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Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
The Brighter Side
BY Damon RunyOn

and sincerely to aid the war ef-
fort as best they can, are bawled
out by our statesmen and mill
tary master minds and even
some editorialists, often as an
explanation for administrative
failures.
These men and women of the
civilian population accept ration
ing, regimentation and every
form of governmental regulation
and discipline with little COM
plant because they believe it
will help win the war.
They are taking the frequent
notifications of the loss of loved
ones on the battle fronts with
fortitude.
They receive news of reverseS
sustained by our forces without
panic and without losing conf
dence in our fighting leaders.
They do not contemplate any
outcome of the war other than
complete victory for our side,
because they believe in the
Righteousness of our cause and in
the invincibility of our arms.
A FEW among the war work.
"A ers-few, that is. compared
with the total-shirk their duties
and abSenteeism becomes an ac-
cusation that is gradually mag
nified to reflect upon the civilian
population as a whole.
Yet If you look around, you
will observe that nearly all the
men and women who are the
civilian population. are working
in some manner for the war
effort.
Among them are several mil
lion veterans of our other wars
who have learned the ingratitude
of the republic, but whose zeal is
nonetheless unflagging.
As for "absenteeiSm." a de-
plorable practice among war
workers. one of my readers calls
my attention 10 the fact that ii is
not altogether unknown among
members of Congress.
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On the Side

nv lover is a small man,
So I would haze him be-;
FeUer leaves and more fruit eUsr
We fnd on the little tree.
Ryder.
tAbove quoted by request of a
Baltimore young woman who
says her sweetheart whom she
considers wonderful, marvellous
and miraculous" is 5 feet 8
inches in height.-EVDO
ULNILM stars who live on
L laughs last the longest"
writes Chicago theater owner.
Would seem he is in posses
sion of something there.
Harold Lloyd. Laurel and
Hardy and Charlie Chaplin are
still box office attractions after
Is years in the films.
Philip D. Armour once said:
Anybody can cut prices but
II takes brains 10 make q better
article"
Quite so.
II takes even more brains TO
make a better article and still
cut prices. AS quite a few
American men Of business have
been able TO do.
THE snakes in the jungle area
l. of the Southwest Pacific do
not bother the Japs.
The Nipponese are snake
eaters.
In Toxic there are over 100
retail snake stores.
The Japs believe baked snake
cures tuberculosis. rheumatism
and cancer.
When President Roosevelt was
assistant secretary Of the navy
ne was considered one Of the best
poker players in Washington.
ALCATRAZ is said to be the
"A worlds most difficult prison
from which TO escape. Never
theless, they count the prisoners
at Alcatraz every 80 minutes.
In 1910 there were about 49,
100000 houses in Britain. You
get an idea of the extent OF the
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

AS I SAID the other day, 1
"A have no doubt there are ma
lingerers among the war work.
ers but in the light of our pro-
duction record, 1 am commenc-
ing TO think too many persons
are making a regular occupation
Of tossing charges of various
shortcomings against the work.
ers and against the civilian pop
ulation generally.
And what is the civilian pop
ulation besides the war work.
ers?
Well. IL is the millions of men
and women who are working
hard every day at their jobs or
businesses, trying to maintain
their homes and pay their taxes
and buy bonds to support the
war 10 which a large number Of
them have given their sons.
THEY are the men and women
Il who have sacrificed their old
comforts and have changed
their whole way of life TO the
end that their country may be
victorious in the war for hu-
manity.
They are the artisans, the pro-
fessional men, the tradesmen,
the farmers, the clerks, the
small wage earners in a thou
sand different fields of endeavor
men and women whose faith
in Almighty God and in the
United States of America is un-
shakeable.
They are the civilian popula-
ton.
They are the ones who. under
that broad term, are berated by
every windbag who seeks to at
tract attention TO himself and
whose personal contribution to
the war effort. proportionately
TO that of the average member
of the civilian population, is
practically nil.
THEY are the ones who. while
Il they are working quietly
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

attack the Chinese had number
of bombers over Toxic. How
ever. the Chinese did not drop
bombs but pamphlets.
Q-What is the shortest of all
poems
A-As far as / know IL is the
following which l believe is by
Louis Adamic:
Why?
Q-How do you pronounce
Chang Kai-Shek?
A-Cheeang Ky-Shek.
ON Aug. u, 1889. Col. E. L.
" Drake struck oil al Titus
vile. Pa. That was the begin
ming of this country's petroleum
industry.
This industry made many mil.
lionaires but Col. Drake spent
his last days as a beneficiary OF
an old pension.
In England recently three
sisters each had a baby on the
same day. First time ever
heard of a triple blessed event
like that.
MOTHERS DAY being not far
WI off a Detroit teacher asked
the children to write compost
ton titled MY Mother"
One lad wrote:
"My mother used to have
black hair but now she has yell
low hair and works In q war
plant and wears Stacks.
"She II "a years old and has
long red-painted nails and
smokes two packs Of cigsrets .
day.
"My mother In a swell dresser
and has false teeth.
"My mother IL very kind ex-
cept when she is mad and then
she might give you a slap In the
jaw for doing almost nothing.
T love my mother.
my dad Is living but not with
US"
Copyright 1s43. BY King Features
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

