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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

nant reader, 1 want to complain
rs bitterly as ! can against the
dastardIy attempt Of you and
Mr.. Pegler to fitch from me the
limp figure Of Harold Ickes.
at was ! who first discovered
that the ferocious lion which
stalked the interior department
and spat bitterness and bile was
an empty-shirted collection Of
variable winds, and really as
tame as a cat.
while you were teething
your typewriter on minor rats
In New York. I encountered the
gladiator of New Deal politics
whose only weapons were words
which he thought were harpoons.
why, hack In them days he
was an ogre to behold. From
his asbestos tongue came sparks
to burn practically all the uni
verse-that IL, all 10 which Mr..
Roosevelt directed those sparks.
"Now, look at Ickes. AT Chi
cago this year land I know you
were there because I saw you)
he could hardly get his picture
In the papers.
IL know I tanned him because
he told me so by his actions.
He wrote nearly every one, IL
not all, Of my ESQ clients some
years ago, urging them TO drop
my column because II was in
accurate, particularly, l gath
cred, about him.
did you or Pegler ever get
such q testimonial:
"He il my bird.
eff you fellows want 10 pluck
q few feathers now and then 10
will be all right with me, but I
will get out q cease and desist
order II you keep claiming own
ership.
AS a matter Of fact love
HMM a peculiar sort of way
I'M HIS own valuation, l nave
" tentatively admitted Mr..
Mallon to membership in the
HIMs. But he must substantiate
his claims further at the next
meeting.
1t is all right for him 10 say
that he loves Ickes in peculiar
sort Of way. Who doesn't?
But / am not going TO surren-
der Harold to him just on his
say-so. Loved ones are not
given up so lightly. II is easy
TO talk about sacrifice these
days, but il is asking much too
much to ask me to get along
without Ickes.
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Reproduction In whole or In part
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
One Word Led to Another
By Patterson
The Detroit Times
: BY Arthur Bugs" Baer =

Quite interesting to look back eight 10 years and
discover whether prophecies have jeled or not.
Here of the crop of 1886 that have been
endorsed by that great corroborator time.
THE electoral college take its place with the all
American eleven visitations at spiritual and
Diego Rvera's mural which ne will paint i'm vanish
ing cream"
"Sino means China and Nippon Japan In
little while both will Japan. What's the league
doing about ii. About 10 miles hour three flats and
a rim"
"They still making pocket batteships in Europe.
Except the buttons getting awful big Pocket battle
ships always made for the Overcoat and never for
the vest"
"When I japanese tourist with gun, a knife
and hatchet, fooled by his dollar camera"
THE grass root Republicans and the weed bending
Democrats say the banks all the farms There
wouldn't be for land at all If didn't need 1t for
parachute jumps"
Twill Papa Dionne defend his championship"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

have known three. TO be exact,
whom l liked enough 10 want to
marry. But when l got serious.
their reply went about like this:
Il think you are about the
incest boy I've ever known. But
you could never mean more TO
me than just a good friend, and
i do not want that. You're just
not my type; but you should
make some girl a real good hus-
band"
I get the impression that girls
have changed in their ways and
action since this war started.
/ can't understand their be-
havior: or why. at Is and 10.
they run around with married
men. smoke. drink and do any
thing for "a good time" at any
cost.
Maybe. at "a. I'm getting old
fashioned.
do like the old fashioned
good things of life: and ! want
TO marry girl who feels the
same.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

Oh, holo I lore you,
You street. little dove, you'll
There's no one above you,
Most beautiful Kate.
Not the beauty Of tulips
Nor the taste of mint Juleps
Can compare with your tVo lips.
Most beautiful Kate.
-Maginn.
a q. 3. marine sergeant re-
quests "a poem about q girl
named Kate" The above is the
only one 1 can think Of right
now.)
THE three most beautiful
Il streets in the world in order
named are c h a m ps Elysee,
Paris: Princess street, Edin-
burg h, and the Ringstrasse,
Vienna.
Such is the decision OF several
experts on the subject.
Now a Bostonian. evidently
looking for an argument. wants
TO know what is the most beau
tiful square or plaza in the
world.
His nomination is the Plaza of
St. Marks in Venice.
I am inclined to agree with
him. Still. l think a lot Of the
beauty of the Park Plaza, 59th
street and Fifth avenue, Man
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

