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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02
FUMIGATING
GAS STATION

= Furnaces s5a.5 90 up f1ftGrs, 81
Hider Bros, s20i Fenken University
0S6i.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02
Electric Refrigerotors

WHITE. Singer etc, used; we repair all
makes. Phone RA' 035s. White sewing
Maehins Co. 1850 Library.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02
Where to Dine

EAT At SHORES
1900 WEST WARREN. Mr. sCHAEFER
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02

BoILER-15 horsepower. high pressure,
s125. sl2e Linwood. Tyler $1,000.
good motor; sacrince. Can Townsend
5-o23$,
camefas. VIII sell, buy.
exchange. Acme Camera Ex.. SAT Shelby.
BOLD concrete septic tanks 900. 500, TOO
gallon; reinforced guaranteed 24-hour
service. Dearborn 4o8s.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02
Pets and Poultry Supplies

ENGLISH setters now working beautifully
Priced right. stud service. 1882 Prince
ton. University 2-4734.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02
HARDwARE

REDFoRD HARDWARE - Storm sash
paints. varnishes. hardware. 17235 Red
ford. CA. TAO.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02

KITCHEN cabinets, metal, Sass up. Only
few left. Ford Housekee ping Shop,
31O7 Biddle. Wyandotte 2222.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02

a bua-haalo-pnono ana rsecroef; Co.
record changer and home recorder, Win
high velocity "Astatic'' hand mike" push
button tuning. foreign and American broad~
Need cash: used short time. Terms 70 r.
liable party. Standard. 1851 Grstiot opsn
evenings. II
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02

Ut. MARYs HOSPITAL. 1920 ST Antoine
tClintonD - For Information telephone
Cadillac AL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-02
Carpet Cleaners and Dyers

FOR defense specials. call Ia Belle Clean.
ers: save the difference. Townsend $4,000
SERVICE RUG CLEANING Co.--Gusran.
teea insured. 1910 Lawndals tLafa'
yettel. vInewood 1-s5i0.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
The Brighter Side

I SUPPOSE there are numer-
Gus schools of thought on the
public relations. or publicity pol
icy of our government in connec-
ton with the war. 1 would not
decry any of them in their en-
tirety. They all probably have
their good points, including the
one dominating at present that
seems TO tend largely to ex-
IRENE reticence, not to say
secrecy.
My discussion has no relation
TO the recent trip of President
Roosevelt. save as the enforced
secrecy in that instance may
seem TO reflect the current gen.
eral public relations policy.
l could easily be tempted into
laying a price that President
Roosevelt did not think up the
idea of that secrecy out of his
own head. I strongly suspect
that some master mind at his
elbow sold him the notion and
that said m. m. now lives in con-
slant fear of being belted with
an over-ripe code of censorship
as a result of the bareback.
But aside from this, ! find
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Slot Machines
OFF to War

and dimes was based on the
theory that the smart time. the
right time 10 play the machines
was after some one else had put
a lot OF money into them with
out getting a payoff.
/ used 10 stalk the machines
and players like a hungry
panther.
The minute a player who had
put IN lots Of change without
getting so much as two
cherries quit. / would pounce.
This is a no-good system"
The lemons on a slot machine
are inexhaustible.
A MOTHER system" was what
"A might be called the 'indif-
ferent" system.
This called for walking 10
machine. dropping in one coin
and then walking on by without
stopping to see what happened.
With a shrug OF the shoulders,
the player seemed TO say:
Its q silly and foolish gam
BILE. I really don't care whether
win, but just TO be a sport I'll
throw away one piece of
change"
This was strictly a pose.
No man who ever dropped in
a coin and walked away while
the innardS OF the machine we're
still whirling ever walked so
fast or so far that his ears could
not pick up the joyous rattle Of
money dropping into the payoff
slot.
l and many others who
adopted this 'what-does-it-mat-
ter" pose have sprained ankles
while turning and sprinting 10
the machine when it paid off ID
cents.
THOSE good old sucker days
Il are gone forever. but I'll re-
member them.
Sure, / know they were bad
and that slot machine made a
fool out Of me and a lot of other
people, but did you ever stop 10
remember that the things we re-
member most clearly. the mo-
ments in our lives that are dear
est TO us, are the things and the
moments when we took chance,
made a fool of ourselves or gen.
orally acted unlike a solid. sound,
sterling specimen OF the human
race?
Whoever entertained a crowd
by telling them of perfectly logi-
cal behavior?
How many people are loved
for their virtues?
OF course. the sight of the slot
machines going off to fight the
JapS and the Germans, had a
heartening touch.
Out Of the slot machine steel
and chromium may come the
most devastating weapon Of all
time.
The basic ingredient is there.
TO be sure.
The slot machine even in peace
times was a deadly weapon.
Put il in the hands of engi-
neers and scientists. let them
increase its powers OF misery
and-well. well have a weapon
that Will spread all-time de-
Struction.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
The On|ooker

