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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
TO THE EDITOR:

DERMIT me TO congratulate
L you for a fine article, Kind
ness 10 Animals" 1t speaks of
a better day for the animal
kingdom when a great metro
politan newspaper will display
so human an interest in the
cause of humane education.
Never in the history of the
world have dogs and cats held
So high . place in public affec-
ton. and yet never has there
been a time when cruelty TO
them has been so rampant.
You don't need to speak about
cruelty in Seattle. All that you
refer TO is happening daily in
Detroit. One thousand dogs a
month from the homes of ami
NAL loving Detroiters are killed
every month at the Michigan
Humane Society.
Some years ago William Ran
dolph Hearst wrote a letter
about the death of his dog. II
is considered by all humane
thinking people 10 be a master
piece.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
MRS. MARY Il. ZUVER
1864 Ohio Avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I AM sending you a copy of a
L letter from a boy in service
whose name / got through The
Detroit Times Christmas Ship:
"My dear Mrs. Hook:
"The package you sent has
just reached me, yesterday,
April 8. May 1 express my sin
cere appreciation for your kind
ness to me. 1t really was fine
and I am sure that you know 1
will have the thought behind the
gift ever In my memory
please convey my thanks to
your daughter for her nice gift
also. I tell you "Ma," IL Is
really q fine thing you are doing
for us In the service.
kindly ask The Detr6it
Times to express my gratitude
for their untiring efforts on my
behalf and that of all my ship
mates"
YOUR SAILOR JOE.
Gerald Joseph Montieth, r 2/c.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
FOLLOWING is an excerpt
L from a letter received to-
day from my daughter, 1t.
Doreen Russell, A. N. c., de-
scribing Mothers Day services
at Columbia Army Air Base,
s. G. 1t has its own little mes
sage, l think, for a great many
of us on the civilian front:
"This morning I attended
Mothers Day services at our
little church. 1t was really q
gang Of sad looking kids. IL
you ever doubt what parents
mean to their children, you
should see q crowd like that on
Mothers Day. Church In the
army Mt any time Is q real In
spiration, and one can grasp
the true meaning Of religion
more than In any other type
of church. The only reason that
we are all there In because Of
our love and faith In God, and
because IL Is q leaning post for
all the young folks away from
home. There Ii no hypocrisy
and the church is not dependent
on Its collection, for there Is
none. And the congregation Is
certainly not there 20 show OF
Its finery. II IL the real thing,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

WHEN Martin Dies announced
w that he would not be a candidate
for reelection to Congress, he
pleased quite number of persons.
He pleased the Communists.
We venture to say that he made
Earl Browder, the chief lackey of
communism, happier than Browder
has been since President Roosevelt
pardoned him out of the federal
prison where the disclosures of the
Dies committee had sent him for vio-
lation of federal laws.
Mr.. Dies also pleased the Nazis
by his announcement.
If you doubt this, go to the Jail
house and ask Fritz Kuhn.
Likewise, Mr.. Dies pleased the
furtive remnants of the Fascist
movement, for his committees in
designations kept that outfit from
ever being more important in the
United States than, an obsolete
wooden Indian.
FURTHERMORE, Mr.. Dies
L pleased the japanese element,
because he and his committee had
told great deal about their activi
ties in America, and would probably
have told a great deal more had not
the curious diplomacy of the New
Deal restrained them.
And finally, by deciding not to
run for Congress any more, Mr. Dies
pleased the White House, and the
Democratic national committee, and
the Daily Worker, and the fellow
travellers on the federal pay rolls, and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
Quick Questions

A se-second mental test. Score Is
for starred questions, 10 for others an
swered within 10 seconds. Average .
weeks scores for . rating and tn to
improve u each week.
Previous invasion OF France
from England was made (a
5 wears ago; (b) 20 years
ago; (c) 100 years ago;
Id 527 years ago?
2-"Politicians find new words
for institutions which have
become odious to the pub
lie" was said by Cordell
Hull, Talleyrand, Machia.
velli, Lenin!
''3-What American rejected
a proposal to make him
king in a letter written
May %, 1872?
4This is 125th anniversary of
the first steam propelled
transatlantic voyage unde
the American flag. BY what
ship?
5-A physician who owes his
fame to stories about an
,egotist addicted to narcot-
les who lived in Baker
street. London. His manner
''6-One hundred and twelve
years ago the Democratic
party nominated as its can
didate a man who had been
elected four years before az
Republican Presi d emit
Who?
(Answep on Opposite Psgcl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
JOHN JARVI,
3142 r. Woodbridge.
TO THE EDITOR.

