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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
More Local Land
Goes on Block
This Week 4

The following described Detroit
properties 90 on the block this
week in the state land boards
|scavenger sale at 1909 Washingtoa
|boulevard:
MONDAY-Book No. /, pages
"A through At; Book No. 2, pages
2 through 6. Land In the City of
Detroit located In Ward Is, n
described on pages A through a.
Wayne County Sales Book No. I.
and pages 2 through 6, Wayne
County Sales Book No. 2.
TUESDAY-Book No. 2, pages
6 through Is. Land in the City Of
Detroit located in Ward Is, begin
ming with the north side of Jeffer-
son through the west side of Oak
man boulevard, as described on
pages 6 through Is, Wayne County
Sales Book No. 2.
WEDNESDAY - Book No. 2,
pages Is through Fl. Land in the
City of Detroit located in Wa.A-
16, beginning with the east side OF
Welland through the end of Ward
is and Ward II, beginning with
the north side of Kerchevsl
through the south side of East
Brentwood, as described on pages
Is through Fl, Wayne County
Sales Book No. 2.
THURSDAY-Book No. 2, pages
~ through II. Land in the City Of
Detroit located in Ward II, begin
ming with the north side OF East
brentwood through the end OF
Ward II and Ward 10, beginning
with the north side of Rowan
through the north side Of Plym-
outh. as described on pages ~
through u, Wayne County Sales
Book No. 2.
FRIDAY-Book No. 2, pages %
through 36. Land in the City OF
| Detroit located in Ward Is, begin
ming with the north side Of Foley
through the end of Ward Is and
Ward 19, beginning with the south
side of East Vernon highway
through the west side Of Fischer.
as described on pages % through
Sc, Wayne County Sales Book
No q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
'PIdstiCs Used
For Gddgets
In the Home
BY ELEANOR ROSS

A survey of the various new
lines in preparation by our lead
ing manufacturers OF household
equipment is a heartening expert
ence. The challenge to American
industrial ingenuity has been well
met and as one material after an
other goes into the clutching nav
of "priorities," substitutes are
quickly adapted and utilized. In
some instances, say the manufac-
turers, the result is an actual i'm
|provement. On the electrical
front, the change from aluminium
to other materials has been made
successfully.
Plastics have been substituted
for metal trim, hinges and door
handles with great success. Die
casting and molding once con-
cluded, the flow of plastics to take
the place of metals will continue
as long as there is no shortage of
the necessary chemical ingredi-
ents with which these plastics are
made. In some instances, say the
manufacturers of electrical equip
ment, plasties will always be used
in lieu of metals since they require
no finishing and therefore no
polishing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
No-Noise Cleaner

Incidentally, the vacuum using
the synthetic bristles has many
other new features. Its bag has q
|muffier to reduce noise, and it may
be removed with the push of a
single lever at the bottom and the
unfastening of one hook. at the
top. Two bag choices are avail
able-one with a fiber felt bag
insert which is used a few times,
then discarded.
A new table broiler is a neat
affair that does a clean and eff
cient broiling job right at the
table, so that steaks and chops are
transferred from broiler to plate
while piping hot, a boon for the
apartment with a small Kitchen
Iette.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Plated Copper

Copper with a plated finish Is
being used for refrigerator trays.
Plastics are now being used for
vacuum cleaners and for the wash
ing element in washing machines.
In the brush and broom field,
shortage of imports has increased
the Importance of the manufac-
tured bristles. A new vacuum is
with brushes Of man.
made bristles and the manufac-
turer claims that these will last
at least four times as long as the
animal bristle. These tough, man.
made bristles resist abrasion and
are not prone to split or fray. The
chances are that they will be used
in all things from toothbrushes to
brooms, even after the present
has passed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Exterior Painting

