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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
s. Burton Heath
vrites:

foremen and farmers have carved
their names in the tablets of Amer
ican history as superior fighting
men. They are the same irreverent
youngsters who, until they were sent
into battle, amused themselves
sticking pins into suffiness of mill
tary etiquette and formulae
Here, from a glossary provided by
naval ensign, is how they inter-
pref some of the bromides their
professional sEperiors have worked
out through the years for military
correspondence.
Referred for remarks" An un-
scrupulous method of making jun
ior do all the work SO that his sem
ior need only all the word for
ward and sign his name.
A approach the subject with an
open mind" l am completely ig-
norant of the whole subject.
"A growing body of opinion. y
Two very senior officers agree.
Opinion is widely held" Three
very senior staff officers agree.
Under considerations Papers
are temporarily mislaid
Under active consideration" II
have somebody start looking for the
file.
I concur generally l haven't
read the paper and don't want to
&c bound by anything l may say.
"All orders issued by my prede-
ceSSor are to remain in force
haven't read them yet, but will al
ter them as soon as l find ou
what is in them
This matter is being dealt with
separately The writer hopes il
will be forgotten before anything
has to be done.
'Being in all respects ready fol
sea" Navigator, senior officer anc
sufficient gin are on boa11.
These definitions, obviously, art
on the burlesque side and do no
reflect the sincere respect that mos
junior officers feel toward mos
seniors. But also they cut righ
through the stuffing in the shirt
Did you ever try to put up
false front for a bright child? Well
it's just as silly to try to impress
a reserve officer
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
Mind Your
Manners

Test your knowledge o. correct
social usage by answering the fol-
lowing questions. then checking y
against the authoritative answers
below:
l. If you meet a service man is it
a good idea to go into detail about
ali of your relatives who are in the
service?
2. If rou have been introduced to
n ensign in the WAVES, should
you afterWard address her as Miss
Maxwell or Ensign Maxwell?
g. When carrying on conVersa-
ton with a lieutenant in the navy,
would it be proper to say, Don't
you think so, Lieutenant"
4. In writing to service man,
'hould you use the phrase, "if you
do come back meaning "if you
aren't killed in the WARP
5. When a marriage IS to take
place at the bridegroorl's camp and
neither of their families are to be
present, does the bridegroom make
he wedding arrangements?
What would you do if
You are addressing a senior Of
ficer of the arnv medi al corpF-
la) Address him as DR.. Rohin?
(b) Address him as Colonel Robin?
Answers
l. No.
2. Miss Maxwell
No. 1t is not good form to ad-
dress an officer by his title alone.
Except aboard ship the Esecu-
tive Officer is addressed as Com
mander." Also the captain in
command of a ship is addressed as
'Captain.D
4. No.
5. Yes.
Better What Would You Do
solution-(b'.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
POWER CT CUSTOM

Nevada State JournaD
Kansas last covered bridge has been
closed and will be raZed. 1t spanned Big
Stranger creek in Leavenworth county.
Passing of the structure has revived
an old debate over why the bridges were
formerly covered. One commentator
said:
1T has been asserted that they were
boxed in and rooted to protect heavy
timbers from the elements. Another
school of thought was that the first
wooden trestle bridge was built with
roof thus originating a style that was
followed without apparent reason.
People do many things the origin of
which is logged by time. Most Amerl-
cans strike matches by rubbing the head
across rough surface toward their bod
es The Oriental strikes from his body,
and in some sections of the United States
this custom prevails. The prairie horse
back rider prefers to have the left STIR
rup hang lower than the right This ia
cilitates mounting and makes it possible
to rest in the saddle by placing most of
his weight on one leg at time.
But explanations for most customs
that have been handed down from gener-
alton to generation are less readily avail
able Perhaps the reason is that models
have changed but the power Of custom is
too tenacious to be overcome easily
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
MODERN IA AE:NlDS

