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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
The Story of Americas
Best Known Smile

TINT year 1887 The place Hamilton College Clinton Y
l. young graduate forth. His assets-imagination,
eassmste of kindred spirit and little cash in his pockets
The young bought little drug supply house 20 by
so feet above store The sales three
of about the countryside by horse and buggy
calling selling and (sid the original handwrtten broohue)
delivering Pills Pellets Tnctures and Pharmaceutical Prep
araons to country doctors nearby Vermont New York and
Pennsylvania.
Apparently they were foredoomed failure But they did
fail Theirs good products Honest preparations which did
what their makers said they would do Instead they began to
succeed.
BY the century young propeors had moved
their business into spacious quarters Syracuse Then
Brooklyn And finally the little drug supply house now grown
neargrea arrived where It IS today-at Hillside New jersey
It was here that An idea which put tooth
brushes and dentfIoes millions OF American homes
Already there many oothpsstes the marketdenee
of But figured the such densely over
crowded field might be for something then
dene which could be OF added service to its users by
ing that brushing teeth be not only matter OF beauty but
of health we'll
They put up such oohpsste capable Of such results They
told people about by advertising modesty at first then with
increasing confidence as results came IN.
Thus came Ipans Ipana and Massage and the rest
tory William Bristol eeded youd his ondes expectations
Not only did Ipana take IFS place leading oohpaste all
toothpaSe sales climbed records More toothbruhes
sold More visited druggists daily More
people consulted more dentists Daily brushing
special Of became fixed the public mind desr
able necessity for both good ah good appearance Today
would regard daily dental anything unusual
must which has brought incalcuable benefits 20
And brand adyersrn6as eXemphed by pana and the
Bnstol-MyerS Compsny-is at the bottom OF It ALL
By telling millions Of people about lpans and Massage brand
advertising has contributed tremendously TO the American
life Brand advertising Of all products only leads to
production and lower prices but will support the S. million
jobs and the 40 billion dollars Of yearly national income which
economic experts declare vital for postwar prosperity.
"soAAhce AMERICAN sUSNtSs"Eo This advertisement Is
series pointing how greatly benefits from
brand advertising IL is brought YOU by Fawcett Publcs
Ino world largest publishers Of monthly magazines
1901 Broadway, New York IS, " Y. A.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
Musicals
Screen

A PAIR Of gay musicals and
two stage shows open at the first
run theatorS tomorrow, while
three of last weeks favorlte films
remain on the downtown cinema
front.
Tipping Eleanor Powell as the
star of Sensations of 1915 to-
morrow's hlm opener Al the
INDUCES IN all the
publiclSts' tricks to put a Stagger-
lng booking agency hack on its
feet and does 4 rhumba with
'Starlcss Night Dennis OKeefe,
w. {. Fields, c. Aubrey Smith,
Sophie Tucker, Eugene Palette.
and the bands OF Cab Galloway
and Woody Herman make up the
t4tEtlttSf-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-17
CREEK IN FOURTH WEEK

"FrenchmanS Creek" Techni-
color version Of Daphne duMau-
rier'S novel with Inan-Eontalne
and Arturo de COrdova IN the
adventurinC roles. begins its
fourth week OF daring deeds at
the United Artists, while Ray
Milland finds his way out of
occupied France with the aid Of
Barbara Britten in TIL We Meet
Again" which stays at the Palms
State. Arsenic and Old Lace
moves over to the Broadway
Capitol.
Lawrence Welk and his orChes-
ira, with voCaiIStS Bobby Beers
and Jane Walton are tomorrow
stage headIinerS al the Downtown.
Comedian Lenny Gale. acrobatlc
dancer Florence Hin Lowe and
songstreSs Donna Dae are fea-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30
Parental Responsibility

