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THE SPIRIT THIS CRISIS
RRTNGC RACK TO AMERICA

In Rickenbacker' words, and IN the
roaring welcome they stirred from the
American people, the so-called planners,
the national socialists who travel under
all sorts Of names, the superior few
who believe that they and only they are
qualified to tell Americans how to live,
will find their doom, if they look closely
enough.
For Rickonbacker's words We're as
American as the ace of aces himself, as
humble as his beginnings, and as true as
his life has been to the ideal OF courage.
Those words were the spirit OF re-
awakened America, of an America which
has slept under sedatives of oratory and
extravagance, and which is now awaken
ing to the knowledge of its danger. They
were words that will flame down the
coming years. paving the way for those
bows who will be cominp home to live a
free life of their own choosing, without
dctation by government, labor union or
employer.
After Rckenbacker, we repeat:
1--WE must learn to work, work ana
more work, save and save, if we are 60
ing to be honest to our God and our men
over there.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
SIS Bond for Champions
In Various Classihcations

A S25 bond for each districts
Junior high champion.
A $25 bond for each district S
senior high champion.
A $25 bond for the junior col
Ilege champion.
A $25 bond for the college or
university champion.
Next, the inter-district junior
and senior high school contests
will pick the division champions,
ard the junior and senior col
leges will choose their champions.
The two high school division
winners will then compel c
against each other, and the two
college division winners will do
likewise, on a program which is
being arranged.
The Times will give these war
bonds in each of the high school
and college final:
$3.50 to the Greater Detroit
champion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Carter Glass PrOudest
Of Jefferson HOnOrs

Carter Glass, senior United
States senator from Virginia and
honorary chairman of the Thomas
Jefferson Bicentennial Oratorical
contest, is. at IS. dean of Ameri-
cas- public servants.
He is now serving his fifth term
in the upper House--respected by
political friend and foe alike.
President Wilson in 1918 made
Glass secretary OF the treasury,
in which capacity he floated the
famous victory loan TO help
finance World War 1. A year later
he began his first term in the
Senate. He has remained ever
since as an outstanding member.
Yet the honor which is closest
to him and which expresses best
his many achievements in his po-
sition as chairman of the Jeffer-
son memorial commission. It sum-
mariZes. more than any other
honor, the efforts of n courageous
man 10 keep alive and burning the
clear torch of basis democracy, the
democracy of Thomas Jefferson.
Summing up his career two
years ago in response 10, a citation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
You May Pick Any Phase
Of Jeferson's Career

Students may select any one
phase of Jefferson's achieve.
ments.
A vast deal Of rhetoric anc
IA bombastic style Of delivery
will not fare as we'll as q
reasoned, considered statement
Iof the meaning of Thomas JEFF.
ferson to America.
The orations that will win the
national prizes will draw their
eioquence from high and un,
Ifaltering faith in America, ir
democracy and in the great
American, Jefferson, who was
the author of the Declaration OF
Independence. father of, the Bill
of Rights, initiator of the pro.
Icesses of universal education
father of religious tolerance in
America by the Virginia statute
of religious freedom.
And then, to make his achieve.
Iments fuller, responsible when
re became president, for the
greatest expansion of our coun.
try through the Louisiana Pur.
Chase and the Lewis and Clark
Expedition that opened the
Northwest.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
City and Suburbs Split
In S Zones for Contest

The city and suburbs are
being divided into FIVE districts,
fenning spoke-wise from the
downtown Woodward avenue
hub. for the junior and senior
high school competition.
This districting is necessi-
tated because Of the large num-
Der of these schools in the area
to cut down on travel, and to
preclude the judges having to
hear all the school finalists in
enc protracted session.
The districts will be:
East--from Detroit river to
Gratiot avenue.
Northeast--from Gratiot to
Woodward avenue.
North--from Woodward to
Grand River avenue.
Northwest-from Grand River
10 Michigan avenue.
West-from Michigan TO De-
troit River.
The junior and senior college
contests will be handled sepa.
.rately, with the whole city as
one district.
AL individual school champions
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
$1,000 Bonds
For District,
City Winners
BY RAY HARRINGTON