Since then IL has been rising
so that this year II Will prob
ably reach II per 1000.
II is undoubtedly in for an
other drop. beginning within the
next two or thre years.
Birth rate, therefore, as We
have said above. is not the
criterion of population growth.
A Ii these factors which have
"A resulted in our population
growth are likely 10 continue 10
operate so that We are faced
with an increasingly older popu-
lation.
In 1915 Is per cent Of the
population were under 5 years
Of age; in 1910 about 9 per cent
OF the population were under )
years Of age.
In lS40 40 per cent Of the pop
ulatlon were from ; 10 l9: IN
1910 25 per cent were Of that
age.
People from ~ 10 40 compose
the mos. stable population group
proportionately
But in 1880 only Is per cent
Of the population were over 45,
whereas in 1870 nearly 30 per
cent were over as.
In 1880 il is projected that 5
per cent of the population will
be under 5, 20 per cent Will be
from 5 10 10 years Of age and 35
per cent will be from 20 10 "a.
while Is per cent Will be from
IS 10 81. and over Is per cent
will be over 65.
THIS shift IN the age OF popu-
l. lation groups is hound 10
make great social and economic
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

THE Showfolks: The only new
u play was The First Million"
a satire on crime in the Tobacco
Road belt by Sgt. /. Gilman,
!. which a 19-year-old n a m d
J Jimmy Elliott produced.
The N. Y. Times patrol re-
gretted he had TO be middle-aged
about IL and called IL quite bad.
Strip-teasing is still a flourish
ing business in the sticks, but is
banned in sinful Gotham.
Walt Whitman wrote some of
his epics on the backs of wall
paper scraps. and intimates of
playwright Eugene O'Neill reveal
that he got the plot of "Ah, Will
derness" from one of his dreams.
Ethel Barrymore returns TO
town in her long-run hit, The
Corn Is Green" TO cash in on
the local cabbage.
Something for the Boys"
starring Ethel Norman, is even
standing them up at matinees.
Variety reports the three-way
feud among critics Rascoe. Gibbs
and Anderson, which. translated,
means that the slack season is
on for space filling among the
reviewers.
The hit. "Oklahoma. is lead
ing the field with weekly
10000.
THE Moom-Pitchers: The ex-
L tremely advertised Mission
10 Moscow" premiered and justi-
fled its ballyhoo. The manner in
which the Russian trials are dis
missed with shrug should please
the Soviet regime.
Crash Dive. with 1t, Ty
Power starring, will raise what
is left of your hair, especially its
warfare WOW ending.
Anne Baxter is the leading
lady. clean and upright.
Judy Garland, in Presenting
Lily Mars" takes a good hold on
stardom with her fine pretend
ing.
This film offers a switch on the
>familiar backstage fable thold
hight, nowD the star going on for
the understudy and actually
making good.
There are several good songs
in il.
White Savage" is perhaps the
name the producers OF il called
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
CHAPTER LXII

THIS MORNINGS mail brought
letter which somehow started
my brain going through the wind
ing course it takes and pushed IL
through 10 startingly sudden
realization. The letter was from
my old friend J. Milton Todd,
Charlotte field representative OF
! the Woodmen of the World. who
used to drop in on me at the News
occasionally with a news story or
a dry joke.
II was very pleasant letter,
and l was still thinking about II
when l went back 10 work after
lunch / couldn't estimate the
number of news stories I've writ
1 ten about the Hornets Nest Camp
of the Woodmen. Hornets Nest
Camp No There ! stopped
couldn't remember the number
+ that always went with the name
Of the camp in every story ! wrote
II was a trivial thing. but II
started me thinking Hugh White
I the city editor. and I used 10 play
q little game during slack periods
Of the day 70 test our memories.
We'd Quiz each other on the ma
tional numbers that 60 with the
name of a fraternal organization
in News stories. Mizpah Chapter
No. 36. Order Of the Eastern Star;
Hawthorne Grove No. IA, Supreme
Forest Woodmen Circle: Charlotte
Chapter No. l64. Women Of the
Moose. l never missed them.
Now l can remember practically
none Of them.
GREAT gods and little daifodlls,
~ l thought. Is Hargrove becom-
ing an Arrnv man? Am ] crowdlng
everything out Of the picture ex-
cept Army work and Army aSSo-
ciates and Army activities Am
l on the way TO being thirty
year man?
| checked back through some
old clippings of my column. writ
ten during the first few weeks |
was here Then 1 checked them
with more recent columns. The
early ones. found. were harmless
enough at first glance, but they
carried throughout them certain
undertone of genuineo dislike for
the work. There we're little sar-
castle digs between the lines,
weary and ironic sighs.
Then the little digs began 10
grow weaker and weaker They
were replaced by more tolerant
attitude or, when / discussed
something I didn't like hearty
/ growls. Real old growlS belly
achers. 1t is an accepted theory
in the Army that the more man
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

