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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-28

ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Evening star., 1943-11-22
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Tr1ce1Uell.

old things every day. or talking so that
you see nothing at all.
The investigative turn of mind-that
is something, in a world full OF wonders.
If our correspondent doesn't have this
state of mind, he should work 1t up.
Every one, in fact, who sticks to the
same old things all the time ought to
work up bit of the investigative turn
of mind.
Do not be satisfied to see the same
old things all the time.
Try to see something new.
1t is said to be one of the best ways
to keep from growing old. That. how
ever, just between us and the famous
gate post, is pure hokum.
One simply will grow old, despite the
best one can do.
Select nice day for beginning the
experiment of renewed walking.
Do not do as Templeton Jones did,
many years ago.
Jones, every five years, decides that
he should take up walking.
Excellent exercise" he says. EVERY
body should walk"
Then he usually makes highly origi-
nal statement
Why he confines, IF we keep on
this way, we will lose the use of our
legs entirely"
Such fate, he believes, would be too
much to bear.
So he decides to walk.
The last time he made this decision
1t was on a cold, snowy day, bitter and
somewhat wet day.
There was enough snow on the ground
to slow up an athlete.
Jones set out at good pace.
BY the time he got to Dupont Circle
he was putting.
Great fun," he said to himself, grimly.
At Wisconsin avenue ne stopped in
front of a bake shop window.
There were some old-fasioned cookies
there, great big ones.
Round and mellow.
Jones opened the door and went in.
There was nice-looking young woman
behind the counter. She had honey
colored hair, and was very clean and
neat.
Il want dozen of those big round
cookies said Jones, slightly out Of
breath.
"Yes, sir" said the girl.
Jones shut the door behind him, and
plowed his way through drifts
He ate six cookies before he got home,
and was so full that he could only
nibble at his dinner.
"Yes," he said, walking is good for
everybody"
His wife smiled.
This was the last, she knew, she would
hear about walking being good for every
body for five years.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Pol and Argus

The whole American public has
been interested in Pal. When Army
discipline was relaxed to permit his
owner, Special Technician Franklin
E. Higgins, a weeks furlough to visit
him, the generality of readers ap-
proved. People like dogs; and the
seventeen-year-old airedale shep-
herd, dying of grief, has aroused the
sympathies of multitudes.
But the story is not new. Many
a reader must have remembered its
prototype in Homer's "Odyssey." Ac-
cording to the translation of Alex
ander Pope, the incident begins with
the arrival of the hero Ulysses at
the gates of his home. He has been
absent twenty years at the siege OF
Troy and wandering thereafter. Now,
dressed as beggar, he returns to
Ithaca, attended only by the swine
herd Eumaeus. Pope tells how the
two men approach the palace un-
recognized. Only
Argus, the dog, his ancient mas
ter knew;
He, not unconscious of the voice
and tread,
Lifts to the sound his ear, and
rears his head"
The poor animal left "unhous'd,
neglected in the public way" yet was
faithful.
"He knew his lord; he knew and
strove to meet;
In vain he strove to crawl and
kiss his feet;
Yet Gall he could his tail, his
ears, his eyes
Salute his master, and confess his
joys"
Eumaeus, still himself not aware
Of Ulysses identity, recounts the
legend of the leaders perishing ION
a distant shore" Argus, however,
is not deceived.
"The dog, whom Fate had granted
to behold
His lord, when twenty tedious
years had roll'd,
Takes a last look, and, having
seen him, dies"
1t is long way from Frank Hig-
gins and Pal in Albany in 1943 to
the King of Ithaca and his "gen'rous
creature" at Aeto in the Ionian Sea
about 1859 B.C., but the journey can
be managed in the imagination
Human instincts have not altered
very much in thirty centuries.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Things to Come
From the Topeka Capital.

