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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
The Brighter Side
by Damon RunyOn

lust po' folks trying to get
along.
Jacoby, slender, athletic-look-
ing and formerly a furniture
salesman out of Pittsburgh, is 40
and perhaps the most unusual
type of the trio.
BENJAMIN and Perry led
- more or less rough-and-
tumble lives as athletes. and it
is not particularly surprising TO
find them members of the great
est fighting corps in history, not
barring Napoleons Old Guard.
But Jacoby led a rather quiet
and sedentary existence most of
his day, took little exercise, had
no connection with the huffle-
scuffle element that Benjamin
and Perry know and had never
fired a gun in his life.
He told me he had enlisted in
the marines after long consider
alton because he had heard il
was a hard-bitten corps and that
he felt it was just what he need
ed TO shake him out Of his old
groove.
He has been shaken, all right,
but he takes deep pride in the
fact that he came through boot
pavOD' yUithp faItpripU and in
his membership in the marines.
I WOULD say that pride in the
Il marines is the strongest char
acteristic of the trio, despite the
short time they have been in the
service.
They seem to revel in the
memory of their training as re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
Case of Grabbing

The boys didn't have their life
jackets on, but since the boat
doing a loop-the-loop, fell right
on top of us. it was just a case
of grabbing and holding on, while
the waves beat us and blinded us
and tried TO pull us away.
l remember being worried about
the possibility of sharks. You
think of such things automatically.
They run through your mind, in
a way. but you don't realize this
until it is all over, and the danger
is past.
II was fairly easy 10 right the
boat this time. We made the wind
assist us. The raft was so light
that We merely had 10 raise the
side facing into the wind, and the
wind swept under and blew it right
over, just as it had done a moment
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
No College Degree?
Stay Home

every newspaperman in this
country.
Freddie decided he should 90
in the army.
A T 80 he figured he wouldn't
"A be a very good fighting SOL
der, so he went 10 Washington
and offered his services.
He offered them TO Gene Tun-
ney.
He offered them to Tom Ham,
ilton.
He talked TO generals,
celeHels, and what have you.
They all were eager TO have
his help-at first. They said:
Come right In, take a seat.
and we'll put you where you can
really do some good. You are
our man."
He filed out all the papers and
was ready 10 90 until the queS-
ton was asked.
whats your class, oil boy"
He said he didn't have any
class. He said he was lucky 10
get through Locke High School
in Arlington, Mass, what with
having TO start supporting a
family at an age when most kids
are still playing marbles. That
finished him, brother. He was
through.
T SAY such a policy is without
Il rhyme or reason. / say it's
crazy.
Freddie is just one of thou
sands of talented men who have
had that question thrown at
them.
whats your class, Of boy o"
Well never win the war with
text books.
Nobody ever went over the
top with a volume of Early Eng
lsh poetry in one hand and a
mortarboard in the other.
How many of Stalingrads de-
tenders have college degrees?
Who gives a damn, in those
bloody streets, whether you sat
at the feet of Professor Ivanski
and heard his words of wisdom
on the Importance of the Resto-
ration Period?
When the Japs closed in on
.Bataan.- l suppose Macarthur
called all the men with college
degrees and said:
you are my hope, my only
hope.
you must protect and lead
and guide those poor soldiers
who have no degree, and who
can only shoot and sweat and
die for their country"
DUT to get back to Freddie
- Corcoran.
Here is a man who wants TO
help and who has the ability to
help.
Let's quit asking him, or the
likes of him, what year he
graduated.
Let's just be grateful we have
such men around.
Teacher, may be excused?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
.NaHpHrprPd boat

Gene and I. with the shoes or
our hands, maneuvered the boat
TO where l could lean out and pick
up one of the nuts. We managed
TO break one open. but there was
nothing fit to eat inside. They
weren't nuts at all in the reaI
sense Of the word, but just lot
of fiber around a hard core.
think they were the little cones
that grow on what the Hawaiians
call the hala tree, which is the
same as the pandanuS.
On the rventy-second day. as ]
recall, we found the log. Time was
beginning 10 run together for US
now. One long, blazing day was
exactly like another. which makes
1T difficult 10 place exactly the
small events that interrupted oul
lpnOnOtOnOuS routine
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
'UOU about HnircHf?'

