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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

IN OUR two wars preceding
L this one, ! heard much CAB
about what the soldiers were
going TO do politically-wise when
they got home. They were 60
ing TO exert their voting strength
10 revamp the government and
make new laws and run the
whole works generally. Listen
ing to the campfire and squad
room chin-music you got the
idea that the boys would con-
stitute formidable political
clement when they got home.
But what happened was they
all dropped back into the ranks
of the old parties and the only
political concern of many of
them seemed to be TO get into
office themselves under one BAN
ner or another and hang on as
long as possible. And there was
no considerable revamping as
far as they were concerned and
no successful effort to concen-
trate the old soldier vote as a
single force because the old
soldiers were too individualistic
TO stand for 1t.
VETERANS organ cations
were formed that on occa-
sion became pressure groups on
certain propositions after the
fashion of the once powerful
Grand Army of the Republic.
an offshoot CT the Civil War
that exercised great political
power for a time in the North,
but no organization that sprang
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
BY Henry McLemOre

there is no denying that she is
striking beauty.
II is entirely possible that her
chic Harper's Bazaar appearance
in Congress will spur her male
colleagues 10 prImp up a bit.
Some of the boys might even
get haircuts. and make reck-
less investment and get their
suits pressed.
Now that Mrs Luce has been
elected land there is no denying
that her glamour had as much
TO do with her success in the
campaign as her knowledge Of
world affairs IL is entirely pos
sible that glamour and attrac-
tiveness will play larger and
larger parts in political life.
WHO knows but that some
w state. Delaware say. will
become jealous of Connecticut
and its handsome congress
woman. and decide 20 run
lithesome torch singer. who,
when a filibuster is needed, can
tie things up by singing all of
Cole Porter. Noel Coward. Rog-
ers and Hart. and Vincent YOU
mans.
No one can tell me that
sweet little thing with more
curves than pretzel with
cramps, singing Some day III
find you" wouldn't be an i'm
provement on a fat congressman
with retread cuffs believing on
and on and on.
Another state Jealous Of
Delaware's torch singer, will
run Gypsy Rose Lee. and have
her present a new tax bill while
shedding her--well, whatever IL
is that strip teasers moult just
before the trap drummer starts
the roll on the drums and the
idiot in charge of the lighting
system starts dimming the
place.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
On the Side

AT thou a romans soR
And knowst not chot i, Is 10
IOve!
Shakespeare.
MARTHA WOLF. At "a she
WI is successful novelist.
Her latest novel. Night Shift"
will be made into a film star
ring Ann Sheridan and Hum
phrey Bogart.
Martha is red-haired.
As a rule red-haired female
writer's have much ability in
writing love stories that have
zip in them.
AS you will recall, Elinor Glyn
Is red-haired.
30 McMillin.. Once of the
Centre College of Kentucky
football team, now head coach
at University of Indiana.
The Centre College team was
tabled The Praying Colonies"
by the sports writer's because
the members of this outfit AL
ways prayed before taking the
field Tor a game.
HAVE you a nickname for
H your baby? In the lounge
car OF the Chicago 10 San
Francisco train ] heard a young
mother addressing her baby as
Butch
How are these for a pair Of
fiowery menu items? I noted
them on a dining car menu:
Tender pieces Of spring lamb
braised slowly with small vege-
tables and served piping hot
en- casserole"
select beefsteak rolled in po-
tatO meal and cooked slowly in
butter with anchovy filets and
fine herb sauce"
Owing 10 an increasing short
age Of Pullman porters. there
may soon be Pullman maids.
II would seem the work done
by a porter in making up berths
is too hard for woman.
But evidently not as the air
hostesses on some sleeper planes
handle that job very easily.
HAVE heard of a machinist
II whose pay check came 10
S236 a week However, he had
to work 100 hours that week 10
get that pay check which called
for time and a half for every
hour over 40 worked in said
week.
Elaine Barrie who was once
starred In a short film titled
How TO Undress in Front of
Your Husband" now lives alone
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
The On|ooker

