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Evening star., 1943-10-21

secretary of the Lester A. Smith.
George Washington Victory Council
and editor of its publication, Conf
dential-From Washington"
He took his B. A. degree in 1882
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him? Sure she did. Why ?
We'll, 90 figure out a woman'S
feelings.
What made him SO sure she
still loved him? Well. after
all. she stuck by him when ne
hardly had a dollar, back in
1898. Not only did she stick,
but she never complained
even when the only assets in
the house were a can of beans
and a loaf Of yesterdays bread.
And she had stuck by him all
through the long and difficult
climb back up the ladder.
Trouble was Jim felt he had
Outgrown Hilda. He was still
young He had money now
and he had a definite apprecia-
ton of young women and old
whisky. He liked laughter and
gayety, hated darning needles
and a muted radio.
He walked into the house.
tossed his hat and coat on
chair, and went 10 Hilda'S
room. In "A certain drawer was
the green tin box in which she
kept her diary and all impor-
tant papers. Jim had never felt
curious enough 10 peer into her
diary, and ne wouldn't do it
now. All he wanted at the
moment were his insurance
policies.
He found the policies without
trouble. He saw her diary which
he did not touch. But. as he
was about 10 close the box. his
eyes fell on a little. hard
covered brown book with the
word Accounts on the cover.
He picked this book up curl
ouSly and rifled through il.
The first -entry-was dated
May. 1888. He looked at the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12
By Mark He!Iinger

starving? Why had she kept
il a secret all this time? 1t
wasn't fair.
Jim knew her family had
practically disowned her when
she married him. He knew how
II must have hurt her TO co 10
them, 10 beg for a few dollars
from her mother, a few from
her father, and $3.50 from that
louise of a brother, Kenneth.
Yes, il must nearly have
killed her. But she had done
IT, all right. She had done il
for the man who was now about
TO throw her over.
He had often wondered what
brought about the cool recon
citation between Hilda and
her folks i'm 1893. Now he
knew. She had abased herself
10 them and asked them for
pennies, and they had con-
descended TO snort down their
noses at her
He heaved a long sigh. He
thought of the gay life-the
girls, the drinks, the laughs.
And then he shook his head.
All these things now seemed so
silly and meaningless that he
wondered how he could ever
have dreamed of leaving any
one as angelic as Hilda.
He was sim wondering when
he looked up and saw Hilda
smiling at him as she tugged
her gloves off. He looked al
Der, but nc didn't smile. She
was puzzled, until she walked
over and looked over his arm
at the littlc-b book in his hand
"Oh" she said. II never
wanted YOU To know"
His arm slipped around her
waist for the first time in
months.
You should have told me.
hon"
You're not angry ." she
Angry" Jim echoed. "Pm
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As an experienced married
man ! can wait with compare,
tive calm while the lady OF the
house makes preparations 10 60
out. Our pup however seems
unable 10 handle 'hiS situation
with CAIN and tolerance. Whlle
10 take MN Tor walk. ne PAGES
the floor nerNouSly, gruntS.
WhlmperS, slghS and gives a va.
rlety OF signs OF his impailenco.
II seems ~ II he Is saying All
these women, az times Their
delays are moro than a fellow
can stand
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where for the USO The WcSson
Brothers. with a deep sunburn.
were in Armando'S the other
cold night Well % asked a doll,
just back from Florida 20
No was the reply. lust
back from New Guinea
STERLING NORTH. me bool
critic, rcricwS Robert j. CuSc4's
Fascinating "SHch Interesting
Pcopic," NJ North obSorcS:
Both StoHi,y W0jkcr and Waite,
IliFchcH hare been girca ctcdt
FOR the Devastating rtOrt 10 the
oid bromide. II must BE- fasci-
aafHg 10 BE- n journalist, Bo0
mccf so many interesting people.
49,. Yes, and they're all ~ the
newspaper business
We don't recall being c,cdjtcd
jrith Il, bit mebbcso. The one
Hr. North means, noe think, is
It4asss# Caaaaa's-e4aek, Spal--
iighted here Peggg j or e.
gashcd IN must be i0oHdertBi
10 b. Il HcUSpdpermGH, BOH meet
so many CoHderfui celebrities :"
"ioH mcdH.' Cannon crackied.
III must be- condcrfM TO BE- u
cclebrity-goH meet so man
,coBdertui ncwSpdpermeH."
EAVESDROPPED in the Lit
tie Palm Club: rs he happy
with herr"
He's 50 happy he feels like
a couple Of new old men"
Distributed hy KING Features Sypd Inc.
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30 proud Of you that feel like
heel" He tapped the book.
Has this ever been repaid ."
Every cent" she replied.
Years ago, Jimw
Te"der Regards
He tossed the book back into
The box and placed his insur-
ance policies beside il.
Il was having a look at my
policies when 1 found that little
book" he said. "LOck them up
again, will you, dearest?" He
regarded her very tenderly.
1And by the way" he con-
tlnued, IL meant To tell Won
that I'm getting a few weeks
of after the holidays.
What do you say II we hit
Atlantic City again, Just YOU
and 1? Same room at the Ritz.
same long walks on the board
walk-one of those insane sec
ond hOneymOOnS p"
She couldn't answer. She
gust stood there nodding. her
eyes filed with tears of happi-
ness
When Jim had gone. Hilda
went back into the room and
opened her bag. She took out
a lacy handkerchief and blew
her nose. Then she rummaeed
through the green box and
found her diary.
She tried few tentative =
strokes with her pen, and then
began 10 write.
To-day" she wrote. Him
found out about the money l
loaned TO Nom and Dad and
Kenneth during the depression.
l can't understand his reaction.
because he was never too crazy
about my folks. But he actually
seemed glad that I used some Of
my savings account for this
purpose"
Copyright. 1913. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-12

