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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
Letters From
A Soldier

out the color he wanted. After
he had II on, the woman who
was selling them said 1t would
be 81.
THIS Il q ridiculous price for
l. a lei, even for a nice one as
we got, but I paid her anyway,
even though Bob kept saying il
was too much and kept trying
to take the lei Off. About 81.
somewhat more or less, is about
right for a pretty good one.
For dinner we had fried oys-
ters, fried rice, rice cakes, some
sort of a Chinese salad made Of
lettuce, onions, water chesnuts.
peppers and a number of other
things I didn't recognize, and q
couple of other dishes, for $1.25
which wasn't bad at all.
Then Greer, wanting to get
back to his books, took himself
of, and Bob and / had our pic
tures taken-three pictures for
so cents-in a nickel arcade.
The photo shop is in corner
of the arcade, with the facade
Of a grass hut built against the
wall for a background, and they
have a lot of props like a
guitar, grass skirts, coconuts,
fresh pineapples and so on.
Sometimes fellows ailors
mostly, I guess-roll up their
trousers or even take them Off
and have their pictures taken in
grass skirts. But Bob and I
are strictly conservative.
And all Of a sudden it was so
late that We had to depart, run
ming to get ahead of the curfew.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

mostly false. Any married
man will testify that about the
most astonishing thing he found
after marriage was the amazing
number and seriousness of the
faults of other women! There is
a psychological basis for this.
Men look at women with a view
TO admiring them, but women
look at other women chiefly as
rivals for this masculine ad-
miration. Women as a rule are
much more critical of other
women than are men.
q 2-Yes. Stronger at least
well trained, active muscles are
the bodily basis for strong. de-
cisive, mental action. other
things being equal, the person
with good muscular tone will
outdo the person with inert,
inert, languid muscular tone.
The first would have far greater
initiative, which is simply the
will in action.
3-No. This is the opinion Of
anthropologists who have spent
their lives with savages. Even
in some civilized South Ameri-
can countries, according TO one
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

tempt to attract a female
stands on his head, turns on his
back, lashes the waves with his
tail and leaps sportively about
the water"
The accounts OF those cafe
and party fights between Holly
wood celebrities should include
the height and weight OF the
participants.
Take that Enrol Flynn Maj.
John Huston fight. Everybody
knows Mr.. Flynn is a 6-footer
weighing around 180 pounds but
most of US are not familiar with
Maj. Huston's weight.
0CHICK" JOHNON Of Olsen
~ & Johnson. One of the
worlds richest actors. Chic" is
still a very spry and fairly
young man but is a rocking
chair enthusiast. He has a rock
ing chair at home and also a
folding rocking chair that he
carries with him when on tour.
He says such a chair is very re-
laxing and good for the health.
JIM FARLEY, erstwhile post
master general. Jim is still do
ing all right financially. He is
chairman of the board of we'll
known business organization for
which activity he receives a
salary of SIS, 900 a year.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
u. v. DURLING

nISPATCH states feminine
~ bathing suits this summer
will be "scantier" than those
of 1914. Hardly seem possible.
However. nobody seems 10 care
how scanty the swim suits Of
the seaside sirens are.
Still, even very young old
timer can remember when
there were laws against scanty
beach attire and policemen
carried tape measures 10 check
on female bathers who went
too far in the matter of brevity
in costume.
II also was not so long ago
when some reformerS were
campaigning against short skirts
for street wear. In fact, in
1921 in Philadelphia there was
an anti-short skirt campaign.
At that time l.200 clergymen
assembled for the purpose Of
designing "a moral skirt" for
women. The ministers finally
decided on a dress that was up
TO within three inches of the
throat and one-half inch from
the ground.
liver see a whale flirting?
~ Perhaps you have seen
flirtatious whale in action, but
didn't realize it. A man of
science says:
"The male whale in his at
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

