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Walter Wiivchell FACES About Town: Dorothy Parker, the talented word magician, who is . invariably broke despite her neat earnings. She returns 70 per cent to Mr. Whiskers, 27 per cent goes to worthy causes and the rest is to barely exist on. Wayne King and his ex- tress, Dolores Gray, re ported screaming mad at each other. “Showman" Billingsley pam pering the many showlebrities in his Stork cub-room. Beverly Michaels, the only ahowgel at the Diamond Horse shoe who is a native New Yorker—all the other glamazons iin that show) are from whistle stops. "Polonaise” producer-million aire Schmidlapp who calls him self Horace when his name is William. Lena Horne, who refused the lead in "St. Louis Woman" (be cause it wasn’t good for her race, etc.), who is to be "discip lined" by MGM, which won't have, "any immediate role* (or her ” The lady driving a blue Ford, license plate "3"— Mrs. F. D R. • • • SALLIES in Our Alley: This best sums up all those malaprop Goldwynisms. Sam was telling reporters that Gil bert and Sullivan had never been successful on the screen. “Of course,” he added, “I don't want to knock them, bc Mary Haworths Mail DEAR MARY HAWORTH: • I AM in love with a married A man. I think about him all day. which interferes with my work. I know. At night it is hours and hours Better Health t Bv Dr. Herman Bundesen ULCER of the stomach and first part of the bowel is known as peptic ulcer. It does not always require hospital .treatment nor even that tbe patient remain at rest. Accord | ing to Dr. T. Grier Miller of the University of Pennsylvania, if there are no complications pres ent. patients with this disorder may be up and about during treatment, but to get best re sults they must cp-operaie In every way. Ulcer of the stomach is a con dition which tends to recur, but if the treatment is continued, these recurrences may in a measure, be prevented. ULCER usually are a attacks of pain which come on (rom one to three hours , after meals. There may also.be some sickness to the stomach ’ and vonutiru;. The pain * usually located in the pit of the [ stomach. The treatment consists in regulation of the diet, good habits of physic&l and mental relaxation and the avoidance of emotional upsets Alkaline sub * stances taken internally under the doctor’s directions are also 1 helpful The diet fs made up of fre ‘ quent meals of soft or liquid ’ foods, such as milk and cream. r soups, pureed Vegetables. cracker* and hutter, cream ' cheese, eggs and custards For * some patients, meat and fish, except pork, may be included when properly cooked that i', > roasted, baked or broiled The foods should be taken • very two hours, five or six - times a day if possible. If not, . there may be three to four meals a day with milk and al kaline substance given between ~ meals. If necessary, vitamin preparations and those contain ing iron may be prescribed. , Some patients can take fruit Juices while others cannot. Just before bedtime, food or alkali should he employed and the al . kali should be at hand for use during the night if the patient •wakens because of pain ’ Certain sedative or quietjng Cities V D>ImM Tim' **Oh, military m»rcho* are thrilling—hul my choice is still ths old-fashioned wedding march!” cause 1 don't even know them!** ‘Can I print that?* asked r reporter. “No,” said Goldwyn. “because when newspapermen quote me they never print the twinkle in my eye! M Jacqueline Dalya was often reported Van Johnson's steadiest girl in movietown. The ©ther night when a local pestered her for a date,.she said: “Nope, I im being true to Van!" * “Oh, fevven*skes:“ he almost wept. “Why worry shout one guy like Vsn Johnson being minershle when you esn make so many other fellows happy V* • • • MEMOS of a Midnighter: Henry de la Falaise report* that his sis-in-law'* new groom (Peter Hartenxteln) was never in the Nazi army and arrived in South America long before the war. Morton Gould composed the music for the short (on the SF Cons). which will be shown world wide. Bill Corum will be offered a big spot in a new L. I. race track next spring—to quit the sport pages. Broadwayites are tense over a triangle involving an agent and the wife of a hard puncher. Omit flowers, if you will be so kindly. Denk you.