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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14
War Etiquette
BeWilders Him

shooting a Frenchman on Frenchs
territory, and besides il might
aggravate the senility Of Mar
shall Petain.
Unfortunately. all the Stiffness
OF military courtesy is not con-
fined 10 the AXIS powers.
England and this country have
contributed their bit.
You must have seen the pic
lures OF the al freSco party that
England's General Montgomery
gave General Thoma, second
only 10 Rommel in Germanys
Afrika KorpS.
General Montgomery had no
m ore than captured General
Thoms than he flew back TO his
headquarters in the desert and
started toasting rolls and scenes
and seeing after the tea. for the
party IN General Thomas honor.
NOV, so help me, tough old
~ Ike Eisenhower - and this
must prove my point that mill
tary etiquette is stranger than
an interior decorator in the
marines OF Ike. himself. is
entertaining" Admiral Darlan.
If / can read between the
lines. Ike has brought out the
best family napery and silver.
torn up his coffee ration card
and promised the cooks an
extra two bits If the food is
extra good.
A month ago Darlan was uni
verSally accepted as a Laval
with gold braid.
Now he is playing gin rummy
with one OF our top commanders.
/ only hope that General Ike
Is using his own cards when
dealing, and not the admiral's
deck.
What do you think the Ger
mans would have done with
Montgomery if he had happened
TO fall into their hands?
What do you think would
have happened 10 General Ike if
he had been captured?
still maintain that this coun-
try and England are deter
mined 10 come out of this war
with the "E" pennant for de-
pertinent. if nothing else.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14

neper gdpe a lock of hair ni0ay
To man. dearest, except this
20 thee,
Which noW upon my fingers
thoughtfully
ring out 10 the fill bro0n
length and say
"Tdke IT,"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
above clearly reveals that
the term of endearment for her
loved one used by Mrs. Brown
ing was dearest. That was a
very good selection as it seems
more appropriate and sincere
than: darling"
The latter term is very popu-
lar in Hollywood. | think a
switch should be made to dear
est" in films as the cinema
cuties seem 10 have considerable
difficulty in pronouncing "dar-
ling in a way that makes il
seem natural.
They usually pronounce il:
"dolling. "-EVDO
A CCORDING TO the last
"A census there are 300 fem
mime bartenders in the United
States.
Only feminine bartender I
know of is a young woman who
acts in that capacity in a place
on East Forty fifth street,
M n h I tan, which is much
patronized by the gentlemen of
the press.
The same census states there
are Loaf feminine dentists.
Only female dentist / have
seen so far is smart red-haired
young woman of Los Angeles.
Most of her patients are men,
Never had any work done by
this lady herself but those who
have patronized her say she is
more sympathetic" than the
average male dentist.
I TAKE that Brooklynite who
l. challenged this department
TO name another couple, such as
the one he named. that had
been married so years.
/ beat h m on his HON e
grounds. / named Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Franks of Henry street,
Brooklyn, who have been mar
ried 81 years.
Anybody who starts betting
cigars with US is really taking a
chance.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Now they are saying Hazel
Brooks has the most beautiful
legs in Hollywood and 1 imagine
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14

