Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-21

y il didn't look
as though 1
" had a ghost OF
a chance.
A real estate man named Nc
Clure picked me up and got me
there ahead of time. proving
that the custom of giving lifts
hasn't disappeared.
There seems 10 be a question
IN the minds OF house hunters
n To whether the milk Of human
kindness Is still In existence, or
Il as scarce as butter.
Charlie Hicks says his nephew,
Morris Clark, a war worker at
Graham-Paige, had 80 much
trouble trying TO find a place to
live that he finally had To take
a full day off and hunt.
He used up eight gallons of
gas and found only two apart
ments for rent. In both cases
he was turned down as soon as
Gte landlords learned that he
ad n baby two months old.
He also discovered how to get
his name at the top of wait
ing list. Apartment carctakers
agreed TO put his name at the
top of the list II he coaxed them
with a S. bill. All that entities
you TO, though, II 10 keep on
waiting.
In general. however. people
must be getting better hearted.
The Mile o Dimes campaign, 10
fight infantile paralysis, is get
ting plenty of dimes. but is
getting many more quarters and
dollars than ever before.
Incidentally. Sister Elizabeth
Kenney. famed for her work
with paralysis. Will get the Ma
tionai Humanitarian Award from
the Variety Club. out In Sacra- =
mento today, Haviland Reeves
tells me.
This award was first given In
1889 In Detroit. when Father
Flanagan got the plaque at the
national convention. Mart
Berry and George Washington
Carver also have won IL. Variety
Club il one Of the comparatively
few organizations which knows
that II takes more than honors
10 keep good work going. They
give 81 900 cash TO carry on the
work OF each winner. besides
giving him, or her. a plaque.
a reader. says he has an idea
"a combat the U-boat menace,
but docs not say what it is He
Just wants 10 know where 10
send his idea. Why not go right
n the top and send il TO the
Rvy Department, Washington,
D. c.?
He should have told us his
idea. though. 10 satisfy our nor
NAL curiosity. The same applies
20 a reader in Bridgeport, Mich,
who writes;
II have four given names, one
more than your son. One name
stands for two god-parents, one
for another one. and one IL n
name my mother fancied. She
saw II on a cigar box way back
In lS-."
After getting, our curiosity
aroused, she signs the letter
merely, Edith Ewald." and we
don't know what name she got
from the cigar box.
once knew reporter who
kept his job on the New York
Herald Tribune because of a
cigar box.
He is Milton +. Thompson,
who was a cub police reporter
then. Some eminent gangster,
frankie Tale, l think. was
killed. and Thompson didn't even
realize that his paper would
want a picture Of the gangster.
They bawled him out and said
II he didn't get a picture. he
needn't come back TO work. BY
that time. the other papers had
all the available photographs.
Thompson finally discovered that
the gangster had an obscure
cigar named after him. He found
n box Of them, the gangster's
picture was on the box. and the
paper used the picture. P.S.: He
kept the job, but later quit and
was a newspaperman in Detroit.
St. Louis. and later in New
York again. N.
He is the only man I ever
knew who broke his leg and