Exterior painting should not be
undertaken il the surfaces OF the
materials are damp, and should
not be attempted Immediately
after rain or snow, OF II rainy or
freezing weather is threatening.
Oil paints may be safely applied
at temperatures above 40 degrees
r. Other types Of coatings with
rapidly evaporating thinners
should be applied at higher tenn
peratures.
Exterior painting should follow
the sun, and work should cease
early in the afternoon If cold
nights are expected. Even at the
temperature of 40 degrees F.,
painting work should not be
undertaken when the temperature
may take sudden drop below
freezing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Architects AssaiI
SPAB Ruling

Midwest architects are demand
ing the modification of the SPAB
priority ruling of October 10 and
other priority rulings which in
effect prohibit private building,
according to Peter Brust of Mil
waukee, director of the Illinois
Wisconsin district of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
IS, 900 USHA Homes

More than $1,000 new homes in
the USHA defense program have
now been completed. Occupancy
in the completed defense housing
projects built and managed by
local housing authorities under the
USHA program is more than 81
per cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Barometric Damper

BY providing a balanced draft, a
barometric damper will improve
the efficiency of a stoker-fired
heating plant. Less heat will go
out of the smoke pipe into the
chimney if the draft is automati-
cally regulated. BY maintaining
a more even fire, the barometric
damper protects the retort against
burning and thus aids in fuel and
material conservation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
New Plastic Product

Among the new plastic products
developed by the plumbing indus
try TO meet the priorities pinch is
a closet tank float made from
cellulose acetate. The ball will
not dent, crack, or break under
ordinary handling, according to
the manufactures, and will not
leak or disintegrate in water.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
Use Added Care
In Winter
Paint Jobs

Extra precautions should be
taken during the Winter months
for all home painting.
For both interior and exterior
jobs painters should make sure
that the materials 10 be painted
are dry. Where the painting is on
the interior. heat should be main
tanned to assure continued drying.
All millwork TO be painted
should be primed before installa-
ton. In painting new plaster, the
temperature should not be too
high or else blisters are apt 10
develop.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
lehr 10 Address
Really Association

United States District Atty.
John c. Lehr will address men,
bers of the United Northwestern
Realty Association at 1915 p. m.
next Thursday at the Fisher
Branch OF the Y. M. c. A.
Evening star., 1941-11-14
Maritime Proqress

The United States, it seems
plainly evident, is destined to be the
greatest maritime power in the
world. Without regard to ships now
afloat, American dominance of the
seas appears assured by a construc-
ton program unparalleled in history.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, in an
address delivered in New York yes
terday, declared: There have been
1881 ships ordered by the Navy since
January /, 1910, to cost total of
$7,234,262,179."
No other nation under the sun
ever has attempted such a schedule
of production. In the first eight
months of 1941," the chairman of the
Maritime Commission explained, "a
total of 436 Navy keels has been laid,
as against 156 in all of 1910; 249 ships
have been launched, as against go
last year, and 213 have been commits
stoned as compared with At in 1940."
Admiral Land also let it be known
that approximately 700 merchant
vessels have been assigned to COM
mercial yards for repairs and refit-
ting. "A large number of Navy de-
stroyers," he said, have been recon-
ditioned - by privately owned re-
pair plants, and the majority of the
vessels Systematically sabotaged by
Italian and German crews have been
restored to use. This is all part
of program to produce ships faster
than the aggressors can sink them"
The implications of such an effort,
however, are not limited to the pre-
vailing emergency. AS far back as
1901 the American people found
themselves in agreement with Theo-
dore Roosevelt when, in a famous
speech, he suggested: ''If the Amer
ican Nation will =" build and keep
at a pitch of the highest training a
thoroughly efficient Navy, the Mon
roe Doctrine will 60 far"
Because of Axis aggression, the ap-
plication of the defensive philosophy
to which the author of those words
referred has been extended the world
around. The American flag will be
defended wherever It may 60 In any
Evening star., 1941-11-14