Nazi bombing when learning
that OF these 100000 houses
about 2,750,0O0 were damaged
by bombs.
"If your wife has ceased to
criticize you," says D aph n e
Drake, ''if she no longer nags
you a bit IL is probable she does
not love you any more. 1t might
also indicate she II becoming in
terested In some other man."
QUERIES from clients;
Vt Q-Has Irene Dunno been
married 20 years?
A-Not yet but no doubt Irene
will go on loving the same man
until her golden wedding day
and after. She has been married
Is years.
Q-Wasn't the Chinese air
force over Toxic some time be-
fore the Doolittle group bombed
that city?
A-Yes. Before the Doolittle
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

Varied Meals From Versatile
Chickens. Ever Try Chicken
BazZariO. Shredded Chicken or
Chicken Hash Pie? There Are
Full Directions for Max ting
These Delicious Dishes as Well
as Potato Gingerbread. Mock
Asparagus, Milkweed Stalks
With Ham. and Other Timely
Prize-Winning Recipes In The
Housewives Food Almanack,
That Popular Feature I'm The
American Weekly. Great Maga-
zine Distributed With This Sun
days Issue OF the Detroit
Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
See Here,
Private Hargrove
By MARION HARGROVE

gripes and the louder he gripes
the better he likes the Army.
The only decision / could make
through studying the columns was
that / seem 10 be adopting the
philosophy of the old soldier. "If
it's going 10 happen, it's going TO
happen, so why worry about it?"
If | sleep until too late 10 stand
reveille, / know that the first
sergeant is going TO put me on
KIP Sunday. The Sunday KIP is
an unpleasant thought-for next
Sunday. But why worry about it?
THE thing began 10 worry me
l. greatly. Finally went back 10
the darkroom, where Bushemi was
mixing his hypo. l outlined the
whole case to him.
"Bushemi," l asked him. "am
I becoming a Good Soldier.
Have ] found a home here: Am
potential thirty-year man."
Bushemi hooted. you're pick
ing up In some ways. You shine
your shoes and you keep fairly
well i'm line. II might be conscien-
tiousness. but It's more probable
that you're just bucking for cor
poral. As for looking for a career
in the Army, / can't see II in your.
You're a born civilian. son. You're
too fond of sleeping late and eat
ing at ungodly hours; you'll never
he satisfied without a lot OF fast
action and civilian good times.
You're too ambitious.
you're a cocky son Of gun.
You've got to be jawing back at
everybody and everything. IL II
weren't for the emergency atmos-
phere and the knowledge Of what
you're in, you'd spend half Of your
time in the qua rdhouse for insub-
ordination. You're in no danger Of
becoming a lifetime soldier"
| thanked him and came back TO
the office. When Captain Winkel
finished the work he was absorbed
in. | was impressively busy on my
afternoons assignments. AS Bush
emi says, probably bucking for
corporal.
(Coof;oued Tomoryolpl
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
Connolly Answers

1-Ca) Richard w. Clark. (bl
Martha Jane Burke; tc)
Anthony Wayne.
2-(a Africa; (b) Australia;
(c) Asia.
3-(aD Eames; tb) Keller; Cc)
Washington.
Ia beast; Cb) fish; tc) bird,
5-CaD Ohio: (b) Tennessee; tc)
Washington.
6-(a) largest; tb) Jutland; tc)
Persia.
Copyright. 1919. BY King Features
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS

o. b. lis IL harmful TO
drink lots Of water with the
meals Docs milk promote
growth in a person after age Of
Answer: Water with the
meals does not remain in the
stomach for any length OF time
and does not mix with the food.
II, therefore. does not inter
fere with digestion and il is not
harmful to take plenty of it with
meals.
2-If you mean Will milk in
crease growth in height after
the age of 20. the answer is no.
At any age II Will promote
nutrition and is a valuable in
gredient in any diet
II. D.:-Csn a rupture turn
into cancer?
Answer: No A rupture is
simply A mechanical defect in
the abdominal wall. A cancer
is cell growth. They have
nothing 10 do with each other.
T. '~SS$a-I was told that a
duodenal ulcer never heals
through, only heals over. VIII
this show on an X-ray il il
healed over2 Do you advise
operation p?
Answer: A large proportion
OF duodenal ulcers heal COM
pletely for all practical purposes.
The mucous membrane may
be somewhat thin at that point.
but after this occurs they give
no symptoms for the rest OF the
individuals life. so we can say
they are healed.
The lack of symptoms Of acid
dyspepsia is a better sign Of
healing than the X-ray.
l cannot advise about an opcr-
alton az long distance. You
should consult a physician about
that.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
Quick Answers

MILES Standish.
2-Milk products.
3-Norway.
Mai. Gen. Bernard c Frey
berg.
5-240 pounds. The long ton is
2,240 pounds.
6-Between us.
You win at great cost
Copyright, 1913, by King Features
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
Population
Statistics

changes. Business houses already
change the goods offered 10 the
public to meet changing birth
rates and old-age population.
They are thus more alert 10
changes than the political plan
ners.
The age period for prime labor
Is 20 10 "a.
II is possible that We VIII have
TO institute training courses for
men over "a 10 Az them for sec
ondary labor up 10 the age of
SO 10 20.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

THE Intelligentsia: Merrill
Il Denison's "Klondike Mike
is recommended highly by Chris
topher Morley. Says il is better
than the letters of Jack London
and Rex Beach.
A book that should Join the
topnotch list Is Citizen Tom
Paine" by Howard Fast.
He reveals a sleepy Congress
is nothing new. That George
Washington urged Paine 10 use
his stinging pen 10 wake up Con-
gress during the Revolution.
Carey McWilliams' Brothers
Under the Skin" strikes a power
full blow AT the intolerant.
Nine. Wellington Koos book.
which was taken out OF circula-
ton on the day Of publication.
was already on the shelves Of
5000 stores.
Copyright by Daily Mirror, loe.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
Innocent
Bystander

estingly trivias that Fibber Nc
Gee and Molly depict an average
couple with $500 per annum
income-but that Fibber and
his darling make that much a
broadcast.
THE Magazines: William Lyon
Il Phelps offers some neat
paragraphing in Good House
keeping. by title: Parties l
Wish / Could Have Attended,
the sort of material you prob
ably will see again in a future
Digest.
Omnibook is now in pack-size
formal, result OF its great
success with the army. The
war department sends $4,000
of them monthly for distribution
overseas.
L. Stessin spotlights the
latest racket in Coronet. They
are the phony technical schools
that promise defense jobs.
Readers Digest explains in
fation. Read il and thank the
author. Every citizen with a
dollar in his jeans is soldier in
this fight.
Howard Lindsay offers some
tips on playwrighting in Thea
ter Arts.
That's the first time we've
ever seen the audience consid-
nrnd AZ q cnlla
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06

THEY are the ones who. while
Il they are working quietly
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
BY Il. v. DurIing

Distributed by King Features synd., Inc
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-06
Broadway
BY Walter WinchelI

Trade Mark REGISTERED. Copyright ists
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Japs Eat Snakes
10 Cure Disease
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CONTINUED Tomorrow)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14
Leo Visits Acrobats

Your writer. in Chicago re-
Gently. enjoyed tho privilege Of
a behind-the-SceneS look AZ the
Olympia circus. which was then
playing a. the Chicago Stadium.
the $500. 600 building whiC h
Norris took over shortly after
Writ completed the Detroit
deal. Ironically. Mai Frederic
Mclaughlin, Norris hockey RI
val in Chicago and owner ~ the
BlackhawkS, is forced 20 rent
from Norris.
The FIRST Writ Ice show
started rather modeS'ly In Chi
caco, costing only $500 l.
drew SAG. O00 and from that
came the idea OF signing Sonia
Henie. A. the time StIll an anna
tour. Writ wired the great Nor
weEian skater An offer Of $4,000
a night 20 turn pro She ac-
copied and was signed for four
nights ~ cost of $4,000
To give yOu An idea of tho
growth II Writ IDEA tho
Honie show crossed S4O0 COO In
- days A. the Chicago Stadium
snd also broke records in Dc
troit. Vow York, Boston and
other kcI cities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14
He Bought Olympic