EDITORS NOTE-Cpi. Pick
sring, former Times eoiumnist.
has left Fort Sam Houston and
at this writing 10 en- route to
a war front. His writings are
excerpts from letters to friends
at this office.
WE MADE our first visit to
w honolulu last week--at
least il was my first visit eX-
cept for rides through the edge
of the city when l was headed
somewhere else on one job or
another.
1t was my first visit in the
sense of being able TO look
around, although Sgt. Bob How
ard had been in once before.
This time ii was his birthday
and although he was feeling a
bit low-I think-he didn't say
anything about it. / guess what
he really wanted was a letter
from home because il was about
six weeks since any of US had
gotten any mail
Greer, one of the Pies who
came over with us. went along,
too, but he's sort of an old
sobersideS and generally gets
bored quickly with what we
think is fun.
WE WENT in the late after
w noon which wasn't the best
possible idea because everything
closes up either in the after
noon or evening early. and
there's a curfew that chases
everybody off the streets at 10
p. m. II used TO be worse-for
a long time the curfew was s
p. m, so what seems strict 10
us seems lenient TO those who
have been here for long time.
Well, since there wasn't any
body else able 10 make a fuss
about Bob's birthday mean,
his folks and his girl probably
had things in the mail for him,
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
On the
Side

EIGHTEEN year olds should
II be permitted to vote. II an
18-year-old is old enough 10
fight with our armed forces he
is old enough to vote.
Negroes should be allowed TO
play in organized baseball. IL
they are accepted in boxing.
horse racing. college football and
track athletics why should they
be barred from major baseball?
The baseball magnates haven't
a leg TO stand on In this argu-
ment and should cease being
stubborn.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
" was paid for the film rights
TO Gen. Lew Wallace's novel.
ben Hur." As a film Ii was
popular but cost so much TO
make it lost money for the pro-
ducers.
When the Scots crossed the
Rhine at the head of the 21st
Army they sang annie Laurie"
Haven't heard what the u. s.
troops sang. IL anything.
Haircut 81, shave Is cents"
That's what I noted on price
list of tonsorial parlor I was in
today. Maybe a haircut il
worth 81 but to charge 75c for
a shave Is ridiculous.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

relief Of Ben Grunstein. while
possibly not aS spectacular as
the relief of Lucknow-Luck-
now had more dramatic stuff
such as a beleaguered garrison
and offstage bagpipers playing
The Campbells Are Comm
had many intriguing features.
One of these features was
that Mr.. Truman, as vice preSi-
dent, had signed the bill TO
relieve Mr.. Lucknow mean
GrunStein.
But. on ascending TO the
presidency, he decided the gen.
tleman had cost the government
too much money already.
1t seems that Mr.. Grunstein,
who dwells in Hudson County,
y. j., went $500 bail bond for
Reuben Finn, A gentleman ac-
cused of being in the white
slave industry. Mr.. Finn then
took II on the lam. as we say
IN supreme court parlance, and
Mr.. Grunstein was requested TO
pay the $500 as forfeit.
Mr.. Grunstein objected 10
playing forfeits ("heavy, heavy
hangs over thy head"J but
finally kicked in $1,000 on ac-
count-on account of that's the
least they'd let him get away
with.
Mr. Finn later was collared
by the FBI in Houston. Tex.
whereupon Mr.. GrunStein ar
gucd he should get his grand
back. The department of jus
tice retorted MOI" saying the
cost Of locating and apprehend-
ing tFBI for "pinching") Mr..
Finn had been approximately.
$1,000.
President Truman decided the
thing had worked out Just about
even-and vetoed the bilh
IN APRIL II, the day Presi-
" dent Roosevelt died. 81 bills
were delivered from the Capitol
TO the White House. Not one,
OF course, was ever signed by
Mr.. Roosevelt. The first bills
to receive the executive sigma
ture were signed April is by
Mr.. Truman-four days after he
took office.
He signed seven of the 81
bills that day-which means
they carry his signature twice.
He had previously signed them
as vice president and president
Of the Senate.
The next batch of bills came
in April %. But by now they
carried the signature Of Senator
Kenneth Mckellar as senatorial
president pro tempore.
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Reproduction In whole or In part
strictly prohibited
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

ference before II started.
They are following in Sena-
tor Lodges tragic footsteps
-. Americans should not allow
such criticism to blind them to
the accomplishments OF the
United Nations.
Remember, when our found
ing fathers made public the
Constitution. 1t was attacked by
some groups.
A few Americans were SO
bitter about il riots resulted In
which some people were killed.
Alexander Hamilton's reply
TO the anticonstitutionists is
relevant today.
"It Is better to put up fence
that does not please every ones
fancy rather than keep dis
putting about II until the wild
beasts come I'm and devour the
crop"
THE Sec'y OF State told the
Il assemblage of the sixth
plenary session that at his
private quarters and at the
steering committee meeting. the
matter had been fully can
vassed 10 admit Argentina.
What he did not say was that
the United States advisors were
far from unanimous and, 10 one
observer, several of the Ameri-
can delegates left the meeting
as If hanging their heads in
shame"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

