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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29

T. WOtLD kNOu say
w easily destroy the
paper houses OF
Japan.
Doubtless we would but
they would hardly be worth
while dropping a bomb upon
and that destruction would
by no means end the war.
We would have to invade
and conquer the country.
We would have to land
troops in Japan and that
would be difficult In view of
the excellently trained Japa-
nese armies and the compare
lively limited shore lines
amply fortified and fully de.
tended by land batteries and
supporting ships and planes.
We could properly hope to
land expeditionary forces In
China and in conjunction
with the English attack and
overrun Japan's continental
possessions.
But this maneuyer would
require immense numbers OF
men adequately armed and
munitiOned and maintained
and neither the United States
nor England would wish to
spare the men or could afford
to spare the arms.
If they did divert masses OF
men and arms to an AsiatiC
war they would weaken Their
home fronts and their At,
lantic defenses.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29

For the Inside News" Of
Washington. Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column in the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29
BY MERRILL MUELLER
IntT News service stan Correspondence

Init News service stan Correspondents
LONDON. Oct. %. 49, The Free
Polish government today charged
that during two years of German
occupation in Poland. Nazi admin
istrators have executed $1,000
Poles, been directly responsible for
the deaths of another 10000, and
keep an additional 125. 600 in con-
centration camps.
Despite these brutal efforts ia
keep the country under control,
Polish resistance continues, a
spokesman said.
He declared:
Two years ago on October %,
DIR. Hans Frank established cl-
william occupation OF Poland.
Since that time the Nazis have
executed $4,000 on charges of
everything fr O m sabotage and
espionage 10 insulting German
officers, while ut the same time
some I50, 900 have been thrown
into various prisons and concen-
trstion camps, where at least
$4,000 have been reported killed
and cremated, according 10 our
official tabulations.
VILLAGE OF DEATH"
I'VE are not cut Oft from
Poland. We have an excellent
underground system working. II
n % good, In fact, that pictures
Of the sig nj n & of the Russo
Polish accord were published In
illegal papers, printed side
Poland, within a month after the
pictures were taken I'm England.
I'VE know that some 10000
Poles are being held In Warsaw
prisons, 5000 I'm Posen, while
nearly 10000 are I'm the notori-
,ous Oswie C m concentration
camp.
How many thousands of Poles
have been sent to Germany and
forced 90 join labor battalions, or
thrown into concentration camps
there, we have no way of
knowing.
Fifteen miles from Warsaw
In tho village at Palssiry-se--
named the Village OF Death
at least 5000 Poles were ex-
ecuted for interfering with Ger
man communications, wrecking
German supply trains, killing
Mari sentries and officers, aid
ing I'm the dissemination of our
propaganda, taking part In un-
dcrground activities, and SNUG
Cling arms and supplies from
center TO center.
NAZI SOLDIERS KILLED
@In open fighting recently in
the Bilgoraj forests near Chelm.
o number of storm troopers were
killed by Poles who wisely dis
appeared before Nazi reinforce
monts arrived on the scene.
another group of Polish pa
triots recently wrecked Ger
man food train which was going
from Warsaw 10 Smolensk, and
stole most of the food IL carried.
'Near Siedlce, a number of
Poles attacked n German scout
column, killing IS, while Nazi
cavalry troops riding eastward
through the forest near LubIin
were ambushed. Fourteen dead
were left"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29
Taylor.
Lewis
Seek Pact

Continued from Page One)
motor to the hotel a few blocks
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29

matter how militaristic, at.
lacking our country after we
had ourselves experienced the
difficulty of conducting a war
at so great a distance.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29
Poles Listed Executed By Nazis 7uo Years of Occupation
IN THE NEWS

