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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
Looking Up
Lord Halifax

and OF course. the subject of
the loan came up.
our hero forgot his intentions
and began TO voice his views.
He was getting warmed up,
even hot, when he saw the other
publisher bearing down upon
him with a kicking look in his
eyes.
So he decided IL was time 20
change the subject. He told the
stranger ne thought ne should
look up his host. He chokcd
and began looking wildly for
tho nearest exit when the
stranger SAID blanGly:
Aos've hooked him tip al
ready. am Lord Halifax"
Upwards Of 1900 men who
y bore the brunt OF fighting
AZ BsS Stogne in the Battle Of
the Bulge" on Dec 90 1874.
VIII be- ~ their radios tonight
10 hear the man who com
manded them General An
thonY & McAulifIc - extend
Christmas greetings.
This IS part of the message
General McAullffe will deliver:
Wherever YOU are, as long
as you live, cherish the shoul-
der patch YOU wore In Bastogne
1t Is the insignia OF an ever
lasting brotherhood.
"On this Christmas Eve We
all join In reverent homage 10
those Of our number who paid
with their lives as a measure of
their devotion. We grieve with
the families Of these men.
Those Of you who are now
American soldiers of peace will.
i know, be rs true 10 America
as you were year ago, when
you were soldiers OF war"
That true Christmas mos
sage Thank God for men of
fine and simple thoughts.
Reproduction in whole or In part
strictly prohibited
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
One Word Led to Another
she says!"
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER-
The NiahtRafate-Ghtistmas-

The Night Before Christmas
I'M JUST fellow who around doing good That's why
/ folks sayi give them the run-around
This Is the of peace earth and good
UH to men That's fine, except lately they haze
been putting it up in Dery small packages
Nevertheless 1945 the OF victory for
American arms production and transportation We sure
made some doer-todoor deliveries.
I'm getting pretty nice presents tomorrow I'm an
bundehefter pick up by the string and
guess its weight First put TO 1t to locate ticking
sound There turnps in this world who would like
put capsule my tea. That's why drink out
of the
rTNHE step shake the bundle to see It gres
/ If it gurgles open it Immediately If it doesn't gurge
/ open to find why not.
I can tell by the shape of the package Uho sent
it and Why they Dant to get rid of It. That means
feel around the bundle to locate sharp corners
handles and knobs and things. The easiest present
is uery difficult wrap those bjects in holiday
mood.
present got far my shoes back from the
cobbers Then my wife made nice present OF mascu-
line bath perfume 1t is wonderful scent They call II
Essence of Old Tomato,
COMEBODY also jar of Stay-Bad for my fright
~ ened pompadour Of perplexed wrinkles guess the
preest thing getting is combination snoodneckue
for my double chns IN trlplicate
You knoD l must be getting ouUfuI old on the
Uine. haue reached that terrible age Where like
useful presents
l have mittens long underwear folding toothpick
carpet slippers tried them and couldn't get my right
foot the ground think my wife made the slippers out
of different steps from the hall stairs carpet
That makes fine present for Particularly can
look asonshed demand hope you have just nice
Christmas and that you will return the stepadder you Tor
rowed last Chistmas Eve The cops detourng trafte
when start putting up the broken glass ornaments.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
WASHINGTON
SCENE

ORDINARlLY I am very cir
~ cumspect toward publish
ers because ! always say, what
the devil, what is the sense Of
biting the hand that feeds you
and besides the hands of
publishers usually are not very
tender eating. being calloused
from years OF unremittlng toll.
However II | am 20 be an
honest reporter. objective and
CONSCIENTIOUS, cannot 70
around suppreSSing news Just
because a publisher is invoked
] trust this will be understood
and appreciated and people Will
say goodness gracious me that
Dixon IS certainly fearless,
isn't he?
The thing I must report, II I
am 10 be true 10 my trust--and
also get out column today
when there is positively nothing
stirring, not even a mouSe--iS
that publisher opened his
mouth and put his foot right
In II.
He came here with other
publishers and was feted around
end about, largely by parties
who crave the goodwill of pub
liShers. This is a fairly wide
category. they tell me, because
many appear 10 feel II is nicer
90 have n publisher for you
than against you, particularly
~ this season OF peace on earth.
goodwill 10 men and Merry
Christmas 70 you both, Tony
and Sally De Marco.
! 4 LWAYS the publishers we're
given fairly large slices OF
the IA, OF the land, including a
luncheon in the Senate restau-
rant where there is Fat Al all
times, although not on the
menu.
They also were given feed
ing az the White House, but
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
Bv WALTER WINCHELI