II nostalgia means what I
- think It does. suffered from
II the other day. a rather acute
attack forced me 10 grab the
hand OF passing blonde for
support.
1t was brought on by the
sight OF three truckloads Of
slot machines on their way 10
join the nations scrap.
Most of my readers are GER
tain TO feel that such a sight
should have filled my heart with
Joy and not my eyes with tears,
because slot machines have a
bad reputation in this country,
enjoying equal rank with Jesse
James, Charles Dillinger and
these distinguished Wall street
gentlemen who were brazen
enough 10 fleece the public
while adjusting their pince
.ezzes. if that by any chance
happens 10 be the plural Of
pince neZ.
II that isn't the plural Of
pince neg. you can do me favor
by substituting EYE glasses
and forgetting the whole thing.
T KNOW slot machines are
l. cruel and vicious and unfair
and would pick pocket if given
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
BY Henry McLemOre

half chance and that there Is
no record Of one ever helping
an old lady across the street.
Still / hate 10 see them dis
appear. and here's the reason:
/ want revenge.
My bones ache for a chance 10
get back at these sullen iron
boxes with bells. cherries. lem
ons. plums and oranges.
When ! saw those three truck
loads rumbling down the street
land I'll bet the drivers of the
trucks stopped at least three
times 10 give them a final de-
spairing play, / knew that I
would never have a chance 10
pay back the harm they have
done 10 me.
II was like a Hatfield watch
ing the last Mccoy being low
cred into the grave. victim not
OF Hatfield but of angina pee
toris or chicken pox or the
wrong kind OF mushroom.
nor five years / wasted my
Il money and time on unsuc-
cessful systems" Of beating the
machines. Some of my systems"
are undoubtedly familiar 10 you.
One that cost me goodness
only knows how many nickles
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22

THE Mrs. Hess story (about
- wanting TO join him in Lon
Ddon) has insiders in stitches.
They'd been estranged for years.
The Red Skeletons, reported
dividing in various columns,
have been reconciled by his
studio.
It's a girl for the Gene Kellys
tBetsy Blair of Beautiful Peo-
ple.~ Quizmaster Bob Hawks
sister, Betty. married Ensign
John Hartwell.
Show Time" is now the
towns No. ] ticket buy. The
top fee is $2.75 week-eves.
The FBI has joined the hunt
for fugitive Roger Touhy and
his pals.
The Omen couldn't find law
10 nab them-so they will be
charged with failure 10 notify
their draft board "of a change
In address,!
EDITH KINGDOM GOULD.
~ daughter of the very social
Gould tribe, rates a salute from
all the orchid-tossers.
You probably read Of her en-
listment in the WAVES recently
but the follow-up human inter
est escaped the press.
Miss Gould was turned down
as an officer candidate because
OF an educational technicality.
But she was so eager TO serve
her country she joined up as an
enlisted "ripple"-and is now
training at the Univ. of Wiscon-
sin TO become a radio operator.
The navy. incidentally. needs
more WAVES than planned.
A RCHDUKE OTTO Is moving
"A Washington upside down,
with powerful friends there. 10
win recognition for his political
Aplans.
Free governments in exile and
u. S. liberals have monkey
wrenched IL.
Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
and Jean Muir have reservations
In the Leroy Sanitarium
blessed-event sector.
German refugees were not
treated like Italians in the re-
classification Of enemy aliens for
two reasons. which may soon be
stated publicly by an official.
D insufficient cooperation in
the war effort; (2) the arrogant
tone Of some Of their spokesman.
The Franchot Tones Jean
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
BY Damon RunyOn

many persons wondering IL the
theory that news of any events
should be withheld from the
public until weeks after the
happening and that it should
then be tinctured by an atmos-
phere of understatement and re-
straint, is right, or that the idea
that all our production activities
should be completely yelled, is
right.
TT is agreed, of course, that no
l. information should be di-
vulged that might be of value to
the enemy but some intelligent
citizens think that concealing
and undertaking all our
plans and accomplishments in
the war to the point of mystify-
ing our own people and leading
them into idle speculation and
rumor-mongering does nothing
but harm to ourselves.
They feel that our general
policy of public relations cou-
pied with a curious premissal of
criticism not always well founded
of some of our war products,
such as planes, and of our other
alleged shortcomings in the war
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Fat Woman
Studied
BY DIR. Logan CIendening

