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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
MANENTLy. Bring Our Boys Home PROMPTLY
Youth Being Indoctrinated
With Parasitic Principles
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

ONE of the most disastrous-if
" not the most disastrous-conse-
quences of presidential third, fourth
and fifth terms is the effect on the
rising generation of Americans.
1t habituates, it conditions"
their minds to kingship, to the per-
petual ruler idea.
This habituation works for the
destruction of the very roots OF our
democratic form of government.
These roots are found in the soil
of our traditions. These traditions
affirm that the president is the
servant of the people, that he is sub
ject to dismissal by a vote of the
people. and that, therefore, in the
American republic no man, high or
low. is indispensable to the function
ing of our democracy.
The fact that there is no con-
stitutional provision against per-
petuity in office is proof that the
founding fathers took rotation in the
presidency for granted.
For instance, in 1888 Mr.. Roose-
welt was inaugurated president.
An American boy who was L
years of age in that year and who
was then becoming conscious Of pub
lie events and their meaning would
now be % years of age.
He may be in the army or in
civilian life, but in whatever capac-
itY he is he knows but one man as
president-Mr. Roosevelt.
QUIETLY there grows up in his
- mind in those impressionable
years the belief that Mr.. Roosevelt
is not only the only man fit to be
president but that it is proper to
keep him in the White House for life.
This American boy and youth is
subject to the same lethal mental
reactions that the youths of Ger
many and Russia are subject to-
that is, man is greater than any
principle of government.
The American growing up under
the Roosevelt dynasty therefore
imbibes the same idea of totalitarian
authority that the mentally and
spiritually mutilated youths of Ger
many, Russia and MusSolini's Italy
have imbibed.
How much more deadly will the
inroads Of destructive belief be if
Mr.. Roosevelt is elected for 16 or
20 years
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
POLITICAL PARADE

Truman's attitude toward the
vice presidency He shrank from
il He would have gotten out Of
the nomination if he could. As
he said himself, almost COM
plalnlngly:
THE heat on me TO take II Is
getting hotter"
1t is obvious, now that Sen
ator Truman has raised the
question of fitness for the pres
idential office by virtue Of eX-
perience. that if he were called
10 the executive chair the coun-
Try would have an utterly mex
porienced man in the White
House.
CENATOR TRUMAN is ahSo-
~ lutely without admlnistra-
tive experience. He has never
been an executive.
His one business adventure
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06

CURRENT military events in
" France and in the Pacific are a
dramatic reminder that the Axis was
doomed as soon as the United States
entered the war.
Only military unpreparedness
and confused political leadership de-
layed the mobilization of America s
might.
In the war against the Nazis, we
possessed an invisible secret weapon
of transcendental Importance.
1t consisted of the devastating
memory in the minds of the German
people that American intervention in
World War l reversed the military
tides in 1918. This frightful German
memory heightened the effectiveness
of American guns, planes, tanks and
ships.
German morale must have been
weakened by the insidious recogni-
ton that history would repeat itself.
This hidden secret weapon is re-
inforced by worldwide respect for
American industrial "know- how"
Intellectuals may sheer, but the
practical people of the world recog-
nize as a truism Americas superior
capacity to make things.
A COROLLARY of such pre-e emf
n nence in productivity is world
wide leadership in the material we'll
being of our people.
The situation is exemplifed by an
incident that occurred in France to
an American manufacturer afterthe
first World War.
An American matchmaker was
invited by the banking creditors of
defunct French concern to take over
the operation. Eager to recoup their
frozen loans, the French financiers
were disposed to make the American
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
BY George
RothWell Brown

AS proprietor OF a haberdashery
in Kansas City, ended in bank
ruptcy. II is a tribute 10 his
sterling personal honesty that
he paid off every dollar Of his
debts by hard work and IN
dustry
But the experience scarcely
fitted him for the Senate. for
which place he was picked
originally TO add responsibility
10 the Tom PendergaSt Demo-
cratic machine. and clearly did
not ht him by experience for
the presidency.
On the score of experience, -
the Republican party offers this
year by far the stronger ticket.
Thomas F.. Dewey has been
governor Of New York, the
richest and most populous state
in the Union, for two years. and
has made a record that has not
been aSSalled.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06

