davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
THE total ordinary receipts of

THE total ordinary receipts of
Il the government of the
United States have increased
from S783, 900 900 in 1916 to an
estimated S45,408, 100000 In
1914.
This figure includes social Sc
curity tax receipts and the pos
tai surplus, if any.
The jump from 1941 TO 1914,
SS,268, 100000.
In 1941, S45,4oS 900, 900 in
1914 includes, of course, war
time expenditures.
But IL must also be noted that
debt retirement has compare
lively been neglected in the war
years.
Expenditures have risen even
faster than receipts: In 1916
the ordinary expenditures of the
government amounted to 1884,
100000; in 1914 these expen-
ditures had risen to sos ,003, 000,-
900.
In addition, the 1914 figure
must be made to include the
expenditures of government cor
porations and agencies which
amounted to 4,051, 900, 900.
l am writing about your
money. It must come out of
your pocket, out of your work.
/ know that figures are a
bore. but you should memorize
these figures because they are
costing you your money and
they will continue to be part OF
your own personal expenses as
long as you live:
To continue in 1916. the gross
national debt amounted to 81,
DDS, 100000.
This jumped UP during the
last war to around SIS, 900, 000,-
900.
1t now amounts to s2o2, $780,
100000.
The gross state and local debt
amounts TO almost SIS, 200, 000,-
900 in addition.
This total debt of 1921 .000.-
100000 divides into about 81 500
for every man, woman and child
in the country or about $500
for each family of four.
At an average interest charge
OF 3 per cent, the carrying
charges for this debt, until part
Of IL or the whole is paid of.
will cost about S6,600, 0O0, 900 a
year. or nearly twice the ex-
penditures of government In the
peak years 1928 and 1929.
In a word, no matter what
the politicians say about econ
omy, every year, the budgets of
the u. S. government, the state
governments and the local gov
ernments must start with this
basic obligation, on the taxpay-
er's income. of $500. 900, 900.
Maybe this figure will help to
make that clearer: In 1915, the
debt of the government Of the
United States put an obligation
OF S11.96 on each man, woman
and child.
In 1914, that per capita gross
debt amounts to 81, 1880.
This rise cannot altogether Be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

Nothing about Germany buzz bombing England
with the potato beetle. Insects will eventually conquer
the world But not the ones with trick mustaches.
Back in 1884, warned American farmers against
the Japanese beetle which invaded the works bouquet
of iris
The sister of Arthur Brisbane told me she never
heard the old boy laugh heartily the time she read
my biography of the Jap beetle to him.
forgot what wrote at the time but do remember
resented the Jap beetles coming into the house when
rained
have been picking them for 10 straight seasons.
This year became Japanese beetle My record is
100000 beetles in July and August.
Peculiarly enough the Jap beetle has all the attributes
of Jap. sweep him off the grape leaves into shallow
pan Of ordinary kerosene.
That knocks him colder than mummys last picnic
lunch Nothing much else will affect him. No contact
poison will ambush him because he is armor-pated. And
he doesn't anything that he cannot digest No bird
will touch the Jap beetle.
Only the praying mants will knock him off. And
that's clue to the whole I'd feel better about
the fruit crop if the beetle did the praying.
copyrEht by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
TuU~U nAvS BY George E.
IL nESE DA Il - Sokolsky

attributed to the war; in 1888,
before we werc involved in any
war the per capita debt was
$500 6S.
THERE are easy-going think
L ers who shrug their shoul-
ders and say that all this makes
no difference because we pay it
to ourselves.
Taxes are a living expense, an
obligatory living expense con-
corning which there is no choice.
And he can only reduce them
to any considerable degree by
reducing his gross income. He
d has to come across-or else.
Some of us tease ourselves
with the optimism that the rich
pay, but actually everybody
pays in increased costs of COM
modities, in a lowered standard
Of living, in hidden as well as
direct taxes. Nobody Is left
out. And that means you.
Copyright. 1914. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
If THIS George Bernard Shaw

