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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
Clark Gable Nominated
McLemore's Man Of Year
BY HENRY McLEMORE

in Arizona, would see to il that
MIR Cables name was an
nounced, providing, of course,
that she didn't swoon when he
walked in.
The chances are that Mr..
Gable could have started out as
a major at the least. Had he
wanted, he could have argued
land honestly, tool that given
an officers uniform and turned
loose on this country, he could
sell more bonds, more stamps,
more any damn thing, than any
man alive.
DUT apparently Mr. Gable had
ID the queer idea that this war
isn't going 10 be won by bond
sellers, good-willerS, public rela-
ton officers and morale jacker-
uppcrS.
There seems 10 have crept into
his noggln a conviction that this
warts going TO be won by the
men with guns He seems to
feel that victory will come
through the killing Of the enemy.
When the time came for an
attack on the Solomon Islands,
the attack was made by soldiers,
and not by a landing force of
good neighbor policy mimeo-
graph workers. peace planners,
public relations commands and
bond and stamp statesmen.
We believe that a check Of
the forces that are attacking in
the Solomon Islands area and
Kiska would fail 10 reveal a
single morale builder. a single
officer who got his bars because
he had a college degree and could
hold his cocktails with the best
In the Mayflower bar.
Mr.. Gable wants 10 be a gun
ner in a bomber That's his aim.
Somewhere. somewhere deep
inside of him. Mr.. Gable must
have felt that he didn't have
any more right avoiding being
shot az than the next fellow
If he doesn't get an Oscar.
then may all those Hollywood
colonies die OF retakes, cloSe-upS
and rushes.
Distributed by McNsught Syndicate, Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
Communists Worst Foes
Of Russia in America
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

otherwise well balanced and
clear thinking leaders have seri-
Ously asked the question as TO
whether or not 1t might not be
better for some dictatorial re-
gime TO take us over and settle
the intricate problems of our de-
velopment in double quick time
with conclusive decisions"
Doctor Hunters implied con-
cession here that there is
"diabolical effectiveness" in the
murder-and-theft systems of the
dictators is dangerous in itself.
There has been no effective
ness in anything the totalita-
rian governments have ever
accomplished. unless death, tor
ture. shooting and swinish con-
centration camps are modes of
achieving effectiveness"
And I'll ask Doctor Hunter
what intricate problems" these
monsters have settled? They
have created nothing but prob
lens" (some entirely new both
inside and outside their coun-
tries.
GERMANY. Russia and Italy
~ have got nowhere in "evolu-
tionary development" They
have, it seems to me, rather, I'M
done everything that has been
done well for the last 80 years.
The confession of incompe-
tence before all problems" in
totalitarian countries lies in
their use of force, torture and
war.
The whole argument is spe-
cious from beginning TO end. 1t
is we in the United States and
England. in pre-war France, the
Scandinavian countries. Switzer-
land and Holland that have
solved problems"
/ have no doubt that many
moronS have been impressed
with government by gunshot and
rack and screw, but / deny most
emphatically that many other
wise well-balanced and clear
thinking leaders" have been con-
verted-and l hope that Doctor
Hunter is not one Of the latter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
ANTI-CRUELTY ASSOCN
Lois Banfield. Secretary.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
DETROIT has a waterfront. At
~ our back door we have
water playground. A place for
swimming. boating. fishing and
others. There could have been
long sandy beach, green grass,
weeping willows, other shrub
berry. and even two-way drive.
Michigan has many lakes. but
many people have not the facili-
ties 10 visit them.
What is our waterfront An
unbroken line of railroads and
smoke-smudged, ugly. old-time
buildings plus a very polluted
river.
What can we do? There is
only one real answer. Stop
w holesale pollution. Create
sandy beaches at convenient
intervals.
The cost would be great. The
loss has been even greater.
Wake up, Detroit! Through some
ones carelessness we have been
left holding the bag. Such has
happened; il can happen again.
AUSTIN VAUGHN,
1913 Morrell street,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
AUSTIN VAUGHN,
1913 MOrrell street,
TO THE EDITOR:

I BEG leave to voice some criti-
i cism of Mr.. Mallon's article
of August 7. He endeavors to
convince us that all these alarm
ing stories about Russia's criti-
cal situation are diplomatic de-
vices used by Stain ito hasten
Washington and London into
diversion effort"
Does not Mr.. Mallon know
that Russia has lost millions Of
people and her richest terri
tories?
No nation can endure the
losses Russia did. said Stain last
year. Add to this the losses dur
ing the present Nazi offensive as
well as the imminent danger TO
the oil fields of the Caucasus.
and you will understand how
perilous is the situation Of the
Soviet Union today
q. A. STOYCHOFF,
961 Hudson avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

WE HOPE that when Holly
W wood hands out the Oscars
this year there'll be good one
for Clark Gable.
Not one of the little Oscars,
but the very biggest one, life
sized Oscar, wearing a two
pants suit. smoking a cigar and
big and tough enough 10 take
care Of himself IN any sltua-
ton.
Clark Gable deserves il. In
many respects, he is the Man of
the Year. Time Magazine could
put him right on its cover with
out being ashamed.
His statement on enhSting as
a private in the army is the
most refreshing and, az the
same time. the most astounding
utterance made by any Ameri-
can over IS years of age since
We got into the war
What do I want 10 he
major for / don't know beans
about the army. ! want 10 start
right al the bottom" he said.
WE HAD 20 read that twice
w before We could believe our
deep blue. 2O-2~ eyes. 1t isn't
possible. we thought 10 our
selves, that a man of Mr.. Cables
age li1l. Mr.. Cables standing
in the community and Mr.
Gables wealth IL going 20 start
out In the army with suit that
doesn't even have some sort OF
decoration on the shoulder
For a while. .hc lowest rank
that came out Of Hollywood
was colonel
To appreciate Mr. Cables
move. one must realize just what
he might have done had he
worked all the angles.
AFTER all. he is one Of the
~ FIVE best known men in
the United States.
There aren't many doors
that he couldn't have opened.
The girl rcceptionist. even If
she were working for some one
with more stars on his shoulders
than you get in A winter sky
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
Wise Tax Proposal

Wise ak Proposal
IRON a distinguished economist and fnancier-Mr
i Bearisev Ruml chairman of the board of the
Federal Reserve Bank Of New York-has come the most
practicable proposal yet made for reconcing the indi-
vidua income tax problem with the war needs of the
nation
The huge and unavoidable increases in the tax that
will be effective on next years compelling
the government adopt payment at the source plan
that is deduc, from 1913 current income portion
least Of the which would otherwise all be payable
in 1914
The reason is that the taxes Will hereafter be
severe that many if most income taxpayers will be
unable the bill unless szabe portion of the taxed
income Is set aside and used as a tax reserve
ITO AVOID enormous and probably. uncolectibe
l arrears therefore the government is adopting what
is really compulsory savings plan applicable to the
income tax.
In its original FORM however this plan would infict
DOUBLE TAXATION 1913 incomes, since the tax on
1912 would also be payable in 1913 when the
deductions for 1914 payments were being made.
Congressman and the treasury department were
distressed the taxpayers prospective plight but had
other formula for bringing the taxpayer up even with
his taxes the year 1914 and for making the heavy
future income payable thereafter out of current
income
Mr.. Ruml's proposal viii accomplish the purpose
sought without imposing double tax burden in 1943
which would undoubtedly thousands of taxpayers
survive the transition period
INDER this plan the 1912 income would be paid
~ usual in 1913.
At the end of 1913. the taxpayer would report his
total taxable income for 1913.
If the income in 1913 should be the the 1912
income the 1913 tax due in 1914 would be considered paid
in full
If the income in 1913 should be greater than the
income for 1912 the government would assess proper
tonate tax the amount, which the taxpayer
would pay
If 1913 income should be less than 1912 income the
taxpayer would receive corresponding rebate
From then on federal income tax would be paid each
year of income instead of being paid the
following year.
The government would not have to forgo years
income order effect the transition tax collec
tons would be continuous from year to year. that the
treasury would lose and the doubeax burden
in any year would be obviated.
y ETTING income taxes paid as income is earned will
NJ be tremendous benefit to the public.
In case of an income earner's DEATH life insurance
money or some other necessary family fund would not
have be used pay money received and spent
Men going from well paid employment into the armed
services would face the ordeal of having to income
the previous earnings out of an army or
navy salary.
Persons joining the ranks of the unemployed,
"tte business men, forced out of business, would not
have income bills their necs and tax collectors
their doorsteps.
1t is said that the treasury department is consider
ing" Mr. Ruml's plan
Congress should adopt it, with the treasury's COM
plete approval.
For Mr. Ruml has shown the government and the
public way out of extremely difficult predicament.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

