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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-18

not bear having jeff prove him
self ungenerouS!
1t was easy 10 spot AIRS Butler
and her family among the few pas
Sengers who got off. jeff and the
boys spotted them, II, and Molly
waited, brcathlcssly for them 10
pull their stunt.
JEFF SHONES SLIM
Mrs. Butler looked uncertainty
.up and down the platform. while
the two children hung on to their
nurse. open mouthcd az the boys
who were deCkCd out i'm the most
extreme of Chaps, l9-Gallon hats,
and holsters with guns at both
hips.
Excuse me, ma'am-" Molly
watched Slim jackson reel up
TO Mrs Butler. The next in
slant, jeff showed him away. and
Slim turned on him savaCcly.
Mrs. Butler made a. dive for
her children as jeff SldcStcpped
Sims rush, and pulled a gun
II was al this point that Molly
broke in She ran toward the
group and seized Mrs. Butler S
hand, tossing gay well DONE"
10 Slim.
Luke couldn't come at the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-18

Her sympathy had been stirred al
his wIstful
ITS kind OF hard 10 get to
know folks around here.
thought people were friendly out
West"
Molly had not had the heart &c
tell him of the hostility there was
against him. Instead, she had sci
herself TO soften the feeling of the
range.
Lots of luck she'd had, she re-
minded herself Sarcastically. Talk.
ing didn't get you anywhere with
JEFF and his hard-boiled bunch
Action was all that counted with
them! But what action?
a half smile curved her lips as
she turned over in her mind what
JEFF had told her.
II she had never known Luke
she might have thought the scheme
he and the boys Concocted was
funny at that,
But she did know Luke, and she
liked him. and II was up to her &c
see that he had fair play.
DUDES COMING
II she had only had the sense
not 10 tell jeff what Luke haC
told her about the first dude:
coming Friday,
4 Mrs Butler who had beer
ordered West on account of sinus
was bringing her two children and
a nurse.
eff they like IT," Luke had
said. I'm set. They have loads
of friends who'll flock out after
them"
He had gone on TO predict how
tlCkled they would be TO be met
with the new blackboard, instead
Iof a car
Local color! That's what
dudes like"
Local color" Molly muir
INJURED, coming up from the
corral. She stopped short, pom
dored minute. then gave a
triumphant little laugh, as she
repeated. softly:
Local color"
Before sunrise Friday morning
Molly was driving the blackboard
10 town turning over and over IN
her mind jeff 5 plan and hers.
NO COWARD
Al only ono point did the two
points coincide; that was the part
about putting Luke's blackboard
and car out Of commission. so
that he could not get TO the train
20 meet the dudes. 81
Molly was willing 70 let jeff pull
that trick without any interference
/, from her.
1t was much better to keep Luke
out Of u. He WAS no coward, if he
r WAS a tiutic, and real fight might
develop # he showed uD
i II was nervous business ducking
.-UUt Of sight around the station
from jeff and his crowd, but Molly
found point of vantage behind
baggage truck.
Her heart beat fast AS the train
pulled in She had not seen Jeff
since that day at Sentinel Point.
Would her plan work ? Would jeff
and the boys meet her challenge?
Gould She make jeff see that
he wasn't playing fair? If she
couldn't oh she must She could
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-18

ADVERTISEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-18

range, he wouldn't do anything
10 hurt Luke. He"
He would have 30 wears ago!
He can just Iii tight and not
interfere, now, while We younger
ones do il for him.
Gosh, Molly. where's your
sense of humor" l thought you'd
see the fun of our plan. or l
wouldn't have told YOU about II.
You crossed your heart not 10
tell, you know"
1T isn't funny" Molly said
fatty. Don't YOU see. JEFF, that
sooner or later. some one is
coming into the Basin 10 take up
dude ranching?
'Luke's mighty decent; Nou'll
have 10 admit that. He'll have
the right kind OF dudes"
He won't have any" jeff de-
Clared. Believe me. Wen scare
his dudes away. Wen make life
so hot for 'cm, they'll NamouSe
prOntO II any are hardy enough
To reach the ranch.
"My guess il they'll decide at
the station To take the first train
back. IL Luke Alden won't have
the sense 10 accept our offer TO
buy him out, he'll have 10 take
his medicine"
"Nhy should he sell out? He's
got a. much right" Molly )
temper flarcd up again. As You
say, what's the use of talking:
I'm going this way. Good-by."
She turned down a game trail
out Of sight among the
tamaracks in the Y of the draw
ignoring JEFF S shouted:
Keep mum about this, or
Ill"
RACES HORSE
Molly raced through the draw
then pulled up as she reached the
open south slope above the pas.
ture. Her browS knit together al
the silence behind her
SO. JEFF wasn't following. II,
really was mad.
Slowly she picked her way dowy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-18
DNiIU Short SlNry
By MARIE DE NERvAUD