knitted with Laurence Ohvier's
stylish acting.
The gunplay is the thing in
Frontier Gal" The sagebrush
saga is loaded with Yvonne De
Carlo, a pretty person and a
pretty good player.
Prison Ship" is one of those
Jap mellers wherein the feeble
script dIeS 1T action.
South of the Rio Grande" is
embellished with a few charm
fuls. But the tepid tale makes
them seem glamatuerish.
House on 92nd ST. won the
blue ribbon for Nov. from Natl
Screen Council.
The runnerSup we're: week
end at the Waldorf. Mildred
Pierce" Kiss and Tell" Dolly
Sisters" and Spanish Main"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
BROADWAY
RHYTHM
Quotation MarkmanAlip--
John w. RAPER: Success has

Quotation Workmanship
John w. RAPER: Success has
q" made failures of many men.
Anon: One man with courage
names a majority.
Doris Keane: Romance and
marriage are two diffehent
things.
VoItaire: Satire lies about
literary men while they live and
eulogy lies about them when
they die
Alan Sands: He's one of those
in-the-nobodies.
Wilson Miner: There is
something about a closet that
makes a skeleton terribly rest
less.
Helen Sims: Unplanned as a
hiccup.
G. Santayana Dying is some
thing CHASTITY as being born is
something ridiculous.
Kay Boyfe--A fsce SCARED by
arrogance.
G.. B. Shaw: In Heaven an
angel is nobody in particular.
Anon: Imagination is some
thing that sits up With a woman
when her husband comes home
L7te.
TIA story Tellers--
CHAAS. JACKSON,S next book
I "-hhe Fall of Valor," will
SURPRISE those who found his
Lost v 'eekend" daring The
name of the hero (Don, Birnam)
of Lost Weekend no doubt
came from the line in Macbeth
-o-"Birnam u ood shall come TO
Dunsinane. ct. Birnam Wood
is a forest ard Dunsinane is
Macbeths castle.
buttons paid off an author
with $4,000 rather, than publish
"TreaSon's Peace The pres
sure by cartelists SeXpoSed IN
it did IL.
II. l.. Menckcn, author OF
The a African Lin guage,
memos: Il am filing the TACT IN
my archives at once.
II l.. 4
20 Renuvatc tmeaning divtN CO }
is entering into the official ~ az
phraSeology Of the republic. a I
viii be remembered in youl
favor when you get to the death
house. Yours, II. L. NJ
The Cinemagicians--
4 DVENTURE for Two" is an
.xrvarfI.s tatIaw-a
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25

DDS are now known by which
all children with normal minds
can be made into good readers.
Parents who have children be-
hind in reading should know
enough of these methods to CO.
operate with the teachers. For
a Self-addresSed return postal
1 will tell you the best book for
helping poor readers.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
Notes
of n Nfidnishfer
Items from Our Leg-man-
Girls First Duty
to Her Husband

Items from Our Leg-man--
INGRID BERGMAN'S legs are
81 inches long and Lauren
Bacalls are only 80.
The beautiful 62-acre estate
where Jascha Heifetz and Flor
ence Vidor honeymooned so
long was sold 10 a lawyer last
week-indicating no reconcilia-
ton.
The lyrics Of The Day Be-
fore Spring" will probably win
the annual award from Poetry
Anthology. y.-----------------
Burns Mantle. dean of the
drama critics Che retired being
lSt string critic months ago.,
will soon retire from the radio
and fight the terrible boredom
that comes from saving your
money
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
BRIGHTER
SIDE
WCHALLow men believe in

