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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
Letters From
A Soldier

NIT, I am sure, that II is easier
to cure q patient who wants to
be cured and believes that he can
be cured. Sometimes faith and
the will to be well overcome ILL.,
nesses that seem hopeless.
DUT Is there something above
- and beyond all that? There
YOU must decide for yourself
My own opinion I keep to my
self.
would add this, however. II
The Song Of Bernadette" is
worth telling IN book and film
form-and X most certainly Is
then Detroit itself has q SINH
lar story worth the telling.
While ! was home I considered
trying to tell Ii In column form.
but never did. It would be diff
3cult. but 1t could pc done. It's
the account Of q priest In De-
troit, Father Solanus, a Ca
puchin, who has been called in
many q desperate case.
Ray Donough, Hardy Crowell
and q host of others have told
me Of such cases, and told me,
too. what Father Solanus has
said when q stricken person re-
covered. Many in Detroit speak
of these recoveries as mir
acles, in the same sense of the
mircales at Lurdes. Father So
lanus himself always says that
he Is not n doctor and not a
healer, he Is q priest.
'T did what I could" Is all
that he ever offers in explana-
ton. To adapt the phrase from
the story of Bernadette, perhaps
no other explanation Is either
necessary or possible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
WASHINGTON SCENE
BY George Dixon

I WAS telling you yesterday
L about the resolution OF Rep.
John M. Coffee cd OF Wash
ington to broadcast proceedings
of Congress.
Our senators, rs you know.
are forever plugging the prod
ucts Of their home states
which Is only right and fitting.
The Coffee plan viii change
all that.
Senator Claude Pepper can
debate the merits Of Florida
oranges against Senator Allen J.
Ellender Of Louisiana and Sher.
idan Downey Of California. Pep
per Ii . great orange rooter, al
though he ID personally allerHic
to citrus Juice Of any kind. II
makes him break into q rash.
But he'll talk about oranges
until the kumquats come home.
CENATORS VandenberR and
~ Ferguson Of Michigan could
put In this plug for the smelts
caught In the Great Lakes:
Try our smeitA
They're good for thinkers;
but never say
"Our smelts are stinkers."
Senator Theodore C, (The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

TIVE boy who first gets In the
L army has been torn away
from several things precious,
o. at least familiar. to him.
There are, Of course, all kinds
Of boys. There u the boy who
wants to nun away from home
o. the adventures OF the great
world make more Of an appeal
70 him.
The army Is q great place for
such = guy. but he Is in the
minority.
Most Of the men In the army
are either bomesick or they
have been separated from their
GIRL or they have given up q
Job, or they are parted from
their friends.
They know that what they
are doing il temporary and
does not fit them for life. In
short. II . waste OF precious
tins.
All this Is perfectly natural
and normal.
A. Is also the fear that the
thought Of the danger they are
about TO encounter has on them.
This leads to resentment.
That In q short word for q
very complicated set Of emo
tons.
But IN emotion just the same.
In all Of w about half our
mental life. At least, Is emo
tons.
The rest Is In the think box
and this, under normal circum-
stances controls the emotions
and keeps Us on an even keel.
but the soldiers resentment
y Get him TO brooding and
- think-box Is reduced to q
very ANAL insignificant part Of
his life.
Sooner Or later for most OF
thsm the think-box begins to
get strong again and resumes
tn normal status.
But for some, such adjust
unant never occurs and the emo
tions get In the saddle and
things 20 haywire.
Thy may take the form Of
dyspepsia, or rapid heart. or
bowel upsets and that n why
they have . medical angle.
but they can be brought un-
der control. Just a. the colt u
broken to the bride.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Z. p. S.: My 12-year-old son
Was not circumcixed at birth.
n IL too late now!
Answer: No. II there Is any
indication for II.
M. S. j.: My daughter, aged
II. works in q shop where they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