The Detroit Times today an
nounces the Thomas Jefferson
lBieentennial 0ratorieal Contest,
conducted locally by The Times
and nationally by other Hearst
newspapers.
The Times contest is open to
all boy and girl students in
Junior and senior high schools
and junior and senior colleges
within this city and its 13
suburban municipalities-High-
land Park, Hamtramck, Dear
born, Crosse Pointe, East Detroit,
Hazel Park, Ferndale, Royal
Oak, Berkeley, Melvindale, Ecorse,
Lincoln Park and River Rouge.
More than los, 900 high school
and college students are eligible
to- compete for $1,000 worth of
war bonds which The Times
will award to district and city
champions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Sen. Harry F. Byrd
In Sponsoring Group

Senator Harry F. Byrd Of Vir.
lginia today joined Gov. Kelly anc
Mayor Jeffries on the national
sponsoring committee of the
Thomas jefferson Bicentennial
.Oratorical Contest. He said:
"The high school and college
students of today who will he
the citizens of tomorrow will In
herit a world badly In need OF a
full knowledge of the fundamen-
tai principles rs enunciated by
Thomas Jefferson"
Mayor LaGuardia Is honorary
chairman for New York City, with
the five New York borough presi-
dents on the committee-Edgar
Nathan, Manhattan; James j.
Lyons. Bronx; John Cashmere,
Brooklyn; John Burke. Queens,
and Joseph A. Palma, Richmond.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Equal Chance
Assured All
By Divisions

Dr.. David H. Henry, president
of Wayne University; NJ. E.
Shattuck, director of language
education division of the Detroit
Board of Education; DR.. Rupert
l.. Cortright. associate professor
OF speech and in charge OF
oratory at Wayne University
and DR.. Rose Walsh. speech
director of Marygrove College.
The Times is inviting other
leading educators of the city
and suburbs to serve on the
sponsoring committee.
Mr.. Shattuck and DR.. Cort.
right will be chairmen, respec.
lively, of the high school and
college division judges who viii
handle the district, inter district
erd city final contests. Mr.
.Shattuck will designate the time
and place for the district anc
Iirterdistrict competitions anc
DIR. Cortright and Miss Anne
IMcGurk, speech director of High
land Park Junior College, will
Ises the time and place for the
senior and junior college cham
lpionships. The time and place
fer the city final contest will b,
selected as soon as the higl
school interdistrict meets ar,
over, about April /.
The decision of the judges il
each step of the Greater Detroit
contest will be binding.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
500 to the runnerup.

Thus, the Greater Detroit
high school and college cham.
Ipions going to the Middle West
zone contest will have won $275
worth of war bonds from The
Times $3.50 for the city cham.
Ipionship plus $25 for his or her
district title.
And the Detroit champions
will have the opportunity to &c
through the zone contest to the
IN a tional competition where
Hearst newspapers will award
IA $1,000 war bond each and the
Washington journey April Is to
the national college and high
school Thomas Jefferson ora
torical champions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
All-Expenses-Paid Trip
To Washington at Stake

These students, in more thar
$50 schools of the four classes
III Greater Detroit today turned
to the imperishable deeds of The
great humanitarian, Statesman
and author, to prepare short
speeches on Thomas Jefferson
the Great American
Gov. Kelly and Mayor Jeffries
are co-chairmen of The Times
contest, and are members of the
national contest sponsoring com
'mittee, which is headed by
~. S. Senator Carter Glass of
Virginia.
Detroit's winners, to be chosen
through individual school, dis
trict, interdistrict and city final
eliminations, will 60 to the zone
competition, which will be be-
tween winners of the Middle
West contest.
The Middle West zone finals
VIII be held here or in Chicago
and the national finals in Chi
cago or New York. The country
is divided into three zones: East,
West and West.
The grand national champions
then will go to- Washington for
the dedication ceremonies, an
all-expense-paid trip which will
include a tour of the capital
with a contest representative to
meet the leading personages in
Americas government.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Blond Girl Orator
First Finalist
Represents School
in New York Contest

