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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
BY ISABEL FUCKER
Garden Editor, The Detroit Times

II YOU are the not-so-proud
possessor of some nice leggy
geranium plants that you potted
up from the garden in the fall
and that have failed TO bloom
all winter it is time 10 do
something about them-namely
turn them into new young plants
for the coming season.
First take a good look at one
plant and run your finger up
one main stem from the bottom
TO the top. You can feel where
the hard wood stops and the
soft wood begins? Good, then
find the spot where the soft
wood starts and count the num-
Der of nodes tplaces where the
leaves grow OUT on the stem
above this spot.
On this number depends the
number Of new plants you can
make. Each new plant of cutting
Will consist of three or four
nodes. On my overgrown plants
] can get one cutting and some
times two from the top OF each
stem.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
CUTTINGS Made From Geranium Plants
Will Take Root in a Sand Box

roots have formed. If they have,
then il is time 10 transfer all
cuttings 10 tiny pots filled with
good soil, later 10 larger pots
and still later TO the garden.
n. b.: VIII Mrs. A. Young,
whose question is answered
above please send me a stamped,
Sclf-addreSsed envelope 50 l may
answer her second question?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Your Country Needs
Worn-Out Hose

HOUSEWIVES Take those
worn-out silk and nyion stock
ings and turn> them over to the
government today. They are
needed for powder bags in guns
OF major caliber, for parachutes
and for other vital war mate
rails.
Bring them TO official hosiery
salvage depots in retail stores
or TO cooperating agencies in
the neighborhood.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27
Special Selling
Fun COATS

NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST in a good fur
coat One that will last for the Duration In
this collection you will find sizes from 10 TO -,
bur not IN every fur.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-27

Springs newest trend hats
lovely pompadours
STYLED of straw in black
and an array of new COL
ers. A thrilling selection
TO choose from Saturday.
KIiHs't-Tbir4 FIoo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
A Thought for Today
In Trust For Preservation

Students of science who learned all about Sir ISsac Newton watching the apple fall and stumbling therby on the system of gravity will be interested to learn that the scientists birthplace has been taken over by England in trust for preservation. This is happy occasion because in the years to come it will be nice when folks start travelling and sight seeing again they will be assured that WoolSthorpe Manor, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, has been preserved for their future pleasure.
 The Newton home, it is said has many of the original features that distinguished 1t as it was in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It is recalled that there vas an apple orchard on the property which was of immeasurable help to the scientist, showing him the principles of gravity which eventually came down to IS in a beWildering science class. And what is more exciting there is an apple rec there now said to be a deScendellt of ,he original. It would be happy occas- on if the sightseer could view the original yree, but apple trees are not as lasting as some other things We are reminded oy this of another tree famous in liter ature, the tree under which Oliver Gold smith sat when he wrote "The Meeting of the Waters" down in Wicklow County in Ireland. There's a stark skeleton of ] tree there well guarded, nothing of beauty now but capable of recalling it's yerdant days in the past, an inspiration to the poet.
 Along with Sir Isaac's house another one much older is also being deeded for prpSprVa tiOn This jc (hprn'c lOnU Onp\ St. Johns Jerusalem in Sutton-at-Home, Kent. Henry III of England who dates back to the 18th century stayed at St. Johns Jerusalem. It is nice to think of these many places of historical value scattered all over the British Isles and other countries. Then again it is dis dressing to think of the many that have been destroyed in wars down through the ages, the present not the least in relentless destruction. In days to come we can be glad that some of these places of historical value and antiquity have been placed in trust for preservation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
Government Ownership

By the time peace returns the United States government will have become the worlds greatest induStrialiSt, owning factory facilities that will represent a minimum expenditure of ten billion dol lars and maximum well in excess of fifteen billions. Three billions of this will be in aircraft plants, two billions in ShipWayS, three and half billions in facilities for making steel, rubber, alum mum, magnesium and other key raw materials. The National Industrial Con- ference Board reports that the govern nlent will own 90 percent of new ship building capacity, 93 per cent of new airplane, Fl per cent of new iron and steel, GA per cent of new machinery and electrical equipment, 56 per cent Of new machine tool and 41 per cent of new petroleum and coal products facilities. Moreover - and this raises some mighty important questions - the government plant in most instances will be the new est, most efficient, most economical. It will have been built by private corpor- ations with their eXpenslvely acquired know how" utilizing processes on which they have spent millions of dollars and years of time. It will represent the last word in technique.
 The plant IS being operated by the companies whose inside knowledge made lt possible Usually the leases are of limited life, and at their termination, about the time peace returns, the build CTS will cease to have legal claim upon them. There is no slightest guarantee, express or implied, that the new plant will not either be operated by the gov ernment or leased to some private com petitor who had nothing to do with per lecting the processes, devising the ma chinery or building the plant, To take a specific illustration, the Aluminium Company of America has built for the government a producing and fabricating capacity considerably greater than that of company owned plants. Moreover, ali of the government facilities are brand new and are more efficient than most of the company's own plants. Given cleo tricity at the same cost, the government plants can make and fabricate alumi- mum cheaper than the company mills can
 This is possible because the company made available everything it knew about the business. However, in 1947 the com pany will lose all legal claim upon the plants it has built. Their super-efficiency can be used either under government operation or under lease to some other concern to compete against the alumi- mum company. The same danger Of un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

