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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
THESE DAYS

TiERE are those who insist
l. that we should say nothing
that may offe n d our allies,
Soviet Russia and Great Britain.
Elmer Davis, who heads the
owl, delivered a speech on the
subject recently on the Metro
politan Opera program on the
radio.
He is worried that something
that you or / might write or
say Will irk Mr.. Churchill or
Mr.. Stain. They. of course.
never worry about what inks us.
There undoubtedly are vast
differences of motive, objective
and opinion among the Allies.
These differences will not be
resolved by silence but by articu-
lation in the sunlight OF discus
sion.
Those then who a DIV c a I e
silence are apostles of confusion
and ultimate explosion.
I welcome the powerful attack
upon the United States by the
London Economist, in which we
were told off good and proper.
Now, we know exactly what
the dominant element in British
life thinks OF us.
ONE OF the principal misun-
~ derstandings between our
selves and the British arises
from the fact that the British
do not expect us 10 assist them
adequately to rehabilitate them
selves.
They have for years been
sending John Maynard Keyes
10 this country to advise US
what we ought to do about
practically everything.
He is, as you may recall, one
of the authors of "pump-prim-
ing" which in the early days
of the New Deal was supposed
TO provide full employment, but
which never did.
He is also an advocate of
deficit financing" by which is
meant that the more money a
government spends and the
greater its debt, the more pros
porous its people become.
This theory is based upon
the mathematical formula that
2 minus 2 equals 6.
NOW. Lord Keynes, rich in
~ honors and power, has been
suggesting program OF post
war lend-lease, very much on
the hush-hush, that this coun-
try provide the British with
about 000,000,000 for post
war rehabilitation.
Although very little can be
discovered concerning these ne
gotiations, I hear that the sum
has come down to 81, 0W. 000,-
600 and that we shall make il
possible. Congress willing, fer
the British to do some export
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
BY Damon
Runyon

me who sang in a tenor voice
that topped one and all, a Sc
overlooking little man who put
great heart and soul into his
rendition. / found out his name
is 1Sidor Aronson and he Is an
Inspector for the state boxing
commission. After his closing
burst he sat quietly behind one
of the corners 10 discharge his
duty to the Empire State.
Then the fight started and a
young fellow with big grin
that disclosed very white teeth
began believing at Make, CALL
ing him a catcher" meaning a
punch absorber, and also a bum
and assuring him that Rangel
would knock him out, while
other spectators rallied worldly
10 Makes defense.
/ thought the young fellow
was displaying violent animosity
toward Make. a battle-worn
veteran who fights not to get
hurt and who on the side is a
business man at Forest Hills,
and l wondered why this feeling
until one of the club attaches
said:
THAT guy always picks the
fighter he thinks the crowd
likes and puts the blast on him
just 10 get q rise out Of the
people around him. He really
amt mad at Make"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

7 SUPPOSE have heard audi
Il ences requested to sing THE
Star Spangled Banner" hun
dreds of times, at indoor and
outdoor gatherings of all kinds,
but ! never heard an assem-
blaGe respond with what I
thought was complete unanirn-
ity until the other night in
Brooklyn. where the tree grew.
You know how it is. A few
women may raise shaky So
pranos and contraltos. A few
men may grumble along with
the tune but without confidence
and usually staggering vocaily
toward the finis' in most de-
plorable manner. In the main
every one depends on some one
else to oblige and the result is
a very fumbling sort OF vocal
ling.
We are not by nature COM
munity singers, like crowds of
other nations. The French. for
example, can burst into song
en- maSse on slight provocation.
Even the British. commonly
cold and Unconditional, are given
10 mob melody on occasion.
But Americans usually repress
the song in their souls except
In their bathrooms, even against
the most cordial invitation.
That is why l was surprised
when upwards of 5000 persons
promptly stood at the call of
announcer Johnny Adds in the
dingy old Broadway Arena
Fight Club in the Bushwick
section of Brooklyn. faced
small American flag hanging
from a girder and stirred by an
electric fan and, as the lights
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