cooked in steve, or mixed vi h
salad greens.
Sample Menus
Here are few sample menus for
the balanced war workers lunch
b2X. Study them carefully.
|. Black bean soup dried beet and
hard-cooked egg with mayonnaise
sandwich on enriched bread, whole
tomato, raisin and honey sandwich
on enriched bread cookies, straw
berries in paper container, bever-
age.
2. Potato and onion SOUP, peanut
butter sandwiches on enriched hard
rolls, fresh fruit salad, beverage.
3. Fish stew, WhcleWheat crack
ers, jelly sandwiches on enriched
bread, fruit cookies, prunes stuffed
with cream cheese, beverage.
4. Tomato and lemon juice, meat
| loaf sandiches On wholeWheat
bread, tart jelly sandwiches on en-
riehed white bread, celery, cottage
/ cheese in container, peanut cookies
/ beverage
TCMORROW'S MENU
(Eat the basic Every Day
BREAKFAST: Grapefruit Juice
% tmeal, fried tomatoes. toast. for
titled margarine, coffee, mill.
LUNCHEON: lupch box Cream
Of lima bean soup, WholeWheat
crackers, chopped left over meat
sandwiches on WholeWheat bread
raw carrot, pickles, whole orange
nut cookies, iced tea, milk.
DINNER: SteWed kidneys, corn
bread, buttered beet greens, bread
butter or fortified margarine, toma.
to salad. steWed rhubarb, nu
cookies, tea, milk.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

We Americans have had to learn
lesson in modern warfare The
Japs surrendered with their hands
in the air and, as soon as they were
ordered by American officers to
lower them, they pulled off hand
glenades on a belt cord, tossed
them among their captors without
warning. Now we don't bother to
take them as prisoners. - Capt
Gerald j. Crosson. back from the
South Pacific
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

admire American women and | believe
them capable of bravery equal to Ameri-
can men. | believe they can fight in the
front lines if ecessary.-Lieut. Llud-
mila Pavlchenko, Russian heroine visit
ing U. S.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
So They Say

The English have had it their own
way again in Essen. It is simply
horrible The raids become more
and more intense every month.
Houses are crushed like matchboyts
Letter from home found on Ger
man in Russia.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Give us couple of dozen aircraft car
riers, properly balanced task force,
sufficient marines to make landings, and
we can cut path across the Pacific to
pan Lieut.. -Comdr. John Smith
Thach, who fought in every major Pacific
sea battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloming edit
Oriais are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions roiced By editors eiseWhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

What are the terms Washington
and London might be prepared to
offer us in exchange for 'uncondi-
tional surrender?'-Virginio Gayda,
italian editor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

The first time the Japs bombed hospi-
tai No. l they apologized. Then immed-
lately they bombed it again.-Lieut. Ruth
Straub nurse on Bataan.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

Soldiers of industry are just as i'm
portant to the war front as the armed
forces Joseph keenan,, associate direc-
tor War Production Board.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

The reconstruction work to be needed
abroad after the war could keep every
wheel in America turning for 20 years.
Henry J. Kaiser, wesr coast shipbuild-
gp
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
LARGE PAY LOAD ESSENTIAL


For 200 ton FLYING wings. the
speed might be 20 per cent higher
and the cost of operation per ton
mile might be 20 per cent lower than
for conventional medium sized
airplane of 80 tons, such as the DC
d, the 4O-passenger, four motored
Douglas Symaster. The 200-ton fly
ing wing by comparison, would have
carrying capacity of some $50 pas
sengers, would cruise at from 280 to
300 miles an hour instead of 180
to 200
L the future development of
the flyin" wing reveals no short
comings. MIR. Warner believes that
there might be place for such
a craft on 4 trans Atlantic route,
o, on trans ns-con,inental routes.
| Its limitations are that to
secure these benefits of lower
cost and greater speed. it must
] carry high commercial pay load.
! This would tend to limit the use
of a flying wing to single
schedule day, instead of to
more frequent service which is
more suitable to the convenience
o. the passengers.
All these problems Of commercial,
/ postwar flying reduce themselves
ultimatel TO the limitations of how
much paying business there will bt
to carry.
In the best pre-War years, trans.
Atlantic passenger steamship trave
averaged less than 800 passengers {
dav, each way Less than 200 O.
those were first class or cabin pas
sengers who might be expected tt
be potential customers for trans
Atlantic air travel.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21

