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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16

DONE MAINLY in eight-io-
the-inch cross-sutch. these tow
els take little time 10 embroidcr.
Let the cross-StItch flowers that
look like applique contrast with
the dishes. Pattern 2742 con-
talns a transfer pattern of SIX
motifs averaging 54x10 inches,
illustrations OF stitches, color
schemes, materials required.
Send TEN CENTS in coin for
this pattern 10 the Laura
Wheeler Pattern Department.
1925 Times Square Detroit.
Mich. Owing 70 customs regu-
lationS. orders for patterns 10
4 Canadian destinations cannot be
Blled.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16
Wild Flowers
For The Garden

YOU WILL enjoy the beau
ties Of nature more fully if you
learn 10 identify tho wild flow
ers growing in our fields and
woodlands.
Many wild flowers grow as
well in the garden as in the
woods and fields. Some, such
as day-lily and blackberry-hly,
we're garden flowers before they
escaped TO the wilds.
The gardener who wishes TO
grow wild-flowers Will find the
40-page booklet, AN INTRO
DUCTION TO WILD FLOW
ERS. invaluable.
This booklet not only teaches
you 10 identify more than 100
Of the common woodland plants.
but il also gives the gardener
excellent advice on the cult
walton Of wild flower plants.
II does not contain technical
terms just practical and
easy 10 use facts.
The price of tho booklet Is
fifteen cents. Address your re-
quest 10 The Detroit Times
Home Institute, 1925 Times
Square, Detroit, Mich. Enclose
fifteen cents m coins. Please
be sure 10 write plainly your
name, address and title Of
booklet.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16

TOMORROW 49, Vivette's col
umn. which she calls the diary
Of lucky woman.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16

MARCH II TO APRIL 20
Ariss-Especially favored this
friendly day: romance, domes-
ITCHY, entertainment, theater
interests, opping, handling
wearing apparel and toilet acces-
series, travel, vacation activities.
APRIL p TO MAY "a
Tdtrus-General business and
personal affairs are sponsored
in today's friendly aspects. Be
tween 10 a. m. and 1870 p. m.
unfriendly Moon-Neptune rays
advise great caution in shipping
and other maritime interests and
IN handling chemicals.
MAY 81 TO JUNE sf
Gemini-Very good indications
for industrial and financial bust
ness; matters pertaining IN mill
tary and national defense;
arduous activities; your particu-
lar line Of endeavor and romance.
JUNE % TO JULY 25
Concer-Your own planet. the
Moon, is in benefc aspect 10
three planets in the a. m. and
again tn Jupiter, the Sun and
Mars after 100 p. m. This is
indeed an suspicious day for
your happiness and achievement.
July % TO AUGUST %
Leo - An especially fruitful
day for you l. eoiteS Difficult
problems. tedious details, perse-
vering efforts are favored equally
with money-making in eonstruc-
tive and useful enterprises.
AUG. sJ TO SEPT. s5
Vir0o-YOu may not find to-
day particularly interesting in
tellectually or easy for mental
work, but all other lines Of in
dustry and trade are favored.
SEPT. eI TO OCT. 20
Librd-The things in which you
are interested, work for which
you are especially adapted and
realization of cherished hopes are
on the favored star list
OCT. "a TO NOV. %
!Soorpio-This should he a de-
lightfully diverting and produc-
tive day for you and your
activities. If on vacation or toll
ing away at your desk or bench,
friendly rays encompass you.
NOV. 9S TO DEC. %
Sdgittdrius-Some care needed
to avoid mental confusion. too
quick judgment, lightly made
promises. Otherwise today can
yield excellent results from the
right kind of effort.
DEC. Is TO Jan. 2f
Cdpricorn-Its tops for you in
personal and general lines. Just
be careful not TO make UMPIRE
meditated changes or decisions in
weighty matters.
JAN. 22 TO FEB. 2O
AqunriUs-A friendly, inspir-
ing period especially opportune
for scientists, researchers, engi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16

