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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
March Of Events r r%.'. Aired

leans, who will always prefer
the make bel ieve Abe and
George to the real article.
IN DEFENSE of the cultural
L activities of the state, William
A. Dell of Napa. Cal. sends this
to March of Events:
"Your statement that the 'cuI-
tural glory of man-his one in
tellectual excuse for living
owes nothing to new deals or
old deals Is thoroughly unsound.
"Prior to the sixteenth CEN
fury almost all culture had Its
roots In the patronage Of those
who either were or who con-
trolled the state. Where would
Aristotle have been II Il were
not for the $40. O00. 900 Alexander
the Great gave him?
what about the Olympic
games and the tremendous Inn
petus they gave to Greek poetry
and drama: All the ancient
wonders In art rested upon funds
supplied by those who had access
to the Golfers OF the state"
The art patrons of ancient
Greece. Rome and the renais-
sance made parasites and men,
tai slaves of their "geniuses."
These "geniuses" were in many
cases nothing but court-clowns.
They painted and wrote as
they were told TO do-and woe
10 the Aristotle. the Leonardo,
the Angelo or the Horace who
did not satisfy" his master or
who dabbled in politics,
And the sycophantic dedica-
tons of court writer's" TO their
patrons is enough TO make one
sick at the stomach.
AS for that S10,0O0,000 that
Alexander the Great gave Aris-
totle, / never heard of IT, And
l don't think Aristotle did either.
IF WE are going to get tough
says George p Geran of New
York City. 10 March of Events"
Let the government rip the
tenders off of automobiles. Mr..
Geran's fires out his idea this
way:
"'Jeep' cars have no mud
guards, or tenders, so why would
IL be asking too much for civil
oan car owners to contribute the
tenders on their cars? They
could be replaced by boards or
makeshift convas tenders, which
would serve the same purpose"
Good idea. We are too easy on
automobilists. There should be
no "white-headed" boys in this
war. Put our cars on a dungaree
basis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

THROWING into the post
- war" planners pot a hope
of my own:
I hope that after this war
Americans will not go sour" on
the executives of big business"
on whose brains and energy we
mainly depend today to win the
war.
Now they are great Ameri-
can patriots" Will they become
again predatory capitalists"
after the war? l merely ask.
o'cunning and crack-potty New
Dealers.
Then there are soldiers and
sailors after the war. Will they
have to battle for a bonus or
pension ? Will "gob" be allowed
in an orchestra seat?
It's up TO you, our Industrial
lists, workers and fighters. You
are America. Let the crackpots
and snobs know it after the
war"
GENERAL delivery:
" Prof. Ralph Gilbert Ross of
Queens College writes March of
Events about famous heroes that
THE hero is, after all, legend,
not a man. Men are often
greater heroes than the legends
they become"
/ have never seen ii put that
way before. and / agree with
Mr.. Ross. l have been studying
heroes and their legends all my
life. / think that Washington.
Thomas Paine, Jefferson and
Lincoln, for instance, are far
greater men without their haloes
than with them.
Nothing to me is more mys-
FERROUS, more Legendary" more
uneXplainable than the everyday
man engaged quietly in a great
work.
And yet the great majority of
human beings must have their
legends. We must have Ctr
"supermen." 1t is good that we
should have them. Legend
building is, in fact, a biological
necessity.
1t is the TRANSPORTATION of the
real by the imagination. Why,
each one of us makes a legend
of himself from childhood. We
build up an ideal. a superman
self in us that has very little
resemblance TO our real selves.
Legends are the make-believe
instincts of the race, and
whether I prefer the real. every
day Lincoln and Washington to
the make-believe Lincoln and
Washington makes very little
difference to the bulk of Amer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