TO THE EDITOR:
THE Food Industry Commit
L tee, representing all branches
of the industry. is organized TO
feed the greatly increased popu-
lation of Detroit during the war
emergency.
Detroit, manufacturing a ma
jor part of all material and
equipment needed by the armed
forces, must be adequately fed
if this manufacturing effort is
TO be sustained.
We have read with deep APP
probation the statesmanlike APP
peal of Mayor Jeffries, urging
all parties involved in contro-
versies which might in any way
delay the war effort to set aside
such differences.
We congratulate the mayor on
his approach to a vexed problem
and endorse his appeal with all
possible emphasis.
FOOD INDUSTRY
COMMITTEE,
~ III. w. Green, Chairman.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
MRS. s. ROSEMAN,
2441 Glynn CT.
TO THE EDITOR:

~ liz EDl Il OiNs
TIIE vicious proposal to draft
Il AT and average men into
slave-labor battalions insults
every American.
We do not intend TO allow
Hitlerian practices to become a
part of our living. A war is
being fought to free mankind
from bondage and tyranny. Part
of the battle is won when this
country, abiding by the Thir-
teenth Amendment, keeps free
dom in our nation.
Even to suggest slavery for a
minority group of our men is
persecution of the worst kind.
Furthermore, industrial figures
prove the fallacy of such un-
American ideas.
MRS. b. j.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

TN LOOKING at THE Adyen-
lures of Mark Twain" the
new picture, l wondered just
how far biographical pictures
are justified in distorting and
classifying in the interests of
good taste the facts in the
lives of the persons depicted.
II must not be forgotten
that the great majority of pic
ture fans" do not read books,
biographies in particular All
they know about Washington,
Zola. Pasteur, Cure, Lincoln.
Napoleon or Mark Twain is
what they see on the screen.
OF course. IT is impossible,
] admit, within screen limita-
tons 10 give d full length
portrait, physical and psyche
logical. OF any man or woman.
Pictures are, primarily. for
entertainment. and The Ad-
ventures of Mark Twain is an
entertaining picture although
after 80 minutes 1t begins 10
bore.
Aside from all the factual in
accuracies IN this film, We DO
not get real portrait OF Twain.
For instance, in showing the
titles of MS book MS greatest
volume, 10 me, is left out
THE Mysterious Stranger,
published after his death.
In this book you will find
the whole of Twain, spiritually
and psychologicsliy. II is a
greater personal confession than
his What Is Man."
49,.
I CONTEND that no person
i can pretend to know the
inner Mark Twain unless he il
familiar with The Mysterious
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

Stranger" 1t is Twain's tesla
ment (and how his goody-
goody admirers would like 10
destroy itD.
The Mysterious Stranger is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

president JAMES BRYANT
L CONANT of Harvard, in re-
cent report on the problems of post
war education, expressed the opinion
that the education of returning vet
Grams is one of the MOST IMME-
DATE AND IMPORTANT PROB
LENS Of the colleges.
No one believes, he said, that the
100000 servicemen who will come
back from the war will want
liberal education; however, great
many of them will want an education
that is PRACTICAL, and the colleges
MUST BE PREPARED to give it
to them.
1t will be the business of the
various states to provide for educa-
ton of these young men, and of the
colleges to work out the details of
courses which fit their needs.
81 hope that Harvard University
will be able to assist the common
wealth of Massachusetts, in working
out the details, and that our faculty
members will give every assistance
to this program" he said.
Harvard stands ready to answer
the call of the state officials in this
as in all other matters pertaining to
the public welfare"
President Conant believes that
the rigid requirements for college
entrance now in effect MUST BE
RELAXED in the case of ex-service-
men, and that they must be accepted
on the basis of general intelligence
and mental endowment.
Toward the end of GREATER
USEFULNESS to society, commit
tees are now at work at Harvard
studying changes that might be
necessary in the teaching of med
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
Martin Dies