THERE is an interesting side
L light on Senator Humans
emphasis, in his acceptance
speech, upon the experience
of President Roosevelt
No other American out of the
100000 or more of our citl-
zens is capable of running the
government! That's his theme
song.
IF Mr.. Roosevelt did not have
the war as an excuse for per-
petuating himself in the prcsi-
dental office, rest assured he
would have Thought up another
one for the fourth term cam
palgn
Just As certain as that he is
using the war this time as an
argument for his reelection is
the conviction in the minds of
millions Of his fellow country
men that he Will use something
else the next time. if he lives.
DUT Mr.. Roosevelt may not
~ live. lie IS mortal, like the
rest Of us. and he has been
under such a terrific strain for
the past dozen years as no other
president in our history ever
was called upon 10 bear before.
Mr. Humans friends frankly
told him at Chicago, when the
question of his vice presidential
nomination came up. that he
might possibly succeed TO the
presidency.
Probably no man was ever
more truly drafted for the place
than was he.
lie told his intimate frlendS
he did not want II. and he was
undoubtedly sincere about it.
And what was the confidential
reason he gave for this reluc-
lance?
His friends have said since
than time THAT Senator Truman
did not want Ahe second place
nomination because he believed
that, if he were summoned 10
the presidency HE WOULD BE
LACKING IN EXPERIENCE
FOR THE JOB.
THERE is no reason whatever
Il 10 doubt the truthfulneSs
and accuracy of these reports
by his friends as 10 Senator
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
GIVE YOUR INTELLIGENCE A WORKOUT
Brain Game

comedy. IN sailors Al work
on an old sailing vessel
5-AS YOU know Jesus was born
in part of the Roman En-
pre- pe-yeH know who was
emperor at the time Of His
birth? Who was emperor
when He was crucIiied?
5-What two large islands in
the eastern war theater were
owned partly by the British
and partly by the Neither
lands before the outbreak Of
World War II?
"A miStral Of a lawsuit can
he caused by errors m
courtroom procedure and the
submission of evidence In
what other familiar way rs
q mlStrlal caused
Sis flag IS white bordered
with red on which has been
placed a green cedar tree
II was formerly a French
mandate, this miniature re7
public tucked away between
syria and Palestine Al the
eastern end of the Medlter-
ranesn What country is n?
Answers on opposite page
g." Sept 1874
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06

If Mr.. Roosevelt has a 16-year-
term in the White House, then any
American boy or girl who was 3
years old when Mr.. Roosevelt was
inaugurated in 1888 will be 10 years
old when the Roosevelt dynasty
comes to an end (if it does) in 1919.
Such an American will never have
known any other president in his or
her lifetime.
That will also breed the belief in
the legitimacy of that which George
Washington contemptuously spurned
"a president-king.
Another bad effect of the present
11-year tenure of the President and
the projected l6-year-term on the
rising American generation is the
conditioning" the adapting" the
habituating of our children and our
youth to depend less on themselves
than their sturdy ancestors did and
to depend more and more on the
government
THE growth of socialiStic legisla-
l. ton in the last / years under
the cunning mask of "seeial" and
welfare" legislation has tended to
change the whole fundamental con-
eeption of the American form Of
government in the eyes of our young
men and women.
They are beifHgg iifh4deetfinated with
the reactionary parasitic principles
of Russia, Germany and ancient
Sparta.
Self-reliance is being drained out
of their psychological makeup.
For it there is being substituted
the enormously wicked but sugar
coated doctrine Of the KEPT"
American.
In a word, the third and fourth
term .flouting of cur traditions and
the Transformation Of American
initiative, self-reliance and the COM
petitive struggle into the Browder-
Laski- Frankfurter- Wallace Roose-
welt Wagner Hillman reactionary
doctrine of DEPENDENCE and
p A r A SITISM are the greatest
problems we Americans will have to
face not only at the polls next No
vember but for years to come.
The Roosevelt dynasty has at
tackled the very roots Of our Ameri-
canism, and the evil that dynasties
as we'll as men do live after them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06

Score 80 fsr saeh eerrsci snsvsr throorh
question 40 eseh Tor the remaining
Two Questions. ToY each incorrect answer
subtract five. AM score IS or higher Is
eAoeiienL
What states were formed
from the Northwest terri
tory
"A marsupial animal is one
having a pouchlike rccep-
tacle for carrying its young,
such as the kangaroo. 10
you know a common marSu-
pal animal OF North Amer
ica?
SIN the last war Russ ia was
shaken by two revolutions
and II wax almost a year
after the abdIcauon o. me
car that peace vas made
with Germany. by what
name do We Know that
peace?
III YOU could listen 10 a group
OF men singing a Chartev
would they DO: lal cotton
pickers singing al their work
m the fields lCl male ,ro-
rus Of modern vs-eal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
DAMON
RUNYON
The Brighter
Side
7 WONDER what became OF

