Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-10
ANNOUNCER: The National

ANNOUNCER: The National
IA Broadcastihg Company presents
Rupert Hughes &. soldier, novelist,
historian and humOrst, in his remarks
on the international scene. He phrases
present day history in his own entertain
ing style. Mr.. Rupert Hughes
"IGUIES: One figure in the Patton
III incident, it seems to me, has lacked
proper celebration. When Gen. Patton
assaulted one innocent, sick soldier, the
nurse went for the general She had to
be dragged away. Patton apologized to
her, too; but | have never seen her name
mentioned Our army nurses are famous
for their valor; but the lady who tried to
take a general apart ought to have
medal or at least honorable mention.
Some people still say that women are
not fit for the army and don't belong on the
fighting front. | guess that's true They're
too ALFRED ferocious.
1t would be a most encouraging thing if
the conduct of our rulers on the home front
correspondent with that of Our leaders on tie
battle front Gen. Eisenhower made Gen.
Patton apologize to a sick private. Whoever
heard of a bureaucrat apoogizing to sick
businessman whom he has mauled about?
less in the hospital.
nNE soldier whom Gen. Patton made
~ famous. wrote home: He slapped me
and cursed me and kicked me in the pants |
used to vince at that word pants" | agreed
with the Oxford dictionary that il was "a
vulgar abbrevation of the word pantaloons."
But it is almost a hundred years now since
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the verse:
"The thing named pants IN certain
documents,
A uoyd not made for gentlemen, but
gents"
Still, most of our most elegant words
were called vulgar when they were young and
pantaloons is so out of date that the aloon is
dropped by everybody but loon. So may
politely say that thousands of our best
businessmen. oil men. cattemen. manu-
facturers. farmers and dairy men have been
grabbed by the bureaucrats and called bad
names, and slapped around. They have had
their pants almost kicked off them One
result is that all of our housewives have been
kicked in the pantres.
But whoever heard of bureaucrat ever
being forced TO apologize and make amends :?
This week have reached the milk business.
The situation is so serious that as in the case
of meat, bureaucratic mismanagement and
autocracy have brought about a state of
affairs that threatens the supply of our
armies, to say nothing Of the sick and the
newborn infantry in the nurseries.
THE men who have given their lives TO the
j milk business have certain ideas. The
men who have given their theories TO the
government business lately have other ideas
and pretty uncertain ones. Which are we to
accept? The crisis is so acute that Gov. Tom
Dewey of New York has called the governors
of nine neighboring states together to try to
save the day and the dairies. Some governor
in our western empire ought to do the same
for US.
The root of the evil is the appalling
bungling of the supply of feed. You can't
raise crops without seed or cattle, hogs,
chickens without feed.
The New Dealers are going TO change
human nature by directives and economic
planning But when it comes to the chang
ing Of animal and vegetable nature, 1t becomes
economic planning.
Because cattle raisers cannot buy feed,
their cattle are being driven to the market
so that we can eat them before they starve
to death. With these great herds go the cows
that give the milk.
Gov. Dewey says that 36,0O00Oo people
in the northeastern states face a famine in
milk and eggs. But don't include us out,
governor; for we are facing the same famine,
for the same reason; lack Of ability to buy
feed And yet, according to headlines in the
New York Times week ago. grain elevators
are glutted and heavy shipments are coming
in from Canada.