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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15

CURRENT discussions about
~ merging our military or
CARNATIONS in a single depart
ment are meaningless without
reference TO the strategy OF
the future.
SHOULD the United States Sc
larf 10 stake its safety in the.
years ahead on old-style sur
face strategy, with aviation
technologically remaining as it
is today, and used only in
subsidiary role, the present
army-navy arrangement Will
suffice.
But if, on the contrary, IL
should recognize the paramount
strategic function of air power,
a total reorganization is in
evitable.
Much OF the picture, unfor-
tunately, is obscured by failure
10 separate tactical considera-
tions-the actual employment
of force in battlefront overall
strategic considerations. STRAIT
egg is the plan of war in its
largest dimensions.
TT REPRESENTS nations
l. decision on how 10 defeat its
enemies, and its character is
based on the resources Of the
nation and its geographical po-
sition.
Tactics are the result OF such
strategy. detailed work en-
trusted to professional military
men, just as in a corporation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
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officers and technicians, just
like those companies.
The sole restrictions are:
That the salary of coop of
l. ficials must not be more
than $500 a year, which Is too
bad, because Mr.. Cowden. for
instance. undoubtedly is worth
several times that salary. How
ever, there's no limitation on
expense accounts; and
C-They can sell only TO stock
- holder members, which does
not mean much because there
are ways around ii. II you drive
into a coop filling station and
are not a member. you can still
buy gasoline, and when you
have bought a certain amount.
you get your share of stock.
THE simple fact remains. how
Il ever, that here is a form OF
corporation, owned by private
stockholders, to which the gov
eminent extends subsidized
loans and tax exemption, in
competition with another pri-
vate corporation, also owned
by private stockholders, which
is unable to get subsidized loans
and which must pay full taxes.
In the so-called commercial
corporation, the earnings for a
year are called profit and are
taxed accordingly.
In the cooperative. the prof
its are called earnings, and
whether they're distributed in
the form of dividend checks, or
poured back into expanded oper-
atoms, they are exempt from
taxation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
THESE DAYS

TIVE carpet-baggers are going
Il down from New York with
millions OF dollars in their pock-
cts TO conquer the South. to
buy. corrupt. intimidate and
take over the politics of the
South.
Sidney HAlman's Go polit-
icaI actions committee is or
ganizing for the control Of
Congress.
This group does not have
enough votes 10 elect any one
to anything, but they have
money and they are using the
money 10 do the job.
The South is easy going for
them because all the candidates
have 10 be Democrats and have
10 speak seemingly well of the
New Dealers, particularly of
the President and his encourage.
That makes it PHEASANT for
the Democrat supported by Sid
ney Hillman.
When. the opposition attacks.
he swears fealty TO F. d. r.
and proves his regularity not
to the Democratic party but 10
the New Deal by exhibiting his
Go political actions committee
endorsement.
SOUTHERNERS are not GO
~ ing to be ruled by Sidney
Hillman and the Go political
actions committee.
Southerners are not going 10
be managed in their local af-
fairs b. northerners. or for that
matter by any outsiders.
The South believes in states
rights in spite of the fact that
the Democratic party has de-
serted Jeffersonian principles
for the most intensified central
=fZed administration this country
has ever known.
The South is not going 10
take it on the chin very much
longer.
And therein lies the danger
10 America. We don't, need
that kind of internal strife now.
IN THE little book, WHY Pay
Il Taxes" David Gu n m a n
-Coyle, back 10. showed
that the New Deal disliked
local self-government. Here is
a typical paragraph on the SUBJ
ject:
Zone Of our pressing needs is
to get rid Of two-thirds 81 our
local governments, and reno
vste the rest, so that they will
be visible to the average citi-
zen"
..
MANY of Coyle's ideas come
w home TO roost sooner or
later, and this one about Vocal
governments is making itself
known in this campaign ot the
Go political ACTORS commit
tee.
This. organization is rails ing a
fund among Go union mem
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
DEAR BOSS

