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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
BY Damon RunyOn

tary purposes. that she would
like to see all men of that age
called for the dangerous duty in
stead of the Is and 19-year-old
boys and so would /, If I
thought the old guys would be
of any account in that role.
But 1t Is just idle to talk of
men of middle age flying the
warplanes or standing up under
the military grind long enough
to win the war.
"You admit" the lady says,
chat the fellows over 40 are
nothing TO brag about. They are
usually . hard looking lot, pot
bellied, hairless, sickly looking
specimens to say the least. But.
ut least, they have lived their
lives and possibly have contrib
uted to humanity a couple of
healthy offspring.
IS A Nd for this reason, IL moth
"A ing else, they should an
swer the call to military service
to protect that offspring that
they have thrust upon the world.
Its the most unfair, one
sided, inhuman thing that was
ever fostered I'm the minds of
mon to send these children of
Is and 10 into bloody battle.
They have never had a chance
to live"
Much Of this is sadly true,
and all of IL has been thought
and expressed one way and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23

Such Il true love which steals
into the heart
With feet as silent as the light
some ddWn,
A love that gives and takes, that
seeth faults
Not pith fouit-seeking eyes ike
needle points,
But Nth loving, kindly looks
them dotCn
With the overcoming faith that
still forgives.
Lowell.
EVOUR sad and plethoric
Il countenance" is the way
a subscriber refers TO my photo
graphic likeness. That is the
second time my face has been
styled "plethoric."
The first time I looked II up
In the dictionary with dis
couraging results as plethoric is
defined as: Overloaded. Over
full. Inflated"
Imagine being told you have
an overloaded face" or IAN in
flated face" It's terrible. If I
wasn't afraid / would miss the
first race / would 60 up TO my
room and have a good cry.
QUERIES from clients:
VI (Which girl has the
best opportunity for studying
men: a dancing teacher, a
stenographer or a manicurist.
Al would say a manicurist,
a stenographer and dancin 6
teacher in the order named. Still
it is hard question to decide.
A stenographer who is a private
secretary has a great opportunity
of studying her boss.
But she does not have the
opportunity of studying as many
different types of men as mani
curist. All indications are, that
of the three, manicurists are the
best judges of male character.
Q-Have been away on my va
cation. Missed seeing the paper.
Did you find out yet what woman
first wore pants in Hollywood |;
was it Carlo or Dietrich?
A-Veteran Hollywoodians say
the first woman TO wear slacks
in Hollywood was ALA Nazim-
ova.
GLARE BOOTHE LUCE. Can
~ didate for Congress. Just to
show she isn't going to high-hat
anybody Clare said in a speech
to her constituents:
Call me up any time. My
telephone number IL Greenwich
1913"
Continued increase in number
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
FaII-AutO Shows
Recall Old Days

your peace with the finance COM
pany.
VERY few car owners were
able 10 resist this show, even
those who just dropped in to
look. When you got home, after
two or three hours OF rapturous
gazing at special models. the
conversation always went this
way:
IL know ours has gone only
1900 miles, but look at IL this
way: we're soon going to have
10 buy some new tires. The bat
terry Is getting old, the left back
door II sprung, and there II that
big hole somebody burned In the
upholstery. To get our car put
In shape would cost just ~ much.
N the salesman says, ~ to turn
II In and get new one. Hon
estiy, I think we have q chance
TO make a saving. We can turn
this one In and get . car that
will last us q lifetime. You know,
of course, the new model has i'm
provements they never heard Of
this time last year"
Well do ! remember my visit
TO the automobile show of four
years ago. / owned a convert
ible roadster at the time-one Of
those one-man-top jobs provided
your surname is Tarzan.
I left that show convinced that
the only sensible car for any
man to own was a long, seven
passenger, solid black sedan.
came within an ace of sign
ing the papers on the strength
of the fact that salesman said
no other type of car OIL the mar
ket had such a trade-in value.
SVT'HIS car will last you for
l. ever, naturally" the sales
man said. But IL you ever want
to get rid Of IL, you can almost
name your own price. Under
takers are always on the lookout
for cars just like this one. Big,
black and solemn looking they
use 'em to follow hearses. More
cars like this 20 to funerals than
any other car In America"
couldn't wait TO get home.
The one who shared car with
me had maintained that the car
we owned was all right, that,
we didn't need a new orfe-New
l had a selling point in that
great trade-in value.
1 rushed in. Explained all.
No soap.
Were going TO look mighty
strange" she said, CARRYING at
Forest Hills on a hot afternoon
In o funeral car" Il was cover
ing sports at the time.) 81 can
see US Mt Meadow Brook. or ar
irving at Churchill Downs. or
Hialesh. People would be afraid
TO pass us, lest they be arrested
for cutting In on the procession.
II I ever had any doubts as TO
your good sense, those doubts
are gone now"
An, lovely days, when you
could turn In a good car for one
not much better without any
expense save to yourself.
Distributed BY Mcknight Syndicate, Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23