IF THIS George Bernard Shaw
l sally has been printed, it
eluded us. Tennyrate. at his
last birthday he told newspaper
men:
- eyes, I am now. SO and I
haven't an enemy In the world,
not one enemy"
"a beautiful thought" re-
sponded a reporter.
"Yep," added Shaw, 1--WE out
lived them all"
WILLIAM A. LYDGATE,
w editor of the Gallupoll this
book, What America Thinks"
is due on the 26th), offers this
10 show what Americans think
about Germany. Not long ago
they took a poll asking people
how they thought Hitler should
be treated after the war. Prac-
tically everybody wanted him
hanged, shot or imprisoned in
definitely. There were a lot of
ingenious suggestions from the
public. A San Francisco school
teacher said:
slave somebody read his own
speeches back to him day and
night until he goes nuts"
4 T A Hollywood gathering the
"A other night Donald Ogden
Stewart made talk on the
brave new world. He told the
story of the little boy whose
Sunday school teacher asked
who made him. The boy replied:
I'm not done yet. I plan To
have a part In making myself"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

The sensations besides pain
felt in the phantom are itch
ing. warmth. throbbing and
cramping, and these are suffi-
GENTLY uncomfortable to say the
least.
Since the beginning Of our
esent wartime experience
with this type of casualty a
great deal OF study has been
put on it by neurological sur
geons and il is expected that
more satisfactory explanations
of the phenomenon and more
satisfactory treatment Of the
serious complications, such as
severe pain. will ensue.
Since attempts at relief at
the peripheral site-the stump
have failed, the latest research
has been to approach the prob
lem by examining the central
nervous system.
DR.. Guitierrez-M ahoney treat
one patient by removing the
part OF his brain which received
the sensation from the painful
limb with complete success.
Such measures even though
drastic may have to be en-
ployed in drastic situations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

LIN Montana, Arizona, Wy
oming and Nevada there are a
lot of leftover unmarried men,
who no doubt, are looking for
wives. There are nearly three
unmarried men between % and
81 there, to every two women.
However, IL a woman lives in
the Carolinas, Tennessee or
Rhode Island, she had better
move out, for there are nearly
two women to every man there
only half a man per woman,
which may be what a woman
usually gets no matter where
she marries.
2-No. II a child survives the
first year, IL has already passed
a lot Of danger points. While
the newborn boy babe has q
''life-expectation" of about
64h years, the children one
year old will live on the aver
age to Be 66.65 years old. The
expectation u even higher for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

EDITORS NOTE-The
first part Of this article on
the postwar dirpLdne indus
try appeared in Sundays
newspaper.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IL
w When the army or navy
wanted to keep pace with new
airplane motor designs, Con-
gress forever pointed 10 the
stock pile of Liberties. No use
spending money for new and
untried engines when al these
proven ones were already on
hand.
The net r>sult was that army
and navy plane Development
and il is military demand that
inevitably carries the load for
major design development in
aviation-was tied TO an anti
quated. inefficient power plant,
with hundreds Of pounds Of ex-
cess weight in its cooling sys-
TEN. and hundreds more in It's
general structure.
In terms Of the military-and
that's what counts for purposes
OF this discussion-most Of the
newest combat and cargo planes
that now are in service on our
fighting fronts are obsolete as
Of this moment.
What happens II history re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
BETTER HEALTH

putation feels the sensation as
IL the limb were still there.
In most instances II goes
away in time.
1t is due. of course, to the
fact that the cut nerves are ac-
customed 10 carrying the SEN
sations from the skin and peri
phery OF the limb, and even II
they are severed any stimula-
ton OF them arouses- onlythe
same old sensations they have
always been in the habit Of
carrying.
Amputations OF the arms
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
WASHINGTON Scene
By George Dixon

was returning from his Pacific
trip, Robert NJ. Gilmore of the
Southern Pacific Railroad was
instructed TO pick up the Presi-
dents train at FL Reno, Okla.
Mr.. Gilmore took an overcoat
with him, but when he got 10
e Reno il was around 120,
and no shade.
He found he had an eight
hour wait, so he strolled around
the town carrying the over
coat.
He had covered the town 20
times when a hand grabbed his
shoulder and spun him around.
~ been following you,"
raSped the grabber, land got
a badge-see. All I gotta tell
you Is this: Just try putting
that overcoat on and I'll run
YOU inw
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

WE MUST prepare ourselves
w for the sight OF many Of
our young friends returning
with multilations Of one kind
or another.
The man with an amputated
leg or arm may experience and
nprebably will tell you of what
eems to him a peculiar feeling
as if the lost limb were still
there.
This Is known as a phantom
limb"
In about IS per cent OF all
cases the patient with an am
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

