Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-16
Public Must Sacrifice

. A FTER q lot of dawdlng and unnecessary hemming
"A and having the DSR commission finally has decided
that transportation to the Willow Run Bomber plant
and similar war production factories, is important
The commissioners have indicated they will eliminate
all bus service from lines also served by street cars and
will transfer those buses service Willow Run and other
defense plants -.
If they make their contemplated change Immediately
they may anticipate order from the Office of Trans
portaton in Washington nsructing them officially to do
that very thing.
COMMENTING on the planned modification of normal
- DSR service, Manager Fred A. Nolan of the DSR,
said:
This is going to be expensive and probably the public
won't like it but naturally going to comply in the
interest of a victorious
IF we take off just the parallel lines will the
DSR 100000 year. If we take the buses off nights
and Sundays and holidays parallel lines it will cost
additional Sl,248,0O0 in operation"
Nolan continued realistically:
"On parallel lines find that buses carry 20 per cent
of the traffic Should street be used exclusively
these lines public transportation will be 25 per
slower"
THERE is the nub of the whole problem.
Until 500 or 600 new buses can be obtained a matter
of several months the public will have to suffer ncon
venience if defense plants to be efficiently servced
There is only
The public must suffer.
The public must accept the annoyance of slower
street service The public must become accustomed
again to uncomfortable strap hanging sardne ammed
street
Weary shoppers and office and store workers must
take sc an6 rrated they may be- the elbowing and
crowding and the jotng and jerking of refurbshed old
street
L. They must come to know that riding thus painfully
to and from their work their shopping is minor
rfce if any real sacrifice at all.
Detroiters don't know this yet
Detroiters still grouse about the tire shortage.
Most Detroters ignore it and employ their personal
motor cars as gaIy as ever they did.
n ENERAL BEN LEAR, commanding general of the
VI Second Army of the United States, his recent
Army Day visit to Detroit expressed amazement at the
matteroffact Sunday pleasure driving by Detroiters.
"Can't they understand" he asked chow valuable
automobile tires today? Don't they know the i'm
portance of rubber to army in this war? Don't they
Is definite help to enemies? Can't they learn to
take their families for good healthy walk Sunday
instead of for ride in their cars: Don't they know
what this means?
81 amazed at their tranquility in this city which
should be the most war-conscious city in the world"
before the war is over, Detroters-as all other
ID Americans-probaby will undergo hardshps compar-
able to those of their grandparents who didn't consider
them hardships. at ALL
The we accustori ourselves to these so-caled
hardshps the will be toughenng ourselves to
the realities of this gloomy today
All of us should cooperate in the praiseworthy Gf
tardy) efforts of the DSR to transport defense workers
to and from their factories
We should cooperate if it rubbing
shoulders with perfect stranger with whom
would speak if we drove swanky to work
and home again