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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

humdrin. even In crowded,
cranped metropolis OF 1000. 900
or 5000. 900, IL the citizens never
knew what sort OF living crea-
lures would come popping from
their faucets when they went TO
wash the dishes, brush their
teeth, or give the baby bath.
Too, with foodStuff scarce be-
cause Of the war. TO have cells
on tap must be considered a
blessing.
To many people cells look too
much like snakes 10 be added to
the family menu. but there are
thousands Of folk. including
many celebrated gourrnetS. who
consider the eel a delightful,
delicate dish.
We do not belong 10 the lat
ter group. having once tried a
dish OF jellied eel at EPSON
Downs. just before the running
Of the English Derby.
We missed the Derby.
AS matter OF truth, we
missed the next two Derbies.
THE appellate court likely will
l. take into consideration the
possibility that the City of New
York. having tried cells in It's
running water. viii turn eventu-
ally 10 bigger and better things.
There may well come a time
when the reservoirs will be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

While the lettering idIer watts
Good hIck beside his fire.
The bold heart storms at for
tunes gates
And conqusrs it's desire.
L. j. Bates.
(There have been many poems
and observations as TO luck and
opportunity. but my favorite is
still the old saying: Luck is
when preparation meets oppor-
tunity. "-EVD)
A CALIFORNIAN who went to
"A court to have his name
changed told the judge he was
so doing because for reasons of
numerology and astrology."
The judge said that was a
SILLY reason" for a man to
change his name.
Maybe il is and maybe II isn't.
I have a reader named Irehne
Hobson who claims when she put
an II" in her name for reasons
OF numerology. she tripled her
income.
Considering how difficult II is
TO get hold of a bit of steak,
roast beef, etc. il would seem
that two books which every home
manager should have at this
time are titled 1.-Two Hundred
and Fifty Ways 10 Prepare Peul-
try and Game Birds" and Two
Hundred and Fifty Ways TO
Prepare Sea Food"
DR.. Lee De Forest, distin-
guished inventor who is now SO,
proudly states he walks 20 miles
a day.
That makes me ashamed Of
myself.
I only walk 10 miles a day.
CONTEMPORARY says Flor
~ ence Mills sang I'm Just
Wild About Harry" in Shuttle
Along"
I think not.
Florence was just a chorus
girl at that time.
More provision should be
made by the rationing experts
for sick people who need steak,
roast beef and so forth to build
them up.
In our vicinity the only way
you can be certain of getting a
steak or roast beef on a stated
day is TO go to restaurant.
Excerpt from the United
States News:
British business men want to
know whether the United States
will insist upon some return for
lend-lease or regard IL as a gift. /"
"When 1 was I'm San Francisco
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
The Biishter-Side
7 AM glad that President Roose.

I AM glad that President Roose-
Il welt is thinking of the situa-
ton of the soldiers when they
are discharged from the service
as il may mean definite legisla-
ton in the near future which
will make provision for their
economic security.
"The people at home and the
people at the front--men and
wOmen--are wondering about
the third INSTRUMENTATION
from want" said the President
in his most recent speech.
ITO them IL means that when
they are mustered out, when
war production Is converted to
the economy of peace, they will
have the right to expect full
employment--fOr themselves and
and for all able-bodied men and
women In America who want to
work.
"They (tfie soldiers) do not
want a postwar America which
suffers from undernourishment
or slums-or the dole.
They want no get-rich-quick
era or bogus prosperity which
will end with them selling APP
piles on a street corner, as hap
pened after the bursting of the
boom In 1929"
NOW this, in a general way,
~ is what I have been saying
for some months and what has
been in the minds of millions of
veterans Of World War / who
remember the pushing around
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
Strange Case
of the Eel