CTEvE JUNK, former Notre
- Dame All-Amertcan and
later star halfback with the
Washington Redskins, Is now
handling physical training at
the Navy Officers Training
School at Northwestern Uni
versity.
A big feature OF the fitness
program is swimming. The boys
are made TO brave the chill
waters OF Lake Michigan-and I
do not wish any retorts from
Mayor Kelly Of Chicago that the
lake Is practically lukewarm.
Anyway, the mother OF one OF
the candidates became very con-
cerned about this lake SWIM
ming.
isn't II terribly dangerous :"
she asked Steve. You have no
lifeguards or anything like
that"
Listen, lady," said Mr.. Juz-
wiki. a comforting soul II there
ever was one. Nothing could
be safer.
eff any OF these boys cannot
SWIM" he continued. "they can
always turn over and float. The
lake current IL from the SOUTH
VERY interesting" said the
mother, "but what has the cur
rent got TO do with it,"
"Why." said Steve. "the Great
lakes Naval Training Station Is
Just 20 miles north OF here. So.
n q boy can't swim he will hoat
right into q boot camp"
Tn THIS busi9ess you make
L notes on whatever you hap
pen TO have handy-other peo-
pies calling cards. the inside
covers of matchboxes. garage
bills and letters stating that
your insurance Is overdue and
that you are unquestionably
flirting with disaster.
These notes have a habit OF
disappearing, only TO turn up
weeks later, by which time the
story Is usually dead.
A set OF mislaid notes has
turned up. They are scrubbed on
a flattened-out dixie cup-and
! wonder where in the devil I
got that cup? Furthermore, the
cup had been inserted as
bookmark in the swell new book
by Beatrice Fairfax, Ladies
Now and Then"
Here's that story:
When President Roosevelt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

PROGRESSED FOODS
Blue AZ through L-s-valid indefl
nitely.
MEATS. CHEESE, FATS
RED AZ Through D-s-vslid indefinitely.
Red rs. r-s and OSWALD Sept ,
Indefinitely.
One ID. salvage fat rood for = cents
and tve meat ratien points.
SUGAR
stamps %, n, m and n. Book g.
Valid Indefinitely.
stamp 90. No. . Books lbs for can
ming through FEB. 10. iet5.
Spare stamp ~, Ne. . Bcok-vaiid for
maximum OF 10 lbs. for canning
Apply local board
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

GASOLINE
A Coupon f7-3 gallons Valid through
Sept. al.
B-s and ca Coupons-5 gallons each
IA and ca Cespons-5 gallons each.
Law requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
when received
Period . ani Period s-vslid In
definitely.
Psrie1 i-vaiid through sept. 10. is4s.
LioUoR
Ne. ts-vsiid through sept. 20.
sHOgs
Airplsns stamps 4 sns a-vslid indef-
tnitely.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
Brain Game Answers

1-(a) Yes; (b) Is times;
count 'em.
2-Mussolini joined the Italian
army as a private. but he,
too. rose to corporal.
3-Richmond Pearson Hobson.
4EThe Northwest Passage.
Sal True; (b) true.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

white girl babies one year old
They will not die on the aver
age till age II.
3-Yes. Several such lists
have been selected. but only one
has been selected by proper
mathematical methods. I re-
Gently stated In this column
what mathematical methods
were used in selecting this au-
thoritative list, made by psy-
chologist Daniel Starch. Several
thousand readers wrote in for
this list, but we have a few
left which will be sent to any
reader for q self-addressed
stamped envelope. II Is q lot
Of fun to check over the list
with your family and friends
and see how many each can
honestly say he has read.
rHE DgYE0IY YtnGf CT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
Connolly Answers

1-c. "a. sc. 4-b. 5-a.
6-(a) Horace Mann; (b)
Alexander Pope; (c) Napo-
leon; I'D Shakespeare; (e)
John Greenleaf Whittier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

DASSING BY: Roger Pryor.
L Actor. Son of the famous
band leader. You remember
Pryor's band. don't you? How
about the bands of Sousa.
Gilmore and Creatore And
Lander's band that played at
New York race tracks?
.Vina Delmar. Novelist. Her
first successful book was bad
Girl" Just before Vina wrote
that she was working as an
usherette in a Broadway film
theater.
Charles Buck" Herzog. Once
third baseman for McGraw's
Giants. A great ball player
but not as great as "Tilly"
Shafer, the man he succeeded.
Shafer quit at the peak of his
career, saying he didn't care
any more for baseball. Very
unusual.
A WHITE dress in the after
"A noon or a red evening
gown at night both have the
effect OF putting a man in the
mood TO propose matrimony.
So states a color psychology
expert. Our horses and women
department Is checking. What
color dress was your wife
wearing when you proposed TO
her?
Nov have a reader named
~ Georg. without the "e."
When a man clips an "e" off
the good old name of George
that is certainly cruelty to
proof readers and others whose
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