DEAR BOSS:
THE signs read "AleS and
l. Spirits" but that IS, more
often than not, as far as II goes
You read about II in the signs
pub owners are unable 10 pro-
duce much OF either. When they
10 have something 10 sell they
are open for a short peri o d
around noon and then are closed
until 7 o'clock. when they open
for three hours.
AS the opening hour OF 7 APP
proachcs the queue forms tpro-
nounced like billiard cue) as
sailors and els line up. The
door opens. and it's a wild
scramble.
Bar girls work like demons
dispensing the one b ottle ot
spirits and the one keg OF dark
bitter ale.
If il is close 10 the rationing
period the bar may break out
another bottle of spirits.
This will probably be gin
which is served with a dash Of
orange or lime squash They
are as short Of squash" as they
are of spirits.
le averages about one and
Zee tshilling and three pence,
rs cents). spirits, three and four
(67 centS per drink. ] have yet
10 hear my first American Serv-
ice man declare that he likes
either the product or the price
British whisky and ale have
been cut in alcoholic content to
war time standard" Scotch
is about 3S proof and gin the
same or less.
Up to now have been unable
10 find a pub owner who will ad-
NIT that there is any alcohol in
the ale at all.
There is also cider. Oh, yes.
it's hard, AND sour.
There you have the situation
in England.
All the bars arc not open on
the same day. so you make the
rounds TO find out which are
serving.
The natives, I'm sure, will be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15

glad 10 see US depart and their
pubs settle down 10 peace and
quiet. It's sometimes embar-
raising TO watch an Englishman
trying TO elbow his way through
wall of els TO get his scupper
Of beer. But then. this hands
across the sci" stuff must end
somewhere.
Almost all Of the whisky out
put OF Britain Is exported TO the
United States.
Balance OF trade, really. old
chap, don't you know
Very often the private clubs
Of London import the whisky
back from the United States.
Just one Of wars complexities.
But at that / think we are
getting the best of the deal.
Id trade them a gun any day
for bottle Of whisky, If / got
the chance. How about that?
War is hell.
SCOTT.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15

Answer TO Question No. I
Two Yale psychologists, DR..
and Mrs. Walter Miles, gave
Doth physical and mental tests
TO men and women up TO e5
years of age, and, at all ages,
their performances were Just
aboHt-equal- SeHe little evi-
dence developed that exercise
postpones age.
Answer to Question No. 9
Many studies indicate il
makes them more unequal. Two
boys study arithmetic-one fast,
the other slow. Experiments
show the fast boy progresses
greatly, the slow boy little. In
the end they are farther apart
than ever. But, if both were in
a trade school, or drilling for
the marines, the dull college boy
might make the best trade or
marine boy. The lesson is, give
every child opportunity accord
ing to his several abilities"
Answer to Question No. 8
This emotion enters but I
think we enjoy tragic plays be-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
BY George E.
Sokolsky

bers to be used in MANY states
TO deprive the citizens of the
privilege of selecting their own
congressman.
This organization Of Hill
MANS, supported in New York
by the Communist party, the
national spearhead of the fourth
term, is out to defeat congress
men who have proved obnox-
iouS to the Communists and the
inner circle in the White House.
After the Civil War the car
pet-baggers were Republicans;
now they are Go and Com
munist New Dealers who go by
the name Of Democrats.
Copyright. 1914, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15

EDITORS NOTE--Futton p
LeWis IN the FIRST part Of this
article on "co-0perdtiges,"
Which appeared ia Sundays
Times, disclosed Roy cp-qp
organization supplies filling
statiaR members on n thcoroti-
cal pon-proft basis, pet en-
riches the organisation ard
escapes income tarcs.
Copyright, 1914. by King Features
WASHINGTON. May 15-The
w retail filling station, which
sells its products, is in direct
competition with the privately
operated filling station, which
does have TO pay income taxes.
and the consumer coop itself is
in direct competition with the
private oil company which does
have TO pay income taxes. But
the filling station and the con-
sumner coop are exempt from
income taxes.
The long and short of it is
this:
You're operating the Jones
grocery store on one corner;
you're forced TO get your money
rough Commercial banking
channels, and you're required to
pay stiff income taxes.
The government comes along
TO me and says:
Fulton. II you'll start a gro
Gerry store next door TO Mr..
Jones, the government will lend
you the money that he has paid
In. in taxes, at a. low as II, per
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
WE GO along making lists of