THE death of Mussolini, Hitler,
Il Goebbels, Farinacci, Starace
and many more great men" OF
the past quarter century clears
the world Of unclean things.
They dirtied the air with their
speeches, their id as, their
actions.
They polluted civilization with
their reversionS to SavageFy
with their foul concepts of
mans relations to man.
Millions are dead today for
no other reason than that these
creatures who walked like men
could live only on death, could
rise to their lofty positions only
upon the corpses of good men
and women.
In the retrospect of death,
what was Hitler's greatest
crime? Mussolini's greatest
crime? What could have been
any ones greatest crime in all
this madness of the past quarter
century?
Their crime was their con-
tempt for the dignity of man.
That narcotized Nazi doctor
who spoke about pruning human
beings as one prunes rose bushes
ran true TO a perverted mall
thusianism.
1t is science run mad.
I'VE ARE not saved from this
w poison either by the death
of Hitler or Mussolini nor by
their defeat in war.
They were only products in
their countries of vast in
tellectual and political trend in
all the world.
Nor did it begin with any one
alive today.
Ii goes back TO the perversion
Of the conclusions of scientific
studies by the materialistic phi
losophers. economists and edu-
Gators who insisted that man is
not the product of a moral
SCheme Dut is an animal no
more significant than a roach or
the little things that are so
green in stagnant ponds.
If they are right, why should
the state not do 10 man what
il might do TO little pigs when
there are too many of them, or
10 cotton when the scientist
wants it TO grow green instead
of white?
In a word. if all things are to
be treated by the statistical
methods of the scientist-and
only that-why should man be
regarded as more than horses
or cows or chickens?
THIS was Hitler's poison. This
Il was Mussolini's poison. This
is the filth in communism.
do not quarrel half as much
with the economies of commu-
niSm and fascism-which in that
field are the same-as with their
lack Of morals.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

COME of the speeches at the
~ Allied huddle are longer than
q rainy weekend at the sea-
shore. The orators might take
q tip from Lord Balfours willy
psychology At an interna-
tional conference. Balfour was
scheduled to follow four loqua-
cious speakers.
Realizing that the audience
would be weary OF diatribes,
Balfour elected deafening ap-
plause by stating:
n have been asked to give an
address. And I shall beg the
privilege Of giving my own. IL
10 No. 40, Carlton Club, and,
with your kind permission,
will 60 there at once"
DLANS for global harmony
L via a world organization isn't
a revolutionary idea. Enlight-
ened men were always aware
that this is the best method of
preserving amity among nations.
The trouble Is that not enough
people believed them and sup
ported the ideal.
One of the advisors of the
French King, Philippe lie Bel,
Matched a plan for a federation
Of states in which he proposed
q general council with a panel
Of judges TO settle differences
between nations by arbitration.
That was in the Fourteenth
Century.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
JACK PICKERING

but il takes quite a while some
times for mail to catch up-we
did our best, and I insisted that
Bob would have to have a lei.
Most of the lei peddlers must
have quit by the time We got
there-many and many a place.
stores, bars, cafes and so on,
close regularly at $3.50 or a
o'clock. We finally found one
sidewalk stand operating. 1t
was just a sort Of table with an
old woman sitting beside it.
A NAVY officer in a jeep, and
"A his wife sitting beside him
wearing an evening dress, were
buying a couple of leis and hav-
ing the woman make up some
corsages, so we waited while the
officers wife explained just how
she wanted the flowers ar
ranged.
Greer began to fret, though.
He's like that-gets bored and
wants to get on to something
serious, usually either eating or
reading or his work. Believe 1t
or not, he's one man who got
into the exact type of work in
the army that he likes better
than anything else in the world.
Except maybe eating.
So we finally gave in to him
and went on without the lei,
and it probably cost me about
SO. We hoped a ride on a
weapons carrier that was going
toward Waikiki and went to a
big Chinese restaurant there.
Well, Waikiki is funny place
now. II used to be expensive
when II was a millionaire's play
ground, and now it has lot OF
nickel and dime stuff for the
soldiers. too, so it's mixture.
There was a stand selling leis
at the restaurant and I'd prom
ised and insisted that Bob would
have to have a lei, so I just
went ahead and had him pick
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