such publications as "The Nation"
and 1.-THE New Republic" and the
more fearful leaders of the CLIO, and
a most amazing assortment of New
Deal columnists and crackbrained
radio commentators.
GAYS the old saw, man is known
~ by the company he keeps.
But the converse is also true.
A man like Martin Dies deserves
to be most honorably known by the
company that he does not keep; and
Mr.. Dies has never been reticent as
to that.
Of course, the reason for all the
left-wing and New Deal and radical
rejoicing that Martin Dies is quitting
the halls of Congress is based on one
conjecture: that the committee which
Mr.. Dies ably chairmaned for several
years will cease.
Whether it will cease or not, Mar
tin Dies remained in Congress long
enough to complete his patriotic
service.
Because of what he and his able
committee accomplished, the plain
inarticulate people of America have
had a great education in the tricks
and treacheries of subversion.
The republic is safer and sounder
because of their labors.
And, if the need exists or arises,
we may be sure that the Dies COM
mittee will be continued under new
chairman, or else that new COM
mittee will be provided by Congress
to perform it's valuable work.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
WALTER G. FENTON.
TO THE EDITOR:

~ lIlb Eli ON.
I HAVE received from the
L Times a lovely glossy print Of
my sons picture, George Zuver,
receiving his long delayed
Christmas gift.
You may be assured that I
treasure this one above all.
1t is such courtesies as yours
that help smooth the rough
edges of this tragic war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
TO THE EDITOR: =

WORDS cannot express my
W appreciation for the picture
that the Times sent us of my
brother. Cpl. Samuel Jarvi at
Cape Gloucester. Thank you.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22
knowledge Test
BY DIR. sABINA CONNOLLY

Score one for each of the hrst Ave
questions and hve for the last question
$40. brilliant; rs. bright; as, average;
0-S, dull.
Who gave the name Indians
10 the natives OF North
America? Ca Marco Polo,
CO. John Smith; tc) CO.
lumbuS.
. What musical composition
made Cecile Chaminade IA
nous? (al The Torcador
Dance; Ch) The Scarf
Dance" (c) The Elfin
Dance"
"A chukker -iS-a- period of
play IN the game Of Ca
polo; CO. lacrosse. (c)
pinochle.
4-The only American cardinal
now is: (a) Cardinal John
Ireland; CD Cardinal
George Mundelein: tC)
Cardinal Dennis Dougherty.
5-What material is named
after a French village? ta)
Calico. o. Rayon; Co Gre
tonne.
Snatch these columns:
tal vodka w. made chiefly
90 cognse IN West Indies
tcl rum txl wormWood and
ca creme de srfse
menthe 50 ftlm re <
80 absintns ca favored with
90 French brandy mint
ANSWERS ON Opposite Page
Monday. May 22r4a44-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

TNHE BTA bulletin published
L its poll under a heading:
classroom teachers uphold
Mallon criticism"
1t concluded:
1.-THE ones whose actual job
II Is to do the work, do not
think progressive education
works"
AS this is a specific proving
example OF a general condition
of the country, Of which / was
already aware through my vast
mail from teachers, l will pre-
sent a further portion of the
poll tomorrow. showing how
the trust works 10 keep itself
in power over the unwilling
teachers.
Distributed by KING Features Syndicate.
Reproduction in Whole or in
Part strictly Prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

Monday. May H. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

s0-second mental test. Score Is
for starred questions, 10 for others an
swered within 10 seconds. Average
improve 10 each week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-22

MRS. b. J.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
RING SHOW SET
FOR LOCAL. FANS

Beginning Friday night, Noven-
Der 8, Huck Lilies will promote
weekly boxing matches at the lie
gion stadium. On occasion, it was
said. these fights will be promoted
for the benefit of organizations and
charitable institutions in the city
and county.
Lilies is reported to have lined
up several fighters, and is await.
ing confirmation or signed con-
tracts. The promoter is always in
terested in any new corners that
he might hear of, it was announc-
ed.
Already signed to appear at the
stadium are Big Bill Wilson, for
mally in the welding department
at the shipyard and now in the
Navy at Camp Perry, Va. It was
reported that Wilson is training un-
der Lieut.. Commander Gene Tun-
ney.
Lilies has on his schedule George
Eschnian. the fighting Marine from
Cherry Point; Jackie Crawford OF
Charleston; Buddy Best from the
electrical department Of the ship
yard, who is fighting every We'd
nesday night at the Bluethenthal air
base to condition himself o r a
comeback; Babe Saunders Of Will
mington, and Lavnova Of Florida.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
BY Whitney Martin

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-tRHGene
Sarazen isn't a fellow who does
things on a small scale. When he
goes in for eagles, it has to be
double eagles. When he won the
British open in 1922, he had to win
the American open too. When he
Lought farm not long ago, it hao
to be two farms.
So it's only natural for this dou.
ble-or-nothing citizen to come uI
with a kings size idea concerning
golf tournaments. The erstwhile
Brookfield squire thinks an inter
national open 6 OIL championship
tournament would 60 over fine aft
er the war, thus creating a worlc
champion.
This would not interfere wi t /
such tournaments as the British
open and the American open, which
after all, theoretically just deter
mine the champions of those re
spective countries 1t would JUS
be on a larger scale, sort of ar
Olympic game of golf.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
By SID FEEDER.