In one of our upstate cities some teen- age boys entered the small store of man about sixty-six years old. They upset merchandise, threw some off the shelves, and threatened they would be back. They have not been apprehend- ed so far as we know.
 Of interest is the fact that the citizens of our cities are not aroused by il-treat- ment of an old man or of property dam- age. Boys will stone windows, and destroy property as soon as an owner is absent, but few persons are interested in calling the police when they witness such van ralism. And the police in some conlmuni- ties find that persons they arrest get off due to political influence or other drag.
 Not much, however, can be accom- plished by courts or police until parents realize their responsibilities. Parents, apparently, will not give hang until they are prosecuted for the acts of their sons and daughters. The majority of the acts of the youngsters are done, not because the boys and girls are crim- inal types, but due to their being let run loose without having true home in every sense of the word. A $500 dining room suite does not make a home. The home is made when Dad and Nom love and re- spect each other, and play the game. The home must be a more interesting place to youngsters than street corners and tavernS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

January 20, 1941 - four years ago and it has been on file in the White House ever since.
 Meanwhile she hasn't known exactly where she WaS-except to see various Labor Department
 bureaus euchered out from un. der her.
 Now she plans to quit-defin- itely.
 Actually, this may leave the President in more of a hole than most people realize for it is a tough job to find 8 Secretary of Labor satisfactory to both the CIO and AFL. This is the chief reason why he drifted for four years with Miss Perkins. It waO easier to drift than find suc- cessor. Now, however, Miss Per- gins says she plans to quit drift ing.
 JESSE JONES LAUGHS
 Friends of Jesse Jones have been chortling gleefully over the way the President has kept Vice- President Wallace dangling on the line for months with a Cabinet job out of reach, promising him everything but never quite com- ing across.
 They say it is one of the greatest now-you-see-ft-nOw- yOu-dOn't-see-it acts ever per- formed in the White House.
 Wallace, who practices what ,le breaches when it comes to ideal ism and never considered him. self a practical politician, went into the recent campaign with out any promises from the Presi- dent. He asked for no job in advance, but went down the line anyway. Political leaders ad- mitted his was one of the most effective jobs of thhe entire elec- tion. Without the segment of liberal votes which Wallace swung, Roosevelt might not have won.
 Since then the President has
 been very shrewd in inviting Wallace around to lunch, has asked his advise on all sorts of things, talks to him at great length. But aside from Wal lace's old job as Secretary of Agriculture, or Miss Perkins, thankleSs position as the Sec- retary of Labor, the President never comes across with any, thing concrete.
 Wallace's one ambition is to to help small business. He be- heves that this is where great portion of the promised 60,OO0.- GOO jobs are coming from after the war and in the job of Sec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30
AS A MATTER OF FACT

Most of the children of this country of ours, it is safe to say, have just experi- enced very happy or moderately happy Christmas. Many homes were saddened because of one reason and another most ly attributable to the war which can even dampen the spirits of small children. So picture to yourselves those countries where brutal acts of the enemy occas- toned the massacre of students in second ary schools. This was the year 1941, and the following year, so states Story of Children in the Occupied Lands," gram mar school children were stood up in front of their school and shot. The little children of other lands have grown old and wise in the ways of life in this day and age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

had given the title, long ago, "a scrap of paper"
 The Dumbarton Oaks agreement suf- fered heavily in the loss of prestige. The self or Churchill. Thus the Atlantic over the threat against a new world peace organization. The League of Ma tions popped up, promptly, to remind the world that it has forty-f1ve members, and lot of money, and lot of supporters. Furthermore, the League expects the forty-five member nations to get behind the League and reorganize, and recognize it, as the Worlds peace organization.
 So there you are at the end of 1914. While our military forces are having ter rible experiences on the European bat tlefront there has also been a disturb ing slump in concerted efforts among the United Nations. The situation is not good!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30
The Year Ahead

