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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
TOLEDO CASH GRAZ,

TOLEDO o.. July 5. - INsD Cash
grain on track
WHEAT No. red. 0lhaiO7A
CoRS-No. ? yellow. IAN 75c.
OATs-No. 2 white. 3sd5ei.r
sOY BEASs-No yellow. 81 351l5g
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Mrs. Charles Hague Booth

MRS. CHARLES HAGUE BOOTH should be called the
lN1 Mother of Golf in Detroit. True had golf here
before she deserted the stage to make this city her home
but its growth has been fastest under her guidance
Aunty Booth, she known in golfing circles,
treless worker in her favore sport She founded
the Womens District Association and serving her
sixteenth term president at her untmey death yester
day morning.
When the Women's district needed extra push, she
organized the juniors and these girls, whom she
started in the game when they in pgtais dominate
take all the titles.
Many of the younger stars among the golfers
first became interested through her weekly tournaments
Chuck Kocsis Walt Burkemo, Drew Eagleston, Mike Detz
to just few learned what competition meant play
ing under Aunty Booths guidance
Mrs. Booths activities were varied. She was leader
in club and social affairs She her first fame the
stage in the title role of Madame X" But it golf
that claimed of her attention and among golfers
that her loss will most keenly be felt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03

friend read our recent report on
our experiences in gin rummy
and knowing we are a quick
study at cards figured that by
this time we would be ready for
marks. We have since heard he
offered a downright bonanza,
too. When we declined his
offer, he wired again saying the
least he could do for us was to
tip us off that Abe Lyman. the
orchestra leader, is playing the
Strand this week.
They play gin rummy in
Hollywood for so much a frame,
or hand. so much a game. which
is 100 points, and so much per
point. You can see that at this
ratio if the stakes are middling
high il does not take long for a
z man to get both legs broken.
Just the same. we do not think
gin rummy possesses the ele-
ments of excitement that go
with many other card games.
notably hearts.
WE DO not hear of hearts
w being played TO any great
extent nowadays, which is per-
hapS just as well. 1t is the
biggest burnup game of them
all 1t is highly provocative of
assault and battery. mayhem
manslaughter and first degree
murder. We mean hearts with
the black queen in. We have
often wondered how old Job
would have reacted after he had
had the queen dropped on him
three times handwriting.
We suppose there can be
some burn to gin rummy too.
In fact, we observed a z player
the other evening who seemed
to be suffering from a slight
SINCE. but at no time did he
develop any Sanguinary synp-
toms. He Just tried to jump
out of a window twice during
the evening.
Copyright. ls4f' King Features synd.. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Quiz Answers

From Mausolus. prince Of Caria.
Upon his death his widow.
Artemisia. had the most famous
sculptors of ancient times de-
sign a magnificent tomb as a
monument to his memory.
The Maritime Provinces, on the
eastern coast of Canada. consist
of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward
Island and New Brunswick.
This change in color is an
example of oxidation. The oxy-
gen in the air makes the change.
The South African buffalo. I'm
like most animals. il will attack
without any provocation.
Lord Lister proved that the
greater part of fatalities follow
ing an operation was caused by
blood poisoning, and he was the
first to use an antiseptic.
A bird. 1t takes its name from
its peculiar cry, which sounds
like raucous laughter.
Because of the extreme density
of the water, caused by its salt
content.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Connolly Answers

l. (a) Grover Cleveland-married
TO the President lhl James
Madison-cousin of Mrs. Madi-
son: (c) Andrew Jackson-niece
of Andrew Jackson.
?. ta) Walrus; Cd tsetse fly: (c)
toad.
). ta) "Oh. say can you see; (b)
My country, tbs of thee; tc)
God of Our Fathers
4. ta) Smollett; (b) Daniel Defoe;
tc) CervanteS.
5. (a) Vim. Sydney Porter: OBJ
Charlotte Bronte; tc) Washing
ton Irving
6. fa) Revolutionary War; (b)
World War: tc) Civil War.
7. ta) Hamilton. n. Y: OBJ New
Orleans, La; (c) Lexington, Va.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Economy As An
Aid To Defense