7 WONDER what became Of
i AL?
He was the peripatetic wonder
of the days of my youth. the
undisputed king Of the 'boes.'
He travelled some fabulous
number of miles on the rail-
roads without benefit of ticket.
riding the rods" the blinds"
the decks" and any other part
of the freight and passenger
trains except the cushions" OF
the latter.
II you dig into the "morgue,"
or files, of any newspaper pub
lished in the late '90s you will
probably find columns of reading
matter on AL" For some rea-
son this obviously shiftless fell
low seemed 10 have great news
paper reader appeal.
| do not now remember his
real name. if ever l heard n.
Al was his hobo monicker. a
ltl III III use NiItli dS iioW anu
meaning the same as nickname.
He applied the AL" to himself
as meaning first class, or the
best in the hobo line He carved
it on literally scores of railroad
tanks between the coasts.
The water tanks were the
hobo registers in those days.
The 'boes hung around the
tanks because that was where
the trains were pretty sure 10
stop, and while waiting carved
their monickerS on the tank
supports. usually just out OF
vanity, although sometimes as
evidence TO friends they had
DaSScd that WaN.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06

Nearly half of all pedestrian
deaths occur away from regular
crosswalks. Cross where the driver
expects you to cross Use the
crosswalks and observe traffic sig.
nails at controlled intersections
Your life and limb may depend
on IT,
-AAA Safety Features.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06

THE old time bocs had such
i monickers as "Cincy Skin
Peoria Shine. Cheyenne Red"
Reading Blackie" and the like.
] think II was the uniqueness OF
AIS" billing that may have
attracted attention 10 him IN the
first place and then perhaps he
was found TO III certain type
Of publicity like the "one-eyed
Connolly" of a. few years ago.
who was supposed 10 have un-
canny skill IN crashing gates 10
prize fights and other sports
events without paying.
Much of this was apocryphal.
The character was spurious 10
begin with. The oFiglnal one
eyed Connolly was a man who
lived and died years ago and
whose name and even fame was
= borrowed by this other ono
eyed Connolly the only rcSem-
blance being the fact they both
wore glass eyes. The most
famous story involving the orig
inal one-eyed was the one
about John Kelly. tho old um-
pire and fight referee, finding his
glass eye and returning II 10
Connolly and thereby gaining
the name Honest John "
4 NYWAY. knowing what 7 do
"A bout those newspaper
characters Of my own day
makes me wary of vouching for
the validity Of Al even as A
hobo though the evidence
seemed 10 be in his favor al The
time He could point to the
water tanks If nothing else II
is highly improbable he could
have delegated that task 10 any
one else
| think ! once read he was A
mldweStern small town fellow,
and maybe he still hives In re-
tlrcmcni in his old home town.
He would be quite an elderly
man by now and would most
likely have trouble climbing on
a train standing stu. though he
was once reputed 10 nail EN- on
the fly from any angle. | VIII
say for the counterfeit One
Eyed Connolly that he had
some skill al riding the trains
gratis
TAMMANY YOUNG. an actor
L who was nearly always IN
w c. Fields pictures, was the
first fellow after the original
"One-Eyed Connolly" TO take M
gate crashing. but Tammany did
1t mainly for publicity for HIM
self He knew almost everybody
in the theatrical and sporting
worlds. had considerable diplo-
macy and a lot of his tabled
gate crash ing was actually
gratuitouS admission. He was
frequently the companion Of
some ncWSpdpefn1dn ana gener-
ally made himself useful around
0the press box
That was his right name
Tammany He started as Paul
Armstrong; office boy when
Paul was a sports writer for the
New York Evening Journal.
Then Paul became a playwright
and AS he had TO carry Tam
many along with him he made
an actor Of him giving him
the role of Slippery Jake" in
"A Romance of the Underworld"
which settled Tam'S career up 10
the time of his death some years
ago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-06
knowledge Test
nv DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