DUSSIA, in its brave fight
~ against Hitler. has no
greater enemy than communism
in The u. S. A. and England.
Every time these Red yam
merers on our soil like Browder
and Amter open their mouths
they throw a monkey-wrench
into the Russian defense, for
Russia no longer fights for
Browder and Lenin and Marx,
but for Russia.
The bad influence of the Com
munists on Russia is manifested
in the fact that Britain's home
office keeps the London Daily
Worker" the organ of Red
revolution, closed tight.
The International Teamster,
organ of the Brotherhood of
Transfers, an AFL affiliate,
said recently in an editorial:
ut Is the opinion OF many
leaders of labor that the Com
munists of America are a serious
menace to the Russian govern
ment In Its death struggle
against the Germans"
No doubt of that! The Com
munists will soon be men with
out a country--outlawed and
looked on askance everywhere,
even in their homeland, Russia,
where so many original Bolshe-
visits" have already been shot.
A RE Americans and British
"A being highly civilize d
peoples-too soft" in battle?
What happens between an
American and a Jap or a Ger
man when they come to grips
with bare hands? We know
that the Jap and the German
will stop at nothing. They fight
like gorillaS.
For our boys in uniform who
may have some hand-to-hand
encounters with the enemy L
recommend for universal distri-
button by our war and navy de-
partments a little book--it can
be carried in the pocket-"Get
Tough" by Capt. w. f. Fair
BARN (Appleton-Century Coz,
who taught the British Com
mandos how to tackle the Ger
mans and who himself dealt
with thugs and gangs in Shang-
hal when he was connected with
the municipal police.
Captain Fairbairn says that
you don't need brute strength.
With your bare hands you can
beat the man who wants TO kill
you"
There are over 40 line illus
trations showing you how TO get
ito the enemy first"--the secret
of the chin jab, the bear hug,
how 10 wrench away a pistol,
the thumb hold, the Japanese
strangle mold, the handofT hold.
the match box attack. the ear
SIN C k. the grape vine" and
everything you can possibly be
up against when you meet the
enemy.
To America: Get tough! If
you don't know how. this book
will give you some pointers.
MIGHT we win the war but
WI lose our way of life?
DR.. Frederick NJ. Hunter,
chancellor of the Oregon system
of higher education, thinks there
is a possibility of such an issue.
He says that totalitarianism
has appealed to certain ele-
ments Of our population through
Its diabolical effectiveness. Many
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
| letters to
III e Editor
TO THE EDITOR:


ON SUNDAY, the Anti-Cruelty
" Association received a call
that a dog was lying. injured
and starving, near IL Mile
road and Gratiot avenue. Mr..
Doner, the officer of the society,
Immediately went and found
st. Bernard dog with a broken
back. The animal had been seen
in the field for two days; how
much longer he had lain there is
not known. The same day call
came in that a carton had been
thrown out with a cat and some
kittens in it and these creatures
were brought in at the same
time as the dog.
These calls are not unusual;
cruelty 10 farm animals is very
frequent and startling and ut
terly unreasoning things seem TO
be continually happening, The
Anti-Cruelty Association is the
only organization that goes be-
yond the city limits.
Were it not for this society
there would De no answer TO
such calls as outlined herein.
Yet how many of the residents
of the city and county are sup
porting our work, either in in
terest or with money? This
society receives no public funds
from any source whatsoever.
~.rr <,nrrx,. .CC0<.Nr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
O. Henry
Owed Most
To Frenchman
jailed Writer Indebted
to Henri Murqer
By DAMON RUNYON

