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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
THESE DAYS
By George E.
Sokolsky

perhaps 100000 will be re-
CURED for the Pacific war.
That leaves 100000 for de-
mobilization at the rate OF
100000 a monitor about 30
months for rehabilitation az
long as the war with Japan
lasts.
Ii and as more shipping be-
comes available. this rate may
be INCREASED but little hope is
being offered for rehabilitation
in Europe under two years as
long as the war with Japan
lasts and nobody can with any
honesty say how long that
will be.
II is believed that men in the
navy. marines. and coast guard
will have to remain in the mill
tary services until after the
war with Japan ends.
DY THE 1916 congressional
- election, this may be the
sole issue before the country If
il is not handled before then.
No mother can be expected
to be reasonable about her own
children. and when she sees her
neighbor's boys come home
while hers are stranded Some-
where in Europe, she will let
out a howl that will shake the
halls Of Congress.
This is a question OF the ut
most seriousness and the army
public relations with regard 10
il has been badly handled in the
sense that the army permitted
the politicians 10 pass the buck
to the military men.
The army needs 10 have the
full support of our people until
the war with Japan is over.
Bad thinking and worse plan
ming may imperil that support.
After Hitler is defeated,
large numbers of Americans
may say, Never mlnd the Japa-
nese, bring our boys home"
THE army will undoubtedly
Il have TO face that issue and
its reputation must be lily
white when il goes before the
people 10 explain what II can
and cannot do.
The navy faces even a
tougher public relations prob
lem.
We now possess the largest
fleet in the world. 100000 tons
of shipping as compared with
Great Britain's 100000.
Unless our fleet can be
manned adequately, it will have
to be reduced.
The same people who have
been shouting for International
ism used 10 be for disarmament
and having a penchant for shift
ing their position, they may be
for it again.
Disarmament would be idiotic
In the world we face.
The army and navy ought TO
tell the truth and let the poll
ticians fend for themselves.
Copyrfsht. ie4s. ~ King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

the adj mo. As ne was about 10
present a golden egg to Hide
garde at the Joe Miller dinner
tfor telling the Oldest joke of
he year. the hastily prepared
latform started TO crumble.
Walker regained his balance and
then swiftied: Reminds me of
some Of the platforms I've run
on in my time"
When Jackie Gleason heard a
frog-voiced comic he dislikes on
the air the other night. he
groaned: Us that mike on the
bum OF that bum on the mike ?"
All the political palaver of the
campaign reminds Sergio De-
Karlo Of the time when Hey
wood Broun, then a cub re-
porter. interviewed a pompous
senator regarding a scheduled
speech.
II really have nothing TO say"
doomed the solon.
II know" said Broun. but
let's get down 10 the speech.
I AUREN BACALL. the new
~ conner ITO Have and Have
NotD, is that way about Brian
Aherne Her school chums in
town say she was rated highly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
WASHINGTON SCENE
By George Dixon

A JOINT resolution of the
~ Seventh Congress (resolu-
ton $500 DEGREES that the
United States flag must never
be flown upside down except as
a signal of dire distress.
Well, / am afraid Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau
must have been in a bad way
Monday-because the flag at
the south end of the treasury
building was upside down all
day,
| tried to ascertain what was
direly distressing Henry be-
cause can't bear to see him
upset. l always say that what
this country needs is a happy
secretary of the treasury. AT
least one preSon ought to get
some fun out of the income tax
business.
And it isn't as If Henry were
a normally rollicking type who
could stand a little SOLDERING
now and then. He is one OF the
most lugubrious men in the New
Deal. In fact he is so funereal
that President Roosevelt calls
him Henry the Morgue.
i thought IL might be kindly
gesture to send something to
cheer him up-maybe a joke
book or a jack-in-the-box. But
the treasury wouldn't confide
what was wrong.
In fact il had the conSum-
mate nerve to tell me the up
side-down flag had nothing TO
do with Henry. You will never
believe it-and neither will l,
because l have a nasty suspi-
cious mind. too-but this was
the explanation the treasury
tried TO cram down my throat:
"The fellow who raised the
flag just got it upside down scci-
dentaIly."
YOU may have heard about
L the absent-minded fellow who
rented an elephant 10 help him
remember. Well. he ought to
60 TO Senator Styles Bridges of
New Hampshire - the biggest
elephant man in the capital.
Senator Bridges is a staunch
member of the COP which-as
you know - stands for Good
Old Pachyderm." OF course,
there are Democrats who will
tell you it stands for something
else. but I am not going to re-
peat SANDER.
The senator has ITO elephants
made from every conceiva-
bic substance. They represent
the collection of a political life
time.
He has elephants of teak.
jade. ivory. glass. mahogany.
bronze and seal tusk. They
have been sent 10 him from
Alaska, India, Africa, China
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
UPTON CLOSE

