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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31

CdRcer-It's not that you can
not, but more often that you
don't! For your own good you
know ! mean the little things
we all waste time on while more
important ones await attention.
Also sidestep quibbling.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31

There are more than
Ee0ites out for the prize today
so even though you're favored,
get started early, efficiently, with
as little red tape as possible,
and at the same time not step
ping on any toes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
A Years Experience

Victory garden chairmen
everywhere have told me that
they have more gardeners regis
tered than last year, that the
gardens are not appreciably
larger. but since folks know bet
ter what they are doing, they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
APRIL sf TO MAY 20

\ Tdurus-A happier day than
you're going to recognize at first.
That is, happier if you work dill
gently and consistently for your
goals, and keep stubbornness out
of the nicture. -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
MARCH qf TO APRIL 20

Aries-Look out for that old
demon delay! II you put one
thing off, more than one piles
up on you. And don't give in to
cantankerousness or unwis
amending.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
BY Frances Drake

Look the Section in Which Your Birthday and Find
What Your Outlook Is, According to the Stars,
For Thursday June 1, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Plan Before Planting

Nobody wants 10 make the
same mistakes a second time
so, many a seed that goes into
the ground this year was bought
last, and many a gardener did
his figuring this year before he
bought, instead of just guessing
as he did last season.
I've been travelling a lot lately
and I've seen plenty Of gar
dens, large and small. II I
had felt discouraged before, be-
cause OF reports OF fewer seeds
bought, fewer gardens planted
this year than last, l couldn't
possibly feel that way now.
II simply isn't true. Victory
gardeners are coming through
again-with flying colors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
Gardeners Profit
By Mistakes
BY ISABEL FUCKER
Detroit Times Garden Editor

YOU READ a lot nowadays
about how seed sales are down
below those of last year, and
how this means fewer vegetable
gardens. / don't know who
figured this out, but IL certainly
wasn't any one who knew any
thing about gardening. The
lower seed sales mean only that
a years garden experience has
added a lot OF horse sense to
what last years beginners had
then.
II seems as II all the newcom-
ers TO the field overbought heav-
lily last season. They did some
of the funniest things-such as
sowing two or three crops of a
vegetable like Swiss chard that
may be cut all during the sum-
mer from a single sowing. And
they grew too much of many a
vegetable, so that they had to
hand out the excess TO the
neighbors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-31
JUNE 29 TO JULY %

CaRcer-It's not that you can
not, but more often that you
don't! For your own good you
know mean the little things
we all waste time on while more
important ones await attention.
Also sidestep quibbling.
JULY "a TO AUG. 22
Leo - There are more than
Eeoites out for the prize today
so even though you're favored,
get started early, efficiently, with
as little red tape as possible,
and at the same time not step
ping on any toes.
AUG. 20 TO SEPT. 81
Virgo - Particularly favored
this suspicious period; strategic
plans and operations; new tao
tics for efficiency; stimulate the
things now in a rut; conferences,
enlightening discussions, and
healthy pastime.
SEPT. 2I TO OCT. 20
Libra-Nobody can do a bet
ter job than a Libra native
when once you have made up
your mind and follow through.
Here is one dandy of a day for
fine (if at times hard TO get)
attainment.
OCT. RL TO NOV %
Scorpio-On the first favored
list this hard hitting, go-get-it
Thursday: pressure for better
cooperation and methods in inn
portant matters; skilled labor;
ingenious devices, military ma
neuvers; domesticity.
NOV. 20 TO DEC. a2
.S10ittdrius - You can gain
through your especial talents
co-ordinating with others in your
organization or company.
DEC. 20 TO JAN. Fl
Capricorn - Some conflicting
tendencies, perhaps a few dis
appointments, delays. You can
cope with them. Use your in
born assets: stability. persever-
ance, practicalness.
JAN. ~ TO FEB. 90
AqudriuS-Get this month off
10 good start. Go over errors
of last few weeks for sole pur-
pose of finding ways TO prevent
same mistakes and hindrances
now. But don't dwell on the
past, look ahead!
FEB. ~ TO MARCH 90
Pisces-Today will need some
prodding 10 keep il on the wholly
favorable siGa,-Give precedence
20 urgent matters, especially
those concerning the welfare Of
many. Know YOUR aims.
A CHILD born on THIS day:
Versatility, activity. love OF
travel and diversion are out
standing. Can succeed IN va
riety of fields, particularly those
that would bring you before the
public eye. Talent for music.
Copyright 1914, by King Features
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

member of Congress was an unknown
quantity to the foreign ministers of the
other American states-and they to him
Mr.. Hulls job was to know them, to
dissipate suspicion of the United States
and to build up strong pan-American
solidarity.
Back in Carthage, Tenn. Mr. Hull
reasoned, If you wanted to know a
stranger and discuss some fair and open
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
BY Joseph H. Baird.