THE Germans are putting out
Il ship-sinking claims, prob
ably because these constitute
the only good news available on
Goebbels desk. Navy Secretary
Knox also is warning about
maintaining the supply lines to
Africa in the face of expected
Nazi submarine concentrations
Nevertheless, it is evident
U-boat successes have slackened
considerably. Few sinkings have
been conceded by our side, and
only one from the great armada
which made its way to Africa.
This easier situation is trace
able TO two factors. The navy
department has reorganized its
submarine protection system on
a much more efficient basis.
Secondly, the U-boats that
might have done some damage
to our African landing parties
have lately been operating
around Capetown at the other
end of Africa. under the i'm
preston that we would continue
to send supplies that way.
TT is apparent from our en-
Il circlement OF Nazi Europe
that our strategy is to take
Hitler first. and then turn all
the combined United Nations
force upon the Japs.
There are several ways we
can get at Toxic, the best one
being through its lightly
guarded back door in Siberia
and Manchuria.
Termination OF the war In
Europe would release over
whelming Anglo-American naval
power TO go blasting its way
into Yokohama. if il chose. But
il would also release a Russian
army of considerable strength
in case Stain wanted to join in
the reduction of the neither Axis
remnant.
If these two steps were
Joined together. Japan could not
long stand such concentration
of might.
Other possibilities include the
sending of an American army to
China for land action. or con-
tinuance along the difficult way
Macarthur has stariad-back up
to Asia, island by island.
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Reproduction in Who'll. or In Part
Strictly Prohibited
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
JOHN III. SLEVIN,
10 PeterbOro avenue.

TO THE EDITOR:
I AM A citizen of Detroit and
L l feel ii my duty TO express
my opinion in regard TO the,
accident OF a DSR bus and pas
senger train.
That accident is only a sample
OF many that will happen after
gas rationing November ~. De-
troit is too large, with too many
needed war workers, TO depend
alone on bus transportation.
These war workers must get TO
work; their lives and work are
essential to our country.
Every bus line in the city II
overcrowded, especially at work.
ing hours. And yet we OF De-
troit are urged to save our cars
and use the citys Transports
ton.
The DSR lays the blame on
the driver of the bus instead Of
where the blame is fully due.
Who will the next innocent
driver be? think the city
should take the blame, not the
driver of the bus.
MRS. RUSSELL KLSER,
las West Brentwood avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Unexp|oded
Bombs Offer
Big Problem
By G. b. LAL

FUNDAMENTAL pri n ciples
Il for dealing with unexploded
bombs dropped by enemy planes
outlined in Army Ordnance"
military science organ of the
Army Ordnance Association in
Washington.
1t. Col. Thomas J. Kane Of
the ordnance department of the
United States Army. sets forth
basic principles for dealing with
bombs which do not explode az
soon as they fall, but lie on the
surface or bore themselves into
the ground.
The heaviest unexploded bomb
examined thus far in World War
III was dropped on England by
NaZi airmen. The bomo weighed
1900 Kilograms tabout $3.50
pounds) and il penetrated So
feet below the surface of the
ground.
A pocket of cavity is formed
by an unexploded bomb. and is
known as a .camouflet." il Is
from this cavity that the bomb
eventually explodes.
4 LII unexploded bombs must
"A be considered equipped
with a time fuse, and thus are
very dangerous until they ex-
plode.
The disposal of unexploded
bombs is strictly a military
problem. but military experts
also require the collaboration Of
civilian defense organizations
and the police.
Lieutenant Colonel Kane
writes that all buildings within
so yards of an unexploded bomb
should be evacuated, and their
windows and doors left open.
UNEMPLOYED parachute mines
require evacuation of all business
within 400 yards of the missile.
The blast of such a mine. when
IL goes off. is capable of shat
tering windows within 1000
yards.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
What War Bonds Buy

Military Motorcycles for
couriers, for speeding light
guns from one section TO an
other, are an important part Of
Americas mechanical army.
We need thousands of these
small maneuverable machines in
our army today. You and your
neighbors. all buying war bonds
and stamps. can help buy them
for the army. Invest at least 10
per cent of your income every
payday in war bonds and stamps
and become a member OF the
patriotic 10 Per Cent Club"
II is rapidly becoming the larg-
est club in the world.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
An Incentive for Civilian Defense

THE BLACKOUT sche duled for
1 Wednesday night is described by the
OCD as another of series.
Actually, it will be Detroits first
In no previous practice alert have war
plants co-operated.
While criticism has been voiced over
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

these earlier, piece-meal blackouts, it can
be felt that they served purpose.
Through duties in residential and bust
ness districts, newly-made air raid war
dens were furnished with an interest"
they would not otherwise have had.
Maintenance of interest in civilian
defense work can be hkened to the morale
of troops. 1t is vital ingredient of
training.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

There were no priorities on mud this
election. The local boys did nice stucco
job on one another.
Now, it's all over and they are shaking
hands again and calling each other Toots.
Distributed by Int
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
BAERNe DOWN ON Tie NEWS:
Justice Wins FNAsiIy FiaIif
BY ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER

That's the American way and it sticks
out like a starched shirt-tail.
Politics in America is a family fight, but
we always have enough left over to scald
a cat or an outsider.
tona News Serves
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Is Final Blow
To Level Naziis
Coming Soon?
Churchill Hints Big Drive
Is Likely in Spring
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. -
w Only guardedly did Church.
i'll suggest a final blow TO level
Germany might come soon.
1t would come, he said.
Should the enemy become de-
moralized at any moment" He
said this decentralization was GER
tainly not apparent yet, and his
whole speech built up the inn
preston that Hitler, with $780,
900 excellently trained and
armed troops in France and
10000 in Norway, is a danger
Gus enemy defensively in the
west of Europe.
Portents of weakening Nazi
morale, however, are evident be-
hind the news of the day.
HITLER h inns If has been
H talking like a man who sus-
pected his hour of ] u d & m n {
might be near. His messages to
the French people, and to
Petain,- spat no stentefian fire,
but pleaded he had not started
the war and was only trying TO
do the right thing to every one.
A few days earlier he said he
was not going TO run away like
the kaiser did, thereby acknowl-
edging that he had noticed the
existence of the door opening
behind him.
These utterances. coupled with
his military inability to muster
sufficient strength to take Stall
ingrad or the Caucasus, or later
to force Rommel. show
plainly the handwriting on the
wall.
Yet our authorities are no
more confident than Churchill
that this is anything more than
the lend of the beginning and
even less inclined to talk
about IL.
\ GREAT unknown quantity
"A is Russia. Last winter, the
Reds were able to cut into the
NaZis so deeply as to diminish
Hitler's strength for the summer
campaign. but this win t r,
Stains striking power is no
where near as strong.
He has some punches left. His
army is especially good at small
but ferocious guerrilla raiding
at 30 below zero. but its old
recuperative striking power in
offensive action may not have
survived its summer test. The
end of the war is therefore not
likely to come on Russian soil
this winter. s..
The impression Churchill was
trying to create was that our
direct invasion of France would
be next year, and probably in
the spring (when the weather is
right, he said.
However, Churchill confessed
his previous suggestions on the
same su b ject were designed
solely to deceive the enemy, and
this one may have had the same
purpose.
Thus, while Hitle RS own
morale is loosening. and even he
knows the question now is
whether he will try to escape"
no one should either trust Mr..
Churchills warning of delay, or
attempt to guess when the end
will come.
The striking power of the
South was broken at Gettys-
burg, but it was two years be-
fore the end of the Civil War.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
SENATE 10
 AMEND BILL
 ON CEILINGS
Will Put in Compromise Over Farm Parity
 Standards

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 = The Senate voted 86 to to strip from the administrations anti-inflation legislation, the provision changing farm parity standards, inserting in- stead a compromise amendment di- recting the lifting of farm price ceilings where they didn't reflect labor and other cost increases since January 1, 1941.
 The imitation amendment was of- fered by Alben Barkley, admins tration leader, who said Tt will re- quire that an adequate wage should be accorded farm labor in computing the increased costs over those prevailing on January l, 1941 which farmers had to bear in pro- ducing crops.
 The adoption of the amendment ended an 8-day controversy be- tween the administrator and the Senate farm bloc over the terms of the Government proposed direc- tive, in which the President asked stabilization of prices, wages and salaries as of September 15, as far as practical
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
BA5kETBALL HAS SCHEDULE CHANGE
 OVER PRACTICES

Because of the large number of players now using both of the gym nasiums in the Public Schools for basketball practice, A. B. Phillips announced today a change in schedule.
 The Grade School schedule will continue unchanged. But in the High School gymnasium, it will be necessary for the first two teams of the four scheduled for each night to go from until pm. and the second two to play from 8 to g pm.
 Phillips said today since the High School has but three basketballs and no priority for more, thus no assurance they will be able to re- place them, the High School bas- ketballs will be reserved strictly for High School players and will. not be available to other teams.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
GRID CROWDS. NOT AS HUGE,. OPENING DAY.
College Football Suffers at Gate as Season Gets
 Under Way

