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

Feet that are young enough to
go galloping behind the davenport
10 hunt for Easter nests are much
too impatient TO find the still hid
den ones; the eggs already found
are the ones that get stepped on.
But even cleaning stepped-on
eggs out of the carpet Is . small
enough price. As long as the
young enthusiasm OF the egg
hunt survives. We won't have
time to worry about the carpet.
In fact, we shouldn't even be
thinking about the carpet at all.
Maybe it's the first tentative touch
OF age. or perhaps it's because this
year Of war makes US all so
koiemn.
II has taken until now for me
to realize that April ] passed by
without any one playing a practI-
cal joke on me. or vice versa.
didn't even see one being at
tempted.
"Wefi. Yes, tried one. I
picked up q magazine and told
- Kitty In surprised tone that
the price had been raised from
q nickel TO Is cents.
HAS ~" she said In that sad,
meditative tone that all wives
get these days when you mem
ton anything even remotely
touching the family budget. So
my April Fool Joke fell nat, and
the Japs have spoiled even April
Fools Day.
IL the world has to be serious
and sober. we might as we'll give
in TO il, and be somber.
Why. it's even gotten so that the
publicity men for the automobile
companies spend their time telling
you what you must NOT print, In
stead OF the reverse.
We found. for instance, that
army officers were much more
lenient than some OF the publicity
men when IL came 10 digging up
some ormation about the
bomber fuselages being built at
the Hudson plant.
However. It's all right IN say
that on this particular type of
fuseIage, $4,000 changes have
been made In the last three
years, and this, Of course, does
not include the changes that
have been made In the wings,
motors, cockpit, guns and 10 on.
just the fuselage.
IL gives you some slight no
:. tion Of what q mammoth Job II
5Is tn build q bomber. In this
case, the fuselage IL such q COM
plicated affair that even simpli-
flying IL II q complication.
They proposed to remove one
part which. they felt. was not
vital for combat aviation. Re-
moving that one part necessi-
tated more than zoo other
changes to compensate for II.
However. that's the way air
planes are built. and every plane
that goes down results in an engi-
neering post-mortem. 10 decide
what can be done 10 prevent an
other from going down. The 90
900 changes are not waste motion.
They are 10000 steps forward.
But to get back IN the press
agents-out Of the whole lot Of
them. there was only one who
had the general reputation Of
trying to keep things out of the
papers, instead Of trying to get
things In.
Newsmen hunting for infor-
nation usually avoided him like
q plague, and breathed fiery re-
marks about him and his an
cestors.
Strangely enough, while all the
rest have snapped their mega
phones for mutes since the start
OF the war. apparently the war has
had exactly the opposite effect on
him.
He's the one who tried to wedge
his company into this weeks c. K.
Wilson-Walter Reuther debate,
which was. of course. strictly a
General Motors-CIO affair. (And
he didn't get in. by the wayO
So you see haw the war turns
everything upside down. except
y Easter.
There are always Easter eggs,
which reminds US TO recommend
that you look at Pastry Chef
Max Baumgartner's three Easter
eggs In the Book Cadillac lobby.
Using melted chocolate In
stead Of paint. he painted Bibli-
cal pictures on the eggs-the
eggs being ss big as barrels. IL
took him eight weeks to make
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