When, at the outset of the Roosevelt
administration, Washington set about
erasing the stigma of dollar diplomacy"
which long had clouded United States
relations with Latin America, the brunt
of this work was assigned to Cordell
Hull.
The story of his first essay at creating
ties of friendship with the Latin Amer
leans at the Montevideo conference of
1888 has been told before But now
that the Secretary of State has been
forced by i'll health to abandon his off,
>cial role, it is worth repeating because
1t is highly illustrative of his character
and approach to diplomatic problems
The former Tennessee lawyer and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

business with him-well, you just went
around to see him. The various dele
cations were quartered in the same hotel
So, throwing protocol to the winds and
without more ado, the Secretary of State
knocked on the doors of the various
delegates, introduced himself and sat
down for a neighborly chat.
The formal Latin Americans, little
surprised, were nevertheless delighted
with this show of friendliness-and the
keynote for six successful pan-American
conferences held during the last dozen
years was established there.
The man who retired this week as
Secretary of State has thought OF the
world in terms of his home town, Car
thage, Tenn. That has been his main
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strength and weakness-although in
the main, it has been source OF
strength because he has brought simple
American sincerity to an Office too often
surrounded by the auro of esoteric
mumbo Jumbo.
The Axis Bandits
To Mr. Hull the Nazis in Germany
and the Tokyo military clique have not
been the distillate of complex set Of
social, economic and political factors,
but, very simply, bandits In the
Tennessee hill country where the Sec
rotary of State spent his boyhood, when
man drew gun and, by force, took
his neighbours property he became an
outlaw. The safety of the neighborhood
demanded that the forces of law and
order organize to bring him to book,
put him safely behind bars and end
his depredations.
In such terms did Mr. Hull conceive
Of the international banditry of Ger
many and Japan. In his formal notes
and speeches, in which his aides had
a hand, he spoke in language as pune
tilious and distilled as an Elihu Root
or a Charles Evans Hughes. But when
friends and close associates drew up
chair beside him, he resolved world
problems into the simple patterns of
Carthage, Tenn.
A Man of the People
That quality of simplicity. of resolving
complex problems into their basic terms.
hold he acquired on both Congress and
the American people. Polls have shown
him to be the most popular of Mr..
Roosevelt's cabinet officers in the vast
reaches of America. He is, essentially
man of the people, and the people
understood him.
There is something reminiscent of the
Biblical prophets in the makeup of the
tall, gaunt Tennesseean. Normally the
mildest and most soft-spoken of men,
he was given to outbursts of righteous
anger when he whipped out words that
stung like lash.
Mr.. Hull, his close friends knew I'M
derwent deep anguish of soul during
his conversations with Japan's special
peace" envoy, Saburo Kurusu, which
proved to be a blind" for the long
planned attack on Pearl Harbor
He confided to friends at the time that
he was suspicious of Kurusu, that he
feared the so-called peace conversa-
tons were designed to lull America into
a sense of false security. Yet circum-
stances forced him to treat the japanese
agent as an honorable man.
The Kurusu Incident
But when, on that tragic Sunday
December I, Kurusu came to the State
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Churches
Continued From Page CAY