CONTINUED from Page Onel
tentiOn of the main part OF
the American navy in the
Pacific and compel the reduc-
tion of material aid to, Eng
land during the life of the
Japanese conflict.
There is no doubt i'm the
minds of competent military
men that the United States
would eventually defeat
Japan-but not so speedily
nor so casually as our general
public imagineS.
In the first place we could
not completely withdraw our
all out aid to England with
out leaving that harassed
nation subject to speedy
defeat.
So we would not be i'm a
position to concentrate OuI
whole forces on Japan.
In the second place we
would find great difficulty In
conducting a war 5000 miles
away from our bases.
Theodore Roosevelt, who
had a much keener military
mind than Colonel Knox, his
then subordinate officer, ac
knOwledged tn at difficulty
and ALL competent military
leXpertS agree.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29
TIME situation would he
simple if the japanese

TIME situation would he
simple if the japanese
navy would kindly
meet our superior fleet in
mid-Pacific and let the best
men and the best ships win.
But Japan, of course, will
do nothing of the kind.
Following the rule for the
weaker force it will cOnfine
its activities to defending the
shores of Japan, supported by
land batteries, where our
ships will be at a disadvantage
and where Japan's supporting
air forces will operate under
favorable conditions and will
necessarily be larger than any
we could Immediately trans
port.
Japan would naturally add
her ocean raiders to those of
the Axis powers to the con-
siderable injury of whatever
English and American COM
merce still existed.
To secure anything APP
preaching a conclusive victory
in such "A war, it is obvious
that the great body-ef euF
ships would have TO
be concentrated on the Pacific
and that our transports would
have to be almost entirely
transferred from the service
of supplying England TO the
work of supplying our own
forces at the enormous dis
tance of 5000 miles away
from our bases.
We would at least learn the
impOssibility of any nation. no
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-29

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27
The Code Book

Her greatest problem in the
flight, she says, was the code
book for sending messages
10 Washington. You must never
let 1T out OF your sight, she had
been warned and since the
thing is as big as a dictionary
you can imagine what a trial IL
was. II made no soft pillow, /
can tell you, She laughed
and | was always in terror of
being captured. confront with
the problem OF how TO dispose Of
II adding merrily -. simply
COULDN'T eat il.
An exciting experience for
woman and here she is as chip
per as schoolgirl. Mrs Har-
riman, you may recall, is in her
seventies, has a wonderful sense
OF humor and an excellent speak
ing voice
Yesterdays Fisher Town Hall
audience voted her the best
speaker of the season and
We may well be proud of our
first foreign minister.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27

Upon arrival her first Official
act, Of course. was 10 be
presented 10 the king and TO do
that she must wear a long dress
With long sleeves and a hat.
She had bought very elegant
dress for the occasion only to
discover at the last minute that
IL wouldn't III and an old Chanel
number had 10 be brushed into
service so that she arrived
at the palace :. +. circumspect
not exciting. I had a feeling
she said, that / never looked
worse in my life and you know
what that means 10 a woman.
Norway, says Mrs. Hartman,
is the most beautiful spot in the
world and The Norwegians
charming people
Eesrns 10 Ski 49,
There She learned to ski and
10 weave. Her job. she found,
was not as dull as Washington
had thought IL would be and
there was little Time for weav-
ing btt she stuck to IL Until she
had made enough material for a
dress for her daughter.
Weaving OF course, is a prime
industry among Norwegian
women and those nitts you buy
for skiing are made by Nor
wegian maidens and a pair given
70 every one who attends their
wedding
Mrs Hartman tells with great
delight some Of the amusing
things that happened when Nor
way discovered lis new United
States minister was woman
and says il took them quite
time not 10 announce her ar
rival 10 dinner as His EX-
cellency the United States Min
iSter.
She told Of the hlltzkrieg. Of
course, and their escape through
the frozen forests Mrs.
Hartman. maid. dogs and the
little granddaughter, who was
her companion all the way
through.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27
Mrs.Harriman
Tells of S+ay
In Norway
BY IRENE NJ. HAWKINS
WOmen's Editor

