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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
OIdSter COnfesses
OIdSter COnfesses
1875 Soldiers Soft
Compared With 43s
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

My nfrm conviction is that soldier of 1e43 could man
handle 10 soldiers Of the last
81 No such outfits Commandos or Rangers were known
in the first world scuffe.
The worst training got marching at the govern
appoved four miles hour That's virtually
staggering by remote control
Or logged along disconented mules that stopped
every FIVE minutes organize the details and count their
money.
remember setting-up exercises in the dawn's anemic
light All did spasmodic squats in deep and wet
weeds. Nm
But each soldier complained like a rich widow with
asthma. Why, discipline loose pants living
skeleton.
just read of outfit in Georgia that marched 11O miles
in three days with full packs.
There nothing like that in 1917. We promenaded
along for As minutes and then fell out for Is. That
regulation Even then pued like burning locomotives
in blizzard
The 1Syear-old kid Of today better than his old
of 1918 He's tougher than hanging judge and wiry
the insdes OF grand piano.
Some od-timers to brste up like brush factory
at this statement
I'm here rebuttss and to print them they
arrive
ru. Features
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
Better Health
BY DIR. Logan CIendening 4

IT MAY be of interest to those
L who are working hard in the
present about war effort to
know that fatigue, according to
the famous study Of Mosso. de-
pends to q certain entent on the
size OF your brain.
Mosso also said that the effect
OF hard study and hard work were
similar TO those of falling in
love-stimulation OF the circu-
lation Of the blood and increased
perspiration.
During both the period OF hard
study and the process Of being
bitten by the love bug the blood
vessels contract and the blood
pressure goes up; the tenpera-
ture first falls. then rises; there
II common and annoying palpi-
tation OF the heart and some
irregularity of the heart.
DIGESTION often is impaired
~ and IL either Of these activ-
tiles is carried 10 an extreme,
vertigo and difficult respiration
appear.
I do not know that I entirely
agree with this comparison, but
/ am not in a very good position
to judge because IL has been a
long time since / have observed
closely any one either falling in
love or studying hard enough 20
acquire vertigo and difficult res
piration.
However. this is purely an
aside in Mosso's argument and
what he says about the treat
ment of fatigue and its preven-
tion seems very reasonable.
In the first place, as far as the
size Of the brain is concerned, he
believes that by and large peo-
pie with heavy brains do not
show fatigue as easily as those
with light brains.
Such people as Cuyier, Volta.
Schiller and Byron. all OF whom
had brains weighing between
1.600 and 1,S00 grams, seldom
showed fatigue in any Of their
many activities.
A microcephalous patient, who
has brain weighing only about
600 TO 900 grams, on the con-
trary, tires very easily and wants
TO sleep an abnormal amount OF
the time.
MOSSO thought that people
AVA who fatigued easily could
not be rested by changing occu-
pations: that a chance OF occu-
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
The On|ooker


mouth: bombing them, bayonet-
ing them, sniping them. and sub
iecting them 10 every known
human agony, he sits IN big
office and tells harmless dicta-
phone how his Iowa heart beats
for the world, all men included.
One of Mr.. Wallace's sugges-
tions for retaliation against our
enemies is that We supervise
their schools after the war is
won and see 20 il that the little
Germans. Japs and Italians do
not have their little minds pois-
oned in the future by the
naughty leaders
I SUPPOSE that Mr.. Wallace's
supervision Of the little Axis
kiddieS would not only include
better eraSers, stronger lighting.
more milk at recess, but con-
slant repeating OF pledges such
as this:
IL promise never 10 bomb
Pearl Harbor on Sunday. and
under flag of truce"
II promise never 10 slaughter
innocent thousands of Poles, Bel
gians and Dutch"
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

nous men who were left
handed.
A-Haven't much information
a. 20 left-handed celebrities ex-
cept baseball players. Offhand
can only say that Michelangelo
was left-banded.
So Was President James A.
Garfield.
l believe Garfield is the only
southpaw 20 have been presi-
dent of the United States.
.NvCTOR McLAGLEN. Massive
thespian. Vic is s feet 3
inches tall, yet he was the short
est of five brothers.
During one period OF his col
orful career, McLaglen fought a
Six-round bout with Jack john
son at Vancouver. B. c.
During World War I Vic was
for a time provost marshal or
Bagdad.
William Powell has been a
film actor for p years and is
still going strong. That's a good
record.
However. that OF Richard Dix
is little better.
Dix has been in the films 25
years and has been a star for Il
years,
Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons,
genial racehorSe trainer. He
was born at Sheepshead Bay,
Long Island, in the vicinity OF
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

