Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-24

killing each MIR. Pi'hhRiN"
other Overnight again, the
killing stopped. and the troops
we're there.
EVERYTHING ELSE seems
The same, but il ought 10 seem
different Just as when you fl
nally reach n. One day YOU
aren't old enough 10 vote. The
next day you are, Things haEe
changed. but there's nothing n
particular 10 show the change.
or IT'S hike walking over to-
ward Gratiat and then 10 police
headquarters Monday ] walked
through hqro wondering mo-
montaiily. whether something
would happen.
The next day I walked
through exactly the sam .
streets. II looked Just the Same.
|. Peopfe gong ThUut ttTFTT hU-T-
moss a lnltercr- or iYn--IhG- sin
beating down. The same side
walks the same buildings
The only difference was that
one shop had a bullet hole
through it, plategla>S window,
about shoulder high. The bullet
hole had not been there -
hours before.
IT'S HARD 10 turn YOUR
thoughts back 10 things that
would have been Of interest IS
hours before. Your mind refuses
70 60 backward. You accepted
he riots matter-of-tacily but
YOU cant put yourself IN re-
verso.
BILL Tf-fsFT7a5NIEf ~ The
tu'O Club has a Slnr2-ahn-t
Tom Fetch.
Exactly ~ years ago. On
lure %. 1903. he Crankcd hlS
one-cylindcr Packard backed
over a beach until tho rear
wheels were dampcned by the
Pacific Ocean at San Francisco,
and started forward again. in
SO days be was IN Boston and
nc kept driving until The front
wheels were IN the Atlantic.
Today. June %, he arrives IN
Detroit on a boat from Clove-
land, Will step into a 1910 Cadil-
lac CAXrcd L. Pollard
1900 Prairie. and Will drive
that car 10 Greenfield Village.
HIS 1908 car. old Pacific rs
out there Fetch, they expect
viii crank II UP again. and
drive il over the TcCrcated Ap-
pan Way a. the Ford Rolunda.
SUCH THINGS a. that arc
normal. for Detroit. They are
real. But they no longer seem
real. BaNonets are what seem
real.
THE PEOPLE AZ the morCuc
waiting "a 70 IN and look under
tho sheets 10 identify tho dead
arc real These bodies alive one
DAY before are real
II j. real even, when some
one. in this gloomy atmosphere
shoots off a firecrackcr. / sup
pose j. was a firecrackcr. We
jumped. grabbed frantically a.
our nerves, and went on.
4 YOUNG man, walking out
NJ the alcove where the John
Does lie, j. crying.
\ woman, middle-aged, lifts
sheets from the bodies, puts
them back, looks again. Once
she lifts n dead mans hand and
tries 10 uncurl the Stiffening
fingers. She mumbles something
about -. broke his fingers
playing baseball :" She lets
70 the dead fingers.
THIS Is real As real AS the
fact that they have run out of
wheeled tables. and put the VIC
tms. IN their metal trays. on
the floor As real as the y
bodies, with the big toes tied
together with short lengths Of
handaCe. 30 keep their feet
from Hopping. This is real.
EVERYTHING THAT was
normal and natural last Sunday
afternoon Is curious and abnor-
nal now. It seems odd that
stores sull sell things, that
clerks still give YOU your
change, that BARRIERS cut your
hair. II seems wrong 10 do
things proSaically and sensihly
today. Too much has happened.
IT IS quite credible that tho
army has borrowed iceboX space
at the Statler Hotel. and that
\ TWO soldiers. carrying supplies
10 tho basement on the eleva-
tor. are nibbling casually from
crate full of strawberries.
It IS quite reasonable that
pup tents arc pitched in Grand
Circus Park. II Is quite eXpcc-
table that a sentry with loaded
rifle. tells you that you cant
cross the streets. and adds. in
soto drawl, Keep movin'
around
All this is real This is all
that Is real We have changed