Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-06

day. All Of a
-, ,,rvrpI~c sudden YOU
NM feel like writ
Ing down everything that has
happened, and you know darncd
we'll that If YOU had the whole
page instead Of one column, 1t
wouldn't be enough.
The only thing ! can think OF
20 complain about Is that /, per-
sonally, think that the present
picture Of yours truly Is terrible.
And even that doesn't matter.
because we've just had a new
one taken (yes, again0 and II
looks pretty good. 1t will appear
in a day or two. probably.
ANOTHER REASON I feel
good II that we've just gotten
back from a quickie trip 10 Chi
cago, and everything worked out
perfectly. aside from getting lost
six or eight times, because l,
for one. get too interested I'm
rubbering at the landscape. and
forget 10 watch the road signs.
SOME TRUCK driver on US
112 had Scrawled on the back Of
his truck, Dead Japs Hauled
Free" That was one time we
got lost--following the truck
long enough to read the sign. lie
turned off US-ll2. and so did We
MOST or the Chicago col
umnists were busy writing about
the spring weather. Detroit's has
been better. though. In fact, this
Is probably the first time that
Detroit's weather has ever been
better than anybody else's.
WE DIDN'T have time 10 do
much getting around. From a
sense OF duty. we went TO the
Chez Paris; saw Jane Frohman
arrive TO watch the show;
chatted briefly with Eddie Du-
chin at the Empire Room; went
to bed reasonably early. got up
the next day and drove to Evan
ston before turning around and
coming home.
PEOPLE ARE starting In
open up their summer cottages
ut the lakes. In one town, prae-
tically everything seemed TO he
closed UP, even the drug store,
leading TO the belief that fishing
must be good somewhere around
Edwardsburg.
One farm still has maple
syrup buckets hanging on the
sugar naples, but quite a num-
her OF farmers were doing their
blowing.
WE WERE again amazed at
the filling station attendants.
The number Of services they will
perform cheerfully and for no
fee always anaZes me, and |
would nominate them, in gen
eral. as the most agreeable Of
any group of workers who serve
the public.
INDIANA POLICEMEN look
tougher than the ones you see.
In either Michigan or Illinois.
Why this should he so is
mystery 10 me, but that's the
impression they give.
DRIVING INTO Chicago
gives us the idea that Detroit
misses a bet by not having more
main roads running near or past
some of the big automobile
plants.
When you 60 into Chicago.
YOU see the steel and oil plants
AT Gary and Hammond. Natur-
ally, they don't belong 10 Chi
cago. but they give tho
impression Of belonging 10 the
metropolis. Especially az night
when YOU see the light from tho
furnaces. or the gas flares d.
Illuminating these big plants. YOU
get the feeling that tho com
munity is an industrial giant
II is one. Of course. but so Is
Detroit. yet you don't got the
same impression coming 10 De
troit. You don't see the Ford
plant. the GM laboratories tho
stamping mills or the ioundIlcs
DETROIT WOULD seem IN
he n bigger city " IL had an
elevated or n subway. II would
also be q noisier and more Clut-
tered looking city N IL had ar
I'll like Chicago's. Chicago, how
ever, always gives the impress
sion Of busting. Detroit doesn't
always.
SPEAKING FROM a purely
personal standpoint 4 rather
enjoy listening 70 the elevated
trains grind past the hotel, and
they don't keep me awake
Especially I like the way tho
wheels scream against the rails
when the train goes around a
curve.
BETTER look out. First
thing 7 know, I'll be starting a
campaign 60 build an elevated
In Detroit.
AZ that Univ nof