I HAVE just talked with
probably the most interesting
woman in America. II not the
most interesting. then the most
amazing Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman, for at an age when
most women admit it's time
they took TO their knitting. Mrs.
Hartman was appointed minis
ter 10 Norway.
Even these days when woman's
place is not necessarily in the
home, not great many have
invaded the political field and
we are still regarded there as a
bit OF nuisance so Mrs.
Hartman says she suspects the
President probably thought
well, now there's a nice quiet
spot for Daisy :. place where
she won't get into trouble.
Congratulations!
II was all very exciting right
from the start. says Mrs. Harri-
man. for in the first place they
appointed me but forgot 10
notify me, and there ! was being
congratulated by my friends on
a position / knew nothing about.
: We'll. 500 much for Washing
ton, laughed Mrs. Hartman f.
and then l became frightened
and telephoned my daughter
shall l go -. you know. dear
Its long ways from every
thing
Go? Why. OF course she must
go -. and with that Mrs. Hsr-
riman set off for the land OF the
midnight sun accompanied
by her granddaughter and her
dogs.
Evening star., 1941-02-09

lers. He says what he means, and he
doesn't care who it is who's against
him. johnson is indignant, his hands
are knobby and his shoulders big. And
he doesn't take anything from anybody.
But he hasn't found out what he
came to find out.
More and more he talks to little
children. He tells them stories about
Potato Face, and Johnny the Wham
Who Sleeps in Money All the Time;
and Joe the Wimp Who Shines and
Sees Things, and the Village of Cream
puffs, where there's big roundhouse
in the middle of the square and the
roundhouse has big spool with a long
string winding around it and when the
wind comes and picks up the village
and blows it away the people of the
village wind up the spool and bring
the village back again. The mothers
and fathers of the children don't know
what Johnson is talking about, but the
children do.
Evening star., 1941-02-09

More and more he has hard time
talking to people who aren't common.
They say that one day last winter
some rich men came to see Johnson.
His shoes were off and his undershirt
was on. "N1r. Johnson" they said,
I'VE need a common man for President
of the United States. We need a man
of the people. You're the man."
Johnson darned near laughed his
white-haired head off. Gentlemen"
said Johnson, "Pm common, all right.
And if you knew what | think and
knew what / want, and knew what
I'm trying to find out, you'd not only
defeat me - you'd deport me. And
I'm common"
And he laughed them out the door.
Still he hasn't found out what he
came to find out. Maybe it's because
common men like Johnson can't ever
find out what they came to find out.
They can only go on looking for it,
like Johnson.
His name, by the way, isn't Johnson
at all.
(YOVW find the answer on poge 2O
Evening star., 1941-02-09
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
THE CONTNHONEST MAN IN THE WORLD
hnUedh hompou four

to say. He thought of saying poet"
and he thought of saying "bum," but
he figured the fellow would think he
was crazy, So finally he had some
cards printed that said he was Presi-
dent of the National Pawpaw Grow
ers Association. Now he gives it to
the fellows in the smoker. There is no
National Pawpaw Growers Associa-
ton.
Every common man would like to
invent National Pawpaw Growers
Association and hand out his card to
the fellows in the smoker. Johnson
just goes ahead and does it. He sticks
his head inside a pie wagon because
he wants TO know what the inside of a
pie wagon looks like. He goes around
the country, up and down the coun-
try, asking everybody, Where do you
come from?" where are you going?"
DO you think you'll be here forever?"
Where do you go when you go back
where you came from?" whats
Evening star., 1941-02-09
Continued from pose four

there in it for you?" Snow again -
didn't get your drift"
you're an Irishman and I'm a
Swede," he says, "and we ought to
get along all right; the Swedes and
the Irish always get along all right"
And the common people take a squint
at him and decide he's okay, he's the
Mccoy; he isn't going around trying
to do them good, he's just going
around.
Evening star., 1941-02-09