"How about a haircut" he
suggested.
yeah" Gene said. at might
be cooler"
want me 10 try II on yOu:"
I asked Tony.
"Sure, come on" he said.
Tonys hair was as stiff as q
shaving brush. ! sawed away
above his forehead cutting close.
When l ended he was funny
looking object. He didn't have
much beard. just a thin mustache
and a few tufts on the end of his
chin. which gave him the look Of
a caricature Monaghan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
Scattered Type

Genes beard might be called the
scattered type. l cut his hair, TOO.
and then Tony cut mine. The
scissors weren't much good for
this sort of thing, but at least
these crude operations got the
hair out Of our eyes.
I We were keeping sharp watch
fer -eeeeRt4ts bHit-+re weren't see
ing any. We saw lot of small,
brownish nuts about two inches
long and perhaps an inch and a
half in diameter, that looked like
miniature coConuts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
HWHAT's your class,
boy 80

boy"
That's a question they ask so
times a day in Washington.
a They (meaning the brass hats
IN the army and navy want 10
know where you went 10 college.
and the year you sat in the
chapel wearing a black robe and
listened TO solemn old cuss tell
you that you were the hope OF
the world.
A man without a college de-
gree might just as well have
Mkayed in the Stage Door Can
len, insofar rs getting a conf
mission is G. -erned.
He has three strikes on him
from the start.
Until things get lot tougher,
Washington is going 10 try to
win this war on a blackboard.
II is going to insist that its
officers have a fraternity pin, a
forgotten knowledge of chemis-
try, and a pale cheek pallor
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I hate ingratitpde IN a man iQorso
Than lying, UGiHness, bdbbliag,
druHkenHesi
Or any faint ~.
1Shakespeare.
CAID Gen. Sir Archibald
~ Wavell in a recent broadcast
to the British people:
"Hitler Is being recognized by
his army as a tinhOrn gambler
whose luck Is passing. The Ger
man peoples hearts are sinking
into empty stomachs and soon
they will sink still lower into
their ersatZ boots"
Californian says he had a bull
dog who delighted in barking
fiercely at and chasing a neigh
boris cat. Then came a flood
and the dog saved the life of the
cat who was drowning in the
nearby river.
The dog tehdeFly brought the
cat home. In a few days the cat
recovered his health.
And so what?
The dog started barking
fiercely at the cat and began
chasing him again.
WHY is that so many success
w full feminine singers Of the
blues have been named Smith?
The first TO record the blues
was Mamie Smith.
The other blues singing Smiths
are Bessie Smith, Laura Smith,
Clara Smith and TriXie Smith.
Speaking of Smiths, could you
make up a ball team of major
leaguers past and present named
Smith?
Here's as far as I progressed
Earl Smith, catcher; Sherrod
Smith, pitcher; J. Carlisle Smith,
third base; Jack Smith (Billy
Conn's papa-in-law), right field.
AS for Smith football team,
the only football playing Smith
can remember is Andy Smith
of Pennsylvania.
ENEMIES should not be under
II estimated. Neither should
they be overestimated. Take
some of this talk as to. the
Japs being a super-nation in the
matter of enduring suffering
and catastrophe. -
At the time of the 1923 Toxic
earthquake the Japs became so
hysterical and were in such a
panic of fear that the city re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
CHAPTER 1S

the under edge with a loud boom!
and the next instant we were in
the water, the raft flying through
the air over ottr heads.
saw a flash OF white-our rags
for catching water! l let the boys
look out for themselves, and made
a wild grab for the rags. ! got
both of them, as the raft fell back
and hit me on the shoulder. II
was upside down.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07

7 HAVE had the opportunity Of
observing a number of mid
dle-aged gentlemen who are now
members of our fighting forces,
and their durability under train
ing stress might tend to shake
my opinion that men of their
years are unsuitable for combat
service, did l not feel that they
may be exceptions that prove
the rule.
Pvt. Joe Benjamin, Pvt. Cupe
Perry and Pvt. Jerry Jacoby Of
the United States marine corps
had just come through boot
camp" when l ran into them,
boot camp being a seven-week
course of the toughest training
ever devised for American serv-
ice men.
BENJAMIN. a lightweight con-
~ tender of the mid-twenties,
is As, though since the training
has knocked off Is pounds for
him and erased the lines of a
long career of night life from
his countenance, causing folks 10
remark of his youthful appear
ance, he has commenced to
shorten up on his age.
l heard him tell an inquirer
that he is just AZ.
Perry. 6-foot. 230-p ound @ T
from Jasper, Ala, who played
tackle for the University of Ala
bama under Wallace Wade and
later put in eight or nine years
with the professional Green Bay
Packers, is 40, and describes
himself in a placid drawl as
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07