Five months ago it seemed that the war in Europe might be over today. Four months ago it appeared probable that the turn of 1945 might find us well on the road to reconverSion living, toward peacetime existence. Three months ago it seemed that we should soon be able to turn our whole strength against Japan, even though Germany might not be beaten within the calendar year. Two months ago it seemed that once our presidential election was over the world could set about with hope and enthusiasm to build permanent structure for peace on the foundations laid at Dumbarton Oaks. Today we know that 1945 will be a year of hard tasks and fatal actlonS. We shall suffer somewhat from the sum- 1ner spree of over-confidence and relaxa- ton. but now at least we know that we are still fighting bitterly with two deS- perate enemies whose strength and de- termination are by no means exhausted. This year is likely to bring the heaviest casualties that Americans have suffered In any year of any war. There will be bad news of setbacks and delays along with the good news of victories. And the bad news will be harder to bear be- cause final victory may be almost in sight.
 It will be year of diligence for all of us here at home. We shall have to guard against impatience and Encouragement and war weariness. We shall have to prove to ourselves and to the men who are fighting the war that we can take 1t, stay on the job, supplying these fighting mems needs in abundance and not cheapen their sacrifices by petty com plaintS. From our government, 1945 will ask wiser and more vigorous world lead erShip than has ever been required of an American government. For the President and the military leaders the year will bring more endless days of imperative decisions. From the new Congress it will demand selfleSs, partyleSS patriotism that must guide against action fatal to world peace. But this is also year Of hope. The first day of 1922 found the country almost too stunned by the pre- ceding 24 days to realize its peril. TWO years ago the road from Africa to Ser lin and from Guadalcanal to Tokyo seemed endless. Last year the great gam- ble of D-Day lay in the doubtful future.
 Great strides can be taken in 1945. We have superior military force with super for leadership. We have the confidence of most of the worlds people as the guar antorS of freedom and fair dealings. We have the potentialities of still greater strength to throw into the battles for victory and peace. These are responsi- bilities as well as resources. To use them fully and wisely is a job that calls for con- scious, increased effort by all of us = from President and General to housewife and schoolboy. What Americans do in the next 365 days will have profound effect on the shape of things to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

over 50 million dollars" read MT. Clayton, of which members of my family and I own approximately 40 per cent"
 It figures out to 20 million, net, and it explains how MT. Clayton can afford to take $10,oo0 a year job in the ''little cabinet"
 CONNALLY-JUST ONE
 OF THE BOYS
 One of the encouraging things about Senator Tom Connaly as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee is that he still doesn't take himself too seriously, even though he does wear striped pants nearly every day now instead of just to funerals, and even though he doesn't like to be photographed wearing glasses.
 Connally was in the middle of an- nouncing the results of the Com mittees vote on Archibald MasL Leish's nomination for an assistant secre- taryship in the State Department when a clerk came and whispered III the senator's ear.
 Wait a minute!" said Tom to the reporters. "One of the senators has had a change of heart" He left the room and came back to announce that Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania had switched from nay to aye on the MacLeish queS- tion.
 After the press conference, Sen- ator Connally had big box of cigars brought in. Come and get cigar,' he invited, but qualified 1t with, You've got to come after them yourself; I'm not going to take 'em to you"
 T suppose these are the gift of some foreign diplomat" cracked one reporter, helping himself.
 No they're not shot back Tom. They're from rich Texas oil man. SOMERVILLE DOES SOME INFILTRATING AND FILTERING
 The amount of business done at luncheons in Washington is beyound belief, and most of it doesn't get out because of private dining rooms and luncheon trays brought to busy office desks of the VIPs-very im- portant people.
 Lieutenant General Brehon 6o- merville and Senator Homer Fergu- son of Michigan wre at lunch the other day when the senator happen ed to mention the War Investigat- ing Committees forthcoming re- port.
 "What reportP" asked Somerville in surprise.
 Ferguson told him it was re- port on Army surplus property. The general hadn't even known 1t was in preparation. The result was that proofs were furnished the Army Service Force and Q staff was put to work to check them. Issuance of the report was held up over 0 week and when it finally comes out. 1t won't look anything like the origin al version.
 strangest aspect of the Foreign Relations Committees deliberations on the State Department nomiiA- tons was the importance of the Spanish revolution in the proceed ings. While Senator Murray of Mon- tana was trying to pump James O. Dunn on his alleged Fascist and pro-Ffanco sympathics. Senator Clark of Missouri took after Mac- Leish on the charge that he had colninunistlc and antl-FTaneO Gym- pethle1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