since apparently her food intake
was never weighed.
The general theory about alb
normally heavy people is that
they have a disturbance of
balance between fat absorption
and fat storage.
THIS is generally assigned to
an imbalance in the secre-
tons of the ductless glands.
But there is another school
which holds that all overweight
is simply a combination of over
eating and lack of exercise.
The problems of daily life of
such a person were constant.
When il came to buying
clothes she was really up against
it-her glove size was s, and
she wore 81z ZEE shoes, and a
girdle or corset for a waist of
rs inches is simply impossible
to find ready made.
The only advantage Of such
a condition was that she made
a good living in a circus.
QUESTIONS. ANSWERS
Mrs. ]. S.: My husband. while
serving in the navy in Panama,
had a bad case of malaria.
Ever since then he has at
tacks Of that malaria feeling"
and his complexion takes on a
grayish tinge and he has cold
sores on his lips.
Does malaria cause anemia?
Should quinine be taken over
a period of years? Does a per-
son ever get over malaria?
Answer: Malaria parasites de-
velop inside red blood cells and
at the time of maturation burst
the red cell and destroy il, so
naturally there is always some
anemia with malaria.
Malaria is an extremely diff
cult disease to eradicate COM
pletely and recurrences may
come on many years after
everything has been quiet.
Change of climate is likely
to cause a recurrence.
remember an ex-Rough Rider
who acquired malaria in Cuba,
Is years after the Spanish
American war. landing at a New
England seaside resort just as a
cold squall hit: he sat down
and had the finest malarial chill
you could ever wish TO see.
Quinine and also atabrine
should be used in repeated
courses at least once a year on
the chronic cases.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22

Nv darling! Here's a toast TO
gOH;
across the table, just an empoy
glass,
But my pledge stiU rings true;
Around me happy couples smile
IA content
While your lonely iorer drinks
dHeU
A toast not only for the momcHt,
BIT a toast forever, dear, 10 goa.
Earle Patrick Wilkinson.
DEW lines in song or poetry
have more appeal 10 me than
that from Aud Lang Syne:
"ShouId auld acquaintance he
forgot and never brought To
mind"
In 1889 Fay Templeton, one
Of the most brilliant entertain
ers in the history of the Ameri-
can stage was not exactly
forgotten but she wasn't remem-
bered as much as she should
have been.
When one has had success and
all that goes with il and then
notes the fleeting of fame along
with fair weather friends, il
takes more than philosophy 10
bear up under II.
That is a time that takes
courage. and courage was some
thing Fay Templeton had plenty
of. as in 1889, just before she
passed on she wrote the fol-
lowing:
TIE hod my dreams, Pue sung
my song,
SO mhy should I sit and complain
Because my life is not the same
And ! may neuer sing again.
Pve had my dreams, Pve sung
my song.
Tee had my friends, I hare had
my loves,
But ri not griere and tConder
Uhy
The reason they hare todndered
BY
And let my heart break NTH a
sigh:
I've had my frienGS, I've had my
loves.
Ire had my triumphs, had my
day,
/. Have lived TO khoO the good and
bad:
But memories don't make me sad,
For Thank God for tohnt Epe
had:
Ny dreams, my loves, my friends,
my day.
CLEM MCCARTHY. brooding
~ over my stumping him and
winning a lunch from him by
asking that he name a horse
with three nostrils, came back
at me with the query:
what was the name of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Esfranged
for Years

