needle in a haystack from 3O0-mile-
an-hour airplane.
At the same time the tempo Of air.
plane production, especially in the long
range field where navigatorS are as es-
sential as the pilot, is increasing swiftly.
Faced with the problem of turning out
not only more but better navigators, the
Army air forces will place growing re-
lance on a new synthetic flying device,
the Navitrainer.
This new time-saver already has
passed experimental tests and the first
group has been built at the air depot
at Duncan Field. Tex, for distribution 10
air force navigation schools throughout
the country, now engaged in a program
to turn out 10 900 bombardiers and navi-
gators year. Besides saving time. 1t is
hoped to improve the quality Of instruc-
tion
Best results are obtained. authorities
agree, when the navigation instructor
can also serve as pilot on training
flights, carrying out instructions of the
student and checking him constantly.
Under present conditions. however, there
are not enough instructors to assign
one to each student.
Since the Navitrainer operates on the
hangar floor or any similar available
space. the instructor can be present
during the synthetic flight" supervis-
ing several students at the same time.
He not only acts as pilot, manipulating
the trainer by artificial means in the
same way he would if he were plotting
a student in the air. but he also controls
the conditions under which the flight"
is made Lack of a cross wind never
bothers him. He can create a cross
wind on the Navitrainer by pressing a
button.
This machine consists of a wooden
frame about feet square. mounted
on wheels two feet off the ground and
supporting a navigator's cockpit so
constructed that it revolves through 800
degrees around a metal drift meter tube
extending up through the center.
The wheels supporting the wooden
frame are operated by an electric motor
which can be speeded or slowed to SIM
ulate speeds of from $50 to 400 miles
an hour in any direction Of the COM
pass. The motor which moves it is
geared according to the scale of the
map laid out beneath the frame. If
Evening star., 1941-12-21
The New Watchdogs of the Fleet

certain topheaviness. The builders. eager
to create a superlative vessel, had over
reached themselves.
Naval officials were critical of the
ships tactical diameter" the 180-degree
swing off course, and demanded changes.
AS result, certain weights were removed
from topsides and go tons Of dead
weight placed along the keel. Destroyers
still on the ways were likewise rectified
and after further tests of maneuver-
ability and general behavior were pro-
nounced perfect
Evening star., 1941-12-21
BY Logan Reavis,
Wide World News.

The United States new destroyers, the
watchdogs of the fleet, are swifter,
harder-hitting and farther ranging wea-
pons of war than their predecessors in
the first World War.
They're still the slender, agile speed
sters OF sea war. but the men aboard
are given a great deal more protection
from air raids and submarine attacks
than the sailors had quarter OF a CEN
tury ago.
The very spirit of the destroyer is speed.
It can not be loaded with heavy armor
or "blisters" and maintain the required
high speeds per unit of ton. It's true
protection lies in sinking the enemy or
eluding him.
The ships fortification against sinking
Is largely experimentation divi-
sion of its hull into watertight sections
in the expectation that water entering
the comparatively fragile sides may be
confined sufficiently to keep the vessel
afioat.
The destroyer Kearney was hit by a
torpedo in the glare Of burning tanker
in the North Atlantic, but the rigidity
of the bulkheads in the single Hooded
compartment kept 1t afloat.
In the first World War, the Jacob
Jones actually was our only destroyer to
be torpedoed and sunk. Naval experts
attributed this sinking to the fact that
the commander was unaware of a U-boat
two miles away and failed to set zig-zag
course.
The World War destroyer Cassin was
torpedoed, and the Manley was SIDE
swiped in a collision, depth charges be-
ing detonated in both cases, but ootn
vessels were brought into port.
Much depends upon the number OF
compartments that are flooded, as In
the recent Reuben James disaster. Inc
Kearney, one of the Benson class de-
stroyers, has an arrangement OF COM
partments identical with the typical
fl,xh-decker, such as the Caldwell "a
years ago.
The long, slender destroyer is subject
to enormous strain because OF Its speed.
Once the naval architect resorted to
longitudinal bulkheads to give added
strength. but now he relies entirely on
strong transverse walls reducing to
minimum any communicating apertures.
Access to boiler rooms, for instance. Is
gained only through air locks. The oov-
4ing top deck In its firm attachment
Evening star., 1941-12-21

to bulkheads and hull sides provide the
strength given by a roof to the walls
of building.
In the new destroyers one may ex-
pect a better, perhaps thicker, deck Of
high tensile steel, additional reinforce
ments in the bulkheads and a succession
of stiffeners following the inboard con-
tours OF the sides.
Another vital factor is stability and
ability to return to the vertical from q
bad roll. Original tests OF the first Of
the Benson class destroyers disclosed q
Evening star., 1941-12-21
By Russell Landstrom,

