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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
It PAYS to Advertise

A DVERTISING, as the crcuatory medium Of Ameri-
a economy fulfilling ably its fundamental task of
giving information and stabiizing business today an
important activity in the defense program.
This is the gst of recent speech by Paul Carrot,
executive official of General Motors Corporation.
Even in case the demand exceeds the suppy-as
must happen during the emergency in many commodities
advertising is not needless but needed in the way
that designing engineering production and merchandise
Ing needed Mr.. Carrot said
"You have heard it said that do not want business
usual
"No, need something better and more vigorous
than that
1--WE need business unusual-in lines and places
where 1t does not interfere with defense How else
support defense?
"How else bring TO bear full superiority?
"With all the matters we have Immediately at hand,
advertising must keep eye the burning problems
that will confront us the emergency passes"
This is sensible and constructive, patriotic talk.
country stands only as long its economy stands.
Advertising with its deep influence prices, habits
Of consumption and methods of production be not
only balance wheel during times of stress but power
ful factor for equilibrium when the stress relaxes
To-day than ever it pays to advertise.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
7 Points for Americans

ITO IMAGINE that the principal American problem
is to increase and improve industrial and scientlhc
advances is certainly put the cart before the horse
The hard fact IS that material fsasress follows
and never precedes high degree of national morale
A free people stimulated and unified by common
purpose recognizes material barriers
That is the gist of seven-p point program suggested
TO the Wiamstown Institute of Human Relations by
District Attorney Thomas f. Dewey of New York
Speaking at the first session in Williams College
Mr.. Dewey thus outlined the plan:
A MERICANS should be daily alive to the fact that
"A our freedoms cannot be taken for granted.
Compacence ard smugness the great dangers.
The American system of checks and balances i'll
government should be revitazed protect minortes
and prevent destruction of rights liberties by tenn
porary majorities
Men of experience and ability should, matter
Of duty, enter public life.
Incompetence cannot be tolerated in any field.
Governmental administration should become prn-
cipal subject in all schools.
Government to appoint officials from and
women so trained business labor and agriculture to
see that their trained
Management should recognize that free have
right bargain collectively through agents of their
own choosing.
Both labor and management to study each others
problems.
Religion should reassert its leadership living
force in the nations moral values.
Every citizen should regard himself part of
the nation itself and not part of any pressure group
none of which at the expense of the nation
MR.. DEWEY'S program is well conceived and we'll
wi expressed.
It's augmentation however. will be difficult, slow
and gradual
1t must come from the source of power-the people
and cannot come from power itsef-the government
1t must from the exercise Of popular convic
ton and will for will follow merely intellectual
perception DESTROYS intention
If it is true that nations always get the government
they deserve it is just true that Americans have the
means of getting the government they want.
That is the blessing and it is also the challenge,
Of true democracy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
| e # er.s to
The Editor
To THE EDITOR

~ he ELL OR.
IN YOUR issue of the twenty
first Westbrook Pegler makes.
very vindictivc indictment
against President Roosevelt and
ends up with the question
whether we are 10 have war
so as to set up dictatorship
by a consolidated union and by
minor appointees like Leon Hen
derSon.
For writer OF national i'm
portance. Judging from this one
article, his attitude and reason
ing are narrow and preiudiced,
TO say the least
He writes as though Roosevelt
had created or were responsible
for all the Embellishments in
our national and economic life
and that he has deliberately sold
the people down the river. loot
ing them, deceiving them. and in
general betraying them 70 the
mercy OF ruthless and incom-
petent characters.
It's a wonder he omitted 10
blame Roosevelt for cyclones
floods, and other acts of God
which have taken place during
his presidential terms.
After reading his column I
asked myself why he should
have written il and why il
should have been published.
Does he want TO show his SUI
perior intellectual acumen or
does he want to start a move
ment 10 impeach the President!
It seems he did not like the
sea meeting between President
Roosevelt and Churchill and &C
cording TO him Roosevelt did not
have the proper credentials from
the people TO draw up the eight
point document.
Perhaps Roosevelt should con-
suit with Pegler before he
makes any move Of international
significance.
II is possible, however, that
the people as a whole are more
broadminded than Pegler con-
corning the President and his
rights and privileges
There are times when column
nists like Pegler get so wound
up with their own ideas and ego
tistical fancies that they lose
all sense of proportion and their
perspective becomes so distorted
that they violate all the prin-
ciples they themselves try TO adj
vocate when in a normal mood,
like fair play and democracy.
What could be more unsports-
manlike and undemocratic than
Pegler's attack against Roose-
welt. who is, after all. trying 10
do the best he knows how in an
extremely difficult and trying
position.
MRS. MILDRED r. KING,
I9262 Frankfort roah
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
Fi+z' Solar PIexus Punch
Just a Sock in The Middle
BY DAMON RtNfoN