The next and perhaps the most
radical development in flying to pre-
pare for is the advent of the flying
wing. This is the wide V-type air.
plane, with the fuselage and the
tail eliminated to reduce drag, the
rudders being placed near the tips
o. the wings, pusher-type engines
and propellers being built out of
lie trailing edge of the wing in
stead of the leading edge SO that
the plane itself flies in relatively
smooth air.
Aircra.. uesigners have played
with this design for a number of
wears. 1t is flyable, on paper,
But Vice Chairman Edward
Warner of the Civil Aeronautics
Board, delivering the 3lst Wilbur
Wright memorial lecture on
Post War Transport Aircraft"
he"ore the ROYAL Aernau'ical So
ciety i'm London, has Just given
the flying winr a definite place
i'm aviation development which
indicates that its actual ap-
pearance in the skies is only a
short time ahead. Main diff
ficulties of the flying wing are in
stability and control. Assuming
that these may be overcome, Mr..
Warner sees real though limited
place for this design.
Previous theorizing ON the prac-
ticality of the flying wing has
limited it to giant aircraft of IT'S
tons or more-as compared with
the II tons of a standard COM
mercial DC-2, or the "A gross tons
Of Boeing 314 Pan American
clipper Routes on which a plane of
that size could find traffic are, of
course limited. For an airplane de-
signed to carry concentrated cargo
only, however, Mr.. Warner foresees
that the flying wing could be used
in substantially smaller sizes, and
such a machine might have a
cruising speed 10 per cent higher
than that of conventional aircraft.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
MAXIMUM TRAFFIC
EXPECTED

Taking those facts into considera-
ton and adding to them a pos
sible so per cent increase to allow
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
BRIGHTER SIDE

MOST OF us like to be dis
AVA covererS.
We have in us something Of
the same spirit that sent Co
lunbus and DeSoto and Balboa
and Peary and many other
dauntless souls traipsing hither
and yon TO discover new lands
and new mountains and new
rivers, and all this and that.
But since few of us have the
hardihood TO navigate unknown
waters an4ble through map
less wastes, what with the ex-
actions of office hours and the
necessity of sticking to some
thing that will produce a living
for the old lady and the mop
pets, we continue our instinct
for discovery TO more restricted
territory and less monumental
ambitions.
I KNOW fellow who might
Il have been another Ponce De
Leon had he been given the
opportunity, who makes a spe-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01

One Word Led to Another
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER-

Every Sneeze Vote in Hay Fever Club
Ny hay fever club met last week and sneezed itself
into deadlock
/ running for recording secretary of the Rag
weed District Since found that godenrod is
tonal flower want to secede from the Union.
When the hay fever association calls the roll it does
it by the viva voce method.
In our little coterie that means by word of nose.
When call the caucus for the voting eligible
invalds the secretary, that's me, says:
Signify in the usual manner"
That's the bugle call of the afflicted When fellow
is elected unanimously it blows off his toupee, curdes
milk for miles around and rips shingles off city hall roof
Everybody gets majority. In our club there is no
minority Who would hold out sneeze on pal?
And who would sneeze on pal? In our little organr
zation everybody would
sneeze is an unhappy stop on the chromatic scale
somewhere between below and Groom.
1t is trill that did not mature and rondeay that
has turned 1t in the valleys and gades of
the North American continent. Although the is
strictly spasm of the beezer will say the is quite
generous with and shares it with the rest of
your face.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
VitanIin Studies
ON Graying Hair

Of pigment; others report the
same effects with para-amino-
-benZ0ic ACID.
There is possibly another fac
tor or factors yet undiscovered
in the filtrate factor.
Little work has been reported
on human beings. One derma-
tologist, giving large amounts of
b complex fortified with para
amino-benzoic cid, reported
that in 500 patients with pre-
mature grazing within tnKee TO
eight weeks the hair became
yellowish and then dark gray.
pUT others have tried il with
- no noticeable results. II de-
penis a good deal on the per-
sonal equation. Ii has been
shown that il is very easy 10 de-
ceive even the most conscien-
tious judges op the color Of hair
or skin, especially the slight
changes which would be denoted
IN changing from gray" 10
dark, dusty gray"
In the latest report by DR..
Brandeleone and colleagues 10
patients were studied by photo
graphs and clipping of speci-
mems before and after giving the
filtrate factor and in only two
cases was there any change at
all.
Besides il again goes 10 show
that animal experiments with
vitamins and endocrine products
cannot be translated over 10
human beings.
Some animals are very sus-
ceptible 10 vitamin deficiency
for instance. rats that have for
generations been scavengers and
used TO a very varied diet.
Rabbits and guinea pigs on the
contrary used 10 a monotonouS
and not very nutritious diet do
not respond 20 vitamin expert
ments at all quickly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
Discovering Urge
May Prove Costly

