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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
One Word Led to Another
BY Patterson
Detroit Time
By Arthur Bugs" Baer

Upon request reprint my summarzaton of die
tator written 10 years ago and forgotten So is the
dictator
"A dictator is like any other politician. The minute
he is elected he derricks himself upon balcony and
shakes hands with a 20fOot pole.
"The most famous of all dictators Napoleon who
was feet 8 inches tall on hossback.
NAP the friend of the people until he realized
the populace was the public.
THE dictator creates a dynasty without ancestors
and minus descendants.
1T proves that dictatoring and flag pole sitting
both One-man shows.
Sooner later, Mussoni, Hitler and Stain will
want to be perpetual and self-funding What's the
of being boss If the Office boy isn't scared of you?
THE same thing that shellacked Napoleon will pull
verze the Others The who springs from the people
decides his first jump too short"
BY
BY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
THESE DAYS
By George E.
Sokolsky

secret ballot, all hidden away
from the prying eyes of the
politicians.
Suppose a Republican votes
for Roosevelt - who can know
about it?
Or conversely, suppose fell
low pays dollar for a Political
Action Committee button so he
can stay in good standing with
his Go bosses.
Suppose he wears that button
on his lapel out loud on the job,
and tn n on election day he
votes for Dewey-who can know
about it Suppose a fellow even
tells the Gallup poll one thing
and votes another - who can
know about il?
That's what Is so beautiful
about an American election.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
II. v. DURLING

Then must you speak
OF the one that loved not wisely
But too iOeH.
Shakespeare.
or you can't state quick as a
flash what play the above lines
are from your old English
teacher should certainly be
ashamed of you.)
1t has been proven that in
New York City some shops spe-
cializing in gift boxes for serv-
ice men overseas have been
cheating the buyers of said
boxes in the matter of under
weight and Misrepresentation of
the contents.
Imagine a man cheating the
mother or wife of a soldiers
Nobody but a 100 per cent
ghoul would do anything like
that.
Tar and feathers, the ducking
stool and the stocks should be
revised 10 give some OF these
thieving heels the punishment
they deserve.
MR.. AND MRS. Plus GREB
'A of Pittsburgh have been liv-
ing in the sam, house for So
years. Mr.. Greb is "a, Mrs.
Greb 81.
They are the parents OF my
favorite fighter of all time, the
late Harry Greb.
Harry Keck, the brilliant
Pittsburgh sportscribe. called on
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

exit permit for months but got
stuck waiting for priority.
Two papers will change their
society page editors. e
HARVARD Univer sity no
longer has Geo. w. Hart
mann on its staff. He headed
Peace Now" which has changed
its name to Committee for
Peace Now.
Prof. Walter johnson has
been designated by the White
family as official biogger of
VIM. ALLEN White. They turned
over all papers TO him, and he
Is working on the biog now.
The U. of Chicago publishes
Johnson's book: The Battle
Against Isolation" on the 23d.
THE growing prohibition drive
l. will be fought from the
pulpits of many churches oy
an assn of clergymen.
Mary Aston has been signed
to return to the stage in II.
Bloomfield's produc I ion Of
Many Happy Returns. Henry
Hull has the male lead.
Champ JoeLouis a (Sgt.) has
a public relations captain as his
"bodyguard."
Gen. Patton. in the army IS
years. has never accepted pay.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
CONNIE BENNETT and a biz
~ exec are readyinR a flash.

JIMMIE BENNETT ana q biz
~ exec are readying a flash.
They say the Chaplins (Oona
ONeilD are shop ping near
Rockland County IN. " for a
sepee.
F. Sinatra, whose income was
Sl.1lS,0000 paid back over a
million to the govt.
N Nancy Cakes DeMarginy
Iwhose bridegroom was ac-
quilted OF a murder charge in
Nassau is sharing a Spanish
girl friends place in town.
The current whispers that
FDR uses his wheel chair a lot
do not tell the story. The Presi-
dent has gone without his leg
braces for too long" The re-
suit is that muscles in his back
have been weakened. What his
foes appear to forget is that
FDR hasn't really walked for
% years.
His friends suspect that
George Guinle. the Argentine
playboy heir to millions, has
quietly married Dolores Sher-
wood. Macoco CHS best paid
heard ii, too.
The Leopold Godowskis ex-
pect an image in Feb.
The Hallam Keep Williamses
Josie Johnson) have ordered
one.
Crackpots are poisoning dogs
in the Sutton Place area.
Bea Lille had her British
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
MARY HAWORTH,S Mail