WE GO along making lists of
w foods that are good for
you"-such. notably. as carrots
and spinach and milk.
The question arises are any
foods bad for you7
Well, several have been ac-
cused from time 10 time
Tomatoes and cancer Is one
combination which we can dis
miss as purely a mistake in sta
tistics and reasoning.
Meat and salt. however. have
come in for accusations that
have some basis.
Many doctors prohibit meat
their patients who have
disease, high blood
pressure, arthritis and govt, so
by an argument equally falla-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15

IF WE continue on this path,
L we are flirting with exhaus.
ton and bankruptcy in the
matter Of resources, productive
capacity and especially mani
power.
The present dual authority IL
bound to become so top-heavy
in its duplication that it may be
crushed under its own weight.
True, the President in his
capacity as commander in chief,
and Congress through its
budgetary powers, theoretically
can exercise a certain amount
of restraint on the military de-
partments and can attempt to
integrate their respective ideas
and plans. But in practice this
does not work out. -4v
Congress has automatically
and uncritically accepted both
army and navy programs, giving
US, in effect, a dual set of stra-
tegic master plans.
Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. La
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

the matters of design, produc-
ton and sales are left to eX-
perts.
But in questions of strategy
which is % say overall mill
tary policy-the people through
their Congress have the right
and the duty 10 make the basic
decisions, just as the directors
and stockholders would do in
the corporation.
We may Judge the degree OF
confusion from the fact that
prominent political commenta-
tor, noted for-his intelligence,
actually suggested recently that
we set up two distinct military
Institutions. one for the Allan
tic, the other for the Pacific.
EROM the strategic point OF
Il view this Is as nonsensical
as if we set up two unrelated
fe d eral administrations in
Washington. ONE for the west
. ern half of the country. the
other for the eastern half, but
both supported by the whole
country and responsible to the
whole country.
No matter how different the
military requirements in the Pa
cific and the Atlantic may be,
there is only one national res
ervoir of resources. industrial
capacity. manpower.
A serious evil today is that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
CITIES
GAsnIINI

GASOLINE
a Coupon Ia gals vaAd through
June 81
r. ana - CoupOnS-5 gals. each
B-1 and ca Coupons gals each.
tLaw requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
when received
FUEL OIL
: Period Z and Period 5---Valid through
Aux 81.
LIQUOR
No. s--vahd through MAY 81.
SHOES
AIrplsne stamps and valid in
definitely
PROGRESSED FOODS
Blue A through Oswald IN.
definitely
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
MEATS, CHTESF, FATS

WHNINf NHEflNFs FNIN
Red As through T-S-Vahd IN
definitely for bitter. margarine.
beef steaks. r0asts. evaporated
milk cheese and cheese products.
Next stamps valid June 3
GUS through : Us hnd "A through
MIS- stamps-4vsitd for direct
purchases from GarmersD
One N. salvage fat good for 4 cent.
and two meat radion points
SUGAR
stamps 30 and VI. Book No. as
lbs each, valid indefinitely
STAMP 90, No. Books lbs for
canning through Feb. 2s, 1e45.
spare stamp 81, No. 4 BOok-Vahd
for maximum of 20 lbs. for can.
nfne Apply local hoard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
hEAp lASS Letters From
Times Soldiers

EDITORS NOTE-This is a
tsftsr from one Of the So who
have gone into seyvies from the
editorial rooms ofths fHnss.
The writsyi Photosrophsr's Mate
SIC Scott Wigi<, reporter. who
was in England at the time Of
wrifins.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
Quick Answers

Eisenhower.
Cotton.
3-Gray with a blueish tinge.
4-Wasting.
5-Wordsworth, in The Pet
Lamb"
6-"Few words are best"
Copyright. 1914, by United Features, synx.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15

cause right triumphs over
wrong-the guilty are punished
while the innocent are vindl-
Gated. True. in most tragedies
Sof the great tradition, the hero
himself dies, as Hamlet did. but
he does SO in Furnishing the
guilty and indicating the eter-
nal power of righteousness.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
Connolly Answers