DO not know how you are
i about those things, but l al
ways start boosting with the
first taste, partly because I am
aware of the great pleasure
that it gives a discoverer to
find his discovery appreciated
and partly because of an ex-
Pefience / had years ago. I
think il was in connection with
a baked potato that a discov-
erer friend of mine had stumbled
upon in gustatory deadfall.
| like baked potato, but I
did not think the one in ques-
ton was quite up to the three
sheeting that my friend had
given IT to me, and I said as
much. Thereupon he fell into a
state of dependency that Gull.
minated some days later in him
shooting himself.
l sometimes feel that il was
best that way because his dis
coveries had many of his ac-
quaintanceS In a mood to do the
shooting themselves.
/ had another friend in whose
bosom famed the spirit of dis
covery but whose wife would
not permit him to voyage afar
so he had to limit his range to
his home town and to pastry.
He could tell you where you
could get the best pastry you
ever slapped a lip over. He
could also tell you the best
place to buy haberdashery or
mutton chops or anything else
you required, but pastry was
his best hold.
lie WAS practically electrify-
II ing in his announcements
of new places where you could
get the best pastry, because,
you see, he was always discov-
ering a new one.
One day / was notified that
my friend was in a hospital
quite i'll and 1 FASTENED to his
bedside taking with me for his
solace a nice Napoleon, a few
chocolate cellars, small lemon
meringue pie and some other
bits of pastry that / purchased
at the last place he had discov-
cred.
But when I approached him
displaying my toothsome swag
he had terrible relapse and it
was only then that l learned he
was in the hospital because of
a frightful attack of gastritis
superinduced by overeating OF
pastry.
Copyright. 1s43. by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01

CENSORSHIP, like tyranny,
~ is an evil D.. When civiliza-
ton wore knee pants, attempts
were made to suppress Homer's
odyssey" Many of the worlds
great classics were temporarily
strangled by the bluenose tribe
in this country and elsewhere.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" tom
Sawyer" "Huckleberry Finn"
1.-THE Wisdom of Confucius."
Shakespeare's Richard III" are
just few of the books that
have outlived petty censors who
tried 10 kill them :. Years ago
two famous Americans wrote
brilliant political tracts. Small
timers succeeded in having their
Ideals muZzled for a while. The
names of those famous Ameri-
cans? Thomas Paine and
Thomas Jefferson.
TT HAS been said "the vice of
L censorship is that reason is
not left free TO combat error"
That's one OF the reasons blue
pencilers always leave them
selves in a ludicrous spot. A
few decades ago British censors
clamped the nix on Gilbert and
Sullivan's THE Mikado" be-
cause they considered il IAN in
suit TO Japan" And during
the years the operetta was
banned in Britain - its tunes
were being played in Tokyo! :.
Hollywood has always been af-
flicted with noncensorship
Because eight Of the states have
movie cenSors - they d @ C i d @
what the other 40 states will
see. because Hollywood dis
tributes its products nationally"
and won't make one film for
eight states and another one for
the others Our favorite
Movieville censorship yarn con-
Germs the time the blue-pencilers
frowned on a picture titled,
"Infidelity." The geniuses went
into a huddle and came UP with
brilliant idea that won official
okay They called the film,
Fidelity"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
BETTER HEALTH
- By DIR. LOGAN erENDENING.