sembled a huge monkey cage
on fire.
This conduct was in direct
contrast to that of the people in
San Francisco at the time of
that cityS fire and earthquake.
Do you think Toxic could take
the bombing that London cid
and still breathe defiance?
doubt it very much.
A CONTEMPORARY says
"A Abraham Lincoln was the
best president the United States
ever had. / don't agree with
him. Lincoln was the second
best. The best was George
Washington.
1t is interesting TO consider
that Washington was a very
human fellow. He enjoyed home
life. He was a good husband.
He was scientific farmer and
distiller. He bred thoroughbred
horses and raced them.
He liked a good time and was
always having house parties and
clam bakes for his friends.
He was an enthusiastic fisher
man, an ardent duck hunter, a
clever billiard player and liked
cards. He was fond of dancing
and at the age of Ga was still an
enthusiastic dancer.
He died as the result of a cold
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07

Gene was on watch, and not
taking much part in the CONVEX
sation since l had lodged his
favorite subject. / was sitting in
the bottom of the boat; Tony was
lying down. 1t was getting to be
about that time of day when the
equatorial sun seemed 10 take on
a positive malevolence, drying up
our spirits and making the mere
effort of talking an eXertion TO
be avoided if possible.
Suddenly Tony sat up.
81 feel a coconut," he said.
It was particularly fortunate
that we had come upon a coconut,
for our systems ne q e d oil.
Twenty-one days in the sun of the
tropics had boiled the moisture
from our bodies. and our skins
were dry as parchment. l felt as
if ! had been flayed.
When | unrolled our little piece
of patching material 10 see if il
might make a sunshade, l found
a small pair Of scissors.
They were about four inches
long. blunt-ended - dime-store
stuff, meant for cutting patches.
Wrapped in the fabric. they had
been protected from the salt water
that had ruined our gun. But they
weren't much good anyway.
Might come I'm handy some--
time, but / don't know how"
remarked 10 Tony.
He glanced at them alphabetically.
He raised his hand TO brush his
long hair out of his eyes. an auto
matte gesture. and that suddenly
gave him an idea.
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what rule No. 6 was.
"Never take yourself serl-
ously," answered Churchill.
"What are the other rules ?"
asked Hopkins.
There are no Others" said
Churchill.
THE Front Pages: The Honor
ables in the House didn't
know what hit them when their
supporting dailies turned and
blasted them for their vote on
the anti-inflation bill.
Sheets opposed TO FDR went
over TO his side. They didn't
have the stomach 10 hang out
with those who kicked the
country's welfare around just TO
pick up a few votes.
TYPEWRITER Ribbons: Anon:
You can never get ahead Of
any one as long as you are try
ing to get even with him.
T. Riggs: She was oblivious
TO the attention she created as
she walked down the stares.
Celia Cole: AS relaxed as
twilight.
d. T. Lutes: The sky was so
blue you wished you could
wear il.
Martin Lorrin: You never
waste time; time wastes you.
Ernest Bucket: Her face was
smudged with fatigue.
Anon: Reason and Love usu-
ally turn out 10 be the strangest
bedfellows.
V. Hugo: Men are women's
playthings. Women are the
devils.
Helen Rowland: The same
woman may be a goddess 10
boy, a temptation 10 a married
man and menace" TO a
bachelor.
w. Keefe: Those who suffer
most from self-importance are
one-term politicians and one
book authors.
TYPEWRITER Ribbons: R
Il Brennan: Beauty ran wild
around her curves.
T. Hardy: She picked up her
temper and held il tightly in her
eyes as she left the room.
j. NJ. Barrie: Her loneliness
was a poem nature had written
in her honor.
Mareelene Co. He Sharpened
his wits on the edge of her
nerves.
Anon: In love there is more
sensation than sense.
The n. Y. Times: The arm
chair expert who knows all about
how to run the war sometimes
has trouble keeping his watch
right.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
Hitler Tin-HOrn
Gambler