FROM the Topeka Capital.
How would you like to own a house
constructed chiefly of porcelains and
light metals both inside and out, so
that instead Of painting it every few
years it would be necessary only to wash
the walls occasionally? This is only one
of many possibilities held out to the
property owner of the postwar era.
e-year-around air conditioning
for homes is another promise of the
immediate future Experiments are also
being made with solar heating, captur-
ing the rays of the sun and turning
them into heat for home and Office
and factory.
AS to gadgets inside the home, they
will pour out in great flood soon after
the war is over Some will be silly and
impractical. Others will be inexpensive
and highly useful, and folks will wonder
why they didn't have them long ago.
Tomorrow's world is bound to be an
interesting one.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
II note from your column that some
correspondents advocate walking in the
woods, and that others go in for saving
wood.
II am 50 situated that I cannot 60
into the woods at time when would
enjoy it, and as for saving wood, have
none to saw and would not do it If
could
II have always thought saving wood
a great bore and a nuisance, and have
been willing to let better sawyers than
do the work. guess there is no doubt
about it being good exercise, but it is
not the sort banker after.
still, I think would do better for
bit of exercise, spot Of exercise, as the
English put it, sometimes. I know from
your column that that fertile mind of
yours is good at thinking up exercises
for other people to do.
Hence I am writing you to ask if
there isn't some way to get in some
good exercise to and from work. I do
not want to run. or anything so strenu-
Gus. but think that something could be
done for me. I will await your word
with interest.
Respectfully yours, J. A. OD."
Running down the road on the way to
work is sport only for athletes.
We take 1t that our correspondent is
not an athlete, and is something Of a
wag.
just plain walking will do for him.
1t will give him all the exercise he
needs, and plenty Of fresh air.
Doctors have been telling their
patients to walk for years.
Nobody minds the doctors, however,
except when there is a pain.
If the medical profession had some
way of making people hurt, when they
didn't or wouldn't walk for health's
sake, no doubt the world would be
much better off.
Even confronted with increased traffic,
the average human being can find
great deal of pleasure in walking in city
and suburbs.
Most can walk a bit on the way to
and from work. Occasionally there will
be some one who, for some reason or
other, cannot do even the shortest dis
tance without sweating.
Such person will do we'll to confine
his walking to after-ofice hours. Then
he will be ready, at the end, to take a
bath and get into fresh clothing.
Nothing is worse than to get into a
sweat on the way downtown.
Not only is there great danger Of chill,
in fall and winter, but also 1t is most
unpleasant.
1t is remarkable how much more one
sees, in walk. than on wheels. On
wheels you are either seeing the same
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Is Failure q Hobit?

The failure this year to reach the
goal in the Community War Fund
campaign has depressing effect not
altogether offset by the splendid
showing made by some 100000 con-
tributors. The failure becomes more
serious because it seems to be
habRual. In the sixteen-year his
tory OF the Washington Community
Chest, the announced goal has been
reached only three times.
Is it wise thing. year after year,
to announce a goal that is not
reached? Would it be better, from
the standpoint of public psychology,
to shave the budgeted needs of the
constituent agencies to a total that
is certain to be met? If we never
reach goal, is there any sense in
announcing one?
The difficulty of arriving at a de-
cision on this point can be judged by
weighing some of the considerations
involved. In the first place, the
goals announced each year are
honest goals" in contrast to what
are known as accommodated goals"
The goals here are fixed after care
ful appraisal of budgets and their
reduction to essential needs-reduc-
tions, incidentally, made by busi-
nessmen not connected with the
appealing agencies. The needs then
are weighed against the potential
contribution of the community,
based on past experience
Failure to reach the goal is at
tributed to the fact, supported by
the statistics. that there are certain
large groups within the Government
and the community which do not do
their part, as measured by what
other groups do year in and year out.
Should the goal be reduced to the
level set by the groups which do
not do their share? Or is it not more
honest to set a goal that can be
reached by approximately uniform
response from all groups and con-
tinue to make the effort involved in
persuading all groups to reach it?
The goal, in other words, is not too
high. The weakness lies elsewhere,
and until it is remedied by assump-
ton of leadership in the groups
which notoriously lag behind we
shall continue to fail. 1t will be an
honest failure, but one that is most
unfair to the thousands of con-
tributors and willing workers who
have made genuine sacrifices to
achieve the success the campaign
deserves.
Last years campaign reached
about 81 per cent of the goal, includ-
ing contributions made after the
final report in December This years
81 per cent of quota will be increased
by several points when all post
campaign contributions are received.
The substantial increase over last
years contributors and contribu-
tions is encouraging. But it could
easily have been better if every one
had carried his share of the load.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
The Tax Bills Failure

