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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
One Word Led To Another
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
By Arthur Bugs" Baer

The solo steepechase of Eliza the ice is feeble
potatoes compared with being chased through February
by 30-day note.
1t stampedes you right out through the far end and
burns up valuable days of March that could be put to
better
There has been considerable small talk in banking
and legal circles TO take day off January and off
March to make February bit more chronologicaly
substantial.
February has % days with four Sundays That's
"a. There four half-holiday Saturdays which
makes %.
We only work eight hours day which strikes off
two-thirds of February So take days off the p
and have 13 Now that number is unlucky. Especially
for February.
So we have a dinner hour every day which is % hours
full bulgng day. Take that day off and there
only II days in February.
There is Lncolns birthday Washington's birthday
and grounding day and February is whitfield down to
nine days.
February started out as a dignifed month with
weather reports tidal statistics and zodiac signs Now
its nine-days wonder
IT'S disappearing quick its birthstone must be an
iccle in Hades. Everybody gets cold or two during
the sneezng solstces and the redrmmed equnoxes OF
February.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL

unspoken questions in our
minds.
Just after New Years, our
eldest son asked her where she
got the new captains bars she
was wearing. She told him two
lies regarding them. Later /
found in her coat pocket a
Christmas card, addressed TO
her at her office, signed, With
love" Confronted with this, she
admitted her former boss had
been writing 10 her and had
sent her the bars, which she
asked for when visiting him.
She says she had done no
wrong; that other women do
the same and nobody criticizes
them
She says IL Is quite all right
for a wife and mother to wear
another mans insignia; that l
am wrong IN probing and sus-
PeetiHg her and that my atti-
tude causes her 10 lie.
| feel l can never trust her
again. yet ! hate 10 break with
her and deprive our children Of
a home
We have been married 10
years. What IS your advice?
{. VI.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

his own hAeneSs to bother with
fancy ralment.
Even as recently as Tehran.
the latter day car of all the
RussiaS looked as if he was put
ting up struggle TO retain his
place a IN ong the worlds 10
worst-dresSed men. Roosevelt
and Churchill seemed like fops
by comparison,
But take a good look at the
pictures that have come out Of
Yalta- The fellow has become a
positive dandy!
Mark my words-that man
has been tailor!
I HAVE just received the fol-
Il lowing from Mrs. James d.
Nickerson of 3427 Broderick,
San Francisco:
II want To enlist your aid In a
campaign suggested by q piece
In the San Francisco Examiner.
The plan, as suggested, was to
send wives to their fighting hus-
bands overseas.
May l give you n personal
lied view on this? My husband
IL an officer on a submarine. His
little ship goes out on patrol
and then puts back into q for
eign port.
"All sorts OF women are there
but not American women.
Particularly not his American
woman.
These submariners lead hax-
ardous lives and they need their
wives with them. Why can't
We be sent TO be with them
during the few days In port
when their lives are not In
danger:
Most men would prefer to
have their wives with them than
all the exciting beauties Of
foreign ports, 40 won't you do
something about bringing this
1919 ,"hp"iku w ptuhhhhchst
Tomorrow, when you wake
up and reach out and muss up
your wife's hair, give a mo-
ment's thought to the men who
are waking up alone and have
nothing but loneliness ahead OF
them"
Mrs. Nickerson, I will GER
tainly do everything l can TO
help out. There is just one thing
/ will not do. i will not musS
the little woman's hair.
You don't know the little
womanl
Dn,nbuted ~ Kinf Features synd.. Ins.
ksproduetion In vhols o. In psn
ptrtstsy ssoefssts<.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

No, II IS partly because
you see them out of perspec-
tive. and partly because you
cannot carry your thoughts
into any kind of action. Con-
sequently you should rarely
trust your night thoughts for
they lack logical proportion.
2-No. 1t proves chiefly that
man has never given women a
chance. She could hardly have
done worse than man has done.
He has built a world where
over two-thirds of our tax
money must pay for past wars,
or prepare for future wars;
where no section of the ".
S. population has enough chill
dren to replace the parents,
except those who live in isola-
ton, ignorance. poverty and
hopelesSness. This may prove
man is superior 10 something,
but I can't think what. Ger
tainly not TO woman.
3-We have no exact census
figures on this point. but the
sad experiences Of most teach
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
Brain Game Answers

1.-The tomato. The Spanish
explorers brought back seed
from South America but the
plant was accepted in Europe
only as an ornament.
2-(c) is correct. It was a
term that came into use
about 1906 to designate the
conservative group Of the Re-
publican party.
Summer Storm and Hang
over Square.
$3.50 is correct.
5-Egg and blood stains should
be removed with cold water,
sugar and fruit with hot.
6-False. II Is a high carbon
alloy retain.
John c. Calhoun.
S-A period of unseasonably
wintry weather preceding In
dian summer
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