II was not until the close of
the war that / learned just
what had happened from one of
Toms fellow officers; and just
few years ago / obtained
from the war department a
copy of his citation for valor.
At that time / still had told
no one Of our marriage.
I was still living at home
with my mother and while we
were very close. her health was
delicate and l feared the shock
might do her permanent harm.
However, l did tell her shortly
before her death. not long ago.
Now, after all these years, il
has been clearly established
that Tom wa never in any way
connected with his fathers un-
American activities; and / find
myself wanting 10 tell my
friends and relatives that I am
Toms widow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

the Grebs recently and found
both in good health.
The elder Greb never saw his
son fight.
He was opposed to boxing,
saying it was brutal sport. He
wanted his son to be a stone
mason.
Says If he had followed that
trade he would probably be alive
today.
Harry was a quiet boy" said
the old gentleman. 1.-THE other
boys leased him but he wouldn't
fight back. One day five boys
tied Harry TO wagon wheel.
He got free and was In n wild
rage. He knocked every one OF
the five boys out cold. After
that he wanted TO be a profess
sional fighter. There was no
stopping him."
S PREVIOUSLY reported
"A Napoleon Bonaparte in
vented "the Florentine kiss"
In this kiss the man grasps
the object of his affections by
both ears and kisses her at least
six times.
We asked that some of our
clients try the "Florentine Kiss"
on their wives and report how
it was received in the interests
of our Horses and Women's De-
partment's research files.
A Bostonian reports:
II tried that Florentine kiss
on my wife. She didn't like II.
Then 1 tried IL on another fell
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

TT IS quite a puzzle. Talk to
l. politicians and they tell
about how the Poles, the Jews,
the Catholics, the miners, labor,
Negroes are going to vote.
And they calculate how the
soldiers are going to vote.
But all the time l keep on
asking how Americans are 60
ing to vote.
For after all, the only way a
man or woman votes IS as an
American.
Nobody has a right to vote
except as an American.
We seem to be all mixed up
about what the voting is about.
The other day fellow said to
me, what will the British peo-
pie think about our holding
elections in time of crisis and
war;"
1 couldn't help answering,
"Who cares?"
After all, we are voting for
a President in the year 1914,
not to please the Bulgarians or
the Burmese, but because our
Constitution provides for an
election.
1t was planned for us that
way.
1t was planned by those who
wrote the Constitution so that
nobody would stay in the presi-
dency so long that he would
come to regard it as his per-
sonal property.
WHEN Tom Dewey went
w academic for a couple of
speeches and Roosevelt tried to
play big and say nothing, when
Harry Truman was as silent as
Harry Hopkins and j o h n
Bricker twiddled his thumbs in
Columbus, it looked like a
deadly dull un-American cam
paign.
But now we have the real
stuff.
Dewey and Bricker are out
slugging at Roosevelt and the
President is off his commander
in chief high horse and is TAX
ing to the busting, as somebody
said, meaning the tail-end OF a
train.
We are back on the home
grounds doing the campaign
American style.
And the word, lie. has been
used.
And then there's old Harold
Ickes, the village crouch, calling
everybody names.
The ancient lex loves name
calling so much that he'll finally
end up by calling himself few.
He now cries on the bier of
Wendell Willkie but do you re-
member the lex In 1910? That's
campaigning.
A ND there's another thing:
"A How does anybody know
how anybody else is going to
vote?
We're supposed to have Q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

OUITE few people, I
0 wouldn't mind betting, have
forgotten that President Roose-
velt's private swimming pool in
the White House was built for
FDR by a New York publisher
with whom the New Deal-to
be restrained as possible-is no
longer chummy.
This is the pool from which
the President derives so much
pleasure. The daily swim there
is one Of the joys of his life.
This publisher, whose initials
begin with Patterson, staged a
big benefit performance on
Broadway in 1923. and then had
his own architects and builders
do the pool with the proceeds.
The President was practically
humid with gratitude, and-I
understand swore undying
friendship with the publisher.
MIR. GORDON is the illustri-
N1 Gus ex-pickpocket, ex-mob
monarch and ex-convict recently
probed by the Senate war in
vestigating committee. The i'm
vestigators seemed TO have the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