BY MARIE DT NERNAUD
"I DON'T like e." Noll Fol.
4 ger relaxed III her saddle,
her gaze on sharply outlined
snow peaks. In striking contrast
20 the late spring flowers that
dotted tho mesa
Il don't like II az all
The eyes ~ tho lolr- man ho
side her were not wasting an,
time on distant mouu@r>
They were glowing az Molly.
profile. comic5l mixture o. W.
willing admiration ana Jealous,
in their brown depths
you're in love with the guy,
That's what, at the hot-om Of
III you say that again. jeff
Thomas"
Molly left the threat In rho air.
but her hlazirs blue eyes finished
II for her.
SHE'S CHANGED
"Wcll, what's made YOU change
90. II that isn't the answer"
jeff CroWled.
you've never wanted dudes
on the range! You've said 80
q thousand times! Then. along
comes a dude, picks up a ranch
before any of Us know what he's
up to"
"Your own stupidity" Molly
interrupted katly. THE Lazy
Five has been on the market for
over a year.
E "You all thought you could
use II for grazing forever with
out paying for II. Well, you still
can!
Luke Alden has been generous
enough 10 say that YOU can 20
on running your cattle over his
yange-"
"Yeah. While he runs his
dudes over ours. 4 dude ranch.
In Cataract Basin. And Molly
Folger for it,
jeff gave a TUG 10 his reInS.
Jaw, let's get back. What's
the sense of talklng:"
LEAVES SILENTLY
In silence they left Sentinel
Point and dipped into the grove of
yellow pine, anger seethlng be-
tween them.
AS they neared the draw Molly,
always the first 10 cool down, gave
a sidelong look at JEFF 5 set mouth.
Why did she have 10 fall in love
with a stubborn. hot tempered
loveable-
A laugh bubbled UP. and she
leaned over TO put a hand on Jeff s
arm.
Lets not fight. JEFF. You
know where my heart is, all
right.
But II just isn't fair play
what YOU boys are planning TO
do to Luke!
HE has had 10 come out here
for his health, he has put every
cent he has in the ranch, and
he has as much right 10 pursue
his business. which Is dude ranch
Ing, as you have 10 pursue yours,
which Is cattle ranChing."
MIGHTY TOLERANT
mighty tolerant aren't yOu?"
JEFF still wouldn look al her. 81
bet your dad doesn't sing that
tune"
Dads "a stubborn and set as
you are" Molly admitted. "Only
there's one difference. While he'd
rather not have dudes on the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-18
By Walt Disney
A New Face Appears
Vegetable Shoots
Ambitious Aid

pleasant little game that will you message
every day puzzle designed 10 spell out
Count the letters in your first name the number
number less than
add 3 The result is your Start the upper left
hand corner rectange and check OF your Key
the the letters under
the checked figures give you Is
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