.ieie, in the Isnare By Upton
Close, historian and commenta-
tor. u of special Significance
since he compares the place OF
nswspapsrs and radio in the
present political campaign. from,
his experience on three radio
networks.
A LONG-SUFFERING public
"A should know that the ire
mendous part radio Mays in the
national political campaign is
out of all proportion TO its in
tegrity and experience.
Where the press has time and
variety to make what adds up
to fair play, radio only plays
favorites.
Where the press is daring.
radio is timid. often reluctant
TO hear the truth.
Where the press hunts facts.
radio often purposely avoids
them.
Smart broadcasters search for
words and phrases with double
meanings TO save themselves
trouble.
Where the press is soundly
critical, radio is highly analy-
teal.
The press is masculine-radio
is emasculated.
1 take that back-radio is
not yet adult. You cannot say
that a child is emasculated, al
though he may have some Of the
characteristics.
Where the press can be ex-
pert. radio is expurgated.
speak of radio in the aggre-
gate-the full impact of radio
not OF a few courageous broad
casters.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
WALTER WINCHELL

60 sss.-..,-
her-becaase she is not af-
fected.
Motion Picture Magazine
which front-covered Lena Horne
breaking a precedenD sold out
its entire issue making up
double the Giro ii lost in the
South.
The technical director for
Mamoulian's Sadie Thompson"
is Jean Mckenzie. Said to be
the granddaughter of the last
king of Samoa.
In the broadway for Roose-
welt" show at the Aston on the
22d. I hear Jackie Gleason and
Bert Lair will team as Hoover
and Dewey. In a sketch oy
Moss Hart.
War Is He'll item: Barbara
Bannister, the Smithfield heir
ess. has moved into the Pierre
from her Park avenue apart
ment because she couldn't find
a maid.
MANHATTAN Murals: Winter
AVA prologue: The wind whist
ling down Reuben's Boulevard
t58th) at the top of its voice.
The Cossack knife thrower at
the Russian Kretchma who
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24


Yes, very wise to forget
past mistakes, griefs and dis
appointments. provided you have
accepted their lessons and ex-
tracted from tn m q new
strength and self-confidence. 1t
is very unwise to forget the
happy hours and occasions of
the past. These m G m or les
sweeten and strengthen us.
2-You can never become a
leader unless you believe your
judgment is better than that of
all others, even If these others
be millions of people. This was
the call made by psychologist
Frederick B. knight in an ad-
dress to the graduates of an
army specialized training unit at
Purdue. This does not mean q
reckless. bull-headed. know-it-
all attitude. IL means you have
grasped all the facts. see clearly
the goal for your followers to
achieve. know their hopes and
desires and. backed by this
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
Noted News
Analyst

IN the auIts..-Is,. StlOH.
Radio is afraid, of course
afraid Of FLY and the FEC and
Of Congress. ~
Il Commentators are petitioned
by radio tycoons TO please go
easy or the government viii
take us over"
The steady drum-drum-drum
Of radio news Is psycho-fanatic-
ally experimentation in its
very nature.
While this speaker is heard
twice on Sunday, newscasters
taking the easy way are heard
on an average of II times of a
day, seven days a week.
That kind of hammering
works in commercial advertising
1T equally has an effect in
political propaganda dispensing.
Until time can make radio
adult. the antedote to its poison
Of under nourishment must be a
healthy public understanding Of
its shortcomings, and a patroniz-
ing forgiving Of its lack of bear
ing and balance, just as we
make allowance for tirnidity and
lack Of judgment In children.
Sarcastically, we might say.
that radio news. unable to stand
on its own feet. still kisses the
feet Of off1ciaIdom.
1t thus becomes the mouth
piece and greatest weapon of the
New Deal and palace guard, and
for this reason the press must
stand guard over American lib
erty until the 'R" in radio no
longer stands for Roosevelt-or
for any administration that hap
pens to put out the pious propa-
ganda Of the moment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