for the animals and we are com
PEELED shortly 10 kill them before
they grow too thin TO be eaten.
Lucky Ameriesl
have written a piece for you
that l thought might be of in
terest to American women e.. TO
show them how we over here in
France spend our days that
they may see the problems of
homemakers who live in war
zones and realize how lucky they
are 10 be in America.
Still ! mustn't complain for I
am a lucky woman 10 be
living where / am in unoccu-
pied France. l often think of all
OF you .. and the whipped
cream have so ofte.I piled atop
strawberry shortcake,
My kindest regards 10 all Of
my friends in and around De-
troit.
Most sincerely,
VIVETTE.
Yes, I remember the chicken
dinner and the fat beef
steak and kidney buildings VIZ
vctte used 10 make. Many De-
troit Times readers will recall
her saying now. ladies
don't spare the butter and spoil
the cake
Tut.
On the other hand lucky
she knows how 20 make the
most of little. She often said a
thrifty French wife could feed
her family on what every Ameri-
can family threw out Those
pods from the green peas, she
would wall tut, tut we
would make soup Of them
It's thought. homemakers
. not 10 be needlessly extra
VACANT. for We shall be facing
food shortages sooner or later
=. might as we'll get in practice.
But most Of all, it's thought
how lucky we arc tn he
here IN America -. away from
u all.
TOMORROW - Vivette'S col
umn. which she calls the diary
Of lucky woman.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16
To Win Rinq
Girl Must Be
Fas+idious
BY DONNA GRACE

JEWELED CROW ms are
grand and we can think of a lot
of pretty things that could be
made of one, but there is an
other bit OF jewelry-a simple
little thing which TO any roman
tic young lovely is far more i'm
portant than all the gems Of
India. You guessed il, the en-
gagement ring!
They are popular now, too,
and for the girl who is thinking
of having Mrs. engraved on her
Fall cards, this is open season.
We know, of course, it's always
the man who does the proposing,
but just between ourselves, let
us admit IL does take some tact
and understanding. To the aver
age young man, girls are all
alike-just a partner 10 talk TO
and take 10 dances,
The Winner
It is the girl VINO makes him
understand that she IS different
and then he becomes SO thrilled
with his discovery that he wants
10 be with her all the time.
There are innumerable, little
subtle waystto snare the mag
nificent one but for the scrap
book, here are some OF the
obvious musts.
She will be so Immediately
clean and dainty that her very
presence suggests roses.
She will be agreeable and have
a delightful, musical laugh.
She will know the kind Of
foundation and powder 10 keep
her makeup fresh for hours.
She'll Smile
She will keep her sports
clothes neat and clean and be a
bit on the conservative side
even the modern young man
wants his best girl TO be very
modest.
She will not gossip nor boast
about her relatives nor will she
seem 10 say too much about
herself. She can make him
realize how lovely she is with
out telling him in detail.
She won't eat all the time and
never touch things that smear
the hands and mouth (she can
wait until she gets home).
There is no romance in mustard,
hotdogs, onions and the like.
Details
She will remember 10 massage
her knees and heels if she wears
beach suits. Remove roughnesS
and callouSes with brush and
soap scrubbing, then rub nightly
with cream.
She will stop being fat. Slen-
der girls will walk right away
with him If she doesn't reduce.
She will try 10 be interesting
and If possible have some little
entertainment to offer. Singing
or good story telling adds TO
ones charms.
She will cultivate an agree
able tone in her speech. A good
vocabulary and cultured tones
rate high in social attributes.
These and a genuine sincerity in
her manner will assure any girl
that magic ring and the hand
some one OF her dreams.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-16
Letter From Vivet+e-
Tells Of War Ra+ions
BY IRENE NJ. HAWKINS
Womens Editor, The Detroit Times

THE MORNING mail brings
US letter from "Vivette." whom
readers of this newspaper will
remembe as home economist
for The Times some seven years
ago. Vivette returned Il France,
where she has a small hotel in
the neighborhood of Cannes 4.
and the Jasmine fields of Grasse
-. the blue Mediterranean just
below and the Swiss Alps above
the most beautiful spot on earth,
she used TO tell us.
Vivette writes:
/ often think of my friends in
America and sure do wish / had
sense enough TO stay there. This
Is lovely spot, but without food
the finest scenery pals.
That Chicken Dinner!
Say do you remember that
chicken dinner we had one Sun
day when we had been driving
TO some lake? Oh, boy il
would taste good 10 US now. for
here we have no sugar, -four.
butter Tor any other fat, tea,
coffee. chocolate. fruit, cereals.
bacon, ham, meat or fish.
We live chiefly on macaroni
and such, fresh vegetables which
we boil. salad and a few eggs
my hens lay. / have lost 40
pounds Believe me, rationing
has Ida Jean Kahn beat to
FRAGILE for reducing. / don't mind
losing the 40 pounds bur one
feels so beastly weak, cold and
depressed
VIII and I spend our days pot
tering around, trying TO grow
vegetables. chickens and rabbits
The trouble is there is no food
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08
EDITORIAL PA &c
Nv OF THE Y
Expensive Indifference