Scor, one Tor zach ~ the hrsi ave qurs-
tious and five for the last question. $40,
brilliant, 70 brighti "a, average; OF,
dull
If YOU wanted to say my
darling I'M irish. would you
say. lal BanShcen, Oh
CruiShkeen; CO. Mavorneen.
2-One of our presidents was
nicknamcd "Roughrder':
la) Abraham Lincoln; Ch)
Theodore Roosevelt; Co An
drew Jackson.
3-T'he first Continental Con-
grcSS met in the city Of:
tal New York; Oh Phila-
drlphla tcD Washington.
( LohCngrlnS boat was drawn
by a Dal swan. (b) turtle,
lcl eagle
81 gIr' rs remembered in
Paris since The year $50 be-
cause she defended the city
from the Huns. Was IT, ta)
Joan of Arc; tb) Madeleine;
tc) Genevcve.
6-Match these columns cor
i, rectly Select the nationality
\oLShe opera:
rorI Ape Beu" German
; rrnrs ny ir.h
Tas rsns4 q > i n IN
The pore~-A, pI..t..
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-05-27

The .uuJ. constructed 10 1000. .1o
highway system ,aa, d"Jr.cd tones
dUpus roads,
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Train Air Forces
For Night Bombing
Assaults on Jap Industries
Will Be Continuous.

WASHINGTON.-The time is fast
approaching when the United States
army air forces may need separate
daylight and night bombing groups,
trained and equipped for their par
ticular tasks.
Urgency is given to the subject
by the impending shift of the war
from Europe to Asia. In the Euro
pean air operations the Raj has
specialized on night operations, the
AAF on daylight precision bombing
of strategic targets.
A suggestion that the problem al
ready has been the object of detailed
attention by the war department is
contained in the statement of Lieut..
Gen. Barney M. Giles, deputy AAF
commander, that a number of air
officers and civilian experts have
been studying for the last year the
task of shifting the air forces from
Europe to the Pacific.
General Giles, at a news confer
ence also had this to say:
with III instrument bombing it
is possible to bomb at night equally
as well as in daylight. When the
war started we knew nothing about
instrument bombing (the hitting of
a target when weather or blackness
makes it invisible) but we have come
a long way in the last year"
The concept of adequate, full-scale
strategic bombing calls for continu-
GUS attack, with night bombers TAX
ing up where the day planes left
off. The AAF has made plain that
the initial missions of the giant BIOS
are the forerunner of a strategic air
val against Japan's wal industries.
At present, and in the immediate
future, there is little likelihood that
the Raj will transfer any large seq
ment of its force, including its night
bombing set-up. to the other side of
the world. This, military quarters
say, suggests that it is up to the
AAF and the Twentieth air force,
operators of the Superfortress air
fleet, to bring into being its own
night-bomber organization.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Crewmen Salvage
$I,5OO,OOO Cargo
Take Warplanes and Other
Supplies From Wreck.

WASHINGTON. - Warplanes and
other supplies valued at 81, 800, 900
were salvaged recently by American
Liberty ship seamen aided by Brit
ish soldiers and sailors "almost un-
der the nose of the Luftwaffe," the
War Shipping administration report
ed.
Crewmen of the steamer William
M. Meredith worked IA to 16 hours
a day in the torpedoed, burned and
half submerged hulk of the Liberty
Ship Thomas T. Masaryk.
Capt. Leonard j. Green of Kit
terry Point, Maine, said his vessel,
after a stormy Atlantic crossing, was
attacked by German planes near Al
giers. An attack by submarines fol-
lowed shortly. The Meredith es-
capped damage, but the Masaryk was
torpedoed and set afire.
Continuing its voyage, the Mere
dith ran through "a barrage of
shells fired at each other by naval
craft of rival factions of a Balkan
nation" VISA said. The identity of
liz ooihoii SOuiiIiy Woo ~ 0S
closed. Finally arriving at Alexan-
dria, Egypt, the Meredith got or
ders to return to the Masaryk, which
had been sunk by Allied gunfire to
extinguish the flames and save part
of the cargo.
The Meredith found, on returning
to the grounded vessel, that a num-
Der of assembled PAT Thunderbolt
planes remained on deck unframed,
and that a large number of P-39
Airacobras were unchanged in
cases in the hold. Many trucks and
other vehicles, tires, weapons and
thousands of cases of canned food
also were in the fire-sodden vessel.
The work went forward in the open
sea, under constant risk of attack
by submarines and Nazi planes
based on captured Crete.
The Masaryk was floated a short
time later, and lowed to Port Said,
for salvage and repair.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Asks Rock Thrower to
Call Shots Hereafter