That is what the modern psvchiatrist SAYS.
When an animal. peacefully sleeping or brows-
ing, receives surprise blow, the shock Gre
ates in him terrific surge of high-votaEe
energy. to be expended in fight or flight. The
most faithful dog may bite even its own
master before il realizes who has stepped on
its tail.
The same explosive nervous machinery eX-
lists in man. When he barks his shin on a
chair or runs his nose into an open door in
the dark, he is likely to relieve himself by
kicking the offending object and at the same
time condemnng to eternal perdtion the inn
mortal soul of the person who left it that way.
Like a lightning -arrester or safety
valve, this relieves the sudden power-surge,
within the person who generates it. That
is good for his health But when he is hold
ing nail for another man to drive and the
other accidentally hits him on the thumb, the
same blind instinct demands that he knock
his friends head off. Instead he eXplodes in
lurid comments about him and his ancestry.
This may not be pretty behavior. but IL is
better for the other mans health than hitting
him over the head, with the board they were
trying to nail and it has been stated in the
old saying:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me-"
But swear words do hurt, as shown by
such expressions as "stinging rebuke, Crush
ing retort" and "tongue-lashing Unless the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04


1t isn't getting to first base, with its swearing.
The function Of swearing, says DR..
Montagu, is to provide an outlet for the
aggressive feelings provoked by Illustration,
an outlet for the boiling over of emotions
under pressure, and thus to restore the normal
psycho-physical equilibrium
1T is psychological means of keeping
the organism physioogcally clean." he says
"A way of getting rid of noxious humours
Like laughter and weeping; IL represents
specific response to a specific urge, and while
producing a feeling of relief is itself perfectly
harmless"
The distinguished professor finds that
swearing is often a substitute for physical
assault between individuals and he suggests
rs it perhaps possible that swearing is
a natural form of behavior whose function has
been replaced among uncontrolled men by
physical violence? If physical combat between
persons and between nations could be re-
placed by the more natural arrangement of
a swearing contest, how much more would 1t
profit their souls. and what happier world
this would be to live in'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

all because it is reputed to carry the power
to drag a blessed soul from on high"
In discussing cussing. DR.. Montagu shows
that even a great vocabulary of profane ex-
pressions is not enough to make one master
of the art of swearing There must be also
accent rhythm and cadence as in poetry or
music or the thing is as flat as reading
written speech. He cites:
Mark Twain. very noble swearer, whose
swearing upon one occasion so much tried
and exaspcrated his wife that she, in order
to prove to him what he sounded like to
others, treated him to somewhat unusual
performance of really eloquent swearing.
Mark listened for a while and then dryly
remarked:
1.-The words are all there my dear, but the
music is wanting"
The fact is that swearing is an instrument,
which like all others, only be effectively
played when there is sufficient amount of
sincerity behind it.
Most any sort of sudden Illustration calls
for the consolation of swearing. The man who
drives TO town to cash a check, only to find
the bank closed, due to holiday. feels better
after cursing the sign which tells him the
bad news His wife who goes shopping with
pocketbook full of most everything except
money says things into it which calm her
spirit so that she is more
content to spend the sszxSsZ
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

swearer feels that he is landing one verbal
punch, after another, his swearing does him
no good. The article quotes Shakespeare, who
makes Philip the Bastard say, in King John:
He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke
and bounce,
He gives the bastinado with his tongue:
"Our ears are cudgelled not word of his
but buffets better than fist of France.
"Zoundsl was never bethumped with
words
Since / first called my brothers father
dad"
The Stole philosophers learned to control
the instinct to such extent that they could
break leg without uttering even sigh. This
was marvellous achievement but so is fast
ing for 40 days and both are bad for the
health.
The world soon wearied of the Stole cult,
probably because the Stoics all died nervous
wrecks, victims of their own suppressed de-
sire to swear. Today however. there still
exists a sort of mild equivalent OF him. John
Dryden said.
Beware the fury of patient man."
Why? Because the patient man does not
swear He accepts one affront after another,
placidly, until one gets the habit of kicking
him around like door mat Though none
of the wounds show on his calm exterior they
accumulate inside wearing thin the insula-
ton Of his nerve wires, until one day, with.
out warning. he comes at you with an axe,
which is very unhealthy.
Mule SINNERS" and fishwives are gen.
orally rated as the champion swearers of their
respective sexes but an orphans curse would
seem to have the highest muzzle velocity Of
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04
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Swearing profane and angry prayer"
-CoTrs Harris.
~CIENCE. In the person OF DR.. NJ r. Ash.
ley Montagu, has come forward with
- good word for the bad habit of swearing
The eminent psychologist believes 1t is a
natural instinct. beneficial to the health of
the cursor and often to that of the cursed
He points out that a baby comes into the
world swearing well 1t can under the
sad handicap Of having no vocabulary.
But just what Is this "cussing' that has
received the blessing of psychology? mot
the of blasphemous or obscene language,
of course)
The dictionary defines 1t as the ''use of
profanity" but this now seems to be an in
adequate definition.
A person may use profane language mere
iy for emphasis, which Is not beneficial to the
, health. 1t Is almost inaccurate as the
child's classic definition
carefully brought-up youngster hap
pened to pass the Jones residence at the peak
OF family quarrel which he described as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Jones preached and then he threw
dishes at Mrs. Jones' IL
Mr. Jones was not preaching: he
swearing. But, according to Dr. Montagu's
theory. he did not do good job Of 1T or he
would have been satisfied with his word throw
ing and not have slowed IL up with china.
The soundest definition, psychologically.
was given TO the world by a woman novelist,
the late Cora Harris, and is quoted above.
As her definition indicates to swear enc
must be angry as we'll as profane or 1t Is not
true swearing and no therapeutical results
follow.
A recent issue of "Psychiatry," published
by the William Alanson White Foundation,
L..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