IF. IN all this matter of Yalta,
Il Breton Woods, Dumbarton
Oaks, the President and the
radio commentators had pleaded
inevitable national necessity,
their candor would be apprecl-
ated.
But when a commentator
spoke of the President being an
unofficial presiding officer at a
Round Table while one of the
two other attendants walked off
with all the marbles, il was just
too much Owl,
Any one who does not admire
Marshal Stain and his magnlfi-
cent feat in eHrehing his coun-
Try by territorfa aEfoot is lacking
in a sense of values.
But what did the United
States of America get out of
the Yalta conference Specifi-
cally-what did we get?
Listening to Jimmy ByrneS,
the principal gain seems to have
been a knowledge of vodka
spiced with red pepper--a con-
coction new TO me although in
my younger days / sampled all
that Russia had 10 offer. Per-
haps, we of the earlier days Of
the revolution, required neither
cayenne nor paprika 10 zest
vodka-our appetites were not
yet jaded.
WALTER LIPPMANN has at
w tempted to discover what
we got.
And after pondering the prob
lem in majestic punditry he has
reached the conclusion that the
Importance of the Yalta confer
ence lies in the fact that the
coalition OF powers did not
break up.
Usually, he said, when the
end of a war approaches, the
Allies knock each other on the
head.
This time, Roosevelt, unoffi-
cially presiding over a Round
Table. reversed that trend.
Lippmann's exact words:
a.. They have checked and
reversed the normal tendency
OF a victorious coalition to dis
solve as the war, which called
IL into being, approaches its end.
They have seen to IL that the
coalition has become closer and
larger, the alliance more firmly
knit, as the war has developed
Possibly this is II. And II so,
II is all 10 the good as long as 1t
lasts.
OF course, Mr.. Lippmann does
not say that TO keep Stain in
the coalition, the United States
and Great Britain had TO sacri-
fee Poland and all OF eastern
Europe TO bolshevism.
A ND how much money is this
~ costing the American tax
payer7
Before Yalta, we heard that
the British and the Russians
each desired 5000, ,ooo, 900 as a
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

DEAR c. M:
OBVIOUSLY your wife is hav-
" ing fiIng-which does not
mean she has switched her
deepest allegiance from her
family TO the captain.
II means she is drunk with
excitement at finding herself
rating high as an attractive
woman and outstanding career
ist in her own right.
To explain her interest in
the captain-you don't seem 10
have much backbone; nor do
you show that largeneSs OF
mind which marks a first rate
man,
Doubtless he is no prize
package, elther-but probably
he has given your wife what
you, for too long. have failed
10 provide, namely: enthusias-
tic appreciation Of her charms
and abilities.
You and the children have
had a taste OF what it's like 10
cope with the household grind.
And Judging by her uemen-
dous drive and successain her
job. suppose she was equally
conscientious and capable at
home before turning 10 war
work.
But ! wonder what measure
Of praise and thanks she got
from you, by the day or month
or year?
/ think your wife is worth
keeping; that she is not devoid
Of integrity; and that she is
mostly in need Of a vote Of low
ing confidence from you.
To damn her for her foolish
actions does not help anything.
You must try TO understand
their significance and consider
your own hasty selfish mistake.
You have done great injury
10 the children. comparable 10
the harm she invited. in harshly
airing your evil suspicious be-
fore them. VI. III.
EDITORS NOTE-Mary Ha-
North eounssis through her col
umn; not by mail or psrsonaI
intsrVisp. Write her in care Of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:
CEVERAL years ago my wife
- took a job TO help the war

SEN ENAL years ago my VIE
- took a job 10 help the war
effort.
She lives for her job and has
no time for us.
Month after month, the chill
dren and / have done the cook
ing, cleaning. etc
About n year ago, following
series OF office parties, my
wife accompanied her boss 10
his apartment one night, re-
Naming there until 2 a. m.
u When she finally got home,
she told the children and me
she had been there in the COM
psny OF other employees.
Close questioning exposed the
lie and a very unpleasant scene
followed.
Finally the man was trans
ferred 10 another city and we
almost got hack 10 normal
again,
Last November, she was sent
TO a distant city in line Of duty.
Before her return, she went
800 miles out Of her way 10 see
her former boss. l decided TO
give her the benefit OF the
doubt, for the childrens sake.
although all Of US had many
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