the brush. Oh, it was an effec-
tive surprise all right.
Later l heard that one of
our cooks got his mask on, then
started TO walk back to his
work table. He stopped like a
tethered horse. He'd forgotten
TO unhitch the mask container
from the tree on which he hung
it. A flustered non-com up the
hill grabbed his haversack in
the dark and wasted some valu-
able seconds trying TO use it for
a mask. An officer in B Com
pany was caught with his pants
down-take that in any sense
you choose. He was In the
latrine, his mask was back at
his tent, and q non-com who
didn't have any love to waste
on that particular officer, tossed
a bomb right into the latrine.
A trainee in our company (well-
trained, I should say). was al
ready asleep. and sleeping in the
raw. He grabbed for his mask.
got it on, and was out on a
path. stark naked except for
his mask, by the time he really
got himself walked up. That's
the way mask ought to 20 on
by second nature.
THE major, going like a der
Il wish, dived into his jeep and
took off down the road. 1t came
out later that he'd remembered
that a platoon of men had been
sent out on a march, and he
didn't want to forget them. So
they got some gas. Then he
came back, tossed his last
grenade smack in front Of the
supply officers tent, and came
back to the CP wearing a frosty
grin. He hoped the supply lieu
tenant had his mask handy, he
remarked.
The payoff was that the sup
ply officer wasn't in his tent.
He was at the CP waiting to see
the major, so he had his mask
on as the major walked in. But
then, the major had enough fun,
] guess. Somebody had to get
ahead of him and that one lieu
tenant did.
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" uvuzuD VXIuNYrUUUHu On
w <AA/1 1LAU w AANOAA EAAA Broadway

Capitol Thester. An ice cream
sody spot.
The dapper little man of so
with pince-nez who comes into
a chill joynt In the w. 40s, re-
moves his top hat and coat, and
dons an apron. He's the bus
boy.
Hizzoner may be overseas by
the 18th. although some OF US
hear he may govern Italy from
Washington with a star on his
shoulder.
Watch the betting odds change
after registration.
Jack Dempsey's last date be-
fore showing off for abroad was
with his ex-wife, Hannah Will
liams.
The critics can't claim the
$50 standees at Star Time" the
other night.
Paul Dupont, the dressy de-
signer. and Mary Grant. the
ditto for the big musical shows
such as "Hayride." will merge
this winter. N. Y. News has a
girl wha is taking rubbing
from the wiseacres there. But
little do the alecs know she is a
sassiety deb who appeared with
Ballet Russo at the Met and is
a drama correspondent for the
Los Angeles Examiner. Her
name is Mary Nicholas.
Anita Colby's real beau is a
Washington biggie named Ryan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

THE Big-Time: Our Hearts
4 Were Young and Gay" a
Paramount treat.
The balladandies warbled by
Burl Ives at Cafe Society Up
town.
Arthur Lee Simpkins tenor
Ing at the Latin Quarter. Y
Gloria Blake at Havana
Madrid.
y Fanchon's satiric folk dances
at the Glass Hat.
John Osborne's. arresting de-
scription OF the Paris eXecu-
tions.
Allan chase's new book, THE
5 Arrows
CALLY in Our Alley: Mae
~ Vests summation of Holly
wood success: A guy who owns
an 8o-room house. tennis
court, a swimming pool and has
no one to talk to.
Lily Pons is sponsoring a Rus
sian War Relief exhibition OF
war photos at 469 Fifth.
It's a boy for the Jimmy Joys
at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis.
Sheila Barrett, back from
overseas, Is at the Gotham Hosp,
q pneumonia victim.
Gertrude Niesen has moved
into a sumptuous Park avenue
layout which looks like a movie
set-but she has to- 60 to the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