caught while on a long horse
back ride in the winter. WASH
ington was not a politician. He
cared nothing for fame or glory.
lie loved his home and home life.
lie entered public life 10 serve
his country.
Lincoln was a great man but
not quite as great as Washing
ton
OBSERVED Voltalre:
" when we hear news we
should always walt for the sacra-
ment of confirmation"
James Cannon stated:
"C Chance and skill enter into
card playing. Chance and knowl-
edge into horse racing"
The best swimmer Of all dogs
is thc Labrador retriever.
In all my life l never have
maaca bet away from the track
with a hookmaker.
~ pretty foot is one Of the
greatest gifts of nature" claimed
Goethe.
l can't argue this point. I
never have been much of an OBJ
server of women's feet. But I
can appreciate the beauty of a
woman's hand.
QUERIES from clients:
Q Q-Why was il that the
majority of the Commands who
attacked DiePPe were Cana
dams?
A-Can't say for certain but
I believe II was because the
Canadians are especially adapted
for the Commando type of war
fare.
Q-Does a sweet girl" make
a better wife than "a PERSONAL
ity girl?
A-Lady, you have me some
what confused. First tell me
what is the difference between
sweet girl" and "a personality
girl"
Is sweet girl one like
Olivia De Havilland and a per
sonality girl one like Carmen
Miranda, or what?
Q-Are red-haired WON e n
more ambitious than brunets?
Al don't think so. ! agree
with the man who said:
"AlI women are, by nature,
ambitious"
However, it has been claimed
=ttat-rcd-haired women are less
likely to let ambition stand in
the way of love than some other
type of women.
Distributed by King Features synd., Inc.
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Notes of Innocent
I'm DTOOOWSX Bystander
BY Walter WinchelI

Trade Mark Registered. Copyright 1891
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pIstrI0uted BY Kins Feature, sypd Inc
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(To BE Continued

Copyright 1912. by Henry Holt a Co.,
Distributed by King Features Syn, Inc.
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ENEMIES should not be under
IL estimated, Neither should
they be overestimated. Take
some of this talk as to. the
Japs being a super-nation in the
matter of enduring suffering
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-07
On the Side

7 hate ingratitpde IN a man i0orso
Than lying, uGiHness, bdbbliag,
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At the time of the 1923 Toxic
earthquake the Japs became so
hysterical and were in such
panic of fear that the city re-
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21

pened to be closed and the white
places refused to serve him. thus
forcing him to eat Dutch
lunches" He had to play at
least five mite games, maybe six,
week, and on Sundays, if in
the vicinity Of New York City,
three games per Sunday-double
header then a inter" about 40
miles away, If put under the
same handicaps, I wonder if
Mister Fletcher could take it. I
wonder? ?
For example, the Baltimore
Elite Giants crammed 125 games
into the space of 80 playing
days last year. In one month
less playing time the average
colored league team plays the
same amount of games as the
Majors.
In the near future petitions
will be out for this cause. Sign
up, and do your bit.
,eftv
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21
LEFTY BROWNS
SPORTS LIFE

Cambridge is the home of
Newark EagleS's first sacker
Franny Matthews. In the many
years he played hereaboutS he
set records that undoubtedly
will stand for a long while to
come. A Rindge Tech first sack
er, Franny was picked all-scho-
laStic over Albie Fletcher of the
Braves and Pirates who played
at Milton High at the time.
They both chose the game as a
means of livelihood; they both
rose to the cream of the crop,
the National League! Only
Franny'S league had the word
"Colored" in front of it, which
meant that he had to ride up
wards of 10000 miles per season
in bus and play for a much
lower salary. There we're times
when he had money in his
pocket to buy hot meal after
the game but couldn't because
the colored establishments hap
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21
Ruled By Gangsters