the Lord that he would be able to meet his current income tax out of income, and the Lord granted his request by so reducing his income that he got down into much lower brackets than he had anticipated and SO was able, even with greatly restricted income, to pay what the government required.
 Divine providence very often achieves its ends by means which astound us. We ask that certain things be done for us and the Lord grants our requests, but not at all in the way we thought He would, Great historical circumstances have sometimes hinged upon one little event. If we can just convince our selves that the issue of events is in the hands of God, we may well leave the means to Him. And very often the circumstances under which His blessings are given are quite as amazing as the blessings themselves.
 All Rights Reserved -- Babson
 Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
The Farmers Wife

The Northeastern Farm Bureau Con- ference has been in session this week. eleven states taking part. The farm is going to be the important thing in the days to come. In fact, if all predictions come through the golden days of farm ing are ahead. Farm work has been retarded somewhat in the past quarter of century and the idle and deserted farm is common site here in our New England states and elsewhere But to farm it on big scale and raise all that one needs to live is the natural way of life. We started off our existence that way. Why not go back to it? That is, some of us. And it looks like we will not fit in the cities - all of us, in days to come. Farmers are born not made. That is true, but certain knowledge of farm ing can be acquired. And since so many of our forbearS started out working their own land it is in the blood of a good many Americans.
 At the conference we mentioned above it was brought out that the farmers wife has become much more than "butter and egg woman. The responsibilities of the farm have fallen to the farmers wife with the farmer and his assistants off to war. We agree with this, that these responsibilities have fallen on the farmers wife at the present time. But it is also quite true that farmers wives of the past have also done the big things on farms. You have only to know from family experience and from the pioneer history of our country, that many woman, born and raised on farm, did much more than take care of the butter and eggs and feeding of the chickens Many of them drove blow and helped pitch hay. Naturally with men on the farm she did not always make of herself a hired man, but she knew how when the occasion demanded her services
 Perhaps now more than in many years she finds herself, does the farmers wife, doing the work of the handyman. If the farm is going to go on and produce what it is capable of producing that's her special bit for the duration, Whick is as important as taking her place in one of the war plants,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
Views Of The Press

cans-he was as much at home in MT. V" and of Human Bondage" as in Gone With the Wind" and "The Petrified Forest" Did his secret lie in the fact that no one could resist liking him or in the fact that he brought a fundamental serious ness of purpose and honesty of characterization to every role?
 Reports Thursday of the rescue of five unidentified Britons from what was believed to have been the trans port in which the actor was flying have been denied. But one still may hope-the miracle tales of this war are countless. Meanwhile, whether MT. Howard was aware of having rendered any service such as he did or not, the result is the same. In years to come he will be remem- bered as much for having been an interpreter of good will between two English-speaking nations as fine artist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
Current Comment

No peace is good unless educators and the church are allowed to speak and unless they conduct themselves so that they will be listened to. Norwegian Parliament President
 Dr. Carl J. Hambro.
 If after the World war CD we (had) had an interest in the edu- cation of the common man rather than in solely intellectual co-opera- ton on the higher levles, we might have educated him for living, not for death.
 pr. Paul Canon of Stanford
 University.
 Our share must not be a nominal share based on biased generalities and phrases, but it must be based on sacrifices in the maintenance of peace by force.
 Undersecretary of State Sumner
 Welles.
 It would take 600 tons to put 100 FortresseS in the air over Japan. It is the supply problem that ts holding us back.
 Maj, Gen. James H, Doolittle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

The winner, so far, has proved to be the man most party chief tains least want as the COP presidential nominee - Wendell Willkie. Willkie grabbed off all honors, just as he did in the 1940 Republican convention in Philadel- phia.
 On the other hand, Governor John w. Bricker of Ohio, favor ite of old-line Republicans, was a poor alSo-ran.
 The poll was taken among COP county chairmen, Republi- can members of State legislatures and delegates to the 1940 conven- tion, chiefly in key northern states.
 Two questions were asked:
 First-Who would make the best available candidate for the Re- publican presidential nomination in 1914?
 Thirty-six per cent answered: "Willkie". He ran far ahead of other choices, including Governor Tom Dewey of New York, who got the second highest number of votes.
 Second question was - Who among the available Republican candidates would make the best President, from the standpoint of ability?
 Willkie again led the field with B per cent of the votes. Ex- President Herbert Hoover was second in this balloting; Tom Dewey, third, and Governor Bricker, the man generally con- ceded to have the edge on other candidates, hobbled in fourth. CHURCHILL'S TIP
 One significant phase of Win ston Churchill's conversations here has just leaked out. He volun- teered some valuable advice on the makeup of the U. s. delega- tion to the peace conference.
 Talking to a closed-door session of the Senate and House foreign relations committees, he was re- minded that if Woodrow Wilson had given more thought to the makeup of the U. s. delegation, his efforts to enroll the United States in a League of Nations might not have been such fail ure.
 Churchill at first tactfully sid9- stepped comment, explaining he didn't want to stick his nose in American affairs. However, he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