jumping out of the shirt and rolling
far under the bed. Silence may be
golden at such time but few
weIl-chosen remarks about the man.
haters who design shirts. collar but
tons and persist in the sadistic Gus
tom of dressing for dinner are better
for the victims blood-pressure.
If baby could borrow his fathers
vocabulary and swearing technique
for five minutes, it might be salts
fed that it had told the world what
1t thought of the place and be con-
tent to go to sleep, instead of bowling
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

ment, disappointment or humiliation precipi-
tates swearing, providing 1t has the element
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

carries Or. Montagu's In
teresting article. covering
the subject from the pos
sibility that human speech
originated in attempts by
our dumb ancestors TO ex-
press their Illustration clear
Up 10 the most emancipated
modern woman who has
learned TO burst into pro-
family, instead Of tears.
However, IL her newly
acquired vocabulary Is not
quite equal TO the occasion,
she turns on the tears. too.
Even the animals swear,
according to their varying
talents in that line.
The dog curses, not
when he is growing or
snarling. for these are just
plain warnings. but when
he expresses his exaSpera-
ton at the cat that has
climbed a tree to safety, by
means Of hysterical barks.
The dog makes a poor fist
of his swearing, as bad as
that of a Victorian lady
who could do no better
than to keep screaming,
Damn! Damn! Damn!"
Much smarter, the pro-
fessor finds our "cussin'
cousins" the great apes.
These realize that their
vocabularies are inadequate
for expressing their feel
ings and so they do not try
TO do 1t that way.
They say it with ges-
lures and facial express
sions.
When Gargantua beats
with hairy fists and con-
countenance." even a mule {
in awed silence.
From the swearing amin
Of human cursers. Professo
10 give credit 10 the great
NO appreciated the value
jgcx In 1884. Julian Sharn
entitled, "A Cursory Histo
In this he asks:
Can il be that the habit
and source Of delight to s
pleasureful qualities which
the tobacco leaf or balm O
the world will not willingly
disposed to think that the IT
is very deeply rooted In t
tuition"
Robert Graves also W.T.
THE Future of Swearing q
guage." He saw clearly tbs
definite physiological func
place of childish tears anC
thought that: "As a nervo'
crisis, swearing is unequal
y This, DR.. Montagu point
Swearing is not a stimular
1t does not generate steam.
might be expected it took S
1t right and in only three
Labour lost" he makes B
Abstinence engenders !
AI UnN0
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

This Unoffending Stepladder
Is Due for Some Fancy
Kicking Around at the Ex-
pense of the Kicker's COrns
Which VIII Start the Vicious
Circle All Over Again.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

A Few Lurid Comments ON This Golf
Stick and It's Ancestry Might Have AZ
lowed the Irate Golfer to Expend His
Pent-Up Energy and Saved the Innocent
Club From Its Sad Fate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