An the t0orld's n stage, a show;
Then learn thy part
With oil thy heart
Or bear the burden efihy- -teoe.
-Palladas.
("All the worlds a stage" is
a saying generally credited 10
Shakespeare. However, PalladaS,
Greek epigrammatist, said Il
100 years before Shakespeare
was bOrn.-EVDJ
NOV take the case OF a date
~ where one of the persons
concerned does not show up on
time.
How long should the other
person wait?
According 20 the experts II the
one waiting is a man he should
wait 20 minutes for the lady; no
more, no less.
A woman s hould not wait
more than 10 minutes for a man.
We get a better idea OF the
effect of the rubber shortage on
this country when we consider
that before the war one factory
used rubber in 10000 different
articles.
Michael Arlen profited 20 the
extent of over 100000 from his
novel THE Green Hat" which
was made into a play starring
Katharine Cornell and film
starring Greta Garbo.
Mr.. Arlen, whose real name is
Dikran Konyouundjean, Il StTtt
around but doesn't seem 20 be
doing much writing lately.
QUERIES from clients. @
W Have you ever smoked a
pipe!
indeed. have even
smoked clay and corncob pipes.
But I like cigars better.
Q-Have just been arguing
with a fellow who appeared for
oO years OIl lIlt NduutNiilc sNdSc
and ] claim he doesn't yet know
how to pronounce vaudeville as
he does so with three syllables.
How is il pronounced?
A-There are only two syila-
bles in vaudeville. II is prop
erly pronounced "vodvil."
Q-Why do they shoot horses
instead OF giving them gas or
using some other more humane
method?
Alt is claimed the most hu-
name method of destroying a
horse is by shooting II in The
forehead.
Q-Please do a southpaw a
favor by naming six very IA
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
How to Enjoy
Heart Disease

the sports heroes OF yesterday
above those OF the present.
ONE OF his favorite theories
" was that names contributed
largely to greatness in sport.
I am inclined TO think II was
only because the idea made good
reading, but he used to claim
that Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth
would not have been as great
under the names of Smith or
Brown or Jones, or that Man o
Wars fame would not have en-
joyed the same fame if his name
had been something else.
His argument scarcely stood
the test of the records. The
name Bobby Jones was one he
could not answer except 10 say
that the Bobby part made il.
He had wide knowledge OF
almost every field of sport. and
in his own billiards and pool was
an expert. although he played
neither except occasionally and
then badly.
When he was active in the
business he was noncommittal
about the topnotch players, but
he thought Willie Hoppe was
the greatest cue-man that ever
lived.
Jack was old-timy In only
one detail. He derided the
Broadway of today as compared
with the Broadway of his period.
He was wrong. I think il is
more colorful now than ever be-
fore-at least in my experience.
Copyright, 1s43, by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
Halo for Henry
Club Formed
81 swear that I will never stab
a helpless country In the back"

81 swear that I will never stab
a helpless country In the back"
Mr.. Wallace speaks OF punish
ing the guilty leaders -
He intimates that by swinging
a dozen or two high ranking Of
ficials from the gallows, World
War ii will be avenged.
THAT doesn't 60 in my book,
4 and / don't think il goes in
the books Of most OF the people
OF the United Nations.
Is Hitler any worse than the
pilot OF the pursuit ship which
Strafed helpless civilian strag-
glers on the roads of France?
Is Goebbels any worse than
the bombardier who opened his
bomb bays at roof-top height
over a covering Rotterdam
Are any OF the leaders any
worse than their followers who
openly and gladly committed
every horror known to man. and
for the greater part on helpless
people?
Mr.. Wallace is part and
parcel of the New Deal, and the
New Deal is supposed to be
chiefly interested In the little
man, the little people. the COM
mon folk. i would suggest TO
him that before he gets another
national hook-up and sounds off
for all the world to hear, that
he poll the little people OF the
world.
He is speaking for them, you
know.
They make up most of the
world.
I EFT him get the opinion Of
IL the enSlaved Poles. the
crushed CZechS. the starving
Greeks, the battered. Inundated
and heart-broken Jews of Eu-
rope.
Let him sound out the little
people Of all the other countries
who have felt the merciless fire
and flame OF the Axis hordes.
Wonder how the boys in
Guadalcanal feel about Mr. Wal
lace's speech?
Wonder If they wouldn't
rather hear the vice president
OF the United States say, as
they battle in the hell Of the
jungles, that some day the Japs
who seek to kill them will be
paid in full.
The same Is true Of the boys
who are carrying the battle to
the enemy in Africa.
Dirty, burned, thirsty, hungry,
how do you think they feel
about establishing a peace that
will feed, fatten and generally
delight the enemy that is work
ing "a hours a day to kill or
cripple them7
Get your mind on the war,
Mr. Wallace.
Think more about our boys
who are dying in II than NJ the
people who arc killing them.
Distributed BY MeNaosht Syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
The Brighter Side