of women running for public Of
flee recalls that at the Demo-
Gratis National Convention in
1892 one Paul Slattery tried to
have Judge Florence Z. Allen
nominated for vice president.
Perhaps Mrs. Luce will be
nominated for vice president
some time and may be elected.
1 wonder how Clare would start
of a fireside chat.
Frank Stevens. Unfailingly
genial caterer. At his racetrack
restaurants he has a menu that
varies daily with two exceptions.
He always lists clam chowder
and corn beef and cabbage.
There are only six men in the
country who really know how to
make Coney Island clam chow
der and Mr.. Stevens is one of
them.
GIN sPINELESS fashion you
L gave I'm and admitted the
average housekeeper has q diff
cult time of IL that a
woman's work II never done
and all that sort of bunk"
writes a Chicagoan.
"Quite evidently you feared
the wrath Of the female read
ers. Listen, II housewOrk is SO
difficult why n IL the average
American woman's hips have In
creased one and o half inches
In size I'm 20 years3
1.-THE increase Il due TO the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
He Only Said:
It's Inevitable,

another for hundreds and hun.
dreds Of years. :
But while my correspondent
wakes severely critical Of the
older men, I am sure that the
great majority of them would
gladly sacrifice their lives to-
morrow IL they thought II would
save the youth and the nation.
The lady overestimates the
value that middle aged men /
place on life.
IN THIS war are many men
Il who fought In World War I,
and who know all about ware +,
They were mere boys then.
They have no illusions about
the grim game and no illusions .
about their own present capa-
bilities for service.
They know they can 20 Just
so far and no farther, and that
then they must be reinforced or
replaced by the kind of boys /.
they used to be themselves, else
the nation perish.
If merely dying would win the
war, a million old men would
step forward tomorrow to meet
the grim reaper.
1 do not approve of calling the
youth. I just accept it as a
tragic inevitability. In every
one OF our wars, generation
has been lost in the sense that
II has known no youth, but al-
ways that lost generation has
won victory for our arms. You
cannot win wars without youth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23

LNRST casualty OF the war In
l. the Times Square sector:
\ Walgreen's basement-w h q
small-fry In the theatrical pro-
fession gathered to dream up big
roles over sandwiches and sodas.
Defense work and the draft
thinned their ranks so greatly
their patronage became expen-
sive.
And so the rendezvous has
been turned into a stock room.
One of the national mags is
doing an article on Jolson's far
flung trips to amuse soldiers.
The same editors rejected the
stars autobiog a few years ago
Claiming the public had lost
interest in him.
Gail Patrick. the Hollywood
lady, doing the town with Free
man Gosden (Amos of A&A)
and telling newsmen:
"He's . dear--but I took the
cure q year ago."
The pretty lass from Tyler,
Tex, miss America) who has
been signed alread for the stage
via the new Peter Arno show.
The dress rehearsals of the
new Versailles show confirmed
.he talk that il would be big
time.
How some of the dolls can
keep a straight face in their
angel costumes is a S64 question.
Irony: The chap who penned
the fast-selling, How to Get
Commission in the Army" was
just inducted-as a private!
DIANA BARRYMORE'S per-
~ Torrance in the flicker,
Between Us Girls" will con-
vince her severest critics that
she is first-rate funny-guy.
Three censors must stay In
the NBC control room for each
Johnny Presents" program on
which service men perform.
ATheir job is to see that nobody
)changes a word Of the okayed
script.
Benny Goodman and Ted Flo
Rito almost came TO blows over
an argument about who thefted
whose tooters.
Casino Russo resumes with
Matvienko. the flaming dagger
dancer, tossing knives at a Hitler
photo.
That's Broadway Pal Dept:
Many of the critics who PANIED
Carol Bruce In "Priorities"
wrote raves about her when she
was newcomer In La. Pur-
chase"
DILOT BOMBARDIER 1T.
i JIMMY STEWART wants
no part of the films for the
duration. He's fighting against
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
Last Night
I'm New York