1-(b). 2(c). 9(b). A.
(a). 5@(a). 6-(a) excitement,
OBJ rabbie, (c) surfeited. (dl
great relish, (e) passion for
travel.
1914. BY United Features, syp6.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-15
Air
Power

two unrelated institutions, the
army and the navy, are both
drawing upon this reservoir
without restraint and without
much relation to each other.
Each seems minded to get the
most it can while the getting il
good, and does so honestly, In
line with its own strategic no
tons.
The result is terrible waste,
duplication. unnecessary loss OF
lives and materials. We have
no single agency to plan a uni.
fled strategy within our means
and abilities.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

ashland one we recommend to yoU
II you're about to relinquish q cou-
pon-s pair of brown leather
wedges styled like your own be-
loved barefoot sandals. Having all
the guile OF your little childhood
numbers, they have the wonderful
down-to-earth comfort Of any
wedge-heeled shoe. Buy them to
wear with your tweed suit, with your
sweaters and skirts, later on with
your summer cottons. You'll find
yourself wearing them, too, with
shorts and slacks-they're that ver-
satile. In a word, it's shoe that
will put you on a firm footing with
out taking your budget off it.
y
DREAM OF A DICKEY-The
quickest way to put up a good front
these days Is to buy q dickey-in
fact, enough dickeys to enlarge the
usefulness Of your suit. One that
we yearn for is of bird's-eye piuue
with deep insert Of cut embroidery
in front and a fetching bow tie to
f1auno at the neckline Of your col.
larless suit. There's pique round-
necked charmer that's something Of
a feminine counterpart of your hus-
bands dinner shirt. It has dinner.
shirt tucks and-for surprise nots
tiny baby buttons that add a note
OF femninity to its starched look.
GLAMOUR FOR YOUR SEWING
DIGIT-Now that we're all getting
more proficient about sewing on
buttons. turning up hens and the
llke-let's get more professional. and
wear thimble. Try one In sterling
silver-or Furnished copper-hand-
wrought in a floral pattern. It would
tempt the most undomestic girl to
mend her ways.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
CHEESE SOUFFLE:

KEEPING MUFFIN BATTER,
Thanks to Mrs. G. r., Alexandria. J
To the lady wanting to know if
n,uffin batter may be kept in the
icebox overnight, may I suggest
that I have had good luck meas
uring the batter from a standard
muffin recipe carefully and putting
one-half in the icebox to be used
the next night. Remove from the
icebox half an hour before using.
Add half the original amount of
baking powder called for in the
original recipe. Stir. Let stand half
an hour and bake as usual.
For the reader who wants a va
ration of the usual cheese souffle
recipe which won't collapse" per-
haps the following recipe will be
helpful.
One cup Of bread crumbs, Y cup
milk, 2 eggs beaten slightly, u cup
cheese (more If desired, salt and
pepper.
Soak bread in milk u hour, fold
In beaten eggs and cheese finely
cut and seasonings. Turn into we'll
creased baking dish. Dot with but
ter or margarine. Set in pan of hot
water. Bake in $50 to 375 degree
oven for y Of an hour. Double
recipe for more than 3 persons.
I'D. Note: Thanks to Mrs. J.
F. H, Dickerson, for her 1Day OF
keeping muffin batter, Which we
cannot print at this tinle.)
Evening star., 1944-01-28

As has been aforesaid, the home
wrecking crew has always been busy
enough with its dirty work, but they
have simply gone to town during the
war. 1t has given them an oppor-
tunity to ply their trade in a field
that is as wide as human passions
and as fertile as youth and ignorance
and lack of philosophy can make it. y
In this perfect environment they
are sowing the seeds of suspicion OF
husband against wife and wife of
husband and of engaged couples of
each other, and they are raising q
harvest of bitterness and tears and
broken hearts and wrecked marri-
ages that should satisfy the sadism
of the very flends in hell.
I say this with authority, because
my every mail is simply burdened
down with letters from both men at
the front and the women they left
behind them, whose very souls are
being torn to pieces with jealousy
and despair that has been implanted
IN them by their families and
friends, who are forever warning
them that they can't trust their
husbands and wives and that they
are being betrayed by them.
So I urge these trouble-makers ia
desist working at their evil trade
The only thing that makes their
separation bearable to the men at
the front and the wives and sweet
hearts at home is their faith in those
they love. Don't take that away
from them.
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Pin Money Pickups