INDIGESTION. or dyspepsia,
L Is a common ailment Indi-
gestion is merely symptom
and a variety OF diseases may
produce II. Hence. indigestion
can be treated satisfactorily
only after the cause has been
found This requires careful
study on the part Of the phySi-
CIan. Often, X-ray plates Of
the eSophagus, stomach and
gallbladder are made
The esophaGus IS the tube
which leads from the mouth 10
the stomach. one Of the dis
orders OF the eSophagus which
may produce indigestion IS
known as cardioSpaSm. The
exact cause of this disease IS
not known, but in this condition
there is a SpaSm OF the valve
between the eSophagus and the
Many of the persons
lnering with cardiospasm are
NERVOUS and highly emotional,
although nervousness is not a
factor in the production OF the
disease.
Often. the first complaint Of
patients with cardiospasm is Of
slight discomfort and pain IN
the pit of the stomach. They
have a sense Of burning in the
esophagus with a feeling Of
delay in the passage OF food
from the mouth into the stom-
ach. The symptoms may occur
in attacks or may be almost
continuous. During the early
stages, an attack Of pain may
be brought on by eating coarse
foods, by drinking very hot or
very cold liquids. or by some
emotional upset.
After cardiospaSm has been
present for some time. the
esophag may become
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

private. He hoped TO be a war
correspondent. His new job
with Yank is 10 cover musical
events in Rome.
TNIIE First Nights: II was an
Il unusual theatrical week.
Three plays arrived. and not
one was musical The
initial visitor was a marital
comedy. The Overtons." 1t
concerns men who are beasts
and women who enjoy ZOOS.
The reception was not generally
favorable, although the Mirrors
sentinel found that ii had "su-
perior passages Of top flight
comedy"
Based on a colyumist, politi-
cal and romantic problems,
Hope for the Best tries its
best although the script doesn't
give il much hope. Franchot
Tone is likable as the space
filler and Jane Wyatt is lovable
as the eye-filler. The Posts
aisle-sitter, disagreeing with
the others, rated it: "A pleas
ant little play"
The final contribution was a
three-act toast TO fine drama,
"One-Man Show" This is a
thought provoking play that
calls for encores in your mind
long after you've left the thea
ter. The hoorayers were in the
majority, Mr.. Garland finding il:
An evening of sheer delight"
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
-Iha Detroit Timss

PROCESsED FOODS
March 81
Blue ca through G-7-valid through
April -.
Blue ia through M-1--valld through
Juna
MATS, CHEESE. FATS
Red Q-s through s-s-NAud through
March 81.
Red rs throurh x-5-vsnd through
April IS
Red VS. throuEh D-1-valid through
June 2.
and two TatiOn points.
SHOES
Airplsns stamps 4, and s-Vsnd
Indefinitely.
Landlords mus, register all TENANCY
CHANGES and all rented sPACK for
LIVING or tlesptnG.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
Il. ". DURLING

was probably thinking of "Wait
Until the sun Shines, Nellie"
Q-What was the name Of the
gangster who had a huge and
impressive funeral IN Brooklyn?
A-Guess you are thinking Of
Frankie Uale, sometimes re-
ferred to as Frankie Yale. In
1927 he was buried In a $4,000
coffin. There were SO automo-
biles in the funeral procession.
The flowers cost $4,000. At
this funeral "the floral clock"
was introduced. This was "A re-
production OF a clock i'm flowers
with the hands pointing 4:10 p.
m, which was the time Gale
died.
H Up TO the age OF 90
- woman fights against
kisses, between 90 and 80 she
collabOrates. After 80 she re-
members" So goes a much
quoted observation. II is just
a lot Of nonsense. Most co-eds
are under 90 do they fight
against kisses? Also when
woman is between 30 and 40
she is at her best in kiss col
laboration. Such is the opinion
Of our Horses e. Women eX-
pertS.
600 A HUSBAND has in
~ formed YOU his pleasiDgly
plump wife nearly ran herself
into a nervous breakdown try
ing 10 get smart looking dress
for wedding anniversary"
writes a Seattle subscriber.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
On the
Side

