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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Abe Lincoln:
American

his done enough for the com-
try. IL In time to give some one
else q chance
AS idealistic as he was, Lin
coin was also very practical
man. He understood that you
can't make a man free by merely
saying so. Sometimes you have
to fight and die to get the bene-
fits. In the muddie of the Civil
War. a group asked him to free
the slaves. He answered them
by drawing this analogy:
"How many legs will q sheep
have II you call q tail q leg ?"
he asked them Five" was
the reply "You are mis-
taken" countered Lincoln, DE
cause by calling tail q leg, you
don't mako IL So" Z
Another time an enthusiastic
supporter told him:
''Mr. President, I'm from New
York State, where we believe
that God Almighty and Abra-
ham Lincoln are going to save
this country"
my dear friend" answered
Lincoln, "you are only half
right"
LIS famed debates with Doug
H las gave rise TO many pun
gent anecdotes. One of the
best. we think, is this: Douglas
once related Lincoln was a
grocery keeper selling among
other things whisky and cigars.
"Mr. L." said Douglas, twas
n very good bartender"
Lincoln countered with:
what Mr.. Douglas has said,
gentlemen, In true enough; I
did keep . grocery, and / did
sell cotton. candies and cigars
and sometimes whisky: but
remember in those days Mr..
Douglas was one of my best
customers.
MANY . time have / stood on
one side Of the counter and sold
whisky to Mr.. Douglas on the
other side, but the difference be-
tween US now Is this: I have left
my side OF the counter, but Mr..
Douglas still sticks to his as
tenaciously a. evcr!''
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Shakespeare
ON Marriage

Of sports. When Mr.. ST. Denis
was covering sports events as a
writer there was contempo-
rary sportscribe named Jersey"
Jones of the Jersey Journal.
In his "Sidelights" Of the Tun-
ney-Carpentier fight MIR. ST
Denis wrote:
ED Durling dropped by TO
ask me: Have you seen Joisy
Jones of the Joisy JONAH"
This reflection on my alleged
New York accent hurt me, Of
course, but by that time / was
used TO such cracks as when I
went 10 prep school at Phillips
Andover in New England the
kids used TO yell:
"Doiling had a goil named
Poll. She had money to bc:n."
THE United States Federal
Il Trade Commission once ruled
there was no known cure for
snoring.
As far as / know this de-
cision never has been changed.
However. Henry L. Mencken
has stated a number of times
that he was cured of snoring by
an operation on his nose.
"As to discussions regarding
the MurphYs and -OsBriens,n
writes Ed 0'Brien:
'It Is well known that In early
DAYS of Ireland's history tho
Murphys would ask regarding an
enemy force: How many are
there p While the O'Briens would
just ask: Where are they?'"
CLOGAN of a New York res
- taurant specializing in sea
food is:
1.-THE fish you eat today slept
last night In Chesapeake Bay"
We have horse shows, dog
shows and cat shows, but Eng
land is the only country having
an annual mouse show.
In England's last national
mouse show It was reported
there were exhibited red, white.
black, blue and champagne coli
ored mice"
The worry about the POSSIBLE
ity of initiation has been going
on for some time.
In 1887 Roger Babson wrote
a book titled, eff Initiation
Comes"
At that time the charge was
that if imitation came excess
government expenditure would
be responsible.
Copy 'ght. l943. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
The On|ooker
-McLemOre-ing for Henry

HERE'S a letter l would love
to mail:
Hon. Sir:
First of all. can't we get on
a little more friendly footing
than this honorable" business
After all, there is something
peculiarly intimate in the re-
lationship between a taxpayer
and the secretary Of the treasury.
II was all right 10 carry on
the fiction of formality, Henry,
when you had only one hand in
my pocket, but now that you
are planning 10 turn me upside
down and shake me, let's try TO
understand each other.
Secondly-and most respect
fully would like TO call your
attention 10 the fact that I, as
a taxpayer, will be around for
a long time, whereas you, as
secretary OF the treasury, are
anything but immortal.
don't want you to interpret
this as a threat.
/ wasn't elected or appointed
a taxpayer can't be recalled,
impeached or fired.
Doggone il. l can't even quit!
And just remember that with
hut treasury to run, you can't
be secretary.
But me, I'm a taxpayer for
life.
Yes. I've seen a dozen guys
sitting behind your desk. and
after you're gone I'll go on see
ing them.
Sometimes / wake up scream
ing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