/ bility of submitting his annual budget message to
Congress
The launching of an extraordinary national defense
program, which will cost at least S20000O00OO0 over
fveyear period raises serious fiscal problems In view OF
the dismal record of decade of federal deficits.
Apart from the added defense appropriations, the
federal government has been spending at the rate of
S9,000000000 year. and, with the added receipts
from and increased taxes not expected to
come nearer than within S150OOO0000 of the normal
OUTLAWS of the federal before the increment
in defense expenditures.
In proposing sound fiscal program for meeting this
new challenge John W. Hanes former undersecretary of
the treasury has wisely advocated that the adminsra
ton make contribution in the form of rigorous economy
in the nondefense expenditures of the federal government
-ssfN THIS crisis Hanes declared before the Ma
onal Association of Manufacturers at is not asking
too much of the to insist that all unnecessary
items in the federal budget be emnated that the apprO
patng committees of Congress scrutinze every eXpend
ture carefully, to that item NOT necessary for
national defense be passed through Congress under that
guise
~ am confident that the normal budget of the federal
government be reduced by minimum of billion
dollars per annum
"The country heartily endorsed the recent statement
of President Roosevelt that he proposed to submit
economy budget to the Congress.
81 believe that the Congress- which is highly trained
to the will of the people, will give the President
sincere support in this matter"
Mr. Hanes timely counsel to the federal government
Is equally applicable to the other $4,000 taxing units in
the United States.
If the nation is to be streamlned for defense and
economic progress then public officials in every county,
township city and state in the Union should similarly
make contribution through prudent and frugal of
the taxpayers funds
ORDINARY political and duplicated effort should
~ be eliminated.
Local and state governments annually spending
much the federal government Except for the
defense program.
They all help to make room for defense expendi-
lures without unduy crushing the living standards of the
people, by substantially reducing local governmental
budgets.
So doing will constitute practical way of demon
stratng to the outside world that democratic self govern
ment in the United States is wise alert and efficient
Patriots should insist that wasteful and needless
normal expenditures of government national state and
city, be effectively curtaied.
Such program will help to defray the necessary
cost of adequate national defense.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
More About Good Boys
Gin Rummy and Suckers
BY DAMON RUNYON

IN TELLING you about gin
i rummy. the Hollywood ver-
sion of Shangaboo. the card
game that has the movie colony
half nuts. we forgot TO mention
that the outstanding character
istic of the gin rummy fiend is
that he thinks highly of his own
game. He thinks he is a cham
pion.
You will never meet a gin
rummy addict who will admit
even to himself that he does not
play well. He will concede his
shortcomings as citizen, a huS-
band. a father. a neighbor and
Christian, but never as a gin
rummyer. We understand that
this characteristic is gradually
reducing two-thirds of Holly
wood to a state bordering on
malnutrition.
1t seems that there are about
a couple of dozen good gin
rummy players out there. But
the great majority who play the
game just think they are good.
when in truth and in fact they
are strictly Lem Colbys. We
will classify the players as AS
and rs. We could have made it
BIS. but we want to emphasize
the extreme range between Hol-
lywood gin rummy players, so
we make it rs. About all most
of the z players know about gin
rummy. as we are informed, is
that you shuttle the cards.
VET there remains among the
L rs that characteristic of
self-confdence we have noted
above and this trait has devel-
oped a thriving trading exchange
in Hollywood. 1t is supposed to
be a secret from the Z players.
but as they are too busy think
ing about gin rummy TO read
the newspapers we run no risk
of violating a confidence by
speaking of it here. The ex-
change was organized by the A
players and of course they are
the chief traders.
The exchange has a session
every day at which the men,
bers bid on the z players they
want to use that evening. The
bidding is always very keen, the
prices depending on the bidders
calculation of how much beesom
the Z he desires has left. There
is a big board and a curb mar
ket. the latter being for trading
. in Is who are busted but who
have prospects of getting jobs
in the future.
The working producers. dl-
rectors and actors. and a few
writers are on the big board.
Some of them command fan
tastic prices. 1t is said that an
A player with an option on any
one of certain rs for an evening
has no difficulty getting it dis
counted at any bank in SOUTH
-eFH California and many froecrs
will accept it in payment of
bills.
TNHE rs with money are not
L only marketable commodi-
ties. but they have come to be
used in terms of friendship by
the AS. For example. we did
an A player of Hollywood a
small favor the other day and
he wired his thanks and sand
that as a material token of his
gratitude he would get It's a
writing job at Metro for 50
week and Eddie Mannix' gin
rummy play.
We presume our Hollywood
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Vi+annin A
Essential to
Good Driver
By BENJAMIN DECASSERES