A 13-year-old girl orator, blond
and blue-eyed Gertrude Werndl of
New York, is the first finalist Off
cially announced 10 represent a
school in the Thomas jefferson
Bicentennial Oratorical Contest.
She answers n moot question
can a girl fare as well as a boy in
a test of eloquence? Gertrude,
representing the co-educational
Horace Greedy Junior High School
of Queens. was chosn in the
schools final competition from IL
girls and boys who had been
picked from 200 contestants.
She said she obtained valuable
help from a book. Jefferson" by
Saul X. Padover, a biography
based largely on the writings OF
the father of democracy. To help
other young orators the following
books are suggested, in addition 10
Padever's book
James TrisIow Adams. The Living JET
ferson."
. Carl L Decker "The Declaration Of
Independence -"
Claude @. Bowers. "Jsffsrson and Ham
itnn- b"
Claude G Bowers Jefferson Ia Power %
Gilbert Chinard Thomas Jefferson. tbs
Apostle ~ AmeTicanism.
Francis W Hrst. "LAfe and Letters oi
Thomas Jefferson "
Allen Johnson. jefferson and His COL
leagues"
Cenevievs X LisitIky. Thomas Jsf.
ferEon. 80
Matthew r Mellon Early Amerc car
Views on Negro slavery d" Part ~ refer
TO jefferson vieVs)
DAVID s Muzzey. Thomas jefferson FL
Helen Nicoiay The Boys IJfs n
Thomas Jefferson a"
Albert Jay Mock. "Jeffsrson -
Paul Wllstach, Jsffersqn and Mont
cello"
Charles NJ Witss The JeffsrsoniAT
Tradition IN American Decomraoy."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Rules to Follow
In the Contest
How Schools Proceed
in Making Entries

Procedure in The Detroit Time
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Ora
torical Contest should be as fol
lows.
IA school or college noti-
fies the Jefferson Contest Editor
of The Times Of intention 10
participate.
2-The school or college CON
ducts its individual competition,
c1sing its own judges, following
its own procedure, and not later
than March 20 announces TO the
Jefferson Contest Editor its
winner.
The Times. however, sets fort
these requirements.
Am Grafton must he orig
inal. and not read from manu-
script.
Bit should not exceed six
minutes In length.
C-The general subject IL
Thomas jefferson, the Great
American"
,D--A student. IL he or she de-
sires. may focus on just one
aspect Of Jefferson's achieve
ments instead of trying to cover
the whole ground, and the
judges must bear this I'm mind.
E-On March 30 the Greater
Detroit district elimination con-
tests begin. and the Times will
notify each school where and
when Its representative Is to
speak.
F-The lnterdistrict meetings
for junior and senior high school
students are being arranged and
will be announced this week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
New Ny|on Tire
Doub|y Strong

A new type OF aircraft tire, in
which nylon replaces cotton fabric,
was revealed by the United States
Rubber Co. Saturday.
Forecasting important postwar
commercial possibilities. the COM
psny said the tire is 100 per cent
stronger than previous makes.
1t is being used as an answer to
the army's demand for a tire to
withstand loads Of the bigger
transports.
The company further disclosed
that enough nylon is required for
one medium-sized tire to manufac-
ture 1S6 pairs OF women's hose.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Mother Of Cripple
Hunts His Suitcase

An appeal to a Bay City-Detroit
bus rider February 49, to return
the suitcase of her son was made
through the Times, Saturday. by
Mrs. Ruth Reinstadler, 4o5 East
Austin, Flint.
Certain articles OF clothing made
necessary by the youths crippled
condition were contained in the
missing suitcase. BY mistake the
boy picked up a similar suitcase.
which has been returned TO the
bus station in Flint.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Error in Plans
For Canal Cited

WASHINGTON, March 6 (UP)
Senator Vandenberg is convinced
that sponsors of the S44,000,00C
Florida barge canal are in error
in contending that the project can
he completed in 10 months Ia allie
viate a threatened oil famine in
the East next winter.
Vandenberg, who has assumed
the role of unofficial leader OF the
bloc opposing the canal, said that
Mai Gen Eugene Reyhold. chief
of army engineering. stated that
"a study made Of the project indi-
Gated two years would be needed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Life Story