WHEN this written last night, II appeared That
w less than half Of Detros registered voters had gone
to the polls at yesterdays Spring election
There are $4,000 qualified voters in this city Yes
terdays vote around 100000.
While it was decided improvement over the primary
where fewer than 25 per of the voters voted yester
Gays turnout was, nevertheless, disappointing.
1t hardly indicative of any great general interest
by citizens of Detroit the kind of government they
have.
IT INDICATED on the contrary, a singular apathy by
the citizens of Detroit who only couple of decades
ago were nationally envied for their intense civic
thusiasm.
Their apparent Indifference today is especially dis
turbng in view of the several recent revelations of cor
rupton in public office
Faced with scandal after civic scandal the normal
response of an indignant citizenry outpourng to
the polls.
The ballot is citizens most potent weapon for good
government
When he fails to employ that weapon it is fair to
conclude that he is particularly indignant
II EGARDLESS of the result Of the Spring election
IN regardless of whether the persons elected are COM
petent or the propositions decided upon wisely decided
the election itself can be termed Representatives
No election is truly representative reflection OF
public opinion with less than half the electorate voting
Certainly the vast ma ority of Detrolters are inter-
ested in the welfare of their city and themselves.
But until they translate their interests into action
at the polls they have scan justification for cczng
their government
ANY flaws in administration in any branch of that
government be charged to their own costly ndfer-
ence on election day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08
"FIowers That Bloom"

lore than 10000 Detroters visited the annual flower
wi show in Convention Hall, Sunday. They were wise
So will you be if you attend before the week is over
There is so much that is drab and morbid and nor
rble in the world today that is good for us to get our
minds off topical by whatever possible means
Detrots flower show is an exhibition of sheer beauty
Coming as it does in this early Spring season, 1t Will
awaken in the sluggish observer desire to oeautfy
his own plot of land whether that be spacious garden or
a window box outside his apartment house living room
Whether or not the desire mateTializes it must
oct as sort of tonic minds burdened with current
history that is anything but refreshing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08

closure. There was an element
of gratuitous insult in little
sir's" lecture but such is the
manner of little sirS" in mill
tary intelligence and. as our war
effort progresses, we shall have
to put up with lot more of it.
Technical detail was not the
kind of stuff that / came to see
or which customers of this col
umn would have an interest. I
had Just two objects. One was
to learn whether airplane manu-
facture really Is swinging into
the methods and tempo of mass
production. The other was 10
inquire whether this vital effort
on the coast is threatened with
the kind of labor stoppage that
is tying up production elsewhere.
I WAS agreeably surprised on
Il both points. When last /
went through these plants sew
eral years ago. the production
method was about that Of
Village dTeSSmakcr on sister
Susie's graduation gown. Each
job was a separate event like
building a house.
The astonishing tranSforma-
ton TO line-production is as
complete as it could possibly be
with such large units of such
complex design. The erection
of many other line-production
assembly plants is proceeding
rapidly Present overall per-
Torrance is nothing to write
home about and the masS-pro-
duction- methods of the auto
mobile industry can never be
applied TO these big ships.
There is no space here to de-
scribe in detail the new short
cut, speed-up methods but IT is
plain enough that. by tho end
of this year, American aircraft
viii be dropping off these pro-
duction lines as wheat from an
Elevator SnOut.
The labor situation. at least
in these southern California
plants, is as good as one could
wish. l never saw more intelli-
gent looking production crews.
II is a new game and they are
all young and mostly well edu-
Gated.
The matter Of training Of
SkillS has been tremendously
Speeded up by intense Specializa-
ton. After a few, early Com
munist attempts the radical
elements have been squeezed
out by the workers themselves.
II all looks very good.
The only presently threatened
bottle-necks are the little sirS. ="
not only in military intelligence
but on the army production side
also. There is too much stop
page through arbitrary change
of design and too much military
meddling with the highly spe-
cialized art OF manufacture
but that is another column.
Distributed by King Features synd.. in'
Reproduction IN whole Or IN part
strctly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08
Connolly Answers