attorney of Austin, Texas,
where o. Henry once lived,
agrees with my statement that
the great author was probably
influenced by Bret Harte and
that the same thing can be said
of many other American short
story writers who came after
Harte.
But he is more interested in
my suggestion that o. Henry
was also influenced by Henri
Murger and asks what evidence
have on this point. l think the
evidence is in the marked SIM
ilarity of o. Henrys writing
style TO that of Murger. If you
read them both. you must rec
ognize this similarity.
l can go further and show
you that o. Henry's THE Last
Leaf" one OF his greatest
stories. is a decided reflection of
Murgers incident in THE Bohe-
mians" of Mimi watering the
flowers. The Murger story is the
basis of one of our fines operas.
I think it was from Murger,
a French writer who is probably
little read nowadays. that Q.
Henry drew his whimsical man.
ner of telling a tale.
MIR. O'QUINN thinks that in
ul his formative years o. Henry
was influenced. like Stevenson,
by many writer's. which, of
course. is undoubtedly true. All
writers draw a little here and a
little there as they are devel-
oping their own style.
However. l am convinced that
the mark 'of Murger is stronger
in o. Henry's work than any
traceable influence Of any other
writer and he did not pick a
poor master.
Mr.. O'Quinn surprised me
with the suggestion that Bill
Nye, the American humorist
who was a great favorite with
another generation. may have
been one of o. Henry's influ-
ences, quoting in substantiation
of the theory tribute written
by o. Henry TO Nye on the lat
ter's death in 1896. II is as fol-
lows:
"Mr. Nye had a sense of the
ludicrous that was keen and ju-
dicious. His humor was pecu-
liarly American In that IL de-
dended upon sharp and unex-
pected contrasts and the bring
ing Of opposites into the COM
parison for its effect.
again he had the true es-
sence of kindness. without
which humor is stripped Of its
greatest component part. His
was the child's heart. the schOl-
ar's knowledge, and the philoso-
piers view of life"
Mr.. O'Quinn says this strikes
him as a pretty good description
of O. Henry in later years.
1T WAS in Austin that o.
Il Henry, then known by his
right name of Will Porter, was
indicted by a federal grand jury
in 1896 charged with the embez-
element of funds from the First
National Bank of Austin. He
fled TO Central America. re-
turning TO Austin in 1897 and
a year later he was tried in the
United States district court on
new indictments including one
charging that he had been fu-
gitive from justice
He was convicted and sem
fenced 10 five years i'm the
federal penitentiary at Column
bus, O., being committed April
%, 1898.
The following December the
United States circuit court Of
appeals at New Orleans decided
his appeal adversely but in
foreword to a printed brief filed
by o. Henry's attorneys at the
time. Mr.. O'Quinn suggests that
under certain legal circum-
stances the case might have
turned out differently.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18
WAotYo~H~xWM
WAN Bonds

The 81 millimeter anti-aircraft
gun. together with the 30 millimeter
or heavy "ack-ack," comprises the
business end OF an anti-aircraft bat
terry. The 81 millimeter gun is used
on low flying enemy planes. II is
completely automatic and costs
about $4,000.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

Remember that there is MOTH
ing stable in human affairs;
therefore avoid undue citation in
prosperity. or undue depression
in adversely.
TSocratpc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

To live is not merely 10
breathe: it is to act: il is TO make
use of our organs, senses, facul-
ties-of all those parts of our
selves which give us the feeling
of existence.
Rousseau,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-18

But every American buying War
Savings Bonds at SlS.75 each can
buy these guns for our national de-
tense. Shells weigh a pound each
and burst into fragments as they
hit the target DO your share, hit
the Axis by going over the top on
your county War Bond quota. Buy
War Bonds every pay day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-13
FOR CHRISTMAS

Santa Klauss whiskers will per-
haps be as long as ever this year,
but his pack of goods will be little
different-not in size, but in content.
There will be plenty of toys, for in
stance, but more of wood and fewer
of metal; those with wheels will be
pretty scarce, while the whole line
of goods in rubber will be missing,
unless there are holdovers.
A Chicago wholesaler estimated
that 80 per cent of the things GUS
tomarily sold as holiday gifts would
be available this season.
Christmas trade this year will be
close to normal because of the goods
made and on hand before the Nation
got into war and began to clamp
down restrictions.
Christmas presents for soldiers
abroad had to be gotten away by the
first of November to reach them on
time On the home front the trains
are crowded, the postal force under
stated and gasoline, rubber and
equipment scarce. So the public has
been warned that unless it does it's
shopping in November and mailing
early in December there is danger
of deliveries being made after De-
cember 25th.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-13
THE FARM WOODPILE

