Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30

utlVeS agar
complaining that they can't keer
office boys because they can get
Jobs too easily in the factories
That happened before in Detroit
and at last one office solved II
BY hiring old men. instead of boys
to run errands.
Cyril Cane and Arthur o.
Bray Of the British consulate,
working frantically on all the
details attendant TO the visit OF
the Duke Of Windsor--and a
visit from the British ambassa-
dor to follow next Monday. .
Young soldier in khaki and "Po-
land" In red letters on his shout
der. Polish, English and
American fiiers will be guests
together at the Polish-British
war relief party I'm Hamtramck
Saturday, Alice Manning says.
=. Harry Carey. the actor.
cant seem to enter q cab I'm
Detroit without having the
driver turn out TO be one of his
fans. Maybe IT'S his western
pictures, and who knows? Per-
haps the secret ambition OF
every cab driver Is to be a cow
boy and ride IicIkety-split with
out o traffic cop era Sunday
driver In sight.
The sophisticated crowd at the
Statler's ''balloon-buster" night,
borrowed from New York night
the crowd getting a lift
out of some amusements that
their grandpas and grandmas
thought were the last word;
Square dancing and musical chairs.
Going TO Jerusalem" we used to
call il. A man wins it, and
confesses,
81 guess I wasn't gentle
man. 1 didn't offer the lady the
chair =.
So far as / know. Detroit is the
first city TO revive that lavender
scented old game in supper
room. The snippy Detroiter
who singled out a Washington
executive that he didn't like, and
then sent a telegram to the White
House suggesting that the official
be appointed ambassador TO
Czecho- Slovakia." OF all the
nations that lost their freedom in
Europe, the Czechs make you feel
the sorriest. because they had such
short independence, and worked
so hard TO deserve it-and can
you ever forget that photograph
of the Czech woman, with one
hand raised in an unwilling Nazi
salute and the other hand cover
ing her eyes While between her
fingers seep tears for her countrys
lost liberty?
Windotc full of Christmas
cards already, and Alvin Hamer
says that there's fiUe-to-one IN
crease IN the number Of cards
qCith patriotic theme this year.
81 guess zoe kpoW how 10 dppre-
ciatc democracy better this
year" nc says /. And It's sttH
the meltHg-pot Americans, the
neW Americans, ChO see demo-
crdcH iOiih INC most ferUem eyes.
judging from the people igho ere
buying cards James A. De-
moplos, for example, Is going to
enclose nth his cards another
card announcing that his 1Asme,
heRcef forth, is James A. jameson,
because jameson Is the literal
translation of his name from
Greek 10 English Seems TO. me
thot little things like that corr
tain, soptewhere WitkiN them, the
sincerest kind Of praise for on
adopted land.
One-sentence editorial on De-
troit: The fewest books are sold
here of any big American city
but the circulation at the Public
Library Is among the highest, per
capita.
Chorus girls at the National.
sitting In Stacks and sweaters,
reading magazines between
shows :. Charmaine has date
the gentIemsn's her husband
o.. Something new In luxuries
for Christmas: Now It's wrap
ping paper with your 0name
printed on II. Which Common
Council candidate was PACED
over the loudspeaker system at
the Michigan-Minnesota football
game With 10000 people there.
and so many Of them from De-