"Being on the plump side, can
sympathize with the lady. The
attitude OF salespersOns has a
tendency To give a stout woman
an inferiority complex. Said
salespersOns seem to think moth
ing looks good on stout woman
anyway and she should not be
too particular. Our gran d.
mot hers were plump, our
mothers were plump, our hus-
bands like US this way. We
make good wives, mothers and
cooks. Why should we have To
diet ourselves into q neurotic
size 10. All we need is good
clothes designed by . plump
styIist who Is properly sympa-
thetic."
DASSING BY: "Wahoo Sam"
4 Crawford. Once OF base
balls original "murderers' row"
which was Cobb, Crawford and
Veach Of the Detroit Tigers.
Sam is the only barber ever TO
make good as a major league
ballplayer.
Snowy Baker. Veteran
sports director. Snowy, origi-
nally from Australia once had
a boxing kangaroo. That was
before l knew him. / have never
seen a boxing kangaroo. That
was before I knew him. I have
never seen a boxing kangaroo.
However, / always have thought
that a real gigantic" in the
way of a boxing attraction
would be Tony Galento vs.. a
boxing kangaroo.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

SWeet, lCheH pOu and ! are one,
Earth i0iU bloom dneW
Brighter than the stars and suH
Softer than the dei0.
In a round Of bliss complete,
All our days UiH run
That is What i0iU happen, st0eet,
When you and I are one.
T. ID. Sullivan
500 BROOKLYNITES and
~ Californians try to top
everything? writes a Chi
cagoan. Let them top the
record, as mother, of Mrs.
Dykes of Chicago" This sub
scriber refers 10 Mrs, Frances
Dykes, who has IL sons in the
u. S. armed forces. All these
sons were born before she was
25 Mrs. Dykes married at 13.
When IA she gave birth 10 trip
lets At the ages Of 10, Is and
20 she gave birth 10 twins. At
p and "A she had single blessed
events. After that she was
widow for 10 years and then
married again She has had
four children by her second hus-
band. She is now 43.
QUERIES from clients. Q-AS
W to songs about Molly. Come,
come. Eddie. YOU haven't for
gotten the ditty Amt You
Coming Back TO Old New
Hampshire. Molly"
Al didn't forget IL, hut i
wasn't certain. An editor talked
me out of IL. He said IL was a
girl named Nellie they wanted
back in New Hampshire, He
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
WALTER WINCHELL pr,oSu,v On

THE Microphones: Paul La
u valle's Highways in Melody"
(bankrolled by Cities Service)
is radios Oldest sponsored pro-
gram. 1t starts its nineteenth
year on the sixteenth.
Sumner Welles' discussions
shouldn't be missed. He knows
what he is talking about and if
you listen to him so will you.
The Joan Davis program tfor
United Drugs in the falD will
be booked over Columbia.
Magic in the Moonlight" I"
which many listeners think is a
newie, is an oldie. Maria Grever,
composer of "nppy, Tippy Tin"
"Lamento Gitano" and so many
more, is its parent. In Spanish
il is "Te Quiero Dijistes"
roughly. I've told you that L
loved YOU and all the mariaches
sing il like mad. The words
simply can't be translated ver-
batim into Broadway, and that s
too bad, as they are beautiful.
Frinstance, one line; "Mucho,
Mucho, Mucho" must stay in
Spanish. Andy Russell, who
sings il so delightfully."-, could
hardly sing: Much - Much $500
Much!"
The first four leaders, accord
ing 10 the latest Hoopereport /:
Bob. Fibber, Bing and Walter.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
WASHINGTON Scene
Sy George Dixon

4 kline y old gentleman
n whose name Is either Cal
leo. or RumpelStiltzken, or
maybe IckeS, once said 10 me:
Always fatter your readers.
SO here goes
l wonder how m any Of you
unobServant little Chuckleheads
have noticed the sartorial i'm
provement in Marshal Stain?
Time was when the retiring
Mr.. Stain used 10 look as if his
wardrobe consisted of a couple
of remodeled potato sacks. He
always look ed crumpled and
ShapelesS as if he had spent a
restless night inside a cannon.
American Communists loved
20 drool that this proved the
innate simplicity of the man.
He was too concerned with his
mission 10 remake the world in
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
THESE DAYS
By George E.
SokolskY

postwar stake and that the
United States was considering
whether we would hand out
these billions of the taxpayers
earnings.
Recently, it has been sug-
gested-perhaps after the vodka
spiced with red pepper-that
the Russians would prefer $10,-
000,000,000.
Perhaps Senator Ferguson,
who has shown aStuteness in
discovering how auctioneers
manipulate their noises, might
dig into who gets what and for
what for
Nobody busts a coalition that
hands out coin on this scale.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

A Coupon iA-4 gallons. valid through
March al
RS and C-s Coupons-5 gallons each.
B-s and CO Coupons-s gallons each.
tLsw requires state. name and license
number he written on every coupon
when received
FUEB OIL
Perieds 4. and S-vslid through
sept 80
Perisd, . and s-valid through sept. 10.
sU0AR
stamp ~. Book s-vand through
FEB 28
stamp rs. Boob a-vaud through
June 4.
LIoUoR
~. ts-vilA thro1gh Zee. ga
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