1t used to be a familiar axiom
of the north country that one could
judge q farmer by his woodpile. Ac-
cording to reports, woodpiles are
both numerous and stable this
Autumn.
With approximately 615,00O.000
acres Of woodland in the United
tates, a fuel shortage seems a para
dox. Yet year by year the amount OF
wood used for farm heating and
cooking has decreased. Now the use
of wood has become a necessity.
One can imagine that many a
farmer stops a moment at the open
w0odshed after the chores are done
and the livestock comfortably bedded
down for the night to look at the
pile OF winter wood.
A woodpile is memory that
many q city man cherishes as he sits
high in q symmetrically organized
mass Of concrete, brick. and steel.
The farmer, however, remembers the
days Of chopping in the woodlot, the
hauling and the saving, the split
ting and the stacking. Az he turns
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-13
WAR INTRODUCES NEW FOODS

More and more, as this war goes
on" says Roy F. Hendrickson of the
Agricultural Marketing Administra-
ton, in charge of Lend-Lease food
buying, sthe housewife will be ask
ed to use some foods rather than
others. She will be asked to use new
foods, by-products, perhaps, of farm
products processed for other war
needs This year, for instance, farm
ers have almost doubled their acre
age of soybeans in order to produce
the oil we need to replace oils form
erly imported. The farmers have
more than doubled their peanut ac-
reage for the same purpose. After
the oil is pressed out of these soy
beans and peanuts, highly nutritive
residue is left--a protein meal that
rivals meat in food value. Yet we
are using only a negligible percent
age of this food. We are working
right now on a program which We
hope will make it possible for much
more of this food to be processed
for human use--in food plants and
perhaps in home kitchens.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-13
FARM LEADER SEES CRISIS

A food shortage that threatens to
sabotage the war effort faces the
nation unless something is imme-
diately done to correct the shortage
Of farm labor, P. c. Turner, presi-
dent of the Maryland Farm Bureau,
discloses.
He took issue with Paul " Nc
Mutt, chairman of the War Man
power Commission, who recently
declared that farm wages could be
raised without increasing farm
price ceilings. Only a subsidy could
permit that, he said.
1.-THE farmer wants no subsidy,
said Mr.. Turner. "He simply asks
that the provisions of the price
fixing law be applied to him and that
increased labor costs be figured as
provided by law.
eve feel that the problem of
farm labor will never be solved I'M
til the man power of the nation is
modified and distributed among
our armed services, industry and the
farm"
Holding that the administration
of the Wagner Act and the Wage
and Hour Law" are directly respon-
sible for the present threat OF in
fiation and the farm labor problem,
the Farm Bureau head objected to
''apply social uplift to agricultural
labor at this time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-13
MANPowER ON THE FARM

In a recent address. John Brandt,
head of the National Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation, had
some common-sense things to say
about agriculture in this country.
On the subject of the farm labor
situation, he Observed: God pity
this nation and its liberties IL the
farmers of America said tomorrow,
We are going to quit on Friday at
four O'Clock and we won't turn a
wheel again until eight o'clock
Monday morning We'd be licked
before we started Our men are
going to the Army. as we expect
them to go, and we likewise expect
whatever is necessary Of the man
power on the farm to go and work
defense factories. But until such
time as the manpower of the city
has been used to the extent Of more
than. 40 hours a week. they have no
right to draw from agriculture men
and women out of the 70-hour
category.
Food is as necessary to this war
as bullets. We have obligated our
selves to supply other United Ma
tions with gigantic quantities of
foodstuffs which they cannot obtain
elsewhere. II the farms are drained
of mappower. that food supply can
not be produced. In some sections OF
the country. lack OF manpower for
farming is already forcing curtail-
ment of operations. This is a real
and imminent problem, and 1t must
be solved.