THE BIG TIME: Harry Bru-
l. nos book, Wings Over
America" especially the chapter
on Lindbergh 1.-The Boy Grew
OlderD.
Fred Warnings excellent short
short on the Anthem.
The score of the forthcoming
music-drama. Stove Pipe Hat"
particularly beautiful being
Mothers Prayer" It's the life
of Lincoln.
Hemingway's Men at War
herman stuff.
That thrilling picture about
and with Capt. Wheless at the
Music Hall.
The Gordon-Warren score of
"SDfingtime in the Rockies"
The lovely likeness of Hotty
Lamar on the front of Pic.
Chicken a la Brazilian at the
Copacabana.
TIMES SO. Ticker: The gen.
darmes are looking for a
foursome a man and three gals
who are pulling the old badger
racket on married sinners. They
work" the midtown bars.
The F'BI has picked up an
army man. accused of forgery.
with night spots being his
targets.
Cantu, the magician at Leon
& Eddies, got Sl25 per. Follow
ing the paragraph in the colyum
recently. his bookings piled up
for 6 monthS-at $500 per in
most.
Capt Herschel Williams. who
co-auth'd jamie" and Linda
Watkins of that show are mer-
ger-bound.
Edwina Seaver Of the Balan-
chine Ballet b. being studied by
the ent-discoverers.
There are SIS Fl OH ywood
"names," OF which "a are on the
"a" list. The others are "B's."
George NJ. Cohans funeral at
tracted almost 10000 admirers.
He rarely went 10 funeral
including pal Sam Harris. Said
funerals depressed him.
THEY'D have you believe this
i happened somewhere in the
war zones. One soldier was de-
jected after reading letter
from home
did l get bad news" Re
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sv
Coffee RatiOninG
a Coffee Drinker

the waitress bring him half
coffee and half cream in every
cup.
He narrowly escaped a severe
penalty at the hands of the bona
fide coffee drinkers of Manhat-
tan because if you are an honest
coffee fellow you know very well
that is no way to treat coffee.
I USED to start my day with
seven or eight or nine cups
of coffee for breakfast with per-
haps 10 for lunch and maybe IL
for dinner. winding up with a
nightcap of, say, Is while I was
sitting around waiting for sun
rise.
OF late years I have reduced
the number of cups by drinking
the coffee direct from the perco-
lator. 1t keeps people from no.
ticing and remarking that 7
drink too much coffee.
/ have always secretly re-
sented that remark, especially
coming from blokes who would
be taking a dram of ulcer lima.
ment for every one of my cups.
They have been telling me for
years that something would hap
pen to me for drinking all that
coffee but nobody ever told me
that what was going to happen
would be as calamitous as get
ting cut down to one cup per
day.
Copyright. 1912, by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14

By Dr. Logan Clendenine

nURING the battle OF Wag-
~ ram, Beethoven sat in a
cellar in Vienna about 10 miles
away and composed one of the
movements OF the Eroica SYM
phony.
During the French Revolu-
ton. Joseph Priestly. in Eng
land. although his country was
al war with France. conducted
correspo dence with the
French chemist. Lavoisier. con-
corning the structure OF certain
gases.
When the soldiers of Mar
cellus found Archimedes in
Syracuse. he was in his garden
working on the hypotenuse of a
right-angled triangle,
Charles Martel smashed the
infidels at Tours, but one of
them. Ibn .RaZah, was writing
iliS tOiiiIIltii tai ltS Oil NilC SdIlOll
of Avicenna at Cordova.
During the battle of Water
loo young man was studying
in the wards Of the Necker
Hospital in Paris and a year
later he invented the stetho-
scope.
A Ii of which is put down 10
"A indicate that wars come
and go and one side wins and
one side loses. but the great
tides of civilization sweep on UNI
disturbed. and they are the
. most important thingS-not the
triumphs of the tupenny cap
tains and diplomats.
Mans ordered thought has
made only a few halts in its
advance from the days of
Egypt. and those halts were not
due TO wars.
II is one OF my deepest con-
victions that during this pres
ent emergency. no matter how
urgent the demands for funds
for war, we must hold the
gains we have made TO the per-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14

many people somewhat fed up
on this type Of claim are saying:
"Who cares:"
I still say / would like 10
know what girl has the most
beautiful eyes IN Hollywood.
incidentally, Director Mefvyn
Leroy who has discovered more
stars than any Hollywoodian
recently said the first time he
looks for in a feminine starring
prospect is sympathetic eyes"
QUERIES from clients.
" Q. What do you think of
a man who claims the best
cooked chicken is fried chicken :?
A. l think he is right.
q. What about this Holly
woodian who claims she can
grow hair on bald heads? Is
there really anything to il
Al hesitated to ignore this
claim because from what / have
heard. / think she might pos
sibly be able 10 do il in some
cases.
However, I did not want to
be put in the position of en-
dorsing the claim.
Therefore. l suggested the
call for bald-headed volunteers
and conduct an experiment de-
signed to prove her claim.
After all, l think we should
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14
TAKEN by and large tmore
= large than by. Of Counsel l