w knows that when he had
his recent pocketbook pain
Closing his sponsor) some Of the
enemies he had made in Detroit
were in a position to put In q
pitch in his favor-but wouldn't
because of the treatment they'd
had at the maestro's hands.
Joe Gentle and Ralph Binge,
the Detroit air comics whose
program is being picked up In
the Pacific by some freak OF the
ether, aren't heard In Europe
but some of the CTS are writ
ing home, asking IL they can
have prescriptions shipped to
France.
A neighborhood theater In De-
troit is advertising a quadruple
feature-as IL double features
weren't enough.
What Detroit writing man.
currently an air corps captain
in the Pacific fighting zone. Is
planning to ask to be denoted
to a private in the infantry be-
cause he wants to write a book
about the war and thinks he
can get better material that
way?
And what other Detroiter
wonders how an infantry CT can
find time to write a bookf
That's right. I'm doing the won
dering, but wishing him luck,
as one doughfoot to another.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
By, DR.. Logan
Clendening

carry greater conviction that
the limb is still there than of
the legs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12
Letters From
A Soldier

luncheon music there? And
now, three movies for him in
quick succession.
Lee Mason singing at the
Bowery. Just auditioned for
one of the big air shows, ana
it's our opinion-quote me II you
want to-that Mason Is ready
for the big time whenever it's
ready for him. Ann Corio's next
play was written by q Detroit
newspaperman, Lyford Moore.
Another Detroit newshawk.
toddard White, Is being
snapped. up for owl work.
Right now he's at Camp Van
Dorm, Miss.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-12

THE DETROIT TIMES CT
Sept. isH
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
THESE DAYS

IT is curious how easily heroes
become villains and the be-
loved of the multitude the most
abused.
When I arrived in China In
1918, Wang Ching-Wei was a
hero of the Chinese revolution,
the beloved friend Of Sun Yat-
Sen, the idol OF the intelli-
gentSia. He died a tool of the
conquerors of his country, a
traitor.
Three men were Sun Yat-
Sens closest associates in the
building of a new China, Lao
Chung-kai, Hu Han-Min and
Wang Ching-Wei.
The most attractive, the most
daring and in many respects
the most inspiring was Wang
Ching-Wei.
After Sun Yat-Sens death,
Lao Chung-Kai was assassi-
mated and Wang Ching-Wei and
HUI Han-Min ran away.
Chang Kai-shek, who was
politically obscure and whose
only claim TO fame was that he
had been a military secretary
to Sun Yat-Sen and had been
sent by him to Soviet Russia
to study Red Army education,
seized and managed to hold the
power of the revolutionary
state of Canton.
Chang is practical man:
Wang. a theoretician. Wang, a
forensic orator; Chang. the si-
lent, strong man. Chang won
mastery and Wang nursed his
wounded pride
I DO not believe that Wang
L Ching-Wei ever was, in his
soul, a traitor 10 his country.
He served the Japanese be-
cause he was capable of ration
alizing his jealousy and hatred
of Chang Kai-shek into a patri-
otto service.
There is no use trying TO
understand the course of such
twisted logic except TO note
that hatred, like love, is blind
and that those who substitute
personal likes and dislikes for
principles reach conclusions be-
yond reason.
In his innermOSt conscience,
Wang must have conceived some
idea of eventually double-cross-
ing the japanese to save China
"a fatuous idea in one who was
a keen scholar Of the history of
both countries.
This same man who became
a QuiSling in the war between
China and Japan could in 1925
say:
But the Chinese people do
fear the threat of bolshevism
-. DIR. Suns will SAYS, awaken
the masses; unite with the other
nations In the world who have
treated us as equals, to strive
together In the common battle
Wang Ching-Wei, who had
devoted his life TO a struggle
against imperialism. subsidized in
his old age as a servant of the
Japanese imperialiSts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18