THE late Jack Doyle, "the Sage
Il of Broadway" is the only
man I ever knew who claimed
to derive pleasure from a dan
gerous ailment.
He was told by doctors years
ago that he had a bad heart and
that he must exercise great care
If he wanted 10 last little
longer. They were doubtful
even then that ne had much
time left on earth.
Jack retired from his business
OF operating a Broadway bill
lizards academy and proceeded,
as he said, 10 enjoy his heart
disease.
He took 10 fairly regular hours
and 10 reasonably quiet living
which was somewhat Of Sacri-
flee 10 him. as he had been
night owl for 40 years and was
a convivial soul.
NDUT It's wonderful - this
- heart disease" he said 70
me one day. people who never
a. much nodded 10 me before,
now stop and ask most solicit
ously about my health. i am
helped upstairs by ladies and
gentlemen I never saw before In
my life. Walters give me plenty
of attention.
81 have a great excuse for
Ioafing. No one bothers me with
problems any more. Yes, sir, this
heart disease Il terrific"
Perhaps he was employing
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
by Damon RunyOn

Jest to cover his real feeling, yet
II is certain that in his later
years Jack made more Of life
as a semi-invalid than most per-
sons who are 100 per cent hale
and hearty.
He travelled 10 Florida every
winter and was often at the race
tracks, though he was moder-
ate bettor.
In his youth he was book
makers clerk, but he subscribed
10 my theory that all horse play
ers die broke.
lack was often mentioned as
- a betting commissioner, and
his prices on sports events were
quoted as authoritative far and
wide.
As a matter of fact. his ac-
tivitieS as a commissioner were
mainly apocryphal.
He occasionally acted As stake
holder for bets between indi-
viduais but never laid the prices
he quoted.
He was a great conversation
alist, had a lot of color and
marvellous memory.
His fame in sports was derived
largely from the fact he always
had a story of some kind for the
sports writers of another era
who hung out in his establish
ment.
He kept young in mind and up
with the sports times, and only
i'm a few instances did he rate
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

and a half dozen other young
sters who were 10 find fame In
later years.
0NE day young Epglishmsn
" brought in a collection of
short pieces called Imaginary
Portraits"
Liveright liked his personality
and bought the book after glanc-
ing at the first story.
The young man asked II he
could have a one hundred-dollar
advance TO carry him over until
the book was published.
His name was Noel Coward.
When he got the money he
promptly walked across town
and took a room at the Ritz.
Nobody came 10 work at
Liveright's much before II.
Kronenberger was breakfast
Ing at the corner drugstore at
about this time on his fourth
morning on the Job new addi-
tions 10 the staff caught on to
the strange customs of the tribe
with amazing speed VIII en-
Liveright entered. saw Kronen-
berger. and pulled out his watch.
Here CO mes the sack"
groaned kronenberger TO HIM
self, but what Liveright said
was isn't this q hell of = time
for the boss TO be coming to
work"
Remember that during this
time Livefight was breaking
down old taboos and introduc-
ing 10 the public daring and
startling different writers who
stand today at the very top OF
their profession.
Hemingway. O'Neill. Faulk-
ner. Van Loon, -Lewisohn, Hecht
and Dresser are just a few OF
them.
THE linotyper's den: When
Il Harcourt, Brace discovered
that William L. Whites They
Were Expendable" had been
chosen by the War Book Panel
as the first Imperative" they
adopted a new theme song:
We're dreaming Of . w. L.
White ChristmAs."
This is the big season for
technical and humorous books.
Exhausted clerks are sent
over 10 the fiction counters TO
get some rest.
Books that make people laugh
are going so fast that publishers
cannot supply the demand.
It's a good thing. too.
They keep your chin up at q
time when a belly laugh is 4
priceless tonic.
In the words OF the billy-goat
that chewed up six volumes OF
handouts from the owl. they
are "the best darn propaganda I
ever ate"
Copyright by Daily Mirror, Iss.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