Detroit 70 watch this rolling
caravan without seeing in the
background the enormous fac
tories Of Ford, ChrySler. Dodge.
General Motors, and the thou
sands or smaller plants which
have contributed so much 10 the
combined effort OF the automo-
bile industry.
And as / watch them rolling
on IN spite of mud and count
less other obstacles. II is with a
feeling of pardonable pride that
l turn TO a buddy and say.
That, pal, is what we make in
Detroit"
This Is probably beginning 10
sound like a Chamber OF Com
merce special. SO I'll change the
subject 10 romance. Not mine
I'm still very much without
that commodity-the Filipino
brand of romance.
We spent the morning dis
cussing the subject with a cute
little native girl who came into
the orderly room looking for
dirty clothing 10 wash.
They believe in having only
one husband or wife during a
lifetime. And when we ex-
planned that in America people
that couldn't get along together
got a divorce, she replied. That
IS not Filipino custom. If my
husband beats me, l will not
leave him, as that is my for
tune"
We also explained that IN
America a girl may have many
sweethearts before she decides
10 give one of them a break
and let him support her for the
rest Of her life Tor fraction
thereby. This is also taboo
here, as a girl has only one
sweetheart and the courtship is
carried on mostly by correspond
ence with her parents.
II you make a hit with the
old man, it's in the bag; and
understand a bot lie of tuba
NATIVE whisky sort of softens
the old boy up a little.
The Filipinos are among the
most hospitable people in the
world. and when you call on
them in their homes no trouble
is too great for your comfort.
Most Of them are only now re-
turning to their homes, after
living in the mountains while
the Japs were here.
They have no love for the
Japs and are glad the Amer
leans have returned. The Fill
pino guerrillas are very much in
evidence, coming down from the
hills with tales of encountering
and killing isolated Jap parties.
Everything is peaceful around
this section, no Japs for miles.
And I imagine by the time you
get this the entire island will be
cleared out.
OMAR.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

dimmed down. burst spontane-
ously into "Oh, say can you
see."
IT USED 10 be a standard gag
L that few Americans knew
the words of their anthem,
which does not generally apply
nowadays when they hear il so
frequently. However, I would
not have believed that a siz-
able group of them anywhere
would ever attack the ponder
Gus lyrics with the bold author
ity displayed by this Broadway
Arena chorus. / GATHERED the
impression that this was an es-
tabliShed performance by them.
/ looked around me and OBJ
served that most Of the singers,
professional men, small bust
ness men of the neigfborhood,
and run-of-mill fistic enthusi-
asts from all over Brooklyn.
sang with their heads thrown
back, their eyes directly on the
futtefing flag. Their singing
may have been slightly short of
musical perfection but the fer
vor with which they sang gave
me a big thrill.
MOST Of the men kept their
w overcoatS on, obviously we'll
versed in the shifty drafts of
the hall. perhaps the oldest
fight club in the United States.
The fog bank of smoke through
which the fighters in the ring,
local Make Berger and Fresno's
"Sheik" Rangel, a Mexican,
were vague shadows, belied the
tales Of the tobacco shortage.
There was one fellow near
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

the first time a woman ever
taught him a lesson.
MERLE OBERON'S next
tA bridegroom may be camera
man Lucian Ballard.
New York's mayor now tells
pals he never was offered any
Italian post.
June Allyson, itemed here and
here so often as being Dick
Powell's Bay-Bee. may wind up
at the middle aisle with John
Durant. c. Chaplin's pal.
Actress Nancy Kelly (who
divorced Edmund O'Brien) is
hoping for church approval TO
wed cameraman F. Jackman Jr.
The buzz about the late Judge
Lands successor as baseball
car is bunk. The "czar" will
be three-man board including
Lands Man Friday, Leslie
O'Connor. After the war Judge
Vinson will be offered the post.
They insist that mighty
movie magnate will embrace
Catholicism. Father Flanagan of
Boystown and Archbishop SPELL
man are his intimates.
One OF the very well-known
playgirls got $1,000 from a
famed society bridegroom-in
return for few letters he care
lessly sent her many years ago.
Moral: Never learn to spell.
The CORTLAND Planners are
imaging. He was counsel for
Standard Oil.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
: By Albert Edward Wiggam. DIS

IL do not believe you can
make sensible young people be-
lieve 1t If you try. They know
better. One survey in a pros
porous town before the war
showed there were only six po-
sitionS at the top. or anywhere
near II. for every 1000 workers.
They can't all get those six jobs.
The best thing is not to point
boys and girls TO the top. but 10
a good place TO start near the
bottom.
2-What this writer means is
that women want freedom and
equality with men in business
and society. and yet still be set
on a pedestal and worshiped as
in the days Of chivalry. I dis
agree. OF course many women
want careers, and a good many
Of these are the same women
who. in the old days. sometimes
got careers but rarely got hus-
bands However, most women
want as much as ever 20 marry
q man, make him a home. give
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
II. ". DURLTNG