formed denomination at Fifteenth and
o streets
All Souls Unitarian Church. when To-
Gated at the corner of Fourteenth and
L streets, was the church of President
William Howard Taft, and as Chief
Justice of the United States he attend
ed the present All Souls Church at
Sixteenth and Harvard streets. woodrow
Wilson was the son of a Presbyterian
minister and, following the faith of his
Presbyterian churches in Washington,
principally the Central Presbyterian
Church. After his second marriage he
was frequently seen with Mrs Wilson
at st. Johns Church, across the park
from the White House
President Harding was a regular at
tendant at Calvary Baptist Church, at
Eighth and H streets, throughout his
brief administration Mr.. Coolidge at
tended the First Congregational Church
at Tenth and G streets, and while re-
pairs were being made there, worshiped
for few months, with the congrega-
ton, in the Metropolitan Theater
Building at Tenth and F. streets.
Later Presidents
President Herbert Hoover is a Quaker
and, when in President Coolidge's cab
met, he worshiped at the Friends
Meeting House, then at 1911 I street
NV. When he became President he
more frequently attended the Orthodox
Friends Meeting House at Thirteenth
and Irving streets, and late in 1880 he
transferred his membership to the new
stone meeting house at Florida avenue,
between Phelps and Decatur places.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is an
Episcopalian and the writer understands
that he Is vestryman in church near
his home at Hyde Park, N Y. When in
Washington, he seems to prefer st.
Thomas Church, Eighteenth street. be-
tween and @ streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

They tell how Gen. Lee one day was
inspecting a chow line, which included
the CT cans in which waste food is
dumped. He spied piece of steak in
the garbage. the story goes. He lifted
the discarded piece of beef and ate it,
right out of the garbage can, it is said.
True or not, it Is typical of his attitude
toward unnecessary waste. Despite the
necessary wastage Of war, Gen. Lee sees
TO 1t that nothing goes unused.
The Front of Ships
The docks of Cherbourg are piled high,
mountain high, with the materials of
war. Cherbourg at present is our main
funnel for supply. Here, in the harbor
devoted in peacetime to French naval
base uses. and transport of fun-seeking
transatlantic passengers, literal forest
of ships exists, most of them coming
direct from the United States without
stopping in England, their holds
crammed with the vital supplies of war.
just to give you an idea of how multi
farious the job is. it takes $50, 600 differ
ent items of equipment to keep an army
supplied adequately. And all must fit
into the right niche. If 155-mm am
munition goes to 105-mm. battery, the
guns stop for while. The job of CLASH
fication and trucking is almost beyond
human comprehension, yet it is being
done in orderly, workmanlike fashion.
1t is truly an American job done with
all the unhurried speed and organization
Of a vastly diversified production line.
saw *" rations, for instance unloaded
from ship to roller conveyor, to be
stacked in enormous piles where trucks
backed up and loaded them ready for
the long run down the Red Ball high
way to the front. I saw mountains of
frozen beef, fresh from the Chicago
slaughter houses in refrigerator ships,
and piles of turkeys, freshly frozen,
heaved out of the bowels of ships in
great sings, loaded on refrigerator cars
and rushed to the kitchens of the troops
at the front.
Where several thousand Germans
hopelessly hold out, saw the terminus
Of this line
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
Following the Army's Lines of Supply

Front this winter. The men OF the
service of supply recall the brave days
of last summer, when the ground was
firm and only dust blanketed the roads
Today those same roads stretching from
the western tip Of France to the battle
areas are covered with slippery. shiny
coating of mud Trucks which slip of
the crown Of the roads sometimes are
mired for hours. You cannot park trucks
on roads so you park them in the field,
where they bog down in mud, axle-deep.
Up at the front men who carry supplies
on their backs slog through ankle-deep
and sometimes knee-deep mud
No words are adequate to describe
the slippery, Shiny, cl!nging mud of
combat area. 1t is an ever-present foe,
sucking at the feet of soldiers and sup
ply men alike. Men live and die in the
mud.
The Pace Must Keep Up
Back of this battle of supply are the
war workers of America, producing a
large part of the equipment which is
beating Germany to her knees. And
at these work fronts in Detroit, Oshkosh,
st. Louis, Chicago and thousands of
other cities and towns in the United
States there can be no Stacking.
A major general told me in Cher
bourg, still the main port of debarka-
ton in France, that our main fight is to
prevent cutbacks and reduction in pro-
duction of supplies vital to the men at
the front, their very lifeblood. If the
life of one American soldier is lost be-
cause some one cut back production or
some worker stopped, 1t is an unneces-
sary tragedy.
Another officer, brilliant man with
hair-trigger mind, was talking of sthe
channel through which supplies flow to
the fronts.
Air power is wonderful" he said.
"Air bombing accomplishes great deal.
But the weather here in France is not
good in winter We cannot set any inflex-
ible yardstick; we cannot count on two
good days of weather a week, when air
pilots can see their detectives for bomb
ing.
But air cannot stop artillery. The
guns can fire through mist and rain.
They do fire under any and all condi-
tons. They use up enormous amounts OF
ammunition. The German is a tough,
rugged fighter. He must be blasted out
of his positions, and artillery paves the
way. So when we don't have air we must
use artillery, and we must keep on
using artillery even when we do have
air.
Keep the Ammunition Coming
Ammunition production must never
cease for a moment. 1t is our job to
keep it coming to the fighting men at
the front But the workers back home
must produce it. Cutbacks in production
slow up everything. When Gen. Bradley
comes to us Ghe Service Of Supply mem
and tells us he must have so many thou
sands of 155-mm. shells over such q
period we have to supply them. When
Gen. Patton asks for so many thousands
of gallons of gasoline for his tanks we
must produce 1t. We can't get it from
France. 1t must come from the United
States. Isn't it easy to see where the
battle of supply starts?"
War is waste on an enormous scale
Waste of human beings and waste Of
material. But 1t is orderly waste. Actu-
ally nothing is wasted in the ordinary
sense Of the word. It Is all wasted In
the name Of the advance toward victory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03


