Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-11

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Mn. PICKERING m out n 10
mouth, suggesting that war
bonds be sold by lotteries.
Maybe it would sell more war
bonds. but / can think Of a lot
Of reasons why the thing is all
wet.
The biggest reason is the
shortest. If we can't sell enough
war bonds without sugar-coat-
ing TO lure the something-for-
nothing boys, we have sunk
pretty low.
I've been told that one of the
war factories got up lottery
to sell bonds, and "A high-salaried
official won the prize bond.
There was 80 much squawking
that the official gave II away
to some fund or other.
That's the trouble with lot
\ teries. A lot of people without
)much money dig up a dollar
that ought 10 be spent on gro
cerieS. and invest II in the lot
terry, expecting 10 get rich and
give their families all the fine
things they want them 10 have.
The bigger the prize, the big
ger the dreams. But the bigger
the prize, the less chance a poor
hopeful has Of winning il.
You have no way of making
sure that the prize will be won
by somebody who needs IL.
Even II IL does happen, oc-
casionally, what's the result?
Time after time sudden wind
falls have resulted In ruination.
Easy come, easy go" il too
terribly true.
Suppose YOU offer a $1,000
war bond as a prize and some
average guy wins IL? What
choice has he except 10 cash II
in the next day. 70 get NE
money TO pay income tax on II?
As 10 supporting the govern
ment by lottery, that's at
least as bad and maybe worse.
III you charge ~ a ticket, YOU
won't raise enough money 10 do
much good--nOt even il every
man, woman and child, includ-
ing jailbirds, the feeble-minded
and the kids in the third grade
bought tickets. That would he
around S13O,O0O, 900, out Of
which you would have to pay
prizes, pay for distributing the
tickets, and hiring "A police force
TO prevent cOunterfeiting.
If you had 500. 0OO, 900 profit.
which II n great deal more than
you'd have. at that. IL would
still be a drop In the bucket Of
federal expense.
And last of all, think what
kick In the logic this would be
for the sOapboN orators who in
weigh against the idle rich. If
being rich il such sin, how
much Sinfuller II would be TO
set up nationallN-b eSse q
scheme 10 make people rich by
lot.
Nope. you can have the whole
business.
RANDOM NOTES:
Gilda Gray is TO have her
biography done IN the Saturday
Evening Post. Nickname for 4
war baby: Scycn-month-old
Charles Haynes Jr, whose pop
is in the air corps. IS nicknamcd
Jeep. Nero told -1hA4- tAe
Royal Oak schools are cutting
down the number OF school
dances this year. II sounds like
an invitation 10 more juvenile
delinquency. Ferdinand Grofe
Jr., son of Ferde Grofe, the IA
nous composer, is in uniform
at Fort Custer. Sailors in De-
troit have adopted that revised
version OF "Hinky Dinky Farley
Vous' which they sing while
marching from the armory 10
the Diesel School-the verse
that goes: They say that this Is
a mechanical war. so what in
the - are We marching for -
Comic strips t0 the contrary,
tall men don't always marry
short wives. Two DetrOiters
who met at the Tip-Toppers
Club are married now, Bill and
Betty Bubb. She's ; feet o. he's
9 feet = Lecture courses. the
noOnd day ones, are being
swamped, the Fisher Town Hall
people say, by war workers on
night shifts who are hungry for
daytime recreation.