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-The re- turns are just beginning to trickle in, but one of the few safe bets of this wartime football season is that they are going to suffer sharply at the gate.
 Off the first big Saturdays re- turns, it would seem that MT. John @. Fan either isn't quite so excited about the sport, hasn't got the time to spare or can't get to the game because of transportation difficult ties. Or perhaps it's a combination of all three
 Whatever the reasons-and they can't be separated from the emer- gency conditions that prevail-at- tendance in most of the leading football centers was far below last years.
 Only 17,087 saw Michigan open it's season, smallest crowd in eleven years. Ohio State played host to only 24,555, the smallest opening day crowd since 1933 Penn, with a top-flight attraction, brought out only 35,000, and Southern Califor- mia, playing a Grade A intersec- tional game with Tulane, counted only about 45 000 customers. Only 12,000 sat in at Cambridge for the Harvard opener and Minnesota, where sell-outs are the rule, played before only 22,000 California drew 35, ,000.
 A year ago, on the comparable Saturday, Michigan and Michigan State drew 67,000; California and St. Mary's played before 500OO Ohio State and Missouri drew 50,- 900 and Minnesota and Washington at Seattle drew 43,0O0.
 But whatever intercollegiate foot balls fortunes on a cold cash basis, there was no evidence on opening day that the game would suffer artistically despite the fact that sophomores and freshmen were sprinkled literally through the lineups of solid teams from one end of the land to the other.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
ADM. HART
 HTS ARMY
 FOR JAVA
Former Pacific Naval Com. mander Tells Story in
 Magazine Article

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30 - Ad- miral Thomas c. Hart, former com- mander of the Allied Naval Forces in the western Pacific, believes that Army Air fighters failed in the first day of battle over Luzon and thus missed their chance to cripple Ja- pans drive on Java, according to an article written by Hart and pub lished in the Saturday Evening Post issued today.
 Hart also asserts that lighters based at Oahu aerodromes missed their big chance" during the Pearl Harbor attack.
 The Navy erred" at Pearl Har- bor, he added, lin presenting so many targets in such small space under the tense conditions prevail ing in early December"
 He said the Japs had to conquer Luzon as the first step to Java because it was the strongest island in the Philippines.
 "The Japs couldn't leave thi S power unimpaired on their Hanks !"
 He added that at this place and time we should have beaten tn e enemy in the air on those fields, having more than twice as many P-40's as the AVG ever had, but again we failed to take much toll of Jap planes"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
l. G0LD5TEIN RETURNS FROM
 BUSINESS TRIP

After hurried business trip south, Isadore Goldstein, we'll known Juneau merchant, returned early today. MT. Goldstein was ab- sent for two weeks on buying trip for his store here and spent his time in Seattle and Tacoma.
 Tt is nearly impossible to fill orders for merchandise. particularly in the hardware line" MT Gold stein said. While he managed to purchase a fair amount of needed supplies, MT. Goldstein said that even priorities allowed for mer- chants dealing in ship repair parts do little good.
 Both Seattle and Tacoma are so crowded and people are so rushed that it is difficult to do business, MT. Goldstein said. Conditions are really unbelievable and if I hadn't seen them with my own eyes I would not believe they could exist. It is certainly good to be home" he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
MATANUSkA CASE UNDER
 ADvI5EMENT
Suit Against Manager and Directors of Cooper
 alive Pending

ANCHORAGE Alaska, Sept. 30- U. s. District Court Judge Simon Hellenthal took under advisement today an injunction suit by four Matanuska colonists against the management of the settlement.
 The suit is against L. c. Stock, manager, and the Board of Direc- tors of the Matanuska Valley Far mers' Cooperative Association. It charged them with mismanagement and sought an injunction against their alterations of Association pro perty and against the rehiring of Stock as manager. The suit also asked for an accounting.
 The four settlers who claimed to represent the majority fo stockhold- CTS in the cooperative, contended that mismanagement resulted in a wastage and destruction of produce on the way to market.
 The directors denied the charge. Stock testified in response to the charge that the directors were about to rehire him, but that he wants to leave his post to go into business for himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
DOUGLAS TEACHERS ARE
 IGNORED AT RECEPTION