A LTHOUGH my family and
n forebears have voted the
Democratic ticket for so long
that some members of The FAM
lily actually resemble donkeys.
il pleased me TO have Glare
Boothe Luce elected 10 the
House of Representatives on the
Republican ticket.
will be out of the State of
Texas before this article is re-
leased. which is a bit of wisdom
on my part. because in Texas a
man who has Republican lean
ings is looked on as a fugitive
from Kokokai. and here in Dali
las children pick up pin money
by pointing out Republicans as
they pass along the street.
Mrs. Luce's victory in Con-
necticut will give Congress
something it sorely needs, a bit
OF glamour.
No matter how much you may
love congress ana the steIHnS
statesmen who make II up, you
can't possibly find IL in your
heart 10 call IL glamorous.
There is nothing to lift the
heart in a string tie. nothing 10
gladden. the corpuscles in flow
ing name. nothing in a Malacca
cane and pair Of spats TO
make a citizen jump with JOY. -
/. 4 S A matter of fact Congress
"A is ugly
Most men are ugly, and when
you get as many together as you
get in Congress you are bound to
create a spectacle that makes
one wonder why there never has
been a smoked glass concession
in the gallery of the Lower
House.
Mrs. Luce will add class TO
Congress.
No matter what YOU think
about her political thinkings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Soldiers Seldom
Sway Politics

about what they were going to
do when they got home. but who
soon found the old American
way of life politically and other
wise good enough for them.
WHAT I am getting at is the
W soldiers will not run the
country and will not want to run
il unless there is reversal of
American form for which there
is no precedent in our history,
and which / do not expect.
l believe. however. that GER
tain things should be done for
the soldiers before they come
home which will show them that
the nation is fully appreciative
of their efforts and one of these
things is the continuance of full
pay for them for a year after
being mustered out. unless in
the meantime they get jobs.
I presented this suggestion
some time ago and ] believe
there is bill in Congress in line
with my suggestion. ! hold that
il would eliminate unrest among
the soldiers when they return
as well as give some peace OF
mind to them while they are in
the service, It would give the
discharged man a chance to rest
and recuperate while readjust-
ing himself without having to
worry about his next meal which
I can tell you has happened to
a lot of fellows after our wars.
Copyright. is42. by King Features
Distributed by international News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

in a small apartment with three
dogs and two canaries.
And the woman who wrote
Live Alone and Like II" is NOW
married TO a millionaire grocer.
WOMEN have. been using first
w names intended for men for
over 600 years. So states Mary
Frost Mabon, the baby naming
expert.
However. this statement does
not discourage this department.
Our bitter campaign. No. 3886D,
against the use of male names
by females will continue as
usual.
Our claim still is that girls
using such names as Sidney,
Alexis and leslie are unneces-
sarily adding TO the confusion of
an already too much confused
world.
On the other hand we feel
men who have such names as
Marion, Beverly and Kay also
should make a change.
Those named Florence should
do likewise, though theirs was
originally a mans name.
The first feminine Florence
was Florence Nightingale who
was named after the city of
Florence which was named after
man.
Florence got under way as a
popular name for females when
mothers began naming their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
The Brighter Side
by Damon RunyOn

out of our two wars preceding
this one has ever had sufficient
strength to decide a national
issue.
And what happened before
will probably happen again. The
veterans of the present war once
they are out of uniform will
again become Democrats or Re-
publicans or whatever the par
ties of the day may be.
/ presume that through their
veterans organizations they will
have the same localized influ-
ence as at present when they
choose to exert it, but not
nationally as one element.
OF COURSE. there will be
~ more veterans out of this
war than ever before in our his
tory and l am not saying that
they could not be political
power if they organized to that
end. I am just saying that il
is unlikely an organization of
any vast political import can
ever be effected among them
because the political thinking of
the majority is already pretty
we'll set and / doubt that 1t is
subject to sudden change.
Many of the youngsters will
probably join the American
Legion which has just opened its
doors to them, or the Veterans
of the Foreign Wars and come
under the steadying influence of
the oldsters who once were
quite conversational themselves
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
On Broadway
Things INeUer
Kneu0 Til NoD