MANY people who suffer pain
A'A in the muscles in various
parts OF the body believe that
they are suffering from neuritis
and IL is true that neuritis does
cause painful attacks along the
affected nerves.
There is one group OF nerves
which especially is affected by
neuritis. That is the group Of
nerves which supply the shoul-
der and arm. A particular con-
dition seems 10 affect these
nerves and IL has been called
acute brachial radiculitis by DR..
John w. Aldren Turner OF Eng
land.
This condition starts with Sc
we're pain across the back OF the
shoulder. The pain passes down
the outer side OF the arm and
sometimes into the upper part
of the chest. 1t continues se-
we're for a few days and then
some weakness Of the shoulder
develops. In addition, there
often is numbness. As this
weakness or paralysis Of the
muscles appears, the severe pain
usually goes away and is re-
placed by a throbbing. aching
sensation.
DR. TURNER has studied a
~ number OF patients with
brachial radiculitis. The patients
varied in age from 16 to 81 and
all OF them were men. II would
appear that the disorder can
occur in persons in any part Of
the world. In no fewer than
one-fourth OF the patients the
disorder appeared following an
operation Of one type or an
other. In another one-fourth
OF the patients the condition
followed some infection such as
malaria, influenza, pneumonia
or glandular fever. In few
instances the disturbance ap-
peared after an injury. such as
a fall on the shoulder. In one
instance. the condition developed
during a period of severe ex-
posure TO cold and rain. In
some cases both shoulders were
affected.
AS yet the exact cause for
brachial radiculitis has not been
determined. 1t would not ap-
pear probable that il is due 10
an infection. because there Is
no fever present nor does the
patient feel sick. II has been
suggested that perhaps a virus
might produce the disorder. A
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL

money 10 support the children.
We had 10 move in with my
mother. She cared for the chill
dren while / worked in a shoe
store.
For two months before he en-
tered the army he did not give
US any money at all.
Now he writes me from over
seas that he wants reconcilia-
ton.
He claims he has changed
and is ready 10 settle down. He
has said this before. but never
did.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
THESE DAYS
BY George E.
Sokolsky

They reject the moral law OF
the sanctity of life.
They reject mans role as the
representative upon earth of
moral law.
To them, man has no dignity;
he lives only TO obey the state
and the state is in the posses
sion of self-appointed man-gods
who force millions to bow before
their pictures. AS though they
were icons.
They revived paganism and
called il politics.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

PROCESSED FOODS
Blue H-7 through M-2-Valid through
June 2
Blue Ma through s-2-vAld through
July
Blue T-2 through X-1-vand through
July 81
Blue "a through C-i-vGld through
Mats. CHEESE. PATS
Red VS. through D-7-Valid through
June 2.
Red Ia through J-7-vand through
July /.
Red Ma through f-7-Valid through
July 81
Ri GA ihrouEh U-1-valid through
ug 81.
Clr N salvage fat E0Od for cents
and Two ration pin
$40
Airp'ane stamps 2 and 1-Vaiid In
u1Ani.ely. Loose sta lbs not scCrp I'd.
IL dlords must rerister all TENANCY
CHANGES and all rented SPACE for
living or sleeping.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08

observer, children of z and 8 act
as traffic policemen and public
officials, and 5-year-olds run
cigar and magazine stands. A
child becomes a full-fledged, re-
sponsible member of his family
at the age when our boys are
still considered babies. Maybe
we begin our so-called education
years to iate!
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

7 AM a woman Is years old. I
l. have been married five years
and have three children--ages
4 years, pa years and l8
months.
My husband is now overseas.
He deserted us before the
youngest child was born.
He has constantly gone out
with other women and was very
brszen about il, taking them
TO movies. taverns. etc.
He would not give me enough
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
GASOLINE

GASOLINE
A Coupon is-4 gallons Valid through
June -
Re aud &C Coupons gallons each
BIZ and CT Coupons gallons each.
Law requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
whcu received N
Gas TOR soldierA--i Faii0n q day Up 20
80 DAYS Mileage Nti0u record for
specific auto must be presented by
soldier 20 local hoard where car is
registered.
TIFL OIL
Periods 4, n. .. . and s-Nshd through
SIGAR
stamp rs, Book a-Nalld through
stamp 3s. Bod A-vaid through
Aug 81
LtOIOs
RAJ n ruok .. 30. S-Vaud thrlu 20
Nay 3f Z QUAR- ~ wri.sy
Ration Book a No 3s-Valid urlu %
May 81. for BONUS, l quart Of Ein
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-08
Brain Game Answers