VITAMINs is word of the
hour-the word if you can
stop thinking the word war for
a day or so. What are vita
minis" anyhow? Henry Borsook,
professor of biochemistry in the
California Institute of Technol-
ogy. in his Illuminating book.
"Vitamins. What They Are and
How They Can Benefit You
(Viking). tells US. briefly that
"vitamins are small quantities
of substances essential to life"
You can now take seven Of them
in concentrated form.
do you know" asks Doctor
Borsook, "that the lack of vita
min 4 renders YOU UNFIT 10 drive
car?-why japanese born in
California are taller than those
born in Japan?-what vitamins
Ii and c did for the Mt. Everest
expedition why peanut butter
is called the Cinderella among
foods"
Get. vitamin-wise. This is the
book TO do it with. I'm a vita
min fan. and l know that Doctor
Borsook has the goods. And |
cannot forego relating to you
this little story from the book:
THE patient: Doctor, are you
sure of the diagnosis? \ friend
of mine was diagnosed as hav-
ing pneumonia and she died of
typhoid fever
"The doctor: Madam. you
NAV rest assured. When l treat
a patient for pneumonia he dies
of pneumonia
THIS coming from a man who
l. has lived in every goose
step country in Europe. where
to walk alone is considered an
act of independent thinking
and. therefore. treason to the
state-is profoundly humorous.
MISS I. A. R. WYLIE has
WI never married. But she
has lived for years with George.
Now. George is not her father,
her brother. her butler, and GER
tainly not her son.
George is the name Miss Wy
lie gives her subconsciouS Il once
had a doctor who used TO call
his subconscious Fritz" When
he was in search of a word, a
date or had lost his spectacles
he'd shout Fritz - and
straightway, so he said, he'd re-
member what he wanted or find
what he mislaidD.
Miss Wylie has described this
fellow George for many pages in
one of the most interesting
books of the season. MY Life
With George: an unconventional
autobiography" random
Housed. She also lambastes her
"good-for-nothing" father all
over the lot and also tells us all
about the Germans and why she
doesn't like them. although she
lived in Germany for many years.
Miss Wylie has brains. ideas
and courage, has done her writ
ing bit in Hollywood Eat $1,000
week., tells us all about Sam
Goldwyn, and says you can take
her or leave her. y
So far as her books go. I
take" her. for here IS a con-
fcssion" that you don't run
across every day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

THE SATURDAY EVENING
L POST carries an article. APP
parently authorized by the sub
jet himself. in which c. B.
Allen interprets Charles A. Lind
bergh's recent activities on be-
half of. let us say. American
rearmament or peace.
Incidentally. this writing flips
some interesting charges into
the winds of controversy. but
we will ignore them for the time
being TO come 10 that which /
regard as the nub of the great
national squabble over Presi-
dent Roosevelt'S rcarmament. or
war. policy.
Colonel Lindbergh. says Mr..
Allen, thinks the United States
has come TO a sorry pass when
those directing its destiny pro-
claim any other country is or
should be its first line of defense.
A sorry pass is right, but
neither LiHdbergh, Senator Burt
Wheeler nor any one else Of
their general persuasion in this
dispute has been able TO talk the
United States out of that pass.
and the people faced their pre-
dicament in the recent campaign
when Wendell Willkie, in his
acceptance speech. confessed the
truth as he saw it.
Admitting that the United
States was "hopelessly unpre-
pared for war. Mr. Willkie
nevertheless Scolded President
Roosevelt for shouting insults"
at Adolf Hitler. but then con-
coded that if the British fleet
were lost the Atlantic might"
be dominated by a power hos
tile 10 our way of life Con-
trolling. in that event. most Of
the ships and shipbuilding faeili-
ties IF Europe. g"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03