IN SPITE Of some overenthusi-
Il astic announcements of ex-
periments with vitamin products.
the problems Of premature gray
ing of the hair and its treatment
are still unsolved. There are
many eccentricitics about IFS
development that hard to
explain.
For instance. I have in mind
n man who at the age Of 20
years began TO get gray hair and
at the same time developed pig
mented spots on the eyelids and
neck and arTns-pigment loss
one place, pigment increase in
another.
Some have grazing only Of
the eyebrows, the hair on the
hear and elsewhere on the body
remaining in its original condi-
ton.
TIVE vitamn studies on prema-
L ture graying hair have been
made only on a few animals
rats, dogs and silver foxes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
POLITICAL PARADE
BY GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN

Iceland. for example. for air
field bases over which itSwill
have no interest after the war,
and in which IT WILL HAVE
NO RIGHTS OF USE unless
Congress adopts a definite pol
icy under which these rights Of
commercial use, in the world of
the future. are legally defined,
and specifically stipulated in
all future lend-lease operations.
WHAT is true of the Ameri-
w can air bases in Iceland,
and Labrador. is true of the
bases in Australia. in North
Africa. and in the islands of the
Pacific. where these bases have
been constructed with American
money and engineering brains,
and SANCTIFIED IN AMERI-
CAN BLOOD.
The Senatorial committeeman
have returned 10 Washington
laboring under no illusions as
10 the transcendant part that
aviation is destined to play
commercially in the postwar
world.
The race for postwar COM
mercial supremacy-or even eX-
istence-already is on.
In this race America is
threatened with being out
smarted and outdistanced.
Delay would be fatal. Con-
gress must act now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
Interesting Notes
ON NOncensOrship

lowed TO use only a certain
number of "damns" and ''hells"
during his radio speeches. He
called the mike "the deodor-
izer" And the one we enjoy
repeating is about the radio
mogul who deleted the mating
call Of a moose from "A radio
script-because he considered it
too sexy The latest Hays
Office daZe is 10 ban the wear
ing Of sweaters by actresses in
films. They consider it inde-
cent, although anybody can
walk out in the street and see
shapely gals clothed in sweat
ers George Moore, the
writer, once pointed out:
eff the censors succeed In
sweeping from the face OF the
earth every vestige of material
that might conceivably tend to
arouse the emotions OF sex, the
spring breeze would still re-
main TO quicken the pulses"
CONNY TUFTS, the newcomer
~ 10 the films land good in
$50 Proudly We Hail') is "cut
up into more sections than F.
Sinatra II the Bar Assn
report is made public about "the
balance Of power" in local poll
tics-the trains will be jammed
with washed-up politicos =.
Local draft boards are already
putting the work-or-fight ulti-
matum into notices mailed TO
pre-Pearl Harbor paters 4.
Previewers report Dangerous
Blondes. a Columbia pic. as a
Sleeper" that will go big =.
VIM. Benswanger, prexy of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, writes the
program notes for the Pitts
burgh Symphony D.. II. J. Cole
man Of the OWL is the author
of buttons Give Us a Little
Smile, Baby" Phil Spitalny
will add IS gals to his cast of
so.
Copyright by Dsny Mirror. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-01
On BROADWAY
BY WALTER WINCHELI
Copyright. ls4s. by King Features

Copyright lsaS, by hlns Features
DECENTLY the Rhode Island
~ supreme court banned A
film and listed the reasons in
5000 words-drenched with le-
galistic double-talk At the
conclusion of this pompous
opinion the judges admitted
that none of them had seen the
film they banned! You don't
believe il? Well, just pick up
a copy of M. Ernst and A. Lin
dey's The Censor Marches On"
(Doubleday-Doran) from which
some of the material for this
column is borrowed Ted
Cook summed up movie censor
ship neatly:
motion pictures have ruined
a lot more evenings than they
have morals"
The alibis of censors haven't
changed much. One now claims
that the com m en- { tors
shouldn't have the power TO in
huence people When Hey
wood Broun heard the same
bunk he replied:
"Once I had the opportunity
TO talk about books and plays
with a young man I'm Tombs
Prison, who had just been In
dicted for murder. Asked to
outline the plot Of the best
book he ever read, he retold the
story Of u young wastrel who
reformed upon being elected
mayor and cleaned up a dissO-
lutte city by suppressing vice
and crime. The young man had
read and enjoyed this novel just
a few weeks before he was
moved TO shoot two policemen"
DADIO censors trying 10 win
~ permanent possession OF the
duncecap isn't anything new >.
Maxine Sullivan, the singer,
was once barred from a radio
station because she wanted 10
swing" old songs. A few
months later every radio sta
ton in the country was dishing
out classics in swingtime
Gen. Smedley Butler was al