While the retiring Writ has
hccr N tho llrehCht little ~
was 20 him that the multi-r1ll-
lionaire James Norris. primarily
gram man biggest cash gram
operator in the world assigned
tho task Of buying Olympia after
II had been taken over by the
banks. WITH Olympia of cott~e,
went the Red Wings
From that time COMPARE
lively few years aEo-WIrlz
added 10 his list three other
stadium :. additional hockey
teams. Sonia Henie and her
skating shows and A New York
tbpater in which associated with
Miss Ifcnic. he has operated for
the Norris empire an ice show
that has for nearly three years
packed in customers nightly.
This was done without the APP
pearanee Of Miss Henie. who
shows only on the road.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14
Dodgers, Ydnks
Rule The Roosis
Ry international New, ser,ic.

Brooklyn Dodgers and the New
York Yankees both head their re-
spective leagues. with Is games
won and -Sl&-la -ALthe bottom
Of the National League pile in a
tie with Chicago are the New
York Giants.
You can't keep a club IN the
cellar when they fight like the
Giants.
Yesterday they staged smash.
ing ninth inning rally 10 whip the
Chicago Cubs, I 10 T.
The Pittsburgh Pirates raised
such an uproar IN the eighth IN
ming Of their ; TO loss 10 the
Brooklyn Dodgers that three BUGS
were tossed out Of the game.
4 double by Gene Moore in the
twelfth inning gave the Washing
ton Senators a 3 to > win over
Tho Cleveland Indians. The Boston
Red S0X scored TWO runs and a 6
10 I victory over the ST. Louis
Browns when Bob NunCrief weak
cncd IN the twelfth inning
The Philadelphia PhlllcS adj
vanced 10 fourth place in the Ma
Itional League standings by split
ting a twin bill whh the Cincln-
natl Reds, 2to and To !.
Ernie White OF the ST. Louis
Cardinals. pitched four-hit ball 70
shut out the Boston Braves. ) 10 O.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14
Golfers
To Miss

Photo nv Times SIAN Photograph
BY NJ. p. DRUKENBRoD

Golf in Michigan had no better
friend than Capt. William Sparks
Jackson induStrialiSt who died
there recently following an Illness
OF several months
Owner and builder OF Jackson ,
famed Cascades. he sponsored and
helped 10 direct both the state
pro-amateur and state publInN
tournaments for number Of
years Both always drew large
entries
Al WatrouS chairman OF the
state PEA tournament committee
was one Of the many DetroItcrS
shocked to learn Of Capt Sparks
death
There could not have been
a better host for the state pro-
amateur, 3WatrnQS- SAID 3"All of
us enjoyed going there for this
tournament and were looking
ahead To the end Of the war
when the event could he revived
at his course
The tournament held AZ Cas-.
Cades the four previous years, was
abandoned last season.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14
Ten Drops
Profit Games
For Duration

EVANSTON. H., May IA (UP)
Big Ten athletic directors and
faculty representatives began an
important two-day conference to-
day and called up for final conSid-
Grafton a radical play without
profit" football schedule for 1943,
Although the original grid Schod-
ule for next fall was drafted two
years ago il was iunked voluntarily
by conference heads when army
and navy teams requested dates,
The conference agreed TO scrap the
schedules without concern of the
effect on gate receipts as a part of
"a program designed 10 perpetuate
wartime athletic competition re-
'gardleSS of spectator attendance.
The top conference game likely
10 be wiped out when the schedule
rs released officially either today
or tomorrow is the Ohio State
Minnesota contest scheduled Oct.
l6 at Minneapolis. Ohio State is
ready 10 meet the Great Lakes
naval training station team al
Great Lakes on that date.
Great Lakes played six Big Ten
opponents last season. All contests
were away from home. This sea-
son the sailors likely will be given
four or five league games 10 be
played AT tho naval station for the
entertainment Of the personnel
No outside spectators will be per-
mitted and the gate will he free. "
The Iowa city naval o 5
probably Will he granted thre .
home dates and prob a bl y twc
games Will he played aCainS
Camp Grant AZ Rockford, Ill.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14
Fraser Tops Meet
As Mackenzie Wins

Bob Fraser Of Mackenzie High
won individual honorS with firStS
in the 100 and 220-yard daSheS and
l20-yard low hurdles as his school.
with 6S poi ntS overwhelmed
Northwestern and Central in a
triangular track meet yesterday
The Colts had n. Central y
points. Fraser was clockcd in 10
seconds in winning the 100 while
Houston OF Northwestern turned
in A sparkling 53-Second perform
ance IN taking the 4iO.