AMIN DN anu large NIlOIe
large than by. of course) !
am a fairly well-bred man.
Mama taught me TO take of
my hat when women came into
elevators. 10 hop out OF chairs
when ladies came into the room.
10 say thank you" when | took
my fourth biscuit and generally
10 wear myself out curtesying
and bowling and trying 10 keep
my balance on one foot.
Papa taught me always 10 LET
Johnny get up after | had hit
him before / hit him again.
Papa taught me that when
shooting marbles for keeps. I
always should match an agate
against an agate. and not try
10 palm off a CLASSY taw for a
high grade shooter
My sisters taught me the
proper use of the knife and
fork. and my brothers instructed
me in the art of wearing hand
me-down clothes with casual
fair.
l might add that I ran the
casual touch a little bit into the
ground.
THERE were times when Il
i was touch and go as 10
whether / would be voted the
most casually dressed adolescent
in Georgia, or be picked up as
the most exposed youngster in
the state.
This bit of biographical back
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14


I QUOTE a heading from a late
number of the Journal of the
American Medical Association
Tuberculosis on the Way
Out"
Our statistics for the whole
registration area of the United
States were completed in 1888.
From 1900 to 1888 some OF the
states admitted had the highest
mortality in tuberculosis be-
cause they were regarded as
resort states where the climate
was beneficial to the disease.
Yet the recorded tuberculosis
mortality in the registration
area declined from ia per
100000 in 1900 to AZ in 1888.
Since 1888 the decline has
been proportionately even more
rapid.
The total number of deaths in
1888 was 67,422 and in 1910.
55,576; and this despite a great
gain in actual population.
IN THE West North Central
L section. embracing seven
states. the death rate from
tuberculosis was 26 per 100000
population in 1910.
The growth of institutional
cases is shown by the figure that
"a per cent of all tuberculosis
deaths now occur in institutions.
This is a gain which mankind
cannot afford 10 let drift. There
is every indication that the rec
ord can be made better.
No matter what the exigencies
of war. this country which
suffers no destruction of its hos
pitals must keep up the work,
by buying Christmas seals TO
prevent tuberculosis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14

keep an ope n mind on these
things.
Certainly. if this expert can
grow hair IL will be wonder
full thing for many unfortunate
people.
q. have a good but stubborn
husband. He has a good but
temperamental wife, when we
argue. who should give in first?
i always do.
A. Maybe the reason your
husband appears stubborn is be-
cause he knows If he holds out
you always will give in. Per-
haps he isn't stubborn at all,~
just smart.
When you are certain you are
right, don't give in. This query
has been turned over to our men
and mules department for fur
Their study, and we may have
some other suggestions in an
early issue.
Q-Isn't Marian Anderson as
wonderful singer as Adelina
Patti?
Al never heard Patti sing.
However. l again took the mat
ter up with the old gentleman
in music department and he
said:
my boy, II you had heard
Patti sing you wouldn't ask that
Q-I found a piece of a torn
dollar bill. Is it worth any,
thing?
A-Depends on the size. II IL
is three-fifths of a dollar bill
you can get a dollar for it. II
il is less than three-fifths you
get half a dollar.
DETROIT subscriber says her
~ name is Halina and she
claims this is another way to
spell Helen.
/ am informed that another
popular song in praise of a wife
is titled: my Darling Wife,"
This ditty specifically praises q
wife named vi.
States Owen 3. Hunt.
"The rolls Of the Continental
Army show that SO per cent Of
the Revolutionary soldiers wero
Irishmen.
Twenty-Five generals In tho
forces which fought for and
won Independence for the United
States were Irishmen or de-
scendants of Irishmen.
The Declaration of Inde-
pendence was signed by IL
Irishmen."
Copyright. 1912. by King Features.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14
Men al War
He-N1an Stuff