per cent of the population. That
is what the proportion was
among the draftees in this war
and also the last. so the proper
ton seems 70 run about the
same from year 10 year. II is,
however. an old superstitious
bugaboo that every one has
syphilis.
E. NJ: ! am a woman SO years
old and have been bothered
with bad tonsils. One doctor
has advised me il would be
perfectly safe 10 have them out,
while another has told me il
would be dangerous because
hemorrhages would probably de-
velop.
A: Tonsil removal in the
hands Of competent operator
is perfectly safe. Don't 90 10
an operator who would prob
ably do an operation resulting
IN a hemorrhage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
Brain Game Answers

1-Lundy's Lane, War of 1872:
Charlottesville, Civil War;
Brandywine, American Revo-
luton; Buena Vista, Mexican
War.
2-Florida.
3-Thomas Mast.
4(a) Ten. (b) State, treas
.ury. war, justice, post office.
navy, interior, agriculture.
commerce and labor.
5-The Baconian theory at
tributes the authorship OF
the Shakespearean play to
Francis Bacon.
6-(a) is correct.
IAN ancient city of Babylon.
S-Lake Itasca.
Copyright. 1914. By King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
Letters From
A Soldier

with ringside spectators sitting
outside a beer garden amiably
watching the enemy trying to
blow them to hell. But after all
what did YOU think on Dec.
Z? Didn't you think, at first,
that it must be another Of those
phoney radio dramas? / con-
fess that I did,
ITO CONTINUE with Sgt.
Il Dykema's memories:
"The planes were low enough
30 we could see the red circles
on the wings. knew that was
the Jap insignia but I thought
the navy had just painted them
on to make it look realistic,
although i ought to have known
better because I knew that 1t
was against international law.
"Then incendiaries hit the
motor pool and set one of the
trucks on fire. I said, There's
a truck on fire down there, but
1 guess the fire department will
take care Of 1t.
"And then we gradually began
to understand what was really
happening. We could see tho
digfiights and see planes coming
down burning.
"Some of the men, even then,
still thought it was q demon
stration, but we KNEW what 1t
was"
More of Sgt. Dykema
Wednesday,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
JACK PICKERING

EDITORS NOTE-Pvt. Pick
ering, former Times eolumnisf,
10 an infantryman at Fl. Me-
CieiIan, Ala. These writings are
excerpts from his letters to
friends at the Office.
SVOU see," said Sgt. Dyk-
Il ema, IL was out In the
Pacific, one place and another,
from the summer of 1889 until
Just q few months ago. l guess,
at that, the most interesting
thing WAS December I. 1t was
comical. 1 mean, 1t was serious
all right, but II really was
cOmical, too.
THE Japs were smart about
Il, coming Sunday morning, be-
cause they knew q lot of the
men would have been out Sat
urday night.
81 remember my buddy try
Ing to get me up for breakfast.
and 1 was sleepy and wouldn't
get up. so he told me, They're
giving out the new clothes at
the supply ROOM
'If I hadn't been nine-tenths
asleep I wouldn't have believed
him, because 1 knew dOggone
well that our supply sergeant
never would open up on a Sun
day morning like that.
But 1 was thinking about
going home. I was going to
leave pretty soon to come back
to the States, and / wanted to
get my new clothes, SO got up.
OF course, the supply room
wasn't open at all. He just told
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
BY Albert Edward Wiggam, D.S.-

IL think ii is partly because
a missionary is the only man, so
far as I know, In the history of
the world, who is compelled to
have a highly intelligent wife.
He must be a man of fine schol-
arship, good health and high
moral character and because
of the nature of his work he
must have a wife of about the
same qualifications. A second
reason, I think. is that any
clergyman's home is about the
finest place on earth to raise a
boy. as shown by the fact that
their sons rise to leadership
about Is times as often as sons
of men in general. Fine hered-
ity and fine environment - a
combination that can't be
beaten.
2-They do everything in life
earlier than average women,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