ST. PAUL, MINN.-If a man
wants to throw rocks at his wife, it
is no concern of John Bloyer's, but
he does feel the husband should take
reasonable precautions to ascertain
the wife's general location before he
starts pitching.
Just as Bloyer was about to drop
off to sleep in his apartment, a
large stone crashed through the win
dow, missing his head by inches.
"This sort of thing can't go on"
said Bloyer to himself, and called
police. When detectives were told
he had nc enemies they started in
vestigating.
They learned that the apartment
formerly vas occupied by a woman
who is suing her husband for di-
vorce. They got in touch with her
at her new address and asked her
if she thought the rock had any con-
nection with her previous occupancy
of the place.
"No doubt about it," the woman
told them. ''My husband, in his less
agreeable moments, had a habit of
tossing rocks through my window.
That's why I moved"
Police started looking for the hus-
band and Bloyer went shopping
around for a wire netting for his win
dow.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Bible Society Supplies
Book to Armed Forces

NEW YORK.-The American BIZ
BILE society has distributed 1880, 900
volumes of the Scriptures to men,
bers of the armed forces and the
merchant marine in the last four
years, it was announced. Fifty thou
sand of these ''the society hopes
will never be read" They are the
New Testaments sealed in water
proof containers that are placed on
emergency lifeboats and RATS.
Besides sending the books to &C
tive members of the armed services,
the society has distributed half a mil
lion to prisoners of war, refugees and
civilians in Europe. "This work re-
quired Scriptures in Al different Ian
guages, a miniature tower of Babel,
containing such unusual items as
Scriptures in Afrikaans, Bambara
and Gala" the report said.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25

A daughter was born at the Dea-
coness hospital in Billings Friday,
Oct. 20 to Mrs. LA Olson, wife of
Private Kenneth Olson who is sta
toned with the air corps at Gowan
Field, Boise, Ida. The baby, a
granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
W. Easton, has been named Rosa
Lee Ann.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. L. Price have
been informed of the birth of a
granddaughter, Marry Elizabeth
Price, daughter of Capt. and Mrs.
Harold Price, at Cedar Rapids,
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25

Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Hodges had
as guests last week Mrs. Hodges
sister and brother, Mrs. Agnes Nell
son and George Logan of Moccasin
and Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Altimus
OF Livingston, son-in-law and daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hodges.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Orendorff re-
ceived telephone GREETINGS Sunday
from their daughter, Woman Sec
ond Class Anita Orndorff of the
Waves who was visiting in New
York City with Miss Betty 10 Nc
Cracker.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Sergeant Learns Where
Not to Garry a Grenade

VAN NUYS, CALF. - Sgt. Har-
well Cooper has some advice for
fighting mem lone Of the best
places not to carry a grenade is in
the hip pocket"
The ~23-year-old North Hollywood
iHfantryman parachuted into a Nor
mandy field on D-day. A Nazi
machine gunner landed a shot on
the grenade in his hip pocket.
The explosion left him in tatters,
but he was able to make his way to
q medical unit. He's in Birming-
ham General hospital.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Streamline RefrigeratOrs

Good housekeepers are stream
lining their re~frigerators; using left
overs, cleaning up little dabs of food
on separate dishes, and taking in
ventories of forgotten foods hiding
in the back of the refrigera-
tor. Many foods d~eteriorate in nutri-
tional value with age. These should
be bought in small quantities.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
The Outlook Says:

Miss Cozette Thayer, who is en-
ployed by the Western Union at
Great Falls, spent last week end
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Forrest Thayer.
Mrs. l.. l.. Smith spent several
days last week in Billings with her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lawrence
Smith and children, Kitty Rae and
Lawrence. Petty Officer Lawrence
Smith is with the navy in San
Diego, Calf.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25

Iowa, on Thursday, Oct. 10. Cap
tain Price of the u. S. army air
corps is based in England. Cedar
Rapids was Mrs. Prices home be-
fore her marriage.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
No Help

The popular notion that aspirin Is
effective in %prolonging the life of
cut flowers has no basis in fact, say
fio~riculturists. Experiments tend to
indicate that those who use this
method are merely wasting valuable
aspirin.
Laurel outlook., 1944-10-25
Nazis Scuttle Ship
In the Indian Ocean

LONDON. - The German radio
said that a Nazi blockade runner
recently was scuttled in the In
dian ocean to avoid capture by
Allied warships. OF the 40 crew
men, 1856 were reported rescued
by a German submarine which
appeared alongside the lifeboats.
These were said to have been
landed in an unidentified port II
days later.