stocked with trout and salmon
and bass. and, even, the fighting
tarpon and the magnificent sail
fish.
Come this day. and the Isaak
Waltons among the citizens will
need 60 no farther than the
kitchen sink for their fishing.
Householders will display
proudly the land-locked salmon
they hooked and landed while
taking a morning shower, and
prizes will be offered by some
enterprising merchant for the
biggest small-mouth bass landed
by a man while shaving.
II would be quite a thrill for
the city dweller, wouldn't it, 10
hook and play a sailish in the
wash basin while taking a tub
bath across the bathroom?
The city would gain consid-
cradle revenue from the fishing
permits.
II man happened 10 rent
house or an apartment in q Sec
ton where the pipes were well
stocked, or hadn't been over
fished, he would have TO take
out permit costing from one
TO any number of dollars.
IN THE other hand, there IS
" no denying that the Sum-
shine Farms has an argument.
II is wonder 10 us that their
suit for damages didn't include
a stable amount for shock.
The workers must have been
rocked back on their heels when
the eel finally did come plopping
out.
The same would be true of
any householder, If the city took
to supplying fish with water.
The first speckled trout that
Jumped into the kitchen sink
would undoubtedly send the
housewife into a spasm and set
her back mentally a good 10
years.
Set her husband back, too.
Can you imagine how you
would feel If your wife came
screaming into the living room
and, between screams, Sobbed
out tale Of how she had Just
been attacked by marlin or a
broadbill or a tuna?
A ND. can you imagine how you
"A would feel when. stricken
by your wife's obvious loss Of
m nd, you walked into the
kitchen and saw some such fish
Hopping in the sink?
The chances are that the two
Of you would join hands and
run, not walk, TO the nearest
institution for people who see
fish in the kitchen.
Yes, the appellate court has a
tough case on its hands.
Trying 10 get the eel to testify
Is just one of the many trying
details 10 be worked out,
But we'll bet you one thing
they'll never break down the eel
under croSs-examination.
II it's true that only a game
fish swims upstream, what sort
Of courage and ganeness must
belong 10 an eel who'll swim up
water pipe TO get to the
Bronx?
Distributed by Mcknight Syndicate. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
The On!ooker

NO LAWSUIT In the past 10
~ years - well, the past 10
minutes. certainly-has so IN
trigued us as the one involving
the Sunshine Farms Of the
Bronx and the City Of New
York.
The Sunshine Farms. a milk
bottling plant. has sued the city
for damages resulting from the
penetration Of q 12-inch eel into
The pipe supplying water for
bottle washing.
The eel, and this all goes
back 10 November. 1899. so
stopped up the pipe as 10
halt the pasteurization Of $50
quarts of milk and cost the
farms $69S.50.
The appellate division Of the
supreme court now has taken
up the matter. and, for the life
of US, we can't make up our
mind as 10 how We hope the
court will rule.
There is so much TO be said
on both sides.
IN DEFENSE Of the City OF
Il New York there can be no
denying that a city that fur
nishes cells with its running
water is making a determined
effort 10 break the monotony Of
life in a big city.
Life could never be exactly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
by Damon RunyOn

they got from the government,
and I only hope the President
does not permit his thought to
lie fallow until it is too late.
Too late will be the minute
the war is over, because then
everybody will want to forget
everything about the war, in
GLIDING the men who fought il.
just as they did after all our
other wars.
Millions of ex-soldiers will be
thrown upon their own re-
sources, if any, and requested
to keep out of the way and
will be considered a bore by
civilians.
They will find their old jobs
filled by men who did not go
to the war, and their old en-
ployers unwilling to make
changes, and when the small
money paid the soldiers on dis
charge runs out they will be
walking the streets in despair,
just like the fighting men of
every war in our history.
That Is, unless the President
produces something tangible in
the way of legislation.
1 have suggested that the
soldiers be kept on the pay roll
for one year after discharge
from service, which would give
them a little time to readjust
themselves, but after all this
would be just stop-gap.
/ believe that in addition to
the pay continuance. some legis-
lation should be devised that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

I saw a bus In a collision with a
Japanese submarine"
If somebody makes that state
ment to yeH-deH,t- Immediately
jump 10 the conclusion that he
is balmy.
During a bond drive In San
Francisco a captured Japanese
submarine was hauled about the
city In a truck which collided
with bus.
CAYING he appeared on the
~ same bill as Don. the Talk
ing Dog, at Hammerstein's Vic
toria, Manhattan, In 1914, Sgt.
Charles Fitzgerald adds:
Fitzgerald Is my real name
but was not my stage name.
'YOu have used the stage
name Of my family many times.
"Can you guess what IL is?"
I will guess that Sergeant
FitZgerald's stage name was Foy
and that he was one Of the Seven
Little Toys who appeared in
vaudeville act with their famous
father. Eddie Foy.
California way police
picked up an 18-year-old boy
who had been driving at the
rate of 65 miles an hour.
This boy had c gasoline
ration card and admitted he al
ready had travelled 1000 miles
on a pleasure trip
The c card was given him by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