THE birthday Of Abraham
l. Lincoln always reminds us
that his life is monument TO
Afreedom.
When Lincoln was in the
: White House the nation was
fostering with appeasers just as
the country testers with them
now.
But Lincoln knew that COM
promised liberty Is the first step
% its eventual destruction.
Refusing an ear to enemies at
home, he denied the right of
back-stabbers TO enjoy freedom.
He dumped them in jails.
That provides the most ell
oquent rebuttal TO the nail
gnawers, who knit their brows
about the freedom of those who
loathe it.
Remember, ii was Lincoln's
policies that rescued Americas
liberty.
Racial hatred in his time also
followed in the wake of home
front enemies; people who mis-
take ancestry for patriotism.
When one bigot passed a re-
mark about Lincoln's ancestry.
he replied:
81 don't know who my grand
father was, but I am more
concerned to know what his
grandson will be-"
i INCOLN also had his bouts
~ with Congress-. He attended
q preaching service where the
preacher called on those de-
string to go to Heaven 10 stand
up. All stood up but Lincoln.
Then the preacher asked all to
arise who didn't want to 90 to
he'll. Lincoln remained seated.
az am surprised" the preach
er said. Ito see Abe Lincoln sit
ting back there unmoved by
these appeals.
"f Mr.. Lincoln does not want
to 20 10 hell and doesn't want TO
Aescape heIL perhaps he will tell
hs where he wants TO CO."
Il am going" said Abe, ito
Congress-"
AS Chief Executive he also
felt the strain of the crushing
burden. AT boring ceremony
a friend asked him If he didn't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
The Brighter Side
by Damon RunyOn

by any living person Of the
records of fighters within their
memory will disclose.
THEY will find imposing lists
Il of "knockouts" of opponents
they never heard of before or
since, or that they know to have
been veritable trambos. Since
that situation prevailed through
out my long observation of box
ing, l see no reason to believe
that ii was any different before
my time. That is why / have
no truck with printed records of
the manly art and rely only on
what I personally witnessed or
that was seen by some one in
whose judgment I have conf
dence.
Choyinski stood 5 feet 10h
inches and weighed 172 pounds,
so he was not a little man to
begin with and, therefore, no
matter how hard he could hit, he
could not have qualified as the
hardest hitter in that physical
class. You do not have to go
way back in fistic history for
the hardest hitter for a little
man because he is within the
memory of this generation, and
still lives, and his record is fresh
and reasonably fiawless and
authentic.
He is Henry Armstrong, a
little man, who. at 126 pounds,
won the featherweight cham
pionship of the world. and then,
weighing slightly more, took the
lightweight title and finally, still
under the scale weight, the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

pUT now for the business of
- the day.
I've been following this Ruml
plan story in the newspaper
and now that the Enrol Flynn
matter is settled / can give IL
all Sof my attention,
AS I understand il. Ruml
wants 10 forgive my 1912 taxes,
but you don't want TO forgive
them.
You don't even want to for
get them.
I've never met Ruml but I've
grown mighty fond of the man.
There is something warm and
appealing about complete
stranger with such a generous
and gentle heart.
Now / don't mean 10 say that
you haven't got a heart. Henry
that you couldn't be generous
and gentle, too, il you wanted
TO be- am only saying that
now is the time for all good men
to come 10 the aid of the party
and vice versa.
60 FAR your henchmen seem
~ TO favor double. taxation.
which is hard enough TO bear,
and double talk which is worse.
Our representatives in Wash
ington who know no more about
the theories of taxation than
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Coffee
Making

you acquire the tea or cocoa
habit, you will be able to get
over the withdrawal symptoms
of coffee in time to enjoy
yourselves
Tea, coffee and cocoa depend
for their stimulating effect upon
the same chemicals, the KAN
thines-caffeine a nd theobro-
mine-which have about an
identical action in the body.
So IL does not make a great
deal of difference pharnaco-
logically which of these bever-
ages you use.
/ also can give everybody a
little deep psychological mes
sage on the actual effect Of
drinking coffee. $40
Most people are so condi-
toned to il that they get very
little physiological re actio n
from it.
COME people think they are
~ doing themselves irrepar-
able harm by using it, but as a
matter of fact for people over
the age of 40, it probably does
great deal Of good TO the heart,
circulation and nervous system.
But most of the effect comes
from the smell and a warm fluid
in the stomach.
III \
you take a rag and saturate 1t
with Coffee grounds, smell il,
pop a grain of aminophyllin in
your mouth, and drink a cup of
hot water. you will get about
the same effect as drinking cof-
fee and il will be much more
economical.
Or if you want TO duplicate
my Scotch experience. take
mixture of one-fourth tea, one
fourth coffee, one-fourth cocoa
and one-fourth coca-cola, bring
to a boil and down two cups.
This will make you forget cof-
fee, the Presidents recipe, Mayor
LaGuardia's recipe and every
thing else for a long, long time.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
N. f. D.-What is pellagra?
What is the cause? What is the
cure. if any?
Answer-Pellagra is a def
cheney disease due to lack of
fresh food and reliance for a
long time on a salt meat. corn
pone, processed foods-such as
molasses-sort of diet.
IL causes scruffiness of the
hands and feet and digestive dis
turbances.
1t can be cured promptly by
the use of NICOTINE acid, which
is probably the food factor which
is deficient in its causation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