ever Yours" for Deanna's new
est role. from the way she signs
her letters to her groom.
ERSKINE CALDWELL'S new
~ deal has the publishers
working for him. He gets quar-
terly payments for three years,
whether he writes a book or
not.
Lew Ayres Is now a First
Class Pvt. at Camp Berkeley,
Tex. What a comeback.
The studio persuaded Rita
Hayworth TO wear a one-piece
swimsuit in you Were Never
Lovelier.
They say she Is the loveliest
thing on the screen in il.
That woman who screamed at
the Capitol Theater the other
night tduring the newsreels)
couldn't help it. Hadn't heard
from her son in months and
there he was - marching in
London.
TWENTIETH CEN URY-
Il FOX will soon release an
anti-lynchipg film. THE Ox-Bow
Incident" starring Fonda. Box
office receipts in the South will
be carefully studied.
You can see people bloody and
tortured on the screen, but the
Hays office has just slapped the
wrist of one film firm because
IL used the word hell in an ad.
Don't get so burned up about
the night clubs wasting rubber
by giving away prizes in bal
looms. The salvage stations get
them later.
This is imitation: Schrafft's
pays dishwashers Sc a day.
MANHATTAN Murals: The
IVA quartet of commuters finish
ing their gin rummy game on
baggage truck in the Penn
Deepo.
The old jalopy on 9th Avenue
with this sign on its door:
pray ~ you enter"
The 5-and-l0s. with their most
attractive salesgals at the cos
metic counters-for the psyche
logical effect. of course.
The vacant lot on 50th street
used for demonstrations on
how to handle incendiary bombs.
West 66th street. just of the
park. which smells more of
horses than a movie western.
A Broadway shirt shop whose
Going Out of Business" sign is
following with age.
The missingers, who now de-
liver kilograms.
j. p. Morgan e. Co. .. The
House That Jack Built.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23

A serious lack was head cover
ing; the suns rays came down like
red-hot corkscrews and cooked our
brains. The days were horribly hot.
Tony had his dungaree jacket, so
I took his shirt and tore out the
two front panels. With these !
fashioned a sort Of bonnet which
gave the top of our heads some
protection from the tropical sun.
Occasionally we dunked these rags
in the sea. so that the wind, strik-
ing them, would keep our heads
cool.
There was no way to protect
our faces. From mid-morning to
late afternoon the whole sky was
a blue glare OF heat which the sun
threw back, intensified. At times,
when the sea was calm, the rubber
raft became unbearably hot to the
touch. Our only relief was to
keep flicking sea water on 1t and
ourselves.
We wet our clothes almost con-
stantly. Within IS minutes after
a good dousing they would be
thoroughly dry again. After we
had soaked our clothes three or
four times they would be stiff as
boards from the salt, which added
no little to our discomfort. Then
we would have to take our gar
ments off and rinse them In the
sea TO get out some OF the salt.
II was a tiresome. never-ending
chore.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
URGE FOR COFFEE

The three of us were almost
constant coffee drinkers, like prac-
tically all memo -warsmen. While
we missed our cigarets at first,
we were now missing our coffee
badly and as time went on we
were to long for il constantly. We
eventually got over our craving
for cigarets to some extent, but
l missed my daily ration Of six To
eight cups of coffee-and I mean
COFFEE. There is no better zip
giver in the world than a good
cup Of coffee with sugar and cream
when you are low.
We made a game OF our hard
ships as time went on. Talking
about food and cigarets and coffee,
of course, accumulated our long
ings. but paradoxically We seemed
TO derive some comfort from thus
torturing ourselves. We talked
about food. particularly, for hours,
often wistfully, but sometimes
making a jest of IT..
Tony, who had a sense OF
humor. soon devised a favorite
way to start or end all eonversa-
ton. He would turn suddenly 10
Gene (whom he called Henry,
after his favorite radio character) J,
and order with a mischevious grin
"Come on, Henry-time TO put
on the pot"
Henry" and never failed To
enter into the spirit of the game,
with elaborate suggestions for the
making and pouring Of the coffee.
We frequently adopted ludicrously
exaggerated drawing-room tones
and gestures for this ritual,
broadly burlesquing what we
fondly believed was the true Park
Avenue manner.
Later. I think. IL must have been
this continual practice Of deliberate
idiocy that kept us from going
really insane in our exposure, star
walton. and thirst.
Continued Tomorrow)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23

