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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Jffterbug Tops
I'm Dancing

went with that. I am aware
that the very mention of the
square dance will arouse nostal-
gic memories among some Of the
old folks though personally ]
thought il was somewhat row.
dyish display.
YOU find traces Of the one
Il step and the two-step and
of the fox trot in jitterbugging.
OF the old waltzes and of the
clog and the buck-and-wing and
the Charleston. OF the acrobatic
dancing at which the Mosconis
were greatest of all, of the
adagio.
OF Isadora Duncan's classical
stuff. they are all in there. Is it
any wonder that jitterbugging is
the finest dancing of all?
> 1t can be acquired by any one
under IS years of age, if double
jointed, though / think the jit-
terbugging geniuses are born.
not made.
The proper costume for male
jitterbug is sport shirt and for
a female bug. short skirt and
bare legs and sox.
Some of the female bugs run
to Stacks. but / feel that this is
not giving the spectator a square
rattle.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
BY Henry McLemOre

business alone. There is no
estimating the number OF men
who found work in the rackets
spawned by prohibition. such
as the poultry, milk, dry clean
ing. numbers, and what-have-
you rackets.
Motion Pictures: The under
world that grew up during
the Golden Age of Prohibition
provided the background, plot
and characters for many movies
that marked definite steps for
ward in the art OF cinema
Biography. Jimmy Cagney in
Public Enemy" was one. In
this the right 10 portray raw
brutalism on the screen was
justified.
Little Caesar" was another,
and "Scarface" still another.
Without the benefits of pro-
hibition the screen might still
be all sweetness and light.
Floral Displays: Until pro-
hibition bloSsomed. our florists
were no better than tenth in
world ranking in the making
of wreaths. Before repeal came.
our florists could whip up a
good luck horseshoe for the
opening of a speakeasy, or. a
hail and farewell. pal display
for a murdered gangster. that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
BY DIR. Logan CIendening

LIVERY ONE has heard of goi-
~ ter countries. Once about
the only one generally known
was Switzerland.
1t was thought that goiter was
prevalent there because of some
thing in the drinking water that
came of the glaciers and snow
capped mountain tops.
Modern m e d icai research
showed that the cause was not
something that was. but some
thing that wasn't in the drink
ing water.
The something that wasn't
there was iodine.
WE IN North America were
w very complacent about
Switzerland until il was noticed
we had quite a large goiter re-
gion of our own.
II extended from the Great
Lakes country west along the
northern border of the United
States and the southern border
of Canada.
Like Switzerland, the surface
soil Of this region was laid down
by the old glacier ice-cap.
The Great Lakes themselves
are merely glacier lakes. The
glacial soil spread over and
covered all the soil laid down
originally as ocean bottom;
ocean bottom land is rich in
iodine from the dead kelp and
algae that absorbed so much
iodine from the ocean water
when they were alive.
This top glacial soil gives no
iodine TO the vegetables that
grow in il.
TIVE relation OF iodine to
L goiter is very close.
The BODY needs a small but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
SOMEWHERE IN IRELAND.
BY MICROFTLM.

SOMEWHERE IN IRELAND,
BY MCRoFTM.
Dear Bugs:
Well I'm coored boy in Ireland and you don't think that
Maybe remember Battling Sikh the Senegaese who lost
Day.
Harlem to France in 1917 in the days when they played
Ash bowl.
He tougher than sirloin with the hide on When he
south.
But they softened him up the He told They
marched me into warehouse at the end of wharf.
when woke that warehouse tossing six the hard
way" he said II should have known better than to march
into warehouse with smokestacks on II.
II had much Of my body that rail that I should
have paid only hafare We the % days
was the only thing there enough of.
"On the eleventh day the captain yelled
We're passing boat said: Captain call when you
pass q tree.
"A reached my pocket my dice threw natural
said You ose, took $40 out Of pocket and sick
all could give him nod time the boat rolled
"After landed In France felt good felt bad again.
asked for any kind of weapon but boomerang didn't
anything that would back to the starting point.
81 got bayonet and knocked of so 60 Germans and
got many medals my chest marched my
you're half good your old the In the bag
and the bags In the Pennsylvania Depot"
HENRY MITCHELL
TO BE CONTINUED)
BY kin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
BY Damon RunyOn