street may nave lOohtu al u
so permanent that passersby
wondered what amused him.
Jim was lust a husband who
was about To get rid of his wife.
For almost five years, Jim
had been dreaming about dis
solving his marriage. And
now with the aid of four Man
hattanS. he was about 10 make
il come true.
1t all seemed so easy You
just walk in no dramaticS, no
screaming or pulling hair-you
Just walk in nice and calm and
say:
Look. Hilda. Why Kid our
selves any longer: I'm un-
happy with you and you're not
fnding me any prize package
either. So lets end this thing
painleSsly and still he the best
of friends.
You run down and see
Hubert Ochelli tomorrow. Hell
fN up the details and draw up
the briefs, and YOU can hop
out Ia Reno. Then after you
get oyOur diVbrce. come hack
East and wen do the town to-
gether. How about II"
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mature blasting and ran on 10
success.
I'm not going 10 tip the plot
and deprive YOU of an enter
tanning evening watching
Borgncr getting poiSone d.
duped and choked.
! don't know whether great
aCtrcSsc, like Bernhardt. Flea
nora Du>c and Bcrgncr have 10
suffer on their youth or not II
Bcrgncr didnt she sure is
catching up now
4 play I> only reflected m
Tine intelligence 0Qf h., AUDI
eUCe Tho night / Wa, thCre 10
was remarkable example NJ
cooperation ! saw Bernhardt
Dol l. Aiglon and am naturally
faithful 10 memory
But BerEncr doe. weH ~
itniyb second 3Vth "a legend
Setting the pace
'''f.1utrc b. b-s F,stH-rs nd I-,
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VIZ JUST heard about the
time Gen. Arnold was inspect
inC bases in the far away places.
At one base he was given crew
Of cNperts--ChoScn for the honor
of plotting him Somewhere over
the HimalaNas the ace pilot real
lied ne WAS lost HE radioed for
directions.
When they arrived he studied
them. hut remained puzzled. He
flashed; Are YOU sure I tell
sou they don't look right tu me-"
To which came this >quelch
"Nho's lost"
HERR GOEBBELS. Herr
Gocring and Herr Hitler are
the three latest refugees from
Berlin.
DEAR WALTER, % critcs b.
=. -. al the Cdg from Coiam-
bus, o., hare aoU any coHfrm0-
fioH Of The rumor that The statue
of John l.. LcWjs on Berlin ros
damaged by the Raj"
\ LEGEND in Cuba (the
home of the famed Bacardi RUM
II this. The rum was originally
owned by 10 brothers. Only two
survive. Every time one of the
Bacardi brothers passed on, he
was buried with case of the
rum-"knowing the brothers in
Heaven were waiting for >ome""
HERE'S show business these
DAYS, with actors touring every
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a Decade Ago

