Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-25

gives US the
MR.. PICKERING sniffles, as il
usually does, it's going TO make
it that much harder for the
Japs to get any weather data.
My thanks, by the way, TO all
he people who not only told me
where / could find pussywillows,
but -eveff-sefft- soHie-pihk~ ones
from the Lee Sowles of Lincoln
Park, yellow from Ted Shulin.
who found them at Seven-Mile
and Gratiot, and some black
ones, by special delivery from
Ohio.
And from the back yard OF
the II. j. Gibbonses in Highland
avenue, Windsor. some huge Ca
madam ones, seven feet tall.
which may sound incredible but
if you stop at my house l will
show them to you.
II was too --- spring day
not TO celebrate il by getting a
haircut. and Barber Bill Tighe
-cen&ded- that the man in the
\ next chair is the most impatient
that he knows of-a week or
two ago he shaved the man and
gave him haircut, the whole
iob IN Il minutes. because the
man is always in hurry.
The so-called good old days
weren't as leisurely as they were
supposed 10 be. Not in the bar
Der shop. anyway. because Bill
habitHaily- used 30 shave Gus
toners in three minutes, and
could do better in a pinch.
"You used 10 just put the soap
on their faces and then shave
IL on" Tighe SAID. "Now YOU use
hot towels. and 20 over their
faces twice, and massage them
and that's what takes 30 long.
But watch that man I'm the next
chair, Doesn't care II YOU yank
his whiskers out or chop them
Oft or what, just 80 you get
through fast"
The man was out OF the chair
long before | was, and didn't
even say ouch.
And from there up 10 the
General Motors Building, 10 see
The GM exhibit OF war materials
being built by the corporation.
Those, at least, which aren't OF
secret nature.
c. r. Wilson. president Of GM,
summed II up briefly;
We've had some bad news.
hut (waving his arm 20 include
the whole eNhibiD this il good
news"
The unsung hero OF Detroit,
though, is the man who works
in the tool department Of one OF
the big plants. Not GM If
you're trying 20 identify him)
In the first eight months Of
\ war production he did so much
! running that he developed fat
feet.
While 7 report this as being
curious. il is not funny. Even
with larger shoes. which The
man now wears, il IS painful for
HIM 10 get around
Between being shot and hav-
ING my feet hurt, l think Id
take a bullet Well a moderate
sized bullet. anyway. The rise
and fall OF empires has been
traced TO Caesars with indiges-
ton: what tragedies. big and
little. might not be traced 10 a
man whose feet hurt?
Anyway, the GM display is
certainly the best free show in
town. You can even see how a
machine gun works. because
they have one in operation, with
glass walls so you can see what
happens inside.
Beside another gun exhibit. we
heard reporters asking n. l..
Keller whether he was going
into aircraft work, and Keller
replied:
zone job at time. Two jobs
Is like two wives. Can't do It,"
There are cannon barrels.
shells, trucks. parts of airplanes
and the first model of a modern
machine gun built in Michigan.
And. Of course. some exam
Piles of G. F. Kettering's scien-
tifc magic-one being a gadget
that measures the heat of the
palm of your hand. when you
hold your palm toward il at a
distance of 40 feet!
II II takes miracles 10 win
wars. all right. This is the age
of miracles and the city of mir
acles.