la Coolidge; Cb) Cleveland.
(c) Wilson.
2-(a) supp1ication; fbl
trumpet flourish; Co dance.
3-(a) in a theater; 90 in a
golf bag; (cl scaffold for a
coffin.
IA destroyed by joshua:
(bl scene Of Christ's appear
ance after His Resurrection:
(c) where Christ lived for 30
years
5-(s) Samuel Langley: fb)
Cleveland Able (c) Chaucer.
6-(a1 Jane Eyre Brontc.
lbl The Light that Failed,
-Kipling. fcj "She Stops
10 Conquer" Goldsmith.
7-tsl Sargent; tbl Benton
lcl -O-Keefe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08
Firs+-CIass Heel Created
By SchuIberg, New Novelist
BY DAMON RUNYON

many great things again-had he
lived. He had TOO much of the
pure gold of talent in HIM to
keen hlal4n background.
"XVHAT Makes Sammy Run ~
W is a first novel and also
the story of another heel OF
such heelishneSs as-to rank him
close to Lardner's Champion
and OItara'S pal joey
1t Is by Budd Schuiberg, a
chap IN MS early twenties and
thc-son of one Of The best known
men in Screenvillc out where
they make the movies.
We are told that II is an cN-
ccllent picture of Hollywood a
point on which we are not COM
petent to pass because Of lack of
opportunity though we doubt
that it will be completely rel
iShed by all tho inmates OF that
interesting colony.
A SIDE from this, however. tho
"A novel indicates the arrival oil
a new young novelist. of which
we never have enough.
Schulberg can write He VIII
write many better things than
What Makes Sammy Run?
In saying this. we do not mean
20 imply that SAMMY diSap-
pointed US on the contrary. we
found it a good story speedy
and vigorous.
We admit that when we come
upon newcomer who can
handle dialogue and narrative as
clevcrly as young Schulberg VIC
are always inclined 10 overlook
deficiencies. If any. We know
that the lads will eventually get
polished up if they can write
from the state.
We are told that young Schulz
berg grew up IN the movie coll
ony Thus we suppose his picture
of the place. unSavory though IT
may seem in spots. may ~ aC-
cepted as accurate - certainly
more accurate than that Of
others who write OF Hollywood,
seeing little but imagining much.
When we first read John
O'Hara we said he would 60 far.
We think we can safely make
the same prediction of Budd
Schulberg. The kid can write.
Copyreht. 1871. King Features synd Inc
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08
| EFT ers TO
The Editor
TO TIE EDITOR:

THE big screaming headlines
= in all the newspapers tell the
whole, shameful, un-American
story. Go closes Ford plant!
We Americans, the laboring
man. everybody. should hang our
heads in shame.
Mr.. Ford has done more for
the American people and the
laboring man than any other
manufacturer.
He was the first to boost
wages; he improved working
conditions in his plants; his en-
ployeS are well paid; well housed,
many owning their own homes;
happy and satisfied with their
jobs.
Mr.. Ford probably remembers
better than any one his early
hardships and struggles before
he acquired wealth and fame. No
union or organization thought
Mr.. Ford was worth bothering
with then.
The Ford plant today is one of
the best in our country. pays big
dividends and is privately man.
aged. What a temptation for the
communiStic wolves.
Why should the Go or any
other organization have the right
to step in and take over the Ford
plant or any other organization
just because they are union?
If a union can do that to a
large manufactures. what will
they do 10 your home and family
later on. Mr.. Laboring Man?
The strike is holding up the
defense program and any one
holding up the program is only
aiding Hitler to get better
whackgat us.
My husband hasn't had a
steady job in 10 years because of
the union. We lost our home and
il has been a struggle to get
along. There are many more. He.
like thousands of others. would
be thankful and grateful TO have
a job in the Ford plant.
Labor seems TO think il is the
main spoke in the big wheel of
industry. Where would labor be
without the bG manufacturer?
Or the sales force2
Detroit labor is biting the
hand that has fed it ever since
Henry Ford drove his first ialopy
out of the old barn years ago.
Remember?
MRS. AGNES RICHARDS,
1851 Delaware,
Flint, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08
BY HUGH =. JOHNSON