"SHALLow men believe in
~ luck" said Emerson, but
Emerson was strictly an ivory
tower fellow who had no practi-
csl experience with luck in its
Drelation 10 life, such as trying
10 make four the hard way. In
other words, wottinell did the
likes of Emerson know about
luck?
Runyon says luck is the great
est factor of all in determining
human destiny. You string with
Runyon on this proposition be-
cause no man living or dead
has had more opportunity OF
observing luck in its various
manifestations.
Runyon, meaning the present
speaker, of course. tells you that
this worlds population is divided
into two classes of people, lucky
and unlucky. There is no happy
medium between the two phases,
or at least none that represents
living. Good luck. Bad luck.
Rollee-bollee round she goes,
and where the little ball stops
al, nobody knows.
Let US see how the dictionary
explains lucky and unlucky.
LUCKY %. Favored by for
tune; fortunate; successful: (2)
productive of luck; auspieioHs,,
favorable; said of events and
things; as, lucky circumstance
"UNLUCKY %, Not favored
by lucky: unfortunate; t2l re-
sulting in or attended by ill-luck;
caus ing misfortune; disaster;
l3l ill-onened: inauspiciOuS, as
an tiaiael+y day
4 S YOU can see. this is some
"a what vague and lacks the
added clarification Of examples
which l would have stuck in had
i been writing the dictionary.
] would have explained lucky by
saying. "as for instance the luck
OF being born in the right bed"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
BY HERMAN n. BUNDESEN, MD,

sure on the brain. In many
instances, IL is possible by means
Of an operation 10 relieve this
type Of pressure. However, If
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
YOUR
HEALTH

F. J. SIS there a cure or
help for Jacksonian epilepsy?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS epilepsy
IL a condition produced by pres
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
Mug Of Beer
for Lonesome Men

10 per cent Of these cases the
wife is 10 blame because OF ig-
norance as "a the proper man.
ner in which 20 handle a hus-
band a sad state oi affairs. In
view Of this deplorabAe situation
we strongly urge that our mar
ried feminine subscribers pay
close attention 20 the periodic
advice on husband handling Of
fered by our Mules & Men de-
partment experts.
PLEASE NOTE
A 6-YEAR-OLD Brooklynihe
n named Joan had heard hen
aunt Dorothy, who is p, ex-
press concern about the return
Of her soldier sweetheart. So
little Joan decided TO pray for
her auntie's boy friend. That
night she did so. saying: God
bless me and make me a good
little girl and send auntie Dor
Othy's soldier home safe, sound
and single"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
PASSING BY

CUS VAN. Once of the beloved
VI vaudeville team of Van 6s
Schenck. Gus is still active. You
can't call yourself a young old
timer if you don't recall him
singing MY Big Brother Syl-
vest" in the two-a-day shows Of
yesteryear.
Phil Regan-- The Flatbush
nightingale. Phil, once a cop in
Brooklyn, is the father of four
fine children. AT 38 he became
a grandfather. OF course, that
is-het unusual i in Brooklyn
where men marry young. Not
that the Brooklyn bachelors
want TO marry at an early age,
but the Brooklyn girls want
them to. So what can they do?
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25

Goodbye to every suffering,
simple soul.
That let's Woman'S WiH his
ease control
There laugh. you Wittyi rebuks,
you grave
For me. I seorn TO boast am a
siaUs.
bid the vhining brotherhood
be gone.
Joy TO my heart! Ny Wishes are
my oWn.
FareUeH the female heaUen and
the female hell;
To that thing called IoUc glad
fareweH!
MARK AKENSIDE.
VNHE League Of Forgotten
Il Husbands That is an or
ganization of British army Of
hcers who have been given the
"brushoff" by their wives. Was
formed in Syria in l943 by three
officers. r Eac h officer had re-
ceived a wholly unexpected let
ter from his wife saying she no
longer loved him and desired a
divorce. Members of the organ
ization wear a gold badge on
the face of which is inscribed
L.OF.H. On the back four
symbols are inscribed; the ring
which Solemnized the wrecked
marriage, the ship which took
the husband overseas, the letter
that brought the sad news OF
his wife's change Of heart and
the mug of beer in which the
husband sought forCcttulncSs.
OVER THERE
DOME nov has 3 % daily news
IL papers. 1t also has 80 po-
litical parties. Then there is
the AsSociazione per le Popolo
Sensa Politici which translated
means the association for peo-
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
LIFE WITH SALT
ON THE SIDE
BY E. V. DURLING


pie without political parties.
That is the first time ! have
heard Of a political lonesome
club,
SCHOOL GIRL COMPLEXION
DADISHES are good for the
IL complexion. That is what L.
am told by a man who says he
knew a Polish countess who at
68 still had her school girl COM
plexion. This countess ate six
little radiShcS before evcrymcal,
including breakfast. She said
the women of her family had
been doing that for 800 years
and were famous throughout
Europe for their beautiful COM
pleXlons.
INVENTION
DRITISH inventor John w.
IL Wilson claims 10 have driven
his automobile thousands Oh
miles without the use Of gaSo-
line. He utilized atomic power
in the form Of an attachment he
describes as "a uranium unit.
This device. says Wilson. can be
manufactured for about $40.
With this gadget attached TO a
car the necessity of buying gas
oline is eliminated For unlim-
tied driving Nth a uranium
unit" the cost of operation
would be about 81 a week Hear
ing about things like this must
make the owners of UTf- wetfs
and gasoline service stations
shudder a little.
MULES e. MEN
A NNUALLY in the United
"a States $4,000 husbands de-
sert their wives. So states a
statistician who further ex-
presses the view that in at least
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25
The Cinemagicians--