7 WILL take the liberty OF
L believing that IN using the
word might Mr.. Willkie was
only INDUCING in a little political
hedging: in other words. that he
knew well the Atlantic not only
might but certainly would be
dominated by a hostile power IN
the event that the British fleet
were lost.
He was conceding that this
nation had. indeed. reached that
sorry pass in which the British
fleet constituted the first line
OF defense against a foreign
power whose hostility has been
revealed IN a thousand ways and
has only recently been positively
proclaimed in Adolf Hitler's
declaration that Nazp Germany
never could be rcconCiled with
the free world.
This was the view Of the only
other important candidate for
the presidency. and he auplified
il in the same speech in these
words:
I'VE must face a brutal hut
terrible fact. Our way Of life
is in competition with Hitler's
way of life. I promise TO out
distance Hitler In any contest
he chooses in 1910 or there
after"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
= . rnrc
Jan. 3, 1916

The commander Of a Russian
destroyer in the Black Sea an
nounced capture OF eleven
Turkish vessels.
The Russian offensive against
the Austrians along the Strypa
River in Galicia increased in
intensity; heavy Austrian losses
were reported.
New German mines were dis
covered by the British north of
the Shetland Islands.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Jan. 3. 1910

The Firms reported they had
cut off another Russian division
halfway between the Russian
border and Lake Kianta.
A report was current in Bef-
lin that Soviet Premier MoIo-
tof would visit the Nazi capital
for talks with German leaders.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Spirit of 18TH
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER
Distributed by International News service


The seventysevnth Congress opened the
today The old sevenysixh wiped its slate clean and turned
in the sponge for a receipt
But the spirit of the seventysxth lives under
roof that is the ultimate in box tops.
This session is actually university extension of the 1910
huddle that refused to adjourn reasonable fac-simile
thereof Mr. Roosevelt will tell EN- the facts of political life
Monday in person He is tired having his business
grow old and gray.
The seventyseventh will follow the scripura injunction
that it is blessed to appropriate than it deduct
The seventysxh hung up record of S27721 7406 $780,
(which is the distance to the moon in cash.
And the third term hasn't started yet. In few
Franklin will be refreshed with Of campaign
promises
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Is Army
Passing Up
Trained Men?
Report Amateur Officer:
Winning Preference

1.-THE opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not neces-
sariiy those of The Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
By HUGH S. JOHNSON

EHE army Is not making the
i best use of its trained officer
personnel.
The war department quite
properly and necessarily has
encouraged tens of thousands of
civilians to take appointments
as reserve officers. Naturally,
some of them were rank anna
tours as soldiers and the bulk
of them held lieutenant's COM
missions.
Now we are calling thousands
of them 10 active duty. When
they Join for duty with troops
they have TO earn their advance
ment. but when they come in on
staff assignments. it is becoming
a very different matter.
A LITTLE personality plus.
IA sometimes a political drag.
works for many of these neo-
phytes what many years of
service don't work for regular.
New captains. majors and lieu
tenant colonies are being created
out of reserve subalterns who
haven't a year of active duty.
In the army. rank. rather
than ability is nine points of
the law. They are assigned to
command regulars who have TO
tell them what TO do.
At the same time, men with
complete military experience
and education, who have re-
signed or retired or are World
War veterans returned to civil
life. get a deaf ear when they
volunteer TO be recommissioned
and recalled to active duty.
The war department seems TO
prefer shoe clerks and soda
ierkers. My mail is full of COM
plants of this kind from frus-
trated veterans.
TT IS demoralizing to officers
L on the active list of the regu-
lar army 1t is the stupidest and
most slipShod Kind of admins
tratiVe inefficiency.
Every relative or well-wisher
Of young man now entering
service as soldier has an in
tgTpSr 10 see that this policy IS
reversed. They have a right to
insist on the very maximum OF
fitness for command or admins
tration among the officers on
whose acts and decisions the
welfare. if not the lives. Of these
boys may depend.
We should as readily condemn
the selection of an amateur
officer TO look after their well
fare as an amateur doctor 10
look after their health. eSpe-
cially if there is a reputable
specialist available.
EXACTLY the same thing hap
II pened at the beginning Of
the World Wpr. until General
Pershing got his independent
command in France and began
10 send the miSfits wholesale TO
the reclassification center at
Blois-or "Blooey" as the sol
dierS called il.
But why do we have TO wait
until the guns begin to roll TO
correct such an obvious blunder
as this? Every American in
shoulder straps is entitled TO
advancement to any grade when
IN some stern test he has shown
his superior fitness. This goes
whether he is a regular. Ma
tional Guard or reserve officer.
But there has been no oppor-
tunity for any such test of any
amateurs as yet, and regular
and National Guard officers
have at least their records of
long, service. They have the
records, but the amateurs are
getting the rank. It is an easily
correctable error.
Distributed by United Features synd. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03