Horse" called her furrier TO
pick up two costly coats.
A man came for them, and
then she learned too late he
wasn't the one sent.
WHO is the pretty Puerto
w Rican woman dancer. who
beat up a Roseland Building
elevator boy and terrorizes
people there regularly by
chucking sugar bowls at lunch
counter patrons?
They say she's good with a
knife, too.
The Stork Clubs former chef
Is now the steward at the
navy's Fort Schuyler. Such airs!
Fame Is Like This: The
anonymous bit part actor on
Jack Benny's show is Percy Kill
bride. a stage favorite.
Despite all the New Years
Eve" biz at night spots. many
are just meeting 1.-THE nut'-not
even making money.
Lou Costello, the star. has in
vested in a Hollywood night
club.
AT least 1000 more taxis will
be yanked off the streets next
month.
VICE PRES. WALLACE will
be a speaker at the Gar
denis Russia rally on Novem-
Der 3.
The sale of Navy Relief en-
blems netted $S5, 900.
Peaches Browning, feared
trapped in France. is happily
married in San Francisco.
The day Bob Davis. the vet
newspaperman. passed on, Rip
ley received a missive from him.
saying:
And thus, my friend. II comes
about that 1 am reborn"
Lionel Rand, who wrote Let
There Be Love" and other songs,
died last week.
Hold on 10 yer hats, men: In
his next film. Paradise Isle"
Allan Jones will play a singing
reporter.
George Price OF La Conga will
middle-aisle IL with Cam Mar
shall, whose pop owns the
Washington Redskins. On Oc-
tober 81.
Waxey Gordon was picked up
Saturday for vagrancy, although
he is under Indictment for an
alleged sugar-rationing viola
ton.
Copyright. by Daily Mirror. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22

thoroughbred horse that had q
horn?"
He had me there and won back
the lunch.
That's what I get for trifiing
with the old master. The horse
with horn was named Barsan
and finished second in the Ken
lucky Derby of 1885.
Barsan's horn was an inch
long and in the center OF his
head.
Mr.. Mccarthy also questions
whether the three nostriled horse
was a thoroughbred. He was.
Too bad we couldn't have a
match race between these two
noble animals.
AS an attraction a Whirlaway-
Alsab match just wouldn't be in
it with race between a thor
oughbred with three nostrils and
one with a horn.
AS I SAID before, my Girl
"A Friend is always asking me
a question that goes something
like this:
do you like my hair this
way, or the way / had IL last
summer, or how I had Ii last
winter?
This query always battles me.
l never have a satisfactory
reply.
But she keeps on asking 1t.
Well. sir, now get two snap
shots from a Chicago subscriber
and. so help me, she says:
I'm one snapshot I have my
hair up and In the other down.
Which do you like better?"
With snapshots l can do bet
ter on hair-dos than by memory.
With the hair down, the
young woman looks like q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22

glamour girl and with her hair
up she looks like a woman just
getting ready 10 do her spring
house cleaning.
ELMER DAVIS expresses the
IL belief the United States
never will be bombed. I'm sorry
Mr.. Davis did that. II will help
build the people of this country
up TO a lull.
The Nazis may not bomb cities
but il is possible they may seek
10 knock out some key war in
dustries. Why kid ourselves
Seems every publication l pick
up has a photograph Of Rita
Hayworth in il. I'm not against
photographs of Miss Hayworth
only / wish there would be some
that do not stress the "oomph
girl" angle.
How about a picture OF Rita
sitting on a horse side saddle?
Or riding a burro? Or playing
rotation pool? Or baking a cake?
That "smoldering bonfire"
type of photograph is becoming
tiresome.
TEE breed OF dog with the
l. most melodious voice is the
beagle. Can't say my pups
voice is melodious, but IL is
mighty powerful. I often won
der how he gets so much sound
out of such a little body. But
then he is chesty little cuss.
Now take the name Dixie Tye.
You wouldn't think that two
charming young matrons in diff
ferent parts of the country
would have that unusual name.
But 1t is SO.
There Is Dixie Tye in Beverly
Hills. And another in Chicago.
The Chicago Dixie Is a news
paperwoman and Is said to be
the only woman in the Journal
istic history of that city to have
her own cigarets.
However, she sits on desks
and never has any matches the
same as other newspaperwomen.
QUERIES from clients:
" Q-Why refer to our de-
Tense industry? Why not "of.
Tense industry?
Ain this case defending our.
selves includes taking the Of.
fensive.
Still there may be something
to what you say.
I like the idea of the Chinese
who call, their airdromes that
are not so far from Japan, The
Bomb Toxic Airdromes."
Q-What kind of pool player
are you!
Aust an enthusiastic one.
My favorite game Of pool is
rotation pool.
Copyright. is47. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22

Wallace will be 3 in late win
ter.
Lee Tracy returns TO the army
on November J.
The legends that Jan Valtin is
broke are phony. His next book
will be called Alone and Far"
IT S. NEWS men didn't get
~ the big story in Mexico on
July IL when Mexican police
confiscated one of the biggest
spy short-wave transmitters in a
German rowing club at xochi-
milco. II Is not a military secret.
Straw-in-the-wind that Sweden
Is definitely turning against the
NaZiS:
A newspaperman, Gustav Eric
son. was sentenced October Is
10 10 months in Jail for anti
democratic, pro-NaZi press COM
ment. 1t is the first conviction!
Czechoslovak Foreign Minister
Jan Mararyk will ny 10 the u. S.
very shortly because Of L'Affaire
Hodza.
THE- mayer has told horse
Il players they can sue
bookie for losses. But can they
sue a bookie who doesn't pay
Oft on winners
John Durant is now a naval
lieutenant. He's the mag writer.
Iris Hall of Three Men on a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Better Health