=
Los ANGELES. April 8. -
One object of this trip to the
Pacific Coast was TO see at first
hand the progress of the very
vital war program of aircraft
production in the most modern
fighting planes. l saw all right,
but at the hour l arrived so did
our new amateur military Ges-
tapo in the person of a Little
Sir in HollywoOd-effect civilian
clothing with the imposing title
of colonel of military intelll-
gcnce.'
Some harmless pictures Of an
airplane production line had
been taken and published at the
request Of a top-fllght army air
general. Military intelligence
was fit to be tied There is an
old law left over from the
World War statutes that makes
il an offenSe punishable by 20
years hard labor to publish any
thing that may give military in
formation to a possible enemy.
l was duly lectured on this
point by little sir and told
that if | should write any col
umn affecting military intelli-
gencc Of any il must first be
submitted to Washington for
censorship. ! was refused any
information as TO rates Of plant
production.
A T THAT very moment Bill
"A Knudsen was on the air
broadcastinE to the world pre-
else rates of plane production
for March.
Furthermore, anybody who
knows anything about line
production could walk through
an airplane plant from the point
where production starts to where
II comes off the moving line. OBJ
serve the speed and tell the rate
with accuracy. Finally. l knew
the exact rate of production in
these plants before l ever left
Washington.
AS an experienced soldier. I
know what information would
help an enemy, and. as re-
serve officer, / would lean over
backward to prevent its dis
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08

To THE EDITOR: -
I Asst Saturday l was invited
II to London. Ont. and met an
American boy from Ohio who is
in the Canadian army.
During the evening our party
went to a local theater and saw
a newSreel showing Roosevelt
giving one of his latest speeches.
In contrast. | would like TO
mention also what happened the
same evening there. | found my
rear Michigan license plates al
most torn off both ends doubled
over so the number could not be
read.
Not only that. but one side of
the car was covered with deep
scratches maize by hand with
some sharp instrument.
No one in London could know
10 whom the car belonged. II
was the only Amerfcan car
s,a4eat =, - e,it,-.. St-s.Al ~ -
No wonder some of us like
Senator Wheeler.
". MCLEAN.
SI5 Lothrop avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08

1-OliVe drab.
2-An implement used for dig
ging and grubbine.
3-Lieutenant Colonel.
Isis.
5-A pudding made Of the heart.
liver. etc. Of d sheep or calf.
minced with Suet. oatmeal
and various other conSu-
tuents. and boiled in the
stomach of the animal
6-T'he iris.
Rome.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-08

WE SUPPOSE Charles Dick
W ems developed the greatest
heel characters in all fiction.
He rather specialized in heels"
a heel character is a guy
who is no good. (Oh yes. the
heel can be of the gentler sex,
too
A difference should be noted
between a heel and an out
right villain. The heel" is not
necessarily criminal, but nice
villain must have a slant in that
direction TO be interesting.
The heel" may be Just a bit
Of human dandruh, though of
course, he ought to be interest
ing too-otherwise there would
be no point of making char
acter of him. or her.
IN A STORY called Cham
i pion," Ring Lardner produced
the greatest heel in American
fiction until John O'Hara came
along with pal Joey"
O'Hara is a young fellow out
of Pottstown, or Pottsville, Pa,
we never can remember Just
which, who looks exactly like a
chap whose name is John O'Hara
and who is one of the most bril-
liant of our younger authors.
His first novel. Appointment
in Samarra," was a big sensa-
ton several years ago. He has
since written others not quite
so highly rated, but that in no
way detracts from his brilliance
You cannot hit 1000 all the time
in any league.
O'Hara created pal Joey" in
magazine writing and recently
put him in a musical show now
running on Broadway. turning
out one of the best books of
musical that has come along in
years.
1t is making more money than
may be good for young author
as counting the money takes
time that he should be putting
in a-straddle a typewriter.
But we have the consolation
of knowing that money is some
thing that always runs out on
young authors, and then they go
back to work.
O'Hara will write many more
novels in his time. He is still
one of our hopes for the great
American novel
NOW to tell you the truth,
~ we did not start out with
the intention of writing all this
about John O'Hara. We had
been saving him for a special &C.
casion. But what brought his
name up was seeing it on the
back of the jacket of new novel
entitled What Makes Sammy
Rum"
The name was over an in
dorsement of the work so en-
thuSiastic as to cause us u m
vest two-five-o in a copy. That
shows you our high opinion OF
OHara's judgment.
On the jacket also was boost
from F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose
death not long ago was calam-
ity TO American letters.
We never met Fitzgerald. but
we thought him one Of the finest
critics our native literature has
ever produced. He had appar-
emily fallen into the mood that
AZ times overtakes writer's or
feeling that he was all through,
and he seems 10 have been a sad
man in his late years.
But he would have written