female, must be of the pliability
of angle worms.
THE legs must be capable of
Il twisting and twining like
the fish bait mentioned but at
the same time they must have
plenty of resiliency to spring
back into normal shape. lest
they get tied up in a knot dur
ing the gyrations and remain
that way. In jitterbugging there
is no special reference to those
anatomical sections. fore and
aft, which are the chief consid-
erations of such dances as the
rhumba and the conga, now IA
vored by the old folks.
This is because youth, per-
force, subordinates those sections
to less prominence than is pos
mble in age. / have never seen
a jitterbug. male or female, of
any artistic merit who had that
appearance of wearing blown-up
life preservers that is character
istic Of mature rhumba dancers.
The salient feature of jitterbug-
ging is flat hips, or should I say
features
Jitterbugging combines the
best of a score of different styles
of dancing. beginning with the
old square dance of our fathers,
but without the yip-yipping that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Good Old Days!
Renlember2

was the envy Of foreign workers
in flowers.
NATIONAL health: Prohibi-
~ ton made the American
stomach immune 10 any or
binary punishment. After years
of drinking brew whose basic
ingredients were rubber heels.
horseshoes, formaldehyde. wood
alcohol, Jamaica ginger. Arsenic
and Old Lace. rooster combs,
and copper filings, il was ready
for anything.
Hard times are coming before
this war Is over. Americans will
probably be asked TO get by on
a very rigid fare. They won't
mind il. certainly not those who
are blessed with noble expert
ment stomachs. They could be
reduced to a diet Of conch shells,
antimacassars and corn bore
spray and still gain weight.
Disrespect for the law: All OF
those who went through the
prohibition age Git has been
compared 10 the golden age of
Pericles by some inmates of
institutions) learned TO look
with light scorn upon the ma
tional book of rules. Now, in
another age, when the hard
bitten words of the leaders are
closing down. down, on the
people. this ability to smirk at
rules is very helpful.
The men and women who
peeked through the speakeasy
iron grills sometimes sharing
the grill with law enforcement
officer who was after his CUT
are not going TO be easy prey
for any sort Of dictatorship.
NAVIGATION: The sea lanes
~ between the United States
and British possessions are very
vital now. Thanks to the rum
runners every reef, every bar,
every wave, every ripple, has
been charted and re-charted. So
has every cove on every beach.
And, it must not be forgotten
that the Higgins landing boat,
the one that is being used by
our troops all over the world.
was first created for the use of
the Louisiana rum-runner in the
lagoons of that state.
Music: Prohibition enriched
the music of our country. Who
will ever forget the haunting
refrain of the alcoholic blues
mo more beer my heart 10
cheer 1. Good-by, whisky,
used TO make frisky ?"
A man could go on and on
enumerating the wales of the
Noble Experiment.
So who am i to fight against
a Noble Experiment No. 2? II
the prohibitionists accomplished
all these blessings the first time
out, there is no telling the good
they could do with a second
chance. Who knows but what
there is another Capone, an
other O'Bannion, ready to as
sumo national leadership and
lead us back to the happy, care
free times Of Valentines DAY.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Iodine.
Golfer

constant amount of iodine for
its functions.
All of this iodine goes first to
the thyroid gland, and enters
into its secretion in a definite
amount.
II iodine is diminished in
drinking water and food, the
gland increases the number OF
its cells in order 10 extract as
much as possible from the blood
as ii flows past.
More cells means enlarged
thyroid, which is what goiter
is.
Adding just little ieaized
salt TO the food of school chill
dren cut down the goiter Incl
dence TO almost zero.
TWENTY years ago this cam
Il paign was started.
1ncH pNOihc OCkoii W tOi stt-
A goiterless generation grew
up. Authorities became lax.
All of a sudden a year or
two ago, public health officials
woke TO find that goiter was on
the increase again: the rate
rose in Michigan from 81 in
1887 10 as in 1893 per 1000
So the iodized salt campaign
is on again. 1t only takes a
little.
The states where this should
be done are Michigan. northern
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana,
Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota,
the Dakotas. Montana, Wash
ing POSSIBLY Wyoming, Idaho,
Nevada and California;, and
Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba.
Saskatchewan, Alberta and
British Columbia
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
On the Side