son-oi-a-gun kind OF grows on you"
said Johnson And he made notes on
the backs of old envelopes and unpaid
bills and unanswered letters and
stuffed them in his pocket. Then he
got couple of orange crates, one,
lying down, to sit on, and one, stand
ing up, to write on. He began writing,
and when he finished, ten years later,
he had written more words than any
man had ever written about any other
man before.
By the time he got through he'd
found out few things. He'd found
out that this country, with its institu-
tions, belongs to the people who in
habit it. He'd found out that the peo-
pie were right and the people were
wrong, but they were Fighter more
often than anybody else. And he'd
found out that democracy was right
and democracy was wrong, but it was
Fighter than anything else. And it
wasn't a question of maybe, or if, or
Someday. 1t was now, any old time,
the sooner the better, let's go.
Occasionally johnson sang a spir-
itual that ended, 81 amt got long to
stay here" But he hasn't found out
what he came to find out.
He's sixty-three now. He married a
good woman, whom he calls "the
missus," and they live on farm with
their three daughters. johnson knows
how to milk a cow and how to midwife
a goat, he knows whether it's going to
rain and what the corn looks like it's
going to do. He likes a bowl of COM
mon wild flowers on the table. He eats
in his shirt sleeves, and takes off his
shoes and listens to Charlie Mccarthy.
His health could be better. and his
health could be worse.
You've seen him, | think. You've
never noticed him, but I'll lay you a
bet you've seen him.
He goes around with his hat pulled
down and his collar turned up, and he
doesn't look like he'd come up to you
and ask you for a dime, but he doesn't
look like good prospect to ask for a
dime either. He climbs up on a stool
in a Greek restaurant and hollers,
''Scup scoffee." He walks down the
street eating cherries out of bag and
seeing how far he can spit the stones.
You've seen him.
Evening star., 1941-02-09
SfGnds Up and HoIlers

TIE SEES in the people what he saw
in the bozo he wrote about, what he
sees in himself; good and bad, light
and shadow, error and shame, but
most of all a richness of human fabric,
a generosity that grinding hardship
tries to destroy and fails. And he gets
good and sore when anybody does
anything to the people, in Spain, or in
the steel mills, or in the lettuce fields,
or in Germany. He stands up and hol-
Evening star., 1941-02-09
Soves His Butts

TIE WON'T wear full-dress suit for
anybody, and he wears long woolen
underwear and ear muffs in the win
ter. He smokes nickel stogies and
puts the butt in case for next time.
He watches steam shovels and forgets
he has an appointment. He's always
swapping stuff he doesn't want for
other stuff he doesn't want. The other
day he saw a sign saying Papaya Juice,
and he bought a bottle of papaya
juice.
He gets on a train with a bag of
peanuts and a brown-paper bundle.
Inside the bundle are a couple of
homemade sandwiches and seventy
five-cent thermoS bottle full of coffee
When the passengers complain to the
conductor about the peanuts, and the
conductor complains to Johnson,
Johnson says this is d free country.
Then he and the conductor get to
Ginning about conditions.
He used to worry about not having
profession, a business, a racket.
Every time he sat next to fellow in
Pullman smoker, the fellow asked
him, whats your line? Johnson
had no line, and he didn't know what
Evening star., 1941-02-09

You said it! Del Monte Pineapple Juice certainly
hits the spot.
1t gives fellow and his sister energy to start on.
and it's surely refreshing after speedy afternoon.
No wonder. You ought to see those plump luscious
PineaPPles that Del Monte picks Picks for just the
right balance of tarness and sweetness the naturally
developed fruit energy, minerals and vitamins And
you ought to see how quickly that fragrant juice is ex.
tracted and sealed ready for you drink anytime,
anywhere.
You'll thank your mother for always having pine.
apple juice handy And thank her extra for insisting
on Del Monte.
Evening star., 1941-02-09

Skip breakfast? Never Not when men
folks spot this Del Monte Pineapple
juice lined up for them. sunny glass
fuls start EN- out with smiles and rations
of natural fruit energy.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Pictures Reveal Facts About Sneezing