Jim studied some of the
items. Pitiful items: pair
shOes-Sl SO" underwear,
Jim-$2.l0" IS cans soup
-27c." There were more. "Dr.
Geller-S2~. Nerve medicine
for me-S2." That was the time
she almost had a breakdown.
Socks for jim-S pr, SOC"
And so on.
Jim ran his hands over the
faded faces of the words. Ii
wasn't so long ago, really. Ten
years. A decade. That's not
long. And yet, the money for
those hundreds of little items
came from a savings account
that Hilda had saved when she
was kid! Her very own.
Funny. She had never asked
for that money back. In fact.
she had never said anything
about il He wondered if She
had used the last dollar of il
before ne got 4 Job again.
He read on-and then he
came 10 four pages headed
Borrowed" That was il! She
had completely drained her
own account! Underneath. il
said: Aug. l6th-mOther, S..
Two more of the same, for
seven and three dollars. Then
one said: sept. 6th-Dad, Sc"
+ h zen another: kenneth
$2.50."
He hung his head for a mo-
ment. Why hadn't she ever
mentioned this? Why hadn't
she told him what she was go
ing through to keep him from
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caused by the fact that wives
served their husbands cheap cuts
of meat for dinner. II might
also he added that when n
woman cooks well ard serves
meals intelligently, She usually
knows how Ia live intelligentIy,
too.
II is said tires after the war
will be practically indestructi-
bic. Sounds wonderful. But
would that be good for the auto
tire business? Have some fancy
statistics on me. World War |
cost the United States $4,000
Oo0, GOO World War III 50 far
has cost the country SlS0000.-
100000 If it las until June
1914. it will have cost about
100000, 100000. The total cost
OF federal government Of the
United States from the Declara-
lion of independence to 1911
was Sl75, 000,000,000.
"MN sister II J feet inche,
tall and l am feet > incneS
small and we are always arguing
Ia the merits of tall and short
girls" writes Detroiter. That's
n sad situation. Besides the
arguments. these sisters can't
wear each others clothes /.
Note advertised: Engagement
Ring-One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars. Wedding Ring, Thirty
two Dollars" think the we'd
ding ring should he better one
than the engagement ring. III
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should he the ring that has the
diamond setting.

Who started the use 81 the
word contact" as in: T have
been asked 10 contact YOU. /
have noticed people who 'u>e
thin word frequently rarely have
original or creative minds. They
are of the copyiSt type &c. My
hat Is of 10 YOU. writes fcml-
nine client of Detroit. This is
really "A tribute when you con
slider the trouble it is for
woman 10 take off her hat and
pat II on again l believe the
record for a woman taking her
hat off and putting il on again
10 suit her is eight minutes. "A
neglected form of stage and
screen production is the musical
melodrama. A fine example of a
musical melodrama is GerSh-
WINS 'Porgy and-Bess. .
Distributed by King Features Synd., Inc
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RPfiPciiOnS

What would Hilda be able to
say? Not a doggone thing.
Jim wished he had thought
of that speech before this. The
approach direct.
And yet. as ne walked up the
front steps of his home, the
smile died. Did Hilda still love
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Up and DOlrn
B R D A D v Az
by Waller WinchcH

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Ttr taf goo. i,av1 0ou--fb1 stage Is ,ri.
orr aa. ,,a.mhv-o7l nIH soon torccr
DON VAIN
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SHORT STORY

1T WAS the sme that made people regard him closely
Jim tall, and gray, and handsome people the
street may have looked Al him But the smile
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SALT ON THE SIDE
r""By {. Y. During
SfIIHHuHfIllllnHIIIlIllnIunlrIlIlt
Tho ,org that ncrtc, naton's bcarf
:, " HcIt dccd.

Of songs that nations heart think the greatest
u "There Will Always BE England" That helped the
English stand the btz The fellows who that song
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One Tool in the Aisle
BV Arthur Bugs" IIacr


went the Booth for information on Bcrgncr
in tho Elizabethan manner.
Many years ago wrote phrase tha, has been quoted
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The Debt Outstanding

last page: February, 1886. That
was odd. he thought. Because
the first date was six weeks
after he had lost his Job and
all his money. And the second
date was a week after he
started on the radio TO success
once again.
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80 proud Of you that feel like
heel" He tapped the book.
Has this ever been repaid? ."
Every cent" she replied.
Years ago, JIM
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First commercial hydroformer bUiInow important In
volume production Of TINT. Developed and designed by
Standard Oil Company Indiana. its subsidiary Pan Amer
lean Petroleum and Transport Company, and construc-
ton company, the first commercial hydroormer built
at Texas City before the when it operated to make
top quality gasoline II the the several nv
droformers, including the Whiting whicharenow
making the bulk an oluene produced in the United States
Evening star., 1943-07-28