The report of the full Ways and
Means Committee, calling upon the
administration to reduce spending
If it wants to check imitation, is
equivalent to guarantee that the
next tax bill will not produce more
than the scheduled $2,14O, 100000 of
new revenue. And, in the face of a
Treasury request for $10,500 ,00O, 900,
it may be scaled down still more be-
fore it leaves Congress for the Presi-
dents signature.
The decision of the Ways and
Means Committee to reject most of
the Treasury requests was made sew
eral weeks ago. Since then there
has been some effort, though not a
very determined one, to persuade
the committee to report a sitter
bill. But the committee members,
Democrats and Republicans alike.
have turned a deaf ear to all these
appeals, contending that the admin
istration, influenced by political
considerations, was unwilling to
aim its revenue requests at the bulk
of new war income, which is largely
in the hands of persons in the lower
income brackets. The next develop
ment was the announcement that
the Army expected to turn back
some $4,000, 100000 of its appro-
priation for the current year, and a
suggestion that the Navy might also
need less money than had been
anticipated.
This knocked the props from
under any claim that additional
revenue was essential for war
financing, the prospective savings
being greater than the total sought
in new taxes by the administration.
Under these circumstances, with an
election less than a year away, it is
mot to be expected that either Con-
gress or the administration will
make fight for higher taxes simply
to raise revenue.
The tax bill, however, was origi-
nally supposed to serve the addi-
tional purpose of stemming infla-
ton. And in this respect the meas
ure approved by the committee is
clearly inadequate. In the long run,
governmental economies will have
some er-inflationary effects,
but these will not be felt for some
time to come. There is immediate
need for tax bill designed to draw
off the excess income of those whose
earnings have been inflated by the
war. A year or so from now reduced
spending may taper off this sur
plus, but from the standpoint Of
combating imitation this excess of
buying power should be curbed now.
And to this end, the new tax bill
contributes virtually nothing.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Magnificent Job

America can take proper pride in
itself as an arsenal. It's overall out
put Of weapons, including ships and
planes, continues to be one of the
most impressive achievements of the
age. Last month it was per cent
more than the month before-a new
record representing the biggest gain
since last April.
Here are some of the October
figures, as reported by Donald M.
Nelson, chairman of the War Pro-
duction Board Ammunition, up II
per cent, electronic and communi-
cations equipment, up per cent;
cargo and supply ships, up 6 per
cent for total so far this year Of
more than fifteen million dead
weight tons, and aircraft, up per
cent in weight and 10 per cent in
value and numbers for new high of
8,342 planes.
According to Mr.. Nelson, there
were no declines during the month
other than those deliberately eff
fected because of the changing re-
quirements of the war Thus the
output of tanks fell off as planned,
but apart from such exceptions the
general index for October was one
of marked advances-so much so in
the field of ammunition, for example,
that while Mr. Nelson was disclosing
his report, the Army announced that
one OF its ordnance plants, which
has been producing fifty-caliber
shells at Lowell, Mass would be
closed in the next few weeks be-
cause its output is no longer needed
''for any crisis, however unexpected"
In MIR. Nelson's opinion this en-
couraging picture indicates that
manpower difficulties, shortages of
materials and design changes are
causing less trouble than they once
did, and this in turn reflects "better
management, better effort by labor,
better trained workers-in a word,
knoW-hoW. And although his
report suggests that the production
program may be tending to level off
at its present high peak, he points
out that this "know-how" will con-
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Popularity Of Pie
Prom the New York Times