its five thousand words, invented as
a hobby, are unlike anything else
known to science It comes in handy
for keeping peep-proof diaries, he
says, and he admits that it has other
possibilities, which he failed to
specify.
There is no harm in guessing,
however. 1t is therefore suggested
that that grand new tongue, Sileijhi-
ano, may have it all over double talk
and pig Latin for use in mixed COM
pany at critical moments when
something strong, soul-satisfying but
unintelligible is needed to prevent
internal explosion. Sileijhiano may
also be the ideal medium in which
to explain Government finance, and
why it is supposed to be necessary
to tax away much of our spare cash
to keep us from spending it on
groceries. And of course it should
be rich field for song writer's, who
have made a start in that direction
already by deciding that a rillerah
is A river and hut sut is a dream.
Evening star., 1941-11-14
LIVINGSTON STREET.

Dear Sir.
Perhaps you can help me with a
small problem. In view OF the world
situation, it might not seem very large,
but in view of my back yard it is really
momentous.
Il had bird feeding station by the
window, and the birds got to be such a
nuisance around the window, and, in the
shrubbery and on the roof that I took up
the feeder, which was on stake, and
put 1t in the back of the yard.
That was early today.
AT this time, quite late in the after
noon. not bird has gone to eat, but
all of them insist on perching in the
bushes and hollering their darn fool
heads off for food!
The other feeder is in plain sight; +;
have the birds neither eyes nor brains?
VIII they ever go to the new location,
or should I move the feeding station
back to the window?
Faithfully yours, T. C. D."
Have patience, my friend.
BY the time your letter gets into print
the birds will have gone 10 the new
feeder location long ago.
There is always a lag, in such matters.
Birds, as men, are creatures of habit.
When something happens to upset
their routine they show perpIexity. lust
as We do
1t is food, not location, that they
are after.
When feeder is changed. the guests
show puzzlement, at first, Just as the
paying guests at hotel would, if they
went into the dining room or the room
which had been the dining room, and
found that it had been changed into the
lobby.
Usually 1t is only matter Of one or two
hours before the birds discover and use
the feeder in the new position
Recently We had a similar experience,
the details of which may be of some
interest.
We had neat feeder house like in
shape and appearance, on the end of a
metal stake about feet high.
This stake was inserted into the earth
among some rhododendrons at the din
ing room windows.
The birds came there by the score
There were all the usual species to be
| found hereabouts in fall and winter. in
Guiding many English sparroWs.
The latter are smart birds. Surely
they ought to greet change, We thought
=
So out came the stake, and up went
the feeding station in a flower border
some SO feet from the house.
This would be a nice change for the
birds, We thought Surely they would
like little adventure, We believed.
The stake and feeding station were
removed about o'clock in the after
noon-evening, persons from some Sec
tons of the country call it-and put in
their new location.
All the songsters were gone by this
time. except the cardinals
The tray was heaped with fine seed
all ready for the morrow.
Evening star., 1941-11-14

ocean, and 1t will 60 wherever the
defense of the United States may
require it to be.
Meanwhile, the commission over
which Admiral Land presides is di-
rected by Congress ito make such
studies as are necessary to develop
merchant fleet that will serve as an
effective naval and military auxili-
ary, provide satisfactory service
on all essential trade routes and
transport substantial portion of the
United States water-borne interna-
tional commerce" The gross ton
mage of the American merchant
marine in 1887 was 12,429,613. When
the present program has been COM
pleted that figure will be vastly ex-
panded The same observation holds
good for the naval complement.
Evening star., 1941-11-14