lines, the second Is the more dam
! aging Neither the newspapers nor
, newspapermen really have hurt-or
can be-by the repeated presidential
TRADES. Mr.. Roosevelt's hostility,
evinced on many occasions, Is well
understood. It is the normal re-
action OF politician who would like
to control comment and is resentful
because he cannot.
Denunciation of the press by the
President and his aides is futile
The press can stand that sort of
thing indefinitely and profit by it..
But. the calculated seduction of in
dividual journalists by opening TO
them Official sources of informa-
ton not available to the press as a
whole is A different story.
WooinE Began Early.
That is a subtle form OF bribery
which proves the administrat ton
not only insincere in its attacks
on the press. collectively. but not
on the level in its treatment Of the
press. individually.
Almost from the beginning of the
Roosevelt regime. this calculated
wooing of the individual reporter
has been White House policy. In
the early days it took the form Of
social attentions and the old first
name" stuff from the President, cou-
pied with insistence that the COR
respondents were all splendid, for
ward-looking fellows and only the
publishers and editors were greedy
wicked and reactionary.
1t Is encouraging to note that
many who at the time seemed to
like this transparent f1attery and
enjoyed being patronized, have since
seen through it and are rather en-
barrassed by their former gullibility.
The political purpose of this COL
lective coddling, like Mrs. Roose-
velt's membership in the Newspaper
Guild. tightly tied in with the ad-
ministrations chief political ally.
the CIO, was almost too clear to
mistake. But, in those days the
avowed White House pledge was
that all reporters were to be treated
alike and no favorites would be
played. That pledge was not kept
long.
Tip" Practice Extended.
The practice OF giving hand
picked reporters valuable informa-
Evening star., 1943-07-28

dictator by an internal coup
d'etat.
Despite the fact that the struc-
ture Of the state was in his
hands, down to the smallest Of
fetal. the whole watched over by
a secret police. press and radio
strictly controlled, and he him.
self commander in chief of the
army, he has been overthrown.
That the world is staggered
and surprised is only because it
saw merely the apparatus of
power but not the living forces
Of the Italian nation. For Fas-
cism has impressed the democ-
racies, and lately has been i'm
pressing them as political
power structure much more than
it has the people who live under
1t.
Must Produce Results.
A despotism is bearable only as
long as it produces results in
national power and glory. When
1t fails to produce them it falls,
and not all the police. spies.
guards and propaganda in the
world can keep it up.
Fascism and Nazism are weak
and not strong. The Italian re-
gime has fallen not before con-
quest but before the first threat
at its citadel. Even the tottering
French republic fell only when it's
capital was conquered and its
armies knocked out.
In spite OF all the Fascist fifth
columns in democratic countries,
the people nowhere welcomed in
vaders as the Italian people have
done. There were no popular
demonstrations in Paris or Lyon
to cheer conquerors with joyful
cries of peace, peace"
Democracy does not even have
to succeed to be legitimate and
maintain itself. because good or
bad, it is the peoples own They
relinquish their liberties to die
tator only for price. and If it
is not paid they will even accept
another dictator In preference
to what they have.
The Italian people have been
conquered for 2l years. and even
another conqueror might be
change for the better.
Fascism claims to be based on
nationalism. but in truth it de-
strcys 1t. For the nation is the
people. and If the people are
subjected they are literally men
without fatherland. The Fas-
ci7t party has been the father
land for nearly generation, and
a non-Fascist has had no home
land. In or out of exile, that was
the status of the average Italian.
And, when confronted by life or
Evening star., 1943-07-28

whole " orl d
looks on to see
how the United
Nations set up
their machinery
of liberation for
conquered peo-
piles? Events in
the next few
days or perhaps
hours will indi-
cate W h e t h e r
the capacity to
win over whole
popula tions by
cinnarn nrAN1a
Evening star., 1943-07-28