A MONG Eleanor Roosevelt's
"A questions and answers in a
national magazine are often
found political gems, statements
which indicate the trend not
only OF her thinking but of the
plans and hopes of the inner
circle of New Dealers. Mrs.
Roosevelt is never 10 be dis
counted politically. In the maga-
zine appears this one:
Question: do you approve of
your party's association with
Mayor Kelly, Mayor Hague,
Senator Guffey. James Curley,
Tammany or any other political
machine with a shady reputa-
ton ?"
Answer: II have never known
any political party which did not
have a political machine and
bosses. At times there is MOTH
ing wrong either with the ma
chinery by which the parties are
run, or with the men who con-
troll that machinery. They be-
come harmful when the rank
and file of the people within the
party allow them complete con-
troll If the average citizen
would see to il that the people
elected, from the lowest posi-
tons on up. were of the caliber
that they really wished to have
represent them. there would be
no question of harmful boss
rule. I do not blame the bosses
half as much as I blame the in
difference and apathy of the av-
erage citizen"
IT IS an old dodge to blame the
l. people for everything that
goes wrong.
The politicians never do any
thing wrong.
They only sit around and full
fill the wishes of the people and
if the people are all wrong. the
politicians must be all wrong in
obedience to the will OF the
people.
That is what leadership is for
to carry out the wrong ideas
of the people.
That answer is too glib and
to easy.
NOV. there is moral in all
~ this which the people ought
to consider. The big city bosses
thrive on patronage.
Their organizations would go
to pot if they had no jobs and
favors 10 hand out to deserving
henchmen.
In New York and Chicago
and New Jersey, the big city
Democratic bosses have no
state patronage.
They thrive on federal pat
ronage. 1N,
They are strong because the
White House makes it possible
for them to be strong.
They control the mechanics
of their party because Presi-
dent Roosevelt aids them to
control by patronage.
Kelly. OF Chicago. Hague OF
Jersey City. Flynn of New
York. and all the lesser ones
would collapse II they lost this
federal support
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

1T is more often a sign of
moderate, even low, intelligence,
and a lop-sided. uncontrolled
personality. People who fire.
quently get hopping mad" are
usually adult children, emo
tional adolescents."
2-They get most of their
rules and worldly wisdom from
the Bible, and from poets,
dramatists and novelists. Arith-
metic, geography, even LAM
guages, do not teach us how TO,
live. Read the Bible, the poets
and novelists, and see the great
plays, If you wish to become a
wise, useful and noble person.
Sit depends on whether IL
Is intelligent or selfish love. DR..
Randolph Ray, rector of The
Little Church Around the Cor
ner." tells in his fine book,
Marriage Is Serious Business,
OF young. ambitious man who
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
DEAR MARY HAWORTH;

I RECEIVED an honorable dis
i charge from the army not
long ago and returned home TO
a good job.
Now, all ask OF life Is 10
settle down with some nice girl
and make a good and happy
marriage.
I am "a. rather handsome $50
I am todd, and have no bad
habits.
Without conceit, ! may say !
have always lived decently.
/ don't care for liquor, late
purs or wild women.
- I dance. skate. swim and take
part in all sorts OF entertain
ments.
I dress well. keep myself
clean and make a nice appear
ance.
/ try 10 be an enjoyable COM
panion: but I just don't seem TO
click with girls.
/ have had nice girls; and l
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
Brain Game Answers

LIN the Bahama group of IS
lands. probably on the one
called Waiting.
Pal Colum bus. tb) He
thought he had reached the
East Indies.
@Americus Vespucius, for
whom the Americas are
named.
4-ta) True.
5-The Bismarck.
6-The amount of heat needed
to raise one pound of water
four degrees Fahrenheit.
IA period of Is years.
S-Large tapestries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
MARY HAWORTH,S MAIL

Wouldn't you say that I want
the right things in life?
Meanwhile I'm lonesome; and
while / don't feel sorry for my
self, / just can't understand II.
{. p.
DEAR c. p:
THE trouble is, you don't I'M
l. derstand yourself: nor do
you honestly know what quail
ties you are seeking in a mate.
You speak of wanting 10
marry a girl who. like you. loves
the old fashioned good things OF
life.
Yet in the same breath. you
testify that the girls. IL and l9,
to whom you feel naturally at
tracted, run around with mar
ried men. smoke, drink and do
anything for good time"
You were. Of course. voicing
your impression that all girls
are behaving h I way now.
Which isn't true.
A great many are. perhaps;
but an equal number are not.
Thus il appears that you have
eyes only for the "party-girl"
type; that tas the saying goeO
you just cant see" the nice
little homebodies you profess TO
be looking for.
From the party-girl's view
point. you'd be sissy, def
nitely.
And even the homebody girl
OF buoyant temperament would
find you about as lifeless as
tailor's dummy. l imagine. in
the game of hearts.
Your failure 10 click with
girls has 10 do with emotional
numbness. which they sense in
you but can't define; and from
which they shrink.
VI. III.
EDITORS NOTE-Mary Ha-
North eounssis through her col
umn, not by mail or personal
interview. Write her in care Of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
THUSE nAVS BY George E.
- AAA1SE DAAS Sokolsly