franked all over the country Pew's man Friday, Emil Hurja. publisher of the Pew-owned Path finder magazine, arranged this deal. In addition to the Path finder, the Pews own the Farm Journal, which spread Anti- Roosevelt hate among farmers fo" months before the campaign.
 Not many farmers knew that the Pathfinder and the FarL; Journal were Pew-owned. The propaganda was effective.
 CAPITOL CHAFF
 Heard around the White House: Roosevelt speaks only to God" Query: Has post-Assistant Secre' tary of State Archibald MacLeish sent Churchill copy of the poem entitled "An Ode to a Grecian Spurned" Supreme Court Just tice Prank Murphy has written an epic on tolerance for Liberty mag agine out this week, Hate the Enemy that Bullets Can't Stop" Every American should read it.. ... UNRRA officers in Greecs have abandoned the use of British battle dress. At first British uni- forms were insisted upon by the British. But when UNRRA of- ficers were shot at, they rebelled. G. 1. JoeS are irked over Army regulations which prohibit them from writing to their con- greSSman or the President.
 Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island has been groom ing Robert Murphy. counsel of Greens Senate Campaign h. vestigating Committee, to run for Congress. Those who watched Murphy perform at the Indian apolis meeting of Committee de- cided he was already practicing for his Congressional campaign. He was kissing witnesses Instead of babies. Time after time Mur- phy glossed over important infor- nation dug up for him by com- mittee investigators inside reason why the Senate Campaign Committee steered clear of charg- es that groups of Indiana voters were disfranchised was the poli- tax situation in the South. South ern Senators feared that if the issue was raised in Indiana, others would insist on raising it in the South.
 Copyright, 1914, by
 The Bell Syndicate. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30
What Kind of Peace?

Ever since the beginning of the war the United States has directed it's efforts to- ward strengthening the powers of admin 1StratiOn and organization. The So-called 'isolationiStS" were nearly all hold-overs of pre-War times when citizens joined their voices in proclaiming hopes that our country might keep out of the war.
 Up to the day when the Japanese quit stalling with fake diplomacy in Wash ington and attacked Pearl Harbor our Government and our people were not com mitted to joining the war. At that time our Government was making things awfully hot for Communists in all parts of the United States. But in few short months Soviet Russia was welcomed as our partner in the European war. The armies of the United Nations fought the same enemy in Europe, and from mill tary point of view they were on an equal level.
 Tn due time President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill worked closely together. After these two statesmen had met with Stalin reports indicated that the Big Three were sailing over peaceful seas on the good ship called "The Atlantic Charter. Many international gatherings were held and the United Nations ap- peared to be thrilled with the agreements reached by the Dumbarton Oaks Confer ence. A very few weeks later Great Bri- tain indicated its dissatisfaction, and Russia followed the same course. Then xhe White House indicated that our own Government disagreed with Churchill and gtalin. President Roosevelt made a statement before a press conference say- znn that the Atlantic Charter never had been an official international document, and had not been signed by either him. aeff 0r Churchill. Thus the Atalntic Charter became one of those instrll-
 aG tp which william Jennings Bryan
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

of loved ones, particularly through war. Family life has been disrupted by war work. Our habits have been changed by scarcity of food and other essential products. We are in onC of the most stupendous seasons of conflict and tension that hu- manity has known in centuries.
 What are we to do as we confront thB situation? First, we must do our part to achieve the ends to which all free people are committed. Therefore, we are to remember that God Is stfll supreme. It may seem sometimes as though He has for. saken the world and forgotten man. kind in it's pain. But this is not SO. Our selfishness got uS Into this mess, our faith must get us out of 1t. The strong hand of God is supporting us. All Is not well with the world. but God Is surely in His heaven, and such being the case, we can look backwards and forwards with com posture.
 AT Rights Reserved -Babson NWN1nncg 0yualcala
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30
PLEASURE DRIVING
(Hartford Courant)