(This epic of in the South Pacific told by
Harold F. Dixon bomber pilot and aviation chief mechanic
mate USN. He, with Gene AIdrich aviation radioman
and gunner and Tony PastuIa aviation ordnance
forced land scout bomber in the when its
gas gave the evening of Jam rs, 1912.
(The inflated sides of their 8x4foot raft, which they
saIvaged when their plane sank actually seemed
as sails)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
CHAPTER 4

wide open when they hit the water,
but 1t didn't seem to faze them.
Watching these birds. the alba
trosses and terms of all kinds,
banqueting literally all day long
from this unfriendly sea that was
SO barren for us, whetted our
appetites and made us angry with
ourselves that We were helpless to
obtain food where less reasoning
creatures plundered and gorged.
IT'S BITTEN OFF
Aldrich showed at once that he
was interested in fishing. so we
looked around for something 10
use for a line. In the tool pocket
there was a three-strand cotton
cord perhaps IS feet long. This
unraveled into three thinner pieces
of line, and cut them off to about
10 feet. Tony had a red bandanna
handkerchief, so Gene tied piece
of this to the end of the string for
bait, as we had heard that tropical
fish would bite at anything of
bright color.
Gene stood over the side and
flung his line into the water. It
was over for only a couple of
minutes when he discovered that
the bait was gone. Bitten clean
off. We then rugged a piece of
wire as a leader, put on another
piece of rag. and attached a piece
of the broken pliers to weight it
down.
! broke the pliers trying to make
a fishhook from a spring in the
ammunition clip. AS I took hold
OF the wire and clamped down, the
bolt that holds the two sections
of pliers together gave way, hav-
ing crystallized. However, the
piece of broken plier made a good
sinker. With this rig Gene fished
for hours, but never had another
bite. He tried all kinds of schemes.
discoursing the while on his ex-
periences fishing back home, near
the Mississippi River.
Tony, not to be outdone as a
conversationalist, chimed in, when
ever the subject was remotely ap-
propriate. with "reminiscences OF
the work he had done at home
helping his father as a landscape
gardener. This particular theme
was always welcomed by me on its
frequent occurrences, for 1 could
ring in something about my
avocado ranch ("Salavo." IL
acres), at La Mesa, near San
Diego. That was about the nearest
we came to having common con-
versational interests. except when
we talked about coffee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
s TAIL FEATHERS

LNihtiihAN Vic bith nav Niit cnii ~
idea. All day they coasted slowly
over our heads. always approach
ing upwind, and peering curiously
down at this odd-appearing float
ing object that had invaded their
exclusive world of wind and water.
There was one kind. a snow
white little fellow. which seemed
TO ignore us completely. There
were always two or three of these
in company. First one would LET
out a sort of croaking chirp. then
another would answer. They had
short, ded, bullet-shaped
bodies which appeared TO be about
the size of that Of a bobwhite
quail. They had three tail feathers
about two feet long, which hung
out behind them like streamers,
giving a very graceful effect to
their flight.
They would climb up 10 two or
three hundred feet altitude and
look around for their prey on the
water. When they sighted ii they
would make a vertical dive. shoot
ing straight down and making a
headlong plunge into the water
looking for all the world like a
dive-bomber launching a bomb al
the enemy. / sometimes wondered
why the little fellows didn't poI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
On Broadway
by Walter WincheIl

Trad. Marx Registered. Copyright. ,s.a.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
CONTINUED Tomorrow

Copyright. 1872 by Henry Holt q Co..
Distributed BY King Features Syn. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
On the Side
BY L. v. Durling

Distributed by King r,.,ur.. synd.. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23
GARMENTS CLAMMY

Nights, especially when the sea
was rough. we had opposite prob
lens. Then our wet garments
were clammy and cold. The two
Of us who were not on watch
would huddle together to conserve
our bodily heat. We spared our
energy as much as possible. These
discomforts, which we had to bear
without food, water OF sleep, soor
began to fray our dispositions, bu,
We all realized our predicament
and we knew that losing our tenn
pers would be of no possible bene-
fit. We kept forcibly choking back
our growing irritability with each
other This was at times an al.
most heroic feat.
On the first day I shot off q
whole clip of ammunition-about
half our supply-trying to kill a
bird. We thought il was going to
be easy to shoot bird. because
the curious creatures flocked
around us by the hundreds, coming
so close to inspect our strange
craft that we were almost under
the illusion that we could reach UP
and grab one. Actually. they came
down within five or six feet of us.
I held the pistol until a bird was
directly overhead, then I would
aim and let 60. These birds were
fearless. and we soon had to admit
that they were in little danger
from us. The boat bobbled like a
cork. and this seemed TO throw of
my aim every time. The best ]
could do was knock feathers from
a few, so i finally gave up.
We were very much interested
lin the birds and the various trop-
ical fishes. The boat. being orange
yellow in color. was great at
traction 10 the fish, and they all
came up and looked IL over as if i,
were some strange animal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-23

