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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
Letters TO
the Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
THE other day, Cyrus S. Eaton
4 stated in this column that
"the firm conviction of William
Howard Taft. the great Ohio
statesman and authority on in
ternational affairs, that the
United States must use force
when necessary to attain and
keep peace among nations. has
been repudiated not only in his
own state but even in his own
household.
It's quite clear that the gentle
Utopian breeze which began 10
blow out of Washington, d. G.,
in 1888, has risen to hurricane
proportions and is blowing down
Euclid avenue, distorting the
perspectives of some citizens in
the progressive City of Cleve-
land.
In the hope of restoring in
some measure the perspectives
of these unfortunate people. l
ask them the questions which
follow:
If William Howard Taft we're
chief executive of our nation at
this time would labor be fight
ing with baseball bats in our
streets over the question of who
shall or who shall not gain
monopoly over job?
- Is there diplomat in our ma
ton today who has the skill TO
settle the delicate Friar ques-
ton which Taft settled in the
Philippines for the paltry sum
of S7,200,000? An act which
prevented the people of the
Philippines from falling under
the oppressive yoke of Central
and South American peonage.
Last, can any one picture
Taft, the old line Yankee i'm
perialist, sitting. idly twiddling
his thumbs while our secretary
of the treasury was buying gold
from Italy at S35 an ounce
gold of which the normal price
would be much less than $50 an
ounce?
When one tries TO compare
William Howard Taft with pres
ent day Yankee imperialistS
even those among his own fam
lily. he just don't know where TO
begin.
n. V. DAY,
Alpena, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
GoodfeIIow Title Game

\ S AN appetizer for your Thanksgiving dinner, you
"A couldn't do better than attend the football game
tomorrow in Briggs Stadium at II a between Cooley
and ST. Theresa's high schools
While playing for the city championship, the teams
also playing for the benefit of the Goodfelow Fund
with which thousands of Detroit children are given
happy Christmas
T The game is to be thriller. The teams
well matched So attend the game
You will fine football, you will help Detroit's
children and with the knowledge of a good deed DONE
you to enjoy your dinner
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19

Will be many years before the
supreme greatness of that pro-
1uction is wiped out Of my mind.
MACBETH' was written for
-'A Nerdis music and a Verdi was
born TO pat Macbeth" to music,
When the curtain went up on the
witches dance, with the macabre
music of Verdi under the baton Of
the highly competent DR.. Fritz
Busch, / knew i WAS in for nearly
four hours Of one of the rarest
treats that Broadway has ever
given me-a production. from the
standpoint of scenery, acting and
music that brought the dead-pan
Broadway season 10 its feet. Al
least this ShakeSpeare-Nerdi-
Busch Macbeth brought me to
my feet with loud braves.
And the Macbeth of Jess Walters
and the Lady Macbeth of Florence
Kirk brought something back TO
Broadway that ! have not seen
since Maurice Evans Hamlet
that is tragic acting Of h & !
grade.
Thanks, Mrs. Hull and all con-
cerned. Maybe great days ir
the theater are here again in spite
Of the stencil of the battle fields.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
Sesresatins Criminals

THE suggestion is advanced by the "San Francisco
Bar" a publication of the Bar Association of San
Francisco that of crime correction should center
more largely. and thus more consructlvely upon the
objective of making the punishment fit the crime.
BY this is meant discrimination, for the purposes OF
Imprisonment along the lines of he ancienty recognized
division of those NAHUM per sc and those nahum
These Latin phrases cover in the first instance.
ofenses of reprehensibe nature-such murder and
theft-regardess of what specific law may say about
them and in the second instance oenses which may be
described criminal by SPECIFIC statute although criminal
intention is absent
Much less confusingly the suggestion merely pro-
poses that really dangerous feons with criminal minds
and having criminal acts to their known account be con-
fined in one type penal institution and that persons
catapued into crime by sudden circumstances emotions
or mprudence be confined IN separate type OF institution
THE idea is very definitely NOT to soften punish
Ii is simply to srgregate criminals according to their
capacities for rehabilitation and thus to avoid putting
amateurs in under the tutorshp of professional and
habtua criminals situation quite universal now, and
consequently responsible for many penal institutions
being actual TRAINING SCHOOLS for criminals.
Arguing its case. the "San Francisco Bar" says:
1T only just that the crimnaly minded
and the criminal careerist should be set apart from
those who careessly thoughtessIy stumble into the
commission of denounced act. such manslaughter
in the operation of an automobile htrun driving, the
borrowing of funds held custodian in trust with
the result embezzlement upon inability to repay and
the like. A
out specific criminal intention do not deserve to be
placed in jute mill with rapst, thief murderer.
"SOme different institution should be provided for
the who finds himself convicted of crime through
circumstances, imprudcnce or haste"
HE questions thus raised broad and do not lend
themselves to easy solution.
However, it be said with high warrant that
indiscrminate penal confinement of the most pro-
life sources of SECOND crimes.
Particularly with youthful offenders, it is matter
Of experience and record that the dumping of all
criminals into type of prison is dumping of poten
TALLY good apples and rretrievably bad apples into
barrel-with the almost certain prospect of only bad
apples emerging therefren1.
Penal problems among the most urgent of
modern society They should not be approached with
maudlin sentmentaity, but neither should they be
approached without enlightened effort toward preventing
the first crime from becoming habit trade.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19