* A rich Hawaiian named Scobie is carrying the torch like any thing for Soph Tucker. before I can fall asleep; and then I toes and turn and talk in my sjerp. I have grown so tired that I just can’t do anything right anymore. drugs may be employed to pro mote relaxation and sleep. The most satisfactory ones, accord ing lo Dr. Miller, are the bar* bituratt*. Of the alkaline sub stance* he prefers aluminum trisilirate or magnesium hy droxide. • • • YLTHEN the symptoms of th« T» ulcer disappear and the X-ray shows that the ulcer has healed the patient must he warned to continue with the diet of the non-irritating foods and to take nulk or some alka line substance between meals and at bedtime. He also should make sure that he gets enough sleep and rest and doe# not overdo or become emotionally upset. Ulcer* hft y.e a tendency to recur, particularly In the spring and fall. Hence, ft is a good idea to have examinations made at these time*, including an X-ray of the stomach and bowel. In other words, ulcers can only be Kuocesfully handled medically by treatment over a period o( years. Brighter Side I THINK ninety-nine out of every hundred person* start not in life disposed to he good natur»*d and nice It is my contention that no one is born gloomy and bitter and mean. They acquire these traits. I ha\e interviewed the parents and early acquaintances of jierson* of na«tv dispositions and a tendency to hurt others— persons I may describe briefly sir stinkers- and the testimony in most cases is that they were sweet infants. “He wit always cooing," said the aged mother of the infancy of a chap who has not smiled since the year Boundless won the American derby, and who is noted for his passion for dis charging employees on Christ mas Eve or on learning of n death in the family. "He would not shed a tear even If a pin By E. Simms Campbell Peggy Ellis’ pals say she has a movie star double-talking to himself since she packed him in after discovering he has a plus all the other barriers. Actor Jerry Lucas, 26, and Mae West (steadying for a year) have., Idcked it out the window. * ’* •• , • f|THE Late Watch: The next -l profile (in that mag) will be practically an expose of a certain digest's methods for re printing pieces, anfl will hit sensitive spots concerned with the digest’s policies. Peggy Ryan, actress, and F. Maxwell, stage mgr. for "Dear Ruth” in Chi, will wed this month. Joan Edwards says she is staying on the Lucky Strike program —and that Peggy Mann was signed as her understudy at her suggestion. The melody, "You're Forever on My Mind," was composed by Ted Brewster, who tends bar at the Stork. .... Looella Persons is known as Lolly on the movie coast, so Bill Stern, the sports ace. asked mutual ’friends (just in- from there): “How's Lollywood?" Billboard lists the current 15 "most popular tunes" Leading the parade is 'Till the End of Time.” Number 15, or last, is “Polonaise” from which the VJKwd of Time" composers took Chypin's classic! fcoprrlftit *» Dally Mirror. Inr He is a great deal older than I and has one child, two years old. I have never met his wife. 1 ha vs seen him frequently for nearly a year. He told me from the begin ning that he was in love with me and his actions have proved i to me that this is true. The nearest we have come to a clarifying discussion Was #ne evening when he told me that he was not In love with hi* wife, but that she does love him in a ■ way» He said that their child com plicates any solution 1 1 can’t go on like this and neither can he. £venUially his wife would discover his infidel ity and I believe she suspects it ahready , L. W i « • DEAR L. S : THE slang phrase goes. "Wake up and die right.” The cause of all your unhap piness is your wretchedly low opinuun of yourself. , , -Obvkxsaly you' don’t think much of yourself,- -or • Wouldn’t be involun tar 1 1 y snatching line a slinking beggar at the small-change attentions this man sees fit to spare you. My advice is. come out of your nightmare trance. Dismiss ydtir self-limiting fixation on this chap. Give him the brush off. M. H. By Damon Runvon waft stieking him lomfuhfrf. Ha waft th« b**»l natures! bab> I wrr mw M I asked her to thick hard and see if she could reme/nber tome incident of hi' adolescence that might have been the turning point of a disposition that started out ao well but that wai to clabber in his maturity. • • • UT CANNOT recall a thiTTg," a she said “Once when he was about 2 year* aid I caught him with his duke in the. cookie jar and when I reprimanded him he tried to slug me on the jaw and that might have suggested a touch of the wrongo to me had he not laughed when he did It. "I have never been able to figure Just why my ton should be such a heel.'