That is the cold fact. And I
cannot understand how any one
can get around that fact.
Mrs. Roosevelt might nave
answered that these bosses are
no worse than any other bosses.
Or she might have said that
Mr.. Roosevelt has 10 deal with
the kind of men who emerge to
leadership.
Or she might have said that
she, being a woman and a social
reformer. cannot defend bossism
even though she acknowledges
that it exists.
But she does not say anything
of the sort.
She blames the people for not
kicking out ( those whom her
husband and her party keep in
power.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

corner drugstore to phone as she
can't get one.
It's a boy for the Myron Nc
Cormicks Martha Hodge,. He's
the lead in the show, The Sol
dier's Wife"
One of the swank spots cater
ing to the init. Set Is being
surveyed by sleuths, who are
using cameras.
Mime. Paul Dubonnet Jean
NASH and a girl she suspected
of flirting with her groom had IL
out in Hot Springs. Jean told
her off good.
Ray Milland, the star. bought
a house in RaguSa, Yugoslavia,
for $1,000.
MANHATTAN Murals: The
N1 lower Manhattan skyline
from the Brooklyn Bridge
like an oldtime vaudeville back
drop.
The Coney Island carnival
flavor of 50th Street between
9Th and 7th Avenues. running
the gamut of hawkers, fortune
tellers and turtles with your
name inscribed on them.
The Christmas shopping rush
tfor overseas mailing) in sharp
contrast with the autumn
weather.
The oldest store on Broad
way: The Rismont, next TO the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

rROCEssED FOODS
Biae AZ through Ls-valid inden-
Blue Ms. Ms. r-s, o-s and RS
Valid Oct l indefinitely
MEATS, CHEESE, FATS
Red AZ through Oswald indefinitely.
Red MS, is, and K-s-valid Oct. j
indefinitely.
and TIVE meat ration points.
SUGAR
Stamps 10, n, n and n. Book g.
valid Indefinitely
stamp 40, No. . Bcok-5 los for can
ming Though Feb 2s. ief5
Spare stamp ~, No. beck-valid
Apply local board.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
GAsOITNY

GAsOITNE
a Coupon 49, gallons. Valid through
Dec. al,
"a and c. Coupons gallons each.
rs and C-s Coupons gallons each.
tLav requires state name and license
number be written on svery coupon
FUEL OIL
definitely
Period i-vsid through Sept 80. 1s4S.
LIQUOR
No. fA-vslid through oct. IL.
sHOEs
initsly.
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e. ". DURLING

haitian. Especially on a clear
October day.
Is REPORTED a snack" be-
Il tween meals for employees has
speeded up production in some
war plants.
A bite around II in the morn
Ing and at 4 in the afternoon
breaks the working day nicely.
have been eating FIVE meals
a day for years. However, /
don't eat any more in these five
meals than ! formerly did in
three.
clip a little of breakfast for
an IL o'clock snack and some
thing off lunch for a 4 o'clock
snack.
QUERIES from clients. O.
W AS TO the lines: Il have been
faithful 10 thee, Cynara. in my
fashion" by Ernest Dowson. Is
it not a fact that the "Cynara"
referred 10 was a waitress in a
London restaurant?
AIN writing these lines
Dowson may have had Adelaide
FOltinowicZ In mind. Adelaide's
father owned q restaurant In
the Soho district of London.
Dowson was In love with her.
She didn't care for him. She
married a waiter.
Q-You often refer to what
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
UDu%-u1u>~Y&> Letters From
eDAON II lON EL1IIVD A Soldier

EDITORS NOTE-PUt. Pick
ering. former Times eoiumnist.
is an infantryman at FL. Nc
Cieiian, Ala. These writings are
excerpts from his letters TO
friends at the office.
HCAAAASw
. VI We just got II again. The
older hands around here expect
a certain amount of gas to be
thrown at us every time we
march out to a bivouac, but this
time something brand new came
along.
1t just so happened that I had
gone down 10 battalion head
quarters TO type some forms for
our first sergeant The major
we have new major in the bat
talon now, who took command
after we had reached bivouac,
so we don't know much about
him yet--came into the tent,
nodded at me and said, Got
your gas mask with you ?"
l did. It's a fixed regulation
TO have your mask with you all
the time, and when you have
standing order like that you OBJ
serve ESPECIALLY in places
where the major might see you.
He wasn't merely checking
up. / didn't realize ii at the
time but / did later. He was
just being nice in a brisk sort of
way. A few minutes later he
had runners on their way to the
four companies. ordering two
non-coms TO report to him at
once.
They came wearing the typi-
cal army expression on their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
On the
Side