Time was, before the days when girls became welders or personnel directors, when it was the ambition of many to become governesses. This yen came from reading of romantic stories such as "Jane Eyre" by one of those Bronte women. Once one got the Jane Eyre complex it was hard to lose it, and we dare say it is one of the biggest repeats in standard fiction. It's just one of those sentimental books, but a good one, that lends itself, like the later "Rebecca" to pictures. It made the silent pictures; maybe it has been in the talkies, and now there is another stage revival of that very precious tale.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
THE MAN WITH THE HOE
(NeW York Sun)

(New York Sun)
 If Edwin Markham were alive to- day he might, after visiting some of the upstate farms, be moved to write another version of the poem which brought him fame. "The Man With the Hoe" in this summer of world at war, is no brother to the ox." Nor is "the emptiness of ages in his face" No, indeed. He is an alert business man, worried about made quacy of help, perhaps, but knowing that whatever he produces will have a ready market at good prices. And right beside him is likely to be a high school boy who, excused from Regents examinations because he has volunteered for the agricultural front, is tackling the roots of weeds instead of the roots of squares and cubes. A hungry world salutes the man-and the boy-with the hoe. May their laborS cause the earth to yield generously of her abundance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
LESLIE HOWARD
New York Herald Tribune)

(New York Herald Tribune)
 In a sense it seems unnecessary to measure in terms of artistry the contribution that Leslie Howard made to the theater and to the screen, for one hesitates to ask much more of per- former than that he consistently delight his audiences and completely charm the legions who come to see him. But MT. Howard was de- voted practitioner of his art as well, and in a long and active career achieved high technical skill More
 over MT. Howard, in every charac- ter he played in this country at least, was performing dual role for he created as few others-George Arliss perhaps most notable among them--an understanding between his people and ours. which, after all, is one of the high functions of any art He played so we loved them an extensive array Of English men, as truly as he played Ameri-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

Sylvester Viereck, at one time convicted as a Nazi agent, and now up for a second trial on June Is.
 Viereck was engaged in publish ing various anti-British, pro-Nazi books through publishing house run by Sigfried Hauck, and Hauck later informed the Justice Depart ment that he had seen one of Desvernine's manuscripts War Is Bad Business" in Vierecks apart ment. Viereck apparently was considering it for publication.
 Desvernine, when subsequently, queried about this by the Justice Department, did not deny that one of his speeches had been at Viereck's apartment, but said he knew the Nazi agents only slight ly. He said Mrs. Desvernine had met the Vierecks on boat re- turning from Europe in 1888, and had been to his house on one or two occasions.
 SACRIFICED FDR JR.
 Into this isolationist, anti Roosevelt Wall Street law firm, young Franklin Roosevelt was thrown as a sacrificial lamb-all for the sake of Jim Farley.
 But after one month, Jim be- gan knifing the President again and it became apparent that the agreement with Mrs. Roosevelt was off. WhereupOn, young Franklin pulled out of his un- cOngenial surroundings in the Garey-Desvernine law firm. That made Eugene Carey sore as blaZes.
 Now, on Jim Farley's recommen- dation, Carey has been appoint ed counsel of the Congressional Committee, conjured up by Con- gressman Cox of Georgia to in- vestigate the Federal Communi- cations Commission. This ap- appointment came after the Federal Communications Con- mission recommended criminal prosecution of Cox on charge of accepting $2,5OO lobbying fee.
 At present, bitterly anti-Roose- welt Carey, and bitterly anti-FCC Cox are Investigating the agency which had the temerity to move against Cox and which still re- tains some semblance of Roosevelt liberalism.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

We are becoming adept at translating blackout signals in the community. The general confusion that once followed the first warnings is not so prevalent and most of us manage to plunge the rooms into darkness without knocking over the bric-a-brac and pumping into chairs. Likewise we have grown accustomed to the dark hour Cor part of it) just sitting, and perhaps listening to the radio. It almost seems as if there was something cooking to interfere with the doings ot Fibber and Molly McGee who just get going when a blackout or violent thun- der storm start brewing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
To Euroope for $1OO

