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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26

Harte. o Henry wrote hundreds Of stories but
only two good ones: The Gift Of the Magii and
Alias Jimmy Valentino
Q-How about this anti-gray hair vitamin?
Is il false alarm?
Am experiment conducted in Boston,
Mass. seems 10 indicate the ant-gray hair
vitamn works for some people but not for
others II is little too early in the stage Of
the experiment 10 make any definite statements
20 its value.
But why worry about your gray hairs. mister?
Hasn't your wife told YOU they make you look
distinguished? ! know fellow whose wife
told him iron gray had strong appeal for the
opposite sex.
I0T,HERE are only two places in New York
City where YOU get corn beef and
cabbage prepared As II should be- states a con-
temporary.
thought there were three places
Add blessed event statistics There are
2 2500 900 babies born annually IN the United,
States There are 5.500000 married men between
the ages of 20 and as who have children. And
II 900 900 men in this same age group who are
proud pappiess The father having the most
children of any daddy in the country has p
children.
In Pontiac. Mich. a new law requires house
return home early so to give people who
have been working all day chance TO get
scat IN a bus
THERE are no female diamond cutters right
L now. But u may soon be necessary 10 use
in that occupation. Minimum wage for
a diamond. cutter IS Sl20 week. Some are paid
$500 a week
a politician thinks of the next election a
statesman Of the next generation" said James
Freeman Clarke.
That observation should be put up in a num-
Der Of prominent spots in Washington. ID. {.
Or. Clarence Cook Little, discussing a certain
type OF treatment al the American Medical
Association convention, said that while ii would
not prevent the woman treated from having
normal children il might result in her grand
daughter having abnormal children.
That is certainly quite thought provoking
statement AS all statements 10 what can
or cannot be inherited
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26
BY Jimmy Halo

uniform
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26

Stella Ardler, also of
the -footlights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Gallico studying the
midtown charact r
studies for a new script
theme.
The Duke OF Wind
sor chit-chatting with
Guy Lombardo at the
Waldorf.
Cookie Clay. a show
gal. spraining an ankle
during the Hurricane
revusical. and a ring
siding Canadian nurse
bandaging it.
Brig. Gen. j. Doo-
1iffla of fha lisa land
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26

Am touched by the II
Not only that. / feel
his criticism is con-
structlve.
Therefore, I will not
write about the Penn
sylvania shoo-fiy pie l
had for dessert al
dinner last night.
4 YOUNG father OF
"A Manhattan writes:
81 have the blessed
pleasure of listening TO
my gu year old son
say his prayers at
night.
This II the most
beautiful part of the
L.. t. ..xA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26
Finds Hidden
HungerAIarm
NOT Justified
DR.. CIendening Reviews
Government Movie
BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING
serT,HE problem hollis down to

BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING
s0T,HE problem hollis down to
L what has been called hid
den hunger which. by definition,
cannot be diagnosed clinicaily."
This announcement by DR..
William T. Salter, professor OF
pharmacology at Yale Univer-
sity, may be taken as my text
for my views of "a government
movie called Hidden Hunger"
II il can't be diagnosed, how
do we know il exists?
In order 10 free myself from
the accusation that my com
ments on the vitamins are my
own opinion unShared by any
one else, l quote from DR.. w. j.
r. Camp of the University OF
Illinois:
Little did Casimir Funk real
ize when he coined the word
'vitamin' that he was furnish
ing the catchword for one hum
dred million dollar business.
Probably nothing medical has
captured the imagination OF the
public so thoroughly as the
vitamin deficiency question.
Ironically, the greatest trade
In yitamins Is In communities
where there Is sufficient money
TO provide adequate diet.
"A person financially unable
10 provide a balanced diet can
not afford to buy the expensive
yitamin products.
"The seIf-conyiction that one
Is vitamin- deficient IL almost OF
paranoid quality; the premise Is
false, but the results are salts
flying"
MY DESK seems 10 have been
AyI flooded recently with arti-
cles about the vitamins, as If
every one was taking a kind Of
satisfaction in goading me.
One article seriously proposes
that all draftees who have visual
defects be given the right kind
of vitamins and they won't have
10 wear glasses.
Another one says that the
vitamins cure insanity so we
could relieve all the institutions
Tor the mentally deranged in the
land by giving the inmates vita
minis.
Another proposes that all
truck drivers who run at night
cat carrots before they start so
that they can see better in the
dark.
] once had a cat named Be-
linda. / can state as a positive
fact that that cat never ate a
carrot in her life or any yeast
either. but on a night that was
darker than the inside of your
shoe she could still see a mouse.
IN THE government movie II
Il says that three people out OF
four don't know how 10 eat.
Such propaganda as Hidden
Hunger seems TO me to break
down civilian morale by making
all those who see II self-conSci-
Gus about their health and diet.
Understand that l thoroughly
agree with the idea that every
body's diet should contain vege-
tables, fruits, bread and butter,
meat, eggs and milk but as far
as my observations go most
people in the United States are
getting these things and most
people are not suffering from
hidden hunger"
I object 10 the government OF
the United States descending 10
the level of a patent medicine
advertiser.
QUESTIONS. ANSWERS
y. II. K.-Can you tell me
something about pilonidal sinus?
Is there any prevention for IL
and at what age does it occur
mostly?
Answer-Pilonidal sinus Is
congenital defect OF develop
ment at the end of the spine.
1t never causes any trouble un-
less the sinus becomes infected
and is easy TO remove surgi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26