Attended by a good representa- tion of parents and other patrons of the school, Douglas teachers were welcomed to the community for the term at a public reception arranged by the Board of Educa- tion and held in the assembly room of the school last night.
 Arne Shudshift, President of the Board, made the speech of intro duction after which favors were presented to the teachers, corsages for the women and buttonaires for the men, by Mrs. Elton Eng strom and Alfred Bennett, clerk and treasurer respectively of the Board.
 Followed a program consisting of the following numbers: Folk dances by two girls from the Brownie group accompanied at the piano by their coach, Mrs. Raymond Nevin lJl lloO obOl5 PAoJ SQ eh PANAiO oOANi "Kaminio Ostra" by Rubenstein anh Mrs. Nevin sang two songs Mar ianina" and "Margarita" with pi- ano accompaniment by Miss Kath- erine Carlson; group singing led by Miss Carlson and MT. Oberg concluded.
 Refreshments were served in one of the class rooms. At the lace covered table centered with orange colored candles and marigoldS the following ladies alternated in pour ing: Mrs. Bert Routsala, Mrs George Harju, Mrs. Mark Jensen Mrs. Alfred Bennett, Mrs. Glen Rice, and Mrs. M Taylor. P.-E girls served.
 Members of the teaching staff are Miss Eleanor Warren, Supt.; Miss Jean Ackerson, Miss Ruby Me Neill, Miss Katherine Carlson, Mrs Norman Rustad, Mrs. Nevin, Ernst Oberg and H. B. Schlegel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
ALASKA HAS ADDED WORK
 FOR JUDGES
Report of Senior Circuit Judges Made at Con-
 ference Today

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 - The annual report of the director of the Administrative Office of the U. s. Courts was made at. con- ference of senior circuit judges, to- day.
 The Judges said that condemna- tion cases due to the war have add ed to the work of Federal Courts in Alaska and added that new types of cases including those of sabotage, sedition, espionage, evasion or re- fusal of military service, and viola tions of WIPE and OPA regulations. appearing in the Federal Courts have added work
 In Alaska, there have been 19 condemnation cases, involving ten tracts of land totaling 2,8l5 acres. on file since August 1.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
AL J0L50N
 ON ALASKA

Juneauites will remember Al Jol- son who was here recently as an entertainer on his tour of Alaska Army camps. In the Seattle Post Intelligencer of Monday, September 28, Columnist Benjamin de Cas- seres, under the head of Al Jol- son on Alaska" has the following article:
 You can take Al JoIson's word for it, folks!
 That country has more scenic beauty than Switzerland. There is more gold and coal and oil than ever was dreamed of. Lots of people will be going there to live after the war. Salaries are going to be high. It's the garden spot of the world, and for the sportsman it's paradise, with bear and caribou to shoot at every turn"
 That's Alaska. And it's no Nam my Song"
 Let's take a look at Alaska, which we Americans had almost forgotten and of which we now are suddenly tremendously conscious.
 Alaska originally belonged to Great Britain. It was ceded to Rus~ sia in 1925. By treaty it came to the United States in 1867. It was then known by the enemies of the pur- chase as Stewards Folly" The price was $7,2OO,O0O gold.
 But there is a curious bit of his- tory in connection with this pur- chase! We actually paid for Alaska only $2,400,00 The balance, $4,800,- GOO we paid Russia for the expenses of her naval demonstration in Am erican waters during the Civil War when England favored the South and Uncle Sam needed friend.
 Of course, Russia had no love for our democracy, but she wanted to even things up with England for the drubbing she got in the Cri-  mean War a few years before.
 Alaska has 536,40O square miles, which is about one-seventh the size of the United States. Fisheries, furs and gold mining are the chief standbys.
 But what is buried in those hills and streams and what will come out of Alaska in the next hundred years would make those Nanny eyes of Al Jolson roll like a land- slide of anthracite coal if he were alive to behold.
 No wonder Japan has her py- thon-like eyes on Alaska. But Un- cle Sam says: NO! What Bill Sew ard joined let no Jap put asunder!"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
Tires, Tubes
 Issued Here

Tires and tubes were issued to the following during the week end- ing September 26, by the Juneau Rationing Board:
 F. R. Nagle, Juno Taxicab, tire, tube; Victor Johnson, farmer, l tire; Lloyd Reid, 4 truck tires, 3 truck tubes for defense work
The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-09-30
TWO ARRESTED ARE
 HERE ON DRUNK,
 DISORDERLY COUNTS

Art DeRosa, charged with dis orderly conduct in connection with throwing a rock through the win dow of the Crescent Apartments, has been arrested here along with Paul Alex, charged with drunk and disorderly conduct, the U. S. Mar shal's Office reports.