A S FOR the Insults" which
~ the President has shouted
at Hitler and Mussolini these
last few years, it is useless to-
argue as to who shouted the
first insult, but il must be con-
ceded that this is the only means
by which a President can arouse
the American people to the
necessity for rearming.
Unless we are shown an enemy
we won't spend The money. deny
ourselves anything or do any
soldering or paradlng.
We have TO he told first where
the danger lies.
Copyright. 1911. Klng Features syni. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
Roosevelt
War T aIks
Defended
PeeIer Cites Necessity O.
Accusing U. S. TO Action

(The opinions expressed by
Westbrook3 Pegler are entirely
his own, and not necessariy
those of The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03

NOW. il seems there is.
y promise on record made by
winston Churchill that the
British fleet would never be sur
rendered 10 the Germans. even
10 save the people OF the British
Isles from the atrocities which
the Germans have inflicted on
the Czechs and Poles.
But such promises are mere
sky-Writing. as the world OBJ
served when the French nation
fell and new government.
adopting a policy Of IF You cant
lick EN- join en- would have
turned the French fleet over to
the Nazis for use against their
late ally.
In that predicament the Brit
ish were compelled 10 the sad
duty OF smashing the French
men while they lay at anchor
a job of sheep-shooting which
the United States might not be
able TO execute in like circum-
stances should Britain fall.
There are plenty of Fascists
and opportuniSts in Britain VINO.
in the event of defeat by Hitler.
would prove to be British LavalS.
and not only yield the Atlantic
10 Hitler but help him against,
the United States.
So not only has 1t been agreed
by the two men who polled prac-
ucally all the vote there was
for thepresidehcy less than two
months ago that the British fleet
is this country'S first line Of
defense against an avowed
enemy. but it should be noted
that that fleet might become a
terrible weapon in Hitler's hands
should Britain 60 down.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-03
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-22
MIRACLES FOR WAR

If and when the United States starts
shooting, a certain person in Berlin
probably will get number of terrible
jolts.
Uncle Sam is making new kinds of
fighting implements. Among other
things, Uncle Sam now has ready to
build a tank so mighty that Hitler's
big 90-tonners will look like peanut
shells. Nor is that all-but no more
can be told.
Scarcely a major piece of military
or naval equipment now son the line"
hasn't been bettered by ideas offered
by workmen on the job. The Ameri-
can workman is no slouch, as many
already have discovered. He's by way
of being quite guy-and the union
workman best of all.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-22
Fair Catalogues Ready,
John w. Cochran Says

The premium list and catalogue for
the ninety-frst annual Butler County
Fair, scheduled for September 21-27,
are being distributed, Maurice Muir
ray, president, and John w. Cochran,
secretary, announced.
Interest displayed to fair board
members and requests for catalogues
to make entries indicate that this
years fair program will be one of the
most successful in the history of the
institution, Cochran stated.
For the first time the fair will open
Sunday, September 21. Heretofore,
Sunday, preceding fair week, has been
visitors day, with no admission
charge. The fair board has ruled that
all entries must be received before 8
o'clock Saturday night, September 20.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-08-22

There is enough machinery for the
settlement of most disputes without
resort to stoppage of work, but that is
no reason whatever for expecting that
wages will remain as they are.
With cost of living that gives all
the evidences of st. Vitus dance, it is
not to be expected, except by the dodos
and the mentally unsound, that wages
can escape the effect.