LONDON. - The emergency blood
TRANSMISSION service counts the weak and
the afflicted as we'll as the strong among
its donors.
London auxiliary fireman stationed
at the docks gave bottle of blood and
later wrote to the medical officer at the
infirmary:
Evening star., 1941-12-21

Editors note: Clayton Knight,
optation's foremost artist, contrasts
by story and pictures his otDn erperi-
ence OF being shot do1On behind the
German lines in an airplane in 1918.
NTH the erperience OF a Canadian
fper in the present 1Ddr,
Evening star., 1941-12-21

the clouds I still didn't pull the cord.
I don't know why but just kept putting
it off.
When broke through the cloud bank
I was glad to see the ground below me.
I wouldn't need my Mae West after all.
could see soldiers running around like
ants and like you, everything seemed
Evening star., 1941-12-21

unreal-as though were no part Of it.
But as I watched, Z saw the ground
was coming up at me too fast for
comfort
Il got worried then. for the first time,
and pulled the chute cord in a hurry.
II started worrying then about how
hard Id hit the ground. got lucky
Evening star., 1941-12-21

break though and fell right IN the
middle Of young sapling. The tree bent
with my weight and left me swinging
gently about 20 feet from the ground
like baby in a cradle. had fallen free
some five miles and opened the chute
here I am
Evening star., 1941-12-21

light began to fail the old lady stood
over us, candle in hand.
I'VE carried the crate of blood from
night The hostess put on her mackin-
tosh and escorted US TO our car with
hurricane lamp.
-Four days later some Of this blood
was used when neighboring town was
heavily raided.'
The physician told of tiny 70-year-
old woman, weighing scarcely more than
100 pounds. who after making her sec
ond donation about four months after
the first. declined to ride the full miles
to her home.
She accepted a lift only as far as a
market, saying that she hadn't started
her shopping yet and she feared she
would miss the weekend cut of beef if
she didn't hurry.
Before the war, this doctor explained,
most towns in Britain had small panels
Of blood donors serving the needs of
hospitals in their own areas. In the
early days Of the war existing services
quickly enlarged the panels and the areas
which had no organizations formed them
at once.
The Ministry Of Health co-ordinated
voluntary groups by appointing regional
TRANSMISSION officers in London and the
provinces.
Generally, volunteers are accepted be-
tween the ages of 18 and 60, but many
girls OF Is and 16 who say they are older;
at the other end of the scale 10 years or
more are frequently subtracted from age
by both men and women.
Many Proud Volunteers.
"All sections of the community have
volunteered, including the armed forces"
the physician went on. 1--WE have en-
rolled from among the deaf, the blind
and the paralyzed. No handicap seems
to be too great There are few persons
whose blood is not suitable for the prep
aration of serum or plasma, for blood
remains fairly impersonal and standard
lied the world over. However, some are
advised because Of ill-health not to serve.
Many come to the hospital to be
grouped but sometimes We 60 to the
premises where volunteers are working
Farmhouse kitchens, headmaster studies,
casual wards of workhouse infirmaries,
boardrooms, village halls and first-aid
posts have all been used for the purpose.
I'VE have welcomed our clients In
the small ONCE OF . cinema manager,
in railway goods shunting yard, In
the back room of a milliner's shop and
by the friendly light Of Waterford
chandelier in famous Jscobean man
sion.
1--WE have toured the countryside in
all weathers. On one night in the middle
of winter volunteers from several ham
lets pocketed in the hills came through
driving snow and the blackout, hefty
farmhands, land girls and farmers wives,
all hard-worked, yet ready to give first
aid to the blitzed towns"
Evening star., 1941-10-25
Foundry Methodist
Church Will Have
Guest Preachers
Congregation to Hear
Dr.. Chesteen Smith and
Rev. w. Harold Snupe

Guest preachers will occupy the
Foundry Methodist Church pulpit
tomorrow. At IL am. DR.. Chesteen
Smith will preach and at pm. the
speaker will be the Rev. w. Harold
Shape, superintendent of the Good
will Industries.
In the afternoon the Wesley Glass
will entertain their friends and fam
lilies at a tea at the home of MIS-.
Art Brown in Arlington.
The Hi-League meeting is at 6 As
pm, and the Foundry Forge at 80
pm.
The first quarterly conference will
be held by the district superintend-
ent. DR. John R. Edwards at pm.
Wednesday.
From to pm. Thursday dinner
will be served by the Young Mar
REDS Glass. PRAYER and fellowship
service will be held at pm,
DR.. Wesley M. Gewehr, professor
of history in the University of Mary
land, will continue his lectures on
Back of the Headlines in the
World Today" at II am. Thursday.
A supper for service men will be
served Saturday at pm. in the
Let's Building, and the banquet of
the Youth Forum will be held in the
church dining room.