The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-01
Michigan in
Washington
By Esther Van Wagner Tutty

By Esther Van Wagner Tutty
Michigan peaches are every bit as
good as Georgia peaches. That's the
official opinion of President Roose-
Welt, issued by his spokesman, Cen
eral Edwin Watson, TO the pretty
Romeo Peach Festival queen, Mar
garet Emery. at the White House
on Thursday. That's high praise
from the adopted son Of Georgia.
A Michigan police captain, Donald
Leonard, brings back from London
an answer to the silk stocking scare.
Paint your legs including dark
line up the back OF the leg TO resem-
BILE a seam" advises Captain Leon.
ard who saw many English women
with painted" stockings during his
six weeks in Great Britain.
All of which goes TO show what a
good observer Mayor LaGuardia
sent to London. This was an extra
finding not included in my report
on British wartime police protec-
ton" laughed Leonard who stopped
in Washington to report to Civilian
Defense Director. Mayor LaGuar'
dia. He earned a lot OF praise from
the Little Flower"
Leonard made few surprise dis
coyeries on his trip. He found even
the criminals are patriotic in bomb
storm days. Officers told him of a
regular" thief who walked into a
police station to turn in so pounds
found in the debris OF a bombed
store.
Black-outs make life on the streets
a never-to-bs-forgotten experience.
Air raids were few during the
period Leonard was in the British
Isles-but he knows how many peo-
pie scamper to~fEe shelters when
the signal sounds. Although he was
surprised at the number who ignore
the warning and keep business as
usual" (The American six-man
commission slept through the first
one)
LaGuardia picked Leonard to see
all, hear all, and tell all Ito La
Guardia only about protecting civil
| ians during attacks.
England had to learn by the trial
and error method, said Leonard
who collected a vast amount OF
data to give the United States the
advantage OF their experiences.
This interest in shelters. fire war
dens, rescue squads, rest homes
emergency aids, black-out precau
tions does not mean, Leonard made
clear, that the need exists for sim
| liar protection in the United States.
All that will be done now, when
danger of attack IS still remote, Is
the paper work" Thus saving
time If the emergency should ever
come.
Leonard wakes eloquent when ht
speaks OF English morale. Their
reference to "a bit of bombing" may
mean the destruction OF an entire
block OF homes.
Leonard's group was in England
during the period when Churchill
was on the high seas for his secret
parley with Roosevelt. Not a word
was in the English papers. Even
when the news of the historic broad
cast was printed, some member OF
Parliament asked why Churchill,
didn't make 1t.
Churchill is their ideal. President
Roosevelt hero. The King an hon
ored symbol. A toast to the kinE
Is followed by a toast to the Presi
dent of the United States. said
Leonard. who found to be an Amer
Jean made him the recipient OF many
expressions of gratitude. II they ex
pect over more aid, a second AEF'
they don't say so.
These travellers back from the
war zone sure relish their food
They rave over plain bread and but
ter. A steak is the first thing they
ordered. Like the Duke Of Kent, they
crave oranges.
An Englishman Is rationed about
$40 year for clothes. .That1l buy
an overcoat, a suit OF clothes, hat
shoes and incidental clothing.
Another Michigan man, Glen Rich
ards. was on the six-man commits
sion to England. He was concerned
with collecting pertinent informa
1 ton on certain public works condi
tions.
Captain Leonard has only one re
greet. He wishes he had taken
suitcase of American silk hose U