It is difficult to believe reports that 8 revival of the ill-considered pleaSure-driving ban of 1943 is be- ing considered by war production officials or by the office of James F. Byrnes, Director of War Mo- bilization. To be sure the type of thinking reported to be behind this suggestion, namely that the ban would restore the war psychology of 1943 and emphasize the need for workers to stick to their jobs" does have an unpleaSantly familiar ring But memories of the last pleasure driving ban should be enough to convince the most enthusiastic of Washington's amateur war psycho- logists that he was asking for trouble in even thinking a reviving it.
 The concept behind & prohibition of pleasure-driving is wrong be- cause its effect is inevitably to penalize the innocent along with the guilty. So long as there is enough gasoline in this country to dole out to the A-card holder his plttance of fuel, that A driver does not interfere with prosecution of the war if he squanders his precious gallons on Sunday trip to the country, or If his wife burns them up by way of getting occasional re- lief from shopping by bus and bic cycle. It is B and o drivers, not A book holders who are likely to waste gasoline for purposes that are out of place in war time. Restrlc- tons on driving should be tlghten- ed only If there is 0 shortage of gasoline, which has still to be demonstrated. And if Q shortage does come. the screws should be applied to D and O card holders.
 If as it seems the trouble is not & shortage Of gasoline at all. but q lack of appreciation by war work CTS and others of the seriousness of the war, then a revival Of the pleasure e-di4ving ban, with It's baek- @olmd of pgehibiMonist thinking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

retary of Commerce he has some ideas that he thinks would spur small business and produce joo5.
 But sitting at FDR's right. hand in the White House sits Harry Hopkins, bosom pal of Jesse Jones. And every time the President gets tender heart ed about offering Wallace some thing important, Harry jogs his elbow.
 NOTE-In view of Roosevel,'s apparent drifting away from the Atlantic Charter, some of Wall lace's friends are urging him ncs to accept any job in the Admin iStration for fear Roosevelt and all with him will go out of Of flee bitterly criticized for not carrying out their professed ideals PEWS FINANCE MISSOURI
 Fair-minded Congressmen more and more are demanding re- vision of the Corrupt Practices Act as a result of certain delft operations revealed in the recent election campaign. They say tina: the Corrupt Practices Act, sup posed to clean up elections, now counts for about as much as the Volstead Act.
 In St. Louis, for instance, it has now developed that the pow erful Pew family of Philadelphia handed out health contributions to finance the Republican State Committee of Missouri, but also the Republican City Committee of St. Louis.
 Philadelphia is a long way from Missouri, but Joe Pew of the Sun Shipbuilding company and his brother, J. Howard Pew head of the Sun Oil, together with Mary Ethel Pew, an Oblig- ing relative who knows nothing about politics, each plunked in $1,0OO to both the COP city and State campaigns, making a total of $6,O0O from the Pennsylvania Pews to Missouri politics.
 In addition, the COP organiza- ton in Missouri got $2,000 con- tribution from the Republican Fi- nance Committee of Ohio whicl. seemed to be plentifully supplied with cash.
 Then Joe Pew also paid for sev- eral million postcards printed by the Government Printing Office featuring a speech by Congress man Busbey of Illinois which were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30
Selected Poem
IN MEMORY: STEPHEN BENET
Robert P. Tristram Coffin in The christial

(Robert P. Tristram Coffin in The Christian
 Science MonitoD We shall recall him always where white American thunderheads stand up from night, Always when wind brings the hunting -horn, And American asters stand by the corn. New Hampshire will mind us, his Danl drove The Devil from her sweet maple grove, Maple trees never will burst into flame But they will light up his American name. His name Is now the echo in hills, Cabin smoke rising. sad whippoorwills, Riddles and quick feet shaking floor, And the ghostly god in the sycamore For he was American as they come, As Yankee Doodle or Seneca drum, AS bayberry candles, yarrow and sorrel, And the May-night Hazards of mountain laurel. He could sing light as the deer in the dew, Deep as the thunder that Gettysburg knew, High as the clouds where bald eagles hang, Whatever he wrote. always he sang. Safe with the eagle, the seal of our state, Safe in the lilacs where thrushes mate, He with Walt Whitman goes singing along, Safe in the heart of American song.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-30

What are they going to do now? Those folks who get their tickets for hit shows in New York City from brokers. Time was when you went to theatre ana bought your ticket at the box office win, dow. But that custom became dated some time ago. However, the CommlS- missioner of Licenses down there declares that the new ruling will go into effect. You guessed it-a legal battle IS expected.