HHAT you shouldn't applaud
at the end of The Star
SpaEgled Banner" ct would be
just as correct TO applaud a
minister's prayer)
That Kate Smith detests cuss-
ing SO much - Paramount once
issued an order threatening dis
missal to those swearing in her
presence.
That Noel towards film. I'm
Which We Serve still has TO
get by the Hays office. First
film ever TO use barroom pro-
fanityD
That on page 81 Of the Man
haitian phone directory. Algon-
quin Q. Fanfare is nom de
plume for Capt. Kelly Anthony.
y. S. A.
THAT Nanny singer Jolson
i always called his mother
"Mom"
That IL takes almost a mile of
wire TO make an average full
size screen for the window. CAS-
if flies givadamD
That George Jean Nathan
can't stand seeing a woman
eating.
That the mother of poet Ed
win Markham this Man with
the Hoe" is his most famedl
was maiden named Winchell.
(Well. nowD
That "Humoresque." lis I e d
among the lighter classics. was
originally composed 10 describe,
unsteady. the movements of a
drunk.
WHAT when your doctor writes
L on the prescription: Cos
sypium purifactum" don't get
panicky. 1T only mesns absorb
ent cotton.)
That Z per cent of the people
are in poorhouses. Hey, wait
flor mel
That Miles Standish was one
|of the few warriors correctly
christened. Miles, in Latin,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Trade Mark Registered. Copyright. is42

means soldier. tOh, J read it
somewhereD
That Jack London wife cured
him Of his alcoholic appetite by
allowing him 10 get wooned one
day week Thursdays. CLitree
men say that he got so disguised
with the routine--he quit en-
tirely)
That the first typewriter was
greeted with suspicion. 1t seemed
subversive. "a reporter proved
its worth in a courtroonfD
That when Gandhi first came
10 London he was a dandy.
Featured the finery OF a swell.
plus a cane and a posy in his
lapel.
THAT it's legal for a woman
L 10 wed a woman in Ger
many.
That you can obtain divorce
in Nevada after residing there
6 weeks. But 10 get a fishing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

BY DIR. Logan CIendening

HENROM Consumption TO Tu-
L berculosis in Connecticut. y
is the title of a pamphlet which
came to my desk.
Its phraseology is intended 10
denote the change that has &C.
Cured in the public viewpoint OF
the disease.
Ii was called consumption"
in 1900 and consumption meant
a disease that relentlessly con-
sumed its victim.
II is called tuberculosis now.
which means we know the cause,
we know il is a contagious dis
ease and therefore preventable.
and also we know ways of treat
ing II that result in cure.
THE year 1900 Is selected be-
L cause about that time the
Gaylord Farm Sanitarium was
erected. one of the first hospitals
exclusively for the treatment of
tuberculosis TO be financed by
state legislature.
AS the building was being
built near Wallingford. a New
England family living in a
nearby farm house watched il
with mixed emotions of interest
and skepticisrn.
The oldest son OF the family
had died of consumption. the
Oldest daughter was in the last
stages of the disease and two of
the remaining children had
coughs.
They had been told this was
10 be hospital for curing con-
sumption.
But how foolish it seemed TO
them.
They had been told. they knew
from experience tuberculosis
was an incurable disease.
They thought il was heredi-
tary because didn't they all have
II in the family?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
ExPert Testimony
How to Quiet q Mule
Told by Old Hand

Until the present days Of mechanical warfare, no
battle complete WithOm its complement Of army
mules Back in 1917 Bugs" Bder speaking
terms Nth erery Missouri Nightingale IN the armed
and doesn't mind telling about them.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

IAN you imagine family con-
~ versstion piece that goes
like this:
Papa: My Congressional Rec
ord arrives today. Wei all stay
home and read il tonight.
Mama; Oh goody!
Children: Oh goody, Papa,
will YOU read il aloud? We are
keeping up with Congressman
Jones thrilling four-part talk
on the corn borer and how il
can be checked.
No. You can't imagine such
a thing. Neither can you pic
ture a young man silly enough
to try TO pay his way through
college selling subscriptions TO
the Congressional Record.
If he worked from sunup 10
shutdown, and sold only TO SYM
pathetic relatives. he couldn't
make enough in Is years TO pay
Tor the SINCE and shave course
1T Mothers Barber College.
The more l think about the
Congressional Record. the more
/ am convinced il is not worthy
OF this attention.
SO. good-by. until tomorrow
when / will do a learned piece
on how TO feed a canary prop
erlv from a reclining position.
Distributed nv McNaught Syndicate inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Novelist
Red-Haired