No eOoard soul is miHs,
No trembler IN the worlds
storm troubled sphere;
] see heavens 0iories shine
And faith shines equal orming
me from fear.
Emil Bronte.
CEEMS 10 be a tremendous in
~ crease in self-conscious
young women in Manhattan.
Never before have / seen so
many females who appear to be
under the impression they are
the oynosure OF all eyes.
This is unusual for New York
whose feminine residents always
have been noted for the posses
sion of that thing called poise.
can't figure out the cause Of
the present situation but per-
haps the girls have gone in so
intensely for self-improvement
which requires a lot of looking
i'm the mirror which in turn has
made them well pleased with
themselves and therefore self
conscious.
This is too bad because IL
makes a lot of otherwise nice
girls look a little silly.
SDAT O'BRIEN and Spencer
L Tracy have been intimate
friends for IS years." states a
press agent.
That's certainly news 10 me.
thought Spencer Tracy was
much younger man.
Four out of five Englishmen
are horse players. 1t may be
nine out Of ten.
Anyway horse owner ran for
office in a London district and
made only one speech during his
campaign, as follows:
Friends I'm 1888 my horses
ran ~of NIuCB knO IhnlbnC0 LII TIC
money a total Of 1913 times. My
horses strive to justify the faith
of those who back them. IL 1
am elected, I with do the same.
thank YOU"
He was elected by large ma
jority and is said to have proved
to be the best representative the
district ever had.
A T END of 1941 there were
IA "a, 1888, 167 motor vehicles
registered in the United States.
Now there are II per cent less
cars on the roads.
Government hopes to keep
y, 600, 1000 autos in action for
the duration with preference to
necessary driving.
An English joke follows:
Cad sir" said the old colonel
at the club, ''the Zulu war was
much worse than this one. Why
I remember the time when q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

A M INFORMED that a San
"A Francisco taxicab company
is advertising for drivers and
promising they will earn $50 or
more a week. That's very good.
However, many New York
taxi drivers are now earning
that much. The Manhattan taxi
shippers get SAP and one-half
per cent of their gross take plus
tips.
This morning while walking
the pup 1 saw a cat chasing a
dog. And the dog was running
as fast as he could.
My pup gazed on this scene
with amaZement and began Wig
orously tugging on his leash
quite apparently desiring to put
the cat in his proper place.
eQ @. AS a brunei have
wondered why there are not
different types Of brunets rs
there are of blondes. That is
there are honey blondes, dish
water blondes, silver blondes,
etc, etc. Couldn't you think of
some names for different kinds
of brunets?
A. What you request Is out OF
my line. I\can only think of
such names as "a jet brunei"
IAN eight ball brunei" "a raven
brunei" and a "shoeshine bru-
net"
@. So you can't think Of any
famous cats. How about Dick
Whittington.s cat7
A. Mister, you have me there.
Name your brand of cigar.
Off fast runner. such as q
college track man, was running
away from an elephant who was
after him full speed, could he
escape?
Ann afraid not. sir. An
elephant when going at full
spec ID can run PAN miles an
hour and no man can run that
fast. Better keep that in mind
and not do anything to make an
elephant sore at you.
H s FOR quaint, peculiar,
"A ugly and repulsive shapes
take . look Mt the male Of the
Species" writes a young matron
of Boston.
"And what makes it worse
the men, unlike tho women, do
not try TO do anything to Inn
prove their figures to make
them less unsightly.
rs IL any wonder that with
50 many husbands having such
unromantic figures that 90 many
wives are secretly IN love with
movie stars or some Of tho few
men who have pride enough to
make themselves look present.
Able?'
Copyright, 1912, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

Zulu threw his spear ut me and
pinned me to the ground, i was
lying there for three days"
Another club member inter-
rupted:
1T must have hurt"
Said the colonel:
Not much, only when i
laughed"
WAL ARMS, of the cinema. His
p v name originally was En-
manuel Eros Tsarmouropoulos.
When he decided to adopt a
professional name he sought the
advice of a numerologist.
And says as soon as he began
to use the name, Val Arms,
which the numerologist advised.
his luck began to change for the
better.
Florence Pike. Brilliant Bos-
tonian. Mrs. Pike is the owner
of a chain of Chinese restau-
rants.
Most interesting thing to me
about Chinese cooking is that in
China the cook in a family
occupies a position somewhat
similar to a doctor.
Perhaps it would be better to
say dietician.
In any event the highest type
OF Chinese cook serves food
which is adapted to the person
eating it.
haven't heard II stated yet
but 1t wouldn't surprise me if it
is learned that the Chinese knew
all about vitamins thousands of
years ago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Innocent
Bystander