OVER a year ago a youthful
" songsmith wrote a song and
left IL with a music firm on
Broadway.
Shortly after the army got
him. and because Of a certain
ability he was assigned TO duty
on an army transport which
hasn't touched port in the u. S.
since.
He doesn't know, therefore,
that a short time ago Phil Brito.
the singer, came across his song
at the publishing house and
liked il a lot.
Brito made a recording of it
for Musicraft.
Now the reports from song
sheet dealers land juke box
operators all over the nation)
indicate that IL will be a song
leader before New Years.
The publisher cannot keep up
with the orders.
In the meantime. the soldier
songwriter is somewhere at sea.
Dreaming those wistful, wish
ful dreams that all ditty authors
dream.
Wondering how he will get
started again when the war Is
over.
His name Is Henry Pritchard.
The song: Il Don't Want TO
Love You"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
II. ". DURLHNG

per cent of the cigarets manu-
featured in this country. The
chain smokers among the fe-
males greatly outnumber the
males.
Am asked il we have any
thing in our Horses & Women
files as to the proper length Of
a farewell kiss"
According 10 our II. e. w. File
No. S76-A. a farewell kiss should
last 81 seconds. That is when
those concerned are 10 be sepa-
rated for a long time. When a
man kisses his wife good-by in
the morning the kiss should last
10 seconds.
THERE are over 100000
L girls named Mary in the
United States. So if you are a
radio lark you can't go wrong
singing Mary Is a Grand Old
Name"
Observed Robert Lynd:
There Is one thing about n
well-dressed and well-groomed
woman. She has taken trouble
To look well. And to take trou-
BILE is To strengthen character"
The jockeys riding horses
owned by the king of England
are forbidden 10 use whips under
any circumstances.
THOSE who claim the end Of
i the war is forecast i'm the
Bible say 1t will end March a,
1915.
Heat diminishes energy and
mental capacity while cold in
creases il. A person can write
much better and more rapidly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
MARY HAWORTH,S Mail

mother TO live with us year
ago when her dad passed on.
Her mother. incidentally, is a
fine woman and treats me like
n son. She evidently can't I'M
derstand my wife's attitude
toward me, and / happened to
overhear her say TO my wife
you'll drive him to some
other woman with your attitude
of indifference"
My wife replied:
Mother. you can't force love.
respect him. but 1 don't want
him mauling me-"
So l maui her, And she
merely respects me! l guess
that's that.
Must / 90 on this way and
never know any other kind of
married life? / want TO get out
and leave her and never see her
again. and find some one who
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18

THE Magic Lanterns: With a
technicolored ribbon in its
hair and a song on its lips. Da-
mon Runyon's Irish Eyes Are
Smiling" is a darling cinematic
colleen-sure twill steal your
heart away.
Ell Love a Soldier" unreels a
Sezy comedy that occasionally
becomes a cyclone Of laughter.
Even when you don't guffaw.
there always is Paulette God
dard to make your eyes smile.
"The Master Race" offers a
vivid study Of people who turned
into Nazis and abandoned the
human race. The housekeeping
unspeakables started in the gut
ter and worked their way down
into a sewer. Their granite
hearts serve as their own tomb
stones.
Abbott and Costello make no
pretense at subtlety. In their
latest. Lost In a Harem," the
comedy remains as elementary
as hotfoot. Nevertheless,
laughs roll along at a swift pace
except when they're slap-stuck.
Classify "Bowery Champs" as
q 4-F-ilm.
A western, "Rustler,s- Hide
out" gallops hither. thither and
yawn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-18
JACK PICKERING

ef-the practical jokes
~ have a bit more originality.
One man. sleeping in a double
decker bunk 1.-THE top bunk
woke up one morning to find
both his big toes tied to the
foot of the bed. If you are linn
Der enough, maybe you can un-
tie yourself, but this particular
victim couldn't. He got even
the next night by taking a cup
Of water to bed with him, and
a full canteen besides. He
waited until the toe-tier was
asleep, then drenched him with
the cup of water. He repeated
it with the canteen later in the
night after the toe-ter had
m mage d to reverse his
blankets, for dryness' sake, and
gotten back TO sleep. They
called it square.
Getting people out of bed
early is favorite trick-if you
can do it. One non-com, / be-
lieve Jerry BonZelaar of Grand
Rapids and Detroit Chats
where his wife is now worked
II on his terminate out on
bivouac.
He reused the terminate, and
the terminate, as is quite nor
NAL, had TO have proof that il
was time to get up. He rooted
around until he found Bonze-
laar's watch. 1t showed 5
O'Clock, so he dressed in a hurry
and had half his platoon awake
before protests stopped him.