T HAVEN'T kept up lately
L with the very latest drink
ing-parior technique. but from
what / learn from rum hounds
rum is really the right name.
Rum. the demon rum. used to
he banded around as scare
word by the temperance lee
tuners. but IL never scared any
OF the real old topers.
But now rum has come back
and with il strange colored
drinks of all kinds from the
Argentine and South Africa
and Turkey. TO say nothing Of
some purely domestic products.
made maybe out OF sunfiower
seeds.
What I am leading up TO in
this moral and sociological dis
QUESTION is that the times con-
duce to getting such a thing as
toxic amblyopia, or haziness OF
vision. due to the action OF
some unfamiliar chemical on the
sretina and If you should find
yourself with about half your
visual field clouded some morn
ing don't necessarily put il
down 10 grief over the fate of
the Paretists in Italy.
Ii may be something you
ate or drank or smoked. no
doubt.
THfE chemicals which most
Il commonly affect the retina
or optic nerve used TO be alco-
hol. tobacco, auinine and ergot.
Alcohol and tobacco, es-
pecially in combinations, lead
the list.
remember one old repro
bate who used to soak his
stogics in corn liquor for favor
ing.
He smoked 30 day and
drank the liquor besides. II
should be added that though he
went totally blind his wife then
had him where she wanted him
because he couldn't see the
bottle or the stogieS. so he gave
up his habits and recovered.
Raw liquor because II is
likely TO have queer toxic al
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

hinder the American system
" of four-year accountability.
IL was TO have been expected
that advantage would be taken
OF the occasion of a presidential
election TO ask when the sons
and daughters might be coming
home.
MIR. Dewey's Use of Gen.
Hershey's statement that II
will be- just as cheap TO keep
the troops in Europe as on
government charity evoked
popular response because that
represented exactly what most
Americans suspected
Let's have a look at some
figures: There are al present
approximately 100000 men
and women in the army, navy
and other military services.
From the stan dpoint Of
national economy, they are I'M
employed.
A very large part Of this r.
600. 000-excluding those who
90 TO college. girls who marry
and stay at home. the wounded
who will require prolonged hos
pitalization and a few other eX-
ceptions-will have TO be in
corporated in private business.
II is roughly estimated that
Jobs will have 10 be available
for 55.O00,000 persons in private
business and there is diff
ference of opinion whether that
can be done.
OF THE 100000 troops in
" Europe. it is believed that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
e. v. DURLINC

IN STATE and federal legisla-
4 tive bodies lawyers predomi-
nate. Do these lawyers who
make the laws purposeiy leave
loopholes in some of them? Or
do they actually think the laws
are without loopholes and are
surprised when some lawyers
who are not in legislative bodies
find said loopholes? This is a
question which should have the
careful consideration of all cit-
zenS.
THE boys are certainly a lot
L bigger than they used TO be.
The line of the Maiden, Mass,
high school football team of this
year averages 191 pounds from
end to end. / weighed 156
pounds when playing the line
for good old Commercial High
School, Brooklyn
Now l have a reader in Joyce.
Wash. This town is named
after the husband of Peggy Hop
kins Joyce. l know Peggy well
but have never been able to
keep track of the order OF her
husbands. 1 think Mr.. Joyce
was the second. He was lum-
herman.
John r. FLYNN. Political
d essayist. Was once manag-
ing editor of the old New York
Evening Globe. In those days
Mr.. Flynn was the only manag-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

and even the interior of dark
est New Hampshire.
II always say there's moth
ing Ike an elephant" he said.
thus constituting to the sum
of the worlds knowledge.
IN RECOGNITION of the
i great powers that have been
bestowed upon Sidney Hillman
of the Go Political Action Com
mittee, / have just written this
beautiful lyric poem:
People Of one stripe, or kidney.
Must clear everything with
Sidney.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

cohols and vegetable juices in
IL is especially dangerous.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q-What would you do for a
man of 81 years with low blood
pressure II. X.
A-Congratulate him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
Detroit Times RatiOning Timetable