dom. Weather is one Of the most Inn
portant elements in fixing D day any,
where. The Signal Corps has been called
upon to setup and maintain long-ranged
weather stations in the frozen north.
In pursuance of this task it has pro-
duced many novel facilities and devices.
One of the most practical is a compact
weather station mounted in truck. 1t
contains all equipment needed for &C
curate long range weather forecasting.
The signalman, like the quartermaster,
and the engineer, has performed heroic
deeds on every front where American
soldiers are fighting.
Every soldier at the front knows that
one of the most hazardous of all jobs
is the laying of wire. This has to be
done at the earliest possible moment
in any military operation and often that
moment comes when the enemy Smelling
is at its worst.
Combat photography and pigeon train
ing are among routine duties. Also the
HldhiIlS Vi ulOFlcS ulCluQlIlS b1lc LTdlIllIlR
films for the other services, the shooting
of neWsreels released through the Holly
wood distributors, and the industrial
incentive" films which are shown to
workers in factories.
The Pictorial Service makes some 500
training films for the Army, Navy,
Marines and Coast Guard. The filming
of beach landings and battles is a task
calling for bravery as well as photo
graphic skill as attested by such pic
lures as Attack! Battle for New
Britain" or the more recent War
Speeds Up"
OF special interest to all is the fact
that Army Pictorial Service is also
charged with the technical operation of
V-mail service. This was inaugurated
in June, 1912. and expanded gradually
After two years the service has become
gigantic-it handled 535, 407 900 letters
in the year ending June 30, 1914.
The merit installment of the Army
Services Forces series, Which will ap-
pear in The Star merit Sunday. deals
NTH the activities OF the Corps OF
Engineers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
BY Nelson M. Shepard

More before of
Allied
munaions
o.
and Its important contribution
and
Like vast sensitive system
to
world
working sit his
Pentagon
of the American theaer
This signal C.
an outstanding example the scientific
a in cetime
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ditions under which delicate Signal
Corps equipment is maintained for use
by the troops. Often the temperature
fingers near the 10O-degree mark day
and night the year around The hui
nudity at times is close to the saturation
point, encouraging fungus growth on
everything. Tropical rains, totaling at
times 400 inches year (Which is over
80 feeD, threaten to drown all military
operations at some seasons Yet the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
BY Walter McCallum,
Star War Correspondent.