HENRY NJ 0 r G f n T II A u is
= - urging the American people TO
save now in order to pay the
enormous taxes due next March Is
Excellent advice which might
be applied by him and Congress
to our national fiscal policy. to
wit: Why shouldn't the govern
ment begin 10 save now in order
10 pay off the debt and the in
terest on the debt--which is al
ways growing larger?
~ Unfortunately for us all, il is not
one of the virtues of the Roosevelt
administration TO practice what il
breaches.
TIIE greatest murder story ever
Il told is ShakeSpeare's Mac
beth" In this play we have
drama. melodrama, tragedy, pre-
destination, pSycho-analySiS. meme
sis, pathos, dream-psychology and
the terrors of conscience. IT is
for that reason. probably the most
all-inclusive, universal play ever
written.
/ have not yet seen Maurice
Evans and Judith Anderson
Macbeth" bat / have seen Nerdis
opera Of Macbeth produced in
New York City by Mrs. Lytlc
Hulls new opera company. and il
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
Strike Ban By Workers
Asked for u. S. Protection
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON

THE Presidents statement on
the coal strike, as delivered
to the officials of the union,
could not have been clearer,
more straight forward, or more
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19

only was the strike suppressed,
but the national morale of the
workers also was broken.
November 30, 1888, had a d.
rect bearing on the debacle of
June, 1910.
There is no parallelism here,
between Daladier and Roosevelt.
But if labor leaders defy the
friends of labor as well as the
enemies, the public opinion of
this country will turn against
labor. The President does not
want il so to turn-And neither,
I should think, does John l..
THE problem is the problem
Il of Congress, of course. 1t
made a severe mistake when, in
passing the Wagner Labor Rela-
tions Act, it violated an axiom
of democratic politics: namely
that every right granted in law
involves a reciprocal obligation.
This fact is recognized in the
growing social control over all
groups.
The SEC extracts from CAPT.
tai, obligations commensurate
with its rights. All sorts of regu-
lations pertaining 10 soil con-
servation and hygienic condi-
tions put obligations upon
farmers. For every right a duty
that is the rule. and only by
the recognition of such rule
can a democratic society hold
together.
1t is the rule for nearly every
body except organized labor,
which some labor leaders as
sumo to be a state inside the
state, TO limit its rights" by
a reciprocal duty to society.
That cannot go on.
For it is also an memorable
pattern Of democratic society
that whenever a minority,
whether of capital or labor, or
section, assumes an unrestricted
power that threatens the COM
munity, that minority will be
crushed by the rest. am not
advocating that labor be
crushed. The crushing Of minori-
ties small or large is the begin
ming of chaos or tyranny, or
both, one following the other.
l am merely saying that this
invariably happens.
THIS nation is bending to pro-
Il tect itself and to lift off the
back of mankind conception of
life that is destroying the demo-
cratic and republican idea that
has given workers more of a
status as equals and free men
than they have so far enjoyed
anywhere on earth or anywhere
in history.
The WHOLE nation is bend
ing its back. Workers are NOT
being exploited. AS a whole
they are receiving more than
their automatically reckoned
proportion of the total national
income. The class that is bear
ing the brunt most severely is
the middle class-and inciden-
tally, the middle class is bearing
it with the best grace.
In a rocking boat and in a
stormy sea. the worker or the
manufacturer or the professional
man becomes a citizen. prima-
rily. He merges the interest of
his group in the larger interest.
He grasps an oar. He rows,
Afterward. when the ship is in
harbor, we can settle the differ
ences all of which are minor
compared with the common dan
ger of shipwreck.
Released By Tns Ben syndiests. Ina
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
BAERINO DOWN ON THE NEWS:
TRAILING ~ Victory
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