SCIENTIFIC studies OF alb
~ normal human beings are
few and far between.
Few careful life histories OF
giants. dwarfs, thin people and
fat people are recorded.
Therefore, find the account
OF David Willoughby OF his
studies of probably the latest
woman who ever lived OF par
ticular interest and value.
There are a few records OF
men who came near 10 1000
pounds.
David Mcguire OF Kenosha,
Wis, weighed 800 pounds, and
the famous Miles Darden OF
North Carolina weighed over
1000 pounds. but he died in
1857 when not so much was
known about the science OF
endocrinology and metabolism
and no careful study was ever
conducted OF his daily life.
MRS. GERTRUDE HARMS OF
WI Shreveport. Ia. weighed 745
pounds at the age Of % in 1886.
and Rome Nanez was reported
TO weigh 756 pounds at the age
of % in 1896.
Mr.. Willoughby's sub ject
weighed 7721s pounds just be-
fore her death in 1889.
Perhaps not more than fiVe
people who ever lived sur
passed her in weight.
There is an index Of height to
weight that is theoretically LOO.
When a person is lis (for a
male). or Ill (female). they
are considered pathologically
overweight.
This subject was 5 feet 5ls
inches high, so her index was
2.41, which means her girth.
etc, was 2.41 greater than that
OF a medium-sized average
woman.
When she was 10 years old
she tipped the scales at 300
pounds.
She was said to weigh 16
pounds at birth. which Is enor-
nous.
At one year she weighed so
pounds, which is double the
weight Of the average child OF
that year.
Her mother was. profess
sional fat lady who weighed
720 pounds Though she was
over s feet talD. and her father
weighed $50 pounds.
HER daily life was necessarily
IL entirely different from that
Of an average persons.
She naturally did not get
around much because she had
to carry nearly half ton OF
weight everywhere she went.
When she walked she had to
stop every little while and rest.
and she climbed upstairs once
or twice a day. but ii was quite
an effort.
. She ate about one and half
times as much as an ordinary
person.
I do not know whether this
Is an accurate statement or not.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Expert Chalmers
May Help u. s.

effort is having the effect Of a
wet blanket on our people.
They hold that what we need
in publicity Is more enthusiasm
that we need lot of good claim
ers or builder-uppers for our
side. like the sports publicity
fellows who continually hammer
on the merits Of a proposition,
not the dement's.
These fellows tell you that the
subject Of their ballyhoo Is the
result as they steam up the in
terest of the public to the fever
point, though the public is gen.
orally aware that the claims are
exaggerated. But the same
result certainly could not be
achieved by soft-pedalling the
Importance Of the matter.
Of COURSE no one would
" suggest that the govern
ment's publicists falsify the
news, but many think that II 1t
is good news they should give
ii out at once and make il i'm
portant and heat up the public
imagination and not drop il on
the customers weeks later like
a cold and soggy potato.
The opponents of the heat
'em-up publicity theory have no
patience with the policy of say
ing in effect. well. here IL is,
but don't get too excited about
il because il is not the end"
Naturally il is not the end.
and the people know it Is not
the end but they are entitled
to enthuse for a minute the
same as the folks at a football
game over one touchdown for
their side. though they know
even as they enthuse that the
other guys may also make a
touchdown later on.
The American victories at
Midway and in the Solomons
called for bonfires and dancing
in the streets. yet the way the
government let out the news
nobody got the urge TO cele-
brate.
DROBABLY the government
L does not want to give the
people the feeling of over
confidence which can easily be-
come inertia, and indeed for a
time there was an idea in Wash
ington that the best method Of
making the folks pay attention
to the war was by soaring them
stiff.
This had no effect because our
people do not scare easily and
since then other ideas have been
tried. But no one in authority
has yet advanced the thought
OF stirring the enthusiasm OF the
people by expert chalmers.
which. IL IL can be done without
distortion or tipping the enemy
of 20 anything he does not
already know. might be worth
an experiment.
Copyright 1879, ~ King Feature.
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