TIiE plan % open a night club
i exclusively for commissioned
officers died stillborn.
- Surveys quickly showed that
they don't have enough money
to support anything.
No organization goes all out
for them.
There is no USO for officers.
The Officers Service Commit
tee here, slowly being copied in
other cities, is fine, but has
nothing paralleling servicemen's
canteens.
Ted Lightner, bridge champ
on the Mike Vanderbilt team,
is no trump at home; his pretty
English wife is in Palm Beach
to divorce him.
The Harry Connovers' new
daughter will be christened
Raven, because of her jet black
hair (she's Is days old!
Leonore Lem mon lost 81
pounds-but not Charlie Bar
nett, the band batoneer, who
phones her every night.
Fay Wray and Frank Capra
with heads together at Chateau
Moderne - no romance, much
business.
OPPONENTS of Lame Duck
~ Josh Lee, former Oklahoma
senator nominated for the Civil
Aeronautics Board, have dug up
a published interview in which
he said he wouldn't go up in a
plane-too dangerous.
New OPA boss Prentiss NJ.
Brown found the designations of
more than so per cent u his top
aides on his desk.
He filed them for future am
niunition.
At the Washington premiere
OF Commands Strike at
Dawn" sponsored by the Nor
wegian ambassador, all diplo-
mats waived their Sanctified
privileges and came by bus.
rolley or shoe-leather except
hhose Of Thai (Siaml, Jap-con-
trelled bat stiil maintaining
II. s. relations.
Geore Brent enters the Coast
Guard this week.
Senator Schwartz, defeated In
Wyoming. has the inside track
for a job on the National Media
ton Board.
Kay Harris, Title the Toiler
on the screen, has a reservation
for Reno. and so wigwagged her
husband, Henry Freulich. cam
eraman in the Signal Corps.
Eddie Buzzell. bigtime film d.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
Better

physicians are constantly
l. obliged TO describe and ex-
plain repetitiously to members
of the family and TO friends of
patient with a mental illness
what can be expected from
treatment, what is the best
course 10 take and what the
family should do to help the
patient.
The Commonwealth Fund in
New York has issued a little
book titled Mental Illness: A
Guide for the Family" which
should be very useful for all
relatives and friends of a mental
patient because the attitudes of
relatives play a large part for
the better or worse in the out
come or in the treatment OF a
patient with a mental break
down.
ONE of the hardest things for
" the relatives 10 realize
about one who is close 10 them.
living in the same household. is
that he may be actually off the
track mentally.
It Is easy enough to under
stand that somebody in the next
block is peculiar" or that an
other one has gone 10 pieces"
or has had breakdown" but
when it comes to the acknowl-
edgement of mental illness in
some one dear TO you, your
emotions quite naturally color
your reason.
This Is one of the reasons why
many OF these people drift along
until IL Is too late TO help them.
Mental illness takes on many
different forms: its victims may
be silent and sluggish in move
ment or, on the contrary, may
be excited, talk all the time and
leap from one idea to another.
They may have a fixed idea,
for instance. that somebody in
the family is an enemy without
any real reason whatsoever for
such a belief.
A T SUCH a time the worst
"A thing 10 do is to listen TO
friends or well-wishers who are
ignorant of the technical fea-
lures of modern psychiatry.
They will soothe you down with
assurances that the patient will
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

a rationing board in Ogden,
Utah.
The names Of all c gasoline
card holders should be pub
lished in the newspapers along
with the reasons tor their being
allotted the extra gasoline.
LYMAN LYMAN LYMAN OF
IL Richmond, Va, claims to be
the only man in the country
with a triple threat repeating
name.
But he isn't, In Los Angeles
there Is a man named Jerome
Jerome Jerome.
According to the dental ex-
perts the average adult loses one
tooth for every Pa of their
adult years.
That may be true Of the aver
age adult, but I know of an 81
year-old woman who has never
lost a tooth during her adult
years.
She still has in good working
order the complete set of teeth
nature gave her.
DOBERT MOORE, appearing
~ in the soldier show This
Is the Army"
He is the son of Victor Moore
and Emma Littlefield who as
vaudeville team appeared In one
the three funniest acts Of all
time.
I am referring TO Change
Your Act or Back to the
Woods"
The two other funniest acts
were Edmond Hayes In The
Piano Movers" and the Avon
Comedy Four.
Ethel Waters. Sepia songbird.
In her current repertoire she
includes Taking a Chance on
Love-" Stormy Weather" and
line 81. Louis Blues.
But she leaves out Am I
Blue" which she shouldn't.
If you can state offhand in
what talking picture Ethel sang
Am I Blue" you have a good
memory.
Pamela Blake. Cinema cutie.
Her recent marriage was COM
pleted in the record time Of
three minutes.
I don't remember how long
our marriage ceremony lasted.
Neither does my Girl Friend.
We weren't in the movies and
had nobody there to clock the
event.
Copyright, ls4s. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