BARI, Italy, Oct. "a Up Mr..
Billy Conn, the noted Pittsburgh
Pagliacci, opened tn e season in
Triple Bari opera house last
night with a three-act production
that might have shocked Bach but
which pleased Gus @. Fan no end.
Jacobs Beachcombers will be in
terested to learn that the most not
able change in Mr.. Conn Is that
he's grown up to be heavyweight.
The Pittsburgh pretty boy, W h O
couldn't get over IT'S carrying an
anchor as a civilian, has added
inches to his neck, shoulders and
arms since joining the air corps.
He now tips the beam at 100
without the aid of even a ham
sandwich-which is something you
can't get in this land of 'C' ra-
tons anyway. A small part of this
displacement is taken up by what
Tut Tabor, Oakland, Calf, middle
weight member of Conn's touring
troupe, calls the second front"
But timing was bit off, which
is only natural-Joe Louis who was
here few weeks ago exhibited the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
MAXWELL AIRMEN
FACE BAINBRIDCE

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. a.
R)-Head Coach Maj. Jesse Var.
borough offers his Maxwell Field
Marauders to the powerful Balm
bridge Navy Commodores In
Cramton Bowl Sunday in finest
fettle since the season began.
The Marauders used Chatham
Field. Savannah, Ca, for warmup
purposes last week, running up a
40 to score without giving hint
to the technique planned against
cambridge, ranked No. Is among
national teams. Marlborough, Mia
mi, Fla, high school mentor be-
fore the war, has brought in some
sparkling new talent which he
forecasts will provide a formidable
obstruction for the Middies.
Prominent among the Newcom-
es are "Lir Davey" Eldredge,
former Georgia Tech ace, and Bill
Britt, former prep star from Ashe-
vile, N. c. Both displayed flying
colors in the Chatham fray. Britt
may well be presented as Max
wells answer to Charley Justice,
Bainbridge's prize high school sem
Sation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
FORMER DUKESTER
AIDS BLUE DEVILS

DURHAM, Oct IA tR The
Duke Blue Devils in preparing
this week for their game with. the
Army on Saturday at New York S
Polo grounds are getting an added
bit of help from an old time Blue
Devil who was captain of the
Dukesters in 1890, Bill Murray,
athletic director at the University
Of Delaware. ...
Dukes bone-crushe7 schedule
has been such a burden on The
scouts that Coach Eddie Cameron
was forced to call on Murray to
help out with the job of scouting
the Army team. So the ex-evil is
on hand now helping to groom
Duke in meeting Army plays.
University of Delaware is not
having a schedule this fall.
Murray, Rocky Mount product
received his first college grid in.
struction as a freshman under Ed.
die Cameron. He was one of the
great running stylists in Duke
football history.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
SPORTS TRAIL

Here's the way I figure it,
says Sarazen. 'It would take a lot
of figuring and planning. but some.
enc, maybe like George May who
puts on the Tam O'Shanter, could
do it.
'Td suggest offhand an entry fee
Of $3.50, and I figure you'd get al
least 400 entries at that figure.
That would be 100000 to start
with.
Maybe you'd say that was toe
much, but I think you'd find plenty
of sections of this country an d
plenty Of clubs, as we'll as foreign
countries, which have a man they
figure worth entering for the big
prize, and would pay his en'ry fee
and expenses.
Nov getting down to the prize,
That's where the international in.
terest would come in. I'd have 9
first prize of $4,000 and would
award so prizes, with IN 50th
bringing no less than $1,000.
"A purse like that would draw
entrants from India, South Africa.
Australia, France and England-in
fact, all over the world. After the
war people will be flying quite cas-
ually, and would come by air from
all over. They'd figure they'd have
at least so chances to get their
money back.
''Now if tournament like Tam
O'Shanter can draw 600 or more
entrants at $25 4 throw, it seems
logical you'd find plenty of golfers
or their sponsors willing to pay the
$3.50, considering the amount of the
prize money and the fact that the
winner could call himself world
champion.
Naturally, there would be tre-
mendous amount of detail work in
volved. There would have to be
sectional qualifying rounds and one
thing and another. But I think the
idea has possibilities and the right
promoter could put it over"
It undoubtedly has possibilities.
Naturally such tournament would
not carry the tradition of our open
or the British open, since that is
something that must be aged in
the wood. But it might eventually
carry the prestige and be recog-
nized as the e al championship
tournament.
Such tournament, of course. is
a dream for the future, although
maybe not the too distant future.
Freddy Corcoran says he under
stands the British are planning to
resume their open championship in
1915 at Hoylake. successful pro-
gress Of the war permitting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
QUESTION RAISED
CONCERNING CAR
LANDlS' POSITION
Newly Elected President
May Be Asked To APP
point New Head
BY JACK HAND