Thomas Jefferson's life and
achievements will be pub
lished chronologically in The
Detroit Times, starting to-
morrow Monday. to help
high school and college stu
dents entering the jefferson
Bicentennial Oratorical Con-
test.
These daily chapters will
not he a full biography, but
they will help contestants
seeking reference works on
the great American The in
stalments should be clipped
for final review of contest
ants orations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Custer May Divide
N. Y. Philharmonic

NEW YORK, March s (UP)--
Members of the New York Phil.
harmonic Symphony Orchestra
today planned to form another and
rival orchestra unless the board
of directors reinstated IA must
clans.
DR.. Artur Rodzinski, whom the
directors have hired as new
director, fired the IL musicians,
and the directors refuse 10 rehire
them. Members of the orchestra
unanimously voted not to sign new
contracts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Notables of City Named
To Advisory Committee

the two Greater Detroit sec.
ono place winners will have won
$l25 worth of war bonds each.
The Greater Detroit contest
Times advisory committee al
ready includes, besides Gov
Kelly and Mayor Jeffries:
Warren E. Bow, superintendent
of Detroit public schools; the
Rev. FIR. Charles II. Cloud, presi.
dent Of University of Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Sir Thomas Bee(ham
Sues Recording Co.

NEW YORK. March s up
Sir Thomas Beecham, British or
chestra conductor, today sought
100000 damages from the Colum.
bia Recording Corp and an in.
junction 10 restrain the manufac'
ture and sale of monograph rec
ords he made with the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Orches
ira.
The suit, filed in the New York
state supreme court. commended
the recordings were imperfect
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Actor Montgomery Tipped

ADVANCE u. s. BASE, SOME
WHERE IN THE SOUTH PACI-
FIG, March 5 ,(Delayed) (UP)-
1t. Robert Montgomery, former
movie actor, has been given rou-
tine advancement TO the rank OF
lieutenant commander. il was an
nounced today. He has been in
action with the feet in the Solo,
mons in recent months.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
9Th Army Picks FIoWers,
Awaits ROmmeI's Attack
BY NED RUSSELL

WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY
on THE MARETH LINE. March
3 (UP) 49, delayed Tho spear
head Of The British Eighth Army
is dJg in facing the MarethlLine.
and because the troops have moth
ing else 10 do they are picking
desert flowers and teasing turtles
end lizards.
Officers and men wish Marshal
Rommel's forces would attack. in
ssnuch as they know Gen. Mont
gOmery won't LET their forces
attack Until his preparations are
complete.
They are stripped to the waist,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Motorists Pardoned
For Pleasure Drivina

NEW YORK. March s (UP)-
The regional Office of Price Ad-
ministration pardoned today mo-
florists who have been convicted of
pleasure driving. but who have
not paid gasoline ration coupon
fines, in four states and the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
They were forgiven under 2 lib
eral Interpretation of the OPA's
honor system" in driving.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

Treasure that kite, lad, be-
cause there are no more to be
had this season"
This was the consensus of advice
handed out Saturday by wholesale
toy dealers in the city. They re-
ported that they have no kites In
stock. No new stock is expected
because OF labor and materials
shortage among manufacturers.
And. this. with the March winds
just beginning to blow.
Dealers said that they received
a normal seasons supply at the
first Of the year. But the quota
was sold out quickly because, OF
unusual demand.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Steer Clear of Trees, Lad,
That's Your Last Kite!

Some dealers blamed the SCI
eral spurts Of preseason warm
weather that came before the early
March cold wave. Some blamed
the increased circulation of nickels
and dimes, ramifcations of war
working papas.
One dealer, however. Fred Van
De Pitte, owner of the Airco Model
Supply CO., came up with a more
glamorous angle:
Blame IL on the army and
navy air forces" he said. They
have made every kid air con-
sciouS All they want to do II
ret their hands on something
that will ny."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

Africans Cheer Winner
Allied or Axis

CHICAGO, March s (INS).-
North Africa's indescribably dirty
but consistently happy natives
don't let the war get them down
Bert Grove, of the American Fielc
Service said today.
No matter which army-Alliec
or AXis--captures the town theS
happen 10 live in, the natives APP,
pear delighted, and cheer with
equal Vehemence for either side.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Civilian Defense Aids
Urqed 10 Hear Talk