A T LUM FONG'S, at three
"A different tables. three al
ternate months-Lois January,
Fredric March. Marty May.
AL Jolson wants TO turn Carole
Bruce into a comedienne.
Powers model Betty Mcclure,
whose dad is a vice president Of
the Pennsy r r, dropped pair
OF scissors on her foot and cut
blood vessel.
70 Her constant caller IS Navy
Commander Jess Phares.
And her sister-model Cecilia
Meagher. is the doll OF Frank
Paris. the puppeteer.
7 EE TRENT, described here
n as Hollywood's latest Mr..
Handsome, who was a Minsky
tuve on AID st. two years ago.
is identified as Virgil Irving,
from San Antonio, Tex, 6 fl. s.
Lois DeFee, 6 fl. 5. got him
the burleycue job.
She tells me:
II was about II, down I'm
Texas, when I got terrific
crush on him.
II caught up with him and
passed him In show business and
helped him land on Broadway. :"
Copyright by Daily Mirror, Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
Postwar Job
Plan Needed

will force the unemployment Of
the ex-service men in the fields
of industry and commerce that
they left at their country's
call.
QUT something must be done,
~ too, for men who had to
abandon professions and .busi-
nesses of their own.
Something must be done to
provide a permanent living wage
for all who serve the colors.
else we are going to have the
same confusion that has pre-
vailed after all the other wars.
Oddly enough, this nation may
be in worse case than any Of
those in the more active
theaters of war in the matter
of finding work for the unem-
ployed, because reconstruction
of devastated areas elsewhere
will provide employment for
many for years to come.
I am inclined to think that
upwards of 100000 men will
be retained in our military and
naval service for a long period
after the war, if II terminates
as I think 1t will with our pro-
tracted police occupancy of Axis
territory.
This will help some In the
problem of employment, but you
must remember that there will
be at least 100000 others, and
1t is these who must be our con-
cern-nOw.
Copyright. 1913. by King Features
Distributed by international News Services
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS

]. J. HIS insulin a cure for
diabetes? Some people say it is
a cure and others say emphati-
cally there is no cure for dia-
betes.
Answer-The word "cure"
means complete recovery due to
the use of a certain remedy.
In this sense iRsulin does not
cure diabetes, nor does anything
else.
But insulin holds diabetes in
control so that the dangerous
condition of coma does not come
on and nutrition is kept at a
good level
For all practical purposes the
diabetic taking insulin and a
proper diet is Just the same as a
normal person.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

rector. and Eileen Haley have
taken up where they left off.
Ben Cutler, band leader, who
accidentally drove his car into
the Hudson River once, would
do 1t on purpose II Ann Miller,
Columbia star, asked him 10.
OWEN MONAHAN, La Conga
~ dancer, and Don Richards,
actor. have a lot to talk about
in whispers.
A major Broadway theater
ducked scandal by quick ac-
ton when a tipsy 17-year-old,
who attended every show to be
near a truInpeter in name
band, got a bawling out from
him, managed TO get on the roof
and was about 10 leap when she
was caught by an electrician
who CHANGED to be repairing
some wires.
BARBARA BANNISTER- heir
~ ess, and Mort SWeiR, rich
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
BY Jack Lait:
More MemOs

hotelman, a big thing along the
Big Street.
Jennifer Holt. daughter of
Jack Holt, and bomber pilot 1t.
Nelson Drake. son of the Har-
per's Bazaar official, just back
from the Aleutians. will wed.
So will 1t. George Boedecker,
society heir in the Air Force
IL Eleanor McConville of the
Hurricane says yes.
I AMY ROSS was doing a
~ USO concert at Fl. Knox.
Emceeing the show was a buck
private, a professional who had
done his stuff in many a minor
floorshow.
Ross saw four generals in the
audience, stopped the show and
invited them onto the stage.
They came up because they
couldn't very well refuse, stood,
shifting from one foot to an
other, not knowing what to do
with their hands.
The private-emcee. entirely
composed, waved a hand toward
the brass hats and breezily said:
AT ease"
By that time Ross was push
Ing chairs under them, breaking
up one OF the biggest laughs ever
wrecked
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25