LsACES About Town: Mrs. Quentin Reynolds
l. (the former Virginia Peine) tall, tan and
tantalizing
Leonoya Corbett the "ghostess' OF "Blithe
Spirit" dividing the Cub Room attention with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26

JUST one reHsoH WHY Uou sHUu'u 'fiHe'
TIVE currently successful musical show. by
i Jupiter" is being referred 10 as the htleSs
wonder" There is not song hit in II.
What musical show would YOU say had the
most song hits? Was il Madame Sherry
or Rose Marie? or The Chocolate Soldier?
or Good News? or Little Johnny Jones? or
what?
Speaking Of great coumniSts. past and
present. don't forget Bruno Leasing and his
Vagabondia.
Federal government on becoming interested
in percentage OF money bet on horse races as
taxes. may consider bookmakers and their patrons
AS tax dodgers and order the FBI TO investigate
the bookic situation
QUERIES from clients:
W ON the writing Of the short story how
would you compare o. Henry and Bret Harte.
40. Henry is not in the same class Bret
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26
OF all. Of .hfs's torments,
Lord, spare me this,
The quiet stiHa
OF dutifui kiss.

--Ingeborg Hoerner.
(From The Matrons Proyer.J
" NJ WITH YOU from now until the finish"
"A writes q New Yorker.
But, Eddie, why do you have to talk so
much about food"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26
On the Side
X. Y. During

Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-26

II am certain God loves to hear him because
he forgets sometimes and says something 10 me.
Just one reason why God should smile"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
Superstition
Of 81 Bills

many of the bills turned up later
with one corner torn off.
THAT is the . superstitious
Il horse players method Of
taking the jinx off the 50 bills.
I do not know if it works. The
bills bought by the track were
all brand new and signed by
Treasurer Morgenthau, though
dated some years back.
You see, up to a few weeks
ago the Mexican government
would not permit a visitor to
Aqua Caliente to take more than
$50 over the line. the idea being
that a lot Of Axis loot in money
form might have been sent to
Mexico to be cashed there.
The only American money
permitted to circulate in Mexico
is silver and 81 bills, and horse
players with large coarse notes
in their possession find them
selves unable to make a bet,
which of course Is most de-
moralizing to the spirit of a
horse player.
However, American express
money orders can be used and
the big operators carry these.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
The Brighter Side

T, ONCE tried to trace the
Il source of a curious super
stition which prevails among
many Americans that So bills
are unlucky. All could find out
was that the idea probably first
developed among horse players,
but I could not learn why.
II seems to me that a horse
player, above all others, should
consider a 81 bill quite lucky if
only because of possession of
same.
Bills Of any denomination are
usually scarce among horse
players, unless the economic
situation has changed since
retired from their ranks.
Some authorities think the
superstition about the 81 orig
mated with the pari-mftuels
establishing that amount as the
basis of the betting in the Iron
men,"
However, other students OF
questions of vast moment like
this claim that the superstition
prevailed long before the
mutuels came TO this country
and profess to find the origin
in the early days of the West
when soft" money OF all kinds
was disdained and only the
hard" was in favor.
THAT is to say, the western
Il ers preferred gold and silver
TO the paper currency of the
effete East. In fact, it is only
of comparatively late years that
the West has taken to the paper
money. though the. East never
did fancy the big round silver
dollars of the West because of
their weight. I mean the East
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
BY Damon RunyOn