QUERIES from clients. O.
VI The parrot that calls the
dog when he starts out on the
road could do IL by association,
not necessarily by thinking.
A-Mister, you have me puz-
zIed. What do you mean by
association" II you refer to
association Of IDEAS" isn't that
thinking: have heard from a
number OF parrot owners and
am convinced these birds can
think and that all they say is
not initiative.
Q-Are short girls more af-
tectionate than tall girls?
A-That pint-size vs.. stat
uesque argument just can't be
stopped. IL seems. I don't think
there Is any relation between
the intensity of affection and
the height OF "A person. How
ever, i have just received
letter from e. =. marine, who
says In part: "My experience
with women all over the world
leads me TO believe the petite
type girls, while no more affec-
tionate than the tall girls, are
more accomplished and graceful
In expressing love. The tall
girls are self-cOnscious and
awkward about IT,"
DASSING by; Michael Stone.
Novelist. Michael is a lady.
In fact, she has again been
named by one group of fashion
experts as the best dressed lit
erary lady of 1914.
Mai. Ernie Nevers. OF the
U. S. Marine Corps. Most all
sportscribes claim Jim Thorpe
was the greatest football player.
However, Pop" Warner once
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
MARY HAWORTH.S Man,

served that IL is usually exer-
cised TO get ones own way
Well, my efforts didn't work.
His letters and telephone calls
became frantic protestations Of
love.
/ am not a glamour girl and
definitely not the playgirl type,
50 / can't imagine what he sees
in me.
Yet I'd marry him tomorrow
II IL weren't for the war.
You see ! am not a college
graduate; but / was lucky TO get
a war job, and I've worked very
hard In il and made good
IL / gave IL up, this small plat
form Of independence and per-
sonal security would be out
from under me: and ! wouldn't
dream of working after | got
married, so l foresee kind Of
risk.
II 7 should marry him and
give up my job. he might be
shipped overseas and absence
might make our love thread
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

MOTE ii stated bigamy is
~ committed mostly by men.
Maybe so. However, the rec
ord for bigamy is held by a
woman who had eight husbands
at the same time. She was a
travelling saleSwoman.
British troops in the Middle
East get leave by the lottery
method. There are about $4,000
troops eligible for leave but
only 1.200 a month can be
spared.
So every month there is a,
drawing for leave. The leave is
20 days at home.
500 YOU know Of but one
~ married couple who first
met In an orphans home"
writes Chicagoan. That's
the way I met my husband, and
we know OF six other happily
married couples who met the
same way. And all at the or
phans' home In Lincoln, Ill. All
OF us Join In asking you to
never again say orphan asy-
lum.' We hate that word 'asy-
lum' used I'm this connection.
Please say orphans home"
WHERE were you married
w We were married in the
Little Church Around the Cor
ner. have several pictures OF
this colorful church but am
looking around for an unusual
one. | want TO put il over the
fireplace in what my girl friend
calls my study" I also have
been shopping for old sporting
prints but the prices they want
for good ones are terrific.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

BY DR.. Logan Clendening

TIVE situation about penicillin
Il is an excellent example Of a
subject about which the public
ought 10 know because IL has so
many possibilities of doing good,
hut the management and direc-
tion OF which the public should
leave entirely in the hands Of
the medical profession.
The virtues OF pcnicillin are
granted, but its difficulties are
that IL does not stay in concen-
tration in the body and large,
even enormous, does have TO be
given.
II isn't just sticking a needle
In the arm or leg.
AT the very least IL consists
In getting the penicillin into a
muscle and usually IL must be
administered as a continuous
drip with a needle in a vein
with rubber hosing attached
from the needle 10 a metal con-
tainer hanging from a holder at
the side of the bed
Now / have tried 10 teach
medical students TO take A
needed and get il IN vein.
4 Even with the brightest Of
Nhem II takes some time
II requires some knowledge
Of anatomy and some knowl-
edge OF the dangers which may
be encountered
Sometimes when me veins do
not show plainly under the skin
II Is really hell on earth
The idea that a gToggy patient
coming down with pneumonia
could do this 10 himself and ar
range an intravenous drip and
get UP and change il when the
amount of fluid is low requires
feat OF the imagination that
is little beyond my powers.
That goes also for a probably
semihySterical member OF the
household.
II seems 30 me II docs relieve
us of the slur that the reason
penicillin is kept for private dis
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
WALTER WINCHELL n On