MY CORRESPONDENT says
Vl in reply to my assertion
that men OF 40 or over are not
worth a nickel for general mill
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-24
Schuyler To Speak
On Propaganda At
YMCA Forum Series

George s. Schuyler, one OF the
most familiar names IN the ne
OF Journalism and constructive Ne
gro thinking. will be the speaker ~
the 81. Antoine "Y' Forum Sun.
day. Jan. % at 400 pm. This VIII
be the sixth consecutive year tina
Mr.. Schuyler has come 10 Detrof
and there has been no diminishing
Of the Interest on the part OF De-
i.oiicrs. II the capacity audiences
are used as criterion.
"Propaganda' j. the subject that
Mr. schuyler IS presenting on his
fourteenth annual Lecture sea-
son. and IN his discn, sion he viii
analyze this word that found its
origin IN the first world War. lie
Will discuss what Propaganda IS,
the necessity FOR IL lis method and
use. and what are ii, constructive
values. ana Will attempt 20 point
ont how Negroes particularly are
effected nv a.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-24

insurance company, II Is announc-
cd. was one of the first to respond
with check for s25 and a letter OF
encouragement and good wishes
The Council is asking the pub
lie Tor Its continued support and
expresses the hope that with a
little more work and patience. the
Hobby center will soon he Oman
for use by the young people OF the
city.
Monday, January 26, at spm. the
Council will sponsor at the Lothron
branch library Ebert Wright, man
aging director OF the Boys club.
who will speak on the theme: THE
Value OF Club Life TO the Average
Boy The public is invited to at
tend.
Continuing their program OF con-
verting gangs into groups, the
West Side Human Relation coun-
ell will send a committee TO keen
an appointment with Mr.. Brewer.
relative to securing the use OF the
schools in the evenings for boxing,
dancing and other forms of COM
munity recreation. Classes and
groups are being formed and urg-
ed TO make use OF the schools dur
ing the late afternoon periods.
The Council will soon publish a
list OF definite classes, groups and
hours and locations OF schools
sponsoring them.
A group from the Council met
with Berney smith. Jr.. vice presi-
dent OF the Big Brother movement,
relative TO forming a unit.
Councilman Greoge Edwards will
be the principal speaker at the fifth
anniversary program OF the West
Side Human Relation council. The
program will be held Sunday. Feb
ruary Is, at $3.50 pm. at ST.
Stephens AME church. Rev. ]. d..
Howell is pastor. The church is To-
Gated at Stanford and Cobb. The
public Is invited to be present.
The organization was recently
recommended into the Detroit
Council Of Social Agencies. by the
Central committee. Every interest
ed citizen and group on the West
Side is invited TO affiliate with the
W. s. Human Relation council.
Meetings are held on the second
and fourth Mondays Of each month,
nj the Lothrop branch library.
West Warren and W. Grand bouie-
ward. at pm. Mrs. Levi Nc
Dowell is president; Dan Jackson,
publicity chairman.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-01-24

Pfc. Alfred Ziegler. OF TT. Leo
ard Wood. Mo-, was recently visit
ing In Detroit on a ten-day fur
Tough, as guest OF his sister-in- Law
Mrs. Fannie Ziegler. 541 winde
street. While here. he was tender
ed many social courtesies. Anon
those who helped make his vin|
pleasant We're: Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
son Swain, BIO John r.. who ga1|
a surprise party for him: Jes
Snipe and mother. Mrs. Smith, hox
ored Mr.. Zlegler and Mrs. +. w
son OF New York with a party.
Friday night. Jan. s, Mrs. Fam
Ziegler gave farewell party O.
her soldier brother-in-law. at a
home, 54i Winder. Fifty gue
were present. The table cent?
piece was large candy Americ
nag. A menu OF chicken salad.
rolls. coffee. ice cream and relis
es was served. Dancing. gam
and bridge were also features
the entertainment.