Why is 1t that pie, the all-American
dessert, has so wide range of palata-
bility? You will find it on every menu
in the country. Go to any restaurant
or lunch counter at any time Of day or
night and you are almost certain to
hear soldier or sailor ordering pie and
coffee. It's standard staple. But
lot of culinary crime is committed in
its name.
At its best, Of course, American pie
Is something to dream about and re-
member. Those two autumn pies, for
instance, mince and pumpkin. A juicy
mince pie with something more than
raisins in 1t and with just the right
degree Of seasoning. rich, brown
pumpkin pie, with a proper tang and
that palate-pleasing richness of egg and
whole milk. Or raisin pie, with the
raisins definitely not hidden away, one
by one, in mass of cornstarch paste.
Or cherry pie, gently flowing with juice
and not sweetened too much.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

cooperating with the Departamento
Nacional de Saude Publico do Brasil, for
keeping the "seringals" or rubber con-
cessions supplied with medical supplies,
supplemented with radio communica-
tion and planes to be used in urgent
cases to transport doctors or patients,
nothing else would have been necessary.
The terrible" conditions pictured in
Amazonia are largely myth. In the
7 years the writer lived there, living
always with Brazilians, he was con-
fined to his bed, or rather hammock,
only twice, and then only for a few
hours. The cause was always the same:
a fever caused by undigested food The
mortality among Europeans and North
Americans was caused mainly by "dis-
ease imported in bottles, in other words
whisky and gin.
The tropical climate of the Amazon
region is described by DR.. Salamao
Serebrenick of the National Meteorologi-
cal Service as having constant hu-
midity through the year and his conclu-
sion is that: Man has no reason to fear,
as far as the climate of this country is
concerned, that he will be uncomfort-
able or that his physical or mental en-
ergies will be weakened" He says fur
ther: mo case Of illness should be laid
to the climate for the country had,
originally, no endemic disease On the
contrary, research shows that it was the
Europeans that brought such things as
smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, ira
choma and like maladies and that the
checking of these diseases was not at all
difficult"
The writer for years has contended
that, sooner or later, the time will come
when millions of people will find COM
Portable homes in Amazonia, but they
will not live by producing rubber. They
will learn how to till the soil and live on
what it and the rivers produce and will
constitute society much after the order
of the "Cajans," who live along the
bayous of the Gulf Coast, but their sur
roundings will be better.
The upshot of the present situation is
that DR.. Camargo, quoted in the article
in question, knows what he is talking
about and the statement of some Brazil
ian official who has advised that we stop
spending money in Amazonia, in a way
for which we receive no return, is sound,
CHARLES JAY SEIBERT.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Accept This Season

You uho recall the poice, the curvs
of cheek,
Who yearn for the Darm hand,
the smiling lips,
Who listen for ,Dords he ne1er again
1DtU speak;
You 1od,t as the mariner paits,
1Uatching for ships
That hare slo1uly sailed beyond the
familiar shore.
Nothing Is left but the fragile
petal OF ,ohtte,
A mirage of the gentle sail he saD
before,
A fo,oer by day, a beckoning star
by night.
You and the mariner both are sadly
lost
Within the ,oorld shaped by the
seeking eye.
Accept this season noD, this certain
frost
That matted hidden In your sum-
n1er sky.
Lean to the sea, the pool of salten
That ,OtH outlast your grief a thou
sand years.
SARA VAN ALsTYNE ALLEN.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Government Land Holdings
Defended by Single Tax Advocate.

To the Editor Of The STAR
The joint congressional Committee on
the Reduction of Nonessential Federal
Expenditures, stating that the United
States Government owns one-fifth of
the land of the United States advocates
that the Government dispose OF this
land.
1t may be that the Government could
so handle the situation as to save ex-
penses, and even make some profit, but
to dispose of it to private investors
would be to add to the privileges that
the land owners already have Clearly
If these lands have any value now, or
ever should have value, 1t is because Of
the activities of others and not of the
land owners themselves. Therefore the
Government should either retain these
lands and lease them, thus obtaining
needed revenue and relieving taxpayers,
or dispose of them to the States with .
proviso that such method be used.
BERTHA SELLERS.
West Chester, Pa. ----s- a.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
tinue to exercise an important

tinue to exercise an important
influence from now on.
All things considered, the figures
for October are highly gratifying.
They mean that despite the bungling
that goes on here and there and de-
spite the occasional strikes. the Ma
ton is doing superb arms making
job-the biggest and most magnifi-
cent job of its kind, indeed, in the
history of the world. And when
they read about it. when they read,
for instance, that we have turned
out over 1900 planes in a single
month, our enemies must feel more
than a little distressed. How poorly
they sized us up! How wrong they
were when they ridiculed the "brag-
ging," "'bluffing," fantastic" and
impossible" goals we set for our
selves in January. 1912!
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Points for Fat