* she went on, “hut somewhere along the line something happened that defi nitely soured him. I eannot fix the exact period. I often won der w'hat it could have been.” o • o VTTELL. It could have been a »* double** rossi nft at the hands of some one be thought a friend. It could have been an experience In human skulldug gery such as befell Hugo Claw hammer. a poor struggling butcher’s assistant hack in mv old home town of Pueblo the time the Otto Kioto dog and pony show* came to town. A raspscallion who was sell ing tickets for the show short changed Hugo Claw'hammer when Hugo took his girl to se** the dogs and ponies, and Hugo thought of this for several days as he stood over his butcher’s block chopping up meat for the eustomers. Finally one day Hugo suddenly stopped whack ing off some chops for the wife of one of our leading citizens, drove his cleaver Into the wooden block with great force and said loudly: “That’s good enough for me!" Theft he hung up his apron, put on his hat and mat and left, never to he seen again in Pueblo but to become renowned throughout Ihe American under world as one of the cleverest and most ruthlessly mean swindler* the world ha* ever known. T think In closing my treatise today I should toll you that Hugo Clawhammer drove hi* cleaver into the wooden block so deep they had to break the block apart lo get it out which shows you Ihe strength of a guy turning stinker. Private Breger Ahroar -*B3 ea*, • -TV IW>trw4t Time© “Oh, dear! All through the war unharmed, aud NOW— struck by an untorn phone book!” STRICTLY RIIIITER laBaHHBi 1 .i 1 1 1 i i R ..\X X 1 f ‘l -’c S* - * S-" ’ V* - ■ j ' f “I left everything the way I found It when I phoned you!” My constituents have crocheted a peculiar request of me that sort of puts me in the quiz racket with no box tops hot. They want to know who are all the mysterious individuals who gallop up and down the sidelines, w-ave their arms and squat Buddishly on the bench when Notre Dame plays Alabama or vice as versa. Whenever I speak from experience somebody slugs me and I get more experience. I happen to be conversant with that .subtle aide of football because X used to park on very prominent benches. That’s the only way to get in at the published price. All the other seals are in the hands of the •pecks. • * • , . Now the fellow* on the end of the bench with his coat collar turned up and Ilia hat jerked down over his eyes doesn’t belong there. 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V. Burling Queries from client*, q Wax a civilian ever awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and if so. what for? A—George M. Cohan sat awarded the Congressional Medal for having written the stirring and Inspiring war song “Over There.” Q —l claim the theatrical price scale of 10. 20 and 30 cent* originated in Brooklyn, llow about it? A— so. And the origi nator was Corse Payton at his stock company theater on Lee avenue. Q What songs did Adelina Patti popularize? A—Can't think of any par ticular song of which It might be said that Patti popularized It. She specialized in operatic selections. Is said to have been familiar with the scores of 36 operas. One of her favorite numbers was “The lait Rose of Summer.” She also special ized in singing “Home. Sweet Home.” Q Now those two corporals arc arguing about what major league park ha* the shortest home run into the stands dis tance. A—That would be the Polo Grounds. Two hundred and fifty-nine feet from the home plate to the right field stand*. • • § \ T ITA NALDI. Erstwhile film actress. In the days of the silent cmcmaplay she was At Your Service —What happens to saving deposits that a soldier has made In the Soldier's Deposit Fund, If he dies In service? Mrs. E. E. C. A—The deposit* will be paid to his legal heirs. Usually, this payment is made at the same time as the balance of back pay and allowance* due and unpaid at the time of the serviceman s death. —WIH the widow of a serv iceman who was killed in action In this war, and who now Is re ceiving SHO monthly pension, have her pension cut off If she goes to work and earns SI,OOO a year? Mrs. B. J. B. A—No; her pension is payable to her for life, or until she re marries, regardless of any other income she may have. Q —l entered the army Sept. 16, 1040, and received a disabil ity discharge April $, 1941. Am 1 eligible for mustering out pay ? 4. E. W. A -No, because the entire pe riod of your active service was completed prior to Dec. 7, 1941, the date on which war wa* offi cially declared. Mustering out pay is payable only to those vet erans discharged on or after Dec. 7. 