know that the fellow who buys the cracked
should have option the eggs. But it looks little
presumptious expect Finland to drop that olpop
before she is down to the stick.
Little Finland is right about thing When you
are winning love, fitting pn-bal machine you
don't need a referee.
II has the caught in the wringer and
is winding them up ike yarn SPOOL Then Mr.. Hull
wants to the back to second triple.
How would you feel if you set Of dishes on
bngo night and weren't permitted take them home?
Distributed BY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
Congress Ought to Save
Now to Pay Off Huge Debt
BY BENJAMIN DE CAssEREs

HENRY NJ OR GENTHAU swin be many years before the
people supreme greatness pro-
in is dou Of my
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19

to the officials of the union,
could not have been clearer,
more straight forward, or more
temperate.
1t was a clear statement that
the interest of the United
States, as a nation and as a
people, takes precedence over
any groups whatsoever within
the nation.
He warned the miners lead
ers that Congress would legis-
late against strikes. if its hand
was forced. He made it per-
fectly clear that the government
of the United States would not
overstep its proper function by
ordering a closed shop.
He reminded the employers,
however, that 95 per cent of the
employees in the mines in ques-
ton are members of the union.
The statement. therefore, had
a limpid impartiality. 1t was
firm, fair, and without being in
the least subservient, without
issuing anything in the form OF
a plea or a threat to either side,
it gave a last chance for settle
ment between the contenders.
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
L does not want to occupy the
mines and take them over. He
would infinitely prefer not to
have anti strike legislation
passed. He wants strikes out
lawed during the period of emer-
gency by the workers them
selves.
And in this he again is prov
ing himself the best and wisest
friend that labor has in this
country. He doesn't always
speak labor's language.
And since the crisis developed
abroad, he has proved himself.
consistently, to be the President
of the whole people; the leader
of the nation.
That is hard for John L.
Lewis to take, who apparently
wants President who is, in
the first line, a labor leader
himself, and labor leader un-
der his, Lewis thumb.
DUT the workers should feel
ID infinite gratitude for the
Presidents infinite patience. III
they misuse it, if their leaders
are unwilling to see themselves
in the framework of the general
welfare-then God help labor in
America. And God help America.
President Roosevelt's patience
is also induced by his political
vision. Roosevelt is no Daladier.
although his opponents would
like him 10 be. II has been too
soon forgotten that on Nov 80.
1893, the day when MuSsolini
was crying for Corsica, Tunisia,
Nice" there was general
strike in France.
That strike was provoked by
Daladier, under pressure from
the conservatives and the en-
ployers to force showdown
with labor. The forcing of that
showdown led Leon Jouhaux,
the leader of the French FEEDER
alton of Trade Unions to call a
face-saving general str re,
which the government quickly
and efficiently suppressed. II
was a complete defeat for
Jouhaux and a complete tri-
umph for Daladier.
/
DUT is was also a complete
- triumph for the pro-Fas-
cist forces in France. And not
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
kov. 10, 1910

Greeks plea for aid is studied
in Washington.
Koritza is still being besieged
by Greek forces.
Nazi planes bomb Birmingham
all night; raid is likened 10 that
inflicted on Coventry; scores
are killed.
Rome reports Hungary will
Join the Axis soon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-19

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only was the strike suppressed,
but the national morale of the
workers also was broken.
November 30, 1888, had a di-
rect bearing on the debacle of
luna 1Q1A
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17
NOW PLAYING At
LOCAL THEATERS