MOT more than 25 publishing
~ houses control 80 per cent
of the entire book business in
America, and OF these 25. all but
four are located in New York.
The general public at large
knows little about the different
houses, and cares less.
The biggest selling book in
the country today Is See Here,
Private Hargrove," but at a
dinner In a newspaper editors
home 10 days ago. only three OF
the % guests present knew who
had published II.
The public at large never
heard OF motion picture pro-
ducers either. despite the miles
OF credits that precede every
feature.
When Random House pub
lished Alva Johnston's The
Great Goldwyn," dozens of deal
ers in the Middle West and
South wrote to ask us who
Goldwyn was.
Goldwyn thought we were
kidding him when we reported
10 that effect.
THE public clamor for books
Il about the war and the re-
sultant frenzied efforts by pub
fishers 10 sign up leading
correspondents and news com
mentators has destroyed the
final vestiges OF the publishing
profession of yesteryear
Ivory towers are now
equipped with IA telephones,
news ticker, and direct wires 10
Moscow. Honolulu and Louis B.
Mayer.
The publishers themselves
have changed as much as auto
mobiles.
Book publishers OF 1912 follow
the front pages OF the news
services as avidly as the man.
sging editor Of a press associa-
zion.
Three navy fiiers are picked
tip after a 34-day voyage in
rubber lifeboat.
Bill Sloane Of Henry Holt Il
Co. has them on the telephone
in Honolulu IL hours later, and
signs them for q book.
THE result is The Raft. one
OF the big books OF the year,
COME idea OF the speed with
~ which publishers must work
today may be Indicated by the
story Of "Guadalcanal Diary"
This diary was set down by
Richard Tregaskis, crack re-
porter for ms, who landed with
the first boatload OF marines at
Guadalcanal and stayed there
for two solid months.
When he left Guadalcanal, he
started preparing his manuscript
aboard q Flying Fortress.
He finished II In 10 days
The script was submitted 10
Random House on November il,
accepted for publication the
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
WE FORMED the Halo for
w Henry" Club today.

w Henry" Club today.
A group OF us got together
after reading the latest speech
of Henry Wallace and decided 10
raise enough money 10 buy the
vice president of the Unite d
States fitting halo.
We will need at least 81 from
every citizen in the country 10
pet him the right kind of halo,
because you can't have the man
who has set his heart on leading
be world out of the wilderness
going around IN ordinary head
gear.
He must have a halo at least
four sizes larger than the one
that hung on Woodrow Wilson's
hatrack.
TNiE one the founders OF the
l. Halo for Henry" Club have
in mind must be as large as the
thoughts swimming around in
his head.
Mr.. Wallace can't sec the war
for looking at the peace.
While our enemies are shoot
ing American boys in the belly,
the throat. the eyes, and the
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

next day, and chosen as a part
OF a dual selection by the Book
of-the- Month Club four days
laters p
Before another week had gone
by, Life Magazine had con-
tracted for a condensation OF the
book, the picture rights had
been sold, and a book store in
Honolulu had cahled an order
for $500 copies.
I ONG before the war, the
IL publishing business in
America had broken away from
established traditions.
Alfred Knopf played virtually
a lone hand in revolutionizing
the physical appearance of the
printed book in America.
II was he who introduced
stained tops TO books, two-col-
ored title pages, and improve
ments in typography that are
taken for granted by the book
buyers OF today.
A few wears later Horace
Liveright turned the advertising
OF books upside down.
His publishing enterprise was
conducted in four-story brown
stone house on Forty-eighth
street now part of Rockefeller
Center.
His staff included Beatrice
Kaufman. Manuel Komroff, Dick
Simon. SAKE ComminS. Louis
Kronenberger, Ted Weeks tnow
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
ONLY feminine sponsors are
" s,,pnosod fo rhrjxtsn xhira

