Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-06
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now
MAIL BAG:

GAIL BAG.
Dear Jack: How about an
article on our Tigers? Don't say
that It's for the sports writer's.
We'd like to hear about them
from you. What do you think
about our fire-tongued Birdie
Tebbetts and Dir Trout
Sylvia Simpson"
Thanks. Pickering has been
looking for a good excuse 10 90
to a ball game anyway. Teb-
belts is my favorite Tiger
because we're both from New
England. Don't know enough
about Trout yet TO venture an
opinion.
"Dear Jack: Just heard a
report that brokerage houses
and the bar association have
set up placement bureaus
through which customers men
with few customers and lawyers
with fewer clients clean up their
professional business by mid
afternoon and then take Jobs
In war plants on the four-to-
midnight shlft.-H. r."
l hereby dedicate the follow
inP poem 10 EN-:
on NTH the spdts and neckties,
of Nth purchasing blanks;
On Nth pair Of coUerdlis.
And Of TO get on toith tanks.
REGARDING RENTING:
Dear Jack: You 20 here and
there to see happenings but
have you ever taken a day,
week or n month and tried tn
find n house or fiat, with two
or three bedrooms, In n clean
neighborhoOd, that n defense
workers family with three
children could afford:
We've been In Detroit for
years. hut the house we have
I'm In for five years has been
the last four years We
have experienced unemploy-
ment, welfare, WPA, tubercu-
Iosis, three major operations,
measles, mumps, and chicken
pox and still been able to grin.
But believe me, this Il one
situation we can't grin about.
Is there any answer 10 IL:
". L. W."
Cases like yours. ! think, rank
ms one OF the hardest OF any
thing We have 10 contend with
in Detroit. I've just been
through it myself, and think
I'm very lucky to have found
a place. II / get any Sugges-
tions that might help you, they
will be on their way 10 you in
the next mail.
Dear Jack: Thought YOU
might he interested In the way
we're handling the new rent
ceiling Mt 900 Whitmore road.
We are sending tenants a letter
showing that fuel oil IL up 22
per cent, the building pay roll
90, electric power 5 and taxes
(estimated) 5 to 10.
"Our letter adds, We offer
this report TO our residents not
In any spirit of protest. but sim
ply I'm the interests OF better
understanding.
"You are making your contri-
buttons 10 the war program. We
are making ours. We are per-
fectIy willing 10 accept all con-
sequences OF the new federal
ceiling as an additional contribu-
tfon 20 that cause. -. u. T."
Dear Jack: never wore n
pair of stacks In my life. hut now
am working In n defense plant
and must wear them back and
tn from work.
Those narrow minded fe-
male creatures who give YOU n
nv now that girls In Stacks are
working their lily white hands
off for their country:
"My advice TO them IL TO put
on n pair OF pants for once In
their lives and see how impor-
tant one feels.-Edna Snyder"
Since the Udr, trousers
Good taste olioics, sirs.
That's the only rhyme ! can
think Of for pants.
RE: BOOMER:
I'm regard to MIR. Boomers
'twaddle and drivel' he sounds
like he had once tried to write
column and was turned down =.
I suggest that he turn his sunny
side out.-M. s."
Just read j. Earle Boomers
letter, and decided to write to
Iet him know enjoy every word
YOU write. Maybe IL was only a
bet 10 see how your readers
would take such a letter.-Mrs.
ID. j. j."
Nope, no bet l don't even
know MIR Boomer