NEVER. until I had been here
~ for several months. did I
really begin to appreciate the
movies fully. I believe / can,
in a vague way. begin to sense
what movies must mean In the
combat zones, and why the
army goes to such extremes to
carry films close to the front.
No matter how homesick you
are, or how tired, you can for
get about your troubles II you
can get yourself absorbed in a
movie.
Last night our first sergeant,
Nat Mckee, said, Let's go;
there's a good show tonight"
and I went, not even being sure
what the film was. 1t proved
to be Song Of Bernadette."
After seeing the film, i wish
I'd read the book, and perhaps
I will yet. It's about Berna-
dette, th French girl In
Lourdes, to whom a vision ap-
peared, leading to q succession
Of religious miracles-or per-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
WALTER WNCHELL Doh, On !,

CIDNEY KINGSLEY. the play
~ wright prize winner IRE.
Gently honorably discharged
nom the army), relays this true
6gic tale.
A bomber-squadron leader Gin
The south Pacific for ~ long
Wonths) finally got q Today
iday from hell.
His orders instructed him to
emain close 20 his base.
One of his pals. he learned.
was about to fly back to the
u. S. on Z special mission.
He persuaded the flier to let
him 60 along.
, A few days later, In the dead
4 { the night. he arrived In his
my home town. where nobody
saw him steal into his home.
The same dawn, while the
villagers Numbered. he was off
again. arriving back at the base
Just under the deadline.
To this day his superiors and
comrades are unaware that he
strayed any farther than the
local canteen.
The only persons who know
his secret are his wife and the
nier who gave him that break
and there Is nothing they can
do about the suffering of his
wife.
She is now the victim of the
villages acknowledgement who
know her husband has been to
war nearly two years.
And she Is expecting q baby.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
JACK PICKERING

laps you've read or seen the
story.
In two days that film has
stirred up more comment than
any other since I've been here.
What do you think OF that
film?" is the question that
comes at you from all sides I
didn't realize that so many men
(from age Is up) would have
so much interest in 1t.
Being a black Protestant my
self, I can't answer much ex-
cept to say that I was fascinated
by II and ] consider 1t a mar
velously beautiful story.
The makers OF the picture
foresaw this question. and the
answer they give in advance, in
an introduction, is:
ITO those who believe In God,
no explanation IN necessary; to
those who do not, no explana-
ton IL possible"
At any rate, I came away
wondering. OF what are these
cures created! Faith? Chance?
Hope!
What curative powers are con-
tanned In the viii to believe?
Surely some. How many people.
imagining themselves i'll, can be
cured when they can be led to
imagine themselves well? And
how far beyond this can the
mind overcome the ills of the
flesh? Every doctor will adj
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
T~~E nAvS BY George E.
IL hESE DA AS Sokolsky

be, these two parties now rep
resent a tremendous power in
New York State and may ex-
pand to other states, particu-
larly IL the Political Action
Committee can be kept alive
and effective.
The Political Action Commit
tee is a money-collecting agency
which functions to tax organized
labor for political purposes.
Its possibilities politically are
tremendous and under its pres
ent Communist control, II can
readily be converted into an
agency of revolution-a more
effective agency than the old
Communist party ever was.
The fact that the Political
Action Committee succeeded in
getting four Catholic papers,
one a diocesan publication. to
support it's non-communistic
masquerade is indicative of its
ability to organize and to con-
fuse.
Both the Republicans and
Democrats have to face this
strength from the standpoint OF
political realism.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

THIS story has never been
= printed before. we are told.
How Vice President Henry
Wallace scared his staff during
the Chicago convention.
He left word that ne was not
TO be awakened until 8 q. m.
His secretary raped on the
connecting door and. getting
no answer. opened II and
looked In.
He was alarmed to see two
boys asleep In the twin beds.
The secretary FASTENED to
spread the alarm.
He finally located the vice
president In the lobby reading
. book.
Wallace explained.
At 3 In the morning two SOL
diers had knocked on his door
while looking for someone else.
He learned they had no &C.
commodations.
He insisted they take his
room.
Then he dressed, went down.
stairs and sat up all night
reading.
- b. SHAW Is now In his
We 8Sth year. but time hasn't
dulled the yigor of his mind
Today his pen is as spry as ever.
.. Shaw's latest tome has just
been published. and II has
spanked a good deal Of contro-
versy among book critics. N
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