1941. Q —l want to take advantage of the educational provision of the GI Bill. Due to the high cost of living at present, would the fact that I am taking school ing under the GI Bill H 0 miles from home prevent me from getting unemployment compen sation also, to help with my expenses? E. W. F. A—You are not eligible to draw the readjustment allow ance (unemployment compensa tion) under the GI Bill at the same time you are attending Washington Scene By George Dixon PRESIDENT TRUMAN, as you have heard, doe* some surprising things, particularly where old friend* are con cerned. If a pal of long stand ing invites him somewhere, the chances are the President will ■how up. Now’ there is one place the President of the United States never goes and that is the Supreme Court. There is no actual law barring him, but plenty of tradition. The founding fathers estab lished the tradition. They made it clear that the judiciary should be kept separate and dis tinct from the executive. The President, for all his powers, was to keep his hands off the courts. Consequently no president— so far as my researches could determine had ever visited the highest tribunal, not even to borrow a black robe to make blackout curtains. Never having had a president visit them, the Supreme Court jus tices had never bothered to lay down any rules for receiving one. The upshot w’as that the jus tices were left floundering in their robes when Mr. Truman suddenly appeared for the in vesture of former Senator Harold IL Burton of Ohio. • o • CENATOR BURTON thought it would be nice If his old friend Harry Truman attended the swearing In, but hardly ex pected him to accept. To his surprise, the President did. Burton’s secretary, Earl E. Hart, went over to the Supreme Court to make the final ar rangements. As he was leav ing, he said to the Supreme Court clerk: “By the way, the President will he here too!” The usually imperturable chief clerk let loose a scream: "The President! He can't come here!” “Why not?” asked Mr. Hart. “Because he can’t!” shouted the *clerk. “We Just don't do it.” Afraid the clerk might blow a gasket, Mr. Hart tried to be “■nothing hut it had no effect. Finally he got exasperated and snapped: “1 don’t rare what yon do ] styled the “sultry siren.’’ Tins was not an exaggeration. The love scenes in which Nita ap peared could undoubtedly r>e : classed as “sultry’’ and she cer tainly was a Grade A siren. JOE MORAN. Ballad singer from Brooklyn. Given his first opportunity as an entertainer hy Joe Schenck* of Van and Sche nc k. Incidentally, Joe Schenck died of a heart attack in Detroit about 15 years ago. Gus Van is still active. These two great vaudevillians first met when one was the motor man and the other a conductor I on a Brooklyn trolley car. • • • VULSCONSIN subscriber asks j ** me if I have been duck ! hunting lately. I haven’t. The last bird hunting I did was with a sling-shot when I was a care free lad roaming around the hills of Sunset Park in southern Brooklyn. I have played about every game in the book of sports but never cared much for hunting or fishing. 4 + 6 IN 1935 at Cleveland th e Bloomer Girls in competition with the best male teams in the country won the softball baseball championship. And yet the softball enthusiasts try to tell you it is a tough game to play. When you buy a package of cigarete* the retailer is com pelled to give vou a box of school under the educational provisions of that act. Q —How can I get a copy of the booklet “From Military Service to Civil Service” that tell* about veterans’ rights to civil service preference ? I. M. D. A—You can get a copy from any regional oflice of the U. S. Civil Sen’ice Commission, or by writing to U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C, asking for a copy. Q —How does the Veterans* Administration determine the amount of pension that is pay able to a veteran who has sus tained a service-connected war time disability? 4. B. A—lt is paid on the basis of the degree or percentage of his disability and the extent to which hi* earning power has been impaired by that disability. The V. A. physician* and occu pational specialists on the rating board determine the amount based on the actual facts in each case. Any Questions? THE DETROIT TIMES mails personal answers to questions about tho needs and welfare, rights and privi leges of servicemen and women, veterans and their dependents. Many answers are printed daily In this column, but ALL questions will be answered directly by mall. Address questions this ways at rocs seavics bdkui, OSTBOIT TIMES. TIMES SQCASE, OSTBOIT SI, MICHIGAN. Surely include your name end ad drere and a relf-ed dreited, etamped envelepe. or what you don’t do—-the Presi dent will he here! What do you have to say about it?” But it seemed the clerk was beyond further words. Let’s Explore Your Mind By Albert Edward Wiggam, D.S. I dr”*l A MORS ALItfE IN HABITS r MARRIio ■ ./Bi 3. CLASS ASKS : ’Do wXBm-i liy-jgM W\\ i- people of mixed ?TT\ ** mi W \ ***** follow onm / \\ m \ \ RACE ONE DAY .THE jfl OTH6Q p " 1— Yes. Henry A. Bowman, in "Marriage for Moderns,” shows that the two main kinds of Jeal ousy are: (1) Justifiable jeal ousy; where one partner or the other is clearly Interested in another person, or is known to be unfaithful; (2) unnecessary, unjustifiable jealousy, where the wife or husband raise* Cain if the other speaks pleasantly or shows ordinary courtesies to the opposite sex. No. 1 may come to the most normal person or the most neurotic person. The nor mal person will handle it Intelli gently. comes only to neurotics, is always handled unwisely, and if continued, makes marriage unhappy for both, or wrecks it completely. 