rock at Tsllulah's playing in
The Little Foxes" IL cost the
sponsor the price OF q muffed
question to let Aleck have his
fling.
Fred Warning has wrested
from J. Benny the record of
having his name mentioned
more times per program. War
ing does it in IS minutes, too,
against his opponents 80.
THE press box: II In ironic
L that New York Times ace
Byron DaYnton should die on q
foreign assignment. Once he
walked out OF a news service
because il tried TO send him
abroad without a wage tilt.
1t pointed out the prestige Of
the job. but Byron sai Id he
couldn't spread butter on pres
tige.
Glenn Mccarthy improved on
the old wheeze, "All boss play
ers die broke" Most of those
he knows, Glenn said. live that
way. too.
The headlines in the n. Y.
Sun Monday afternoon screamed
of a new Nazi advance the
subhead of il told that the NaZis
had taken just one city block in
Stalingrad.
Colyumnists exaggerate. huh +!
TYPEWRITER ribbons: j. NJ.
l. Barrie: His eyes tip-toed
over her figure.
T. S. Brown: He threw his
opinions at you as though they
were weapons.
Robert Trevor: His life was
picked in the vinegar of his own
pessimism.
d. Johnson: His converse ton
went round and round looking
for yawn TO crawl into.
A Woollcott: He was barna-
cled with habit.
J. j. Walker: In politics there
is no window where they pay
of those who come in second.
Norman Lewis: When man
speaks. he Is trying TO be logical.
When a woman speaks, she IL
trying TO be irresistible.
Andrew Jackson: One man
with courage makes a ma jority.
DR.. Mellon: A blade as thin as a
thought.
d. K. Green: She was one OF
those creatures that happens
only once in a love-tine.
Mary Carolyn Davies: The
difference between poetry and
verse is you write verse for your
landlord and poetry for God.
b. Rolam: Private as a grave.
j. Miller: Lightning-the sw-
full autograph Of God.
Anon: II girl doesn't watch
her figure the boys won't.
Copyright BY Daily Mirror, lne-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

THE intelligentsia: Since
M Gypsy Rose Lee, the strip
)easer, started writing books.
1some litry critics call her a
"stripteuse."
Grover Jones' widow is in dis
-tresst-4is many intimates and
those he helped SO much should
contact Lee Shippey OF the Los
Angeles Times. who is sure
they'd want to help.
Correspondent Fred Oesch-
ner's book. This Is the Enemy"
comes out November TO-
Dorothy Thompson. who gives
Hitler and Hirohito hell. makes
Mussolini look silly and criti-
cizes F'DR fearlessly, is scared
OF her cook.
She tells friends:
I'D invite you 20 dinner. hut
I've asked six already, and I'm
afraid of what my cook will
say"
Newspapermen learn that
other correspondents saw Init
News Service ace Jack Singer
shot down at sea-''which elm
mates any hope that he is just
missing"
THE FIRST NIGHTS: Three
Il revivals and a stranger were
the incoming attractions.
The Damask Cheek" is the
beginner. comedy by John van
Druten and Lloyd Morris about
the America of three decades
ago
. The cast was very glittering--
Flora Robson. Margaret Doug
lass and Myron Mccormick
among them. Mr.. Atkinson
found the play so light that be-
fore the end II vanished into
nothingness."
Bird in Hand" which lived
around here for a year 10 sea-
sons ago, made a second try.
Romney Brent and Harry Soth-
k,rn gladdened the reviewers
,earts, but the play, said l..
kronenberger. just "burbles and
BUNDLES and rippIes and ram
bles."
Joe F.. Howard. Red Marshall
and Vicki Cummings tried to
kick life into The Time. the
Place and the Girl" a follower
from 1906. Unfortunate" was
the press sections word for il.
Native Son." the story of the
Negro slayer cornered by the po-
ice. came back with Canada Lee
In the same fine performance in
the lead.
TIVE Magic Lanterns; The
L cinema makes a good show
ing. Bette Davis. HOLLYWOOD
sure-hre sufferer. tears at your
emotions again in Now. Voy-
ager."
Here she is a spinster with the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Echo Of 1917 TOHgkie
To Soften a Sergeant
Ship Him Overseas
By ARTHUR BUGS BAER

Cor several weeks Bugs" Baer has been looking for the
toughest sergeant the the toughest sergeans
in the looking for Baer The sergeants
provide the backbone that holds all the ribs together and
the letters that prove it,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
On Broadway
by Walter WincheIl

Trade Marx Registered. Copyright. ls42
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