feminine offspring after Florence
Nightingale.
NOR part OF the last war I was
H stationed at the Preside OF
San Francisco.
That wac when I was wide
eyed youth fresh from the play
ing fields of southern Brooklyn.
/ thought / would take a trip
TO San Francisco and see how it
was doing in this war.
So here l am in a room high
up above San Francisco Bay.
l just arrived 81 I can't te..
you much yet as to what is GO
ing on by the Golden Gate.
except that some of the ferries
and all the cable cars are still
running. the usual number OF
smartly dressed females can be
seen wandering along Suffer
street, the sky is sunny and the
air is snappy and they have Chi
nese elevator girls at the Fair
mont Hotel on Mob Hill.
But more of San Francisco
anon.
/ first must infiict upon you
the notes that are on a piece OF
copy paper I carried all the way
from New York.
QUERIES from clients:
W @. Can a bachelor adopt
baby?
A. 1t has been done. / know
a New York bac Tor who
adopted a baby. Not only that;
when a specialist said it would
be better for the child's health
if he was taken to a more tenn
perate climate, the bachelor gave
up his job in Manhattan and
took one at half the salary in
California.
Q. Why waste space on silly
discussions For example, OF
what value is it to a man to
know how to put a crab to sleep
a question you recently dis
cussed?
A. My discussion as to put
ting a crab to sleep was inspired
by a query from a client.
In any event, il isn't as silly
a matter as 1t seems.
When live crabs are shipped
more can be put in box if they
are asleep at the time of the
packing
Therefore. il is essential that
a crab packer know how TO put
a crab to sleep.
Anyway. that is what fell
low from down around Chesa-
peake Bay. told me.
Copyright, 1912, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

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20 THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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form all news dispatches credited 70 IL or
not otherwise credited In this paper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

WHEN the Gaylord Farm
w Sanitarium was opened
there was S92 in the treasury.
But Doctor Foster, one OF the
directors, said:
THE people want to know IL
or IL not the disease can be
cured IL is only by taking the
patient to high mountain eli
mate.
They are surprised that we
are building hospital to treat
il i'm the very climate, yea right
next door to where their dear
ones have sickened and died.
Naturally they are unwilling
to risk much money. We must
60 on with what we have.
If the work proves good, the
people will not let II fail. III 1t
is no good, IL ought to fail"
II proved good, and the people
have not let it fail. Do your
share this year again by buying
Christmas seals.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

THEY were not the only ones
Il who thought that way.
The Legislature was only with
great difficulty persuaded TO
pass the appropriation for the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

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TO any place in the United states, Canada
~ Mexico. ION Canadian subscriptions add
lOS 10 cover war import taxi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
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Distributed by King Feature. synd,. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Disease
Changes

sanitarium and they voted a
niggardly S25, 900.
The public itself was skepti-
cal and the medical society was
constrained 10 issue a pro-
nouncement as follows-how far
away il seems as we read it:
Resolved, that through the
public press we announce TO the
citizens of our state that the
disease generally known a.
consumption Is not hereditary,
but acquired: IL Is caused by
germ: that the germ is found
in the sputum of persons sick
of the disease, and that by the
complete destruction of all such
sputum. consumption can be
made to disappear. That con-
sumptives I'm hospitals should be
In a ward by themselves"
Well. that was in 1900. The
comparative statistics OF tuber-
culosis in Connecticut testify
10 the wisdom and foresight of
the founders Of Gaylord.
Deaths from
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Bit of Glamour
For Congress

WHO knows but that in the
w years 10 come Congress will
be renamed the Diamond Horse
shoe Sherman Billngsley OF the
Stork Club will be sergeant-at-
arms, ard Billy Rose chosen
Democratic whip q.
There will be tea dancing
floor. shows az $50 and 245,
and during interuission Joe l..
Lewis and frankie Hyres will
entertain
1t is 10 he hoped that any
changes toward glamour in Con-
gress will result in a glamour
blood TRANSMISSION for that distin-
guished magazine. the Congress
sional Record.
1t should add a cooking page.
a column of advice for lovelorn
congressman. a few. drawings by
Petty. good. Sound horse
Handicapped and a few cartoons.
This isn't as silly as II sounds.
The people of this country
should read the Congressional
Record 10 see what elected rep
resentatives are allegedly doing.
but try 10 name me a citizen
who subscribes 10 the thing and
awaits its arrival with anything
bordering on happy anticipation.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