me that because he was trying
to get me up to go to break
fast.
$50 I was up when the at
tack started.
~THAT was the comical
l. thing - nobody realized
what was happening. We heard
the explosions and heard the
bombs and the strafing-we
were right next to Wheeler
Field-but mostly everybody
said IL was the navy putting on
some kind OF demonstration.
Il remember one guy telling
us:
I read about IL in the paper
he said, and that's Whdt 1t is, a
navy shoi0.'
"Our regiment was In n
quadrangle and we were inside
the square of buildings so that
protected us pretty well. We
were really pretty safe, as far
as the strafing went, but all
the time the bombs were sink
ing the ships in the harbor,
Pearl Harbor, that Is.
"But we just didn't realize
what was going on. I remember
seeing a whole line OF guys sit
ting on the curb outside the
Infantry Schoolhouse waiting
for it to open. and just looking
up at the planes and watching
them"
(The Infantry Schoolhouse"
was the CT name applied to the
beer garden-probably this is
the first time war ever started
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

TWENTY-SIX years ago. Tom
l. and 1 were married secretly
just before he left for overseas
in the last war.
Our reason for secrecy was
this: Toms people were Ger
mans and his father was en-
gagged, at the time, in what
now would be called "subversive
activities" which Tom de-
plored. but felt powerless to
preven'.
He did not want me TO be
Involved in any painful noto-
Yriety that might develop in his
absence.
Six months later Tom was
killed in action in France.
The news reached me indi-
rectly. as the official notification
was sent 10 his father, who was
listed as "next-of-kin."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
On the
Side
She thought 1t was

lows wife. She thought 1t was
fine"
A San Franciscan reports:
II tried that kiss Napoleon
Bonaparte invented on my wife.
The little corporal may have
understood war but he was evil
IDENTIFY weak on women. My wife
said: stop! You're hurting my
ears! Quit, will your That's
silly"
QUERIES from clients. O.
0 You say you know or have
known somebody in every town
in the United States with a
population of over 10000. Who
do you know in Haverhill,
MASS?
Al do not recall making the
rash statement you credit To
me. However, I once knew n
girl there named Mary Mona
han. I think she was Irish.
OWN you please say some
thing about a cranky husband
who turns his nose up at a duck
dinner and all the trimmings
and me one of the best cooks in
the city?
AIS n m m b e r In good
standing, of the Husbands Pro-
tective Association, I cannot do
as you ask until furnished with
more details. Why did your hus-
band object to the duck dinner ?
Did you promise him a steak
dinner and then switch to duck
without notice? just what did
the old boy say as he turned up
his nose at the dinner placed
before him?
Distributed by King Features synd., Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

GASOLINE
A Coupon H. gallons. valid through
Dec. al.
B-4 and ca Coupons-5 gallons each.
B-s and C-s Coupons--5 gallons each.
tLsv requires state name and ncepse
number b. written on svery coupon
when received
FUEL OIL
Period . and Period s-vshd In
definitely.
Period t-vslid through Sept. 30. le45.
LIQUOR
No. iS-valid through Oct. 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

sHoEs AA
Airplane stamps 4 and 1-valid indef-
initely. (Loose stamps not accepted.
PROCESSED FOODS
Blue A-a through R-s-valid inden-
nitely.
MEATS, CHEESE, FATS
Red A-e through K-s-Valid Indefinitely.
One ID. salvage fat rood for cents
and two meat ration points.
suGAu
Stamps 10, n, n and n. Desk a.
Valid indefinitely.
ming through FEB 2s. ie45.
Spare stamp ~, No. Book-vslid
for maximum OF 40 lbs. for canning
Apply local board.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

MANY deafened people try to
4'A conceal hearing aids among
the dress folds and all this and
that when as a matter of fact
one of the greatest helps they
could have would be TO make it
as conspicuous as the old mans
cupped hand.
Then people would talk at
them instead of away from
them and also pitch the voice
so it could be heard better.
Most deafened people can
hear a high pitched voice bet
ter than a low tone.
One OF the things that SUR
prise parents about chilren who
are found 10 be partially deaf
only when they first enter
school is that they never sus-
pected the child was deaf be-
cause il would sit and listen
endlessly 10 the radio.
The high pitched radio is the
only sort Of sound these people
can hear.
This psychology OF the deaf
Is one OF the hardest handicaps
in helping them.
There is something about the
situation that makes them re-
sentful and shy.
A deaf person Is always more
unhappy than a blind person.
! as any ear doctor can tell you.
People with partial visual de-
fects are proud OF all their little
gadgets - lorgnons and gold
glasses cases. and some Eu-
ropeans even like TO make
themselves conspicuous with
monocleS.
Even with all the troubles Of
being deaf there occurs TO me
every now and then one of the
three Improvements my old
friend, DR.. Adrian Gibbs. would
make on Nature--that we could
shut our ears sometimes as we
do our eyes.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q-What causes acid In the
urine and is it dangerous?
K. K. K.
Abnormal urine is always
acid, except after a meal con-
tanning large amounts Of al
kalis.
ID. DIS il true that every
one carries a certain amount of
syphilis in the body?
Answer-No. The answer is 6
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