PARIS (By MaiD.-For nearly fort
night I have been following the virile
line of supply of the United States fight
ing forces in Europe. I have travelled
several thousands of miles by air, motor
and water transport. with occasional
rail diversions on the badly bombed
railroads of France.
have seen tremendous piles of pack
aged food gasoline, mountains of heavy
shells soon to burst in Germany, Amer
lean Negroes guarding prisoners of war,
divers at work cleaning out ship ex-
ploded by mine in a French harbor
salvaging the shells in her hold and
American Army stevedores working in
huge port under rain of enemy missiles,
producing the tools which are beating
back the Germans beyond the Rhine;
the Normandy beachheads, won in June
at heavy cost in blood.
These are only part Of the tremendous
lime Of supply which stretch back to
every war manufacturing plant in the
United States, across the wintry Atlantic
to the ports OF England and France, and
right up to the gun muzzles Of Patton's
tanks, or the smuggling doughboys of
Bradley's army.
have seen signalmen setting up
vital telephone lines while enemy bullets
whine about their helmeted heads En-
gineers setting up bridges across swollen
streams in the teeth of enemy shellfire,
repairing roads shattered by aerial
bombing, and showing up steel bridges
over which the little railway trains OF
France will clatter carrying sinews of
war from dock areas to the fighting
fronts.
More Shells Needed
Gen. Eisenhower few days ago, asked
for more shell production in view Of
vastly increased demand. But there
never is enough in war.
You see enormous piles of all kinds
of war materials, shells of all calibers,
small-arms ammunition piled high in
warehouses and hedgerows, quarter
master material ranging from rubber
overshoes to "K' rations piled mountain
high. And the battle goes on.
1t is an epic of American production,
and American ingenuity and skill and
organization and brains. The men at
the top, from 1t. Gen. John c. H. Lees,
overall service and supply commander,
down, are brilliant, hardworking men.
Lights burn brightly night after night
in Paris, and in the American supply
offices in London, as highly placed mill
tary men toll to keep the fighting fronts
supplied. Woolhelmeted GIs, coats but
toned tight around their chests against
the chilling wind, toll in 12-hour shifts
on the docks Of the ports to keep the
supply line going. They fall into bed
when they leave the loading job and
drop into deep sleep, to rise for quick
breakfast, and at 1t again. The supply
line must not stop. The guns must never
cease. Jerry is on the run and must be
kept thereby supply.
Our Men Are Besi Equipped
The American soldier is the best
equipped soldier in the world, from the
peak of his wooden helmet to his rubber
overshoes. But this winter he is fighting
. sinister and relentless enemy, in addi-
ton to the volksturm, the Wehrmacht
and everything else Germany has in her
dwindling array of manpower.
General Mud" dominates the Western
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Around the Globe

Around the Globe
The communications system devel-
oped by the Signal Corps has made it
possible to send message around the
globe through five relay centers in three
and a half minutes. The service has
speeded the work of the combined chiefs
of staff at such conferences as Casa
blanca, Quebec, Cairo and Teheran.
Without this service it is doubtful if it
would be possible to maintain these
military strategists of the United Ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
Signal Corps Photo

Biological branches of the Army are the
Air Forces and the Signal Corps, The
Air Forces make the actual observations
and forecasts. the Signal Corps, accord
ing to Army regulations, is charged with
the development, procurement storage,
issue and maintenance of meteorologist
equipment.
Invasion dates are not picked at ran
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03
Vast Network of Communication
Co>0rdinatesWorld Battlefronts

This the fourth
the in
Star bipoest
Evening star., 1944-01-10
Take Ny Word for 1t
Words to Watch.


My earnest advice to speech stu
dents, broadcasters, actors OF stage
and screen, and public speakers
generally, is: do not allow your de-
sire for correct speech to lead you
into the error Of mistaking affected,
pompous speech for good speech.
The two are as far apart as the
poles. ..s.,-. r.
Correct speech is (or should be)
as natural and unaffected as a
child's. Correct speech is that which
is distinctly and properly pro-
nounced. BY this 1 do not mean
speech that is overprecise nor
studded with opulent composites.
I say, shun all speech habits that
smack Of high-hatism.
OF course, there are some people
who are greatly impressed by stilted,
affected speech. But they are far
outnumbered by the general run Of
Americans who actively resent af-
fectations as being snobbish and
lab de dah, a fatal impression for
any one in public life to create.
Suppose there are two crowds?"
Punch was asked. He sagely re-
piled, Shout with the larger
Tomorrow I shall begin a series
Of weekly discussions Of speech af-
fectations which, large numbers of
'readers tell me, are especially irri-
tating, and, when heard on the air,
produce an uncomfortable desire
to twist that most beneficent Of
all mans inventions-the radio dial.
Evening star., 1944-01-10

Road building ip Colombia Is at
an all-time peak.