MD TIMERS often permit
" retrospect to magnify the
events and figures of their youth
far beyond their real proportions.
This is especially true of the
veterans of the manly art of
scrambling ears, o herwis e
known as prize fighting and
sometimes as boxing.
/ may as well warn you now
that my treatise today is one of
those occasional rambles of mine
into the realm of sport, usually
undertaken on some sudden
prodding of memory or, as in
this case, by a misstatement of
fast that l feel should be cor
rected in the interests Of purity
of historical record.
Joe Choyinski, a somewhat
celebrated fistic antique. passed
from the current scene recently
at the age of three score and Ia
and, right away, the graybeards
of the game took to telling what
a great fighter he was in his
heyday, which was o. k. with
me until one of them said he
probably was the greatest hitter
for little man that boxing has
known.
I did not see Choyinski fight.
though, on the testimony of
those who did, L am willing to
agree that he was good, this eye
witness testimony being the only
kind / accept about the fight
game. The records that are sup
posed TO shed some light on
achievement are, in this par
ticular pastime, about 80 per
cent spurious as an examination
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

THE argument as to why a
Il restaurant hostess is so
anxious 10 snatch the menu
away from a customer con-
tinues.
Following reasons have been
advanced and recorded.
If the hostess doesn't take
the menu away the customer is
very likely to change his order
and cause confusion in the
kitchen.
lowing to the expense of
printing an elaborate menu the
number of copies are limited so
the menu must be taken to give
another customer a chance to
order. If a hostess ran out of
menu cards she would not know
what to do with her hands.
She would become nervous and
start biting her fingernais.
T WOLFE GILBERT. Song
~. writer.
His greatest hit was Wait
ing for the Robert +. Lee"
The famous race between the
steamers Natchez and Robert f.
Lee was an upstream battle be-
tween New Orleans and st.
Louis. a distance of 1,210 miles.
The Robert E. Lee won,
making the trip in 3 days. l8
hours and 80 minutes.
Walter st. Denis of the world
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
by j. II. McEvOy:
Open Tax Letter

we do-which makes them truly
representative. favor any plan
that will put US on pay-as-you-
go basis, and this is Jake with
us.
We are conditioned TO buying
things on the instalment plan.
But where would instalment
companies get off trying TO col
lect out Of last years income?
Henry, whether you admit il
or not, you are now in the in
stalment collection business.
Now some people say you
don't like the Ruml plan because
you didn't think of it first.
would rather not believe that
but don't push me.
After all. we don't care who
thought of IL ffrst-if you think
Of il last-and hold that thought.
Me, I'm no dumber than any
congressman-and certainly no
brighter-and he can't make up
his mind whether you lose
money for forgiving us our 1912
taxes or not.
But what of it?
WHOSE money is il?
w IL it's our debt and we
owe IL to ourselves, seems 10 me
we have the right to do pretty
much what we want about il.
And who said we owed il in
the first place?
We did.
Not you, Henry.
II we all said we didn't owe
II and wouldn't pay it, how
would you collect 1t?
OF course you might say that
isn't sound, scientific economics,
and then you would have TO
prove that economics is a sci
ence, which Of course, it isn't, as
you know.
Fact is, your economics,
Henry, is a cult, and as long as
you are secretary of the treas
ury, you are its high priest.
Which is okay, Henry, but
economics-yours or Rumrs is
also a philosophy and Santa
yana had some words for il:
"a system of philosophy Is
personal work Of art, which
gives a specious unity to a
chance vista In the cosmic la
byrinth.r
Chew on that. Henry.
Respectfully yours,
j. P. McEvoy.
Distributed by Mcknight Syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Better d|th
BY DIR. Logan Clendening