LIE CLIMBED into Fitz' cor
IL ner between rounds and
interviewed him, thus probably
establishing record as the
most conscientious and complete
ghost writer, in history.
The end of the fight came in
the fourteenth round. James
w. Coffroth, then an efficient
young typist and stenographer.
afterwards Sunny Jim" Of
pugiliStic and racing promotion
fame, took Bob Davis dictation
after the fight but when Bob
got TO telling about the four
teenth, Fit2Simmons insisted on
doing the debating himself as
follows:
when the opportunity came
in the beginning OF the four
teenth round, COrbett was fight
ing little wild and made
swing which 1 sidestepped. In n
flash / saw "A clean opening on
his stomach and came I'm with
the Ieft-hand shift on his wind.
and then. without changing the
position of my feet. shot the
same hand against his jaw. thus
giving him the identical finish
which l administered TO Sharkey
in San Francisco.
II was sure i had done the
trick, and although he made a
hard struggle to get back on
his feet he was counted out by
the referee and lost the cham
pionship."
OR. AS Davis says in RUBY
" Robert" published in 1926
by George II. Doran:
"A groan came from Jim's
open mouth. He strained as
though stricken with lockjaw,
the whole upper body stretching
i'm apparent effort to reassemble
the bodily functions and start TO
live again.
AS soon as Siler counted
COrbett out, Fits / m m n
stepped back ia his corner,
leaned down over the ropes and
kissed his wife thrice full upon
the mouth. leaving a little group
of red stains upon her trembling
lips"
There is your solar plexus
punch, Doctor. But il still is
just a belt in the elly-bay.
Copyright. 1891. King Features synd. Inc
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
MRS. MILDRED r. KING,
1858 Frankfort road.
Connolly Answers

la Yes; OBJ yes; (c) no;
Proserpine; I'D yes.
Pa Julius Caesar" Shake
speare: (b) The Rivals, I"
Sheridan: (c) she Stops
TO Conquer" Goldsmith.
3-(a) Venice, Italy; (b) Munich,
Germany; tc) Paris, France.
4-ta) Longinus; OBJ John; (c)
Elizabeth.
5-(a) Jephthah; Oh Jesus Of
Nazareth. King of the Jews;
tc) Iberia.
6-(a) Diaeresis: OBJ Glubb-
dubdrib; (c) Elgin marbles.
N(a) Keeper; (b) rubies"i
le) ships
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
DR. WALTER F. BARRY