RONy-Tyrons Power and Betty
Cradle IN "A Yank in the r. A. p,
i2:io. 2:3s. 500. 7:25. s.55.
RIALTO-Melvyn Douglas and Ruth
Hussey in Our Wife" :o6. 4:lo.
los. 1000: also Tom Harmon IN
600. B:53.
MUSIC BoN-Adolphs Menjou and
Gloria Swanson In Father Takes
WIFE" IL SIS. $40. $40, 1000:
also Robert Preston and Nancy
Kelly in Parachute Battalion"
lao, $50. Sis: plus March OF Time.
BLUE MoUsE-Ann Sheridan and
Jack Oakie in Navy Blues" IS,
s:i5. $50 e45: also WAYNE Morris
and Brenda Marshall in The Smil-
ms Ghost" 1 so. sos. $40.
RINIERA-Abbott and Costello in
Hold That Ghost" i:io. AIS. 7:2s.
1890; also Marlene Dietrich in
The Flame OF New Orleans" IL 80,
500. sos, e:18.
BEvERLY-John Wayne and Betty
Field IN Shepherd OF the Hills. "
also Anne shirley and Richard
Carlson In West Point Widow"
CAPITOI-Jsmes Barton In Tobacco
Road" also Lew Ayres in DIR, Kill
COMMUNITY-Bob Hope and poro-
thy Lamour In Caught in the
Draft" also Rudy vallee and Rose
mary Lane in Time Out for
Rhythm"
KAY sTREET-Martha Scott and
George Brent IN They Dare Not
Love- also Hugh sinclair in THE
Saints Vacation"
LAkEWOOD-James Cagnev and Pat
O'Brien in Devil Dogs OF the Air, {"
also You're the One"
FARk-James Stewart and Paulette
Goddard In Pot o. Gold" also
Nancy Kelly In Scotland Yard"
PROCT0n-Frank Morgan and Ann
Rutherford in washington Melo-
The Penalty"
REALART-Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey
Lynn In Million Dollar Baby" also
Men of the Lightship."
RE<-Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamoui
in Caught in the Draft" also
The Saints Vacation"
SHELIs-Tyrone Power and Linds
Darnell in Blood and Sand" alsc
Billy Gilbert In Angels with
Broken Wings"
sUNSET-Madeline Carroll and Fred
MacMurray in One Night in Lis
tionately Yours
TEMPLE-Wayne Morris and Denni,
Morgan in Bad Men of Missouri
also Walter Pideeon and Joar
| Bennett in Man Hunt"
LIBERTY. Puyallup-Dorothy Lamoul
s sna Jon s, Han in n,.o Aio ms.v Of IN,
HUGHES in The cowboy and tn,
Blonde"
RIVIERA. sumnex-Jean Parker and
Richard Arlen in Plying Blind :
also Ronald Regain IN Nine Live
Are Not Enough"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17
Menjou Stars
AT Music Box
Cast in Comedy
With Gloriu Sw0nson

You can't teach an old dog new
tricks. Nor can YOU take two high
~ self-wiIled persons Of clashing
tempersments and dispositions and
expect them 70 get along in sweet
ness and light.
Around this theme has been
woven the hilarious plot Of Father
Takes Wife, now showing at
the Music Box theater. which
marks Gloria Swanson's return 10
the screen The famous glamour
star shares stellar honors with
Adolphe Menjou in the gay offer
ing. Menjou playing the role Of a
fiery shipping magnate and Miss
Swanson that Of a volcanic actress
whom he marries, 10 the vast dis
may Of his highly conventional
son and daughter-in-law.
The stormy course OF the ro-
nance and its temporary wrecking
on the rocks Of jealousy when the
actress insists on sponsoring the
career OF a handsome young
singer, lead TO many Of the rio-
tickling situations OF the story,
And these are EXCHANGED when
the singer in turn breaks up the
sons home and thereby brings
about .he riotous climax.
On the same new bill is Para
chute Battalion" featuring Robert
Preston and Nancy Kelly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17

picture Sergeant York"
which comes next week 60 the
Music Box theafer and
that In Itself n . rccommen-
dation for the film Marty
doesn't meas with the small
fry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17
Rattle Sake Murder
Appeal is Under Study

WASHINGTON - The supreme
court Thursday had under advise
ment the appeal of Robert s.
James. Los Angeles barber who
seeks a reversal of his conviction
in the so-called "rattlesnaks" muir
der case.
Defense counsel and attorneys
for California presented conflict
ing versions of the evidence at his
trial in arguments before the high
court. James was charged with
drowning his wife in a bsthtub to
collect her insurance. 1t was al
legged that the fact followed an
unsuccessful attempt to kill her
by putting the woman's foot in
box containing a rattlesnake.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17
On TOniOhf!