SeIf-COnsciOus
Young Women
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
BY 4. v. DurIing

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

TIVE Magic Lanterns: The
L cinema makes a good show
ing. Bette Davis. Hollywood's
sure-hre sufferer. tears at your
emotions again in Now, Voy-
ager"
Here she is a spinster with the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

THE relation OF iodine to
L goiter is very close.
The body needs a small but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-25
BRISTOL FIRM
 PLANS DINNER
Recording Co.'s Bremen to Receive Awards at
 Banquet Tomorrow

Naugatuck, May 25.-Members of the Bristol Recording company fire department win be Heted at c ban- qiet ct . banquet tomorrow night at the. company cafeteria, with the company giving the banquet. The firemen in this plant have just com- pleted . 12-weeks' course in fire fighting, during which they were in- structed by Lieut.. James Grant of the local fire department.
 Some will receive awards tonor- row at the banquet and each will get Q certificate showing he has completed the course. A final drill was held last Friday night at the company, during which they exttn- guished an improvised fire. Fire Chief John J. Sheridan of the local fire department, Chief James Swan of the Seymour department, Edward Weaving, chief of the Naugatuck Chemical Company department, Lester Gum, fire marshal at the Chemical Company, and officials of the Bristol Company were the speakers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-25
SHOUT APPOINTED
 OPA EXECUTIVE
Business COnsultant to Be Regional RatiOning Di-
 rector for N. England

Boston, May 25 - Eldon c. Shoup of Framingham Center, business consultant in the regional office of the U. s. Department of Commerce, has been appointed regional OPA rationing executive, 1t was an- nounced today by Kenneth B. Backman, New England regional OPA administrator, IT Court street.
 MT. Shoup, who is well known to New England business men as merchandising, sales and research expert, will have supervision of the rationing program throughout New England, working with the state OPA offices.
 MT. Shoup had been with the de- partment of commerce since last August, consulting with business executives on new problems, aiding colleges and schools which con- duct business and economic courses, and making extensive studies of business conditions in this area.
 The new regional ratio1ling exec- utive is A years old and native of Jacksan county, Kan. He grad uated from the Topeka, Kan., High School in 1916 and was commits stoned an ensign after attending the U. s. Navy Officers' School in 1918 and 1919. He received an AB. degree from Washburn College, Topeka in 1920 and an M.B.A. de- gree from the Harvard graduate school of business in 1922.
 For more than IA years Mir. Shoup was directly identified with New England manufacturing. He was sales promotion manager of the National Blank Book company, joining that concern in 1927. Be- fore joining the department of commerce has was divisional sales manager of the Dennison Manu- featuring company in Birmingham.
 In 1922 he helped establish the New England research council on marketing and food supply, with headquarters in Boston. This coun- cil, comprising the six New Eng land state colleges and departments of agriculture, was coordinated by MT. Shoup aind served as a re- search agency of the U. s. Bureau of Agricultural Economies with which he served several years. Tn 1924, as a representative of the U. S. department of agriculture, MT. ehoup went to Europe and assisted in the organization of a foreign market reporting service for Amer ican farm products. Later he served as assistant chief of the agricultural foreign service and edited Foreign Crops and Markets" a weekly pub- ncation of the bureau of agricul- tural economies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-25
Market IrregularIy
 Lower, Very Quiet
Bethlehem Steel Broke to New Low for Year; Other
 SteeIs Were Easier; COppers Receded Slightly
BY ELMER c. WALZER Limited Press Financial Editor

New York, May 25-(UP)-Beth. lekem Steel broke lN points to a new low for the year at 496 today to feature an irregularly lower, quiet stock market.
 The issue met support at the low and came back 1s point by noon Other steels were easier. U. S. Steel approached its low, selling at 4 5-S, off 5-8, while its preferred WIS at 1O8h off 1.
 Youngstown Sheet & Tube equaled its low at 29 l-8 off 3-s.
 Gold mining issues were steady with Dome Mines active. Coppers receded slightly. South American Gold & Platinum sold at the years low. Patino (tin) Mines was up 1-4 ct IT 3-4.
 Automobile issues eased with Chrysler at 57h off h and General Motors 34 < off 1-4. Rails general Iy were better than other sections Utilities had enough gathers to score a small gain in the average. A few special issues sold off to losses of a point and more and several made new lows for the year.
 Mercantile issues held steady for the most part, while oils were off small fractions.