Airpiane Stamps I and 7-vaiid indef-
initely loose stamps not accepted.
PROGRESSED FUODS
Blue AZ through R-s-valid fnden-
nitely. \\"\.
MATS. CHEEsE. FATS
Red As through K-S-Vaiid Indefinitely.
One %. SALVAGE tat good ter . cents
and tvs meat rHtbsu points.
SUGAR
STAMPS %, n, IA and N. Bsek g.
Valid indefinitely
ming TIM oueh Feb. Is. is45.
Spare Stasp ~, No. Q Bcok-vslfd
for MAXIMUM Of 20 IA for canning.
Apply local board.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
GASOLINE

A Coupon ia gallons Wand through
acc. Al.
B-A and ca Coupons gallons each.
Rs and C-s Coupons gallons each.
tIaw requires state name ana itcrnse
number be written ON every coupon
when received.
FUEL OIL
Period q and Period s-valid In
dehnifeiy
Perisd i-valid through Sept. 80. 1915.
LIQUOR
No. is--vand through Oct 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

A safe and oarm and a true
love ourss
There's nothing on earth TO com
pare,
No rising erescendos
Or depths of despair
BIT constant. deep-rooted,
And alDdys there!
Loretta Sulik.
(Author of above wrote II for
her sweetheart who Is with the
u. S. armed forces In the Pacific
area.)
uOW are you on knowing
IL shades of colors? Know
what "a warm green" is! /
didn't. but / looked it up.
Reason for this research was
that I noted a claim by Col.
George D. Cav. expert on color
psychology. that warm green"
used in wallpaper has a cheer
ing and soothing effect on a per-
son.
The colonel further states at
one time so many people jumped
into the Thames from the Black
friars Bridge that it was known
as 1.-The suicide bridge"
During this period it was
painted black.
The color was changed to a
gay spring green"
In six months the suicide rate
for the bridge dropped so per
cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
Brain Game Answers

Questions On opposite page)
1-(a) Jupiter, tb) Mars, tc)
Venus.
ATrue.
3Boston. New York, Phila-
delphia. Cleveland, Rich
mond, Atlanta, Chicago. st.
Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas
City, Dallas. San Francisco.
+Iowa, 1846; Wisconsin, 1849:
Minnesota, 1858, and Cali
fornia, 1850.
SDenmark, the Netherlands.
Belgium, Luxe m b o u r z.
France, Switzerland, Aus
tria, Cxecho Slovakia.
Poland.
English settlers I'm New
York adopted him from the
Dutch.
Hta) FeudaliSm.
S-Robert Louis Stevenson.
Copyrfsht. 1874. ~ King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

knowledge and faith. are ready
to take the consequences il you
lose.
36Certainly. The advantages
OF group games for speedy
learning are almost startling.
Psychologist L. J. O'Rourke has
shown that by dividing pupils
into two competing teams and
making IL a competitive sport.
they learn grammar five times
rs fast as by the usual class
room methods.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

1-b. &c. Sa. 4b. 5-b.
6-ta) tin, tb) china. tc)
pearl. t(d) emerald or ruby.
te) gold.
Copyright. 1914. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

DEAR MARY HAWORTH:
I AM 20 years old-one of four
Il children.
l have an older sister. one
younger, and a brother II.
Dad is dead and mother keeps
house.
My brother and ! support the
family.
My younger sister goes TO
school and the eldest OF the
family does nothing but sleep
by day and loaf by night.
She does not even clean the
bedroom which she and / share.
I'VE. all tell her. Why don't you
Jet a job or at least do some
7nousework ?"-but she laughs il
off.
She goes out every night and
makes il her business TO meet
all kinds OF men.
Hence she gets much fan
mail
And when mother and l get
into an argument she throws
j, up to me that I am not as
popular as my sister, and be-
cause / am particular about
the house she tells me I am too
fuSSy.
She says she will be much
surprised If i ever get married
This outrages me because l
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-24