never liked the dollars if 1t
could get the other kind.
OF course. both the East and
West loved the gold coins of the
old days but gold no longer cir
culates and paper currency is
the general medium everywhere.
In the West, the silver dollars
are more frequently encoun-
tered in general circulation, but
not to the same extent as the
pulp bucks. And the 81 bill re-
mains in disfaxor everywhere,
except among those who have
not got any bills of any kind.
Duffy Cornell, famous former
Chicago newspaperman. now
associated with a horse racing
enterprise at Aqua Caliente, in
Lower California, which operates
on Sundays for the benefit of
horse playing Mexicans and
Californians, advises me that
the track management bought
$4,000 worth of So bills from
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Los Angeles one weekend re-
Gently, and about $4,000 worth
in San Diego, to- supply the
betting customers and that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18

The partner Of my soul,
NY Wife. the kndest, dearest,
and the truest
That ever tCore the name.
Rowe.
mo doubt Mrs. Rowe was
quite pleased To- have her hus-
band say she was kind" dear"
and true" However, according
TO our horses and women re-
search bureau what wives en-
joy most is to be called ''fasci-
mating" The compliment from
a husband that really clicks 100
per cent is: Darling. you are
a very fascinating woman. -
EVD)
DISCUSSING names young
~ women acquired by mar
riage, Chicagoan says:
81 met q girl named Prudence
Hornbuckle. felt sorry for her
having a name like that. Then
i met her brother and married
him.
"She met somebody else's
brother and married him. Now
my name Is Holly Hornbuckle
and her name Ii Prudence Spen-
GER"
NOV I really know what a
~ dishwater blonde is. In the
interests of furthering my edu-
cation several dishwater blondes
among the subscribers have sent
in locks of their hair.
81 have been married FIVE
years and have Ave children >.
] am 20 years DID," states a
Verona, Pa, subscriber.
Imagine that. Five children
TO worry about at 20. When
was 20 all 1 worried about
was making first base on the
college ball team.
My progress in New England
astounds me. In Maynard, Mass,
/ have a reader whose first name
is Cinderella. And ! am reliably
informed I have three readers
in the vicinity of Lake Charg-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
binmginngamanng which is near
Webster, Mass.
QUERIES from clients:
Q Q-Are pipe smokers just
naturally slow thinkers or does
pipe smoking make them that
way?
Al think it is the pipe smok-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
GnOme's Way
To Make Tires

TAKE Mr.. Henderson's report
u TO the nation via radio few
days ago.
He started off as IL he were
going 10 throw a real Sunday
punch by saying that unless the
shortage were solved we would
lose the war.
That was enough 10 make any
American sit up in his chair and
start listening.
So was his next statement,
that American drivers were
wasting a billion tire-miles a
day in needless driving.
So was his next one. in which
he pointed out that civilians
have a bigger stockpile of rub
Der in their possession than the
government has.
THEN, brethren and sistren.
l. was the time for Mr.. Hender-
son TO let loose with his hay
maker.
Then was the time for him to
ask. and fatty, that those of us
with tires, who didn't need them
for some essential war work,
give those tires TO the govern
ment: that we not let the day
pass without putting away our
cars for the duration and con-
tributing their rubber TO the
government so that the tanks
might roll, the planes fly, the
guns fire, and the boats ride
the seas.
But he didn't do It. He
sloughed off into the same old
talk that all the rubber reports
have given us: Drive slowly,
walk when in doubt.
Keep the precious things
properly inflated. Pat them on
the head and tell them bedtime
stories. Keep them happy and in
good spirits.
EOR what? So that the CT
Il villains can keep on having
tires TO roll on while the army
and navy have to resort TO a
conservation program?
In the name of sweet heaven
what is the sense of that?
There must be 100000 car
owners and drivers in this
country who could carry on
their work if they never rode
in an automobile again until the
war is over.
1t can't be that Mr.. Hender-
son and all of the others don't
know that a good half of the
driving that is done in this
country each day could be
stopped without hurting any
part of the war effort.
Papa has a car. The family
has a station wagon. Brother
and sister have a car.
Miles and miles and miles and
miles every day covered by
drivers going nowhere, doing
nothing.
Why doesn't the government
get completely honest and COM
pletely tough about il. and take
the tires il needs? Is this a war
or a picnic?
Meanwhile. the good doctor
will continue to seek a formula
for making rubber out Of rub
Der reports.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
eeBuQs'' Double Room DiIemyn1
Army GoIdbrickers
Apt to Lose Suites
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