Juan Trippe, president of Pan Amer ican Airways, predicts that the fleet of 153-passenger clippers planned by his company will be able to take us to Lon don in 10 hours for $100.
 That is to say-with weeks vacation and as little as perhaps $250, it will be possible to spend an entire wook in Great Britain, or even, for few dollars more, to toss in visit to postwar Paris! The good old days are gone forever - thank heaven.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

Winston Churchill has come and gone again, and is once more about his work, and last but not least has addressed the House of Commons. He is now looking to the future like the rest of us but makes no bones about plenty of trouble ahead and the possibility of invasion by the Allied armies. He arrived back in Lon don via Gibraltar Algiers and Africa, as the crow or the plane flies.
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finally observed with a grin that he knew a little about politics himself and probably could offer one suggestion.
 What is it?" chorused several of the politicos.
 Appoint delegation that is strictly bipartisan" Churchill replied, "half Democrat and half Republican"
 If the President named such commission of outstanding lead CTS of both parties, the Prime Minister added his chances of winning Congressional approval of a treaty among the Allied powers would be greatly enhanced.
 The idea evoked some smiles, but was generally applauded as a practical suggestion.
 FARLEY, FDR AND MRS. K.
 Very few people know it, but back in 1940 just after the demo- cratic convention in Chicago nom mated FDR for 3rd term, Mrs. Roosevelt had friendly talk with Jim Farley to try to make peace between Jim and her husband. That talk, strange as it may seem, has had some interesting reper- cussions on an important Con- gressional situation - the Con- gressman Cox investigation of the Federal Communications Commis- sion.
 Mrs. Roosevelt had always thought great deal of Jim Farley, and he had respect for her. Their talk appeared to make some prog gress. One of the things Jim re- quested of Mrs. Roosevelt as a part of the reconciliation plan was that her son Franklin R. Roosevelt, Jr., join the law firm of his old friend Eugene L. Carey.
 Mrs. Roosevelt, anxious to please Farley, agreed. So young Franklin joined the Carey law firm. This was a real cOnces- sion, because Carey had repre- scnted the big Wall Street enc mics of young Franklin's father, and the son of the President in any law firm means real busi- ness.
 FRIEND OF VIERECK'S
 Furthermore, Garey's partner, Raoul Desvernine was Liberty League opponent of the Presi- dents and had other interesting connections. He also knew George
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
Selected Poem
IF WHITTIER HAD BEEN RATIONED

(Al Graham in The New York Sum Up from the metadoWs bare of corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered chain store markets stand Long out of beans, or fresh or canned. Round about them orchards reach, Barren of apple, pear and peach; And despite its fame as a dairy-land, There wasn't cheese in Maryland On that pleasant morn in the early fall When Lee marched over the mountainWal; Over the mountains winding down To find not ham in Frederick town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL l.. DOUGLASS D. D
STRANGELY ANSWERED
 PRAYER

Some months ago man com- plained to his friends that it would be impossible for him to pay his income tax. He was the type of person, however, who greatly trusts providence in such matters, and so he felt that somehow or other af- fairs would turn out in way that
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 from farm state congressmen who, it may be assum- ed, don't are much what hap pens to food prices as long as they go up, and who are particu- larly hostile to the professors in OPA a nd tn e labor and con- Sumer groups who are obSessed with t h i s strange-to the congressmen idea of wanting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

he would be able to meet his in come tax with out dipping into capital.
 It came out just as he had e X p e c t e d it would, but as the result of an unexpected com- bination of cir cumstances. This man had prayed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

Those who are offended and more or less put out by the intricacieS attending the buying of food, as much as they want it, will not be encouraged by the news that food next year will be even harder to get.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Davis And Food Price Control
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcraD Washington
 Correspondent

Practically the only suggestions made thus far to correct whatever it is that's wrong with the Office of Price Administration is that the functions of control over food prices be shifted to the War Food Ad- ministration under Chester c. Davis. This suggestion comes principally
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

fair competition exists in all the other fields mentioned if, as soon as the war ends, the now dormant campaign against all big business should be resumed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

Forty -four schools and colleges in New Zealand now have motion picture projectors, and most of the films shown are from America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10

RepubIn leaders about
  to opddb dbearerS in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets at l2;58 a. m. twar time). Sun rises at 5:20 a. m; sets at 8:22 p. m. (war time). Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-10
Herpes Foster

Herpes Foster
 Daughter, aged eleven, has had two attacks of herpes zoster in- volving her eye. The first was about two years ago, and lasted for six weeks. It left one eye effected by scar tissue. Three weeks ago an- other attack came and nothing the doctor has done seems to relieve 1t.
 (S. M) Answe r-Vaccination (against smallpox), whether she has been vaccinated before or not, is advis- able. It has brought prompt inn provement in many such cases. Copyright, 1943, John F. Dille Col.