Ii. Com. Walter WincheH
temporarily discontinued his
column while on duty with
the United States Naval Re-
serve. "On Broadway" has
been written by guest COL
unnistS. Todsy's guest IS
Jack Lair, veteran New York
newspspermsn. WIncheH will
resume Monday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
Mental
Illness


soon be himself again" or that he
is lust a little upset by events"
Amateur remedies" say
Edith M. Stern and DR.. Samuel
w. Hamilton in this little book,
"for mental illness are more nu-
merous than amateur remedies
for colds, and far less HARM
less.
For instance, a visit away
from home may plunge a de-
pressed patient into even greater
gloom because he feels strange
and lonely"
Equally harmful Is the adj
vice the family may get that the
patient is lust plain mean" and
that he Ought TO be taught
lesson and told where 10 get
of"
To put these patients out on
their own or abandon them is
just as cruel as 10 abandon
some one because he is crippled
or has heart disease.
THE decision as 70 whether the
l. patient should be hospitalized
or not is discussed in detail as
are such subjects as Some
Treatments for Mental Illness"
''The Family and the Hospital"
Letters and Visits" and when
the Patient Comes Home"
The entire book is written in
sensible and matter-of-
way and can be highly rec
commended TO those who are
puzzled and overwhelmed with
an affliction of this kind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
On Broadway


Trad. Mark Registered. Copyright isti
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-25
BY Il. v. DurIlng-

Distributed by King Features synd., Inc.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-21
Anti-Nazi Couple
Missing From Home

New York. Oct. 2l-INs-Police
admitted that they were baf-
fled In their hunt for a Hungarian
anti-Nazi housepainter and his
wife who vanished two months
ago. leaving their kitchen table set
for dinner.
The pair. Andrew and Elizabeth
10th. were last seen Aug. Is. On
that day. friends said. they were
seen leaving their Yorkyille apart
ment with two unknown men.
10th was known to have often car.
ried large sums OF money with him.
An egl year old daughter left
behind has been taken IN by neigh.
bors. A note left by 10th said he
was going to visit relatives in
New Jersey. but police have been
unable to locate them,
10th recently was refused natur'
alization on the technical ground
that he was an enemy alien.
and $4,000 annually. It was dis
closed A resolution passed by the
ways and means committee calls
for placing E. Burke Montgomery
recorders court clerk. on an annual
$500 salary.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-21
NetUs From, Sheldon

]. C. Colts and sister and husband,
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Seymour.
Mrs. Lucinda Simons had her
house painted a new coat Of white
paint last week.
Five ministers will make Sheldon
church their headquarters this
week and visit the surrounding
community.
William Simons has painted his
garage on Michigan Ave.
Mrs. Walter Kruegar, Detroit,
has purchased a trailer house and
gone TO Mississippi to be near her
husband, who is stationed there in
Army service. Mrs. Kruegar was
formerly Helen Woodbury., Shell.
don.
The silo, built by the late Char
les Morton Barnes, was torn down
and moved away last week.
John Simons, Chicago, H.. was
a visitor of his mother, Mrs. Luz
cinda Simons, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Laduc, Rock
wood, were supper guests Wednes.
day night Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Grubbs and their cousin, Verne
Goodin.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-21

sdvsrflsed ltsms shert IN supply or out
~ stock. Shipping Delay due 10 hssvv
movement 81 vitality needed var SUE
pIles ard ethes wsgtluss eonoitioss ere
freauestiy ths esuss.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-21
New BueIer's Call
TO Battle Insects

Guadalcanal (Delayed)--INS A
new call was on the bugler's roper.
toire today-a mosquito call"
The call, blown by Bugler Will
liam V. Winquist Of Norwood Park,
Ill, warns the Marines TO get I'M
der cover instanter against the vic
Ious mosquitoes that swarm Quad.
slcanal.
At the sound of the call, especial
" selected by the commanding gen
sral. the Marines slap on headcov-
sring and mosquito repellent, tuck
heir pants legs into their socks,
pull their sleeves down and button
up their shirts. Then they yell:
Come on You mosquitoes"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-21
Conference Planned
For Wayne Teachers

At a conference for teachers at
Wayne, Friday. under the leader.
ship OF Or, Mary Alice Jones, Ma
tional Child Worker for the Bap.
fist Church. discussions will be
centered on the theme The Faith
OF Our Children"
This conference is being spon.
sored by the Detroit Council OF Re
ligious Education.