except die. They do the latter.
as a rule, after the average
woman has passed on.
3-No. You should begin at
the second or third word, and
make your eyes stop at the
second or third word from the
end of each line. Your eyes
can easily take in q picture of
two or three words. This makes
only three or four jumps across
a newspaper column. instead Of
six or seven IL you look at each
word. You also comprehend
and remember better with fewer
word pictures. Our booklet,
How TO Read Faster and Bet
ter" sent at cost, 10c plus a
&c stamped self-addressed enve-
lope.
TINE DETROIT TIMES ell
kIl. ~ ~ f0IA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
Connolly Answers

1-(c); 2-(a); a(b); az
-(b); Sal; 6-(a) Russian:
(b) Italian; (c) American; I'D
Finn; (e) German.
Copyright. 1s4<. By King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23
DEAR T. T.:

DEAR T. T.:
THEORETICALLY, the es-
L sence of positive living is TO
concern oneself always and
fully with the duties, opportu-
mites and relationships of the
here-and-now.
IL appears that your impulse
TO disinter the bones of a secret
buried for Is years is COM
pounded of feminine garrulity
and feminine vanity, now that
you feel completely assured that
the admission would not cause
you any discomfort, or rebound
10 your discredit; but might,
rather, infuse a pleasing flush
OF romantic dash into your sup
posedly colorless spinster record.
Having by poker-faced i'm
plication. repudiated any ALE
glance whatsoever to Tom dur
ing years when the admission
might have invited social
stigma. where Is there credit to
yourself in quitting the deceit
at last. now that the shadow Of
personal risk is past?
l rather think continued
silence might be he higher
tribute.
In order TO sell your truthful
claim TO astounded. skeptical
hearers. you might have TO go
into details concerning your
reasons for getting married
secretly, and keeping the secret
all these years.
And that would r can rehash-
ing the ugly story of Toms
fathers un-American activities
in the last war; and perhaps
making Toms surviving Kin
the object of suspicion in the
present. Il. III.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

Watching my friends daugh-
tiers marry their soldier sweet
hearts, / find it very difficult to
say nothing about my similar
experience % years ago.
Would il be too fantastic TO
refer casually to that secret
chapter Of past history?
T. T.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-23

TINE DETROIT TIMES ell
Mondsy. Oct. q. 1874
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-10

Now that you mention it, Judge, I can see
this really has been war OF Jobs"
Yes it has. Fred, and the biggest job Of all
is the one being done by our armed forces
across the sea The actual physical fighting
that is bringing victory closer day by day
And here at home, Judge, our job has
been to supply our men abroad with the
ammunition and equipment they need to
finish their job. And to provide the money
to buy these supplies through our purchase
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-10

of War Bonds. BY and large, think we've
taken our job seriously. too"
You're right, Fred, we have. But there's
one more big job we've got to do for our men
over there. That is to abide by their wishes
that this country should be kept the same
way it was when they left it...not changed
around while they're away and can express
their opinions
In all fairness, Judge. that's a simple
request no one can afford to disregard"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-11-10

lO% Helps--S,ry lu'l Who're,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-13
Hungry Spaniard
Cultivated by.
Mattresses

NEW YORK. April IL Up
- Many New York walters and
mattresses rather hoped amys-
FERROUS man known only as the
hungry Spaniard would drop
around for little snack today.
First he showed up at Eddie
Davis lunch wagon on Third
avenue. The famished stranger
ate clam chowder. hamburger,
baked ham. beetS. three big
helpings Of mashed potatoes
toast. and two cups OF coffee
Under his plate he left a 500
tip for Eddie.
Eddie said II was hard TO un
derstand the mans mixture OF
Spanish and broken English. but
the impression | got was that
this guy had been going in and
out of eaterles for days,