And one poor wretch lost his
bridgework.
HV0U say young couples spend
L SO per cent Of the time Of
their FIRST year OF marriage talk
Ing about q name for the FIRST
baby" writes a New Yorker.
"My husband and I didn't talk
about it ut all until the baby
was born. I suggested we call
him Michael or Thomas and my
husband said: Why not call him
both?' I said: 'Okay, we will
make II Thomas Michael and
call him Tommy But my hus-
band said he liked Michael
Thomas, 70 we made 10 that and
and now we call him Mickey"
TN WINDOW OF a luxury food
i shop, saw something bearing
label, "A heavily branded old
English plum pudding" Sounds
all right. Think I'll save up and
buy one Of those for Christmas
dinner.
Among the New York hus-
bands who can cook the family
dinner if necessary is Mayor La
Guardia.
tT WOULD rather love some
i body I cannot have than
have somebody I cannot love-"
A San Franciscan informs me
this was offered by a young
woman as an explanation of her
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

T,HE New York City vote ir-
l. refutably establishes the
fact that the Republican and
Democratic parties are being
challenged by organized labor.
These are the figures:
Republican 100000
Democratic 1,347, 900
American Labor 389. 900
American Liberal 304, 900
Roosevelt's plurality In the
city was 10000: the combined
vote of the two labor parties
was $4,000.
The American Labor party
and the American Liberal party
are bitter opponents. the for
mer being a Communist front
controlled by Earl Browder and
Sidney Hillman; the latter be-
ing a Socialist eforInist party.
AS much as they quarrel
among themselves, they united
on candidates in this election.
Both groups seek Mr.. Roose-
velt's favor.
The liberals regard Sidney
Hillman as a Communist front;
yet they supported the Political
Action Committee which ID his
political apparatus
THESE parties are more COM
Il petently organized tina n
either the Republicans or
Democrats because whereas the
older parties do not depend
upon m e m bership these
younger ones cultivate member
ship in district clubs which are
made interesting particularly to
young people.
They are better financed than
the older organizations which
depend upon patronage and con-
tributions.
The funds OF the new parties
come out of labor union treasu-
ries which today are rich and
manipulative.
Any one who knows his way
around In politics knows that
there are devious ways OF
spending money that are never
accounted for in spite of all the
laws that legislators devise.
The smartest trick in labor
expenditures Of funds Is for
educational purposes" which
can mean anything at all. in
GLIDING instructions to vote for
q favored candidate.
So. here are two parties, COM
petently organized with profess
sional salaried and permanent
staffs, appealing to particular
classes, well-financed and able
to stimulate enthusiasm among
youth.
In New York. they are sup
ported by three newspapers, the
aDaily Worker" ''P. NJ" and
the New York Post"
THE Communists are invari-
Il ably unstable allies because
their line deviates from time to
time according to the necessi-
ties Of Soviet Russia. and II Is
sometimes difficult for those
who associate with them to
shift as swiftly or as completely
as the Cofmmies do,
Therefore IL Is always TO be
expected that q party whose
backbone Is o Communist group
will sooner or later break up.
Whatever their futures may
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

Men are not that impor-
tant. Many women slave for
some man they love, but they
are not always happy at 1t.
There are many motives In a
woman's life besides shaving for
some man. When a man mag
ines he Is Gods gift to women.
he becomes q bore. In the lives
of many Of our finest women
men play a mighty small part.
2-There Is q type of malad-
tusted person known as the
"perfectionist." Everything must
be perfect from the way the
breakfast table is set to their
golf, bridge, dress, housekeep-
ing and social conduct. More
women than men are perfection
lists, hence more OF them are in
doctors offices. You should Sc
lect the few things in life that
you can ever hope to do well.
and do the rest fair 10 mid
lin" 1t Is not necessary to q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

usual II any one desires to
know what Shaw thinks about
his journalistic critics, this Is
what he wrote many years ago:
"People who read what other
folk say about mo Arc revolted
BY my calleusness-the average
journalists word for tho irritat-
ing way In which ! keep my
head while tho rest Of mankind
are losing theirs Thus, every
ono who doesn't know mo Armly
believes mo 70 Be quite tho most
unpleasant person alive; and -
. Consequence ali I have 70 do
with people who meet me for
The first time n 70 bo reason
ably polite, In order to convey
IN impression Of superhuman
charm"
TNTIMATES will tell you that
L that they are beyond hope
Of reconciliation. They no
longer speak to each other or
look at each other without glar-
ing He is well known in the
theater and so Is she They
decided on an eventual divorce
about a year ago But be-
cause of the exasperating apart
ment shortage both refused TO
move out for each other :.
They are keeping their es-
tranged interlude as much to
themselves as possible-just SO
they can have q place to sleep!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:
7 AM q girl %; look about