THE answer 20 a repeated
Il barrage of letters and tele-
grams from numerous families
in this country may reveal some
startling and sensational stories
in regard TO American war prlS-
oners in the Fast East
For three years the kinfolk Of
soldiers, sailors and civilians
held by the Japanese have been
bombarding Washington an d
particularly the war department
with questions.
Special legislation to advance
in rank the Americans held priS-
oners by the Japs has been
urged but has not been acted
upon.
Charges that inefficient Off
cials have been handling reliet
matters for far eastern prison
erS have been ignored.
a broad program for early re-
lief of the prisoners, for continu-
Gus and permanent assistance TO
the men who sacrificed so much
and suffered privation and in
dignity at the hands of the Japs,
has made little progress.
Many of the soldiers who
were sent TO the Philippines
with no equipment other than
vague promises were youngsters
in the National Guard which
had been federalized before they
could be properly armed and
trained.
Yet one war department Off
cial told a delegation Of relatives
OF the war prisoners that:
when the war department
takes over your son he belongs
m tho army -
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
THE ROAD TO TOKYO

lust why the human equation
ID was ignored will have to be
told 10 people and organizations
who are seeking an answer.
In the 1941-l942 Philippines
campaign were the 3fst In
fantry Regiment and the 192d
tank Battalion drawn from
Illinois, Wisconsin. Ohio, Ken
lucky, Minnesota, Mississippi,
California and Washington.
The 200th Field Coast Artil-
lery from New Mexico included,
according 10 military records,
the first L.. S. Army band ever
taken prisoner Of war.
Carl F. Whitaker, president
of the New Mexico-Bataan or
ganization reports 1850 men
became prisoners, $50 of them
were wounded, and 3S1 are re-
ported missing IN acton.
No other state has had a
higher proportion of dead,
wounded, missing in action and
prisoners of war in the Ear
East.
The Fourth Marines, stationed
in Shanghai before the war, and
several battalions of sailors
from the l.. S. Nays bases at
Cavite and Olongapo were
seized by the Japs.
In the dramatic rescue of 53l
men at Cabanatuan, one was a
naval rating.
IN THE Philippines campaign,
Il $1,000 Filipinos and $4,000
u. s. soldiers were engaged.
Filipino losses by death after
the battle, from bayonet tor
ture, mass murder and starva-
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Herman Bundesen

stretched. and the patient often
loses weight and suffers from
anemia or lack OF coloring in
the blood.
The disease is quickly dag
noSed by X-ray examination,
and the treatment usually con-
SlSts Of the dilating or stretching
Of the opening into the stom-
ach by the use OF metal or
other types Of dIlators.
OF course, every effort
should be made 10 overcome
the persons nervous and emo
tional difficulty.
Tomorrow Dr.. Bundssen WiH
discuss Kidney Stones")
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20

ers is that the majority Of pu-
pills study neither through fear
OF ignorance nor for any lofty
ideal of self-improvement, but
through fear OF low marks.
The farther you come up in the
educational scheme, the more
pupils you find who study for
self Improvement. Among col
lege students, a fair sprinkling
probably half-really want to
learn something. They are the
saving remnant who keep the
professors from early death.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-20
Connolly Answers

1-(b). 2-(b). 3-(c). A.
(c). Sci. 6-(a) Shalimar.
(b) Wabash, (c)-Tara's, I'D
-Mandalay, (e)-Afton.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Have ePdtienCe
Urges Green
VINO Chief Predicts
Job Rush by Oct. is

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s QNs)
--AFL President William Green
called on working men and women
today TO "act with patience and
restraint in the face Of mounting
unemployment caused by war pro-
duction cutbacks.
Meanwhile. Chairman Paul V.
McNutt Of the VINO said a survey
showed that 20 10 25 per cent OF
the working force in nine of the
nations 166 principal labor mar
ket areas would be job hunting by
Oct. Is
These areas are Detroit and
Flint, Los Angeles, Buffalo-Niag-
ara Falls, Portland, Ore; Wichita,
Kan; Portland, Me; Tallsdega,
Ala, and Panama City, Fla.
McNutt expressed the hope that
the unemployment In these areas
would be temporary.
Robert j. Watt, AFL member of
the WLB, urged that a plan for
avoiding labor disturbances dur
ing reconversion be developed in
the coming labor management
conference.
President Truman plans 10 call
the conference shortly after Con-
greSS rcconycnos Sept. 8.