THIS column has not inter-
l. viewed anybody who feels
very enthusiastic about either
President Roosevelt's or Mayor
LaGuardia's method of making
coffee.
One feels that the forte of
these gentlemen is in statecraft
rather than in the culinary arts.
The only part of coffee ever
considered deleterious is the
fannie acid and prolonged boil
ing increases that tannic acid
four times, but adds little caf-
feline.
I believe, however, that / can
add something constructive TO
the argument and IL goes back
TO the years when / was a post
graduate medical student in
Scotland.
I WAS very fond of Scotland in
i 1911.
/ was young-at least younger
and full of enthusiasm, and /
enjoyed the clinics of Edwin
Bramwell.
also enjoyed the hospitality
of McVittie's Guest in Princes
street and I used to 60 down
every Sunday morning to st.
Giles Cathedral to see the Black
Watch on parade.
How the sporrans swung: left,
right. left, right, with the pre-
cision which marks the march
ing of all Ladies from Hell.
liked everything about Scot
land except the coffee.
THERE is no way to describe
l. Scotch coffee.
When / say that Mayor La
Guardia's and President RooSe-
velt's coffee sounds good in
comparison to Scotch coffee,
that is only a faint indication
of what il is like.
The only thing to compare
to Scotch coffee is English
coffee or French coffee or
Italian coffee.
When l had been in Scotland
u short time, / found out that
had better switch to tea.
So did and / can say that I
acquired a taste for it and that
1t is just as good as coffee for
breakfast, luncheon or dinner.
understand that the distri-
button of tea will be about so
per cent of what il has been
during the last year.
COCOA will be distributed at
~ the rate of about so per
cent of the amount of last year.
Not everybody is going to
take nv advice. so III a few of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

Henry McLemore is on
his way overseas.
For a period OF approx
nsteiy two weeks. J. p. Nc
Evoy. the weIi-known writer,
will substitute for him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

Let stiu the poman take
An elder than herself; so wears
she TO him
So sWays she level IN her hus-
bands heart;
For, boy, however iUe do praise
ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddv and
unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner
lost and norm
Than Women's are.
Shakespeare.
shakespeare seems TO have
been greatly opposed to men
marrying women older than
themselves because on another
occasion he wrote: Then let thy
love be younger than myself or
thy affection cannot hold the
bent"
mo expert on the subject
seems to have believed that a
marriage to an older woman was
a good idea.
However, the records show
that now and then such mar
riageS turn out very we'll
END.44
QUERIES from clients:
W Q-During a little argu-
ment my wife, a so-called cute,
little trick type, stepped violently
on my toe. am 6 feet 2 inches
tall.
AS a gentleman, what should
/ have done in the way of re-
taliation?
A-Mister, you have me there.
All / can do is to quote the
observation of the Chinese horses
and women expert Wo Lin:
Three things the wise man
does not do. He does not plow
the sky; he does not paint pic
lures on the water and he does
not argue with woman"
Q--Can you make tn r G G
brothers who were all film
stars?
A-That's very easy, Owen,
Tom and Matt Moore.
Q-Remember a show called
isis Hopkins" starring Rose
Melville?
A-Have heard of it but never
saw il.
However, I can tell you that
Rose Melville is still alive
and very healthy at Lake
George, N. Y.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
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by Walter WincheII

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On the Side
by Il. ". During

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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-07-22
Mrs. Minnie |. Bed||
Rites Held Sunday
Prominent Lady Of
Lexington Passes
On Saturday

Mrs. Minnie Lockhart Beall, member
Of a prominent pioneer family Of
Holmes county passed away Saturda,
night at $3.50 at the Community Hos.
pital after an extended illness.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at five o'clock at the family
residence with the Rev. A. Y. Brown
officiating. He was assisted by DR.
]. 7. McCafferty, former Methodist pas.
tor in Lexington. She was a lifelong
member of the Methodist Church.
Mrs. Beall was postmaster in Lexing-
up until January when she resigned be-
cause of ill health. During her tenure
of office she served as secretary of the
State Association of Postmasters. She
was prominent in the church, civic and
club organizations in the city and had
a wide circle of friends who mourn her
death. She was 81 years old on Sunday,
the day she was buried.
She was born and reared in Durant
and was married to George S. Beall, Jr.,
on June A, 1902.
Surviving are the husband, and one
son, John Howard Beall; one grand
daughter. little Miss Beth Beall; two
brothers, Marvin Hays, of Brookhaven.
and Edgar Hays, of Tchula.
Interment was at Odd Fellows ceme-
terry with Southern Undertaking Asso-
citation conducting.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-07-22
West Youth Named
Star FarmerF. F. A.