nR. WALTER F. BARRY Of
~ Newark. n. j.. notes our
comment on Lou Nova's COS
mic" punch and the "corkscrew"
and "bolo" and other fancifully
titled blows of the manly art Of
scrambling ears which are actu-
ally nothing but the stereotyped
wallops that have been known
to the game for centuries.
The doctor thinks it might in
tcrest us to know that the Bob
FitzSimmons lick which knocked
Jim Corbett out from under the
heavyweight title long years
ago. to become known as the
solar plexus punch, was I'M
doubtedly delivered in the
region of the solar plexus.
This he describes as SYM
pathetic plexus of nerves involv-
ing the pneumogastric nerve.
which is the largest nerve in the
human body. This nerve con-
trolls heart action. and there
fore. Doctor Barry says, the
shock OF the blow in the region
Of the solar plexus retards the
action Of the heart and. slows IT
down. This permits the blood
10 accumulate in the large YES
sells around the heart.
The heart action being slowed
down (are you still with us. dear
reader?). it therefore does not
pump the blood to the periphery
or extremities, and there re-
suits a great lack Of blood in the
brain, which causes anemia to
the part and consequently a
state of Inconsistencies:
The doctor remembers his
professor of physiology refer
ring TO this condition many
years ago and in explaining the
blow stated that under circum-
stances such as this. a person
might bleed 10 death in their
own veins.
WELL, all right, Doc. All this
w was gone into by medical
experts for columns at the time
Fitz flattened Corbett, on March
II, 1897, at Carson City, New.
after the late DR.. John w. Grid
ner read the dispatches describ-
ing the blow and stated that
Corbett had evidently been
struck in the solar plexus. which
was new territory to all except
the medicos.
Maybe that was good scien-
tific explanation, but what most
OF the three score and ten cor
respondents at the ringside
called il was a left shift TO the
pit Of the stomach.
While the solar plexus punch
had great notoriety for spell,
the blow remains what it was
before the Fitzsimmons-C orbett
fight, smash 10 the stomach.
That makes sense TO the lay
man.
We will now take you 10 the
greatest living authority on that
ancient battle, Robert II. Davis,
the famous peripatetic coll
umnist of the New York Sun.
then on the New York Journal
and assigned by William RAN
dolph Hearst TO tie up FitZsim-
mons TO an exclusive contract
for interviews, pictures and
other newspaper material, on
the basis Of $1,000 down and
$1,000 after the fight.
Davis caught up with the
Fitzsimmons' encourage in Den
yer, en- route TO Carson City,
and closed the deal. He was
with Fitxsimnons constantly
thereafter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
Realism Held
Lacking in
Uni+ed States
Americans Don Face
Unpleasant Facts
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

Thoughts that the professor at
our club dropped into the Lynn
Haven ears Of Pete the Doubter:
The greatest danger OF Ameri-
cans is their lack Of realism
They will not stare unpleasant
facts in the face-until some
one bashes them in the face .
Our most innocent diversions
and hobbies are merely some
ancient rough stuff converted.
masked sublimation the psychos
call il. War Is. during peace
time. sublimated into business
rivalries and spats. The ancient
orgy appears today as the night
souSe. Our innocent hobbies
are sublimationS of the head
hunter and scalp-collecting in
i do not think war will cease
until cyclones and earthquakes
ceaSe-for war is the cyclones
and earthquakes in the blood Of
man
I WAS sitting in the last row
OF a theater the other eve
ming Couldn't hear half that
was said. / turned my opera
glasses on the speakers lips and
heard perfectly Explain that.
Pete. II is proof positive 10 me
that the eye hears. Fantastic?
No. The fingers of Helen Keller
hear, so why shouldn't our eyes
hear? Try it, Pete. the next
time you sit in the last row OF
the balcony
! m a Hamlet on thIS VIII 4
mind IN perpetual doubt | feel
that II We 20 10 war We shall
be ruined and transformed into
a Socialistic Fascist state And
If England goes down and we
don't go in. we will be ruined
and transformed anyhow defend
ing ourselves against Hitler. To
fight or not tt5-figsiitt77-that is-tA4e-
question 49,.
The first SuperStitution and
oSsIbly the last--of man Is the
fantastic belief that the state is
mlraCle-maChlne -.
one country after another
goes into the NAV of Hitler
taxes rise until Ill soon owe
Uncle Sam more than | make
brother Ickes raves and Harry
Hopkins COOS. but nothing can
ever disturb my serenity be-
tween 700 and s 800 p. m. every
Saturday evening. for that is
the Gilbert & Sullivan hour on
WQXR. Like the sphinx. Gilbert
Il Sullivan Will never be re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
BAERING DOWN ON Tie NEWS:
WOHl he Long NOsr
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

The Axis reports Portugal being agiated Uncle
Sam adopting the Azores.
When you figure what happened 70 Norway, France,
Greece points smaller you small country
has its choice Of entertaining burglar thief
Go back to Bugs Baer for 1916 and you read,
"when they poison your dog in the afternoon you
can expect visitors that night
That's 25 years ago ard It has around again ike
the zebra the merry go-round
In another year there wiu be small nations and
Uncle will gather UP crumbs after Europe shakes
the tabecloth out Of the window
~ lDtsrzSsOua
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02