rlhed at our national vitamin deficiency
TO an absurdity, by citing the statistics
Of several nationally-known hospital
centers, with their demonstrably insigni-
hcant incidence. What DR.. Clendening
has failed TO take into consideration in
citing these statistics is the undeter-
mined incidence of night blindness. ster-
lllty, pellagra. obscure forms of poly
neurltls and rickets, none of which
necessarily would be hospitalized On
the other hand, all of us should take to
heart the social significance of the recent
report to the President by Brig. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service di-
rector. This report shows that 2o9 per
cent OF our selectees were rejected for
dental defects and 1877 per cent for poor
eyesight, both of which are probably re-
sponslve to national nutritional def
clencies, calcium deficiency on the one
hand and essential bodybuilding pro-
teins on the other From this we might
be led to conclude that our national evil
and shortage is proper and indispensable
foods. rather than vitaminS Perhaps no
one has stated the problem more &C
curately and succinctly than former
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. WAL
lace. In his foreword to the 1889 Year
book of Agriculture, Food and Life" one
of the finest and most comprehensive
treatises on the subject this writer has
ever read, Mr.. Wallace said in part:
Fifty per cent of the people of the
United States do not get enough in the
way of dairy products, fruits and vege-
tables to enable them to enjoy full vigor
and health, and large number of them
do not get enough because they cannot
afford it, 1t is the duty Of farmers. the
Government, the businessmen and Or
gani1ed labor to see that the children of
these people are better fed than their
parents were"
Our selective service experience in 1o4l
proves Mr.. Wallace was right in 1889
THOMAS E. MATT1NGLY, M. D.
Evening star., 1941-11-14
THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles E. TrdceUell.

Morning came, all right but not so the
birds.
They insisted on perching in the rho
dodendrons, hopping from branch to
branch, looking in vain for the usual
handout.
1T won't be but few minutes" We
thought before they see where it Is"
But not So
Undoubtedly they could see, but evi-
IDENTIFY they cid not connect the house
on stake out there with the house on
a stake which had been here.
They few back into the lilacs at the
side of the house, their usual retreat,
to talk things over At least, that was
the impression they gave, as they chat
tered away in the lilacs.
-
An hour went by
It was now o'clock
But no bird had moved to the new 10
cation.
Just then band Of blue jays few in.
These large handsome birds bring with
them breeze right out of the blue
| heavens which they reflect on their
coats.
They swooped down, over the rhodo-
dendrons, then few up Immediately.
No use wasting their time there.
With one wing they flew directly to
the feeding station in its new location.
Two of them fought for a place on the
west side Of the station
oil tO
Then another few in, and soon the
feeder was busy and bright with jays.
! 1t was an hour later, however, before
the sparrovs learned TO come over and
make themselves at home.
Two hours, then, passed before these
intelligent small creatures gave up perch
ing in the rhodes.
In changing the location, If possible,
| thought should be given to putting the
old station in a position which can
/ plainly be seen from the old location.
Aside from that, there is not much
which can be done except to wait.
| Conditions may vary, so in not all cases
D
I two hours. Sometimes an entire day. or
maybe two days, will pass before the
! songsters have become used to the new
/ place.
/ 1t is safe to say. however, that in every
case they will find the feeding station
within a comparatively short time, and
be quite as at home there as at the old
/ location.
In our case. We feel sure that the birds
really like the new site better than the
old. Birds naturally prefer an eating
place little distance from the house
Although they will come readily to a
window sill. fortunately for bird lovers
they must still keep in the back of their
minds Just little of the old suspicion
which has been their salvation through
the ages. Today, with mankind seem
inely insane, men killing each other
right and left, the birds had better be-
ware where they fly. 1t is time to change
the old saying, and make it read. The
more I see of some men, the better I
like the BIRDS
Evening star., 1941-11-14
Blames Speed and Alcohol
For More Serious Accidents"