" 4 DVENTURE for Two" is an
"A eXpertly tailored drama
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25

pie without political parties.
That Is the first time / have
heard Of a political lonesome
club.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-25

Wnen SIdTL
ls4S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17
Selected Poem
ST. PATRICK'S DAY

(by Don Marquis) Who's this with the banners and bugles and such? Sure 1t isn't the Engsh!-it isn't the Dutch! It's Ryan, O'Brien, Flynn and McCool, Whean and Phelan, Quinn and O'Toole; Flaherty Dougherty Murphy. McGuire, Whaley and Daley Durfee and ODyer! Who's this with the air of a colonel so proud? The tWo-1sted man in the midst of the crowd
 Get out of the way, then,
 For that's the ODowd! And next the McCaffertys, F1anagans, Raffertys, LanniganS, With Foley and Crowley, and Burke and McTurk Carroll and Farrell, Flynn and McCilone, Shevlin and Devlin, Finn and Malone Nolan and Dolan, OGrady and Doyle, Mcconnell, ODonnell, Brady and Boyle. Doonan and Noonan, Hooley Ahearn, Fahey and Lahey Dooley, Byrne. Barry. McGarry and Innis,
 Connolly, Donnelly Dunn,
 Lonergan Finnegan, Gunn ONeal and O'Sheel and McGnniss, Mclaughlin, OTeary and Meeney, Coghlan and Neary and Sweeney And what Is that tune that is played by the band?- Get out of the way if you can't understand But what is the harp, then, and what does 1t Now, you and your questions move out of the For here's The oMalley, here comes The oDea! Here comes The McTeague, here comes The Here's Doogan and Miley and Rooney McGuigan and Riley and Mooney, Bratigan Ratigan. Hogan and Fagin, Hurley and Gurley and Grogan and Began, Hennessey, Shaughnessy, Dorgan and Egan, Heaney. Mulvaney, Mucafy and Shade Madden, McFadden, McGahey, McQuade Who's the lad with the green socks that is gall loping by? That is Dennis McGinty and there's blood in his eye!
 If you can't comprehend what's required of the day,
 Get off the streets, then, get out of the way Here come the Fitzpatricks, the two-fisted men Here's the Madigans coming-make woy for them, then!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17

each industry. No new business could be started without the permission of the appropriate council. Prices and pro- duction would be controlled permanently.
 Labor spokeSmen are not alone in blindness to the fact that it is impossible in nation the size of the United States to write rules which will at all times be fair to all people in all sections. Plenty of business men and farmers have com plained bitterly at this or that rule and yet advocate perpetuation of the system generally One group has proposed that proceSSorS and distributors be made agencies of government.
 It might as well be said bluntly that these people, as long as they speak favor ably of living under a centralized Sys- tenn of ruthless regulation, may as well shut up insofar as criticizing the inequ- ties. As long as they favor the system, they will have to suffer the inequities. They will also have to tolerate other things such as a permanently lowered standard of living, the gradual disap- pearance of competition less progress i've distribution and selling. Why should any merchant strain himself to do a better job than the merchant across the street when the businesses and profits of both are fixed by political decrees thouS- ands of miles away? And lastly, these people will have to submit to the ineX- orable extension of the rules until their very political liberty is squeezed to death.
 These are but few of the things that a nation may look forward to when, through fear of unemployment, imitation or some other bogey, it abandons the safeguards of freedom in favor of humil- iating restrictions that have no higher goal than a specified level of material comfort for a specified number of people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17

We hate to do this, folks, but we feel we ought to pass along the admonitions of the Solid Fuels Administration for War (SFAW) about the situation along the home front We are just emerging from one fuel-burning season. The sug- gestion is made that we let the furnaces go out as early as is feasible. That will vary according to the dwelling and it's inhabitants, not to mention the furnace itself Any saving you may make on your fuel now will certainly pay you dividends next winter, though. According to all reports we haven't seen anything yet. Next winter is to be the real tough one so far as fuel goes. And that takes into consideration the way the war is going both in the Pacific and in Europe. If you get in early with your declaration this year your dealer is supposed to give you 30 per cent of your normal needs by October l. The catch in all this-even the dealers don't know what they'll be able to sell for 1945-46
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17
Future City Planning