and naming his target.
TAKE the one Of Lear's about
Il the evil OF suggesting that
army morale isn't as high as il
should be. BY most realistic
officers, the charge is freely adj
mitted Every military expert
knows that it is true. The re-
sponSibility is squarely upon
army command, although II has
been attempted 10 be shifted TO
almost every bystander
Every one Of my. comments
upon il have been TO say that
time and patience and rccogni-
tlon OF the evil will surely cure
il, because the soldier material
is the best we have ever had.
Not 10 recognize 1t IS ostrich
stuff
This column never criticized
Ben Lear for diSciplining some
soldiers who "yoo-hooed' some
cuties on a golf course and
especially for giving him a
Bronx cheer when. camouhaged
in civilian clothes he began bel
lowing al them like a bull.
But now that he brings the
subject up. CiSCipiiuing whole
battalion for the fault of a few
fools. from the morale stand
point. is Of itself sheer loud
mouthed incompetence in an
officer.
On THE eastern gas short
" age my comment was that
there was none. but only a
transportation shortage. which
could and should have been
remedied long ago by several de-
vices. Several weeks ago ! sue-
gested one Of the remedies was
towing in bargeS.
That was pooh-poohed as anna
teur and incompetent Today,
several weeks later. the mari
time commission is advertising
for bids for barges.
For two years / have criticized
the industrial mobilization over
head with specific suggestions
for improvement Today, nearly
all of those suggestions are being
applied. The best organization
plan won't work without COM
petent personnel.
On the latter question, / have
my fingers crossed. willing to be
convinced, but the constructive
criticism OF organization has
borne fruit. Would it have hap
pened without criticism-that OF
others as well as mine? Horse
feathers!
That brings up the whole ques-
ton Of criticism of method being
inimical 10 defense. This column
has been shouting for motoriza-
ton. mechanization. industrial
mobilization, Selective service
and adequate defense during its
entire life and this writer for a
longer time.
During most Of these years,
all these Johnny-come-latelieS
either didn't know what IT was
all about or, if they did, didn't
have the CUTS to say what they
knew.
That Is past history. but If any
OF them are "alludin' at me-" /
want them to say so in plain
Oklahoma language. If 1 use
this column to take them apart,
they are welcome to use its go
words 10 put themselves to-
gether again, If they can, which
/ doubt if they can do.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02

l4IkNtsfA " not lAiiI vi NlilN Il
Il have been able to gather
here. the officials who made this
program, are spending most of
their time trying 10 convince
Mr.. Roosevelt they we're right
in all they have done. They
are trying 10 Justify themselves
and their actions. rather than
devoting their thought and
energy 10 keeping up with war.
They have limited their goal to
their former decisions.
II looks As II they will have
70 lift their frozen vision. or
officials with a wider vision will
have 10 be brought in.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02

DRAWER has an almighty
L power. II cannot change
the course OF events. but 1t Gre
ates a mental and emotional al
titude that does affect events.
And by prayer | mean any firm
belief for which you Will fight
and die Besides. prayer IS
catharSis a cleanser Try IT
sometimes Pete
The union Of the United
States and England? What TWO
nations that ever united didn
quarrel? Besides, in all such
unions. one country is always
the master and the other the
step-and-fetch II.
4 RE we not laying too much
"A stress on the phrase "a
member OF the Communist
Party?
think q member Of the Com
munist Party Is not as dangerous
10 our national welfare as those
thousands of men and women
who are pro-Communist or Com
muniSt-minded and who deliber-
ately refrain from being men,
bers Of the party the better 10
carry on their anti-American
work.
If the American people knew
how many Reds there were con-
cealed behind the masks of new
dealism." liberalism. "interna-
tionalism' and what-not isms
they'd gasp.
We can get rid OF the MEM
bers OF the Communist Party
who infest and infect our public
pay rolls and schools, bat how
10 get rid Of those who are
secretly Marxians and other
brands Of state Socialists!
It's the hidden hand that al
ways undermines the institutions
of a country-seldom the blatant
party members.
WHEN I read of some one SOL
w emily handing out post
war aims"-either from Berlin.
London or Washington have
a vision before me Of
A man drawing up plans for
new house while his own house
is burning down over his head
and under his feet.
A man who tells another man
about S1,000000 he expects
while he is touching him for a
tenner.
A lady feeding her goose with
dynamite and expecting it TO
lay golden eggs.
A blind man hunting in a
pitch-dark room for luck stone
that doesn't exist.
A soldier trying 10 sell an
other soldier a feather bed at
the peak of a battle.
II you have the courage 10
look at the postwar world
with realistic eyes you will first
of all recall that this is a post
war world we are now living in
--post-1914-18.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
Quiz Answers

yorktown. CORVALLIS; Sara
toga, Burgoyne; Oriskany,
st. Leger.
minnesota.
Usually on the last Sunday
in September.
4-Thomas Conway. Conway's
Cabal was the name given
the plot.
5-Andrew Carnegie.
6-No. =
Sixtl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
Defense Plan
Critics U pheld
By johnson
General Lear Answered
on Smear Tactics
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