A sneeze may last from one
twelfth Of a second to one-fifth OF
a second. That time does not count
the wind up.
The professors reported that a
culture screen" held close to the
mouth and nose was peppered with
droplets. Thousands OF germ
colonies" later were found on the
screen.
A person with a cold should get
his handkerchief out in . hurry,
and cover his nose and mouth before
the sneeze takes place. This is an
act Of simple kindness toward
persons breathing the air nearby.
Tor Health Or General Intsrsss section
Of your scrapbook)
II you want . free copy Of the
illustrated leafiet STAMPS and
Stamp Collecting" send me .
Scent stamped, self addressed
envelope In care Of The Evening
Star.
1~<A nad
Tomorrow: Crnyfsh and Grabs.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

of tobacco which was placed inside
the nostrils.
In making the pictures, strong but
short electric flashes were used. The
flashes lasted only a tiny part OF
a second. Some of them were OF
less than one thirty thousandth part
of a second!
Every person tested closed his eyes
each time he sneezed. This does
not mean the eyes were shut from
the start of the sneeze. but the
closing always took place at the
time Of the real sneeze. A person
winds up q bit before he sneezes.
Most persons open their mouths
when they sneeze. In such cases
more than half OF the droplets come
from the mouth. A strong draft OF
air from the mouth blows the drop
lets forward.
In some cases, however. a person
shut his mouth tightly. In this case
the droplets are smaller, and come
forth at greater speed.
A droplet usually is less than one
twelfth of an inch wide. The
smaller ones are so light that they
may go into the air and float around
for hours.
Evening star., 1941-10-16

This picture sho1rs hoiD drop
lets come forth in sneese, but
in ordinary life 1Dhdt should the
boy be doing?
Thirteen hundred pictures in one
secondl
That is mighty good speed for
any motion picture camera. 1t was
made in tests carried out by Prof.
Marshal w. Jennison and Prof. H. E.
Edgerton. They wanted to find out
facts about sneezing.
Sneezing has been going on for a
long time, and we might suppose
all important facts would have been
known about 1t. Yet little has been
known about the speed of sneezing.
or the size of the "droplets."
OF course every one knew that
the actual sneeze took place in a
hurry. but it was not known just
how fast until the present year. Nor
did we have pictures which told so
much of the story as we have now.
Sixteen persons were tested. Some
had hay fever. and others had colds.
Still others were not sick in any
way; they sneezed because their
noses were tickled by certain kind
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Take Ny Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Slip o. Tongue
SPOT YOUR PLANE

Especial-special These words are
much alike, but there is a fine dis
tinction in their meanings, as these
example will show:
Avoid: "I want to make an espe-
eial announcement" Better say:
I want to make a special announce
ment.
Avoid: "I like fruit, specially
apples" Better say: 1 like fruit,
especially apples.
Avoid: This is specially for
you" Better say: This is especially
for you.
Avoid: This is an especial occa-
sion" Better say: This Is a special
occasion.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Stephens College Head
Holds Tenure Record
Nv the Associated Press.

COLUMBIA, Mo.-James Madison
Wood. 66, holds a record for longest
tenure among presidents of women's
colleges. He is rounding out his 29th
year as head of Stephens College,
during which time he has seen the
school grow from so to 1,700 stu
dents, and its campus from 4 to
220 acres.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Wus-Were

Several readers have questioned
. sentence recently given here as
correct: II shouldn't be surprised
Il she was there" insisting that
WAS should be WERE. They argue
that the subjunctive mode only is
correct in an "if" sentence. But
that does not necessarily follow.
The rule, as found in Webster's
and other late authorities, Is: II
the sentence predicates what is &C
tual or thought of as a fact. use
WAS. II the sentence predicates
what Is contrary to fact. use WE'RE.
Ny sentence clearly predicates
what is thought of as a fact. WAS,
therefore, is correct.
WAS and WERE confuse the
best Of us. My free pamphlet
makes the usage easy to under
stand. 1t Is simple and nom
technical Every reader Of this
column should have copy. Send
a stamped t3-cent), self-ad-
dressed envelope to Frank Colby,
in care of The Evening Star.
Ask for WAS-WERE Pamphlet.
Requests cannot be filled unless
self addressed envelopes bear the
correct amount of postage.
Evening star., 1941-10-16

to spell the woro
called Print the letter in center column opposite
which removed It, II you nave
this when embarrassed
Answ to Yesterdays LETTER-OUT.
Leter-Out
(O) PROMISES-SIMPERS (sily smiles)
U3 SALTED-DATES eat. some keep.
ENACTOR-CARTON (container.
DINARY-BRAIN Che answer.