In deciding to reward housewives
with two meat-ration points for
every pound of waste fat they hand
over to their butchers or grocers, the
Office of Price Administration is set
ting up an incentive that should do
much to bolster one of the weakest
and most disappointing phases of
the War Production Boards salvage
program.
Waste fat, important in the manu-
facture of gunpowder and other
essentials of war, is one of the items
most critically needed by the Ma
ton. Yet housewives have not been
turning it in at anything near the
rate originally hoped for by WPB.
At least 200,0OO,O0O pounds a year
are required, but current receipts are
averaging under 100000 pounds
mon'h h, which means that we are
salvaging considerably less than half
the necessary annual total.
With the decision to pay out
points for fats, however WPB off,
cials have good reason to feel that
collections will increase spectacu-
larly. The new incentive. to take
effect on December 13. will be in ad-
dition to the regular four cents
pound. Heretofore. since the small
cash payments have meant little to
them, the housewives of America
have carried out their salvaging
work chiefly for patriotic reasons.
Accordingly. now that they are to
have the added inducement of pre-
ciouS meat stamps. they can be ex-
pected to salvage as never before,
knowing that by so doing, they will
not only be helping the war effort
but will also be enabling themselves
to put extra food on the table.
Unquestionably this incentive will
appeal powerfully to the Nations
Evening star., 1943-11-22

homemakers and housekeepers. In
fact, the idea for it came originally
from them. in the form of letters
and other pressures upon officials to
do something about it. It is good
idea, and in approving it at last, the
OPA has made waste fat an item
everybody will want to save. A sharp
upward trend in this part of the
salvage program should be the
result.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
SorrowfuI THOUGHT
From the Montreal Star.

Coventry observes the third anniver-
sary of its bombing sadly. The British
people have never taken much satisfac-
tion out Of knowing that some one else
had been made to suffer, and if the
people of Coventry think today of the
German cities that have shared the fate
of their home, they think more in sor-
row than in anger-sorrow that man
should have sunk so low as to have
begun the course which can end only
when the people Of Germany, their
homes destroyed, thousands killed, shall
have surrendered to the forces Of
decency.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
d ReichSmarShal Goe

Frau Reichsmarshal Goering is
one of the many who have fled their
homes because of United Nations
bombing, and it is a safe bet that,
unlike Lots wife, she did not look
back. Perhaps by now she is max
ing few pithy remarks to Hermann
Wilhelm.
Evening star., 1943-11-22
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the ,Oriter, although the use of
a pSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserUeS
the right to edit all letters 1uith
q Uie1O to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

Greatly blessed is a blessed event
these days, in that it automatically
brings another ration book into the
family and another exemption to the
tax bill.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

@. What position does paratrooper
assume before jumping?-E. H.
A. He assumes no special position and
authorities state that there is no con-
ceivable position which has not been
used by parachutists. Members of the
parachute battalions Of the Army simply
walk out of the door of the plane.
Jumpers from combat planes usually
throw themselves out.
Evening star., 1943-11-22

O. What do the terms D-day and
H-hour mean?-T. T
A. In invasion language D-day is the
day one strikes new country while
H-hour is the time of hitting the beach.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-09-16
Plans for Peace Loom
Large; Executive Shift
Of Powers Is Probed

Washington, Sept l6.-Conercssio
nal leaders predict this will bc a t,,r-
bulent session OF Congress. charucd
with maneuvering for votes i'm In,
national elections next year
Legislators, back from solndinu
public opinion, report the people IN
tense upon the grim business of wa
and in no mood for Shoddv politics
Accordingly, leaders of the major par
ties seem to be moving gingcrly.
Central Press interviews with many
law makers developed they found tho
people generally satisfied with the
progress being made on the fighting
fronts, but that they also believe
there are major problems behind tn.
front-in the United Sta,eS--Mhica
must be solved To maintain maximum
striking power overseas.
With the war experts unanimously
agreed that complete victory is Ger
tain uoSt-war planning was believed
certain To be much discussed al the
forthcoming session of congress.
Peace Resolution
Resolutions adopted bv Republican
leaders At Mackinac lSluMd. Mich.
have pointed up postwar issues. The