her hey-dey had many romances
but now was a hopeless, homely
bag.
II guess" observed Miner,
"you can't keep breaking hearts
without having some of the
pieces fly In your face"
The wags at the Stork were
debunking the playgirls. Some
doll staggered from the bar, and
a flipcracker said: "She in
spired that song: Bank, Bank,
Bank Went the Trollop."
Milton Berle just returned
from the South on the Cham
pion. which was five hours late.
They may. now call IT," he
quipped, "the ex-Champion."
EOOL and His Money Dept:
i 1t happened the other week.
end in the Sos =. A man-about-
town after a merry twirl with a
clever blonde gifted her with a
500 bill for her companionship
4. She refused il. II usually
get 81 600" she told HIM with
out blinking Z. IL. He wrote out a
check for that sum.
When she presented il at his
bank the teller informed her his
balance was just half that
amount She left and re-
turned later 10 another teller's
cage where she deposited $500 10
his account Then she pre-
sented his check at the first
age and cashed il In re-
lating the story he says IL was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
BY George E.
Sokolsky

ing TO our country and TO bor-
row or buy on credit some of
our shipping.
This John Maynard Keyes is
regarded as wizard because
he has often proved TO be all
wrong.
After the last war. 1919 he
wrote a book. which established
his reputation. entitled. The
Economic consequences of the
Peace" in which he proved
that Germany could not pay
PREPARATIONS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

bare. with so many attractive
foreign girls TO take my place.
Please give me your advice.
Il. l..
DEAR F. l.:
MARRIAGE 10 a reliable man
4'A is about the best form Of
social security a girl can acquire,
as women have always known
by instinct.
And II is conspicuously obYi-
Gus that your Self-protective in
stincts are up in arms against
this man. warning you that he
Is too selfish TO be truly pro-
tective in relation 10 a wife: and
also, emotionally too unstable
and too susceptible, or call il
morally lax, in relation TO
women generally, 10 stick 10
pattern Of fidelity in the midst
OF temptations.
| feel II you married him. IL
would be case Of letting emo
tons undermine reason; OF doing
the weak thing, rather than the
strong. And also feel that you
would tend increasingly 10 cling
TO him. or lean towards him
mentally, with jealous. distrust-
ful anxiety; thus automatically
forteiting the chief magnetic
appeal you have for him now.
namely; your lingering indie
pendence Of thought and action.
Therefore, my advice is. since
you can't trust him, preserve
your integrity by refusing 10
marry him under any conditions.
VI. III.
EDITORS NOTE-Mayy Ho.
worth eounseis through her col.
unn; not BY mail or personal
interview. Write her in care of
The Detroit Times.
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Brain Game Answers

1-Santisgo.
2-True.
3-1'he Wightman Cup.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
5-They soiled their nittens
eating pie and then had to
wash them.
6-"Encyclopedia," Diderot; lie
Marriage de Figaro" Beau
narchais: "Confessions,-
Rousseau: "Candide," Vols
taire; Memories" Saint.
Simon.
Adds Ababa.
S-Bowler. e
Copyright. is4s. ~ King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

DEAR BOSS.
TODAY l saw Detroit. Be-
cause / am several thousand
miles away and slightly in
clined 10 myopis, this may
sound a bit ambiguous. but
Detroit is here. make no mis-
take about that.
Not, perhaps, as you see il
from day 10 day along Wood
ward avenue, but Detroit as I
have seen it for soma time in
New Guinea--and am seeing IL
now in the Philippines.
Detroit is here in the endless
procession OF jeeps, trucks,
weapons carriers, and the thou
sand and one other motorized
vehicles which are meeting and
overcoming the tremendous
problems Of supply and trans
portation.
II would be impossible for
any one having spent his life in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

L,ACES About Town: Capt.
i Ronald Reagan (off the
screen for three years to don a
uniform) being made the sixth
- Modern Screens popularity
poll.
II. w. Blakeslee (the Science
ed for Associated Press still
beaming about his 1S-month-old
heir. Pop Is a mere 65 hisself. !
Jean Tennyson, the thrush.
after her first riding lesson,
groaning:
al never imagined that any
thing filled with hay could be
90 hard.
Bobby Martyr, who has Sc
cretly wed again. The bride is
Alicia Dixon, the bridegroom is
manager of the brokerage al the
Roney-Plaza--it is his fifth
meddidge,
Hoagy Carmichael. who wrote
"Star Dust "sabout Ia years ago
getting his largest royalty
check on il recently.
Chef Shaw, the Newsweek
managing editor. trying to get
over the loss of his Oldest son
killed in action. Mr.. Shaw re-
turns TO his desk about Feb. /.
Gen. r. Johnson's Evalyn,
who believes that II you're ru-
mor-proof you're uninteresting.
CALLIES in Our Alley: Over
- at the Metropole maestro
Ed Steele recalled the time VIII
son Miner and others were
Cabling about beauty who in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