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-(P)-Be
it Dewey or FDR on Nov. Z, it is
possible the newly elected presi-
dent will be called upon to name
a second commissioner of baseball
shou'd K. M. Lands decline au-
other term
One of the article of the agree
ment that set up the office of dia.
mond car in 1921 contains Sec
ton reading that "in the event Of
failure to elect successor with.
in three months, either major leag.
lie may request the president Of
the United States to designate a
commissioner.
Although Lands is reported i'm.
proved in health after being hos
pitalized and missing his first
world series since taking office the
distinguished ex-jurist will be 78
on Nov. 20 and magnates have
given considerable thought to the
problem of naming a successor.
The job belongs. to Lands as
long as he wants it. There does
not seem to be any question about
that, although there has been scat
tered firing from a few cubs at
times. To the general public the
grey-haired czar is a symbol of
the square deal for players and
fans.
1t has been rumorred that the
commissions would prefer to see
Leslie M. O'Connor, his secretary.
move into the head chair when
and if he gives it up. During the
recent St. Louis .eries, O'Connor
handled the details usually super
vised by Lands and did credit
able job. However, there is much
opposition to O'Connor among
baseball men whose deals and
contracts have been "investigat.
ed by the secretary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
skies AND ADAMS
WIN IN TOURNEY

AS the city-wide tennis tourna-
ment progresses, Robert Sizes was
responsible for the defeat Of Fred
Rippy yesterday afternoon by
taking the first tw osets, SO and
g..
Sizes showed good form and his
placements were too often out OF
reach to put the odds in favor OF
Rippy.
Coming from behind a Al lead
in favor Of Cps Grist, in the above
30 division, Clark Adams defeat
ed the former runner-up In the
civic tourney by taking the first
two sets 81 and 6-3.
Adams took the first game in
each set, and acing Grist with
his powerful serves and putting
MIN at a disadvantage with ex-
cellent placements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
Billy Conn Opens Season
At The Bari Opera House

same lack of tonal quality-but
Conn still moves around like a guy
with a double hot foot and still
has a left hand that can spear a
piece of chicken meat at five PAGES.
Conn's troupe, piloted by 1t.
Maury Schwartz of San Francisco
is here for 10-week tour of Italian
war front bases, after a trip
around England which started as
a three-week jaunt and finally re.
quired three months.
After Italy, it is possible the en-
tire show may return to tour U. S.
camps.
The troupe includes a half-dozen
ETC. champions, including Tabor,
a likely postwar prospect; heavy
weight Leo Matrasini of Baltimore,
lightheavy Harold Raskin of Chica-
go, welterweight Joe Lucignano OF
Hoboken, N. j.; featherweight Jer-
ry Peceraro of Brooklyn, and ban
tam Porty Marine of Santa Bar
bara, Calf. Others are eighth air
corps champs Jimmy Wade of De-
troit, lightheavy; Lew Cecere OF
Batavia, NJ Y, weller; and Ray
WyZsinkoWicZ of New York.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-25
WOLFPACK HOLDS
BLACKBOARD DRILL

RALEIGH, Oct. 24.-R,-Coach
Beattie Feathers N. c. State grid.
ders turned to fundamentals today
in an effort to improve their of.
fensive against William and Mary
at Norfolk, Va, Saturday.
A drill session featuring block
ing and tackling was held this
afternoon and a blackboard drill,
also stressing offense, was on the
menu for tonight.
Tailback Howard Turner, who
turned in brilliant passing and
running attack against unbeaten
Wake Forest here Saturday night.
and End Arthur Eicholtz, both of
whom were slightly injured in the
Deacon clash, were back in uni
form today. Feathers said both
would be ready for Saturdays
game.