be a hero, but one can always
be a mani
II. Shriner: Henry Kaiser
Old Man Riveter.
A. p. Herbert: To me, the
conception of two living to-
gether for % years. without a
cross word is absurd. and sug-
gests a lack of spirit only TO
be admired in sheep. Where
there is spirit there must be
sparks.
NEW WORKERS are talking
IN about the New Workers who
are supporting one of those in
dicted by the federal grand jury
whose faces are going to be so
cerise when the trial ends.
The young engineer who de-
vised a plan to put idle ma
chinery into war production
while training workers at the
same time. couldn't get any,
where al the capital and had TO
quit trying when his funds ran
out.
AS result many Washington
eXecs will be embarrassed when
his book, Washington Brush
OF" comes out soon. His name
is j. Lockard.
The interesting point by the
historian of the state department
that Hitler and Napoleon both
were stopped in the channel. in
Egypt and in Russia.
Why Frenchmen would want
10 fight their rescuers - when
they didn't put up much OF a
fight against enemies
Philip Barry'S adroit handling
Of ticklish subject-Ireland-
in the new Hepburn show.
And Audrey Christie's fine
performance in IT,
~ME AND MY GAL"-the
WI film-good entertainment.
The vile names Hitler called
FDR in his hysterical speech
which no paper mentioned.
The radio names" who have
told sponsors that since their
alaries will be drastically
shaved--they won't do repeat"
broadcasts.
BROADWAY Wiseguy: S25 900
- a year will still buy lotta
ham.
Copyright b. Daily Mirror. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14
The Brighter Side

TT SEEMS that I curtailed my
L coffee drinking in good sea-
son now that we are TO be
limited to one cup per day after
November %. / can get along all
right on that now. if they mean
two-gallon cups. though at the
peak Of my coffee drinking form
| would have considered such an
infinitesimal quantity sheer tan
talization.
hope and trust that my read
ers will not think / am Boosting
when / mention that / once held
the coffee drinking championship
on Manhattan Island north of
Park Row. 1t is an historical
fact.
A man by the name of Snug
gers. a Wall Street broker, which
put him south of the point men,
toned, was reputed to be
superior to me but from the
World Building to Spuyten Duy-
vii l admittedly had no peer.
Years ago when / was in the
absolute pink. my admirers tried
10 arrange a coffee drinking con-
test between me and this Snug
gers for a considerable side bet
and he declined the issue when
our side insisted as a condition
that the spoons remain in the
cups during the drinking.
admit now that there was
sharp dealing in this condition
as we learned that Smuggers
was a Harvard man and had
been taught coffee drinking
under the effete spoon-out sys-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14
by Damon RunyOn

tenn while I had been trained
since infancy on imbibing cof-
fee with the spoon left in the
cup.
S YOU know, the spoon-in
"A method eliminates the waste
of time involved in removing
the spoon and placing il on the
table BESIDES giving you a
firmer grip on the cup and as
speed in drinking was to count
i would have had distinct adj
vantage here. Moreover, / knew
how to avoid optical injury from
the spoon handle during the
drinking, a hazard that the in
experienced could not always
overcome. So 1 never hooked
up with Smuggers.
My most important contest
was against James J. Johnston,
the fight manager, a notable
coffee drinker of a bygone
Broadway period, the terms
being that we drink coffee in
every establishment in which
that beverage was retailed from
the Child's Restaurant in the
vicinity of Forty-seventh and
Broadway to another Child's on
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street in Harlem.
Mr.. Johnston had a world of
early stomach for coffee and
was 20 cups up on me when we
reached Sixty-sixth and Column
bus. at which point he was dis
qualified by the judges when
they discovered he was having
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-14
The On|ooker
by Henry McEemOre