Double Door
Wordrobes
$l3.95

-7oxo4xo0" furniture
steel wardrobe closet
with hat shelf and
strong clothes rod.
Center brace.
Arkansas State press., 1942-08-21

white bfakemen on southwestern,
southeastern and southern rail-
roads. Plans will also he made
for the selection of representatives
in all western, middle west.
southeastern and southern and
southwestern states and on all rail
roads wherever Negroes are em-
ployed to form committees on rail
road manpower to work jointly
with the Presidents Committee on
Fair Employment Practice, to go
into and make investigation into
discriminatory practices of the
railroad companies against Negro
labor, and to call upon the govern
ment to insist that the railroads
abide ty the Presidents Executive
Order $500, to the end that the
railroads abolish such practices of
discrimination against Negro la
bor in the hiring and promoting
of Negro employees in the interest
Of mcbilizing the nations full
manpower for winning the war,
Arkansas State press., 1942-08-21
Record Attendance Expected At
Annual Confab.-.|ra Savi||e, Y. Pres.

ident, Omaha; Omak Ezell, vice
president, Mobile. Ala; Henry T.
kurn, vice president, Hugo, Okla, /;
W. b, Mitchell, vice president,
b. o. Grayne, vice president. Kan,
sas City, Mo-; George Hirman,
Oklahoma City; Hurley Aibbs,
vice president, Valley Park, Mo-;
vice president. Oklahoma City;
Henry Winston, vice president,
Springfield, Mo-; U. V. Weathers.
assistant director of organizations,
st, Louis, Mo-; Clinton Massengale
general treasurer, Springfield, Mo.
Leray A, Tease, general secretary,
Oklahoma City; Frank Gillima,
vice president, New Orleans; j.
F, Price, secretary, Missouri Pa
cific System lodges, st. Louis, and
representatives from all local
lodges.
Arkansas State press., 1942-08-21

During the session, all national
officers will be elected as the
term Of office of those now head
ing the Brotherhood ends in Aug
ust. The list of the executive
board and representatives AS an
nounced by President Steve Ben
nett of Oklahoma City. Okla, who
are expected to attend this annual
convention are: Vernon c. Coffey,
director general attorney, Kansas
City, Kas.; l., M, Hoyl, director
general chairman, Frisco Lines,
Kansas City, Mo-; l.. w. Fair
child, director, Popular Bluff, Mo,
S, l.. Howard, director, Memphis,
Tenn; John Benion, director, oil
organizations, st. Louis, Mo-; P
Moppin, assistant to general presi-
dent, st. Louis, Mo-, Heard Me
Pherson, assistant to general pres
ident, Springfield, Mo-; r. L.
Pettis, vice president, st. Louis I;
Ira Saville, vice president, Little
Rock; William Eldridge, vice pres
Arkansas State press., 1942-08-21
READ AND SUPPORT YOUR
HOME TOWN PAPER.

the light" "What's the matter,
Bigger?" "How many times do
you want me to ask you to turn on
the lights?" She turned it on.
"Pull them shades" She lowered
the shades. He stood watching her
Now, don't want any trouble out
Of her. He went to the dresser and
pushed her jars and comb brush
es aside and took the packages
from his pocket and laid them in
the cleared spaces. Bigger"
He turned and looked at her.
"What?" "You amt really plan
ming to do that, sure 'nough?"
"What the hell you Think"
"Bigger, nav"
He caught her arm and squeezed
it in a grip of fear and hate. "fou
amt gonna turn away from me
CONTINUED ON Page g.
Arkansas State press., 1942-08-21

of this. Yes; he would send the
kidnap note, He would jar them
out Of their senses.
When the car came he rode
south and got off at Fifty-first
Street and walked to Bessie's. He
had to ring five times before the
buzzer answered. Goddammit,
bet she is drunk He thought. He
mounted the steps and saw her
peeting at him through the door
with eyes red form sleep and alco-
hol. His doubt of her made him
fearful and angry. bigger 2
She asked. "Get back in the room,
he said. "What's the matter?' she
asked. backing away. her mouth
opened.
"Let me in Open the doorw
She threw the door wide, almost
stumbling as she did 50. Turn on
Arkansas State press., 1942-08-21

up, distant, like god. He owned
property all over the Black Belt
and he owned property where the
white folks lived, too. But Bigger
could not live in a building across
the cline" Even though Mr.. Dali
ton gave millions of dollars for
Negro education, he would rent
houses only to Negroes in the pre-
scibed area, this corner of the city
tumbling down from rot. In a
sullen way Bigger was conscious