HALF A HAT, TWICE AS PREF
TY-The smartest heads these days
are wearing half-hats to achieve the
new-for spring fiat-topped look.
These head-hugging demichapeaux
are no more than gay little ban
deaux Of felt, balanced at the sides
by folds or trimming to give width.
For instance, there's one that has
curlicues Of braided felt over each
ear-Quite the most f1attering bit of
hattery we've seen. Best OF all, 1t
does equally nice things for a smooth
coiffure or pompadour. And 1t
comes in a rainbow Of spring-feeling
colors that you're sure to find the
one that gives you the most lift!
X X X II
SEERSUCKER SWEETHEART
Now is the time to buy those cotton
dresses you'll be wishing you had
next summer. In other words, we
girls have learned the hard way that
you have to be foresighted about
summer cottons. We find that al
ready there's an early crop of pretty
cottons. We particularly liked love
OF striped seersucker made with a
f1attering drawstring neckline, softly
fulled skirt and polo-type belt to
cinch in your waist. It comes in
brown and white and red and white.
\ X
WEDGE YOUR WAY INTO
SPRING-Women apparently fall
Evening star., 1944-01-28
By Margaret NoOeH

paper and kindling Charcoal or can
mel coal also may be used). When
that Is burning briskly, add q layer
OF anthracite (stove or chestnut is
preferable, although the size is not
Of critical moment). Do not put on
so much coal that you will smother
the fire.
After the first layer Of anthracite
Is burning strongly, add successive
layers until your CRATE is full. Don't
make the mistake Of building a
small fire Of paper and kindling in
the center Of the CRATE and expect
Ing 1T to spread to the freshly dded
coal-it won't, and your fire will go
out.
AS soon as the fire is established,
close the chimney damper some
what-the exact position will be
determined by the force Of the out
side wind, the height of the Chin
ney, how nearly all the draft is
concentrated under the CRATE, and
other factors. Experience will teach
you the ideal position under vary
ing conditions.
Maintain deep fuel bed at all
times. BY so doing. you not only
save coal, but also trouble for your
Evening star., 1944-01-28
Dorothy Dix Says

Chief among the saboteurs who
should be lined up against a wall and
shot at sunrise are those who de-
stroy the happiness of husbands and
wives and sweethearts by killing
their faith in each other. How any
one in these times of stress and
strain could be guilty of such in
human cruelty as adding another
grief to those that already tear at
every heart passes all understand
ing, but apparently it is the IA
vorite indoor sport of a large num-
ber of people who seem to find a
sadisttc pleasure in tofmenting their
fellow creatures.
OF course, the trouble is q
familiar figure in our midst. We
have always had those among us
who felt it their sacred duty to
puncture our pink balloons and be
the bearer of bad news, who couldn' It
see a man buying his secretary q
sandwich without hot-footing it to
the nearest telephone to tell his
wife all about 1t and warn her that
while he might be innocent, still
you never could tell about such
things, and that she had better
keep an eye on him.
Or those whose distorted sense of
humor prompted them to tease q
husband about one Of his wife's old
beau and ask him If he had noticed
how often she danced with him at
some party and how glad she al
ways seemed 70 see him.
Evening star., 1944-01-28

self. Under ordinary circumstances,
you will need to add only few
shovelfuls a day.
Remember that a CRATE fire re-
quires but little attention. Don't
poke ittunduly-and then do 1t gent
ly. II your CRATE Is equipped with
q movable bottom, shake 1t only
until glow is visible or until few
live Goals appear. Otherwise, use
q poker and work the ashes through
the bottom of the CRATE.
Ashes should be removed from the
crate whenever fresh coal is added.
Usually, once q day, in the morn
ing, Is sufficient. However, in ex-
ceptionally cold weather, it also
may be necessary to put on some
coal at night. Always be sure to
fill the CRATE to the top and to
take out the ashes from under the
CRATE at least once a day.
If you carefully follow the above
instructions regarding installation
and operation of a fireplace CRATE,
you will have a slow-burning fire
that will give a constant flow of
penetrating heat "a hours a day
And your living room will live up
to its name, no matter how low
the temperature In the other rooms
of your home.