him children, care for him, share
ms troubles.
81 certainly agree. This
clergyman. Rev. Joseph Fort
Newton. writes thousands of
letters to people to help them
overcome their fears. / do the
same thing. The thousands OF
letters j receive from readers OF
this column are chiefly con-
cerned with three problems: I'D
love problems, usually mixed up
with fears and inferiorities; I'D
how TO choose a vocation, al
ways mixed up with fears and
bewilderment; and (3) special
fears, usually fear Of other peo-
pie. All these are dealt with
helpfully in our booklet by con-
sulting psychologist DR.. David
Mitchell of New York. entitled
The Conquest of Fear" Sent
at cost. 10c. plus a sc stamped
self-addressed envelope.
the DETROIT TIMES CT
Jan. I74S
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

I AM a woman 25 years old,
= earning a good salary in a
strictly wartime job.
I am In love with a man 33
years old, now in the service and
stationed at a nearby camp.
He Is very charming, a born
Don Juan, and women like him
and constantly angle for his at
tentions.
We met nearly TWO years ago.
tspd i fell so completely in love
with him that my head is still
In q wiIiri.
i did my best 10 break off our
romance. Love means 10
me, above everything else. get
ting married and having chill
dren. 81 c0uidn-t see that
marriage had any place in his
Scheme of things, he being
model, modern, self conferred
bachelor. 81 have a natural
distrust of charm. having OBJ
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Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

LIQUOR
No. iT-Vslh through Jan. 81.
PROCEssED FOODS
Bias rs through G-7-valid ineeh.
nitely.
MATS. CHEEsE. FATS
Red o-s through x-s-valid indefinitely
one 10. salvage fat good for 4 cents
ara two meat ration points.
SUGAR
stamp ~, Boot a--vslid Indefinitely
Probably.
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On the
Side

stated he thought Nevers was
the best. AS he coached both
these men, he should know.
Pop" said Nevets was more
dependable than Thorpe and
therefore more valuable to a
team
WILLIAM vARE0W of Bard
w ney England, who is 100
years old. goes TO work daily,
plays billiards at night and
likes 10 smoke a pipe and drink
plenty of good ale.
A Manchester. England, Judge
in awarding 1000 pounds dam
age 10 a girl who had her hand
caught in a laundry machine
said:
IF her hand is injured rs
badly AZ my shirts are when
they come back from the iaun-
dry, il must he severely dam
aged. am wearing a collar
that is nearly cutting my head
Off"
A SIDES: whether you like
"a him personally or not you
have 10 admit the best Jockey
in the country is Don Meade
writes a Baltimorean.
A New Yorker says she was
named Ruth after the Biblical
character, and Genevieve after
the SONG, Sweet Genevieve.
My mother claimed l was named
Edgar after Edgar Allen Poe
but my father said I Was named
in honor Of King Edgar of
Britain. who made the kings of
eight other countries row his
boat.
Copyright. le45. by King Features
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GASOLINE

A Coupon t4--< gallons. valid through
March I'll.
BE aad CO ccspons--5 gallons sseh.
tLav requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
when received
FUEL OIL
Periods q, q ana s-Vslid through SEPT
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Connolly Answers

&c. 2--b. SC. 4-b. 5-b.
6-(a Portia, (b) Juliet, (cp
Ophelia. td) Desdemona, (el
Lady Macbeth.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
bEAR RAGS Letters From
Times Soldiers

(Ths following letter is from
rs Omar J. Shuil. one of the
50 Times editorial employees Who
Joined the armed forces. Al the
time OF OritinR, he wa, in the
Phiippinss)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-08

tribution has nothing 10 do with
"the iron hand Of the medical
profession, afraid as usual that
the public might learn TO take
care Of themselves"
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
s. Lately the pupils Of
my eyes have been unequal IN
size. Could this be the cause Of
any organic disease
Answer-Yes. you should con-
suit physician.
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THE DErRoIT TIMES CT
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