ground is offered simply 10 show
that the author fcries OF Hear,
HearD is not a blackguard run
ming wild midst the social
graccs.
HowSoever land you get s TO
I from me that the word is Obso-
lete and hasn't been used since
Godfrey Chaucer fell off his
horse on the way 10 Canter-
bury no matter how much a
man knows about chivalry and
courtesy. modern military eu-
quette Is bound TO bewilder, be-
fuddle and bifocal him.
will now exhibit a few ex-
hihitS. If you will excuse me for
not having a synonym for ex-
hibits al the tip of my tongue.
EXHlBIT a. Radio Toxic
IL says the invasion of North
Africa by United States forces
is an ungentlemanly act, and
possibly illegal
Exhibit b Radio Rome says
the success of the American IN
vasion of Africa is due 10 the
unfair tactics Of the United
States in sending superior forces
Of men ships and planes. Rome
made il quite plain that il con-
sidered these tactics unfair,
unethical and un-FaSciSt
Exhibit c.: Radio Vichy says
that for the United States
troops 10 shoot a Frenchman on
French territory is the same as
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enemies mankind ever had.
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BROADWAY Wiseguy: S25, 900
- year Will still buy a lotta
ham.
Copyright by Daily Mirror. Inc.
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-04-24

ried son or daughter would often
come to the old homestead, at
least for while; then they would
take a farm of their own, most
probably a rented one.
All of these living under one
roof naturally made wash-day a
big day at least once week. May.
be oftener. if little kiddies helped
to make up the household.
The ash hopper was a triangular
cOntrivance, with the apex below
Here is where the I've ran out. the
purpose of the old hopper being to
make this lye. used in the home
made manufacture of soap. How?
Well, for the benefit of those who
have outlived the old hopper, we
will explain that the farmers wife
would save up all the off-fall rinds
from meats cooked throughout the
winter. These rinds would be
placed in the lye. the chemical
properties of which would dissolve
the rinds, and here is where the
basic principle for soap was OBJ
I tanned.
We can still see father, mother
or the hired man lining the old
hopper with rye straw. In these
old stoves large sticks or. more
strictly speaking. logs would be
burned. These would have the
fires of the logs covered in the
evening upon retiring SO as to have
! fire to start with in the morning.
/ These old stoves made excellent
ashes for the hopper, often being
from hickory wood. These stoves
were known as "ten plate stoves.
After the ashes were placed in
the hopper, which had been lined
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-04-24
cence:

cence:
1t was not "a thing OF beauty
nor "a JOY forever" II was mis-
shaped and ungainly in every fea-
ture Of its construction. And we
know it was not "a joy forever,
for they have gone with the years
giving way to modern methods
in place of those of horse and bug
gy days. But in it's time it served
place of usefulness and those of
our fathers and grandfathers liv-
ing then would not have known
how to get along without it. Prac-
tically every farm house possessed
one.
The old ash hopper. which in
years gone by was used for that
indispensable article - soap!
The hopper lye made hard and
soft soap. the latter no doubt be-
ing an unknown quantity in the
minds of people today.
But back there in the years,
homemade soap the product of
this old ash hopper. was necessary
and a plenty of it. Large kettles
of hard soap would be made, which
would be cut out in bars and laid
away for future use, as needed.
Soft soap was of equal value.
In those days it was not unusual
to have large families. The large,
old farm houses many of which
can still be seen, attest to that fact
In addition to the large family OF
the farmer and his wife the mar
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-04-24

with rye straw, (now more or less
a rarity) water would be poured
in the hopper. This would soak
down through the mass and run
out in vessel at the apex as lye.
There were also places in Ha-
gerstown where you could bring
your soap fat and have it made
into soap for toll charge. similar
to the practice of the old-time mill
er, with the farmers grain and
corn. A soap manufactory like
this in HagerstOwn was that o.
Louis Wier, located in the eastern
section Of the city. Mr. Wier is
said TO have conducted quite a
profitable business. This. by the
way, is another one Of the old
landmarks of HagerstOwn now
gone