The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-18
Michigan in
W ashington
By Esther Van Wagner Tufty

are not content just to buy bonds.
they must give special gifts 20
Uncle Sam. And what gifts! Every
thing from wedding rings to
seven-dog team with sled!
Even automobiles, typewriters,
racing pigeons. coin collections. a
Rolls-Royce, and the good neigh
hor policy resulted in a gift Of an
eight-coach train from South
America
The most welcome are the gifts
Of cash sent by people who don't
want to make money by buying
bonds. Actually several million dol
lars have just been dumped out OF
the mailbag into Uncle Sans cot.
fers. They come addressed to U.
S. Treasury: to the President Of
the United States; or just Uncle
Sam
The terse messages pinned to the
gifts are colorful. Some typical
ones read-"Swat the Japs"
Kick the hell out Of Hitler"
Use this money to build some
thing that will help lick the dirty
Japs" in memory OF our gal
liant hero Colin Kelly-Build an
other bomber" =. Victory
through God" May this help
to set the rising sun"
Then there was the gift of 20
cents from two Army privates. I'VE
observe in the newspaper" they
wrote, that the public debt is
$1O4,204,022,06s.70. Enclosed find
20 cents TO round of the figure to
an even number of dollars"
One Treasury official is fond Of
quoting the sentiment expressed
by a Michigan mother and father:
Our son is in the Army Air Corps
and it is our feeling that Injuries
for us are far less important than
the necessities for National De-
tense. We do not care to loan
this money We want to give it,
in the hope that 1t will, in some
measure, help us destroy for once
and all the barbarity and injustice
of Fascism, and help maintain in
tact the country and ideals we
shall never give up"
Too many housewives think the
government no longer wants kit
chen fats for war production. So
says Paul C. Cabot, WPB salvage
director. worried over the sag in
this source of valuable glycerine
for war use.
The two reasons for the decline
are cited. Many housewives relax
thinking, enormously, that the war
is about over anyway Others are
under the Misrepresentation that
rancid fats are not acceptable. True,
their value is less and they are a
smelly nuisance to handle, but
they are urgently needed.
Michigan housewives have been
in third place in this particular sal
wage drive. They attained 6O.4
per cent Of their goal in June. To
meet the higher August goal of
sos, 500 pounds will take some or.
ganized fresh effort.
Three OF the IL paper manufac-
turers just named to aid the OPA
in setting a price ceiling on sui
phite and bleached kraft papers
are from Michigan. They will be
on a special advisory committee
meeting in New York at the Wal
dorf Astoria on August is at which
time officers for the committee
will be elected.
The men, f. w. Kiefer, presi-
dent OF the Port Huron Sulphite
& Paper Co.; A. Southon, sales
manager Of the Kalamazoo Vegeta-
Bile Parchment Co.; and H. X.
Teller. president of the Detroit
Sulphite Pulp & Paper Co.
According to the most recent
farm labor supply report, the farm
work in Michigan is getting done
despite war-made difficulties.
Says the report, Michigan vege-
table growers are having a breath
ing spell between wedding and har-
vest" The next worry for some
growers will be to obtain enough
workers to do the heavy work ut
harvest time.
So many bituminous coal pro
ducers and labor want to tell Ickes
this and that about lettering the
production and distribution Of the
coal. from their areas that a way
has been worked out so then infor
nation will reach the desk OF the
Solid Fuels Administrator.
A board has been set-up in %
producing districts. Three men
were chosen for the Michigan area
H. W. Bean, Bay City; Howard
Braden. Flint; and John Hatton,
Saginaw