With the exception OF two or
three men who were fairly per-
sistent, most men take me out
only two or three times. ] don't
know why this is.
Last evening ELL called for
me to 90 dancing.
lVhen we got in the car to 20
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
MARY HAWORTH,S Mail

home. he kissed me again. pas
sinately.
We drove straight home. talk.
ing and laughing the whole
time. and when we reached our
destination he kissed me again
with more fervor.
This time / was not quite so
responsive and moved to leave
the car.
He turned away, said good
night and left at once.
I felt badly about his abrupt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
GASOLINE

GASOLINE
a Cesper 49, gallons valid through
Bz ana CO coupens-s gallons each.
% end c. Csspons-s fallons each.
Law requires state name and license
number b written on every coupon
when received
YUEL OIL
PssssA Z en- Psris< . and s-valid
through Sept. so. i945.
Akyeaes etanps q, ss< s-valh
LIQUOR
- as-vsfil through Nov. %.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

EDITORS NoTE-Pot. Pick
srins, former Times eoiumnisf,
is an infanfyymon at Fl. Me-
cteiian, Ala. These writings avs
excerpts from his letters to
friends at the office.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

Great Britain. France, Meth
erlands. Belgium, Portugal.
2-Bricklayer, brakeman, plum
Der. carpenter, plasterer.
3-Semper Fidelis - Always
faithful. Semper Paratus-
Always prepared.
+(a) Four from Virginia. two
from Massachusetts,. tb) In
correct order, they were:
George Washington, John
Adams, Thomas jefferson.
James Madison, James Mon
roe, John Quincy Adams.
SSilver. chlorine. iron. hydro
gen, lead, potassium.
6(a) Devil, Scripture; (b)
scars, wound; (c) course.
smooth.
LADY Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
1875 miles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

good life to do everything well
9-One high school boy told
me he was studying Latin,
chemistry and short story writ
ing. but expected to 60 into
civil aeronautics! I asked n he
had any lessons In getting along
with people. He could not grasp
such an idea. The science OF
getting along with people is
something new In the world and
it Is enormously important 20
success. A boy or girl of today
has to get along with 10 or a
hundred times as many people
as did Mother and Dad. Our
booklet by Milton Wright. su-
thority on Getting Along With
People" contains all the maj
scientific rules. Sent at cos
10c, plus q &c stamped. sell
addressed envelope.
TINE DETROIT TIMES IC@l5
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

departure and had the feeling
he would not call again.
Why? II this were the first
instance of the sort would not
be alarmed.
You know from what I have
told you that / am not cold or
priggish.
I need advice and want your
opinion. X. ID.
DEAR X. D.:
IF THIS Is a typical example
L OF your easy Instability on q
second date. there's your trou-
hle-aA cloyingr too facile re-
sponsiveness. that may stimu-
late the mans appetite for the
emotional fare you are both
nibbling at for the time being
but sends him away with the
sickish feeling of having spent
the evening with a FIVE pound
box OF candy. hguratively
speaking.
Less sensitive men would vul-
carly presume on the rope you
give. and probably hurt your
feelings In far worse way than
simply never calling again.
1t Is because you attract good
men and then fall short of their
definition Of true and lasting
feminine charm. that you lose
most Of your beaux on the Sec
ond round.
You don't need TO act cold or
priggish.
But you definitely should
practice q more delicate reserve.
which will give you more mys-
terry. magnetism and elegance.
and leave your beaux at the
end Of an evening happily crav-
ing more Of your company.
M. III.
EDITORS NOTE-Meyy Ha-
vevtA eeunssis through her coll
s~n, not BY waa o. personal
intsrvisD. Write her in core Of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

pRocEssEp FOODS
Bius A-s shrs.sh w-s-valh indsn-
nttaly.
MATS. cHEKsE, FATS
nee A-s thrsagh p-s-vslid indefinitely.
One 10 saivsfe fat good for 4 cents
and too meat ration POINTS.
SUGAR
Stamps -, %. N a.< ~, bseh g.
Valid indefinitely.
ssasp 90. No. . pesk-s he for can
ming through Fee. 40. iets,
epHrs Stamp III. Ne. . eeek-vaid
Apply lccal hoard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