The coast-to-coast network Of
the Mutual Broadcasting company
(KMo) will broadcast the opening
night proceedings at the world
premiere of Walter Wangers
Shutdown" which win take place
at the -Four Star theater in Holly
wood tonight Featured on the
program. which Will also include
microphons appearances by more
than 90 Of Hollywood's leading
figures. will b the musical score
Of Shutdown" composed and ar
ranged by DR.. Miklos Rozsa and
played by an orchestra Of native
African musicians. The broadcast
will start at s:15 p. m. Pacific
standard time).
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17

sight and having nothing better to
do. 60 INTO a clineh. The camera
keeps psnning back and forth De-
tween Mcbride talking and the
couple kissing. And its al the
same kiss; at least, il was as they
filmed Il.
Toomey hasn't had a really TO
mantle role in eight years. 50 ne
got a lot Of congratulations at the
conclusion Of this scene. WHO'D
eee!" he gssped. That's what l
call making up for lost time.
LIKE HEAD-STANDING
The Shanghai Gesture" a
spectacular production with even
more spectacular direction. con-
tinues to pile up anecdotes which
must be a worry and reproach
To that other master Of PERSONAL
lied showmanship, Cecil De Mile.
On one day. Director Josef Won
sternberg decided he was Ill.
Showed UP at the studio in an
ambulance and bossed the job
while fiat on his back on a cot.
Held a microphone in one hand
and a baton in the other. When
he srNv too weak to raise his
head, a stooge held a mirror so
that he could watch the action up
side-down.
When Victor Mature had done
especially we'll in a scene, Won
Sternberg Tipped him a silver dol
lar as reward. Among the spec
tators was the producer, Arnold
Pressburger. who sensed from the
company's amusement that this
was a worthwhile gag. He there
upon made an appropriation OF
500 a week to be given away IN
silver dollars by the director.
Won Sternberg was directing a
big scene while strapped to a
camera boom that swung him 40
feet aloft, and the shot turned out
so well that he solemnly trans
ferred a silver dollar from his
own right pants pocket to the left.
Then he ordered the cameraman
to give him pat on the back.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17
State Cash Shows Drop

OLYMPIA-Cash in the state
treasury showed slight drop
during the week ended October s,
due to s4.12o,39 in expenditures
and S2,573,9e6 in new revenue.
Treasurer Otto Case reported
here. Total surplus dropped to
$24,o4e,s57 in all funds. The gen.
eral fund showed a s1,25s,64l bal
ance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17

over their lunch the other da,
II was agreed that although
Germany made startling success
ful use Of serious propaganda as
an aid 10 her various invasions,
both sides have been pretty dull
about trying TO brighten the daily
output Of authorized dispatches.
Any Hollywood publicist could do
better.
The studio lads couldn't even
recall more than half a dozen
ereditable examples Of wartime
fetioneering. The best one, all
agreed. was the Russian tale about
how the Germans had rounded up
bevy Of Jezebels. sent them 10
the front, stripped them 10 the
skin, and had driven them into a
river in an effort TO divert Rus
sian attention from a troop cross
ing which was being attempted at
a nearby point. That story proves
by its mere individuality that what
war needs is more propagandists
with the Hollywood viewpoint.
One Of the movie publicity men
mentioned q recent account Of how
the u. s. army is successfully
training carrier pigeons TO fly only
at night. It's perfectly true, he
said, but unimaginatively pre-
sented. He would have declared
that the nocturnal messengers
were the products OF a mating of
pigeons and owls.
WHAT A KISS.
Speaking of matters movie and
military, there's a kiss OF rec
ord duration in You're in the
Army Now" Jane Wyman gets il
and Regis Toomey delivers it. In
these days of the Hays office there
has been an understanding that
no kiss under any circumstances
may endure more than 30 seconds.
But this one lasts three minutes
and five seconds.
The situation is mostly comic
Donald Mcbride, a retired army
colonel, is delivering a harangue
on the advantages Of cavalry over
mechanical units. Toomey and
Miss Wyman, out of Mcbride.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17
Soldier COOg0n!

STOCKTON, Calf. - Jackie
Coogan. one-time child movie star
now In the army. said today he
expects to become . father some
time next year"
coogan said his wife. the former
Flower Parry Of Hollywood. pres
entity IL staying In San Francisco.
I'm very happy over It," Coo
gan said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-17

Your postmaster can tell you
how to invest in U. S. Defense
Bonds.