After four days in the Van Insomnia guess I'm the
only clerk who court-maraed for giving
Jggadier Brndle a douberoom horizontally instead of
vertically
His bed the sxteth floor and his bath on the
eghty-seventh.
The Van Insomnia ID the taest haunted house in the
world, next to the Empire State Building
Say, the army is now running couple of hundred hotels
in Chicago Miami Atlantic City, San Francisco Los Angeles
and the Catskls.
That makes it great for the goldbrckers. You
be discharged from the for being weeks back
rent
Jiggader-Brinde Larrken has big map with 204
pins stuck in it. Each pin is hotel
To make it General Larriken is going to turn
to a courtmartial. I've had trial in the the
marines the commandos and the parashooters.
In the last 1 in the field artillery We lived
in barracks with all the comforts of home but trife
separated
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18

ing that does it. In any event
there must be something to the
claim that pipe smokers are slow
thinkers, as Joe Mccarthy of the
Yankees has said he wouldn't
have a pipe smoker on his team.
Q-Don't you think Texas is
a beautiful state7
Aground San Antonio it is.
Q-Is green ink correct for
love letters?
Al couldn't say, not being
an expert on the subject. How
ever. / remember that in the
play. The Green Hat" the
heroine said she wore a green
hat when she was in the mood
for love. So evidently there is
some connection between the
color of green and love.
NVOU say bees become en-
l. ragged at the sight of any
thing black" writes a Bos-
tonian. Don't you know that
all insects and animals are color
blind. That everything appears
gray to them.
when n matador waves a red
cape at a bull IL is the incessant
waving of the cape and not the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18

Treasure

color Of II that enrages the bull"
\ III is well TO keep in mind that
the Bible does not say: ~
Money Ii the root OF all
evil" But that "the love Of
money Is the root of all evil"
The favorite name of night
club entertainers is Connie,
there are said TO be rs girls
named Connie in New York
night club shows and AZ of that
name in Chicago night clubs.
MAIDS in some first class New
N1 York hotels are paid S14.70
a week. They are supposed to
increase their earnings by tips.
But not one hotel guest in 20
tips the maid.
A 12-year-old Brooklyn girl
has 20 nieces and nephews, IL of
them younger than she is. Adds
my informant:
Her oldest nephew Ii an 18-
year-old 6-footer. He drives a
car and takes his 12-year-old
aunt out riding. Can you top
that"
Baltimorean says he knows a
40-year-old single woman who
says she Is not an "old maid"
but IAN unclaimed treasure"
Very interesting. The single girls
of Baltimore and other cities
should get together and form an
Unclaimed Treasure" club.
A MILWAUKEE, matron asks:
"A "Why are so many hus-
bands afraid 10 give their wives
a little praise?
/ don't know for certain but
they may have the same angle
on the situation as the husband
in one OF Dickens stories who
said:
ut Is my old girl that advises.
She has the head. But I never
own up to IL before her. Dis
cipline must be maintained"
Chicago girl who has been
acting as a messenger at the
Great Lakes Naval Training sta
ton says her mother was yeo-
manette in World War /.
The only totally disabled femi-
nine veteran of World War I
that I have known was a yeo-
manette. She was a beautiful
young girl when she enlisted but
suffered injuries In the line Of
duty that resulted in her spend
ing the rest of her life as a help
less invalid.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
Strut Vanishes
Over Jap Radio

