Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-21
Up and
Down
Broadway
by Walter
WincIaeII

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the following Story..It broke
from Topeka, Kansas For
mer Governor Harry II. Wood
ring of Kansas Cand Secretary
Of War a few years ago. admin
istered "a singing denuncia-
ton Of Rep. Lambertson's criti-
cism of Pres. RooSevelt's sons.
AZ former Kansas Governor
and veteran of World War l,
and as a loyal American, Mr..
Woodring is quoted. i believe
some Kahsan should apologize
and speak up against the das-
tardly blow below the belt OF a
Kansas Congressman against
the four uniformed Roosevelt
patriots in the armed service
OF our country I feel the foul
attack is repulSiYe and shameful
TO all fair-minded Kansans re-
CARELESS OF their attitude toward
the Administration OF Pres.
Roosevelt Mr.. Woodring.
according to ms, said that
Lambertson should have been
the last man to have made such
an attack. Lambertson, he add
ed, attended the 4th- Officers
Training School in the last war
and. failing 10 get a commission
refused 20 take a non-commis-
stoned officers appointment
when II was offered him.
CONG CLARE LUCE recently
told this colyum that Then she
was in Europe she heard OF the
Roosevelt lads courage. 1T was
often foolhardy she said. They
were among the first 10 volun-
teer TO go on any dangerous
mission" II was William
Howard Taft. who once said OF
Teddy: You can sometimes
doubt Roosevelt's Judgment
but never his courage
WE think the time has como
FOR Elliott Roosevelt 10 exchange
his African rifle for 4 Wash
ington. d. C. fit gun.
WE sympathize with the PrcSi-
dents boys. They, too, have
learned that IL is impossible TO
face the enemy abroad without
exposing your back al home.
FOR future historians. r. D.
R. Jr., who has had considerable
action since being commissioned.
was saved during a storm az sea
when he almost was swept
overheard James. who was
decorated in the field Cas was
Elliott couldn't pass a physical
exam todsy--but he won't beef
All OF them have had 10 have
waivers on their phySicals
One OF the boys. not long ago,
wrote a letter home, which said
in part II keep wishing one OF
us gets killed. Maybe that would
stop the digs al the rest Of the
family"
MRS. ROOSEVELT is right.
Elliott shouldn't have sent that
letter You can't squirt a COM
mon insect with common sense.
MRS. MINIVER" won an
Oscar as the years best film.
and Noel Coward's In Which
We Serve" was medard as the
best foreign job But what was
so ALFRED unforeign about
Mrs. Miniver"? Its stars are
British, most OF its authors are
ditto, and so is the story The
only thing Yankee Doodle about
a. HdA tIlc IIudUCInR.
SOME OF the yelpers are
foaming at the mouth because A
govt mag at govt expense car
RES a life story OF the President
III the bellyachers Will study
the back files OF The Cong. Rec
ord, they Will find coolies OF
boosts for our nations enemies
printed at govt cost-and
ranked through the mails at
additional loss 10 the govt.
The payoff on the Huey Long
dictatorship is currently playing
before the Senate Judiciary
Committee. Senator Ellender OF
La. IS battling to keep ex-Gov.
Alfred Of Texas off the Federal
Bench.
How important control OF the
judiciary is 10 the old Long ma
chine-the long suffering resi-
dents Of Louisiana could tell
YOU But crusader Westbrook
who was washed into national
prominence on the backwash OF
Pearson and Aliens expose OF
the Kingfish, remains silent
Perhaps a-second-rate. Judge. he
figures, is better than a first
class President What's the
,aW bpfWnpt, friapdsou L.,