2 -Psychologist Mary Schoo ley made a study of 80 couple*. The longer-married couples were more alike than the newly-wed*. They were noticeably alike in their attitude toward* economic and religious questions, and toward birth control. Several studies have shown thAt couples tend to look alike when they are married, but do not look any matches. That is, if he gave away matches with cigaretes in 1942. Hereafter most tailors will fit men customer* in both stand ing and sitting position. Though the majority of men sit down 85 per cent of the time the tailers have for yean* fitted them only in standing position. + + + SEVENTY-NINE per cent of farm families have dogs a* do 49 |>cr cent of those living in small towns. In large cities only 29 per cent of families have canine pets. So states a statistician. However, this is no indication of the comparative love of dogs of the classes men tioned. Most farm dogs are kept for watchdogs. That is also true of small town dogs. City residents keep dogs solely because they like them. The percentage of city dog owners would be much higher if the pups were not barred by so many landlords. + + + A GIRL whose first name is May believes a recent pro posal of marriage she received one of the most quaintly ex pressed on record. A young gentleman named Gray said to her: “May, if you married me and changed your name to Gray, you could get into Ed Durling’s ‘My Name is a Poem Hub.’ ” DUtrtbu?e<! hy Klnf F*«tur»* Sjrtwl . Inr. ornrmittLriMEs Answers to Veterans Q —Will a serviceman who ap pllex for and get* a dependency discharge because of hardship conditions at home he barred from veterans' rights because he asks for his discharge? D. M. D. A—His discharge will be hon orable and he will not be barred from any rights. Q —What sort of caskets were used to bury the bodies of men killed In action In Belgium and northern France? Mrs. I. B. A —No caskets were used; it would have been impossible to furnish tTiem. The bodies were wrapped carefully in clean tar paulin. Q —Are men In the navy who enlisted and whose enlistments expire being let out? A—They become eligible for discharge under the point score Elan of the navy. If not eligible y reason of score, such men may be retained for the “dura tion and six months,” unless sooner discharged for other reason*. Brain Same Answers I—lt was used as a code lan guage, a code, by the way. which the Nazis and Japs were unable to crack. 2—Cornell, Pennsylvania, Pitts burgh, Northwestern, Uni versity of California. 3—(a) is correct. 4—David Niven, who will short ly appear in an American movie, "The Bishop's Wife.” s—(a) true; (b) false. Cable is sometimes laid as deep as four miles. C —MaJ. Gen. William J. Dono van. 7—Any attempt to harness such power would create friction which would stop the ma chine. B—They have been, and are be ing. trained to help the Al lied military governments ad minister ana police their own country. Connolly Answers I—a; 2—b: 3—c; 4-a Ho4’i miles); s—b; 6 (a) bowlder (or boulder); (b) hue; <c) canon; (d) serge; (e) ses sion. more alike on their golden wed ding day. 3—No, not quite, but two radically different races, such as the white and colored races, have important inborn differ ences. Yet, a mulatto docs not lead a double life as much from having inherited from both races as from his difficult social posi tion. He cannot see why he does not belong to the white race as much as to the Negro. He has loyalty to the Negro race, but also the ambition to achieve all the white race achieves. CONQUER YOUR FEARS it mk kMUti pr'N'M sr DR. WIGGAM from ’ho rroaoroh of Dr Dovld Ml’rh *ll. ontulttnt payrhotoftet. Shoot yota how |« analyr* and ml your (ran Send 10 r«et« and mmp*4. iif aelf addroaood rrturn onvrlopr TMa offer |« mad* vlthndt profit and only ai a arnrtca to reader*. If yow wiar a cow addrraa Dr A t Wltyaa. rare of The Detroit Timer Dr troll H, Mich. Jt»»t aife for THE CONQUEST OF FE*R THF nfTHOIT TIMII , % • On the Side