To the Editor OF The Star:
To my mind the unreasonable blanket
increase In the minimum penalties i'm
posed for infractions of the present
traffic regulations is nothing less than
an admission by the responsible authori-
ties of their inability to solve the traffic
problem. The method now proposed
differs only in small degree from an
order prohibiting any and all motor
traffic.
Judging from the nature Of the traffic
rules and regulations generally, it is ap-
parent that the careful owners and
drivers have been given very little con-
sideration in any plan to control traffic.
Should this be the case when the great
majority of drivers and owners are law
abiding citizens?
OF the principal causes of the more
serious accidents, there are two which I
believe would stand at the head of the
list If the facts were known. These two
causes are speed and alcohol I have
failed to notice any inclination on the
part of the responsible parties to elm
recommendation along this line Is to
increase the speed limit, which could
only have the effect of increasing ac-
cidents.
If there were drinking fountain on
every corner in Washington and it fur
nished nothing but liquor what BEAU
tiful setup we would have for unsafe
traffic conditions. Vet, to a great degree
that is the present status in Washing
ton. 1t is not only possible for any
driver to stop in almost any block down.
town and get liquor. but the sale Of light
wines and beer, understand, was per-
mitted at public outdoor concerts What
is to be expected?
To impose heavy fine on a drunken
driver who is responsible for a fatal
accident may be good for the treasury
but it furnishes scant consolation to the
family and dependents of the victim OF
the accident. Not only drunken drivers
but drinking drivers should b kept Cd
the streetS. CITIZEN.
Evening star., 1941-11-14
Season of Haste

The suddenneSS Of autumn stops the
breath.
1t is not death
That threatens rith the wanino Of
the year,
But drd,Uing near
OF that long Season-sleep Of oroUirg
things;
So autumn brings
A sense of haste, OF much that must
be done
Before the sun
WithdraUs behind the 1UoSte Of cold
betlUeen.
The ash lUaS green
Last night. this da1Un it stands in
sudden gold.
The moths fly bold;
The gnats are frantic as the time
gro1Cs short
The great edrth-court
Has named their sentence, and to-
morroW's light
Brings them their night.
The UeedS fling ldUtSh seeds before
the frost
Lest all be lost.
Each dusk black 1rings 90 hurting
do1Un the sky
With the harsh cry
OF orackle- -warning that the year u
old
"The cold! The eoldts
DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON.
Evening star., 1941-11-14
Questions Mr.. Lindbergh's Concern
For Democracy in America.

To the Editor of The Star:
l think it is a mistake to consider
Charles A. Lindbergh a friend of Adolf
Hitler. On the contrary, I believe he is
as much of an American patriot as
Hitler is German one. and he knows
very we'll that in the long run these
two types of patriotism will hardly be
able to live in peace on the same planet.
Otherwise Mr.. Lindbergh would not ad-
vocate the same gigantic defense pro-
gram as does President Roosevelt
What I find surprising is the over
anxious concern which the leader of the
America First Committee now shows for
American democracy. On that point he
seems to have indeed exactly the same
attitude as Hitler before his coming to
power. 1t is unfortunately not we'll
enough known in this country that Der
Fuehrer in the last few years OF German
democracy also complained Of how op-
pressive Germany's democratic admins
tration was, how tyrannical German lib
erals were and how out of touch with
the true voice Of the nation.
Now Mr. Lindbergh demands that the
recently reelected President of the
United States take the people more into
his confidence. Does that mean that Mr.
Lindbergh, If he were President, would
give his opposition more freedom than
Mr.. Roosevelt? Will any one expect Mr..
Lindbergh to be more tolerant and gen.
erous with the friends of the British"
than the President is now with the Amer
lea First Committee?
I urgently hope that this country will
learn something from history. Hitler
told the world, as Mr. Lindbergh does
now. that the present European war is in
truth war of the poor against the rich
and therefore from the moral point of
view no American should take the side
of the rich in this struggle. That the
poorest European nations such as the
Serbs, Greeks, Czechs. Poles fight on
the side of the rich obviously does not
disturb either Hitler or Mr.. Lndbergh.
think that today no one is more dan
gerous to American democracy than these
overconcerhed defenders of freedom
One should see quite clearly that in fact,
If Facism should ever come to power in
this country, it will use the slogan of
saving democracy.
ANOTHER MORALIST.