Cayce Ellard, Jr., West, was desig-
mated as the Star Farmer of Missis-
sippi. This award is made for the most
outstanding farming and FLA program
of any individual in the state. For this
outstanding achievement, young Ellard
was awarded a $4,000 war bond by the
State Association.
The Mississippi Association of Future
Farmers held their tenth annual state
meeting at Mississippi State College,
July 1914. Four hundred and sixty
four young farmers, representing 1913
local chapters, attended this meeting.
They were very enthusiastic about their
farming and the contributions that they
are making to the war effort. Eighty
OF these young men were awarded their
State Farmers degree, which is the
highest degree that the State Associ-
alton can award.
In the judging contest, teams repre-
s%enting the following schools were the
winners: Livestock, Binford School;
Poultry, Chalybeate School; Dairy,
Union School: Milk, Binford School.
Individual winners in the judging
contest We're: Livestock, j. C. Collins.
Binford; Poultry, Alvin Cain, Sails;
Dairy, Henry Beal, Union; Milk, o. W.
Scott, Binford.
Young Ellard was also named treas
urer in the State FLA Chapter.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-07-22
Red Cross Honor
RoIIIs Listed
Dufant


Mrs. J.. L. Longinotti, Mrs. X. Van
Keuren, Mrs. Clyde Stokes, Miss Eliza
beth Ramsey, Miss Carolyn Hays, Miss
Sara Ann Elliott, Miss Nell Allen, Miss
Miss Bettye Gum, Miss Mary Louise
Cresswell, Miss Cathryn Parkinson
Mrs. Gordon Allen, Mrs. S. H. Moss,
Mrs. Carl Drake, Mrs. j. O.. Lanfair,
Mrs. Carl Crider, Mrs. J. r. Joyce, Mrs.
Cora Taylor, Mrs. II. B. Sargent, Mrs.
A. l.. Stevens, Mrs. w. p. Taylor, Mrs.
Albert Brown, Mrs. ]. f. Sweany, Mrs.
j. J. Smith.
Mrs. N. Schur, Mrs. Leslie Johnson,
Miss Meta Moore, Mrs. c. A. Moore,
Mrs. W. L.. Hooker, Mrs. r. O. Duke,
Mrs. NJ. S. Dyson, Mrs. W. Sharpe,
Mrs. A. p. Shepherd, Jr., Mrs. N. B.
Hooker. Mrs. b. Rutledge, Mrs. G. G.
Ash, Mrs. A. NJ. Pepper, Miss Julia
Watson, Miss Blanche Moore Alexander,
Miss Bee Johnson, Miss Malissa King,
Miss Ann FAINT Davis, Miss Rebecca
Ellison, Mrs. /. r. King, ST., Mrs. E.
w. Ellison, Miss Elizabeth Heinrich
Miss Julia Heinrich, Miss Mayme Hen
rich. Mrs. Jewell Jarrett, Miss Jeffie
Lou Jones, Mrs. Daisy Griffin, Miss
Minnie Jordan, Mrs. Irene Money, Mrs.
J. R. Patterson, Mrs. Sydney Rhyme,
Mrs. M. E. Blake, Mrs. A. S. Povall,
Miss Katherine Mcleod, Mrs. Morris
Herman, Mrs. A. Jacobson, Mrs. B.
SETTLER, Mrs. J.. f. Williams, Mrs. /.
C. Johnson, Miss Elizabeth Glover, Mrs.
c. A. Glover, Miss Viola L%indholm,
Mrs. j. B. Walton, Mrs. L. B. Gilliland,
Mrs. Sam Herman, Mrs. w. f. Thur
mond. Mrs. J. G.. Herbert, Jr., Mrs. Sue
Wood. Miss Christ Rutledge, Mrs. S.
Y. Farmer, Jr., Miss Jewell Farmer,
Mrs. Admois Rutledge, Mrs. Claude
Rollins, Mrs. c. o. Sudbeck, Miss Agnes
McDade, Mrs. Hugh Nichols, Mrs. Nick
Walker, Mrs. Kenner Ellis, Mrs. W. H.
Roach, Mrs. G. NJ. Johnson, Mrs. Howell
Warner.
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