1t has been estimated that April Fool
practical jokes double the average output Of
cursing on that day.
Big men are most easily made to swear
by little things such as the baliy collar button
Oh clir Long h.,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-04

spirit so that she is more
content to spend the
day in window-shopping
Most any, embarFass-
Evening star., 1942-02-15
1000 Ship Workers
Rout 400 WeIders in
|nter.Union Battle
Police UnubIe to Cope
With Mob; Tokomo
] Pickets Forced to Work
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Feb. l4.-More than
1000 shipyard workers charged a
400-man picket line Of welders today
at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding
Corp. plant in a bloody inter-union
battle that ragged for an hour down
a mile and half of factory-walled
right-of-way.
The outnumbered independent
welders were put to flight with fists,
clubs, wrenches. pipe sections and
shipyard tin-helmets.
Heads were torn open, noses
broken, eyes blackened and at least
four welders were taken to hospitals.
Police Watch Battle.
A force of "a city policemen was
unable to cope with the mob. They
stood by watching the battle, which
ragged uncontrolled in the pre-dawn
darkness of the early morning shift
change at the big plant, where
thousands are employed on millions
of dollars worth of war contracts.
The pickets were massed at the
shipyard gates at the change of
shifts. Workers coming of shift
joined with the new shift, went into
the shipyards and behind the fences
laid their plans.
Then, with mighty roar and with
clubs and tools drawn like sabers,
they charged out of the gates and
down on the pickets with shouts Of
Don't be a white Jap" and Work
for Uncle Sam"
Pickets were beaten, knocked to
the ground. kicked in the head. The
main body of welders withdrew
down the street, the workers hot on
their heels. Several groups were
cut off, and in some instances lone
pickets were surrounded and pum-
melled around the circle.
Pickets Forced to Work.
Four or five automobile loads of
pickets, trying to escape, were cap
tured and forced to drive to the
yard gates where they were then
marched inside and forced to re-
turn to work.
The welders walked out three
weeks ago. demanding an inde-
pendent union.
Evening star., 1942-02-15
New Cruiser Juneau
Is Commissioned
Under Camouf|aqe
Destroyer Meade
To Be Launched Today
In New York Yords
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-With the
hope that she would be more of "a
terror and scourge TO the enemy
than Moby Dick ever was to the
whaling fleets" Rear Admiral Adol-
phus Andrews. commandant OF the
Third Naval District, today placed
in commission the Nays newest
cruiser, the 6.000-ton Juneau.
AS the $4,000. 900 craft, first
American warship to be named for
an Alaskan city. was turned over to
Capt. l.. K. Swenson of Provo, Utah,
the admiral told the ships company
The courageous and fabulous ex-
ploits of the men who opened that
rich untouched land and built the
city of Juneau are a matter OF
Alaska's glorious record. From those
pioneers you men may take . new
inspiration. You must secure for
posterity the America they helped to
build
Fleet sister of the recently COM
missioned Atlanta, the Juneau wore
camouflage. Navy men said she was
the first warship ever commissioned
in war paint.
Her construction involved some
OF the most advanced designs
brought out by recent war opera
tions." the Navy said, and was COM
missioned four months ahead of
schedule.
The ceremony was the second in
q busy weekend schedule for New
York shipyards. Last night the new
Evening star., 1942-02-15
Ancestors Fought Indians,
Stepmother Relates

BURLINGTON. Wis, Feb Ia
CP.-Exploits of Sergt. Leroy Ander-
son, Wisconsin selectee awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross for
bravery in Philippine action against
the Japanese, reminded his step
mother today of earlier fighting by
his ancestors in the early Connecti-
cut Indian wars and the American
Revolution.
Family records, according to Mrs
Hattie Anderson, show that Ander-
sons great -great-grandfather
together with three sons, fought for
American independence in the Revo-
lutionary War.
Five generations further back an
other ancestor, John Mason, an
American Colonial commander, was
in command of an expedition of
English and Indians against the
Pequots, troublesome Connecticut
Indian tribe which he almost an
initiated in 1887.
Anderson was raised in Burling-
ton. He was an Eagle Scout and
served as Scoutmaster before leav-
ing for the Army. His parents are
dead.