After completing a five-months survey ill New Haven city planner has come to the conclusion that modern municipal ties face the hardest type of competition in the future to prevent widespread emigration from within their midst to the smaller surrounding towns. He doesn't see how modern plans for cities can be applied to those that have been established for years and are completely laid out or developed. He does see room dor Slum clearance, though, and that may be the answer for most cities after the war is over
 There's a lot to this theory. Water bury might be good example of this. Waterbury's layout has long been point ed out as certainly not subject to modern city planning, which calls for boulevards with dividing strips for traffic moving in opposite directions, as well as tree or shrub planting; which calls for more uniformity in street development; which eliminates concentration of business in one section and may spot industries in another. Waterbury according to all the reports of planners, didn't grow the way it probably should have. That probably can be argued and many of us will take the side of being satisfied with what we finally arrived at.
 But from the viewpoint of the city planner, who visualized beautiful streets and neighborhoods with their conven- fences and recreational facilities, hap hazard development is all wrong. And his arguments are sound ones. To apply them now to a city certainly demands a lot of readjustment. So that perhaps the New Haven surveyor isn't so far wrong and most municipalities should tackle their problems in the postwar period with view towards eliminating what is regarded as of the eyesore type and substituting for it adequate living space, but recognizing the demand, like wise, for recreational and business de- velopment in places other than the cen- ter of the town.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17
Danger Season at Hand

It's not too early to warn householders and property owners about the danger of spring fires. We refer specifically to out door fires. People are apt to get lot of ambition these days as the sun warns up the earth and the promise of a better season is at hand. AS a result brush and grass fires show considerable increase. And there is a corresponding jump in the number of fire alarms. Brush and grass fires have habit of getting out of hand, particularly so when the person responsl- ble concludes that a fire will stop at @ certain pont.
 Waterbury annually has it's fair share of brush fires. Some of them don't do much damage; others, though burn over valuable acres of farmland or forests, not to mention endangering homes and other property. In Connecticut in 1914, for example, there were 1902 forest fires with an average of 6.6 acres burned on each occasion. Almost all of them were actually started by persons, not mali ciously, of course, but, nevertheless, must be blamed to carelessness. And tWo- thirds of them were due to smokers toss ing cigarettes into brush or along the roadside.
 Most of the brush fires around Water bury are not caused by cigarettes, although there may be few of this type. Our fires are usually caused by a small one getting away from the person in charge, when the wind changed or when the guard wasn't watching the course of the blaze. Some day there is going to be terrible conflagraton of this type in Waterbury. Houses will probably burn down and maybe therell be loss of life. About then people will decide to be care ful in burning leaves or rubbish out doors. They'll take the advice of officials in this respect. They won't try to burn 6 whole section at one time; they'll pre- pare fire-breaks or have hose handy, not to mention sufficient manpower to control the fire. Do that today and the future can be regulated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17
Thumb Screws on Liberty

How often the complaint is heard that the main trouble with our wartime reg ulated fay of living is that the present rule writers don't know what they are doing! The assumption is that if we had a sensible bunch of rule writers things would be different. Acting on this as- sumption, a lot of people are laying plans for a permanent regulated existence (with the right kind oi regualtion, of course). Some, for example, has come forth with plan for the establishment of national production council as a top governmental agency to direct reconver- aion and then to control the entire Amer tcan economy through sub councils for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-17

sG44ercd rom Encouragement and an inferiority complex. If she had only realized it and has straight ened up, she would have been per son of very striking appearance.
 It reminded me of the fact that most of us go through life with our heads down and our shoulders sagging forward, not physically, but mentally and spiritually. Seldom does man stand erect, throw back his head and shoulders, recall to his mind that he is the crown of creation, child of the living God. He thinks about his faults, his fail- ures, his discouragements. He is warped by his bitterness. He shuf- fies along through life half ashamed of himself, as the young lady was ashamed of her unusual height.
 Man is noble creature If he will only be noble. There is much evil in the hearts of every one of us but there is also much good. A child of the living God should never have an inferiority complex. He is the son and heir of King
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