Connolly Answers
1-(a). Pei. 3(b). 4(a).
Sal. e(a).
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

TINE DETROIT TIMES ICCl5
'|N'" Nov. 1874
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-16

And one poor wretch lost his
bridgework.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-12-14

associations. He is modern,
stream-lined. letter-carrier and is
to represent the helpful postmen
of every city, town, village and
rural route of this great land. The
annual sale of Christmas seals
represents the spirit of humanity
for suffering. We will havesthe
chance to buy them from now un-
til Christmas, and of course we in
Kennewick will contribute. When
the creator of this 1914 design
was asked why he selected this
particular motif, he gave as his
reason the fact that it was postal
employee in Copenhagen who had
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of peacetime industry turning and
will keep them turning.
This country has the most ef-
ficient distribution system ever
devised. There is little question
but that il can do an Al sales job,
providing retailers are allowed to
60 ahead in their customary man.
ner. They are used to running
their own businesses in a COM
petitive market. Traditionally,
merchandising is a game in which
the merchant serving his Gus
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the first idea of building a more
healty community through the
sale of holiday seals. That was
40 years ago. Our country brought
the idea home in 1907, and postal
employees here have ever since
played an important part in the
campaign. This 1914 dapper de-
sign, stands for ''everyman's" post
man, the one who slides the mail
through the slots in the city apart
nent house, the one who rings the
doorbell in friendly communities,
he who stops at rural boxes to
chat as he makes his rounds by
auto instead of on foot, the post
al employee who stands back of the
window and serves you. Buy
seals, salute him and the cause he
represents on those seals.
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again as well as to produce. Pri-
vate initiative will have to take
the place of government direction
and planning"
Millions of retail distributors
will agree with Mr.. Johnston
heartily. They will have to do
the selling of the products that
our factories will be prepared to
pour out in a flood. They will
play a major role in striking the
final balance between costs and
prices that will start the wheels
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WE ARE PROUD

One wonders sometimes if the
weekly means as much
to Kennewick subscribers as we
hope it does, and whether the dali
les have the personal hold on the
reader as the small town publica-
ton. Surveys, with this in mind,
have interviewed readers of the
weeklies, with an interesting re-
suit. On the average, they have
been subscribing to their pet
weekly for 211k years.. Before
discarding the paper it stays
around the house for about At
days. An average of four people
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toners best enjoys the pre,,.
success. o''
The big question now is. ,
we going to allow the distrih,a
industry TO get back to noss
methods of operation as uuictIr !
possible when the war ends
are we, under one pretenSe or !.
other, going TO continue wars, =
controls to the point where ~
tributorS are hampered in c.s ~
ing out the most important ssI!
Job in history? ''le
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regularly read each copy and
they spend on an average of 53.S
minutes doing 1t. These facts
are convincing and they mak,,
your editor proud he has a hand
in serving his own readers on
about the same basis. May he
not fail them.
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C..oIlI
by
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Your "a
that will
more deta
but will
time. Fl.
have an al
ton cou11
"Guides {
This will
much faN
year when
tour was
counties o.
Various
ing on q
The reset.
show soil
plans; the
give dennt
control; W
house anC
building;
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CHRISTMAS SEALS
The faithful postman is paid
tribute on this years Christmas
seal. Look at that clipper indi-
vidual on the seal and smile with
him as he bears the holiday greet.
ings of the nations tuberculosis
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THE BIG QUESTION

THE BIG QUESTION
Eric Johnston, president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, says: when the
war ends we shall have to 60 into
reverse. We shall have to shift
from war economy to a peace
economy. We must learn to sell
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STORES

Better lighting. better store dis.
plays, and store heating and air
conditioning for all merchants
are Public Power goals.
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PUBLIC
INSTITUTIONS

Schools. churches. halls. ETC.. can
have better lighting and air con.
ditioning ~ well ~ the I'd.
vsntages Of melton picture and
other electrical equipment.