Air raid wardehs and other CT
william defense workers are urged Ia
be present at 3 p. m. Sunday at
the Detroit Institute of Arts when
Dr Alfred Kelly and DR. Ray
Miller. history professors AT Wayne
University. discuss the war and
national policy.
The meeting is sponsored oy
the Wayne County Council of De-
Tense and WAYNE University.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
School Heads Get Copies

Every school superintendent in
the suburban municipalities and
all Detroit intermediate and high
school principals have been fur
nished copies of The Detroit Times
competition in the Thomas Jeffer-
son Memorial OratoTical Contest
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

lolling IN the sand under the hot
sun Thou artillery is dug in, with
ammunition ready, in case Romme
decides 20 start something.
III Rommel tries To come here.
he'll get n bloody awful bask-
Ing" deeply tanned Scot with
2 dusty face said. But I'D rather
pick these. flowers. They're
pretty, aren't they?
They're nice for decorating =
tent. They make things n little
more like home"
Others were catching turtles anC
lizards for pets.
Now and then the gunners ploT
a few shells into Axis positions
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Schools in 5 Areas
To Be Announced

All schools i'm each of the five
districts OF Greater Detroit for the
Jefferson Memorial Oratorical
Contest will be announced as soon
as the aggregate of schools actu-
ALLY in The contest Is known.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

must be chosen by March &c. :
The Times war bond awards
in each division after the indi-
vidual school winners are picked,
will be:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07
Kelly, Jeffries
Praise Project,
Aid Committee
World Owes Homage
TO Great American,
Governor Declares

In their letters accepting tn
Detroit Times invitation to help
steer Greater Detroit's part in
The Hearst newspapers national
Thomas jefferson Memorial Ora
torical Contest. Gov. Kelly and
Mayor Jeffries laud the movement
10 re-kindle the ideals of Jefferson
IN the youth of the land.
Gov. Kelly said:
II am happy tn accept n place
on the committee sponsoring the
Thomas jefferson Bicentenniai
Oratorical Contest through the
auspices OF The Detroit Times
and other Hearst newspapers.
IL Is an honor and a privilege to
which any American would
gladly lend his name and serv-
ices.
ut II well indeed To bring
about q renewed public con-
seriousness OF the wisdom and
foresight OF q truly great Amer
lean.
HOMAGE WE OWE
'The public honor that will he
paid To the memory Of Thomas
Jefferson In the nations capital,
April Is, the two hundredth
anniversary Of his birth, should
be only n small part of the
homage the world owes to this
author Of our Declaration Of
Independence, the source Of the
-Four Freedoms for which we
night this global war.
Statesman, scholar, iinguist.
mathematician, inventor, must
clan. author. architect, surgeon
and landscape gardener-his YER
satiiity knew no bounds.
His exemplary life, his lofty
principles. his sterling character
should serve as an example 20
every American.
1T IL particularly fitting that
the youth of America should be
brought to n richer knowledge
Of Thomas jefferson through the
medium Of a Thomas jefferson
BicentenniaI Otatoricai Contest.
l congratulate The Detroit Times
and the Hearst newspapers for
their efforts In this direction"
A GREAT AMERICAN
Mayor Jeffries saidi
The Detroit Times and all
the other Hearst newspapers are
tn be congratulated and praised
for their part in this splendid
nationwide movement 10 re-
kindle and inculcate the ideals Of
Thomas Jefferson In the youth
OF America. No finer example
Of all the requisites to good
citizenship and patriotism can be
found than the life and achieve
ments Of the great exemplary
American, Jefferson.
ut behooves every eligible bow
and girl and all our teachers 10
make this jefferson Memorial
Oratorical Contest an outstand-
Ing event In our schools, and 10
httingiy and properly observe
the two hundredth anniversary
~ the birth of the great man
whose deeds are an, indelibie !
example Of good Americanism In
all It's meanings"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-07

by the National Conference ol
Jews and Christians, Senator Glass
said:
Trust In God. Fight for what
Is right. Be affectiOnate. he
loved, be klndly-that's all Of
life" I.