other people say Is the best way
TO hold a husband" but never
give out with your own opinion
on this matter. How about IL?
A--According to our Mules q
Men Department the way Co
hold q husband In to criticize
discretely, dress smartly, cook
and serve meals brilliantly, ar
range a homo intelllgently and
love cleverly. Our NJ a NJ ex-
perts say the last named IL the
most important. They also say
a wife should do everything 20
convince her husband he would
be lost In n fog without her.
IN A San Francisco restaurant
Il patroniZed by men of the
armed forces there Is a sign up:
Watch your hat, your overcoat
and your girl friend"
In France the telephone girl
says: "Jecoute," which means K
am listening.
When one Paris auto driver
wishes 10 criticize the bad driv-
ing in traffic of another person
he yells: "Ecole! Ecole! This is
meant 10 indicate the offender
should 60 10 an automobile
school and learn how TO drive.
1t is too bad there isn't a
good one word insult for auto
drivers in the English language.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
Connolly Answers

1-(a). Pal. 3-(c). A.
(c). Sal. Sal tres
pass, lb) plaintiff. (c) tes-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
BETTER HEALTH
: By DR.. Logan Clendening

WHEN the pathologist pricks
w your finger or your ear lobe
10 get a drop of blood. IL looks
like an opaque red drop.
But you know by experience
that IL you put the drop on
glass surface, or collect enough
blood in test tube TO see the
phenomenon easily that IL will
separate out into a hard. sticky.
tenacious red clothed part, and a
clear straw-colored fluid.
The clear fluid, or serum,
contains most OF the chemicals
that the blood carries from it's
sue 10 tissue, and the red part
contains the blood cells.
II is these blood cells that are
deficient in cases Of anemla.
We have modern means Of
studying them very completely.
AS long ago as about 1870.
German professor of medicine
marked off a space on
capillary tube so that II would
contain exactly one cubic MILL
meter and filled II with ms
own blood and then empued
that blood out on microscope
slide. and with the aid of the
microscope counted every one
of the red blood cells.
He found there were six
D1illion.
And on counting the same
amount Of blood taken from
number OF his associates he
found that in all healthy
humans that amount was abso-
lutely constant.
AFTER you have given blood
~ 10 the blood bank your
count goes down for a week or
two You have, in fact mild
secondary anemia Your bone
marrow. which is the manufac-
turing plant for red blood cells
soon makes this up. When
disease like influenza or some
other infection knocks out your
bone marrow your count goes
down and here the treatment Is
10 give food or drugs which
stimulate the marrow-llver,
spinach. red meat. iron and
arsenic.
The pathologist will also esti-
mate how red your blood is,
because that tells the amount
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

w. L.:-Has anyone ever
been cured of diabetes by TAX
ing insulin? What does insulln
come from?
Answer. Not cured. but so
long as the insulin is taken IL
controls the diabetes. lnsulin
is extracted from the pancreas.
Diabetes is caused by the dis
appearance Of certain cells in
the pancreas.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

married a charming, finished
society girl. The husbands mind
was filled with ideas he wanted
TO discuss with her. She said,
IF you love me, that is enough.
Talk business with others" OF
course they were divorced.
Later the man married a
woman who shared his interests.
She wasn't so pretty. not so
charming, but they shared life
together. The shared life
that is what makes marriage
successful because that Is love.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

of hemoglobin which is the
iron containing pigment in the
red blood cells. II carries oxy-
gen from the lungs 10 the It's
sues and when IT rs low in
anemic people they get short Of
breath for that reason.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

faces, that combination of:
what did 1 do now? / don't
re m Der doing anything
wrong"
He soon enough explained.
For one thing, the trainees had
been very careless lately about
using lights at night. Besides,
they needed some more gas
training. Each non-com would
load up with as many tear gas
bombs as he could carry and
start. at once, TO distribute them
where the most people, would
get an eyeful.
So the major you see, had
just been giving me a tipof.
TT WAS around 9 o'clock or
L quarter past; anyway, it was
pitch black. The major himself
had an armful of grenades and
a pocket full of small parachute
flares.
He set off the flares a few
yards down the road. Then tear
gas started squirting all over the
area. In the command post tent
/ put my mask on and went on
tipping tby the light of candle
stub fastened onto the type
writer with wax Outside 1
could tell about what was hap
pening by the noise.
First the "pop-hiss" of the
bombs. Then a rattle OF voices.
Then "Gaaaasss." and the word
repeated from man to man all
through the area. Along with
it. some muffled swearing. The
sound of men crashing through
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-12

EDITORS NOTE-Mary Ha-
North eounssis through her col
umn, not by mail or personal
interview. Write her in care Of
The Detroit Times.