New York, Chicago, Phila.
delphia, Boston and st.
Louis. New York, with the
. Brooklyn team, has three.)
2-He was secretary of war
under President Taft and
secretary Of state under
President Hoover.
3(b) is correct. The cost Is
slightly in excess of $1,000
per person, the total war bill
to date exceeding $272, ,500,-
100000.
George Barr McCutcheon.
Sal False. A claymore is a
double-edged broadsword Of
the Scottish Highlanders;
(b) True.
6-(a) They are aircraft car
riers; (b) $4,000 tons each.
Nicholas Murray Butler.
Patton and Hodges.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10

financial basis. free from govern
mcnt interference, RECOMMENDATION,
and unnecessary regulation
While the former fivc-year wheat
and twO-year cotton insurance eX-
pertinent undertaken by the govern
ment resulted in a total deficit it
is considered a success by the De
partment of Agriculture officials
!. Carl Wright, OF the Federal
crop Insurance Corporation. says
that the Department of Agriculture
was well satisfied with partica-
patton in the program. One-third
Of the nations farmers were pay
ing premiums on wheat insurance.
Wright cOmmends Michigan far
merS for their whole-hearted par
ticipation in the crop insurance pro-
gram. The number OF wheat farm
erS in Michigan taking ont crop
insurance scared from 1918 in
1910 when the program was just
getting under way to DO 200 at the
end of 1913. The government paid
out some $6S5,0I5 for losses to
Michigan farmers more than the
total of premiums received from
them.
In the state, the program is ad-
ministcred by the AAA Commit
tee.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
RAE NAMED HEAD,
REPUBLICAN CLUB

Washtenaw Young Republican
Club named Prosecutor John ".
Rae for president of the organiza-
ton. which had its annual meeting
in the city council rooms in Ann
ArbOr,
A precedent was established
when Lhe c.uD named two women
to posts within the organization,
marking the first time a woman has
ever held an office or a director
ship
Officers named besides Mr.. Rae
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10

WASHINGTON-INS- Sen. J..
William Fulbright (D) Ark, called
Monday for a question-box plan to
bring heads Of the governments
departments before the Senate
regularly for questioning. Full
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
West London
WILL SERVE DINNER FEB.

West London, Mich.-The follow
ing members OF the Woman s
Christian Service met at the home
OF Mrs. Margaret Miller, Copper
Rd.. on Thursday for dinner: Mrs.
James Edward, Mrs. Elda Leonard.
Mrs. George Hammond, Mrs. Zada
Nauga. Mrs. Editha Heidi, Mrs.
Ellen Cline. Proceeds OF dinner
wereN $40. Due to small attend
ance on account OF bad roads no
business meeting was held Next
meeting will be held at the home
OF Mrs. Editha Heidi, futile Hill
Rd., serving dinner on Thursday
Feb l.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
HAVE No School

Have No School
Due to bad roads the Raleigh
School has been unable TO have
school.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
Fine Points in Brdqe

trick by taking one more than
most of the other defenders prob
ably would.
So he switched on the second
trick to his diamond singleton.
Dummy won. and the heart Q was
led. West came in with his A and
had the nerve to underlead his
club honors. hoping East had the
Q. He did: he won the trick, and
he properly returned a diamond.
West ruffed that for his sides
fourth trick and then scored the
spade A for the fifth, which set
the contract and gave his side a
fair score compared to the others
who played against 4-Hearts dou
bled.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
THE NEED MOTHERS IDEAS

EXPLAINING the rabbit which
he said he saw climb tree, a lit
tie colored boy is supposed to have
said: This rabbit had to-" That
same reasoning produces unusual
results at the bridge table. One
Kind Of example comes in a dupli-
cate game when you are on the
defense against a contract which
you can set, but which you think
Is one trick lower than most play
ers will reach.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
MUST SHOW RECORD

Detroit-The district Office of
Price Administration announced
today that beginning January
Is members OF the armed forces
and the Merchant Marine must
present the mileage ration record
Of the car in which they intend
TO use furlough gasoline to the car
owners ration board.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-10
WOULD REDTCE INIT

Lansing. Jan. 10 AP William
J. McBrearty, Governor kclly'S
new chairman Of the State Public
Service Commission. said today he
would recommend to the Governor
that the commission Ice reduced
from five to three members.