A NEW technique seems to he
"A developing among officials
under fire for falling short of
performances in defense tasks.
II is 10 say of those who COM
ment on shortcomings that they
are either, Nazi agents or en-
emies of American defense and
are playing Hitler's game by
undermining A merican con-
fidence in our leadership.
Thus General Ben tYoo-Hoo)
Lear makes a speech to his army
command. broadcast over two
networks 10 the United States
and says that people who criti-
CHE the quality of army morale
are doing that.
The acting petroleum director
asks whether (rather than as
SertS that criticism OF The Woe
fully bungled gasoline shortage"
on the eastern seaboard isn't
Nazi work. Criticisms of the
overhead organization for indus
trial mobilization have been
similarly condemned by even
higher authority.
| can't speak for anybody
else, but / have criticized all
these things IN this column
never. | think without a con-
structive suggestion. According
10 the bare terms Of these
generalized accusations. some OF
these impatient answers (that
answer -f4e,t hing < could apply ply
TO me.
II they are so intended, / have
a right TO know il. | won't ac-
cept any such John Doe indict-
ment and no man has any decent
right TO make such blanket ac-
cuSationS in response to specific
questioning of his own COM
petence without calling his shots
and naming his target.
Evening star., 1941-03-09

Bulletin of Current Exhibitions

Gallery Of Art Seventeenth
old and modern masters; tapestries Barge
oonzes and prints -Four new galleries opened
Arts Club of Washington. 2O7 by
eight members of faculty. college of fine University
pases by Jawne Allen to March 81.
Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1900 Twenty first NW-Loan
exhibition Illustrating THE Functions of Color Painting
March %.
Library Eighth NW-American Indian art
assembled through cooperation of Rene darnonour through
Paintings Society Washington
Branch Seventh and streets loan exhibition from Phillips Memo
rial Gallery
Congress- Division of Fine Arts-Lhogaps by Joseph
Pnne etcngs other contemporary prinmakers
original Illustrations photographs of early American architecture
Freer Gallery of Art the Mall at Twelfth street
paintings sculpture bronze pottery etc. Whistler paintings and
prints Peacock ROOM American paintings.
Textile Museum 1880 street NWRug tapestries and other
textiles of the Near and Far East Mondays Wednesdays and
Fridays Admission card obtainable of George
Hewitt Myers, 73O Fifteenth street NV
National Museum Natural History Building and
Constitution NW-Foyer
prints by Margaret Ann Gaug Chicago also fifth annual travelling
exhibition of America and Arlington
Club Annual Exhibition through March.
National Museum Arts and Industries Building south side of the
Mall at Eighth street SWSecon of photography works of AS
sociated Telephone Camera Clubs, through March
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Collection
Christian Art 1903 street NWMondays Thursdays
Saturdays, "a 4:30 admission
Memorial Continental Hail. Daughters of the American Revo
luton Seventeenth and streets NWBedcovemgs
lea, $50 43O weekdays Saturdays
Studio Gallery George Washington University 2l3l street
NW-Work of Ncoi Ckovsky; March 16-Aprl 8.
Howard University Gallery, Sixth
flowers by Antimo Benduce, through March April.
Whyte Gallery 1907 street NW-Water coo drawings and
autographs by Prentiss TAYLOR to March 81
Club, N.W-Pantings
Mccartney and Garnet Jex, through March.
anAmecan Union Seventeenth street and Constitution
nue-Prins by artists of Uruguay March IA.
Project Galleries independence avenue
SWLhogaphs artists Gallery;
Negro children in D. c. public schools Chldrens Gallery
The Little Gallery 32Os street NW-Paintngs by Jack
Berkman, to March 2l.