No. is--vsnd through Oct. 81.
Evening star., 1944-04-23

and push small farmers to the WALL
Patton, a stanch supporter of the
New Deal and frequent White House ad-
wiser on farm matters. advocates wide-
spread subsidization of consumption in
event consumer purchasing power is in
sufficient to support unlimited farm
production.
John Brandt, president of the Ma
tional Cooperative Milk Producers
Federation, urges program embracing
what he calls surplus holding pool"
under which supplies not needed for
available markets would be segregated
and held of the market until needed or.
until it could otherwise be disposed Of,
at home or abroad
Virtually all the farm leaders say they
think it's vital that the Government
maintain floor" under farm prices at
all times to prevent collapse in agri-
cultures income.
Cite Last Depression.
A sharp decline in that income would
in turn be reflected, they say, in a de-
cline in demand for industrial products
and, in time, in city employment.
The last depression was largely caused,
they say, by collapse in farm buying
power.
What kind Of farm planks will the
two major parties offer?
That's a difficult question to answer
now.
Both undoubtedly will promise full
city employment.
The Democrats are expected to prom
ise continuation of the AAA as an ener-
gency measure for use in event new
surpluses accumulate. They are ex-
pected also to advocate use of measures
to subsidize consumption by low-income
groups.
The Republicans, on the other hand.
undoubtedly will make an issue Of the
AAA. They may promise a program Of
farm price supports which would do
away with benefit payments and sub-
sides and which would emphasize ef-
forts to regain foreign markets.
Distributed b. Associated Prsss)
Evening star., 1944-04-23
CONTINUED CROP CONTROL TO BE ISSUE

there are no surpluses, except for an
occasional perishable commodity.
A prime reason is found in the fact
that there is full employment in the
cities at good wages. Millions of con-
sumers have, for the first time, the
money to buy the food they need and
want.
So, said the farm leaders, give the
Nation full employment, and agricul-.
lures basic problem of markets and
prices will be solved.
Need More Than Promises.
But some farm organization leaders
believe there is need for more than
political promises of full employment in
the postwar period. They believe the
Government should stand ready, in case
Of consumer inability to purchase agri-
cultures full production, to prevent
collapse in farm income and prices such
as occurred after World War I.
Earl Smith, vice president of the
powerful American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, advocates, for example, a post
war crop-control program moderel along
the lines of the AAA, except that it be
administered by bipartisan board, with
members holding Office for substantial
terms on staggered basis. (The AAA
is directed by the Secretary of Agri-
cultureD
Smith asks also that State and local
agencies be given greater control over
details of the program.
On the other hand. Albert S. Goss,
master Of the National Grange, recon-
mends that postwar Government pro-
grams be centered, in event of farm sur
pluses, on disposal of the extra supplies
in foreign markets or diversion into in
dustrial uses in this country, rather
than on production control.
Goss would invoke controls only as
last resort.
Hits Subsidized Scarcity.
James G. Patton, president of the
National Farmers Union, assails what
he terms Subsidized scarcity" Pro-
grams designed to hold up prices by
holding down production have tended,
ne asserts. TO make big farms bigger
Evening star., 1944-04-23

like the old League of Nations, which
had failure" written across its report
card.
suggests that the world assembly mobil-
ize an army to slap down any nation
which points, or even shows signs of
pointing gun.
1t suggests, first, economic sanctions:
That all peace-loving nations imme-
diately stop all business and trade with
any would-be warmaker or group of
warmakers
II sanctions fail, it suggests the COM
munity of states call out armies of mem
ber nations to put down the marauder.
1t cannily protects a victim nation
(Which would have to admit this world
army onto its territory against loss of
territory by providing that the COM
munity never call out just one nations
army for such mission.
1t points out that the old League was
weak because it was unarmed
Concerning ornaments, the plan says:
Each state has a legal duty to con-
form to the limitations prescribed by the
competent agency of the community Of
states, and to submit to supervision and
control with respect to size and kind OF
armaments."
Plans for Army.
There also is the question, inferred of
how the central organization would set
up its armed Observation-Disclosures states
in certain areas, which have not main
tanned important standing armies, may
have to do so.
For the plan gives a new twist to the
international police force" idea. There
is no suggestion for an international
army" as such. 1t would be, rather, an
army thrown together much as the
United Nations armies have been thrown
together since 1889, but not. 1t is to be
hoped, as haltingly and with such grief.
Therefore, the program would require
master mobilization plan. which would