delivered Il in baggy pants and
fell on the seat of them every
other word.
The v for Victory series i'm
proves with every performance.
1t has acquired showmanship
and gives il plenty.
Roy Shields crew. weaving
the ditty, II Get a Kick Out
of You" with velvety violins)
formed a musical rainbow.
THE Story Tellers: The most
Il. shocking charges against the
Nazis are now being offered
by the krauts themselves. In
acts, not words. The Black
Book OF Poland" a record of
the German atrocities in that
land. sounds like a report on
the behavior of savage beasts.
Rex Stout has compiled the
pre-Pearl Harbor quotes of some
Of the brothers in Congress.
which will make a book called
The Illustrious Dunderheads."
Frank Sullivan will quip the
introduction. and Choppers carl
catures will make the squirming
complete.
A nice dab of fiction Is Mrs.
Willoughby's Letters" by Mary
Elizabeth Plummer.
The Most Beautiful Girl on
Broadway, according to Harry
Thompson in Cosmopolitan. halls
from Sioux City. She is Con-
stance Moore, the gal who
fills the tights so nicely in by
Jupiter"
THE Front Pages; Proof that
Il Vichy has accepted the
brute philosophy of its Nazi
masters was confirmed by the
poignant headline in one ayem
gazette: "Vichy TO Jail Priests
Aiding Jewish Children"
The Mirrors breezy interview
with Special u. S. Prosecutor
Oscar Ewing The sent Policy to
prison for Is years. revealed
that his storm troops sent Pelley
$40 a month 600 of them dur
ing one month before the trial.
After his conviction they sent
about $50 daily.
The most arresting news
story was that one about the
Very Rev. r. !. Cannon, presi-
dent OF Fordham, who publicly
confessed that his pre-war iso-
lationist views were wrong and
that President Roosevelt was
right"
'Tf," he said, "the President
had listened 60 me, China,
Russia and Great Britain would
now be PROSTATE and we should
be facing our zero hour alone
and unprepared."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18

THE Intelligentsia: Robert
- Best, the American reporter
who elected to stay in Berlin
Ito record history" (but who
stayed there to join Goebbels'
short-wave staff is being voted
out of his Masonic affiliation
here.
Marie Hansen, beautiful girl
photogger, bridals il with an
ensign soon.
II. Allen Smith. author Of
Low Man on a Totem Pole, T"
has finished his second book:
Life in a Putty Knife Factory"
Author Don Blanding C"Vaga-
bonds House" and seven others)
enlisted as a private. He was
an officer in the last one.
Bob Considine has done a
piece for the mags titled: Com
missions Are Not a Dime a
Dozen!"
The Montreal Gazette's WASH
ington man is now Capt. Lionel
S. B. Shapiro. attached TO
Canadian Military HOS, London.
Editor Ralph 1ngersoll is now
staff sergeant at Camp Edwards.
He won the rifle championship
with a score OF 81.
T'HE First Nights: Two tasks
l. summoned the night shift
to the theater aisles, one
newcomer, the other a land
mark.
jamie" the stranger. Is about
lasses of the giggly age. a sort
Of Junior Miss" plus lads in
khaki.
Gwen Anderson, a coast cutie,
is the top fiirt. and she knows
her bewitching. Linda Watkins.
Herbert Evers, Betty Brecken-
ridge and Frank Amy supply
the talent.
Brooks Atkinson blessed II as
"a pleasant bit of harum-
scarum merriment."
Tobacco Road" which oper-
Aated for eight years, is back
bgain after a vacation OF more
than a year. John Barton plays
Jeeter Lester, the king Of the
white trash. He is the sixth
turnip-eater and oath-spouter
who has occupied the shows
shack since its birth in 1888.
The press said "Howdy," and
We'll. we'll" but you didn't ex-
pect criticism. did you?
Ten new shows are In re-
hearsal or tryouts, all but two
of them very definitely on the
'escapist" or frivolous side.
"Escapist" means the producers
are trying 10 escape from red
ink.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-18
Better Health
BY Dr. Logan CIendenfne-

THE Child Health Movement
is celebrating its eighteenth
birthday this year.
1t can hardly be gainsaid
that education of parents and
teachers in this subject has done
as much to promote the health
of the present generation as
public hygiene measures.
The standards to determine
the health of an infant and child
at different ages is one feature
of the educational program this
year.
The proportions Of the body
OF an infant at the age when il
is just beginning TO stand and
walk are different from those of
the child and adult.
The trunk and head are
relatively large, the extremities
relatively short. The legs and
arms grow much faster than the
rest of the body.
The length of the newborn
baby's legs, from the crest of
the hipbone to the sole of the
feet is 43 per cent of the entire
bodily length. That of a child
of 16 is 60 per cent.
THE points to notice about
Il the baby of one or two
years are, first. the shape and
form Of the head.
IL should be well rounded
with plenty of space above the
eyes. and the jaws wide to pre-
vent tooth crowding.
The neck should be free OF
enlarged glands.
The chest should be broad
and deep, the abdomen fiat.
The skin should be every
where clear.
The arms are normally plump,
but not excessively fat. The
same thing is true of the legs.
The muscles OF arms and legs
should be firm.
The legs should be straight,