7 do not believe that your
average southern white man
understands the Colored citizen
better than anybody else. This
is mainly because a certain
Hitler-like group has been poi
soning the minds of the aver
age southerner not only through
the press but from high pub
lie office. Lynchings, riots and
the like have been melted land
approved by this gangster
clique which is actually guzzl-
ing all the gravy while the vast
majority of the southern peo-
pie remains the nations mum
Der one problem"
That the day may come when
younger Write generations IN
the south may demand an in
vestigation into the current
gangster-rule prevalent in many
parts of Dixie as certain as was
the coming of the French Re
volt. Not even the proud south
can endure half slave and half
free.
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TWENTY Gun Salute 10 Bob CoYne.l
GBy Lefty Brown

request and so far without much
success.
I heartily agree with every
thing you said in your letter
and especially regarding big
league baseball where the south,
a section of our country that
does not support baseball, con-
tinues to dictate its policies.
think there is no finer Am
erican today than Joe Louis and
where would America have fin-
ished in the last OlympicS if it
wasn't for the brilliant per-
Torrance Of the members of his
race.
I only wish that I might do
something to carry out your idea
and you may be sure that I will
continue to work for that end.
Sincerely yours,
BOB COYNE
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21
Like GOOD Chicken

The young southern ladies
actually had peaches and cream
compilations like you read
about. They told the store clerk
they came from Georgia and
they were as pretty as Georgia
peaches are supposed to be. In
a sense they spoke with that
tantalizing slow drawl that you
associate with Colored people
while I ratified off my words
like a Nazi aryan. Nor did they
seem to resent my equality in
the same store with them,
whereas in the south, there are
separate stores for white and
Colored.
The Yankee ore-keeper tried
to sell the southern bibles some
choice chickens in the glass
case, but the Georgians turned
up their pretty little noses at
the cold storage stuff. "We eat
chicken fresh," they told the
clerk, and their statement re-
minded me that palefaces are
more particular about chicken
than Colored. The same is true
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21
Cracker Cheered Too

The Alabama youth did not
protest. This southern boy
seemed grateful to have found
a friend in this beWildering
Yankee-land where even his
own color seemed sold and dis
tant. The only men he could
trust we're those the south have
always trusted the most-Col-
ored Americans,
You know, alb was up in a
place called Springfield con-
tinued the southern lad with
enthusiasm, land up there
Jaw a colored boy fightin' in the
ing with a white man.. Course,
down south they don't allow
that an dat first alb thought
Somethin' was wrong. But do
you know somethin that col
ored boy beat that white boy
and all those white people stood
up and cheered that colored
boy
And do you know Somethin'
elSe!'
"Ah Stoop up and cheered
that colored bow tool"
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21

Recently this column started
a local campaign for the en-
trance of colored pro baseball
players into the major leagues.
So far my efforts haven't been
wasted. I've received many
responses to my letters, among
them one from our own popular
cartooniSt of the Boston Post
Bob Coyne, who has always been
an advocate of fair play regard
less of race, creed or color. He
proves that by answering my let
ter promptly and personally
voicing his opinion on the sub
iect at hand. Here is his let
ter:
Dear Jesse.
7 hope you will pardon my
tardy answer but I have been
trying to interest somebody here
in doing something about your
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21

BEAUTY HINTS
By NINA TEMPLE
HMHMWMHMWMEEHHMHHMmmmHRMl
THE LAST BEAUTY TOUCH

THE LAST BEAUTY TOUCH
First there is the beauty bath,
the perfumed sprays and the
various rituals Of the facial
makeup before you are ready
to don the lovely gown for the
evening. Eyebrows, lips, cheeks,
hair, hands, nails all come in
for their share of attention. You
may think that you are COM
plete as you stand there a love-
ly vision before the mirror, but
wait, there is one last beauty
touch that no wise woman neg
lectS to add if she would go
forth a full-hedged beauty ready
for conquest. You ask what It
is and T whisper your ex-
preston. Be sure to put on
charming, pleasing and suitable
expression just before you make
your exit. 1t is most potent.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-02-21
Trust Sonia Men

Before that train ride was
Jver, the white gentleman from
Alabama was inviting the col
ored gentleman from New Eng
land to pay social calls at any
and every opportunity. And if
you think he was fooling you
just don't know a real reformed
southerner who can be just as
regular as anybody else once
he or she is removed from the
poison propaganda of Dixieland.
Almost inevitably, when a
southterner comes north among
strangers, the first person he
seeks out is a Colored man
who, if he stands up Smartly,
can do a world of good just as
did Johnny Shelborne and Ed
die Digger and the Colored
American train passenger men
oned in today'S story.
And such stories as these
dwarf all others in Importance,
fans. Also these stories are in
creasing, which is a good thing
for the country. I thought of
this the other day, while being
served at a store counter in the
presenc of two southern ladies
from Georgia, also customers.
In Georgia they would have
had me thrown out of the store.
Dnrlooy1c