some from a lack Of knowledge
OF what was done. For the con-
venience Of the commission, out
of difference to the earnestness of
the witnesses themselves, and
also because I believe most sin
cerely in the soundness of the
plan submitted, 1t has seemed to
me appropriate to digest and at
tempt to answer every instance
of dissent.
Such disagreement as I OBJ
serve in the testimony centers
chiefly on the plan for general
price stabilization. The comment
on this subject was so varied as
to require systematic and COM
prehensive treatment in this
reply.
In the first place, 1t must be
made clear that the proposed en-
abling statute vesting power in
the President to determine a day
as OF which the statute speaks to
stabilize prices is discretionary
and not mandatory. This is nee
essary for two reasons: % as
Mr.. Baker pointed out. 1t might
not be required in a minor war;
t2) no one can foresee the cir
cumstance of future conflict. A
situation is conceivable in which
none Of the policies OF l917-1918
would be appropriate.
Opposes Price "Fixation."
do not suggest the fixation of
any price. The effect of the
proposed statute is simply to say,
Unless later adjusted by the
President downward, no price
shall rise above the figure at
which 1t stood at a certain named
day" In a word, We clamp
ceiling down on the existing
price structure. All prices are
free to f1uctuate below that max
imum.
Next, what is proposed is not
the artificial determination of
price by fiat or otherwise. There
was not single witness who
did not propose price fixing.
Those who opposed me want to
fix prices individually. Now that
means studying the costs of a
few producers selected by design
or at random and biased upon
such study taking somebody's
judgment as to what particular
price should be. My proposal
suggests initially nothing Of TIE
Evening star., 1943-07-28
Postwar Care Advised
In Selling Army Planes
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 2e.-A Gov
eminent corporation to dispose OF
surplus military aircraft after the
war will be necessary to prevent
breakdown of Americas aviation in
dustry. says L. Welch Pogue. chair
man of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Merely selling the planes to the
highest bidders would waste a costly
defense reserve and deal a blow to
the development Of transport air
craft that would take years to heal
he told the Los Angeles Aviation
Forum last night,
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kind. 1t addresses the whole
jnterrelated pattern OF prices as
1t exists under natural economic
law and says Of it, Since arbi-
trary governmental rationing will
henceforth govern supply, and
governmental determination of
priority-and not price-will con-
troll demand, we propose to keep
Intact this last natural price
schedule which we are likely to
see for many a day"
Some witnesses seemed to think
that, once this existing maximum
Is established. there are to be no
changes. I tried to make it clear
that there is at once to be set up
a competent tribunal to adjust
any maximum prices, either up
ward or downward, whether to
cure incidental injustice or hard
ship or to increase production.
That, OF course. will inject arti-
lc1ality. but artif1ciality will be
the exception and not the rule,
as would be the case with plans
which propose fixing the prices
OF basic commodities separately.
Adjustment Allowed.
With so much said by way Of
explanation, what I propose is
to have a statute which shall say
IN effect. From and after a dav
to be determined by the Presi-
dent, it shall be unlawful to
charge a higher price for any
thing that was in effect on that
day. except that the President
may and will ito relieve hard
snip or meet an exigency of war,
adjust any particular price either
upward or downward"
One misunderstanding I have
discovered and am particularly
happy to clear up is this: Some
witnesses construed my language
to mean that the President is not
to select M-day or approximately
M-day-the beginning of the war
but that he is to reach far back
Iet us say 80 days as a fixed
PERIOD, in search of normal
relationships, Notwithstanding
substantial changes that NAV
have occurred in the interim.
Plan Needs Leeway.
or course, If in such mean
time there has been a marked in
fation, to go back to a period of
lower prices would constitute
conf1scation in many cases. Such
was not the intent. The reason
Tor not naming M-day in the
statute Is that, in the usual cir
cumstances of the advent of war.
the first thing that happens is a
marked and sometimes panicky
price depression. Since the frozen
schedule Is one of maxima-a
kind of ceiling clamped down on
the whole price structure-one
purpose of providing for a slight
leeway was to prevent an ab-
normal depression from govern
ing future price.
AS shall later show, it does
not make a great deal of differ
ence what day the President Sc
lects. His task is to select one
rejecting the instant conditions
and the fewest number of distor-
tlons. Since his very next step
Is TO set up a commission to ad-
just distortions and iniustices
another purpose Of giving some
little leeway in naming the dav is
to minimize the work of that
commission and to determine A.
day, the circumstance of which
seems fairest and wisest-all
things considered.
released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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even so short
a time ago as
Sunday. and
even by so
W e ii in
formed a cor
respondent as
Herbert Mat
thews, W h o
spent years
in r m e
h a S h a p
pened. name
ly the over
throw of the
Oldest Fascist