0NLf feminine sponsors are
" supposed to christen ships.
Authorities arranged for Con-
ME Davis, Is, whose name had
been taken from a list Of scrap
iron contest winners, to christen
a freighter.
They then found Connie was
a boy, so they had to take the
christening out of his hands and
get a girl.
So you see what confusion
can be caused by parents who
saddle their male children with
female names.
John Howard Payne, the
American who wrote Home.
Sweet Home" was buried in
Tunis for 81 years before his
remains were brought back TO
his native land.
Copyright. 1saS. by King Features
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

what was once Americas great
est raceuack.
saw my first horse race az
Sheepshead Bay,
Mr.. Fitz" sull lives at
Sheepshead Bay which. in case
you don't know, is not very far
from Coney Island.
1t is a place where the fishing
is wonderful and the clam
chowder is the best in the world.
What is called "C0ney Island
clam chowder" should really ba
called SheepShead Bay clam
chowder.
NINETY per cent Of stenogra-
~ piers are women, but a
man, Charles Swemston, holds
the record for taking and accu-
rately transcribing dictation.
Mr.. Swemston took dictation
at the rate OF 282 words a
minute.
The average efficient feminine
stenographer can take dictation
at the rate of 120 words a
minute.
The demand is now so great
that the federal government
only asks that a stenographer
be able TO take dictation at the
rate of so words a minute.
The man named Burke who Is
trying to prove there have been
more celebrated Burkes than
celebrated Murphys should not
overlook the famous female or
the Old West who was known
as Calamity Jane"
Her full name was Jane
Burke.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

1t. Com. Walter Winehell
is temporarily on duty out
of the country. Meanwhile,
"On Broadway" 10 being
written by guest columnists.
Today's guest is Bennett
Cert, book publisher.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
Brain
Size

patton helps fatigue only "
fatigue is strictly limited to
very small area Of the brain.
He argued that people with q
large brain could use a small
part of il and then by changing
occupations could rest II, using
different centers.
extreme fatigue entirely
changes a persons temperament.
The unhappy, nervous patient
who is chronically tired is al
most always continuously short
tempered and impatient.
In this way he creates a VI
cious circle and tires himself
continuously either by work or
by emotional outbursts.
TAKING a group OF college
Il professors and another group
Of intellectually inferior people,
they were tested as 10 what
amount of weight lifting would
bring on fatigue.
IL was found that those who
were capable Of doing sustained
mental work were able TO Sus-
tain the strain of weight lifting
better than those who did not
have such good mental capacity.
Both mental work and phySi-
cal work therefore cause fatigue.
The teacher who stops lessons
and opens all the windows In the
school room and has the chill
dren exercise Is really only add
ing to their fatigue because she
is superimposing physical fatigue
on mental fatigue.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
J. II. T: What is trench
mouth? What is the cause and
how does it affect one?
Answer: Trench mouth Is an
infection OF the gums which is
really Vincent's infection.
II should be treated by a
dentist who is familiar with
such cases and who will be able
10 kill off the germs and get
rid of the infection.
NJ. D.-A friend of mine told
me TO take elixir terpin hydrate
and codeine for a cough She
gave me a bottle last winter.
Is this medicine harmless and
would 1t still be good after one
year?
Answer-The amount Of code
inc in the elixir mentioned is not
large enough 10 be harmful. II
is good for a cough and 1t will
last for a year.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
On the Side
by T.. v. DurIing

Distributed by King Features synd Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
Broadway
.WinchelIing for Waltel

Trade Mark Registered. Copyright, is4s.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05
By Bennett Cert:
Publishers Notes

editor of the Atlantic Monthly,
and a half dozen other young
sters who were 10 find fame in
later years.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

Waiting Time
for N Date
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-05

MOSSO thought that people
A'A who fatigued easily could
not be rested by changing occu-
pations: that a chance OF occu-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-16
Embargo on Shipments

Because Of the manpower
shortage and the necessity for
further conservation OF oDcrat-
ing equipment. many large mo-
tor carriers, Straining 10 keep
abreast Of wartime transporta-
ton needs. are being forced N
embargo pickup and delivery OF
light civilian shipments
Temporary embargoIng -
such service, long a cardinal
selling point of motor truck
transportation. was predicted
today by John Bridge. chairman
Of the board Of LecTone- Benedict
Ways, Inc, which company has
issued embargo notices on all
civilian shipments weighing 1909
pounds or less.
1T Is regrcttable." Bridge said.
that this action has 10 he taken
hut the American war effort
demands an immediate adjust
ment Of our industry tn most
unusual conditions. However
much we would like To do 80, We
cannot continue to render this
service and give our best TO
prosecution Of the war"