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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-07
War Work Wanted
Plants Equipped to
Accept Sub-COntracfs

BLANCHARD-Open time, JOB or produce
ton. Malane Grinding Company. Plaza
1927.
CAPITOL TOOL COMPANY
5000 MACK PLAZA 1922
CERTIFIED navy aircraft ~elders-eiec-
tric, acetylene Kings Welding Works.
Twnhrook l-0360.
OPEN CAPACITY. Milling, Turning
Drilling Grinding; small production
parts Slocum $3.50.
SHIPPING boxes and crates. all size,
available: prompt deliveries.
INTERSTATE ASPHALT q LUMBER co
Mound NJ i0-Mile Rd.-sL. sfsi
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-07
Bungalows for Sale

NORA MISUNDERSTANDING 5-rm. gar.
owner drafted: only $3.50. large cash
dn quick possession. We 7-ss70.
ST JEAN 1852 rooms modern garage.
Move right in $3.50 down. 1090s MACK.
srEEL-Gd River Sect 10 room all brick
stoker: 81 600 down; possession. V. l..
'Gustafson, reaitor. no. $3.50.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-07
Wanted to Rent Apartments

TEACHER wants 20 subiet small apart
ment In downtown district. Dearborn
5465
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-07


Situations Wanfed-Femais
BUNDLE wAsHING-Bring II and carry
II. Townsend 7-024i.
CURTAINS neatly stretched: 40c pair
3i33 Maple Fitrroy 1912.
CURTAINS neatly done IN my home, soc
pair. Tyler 6-s332.
EXPERIENCED coiored girl wishes clean
ing MElrose I106.
EXPERIENCED colored woman wishe.
day work; IS and carfare. Townsend
g. 1904.
STFNOGRAPHER-So bookkeeping; rs
years experience. Three days; 81 hour.
Ivanhoe 26l0.
ICOLORED woman wishes nursing, days;
IS and carfare. Tyler 6-62l5.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES girl wishes wall
washing and week work Trinity i-if1s.
|COLORED woman wants bundle washing
cash and carry. Townsend $3.50.
.COLORED woman wishes day work; IS
and carfare. Tyler s-072i.
.COLORED- Reliable girl wishes day work,
S.. care fare. Trinity 1-046s.
|COLORED girl wishes day work. East side
preferred. Melrose 0sls.
'CoLORED lady desires cleaning and laun-
dry; IS and cartare Randolph shs.
.CoLoRED girl, 25. for c9oKrng, cleaning
stores. or caring for babies, or day work;
reliable. Cherry 1864.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-07
Neu Houses for Sale
Houses for Sale
(Eosf of WoodUard)

FOUR rooms. bath and utility. near Mile
and Hoover: 50. 800, $500 down. KEW
1925 East Mile.
MONTCIAIR, near Mack room single
modern steam heat. scar garage u osV
down. i0e0s MACK.
PARTLY finished, 3.bedroom home; base
ment, II. A. furnace foundation Tor
brick. Harper-s Mie s~c 81 500. S1oo an.
Inquire 20sl Harper. IT,. 2-ss2o
CONSULT the enlarged Real Estate lat
ings in the big Sunday Times Want Ad
Section!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-07
Flats for Sale

Y EOF
FATRVIEW 1857, near Kercheval, BIS
modern. AGAR garage IS. 500, 81 500
down. 100 other bargains. i0s0s MACK
LYCAsTE-v VERNON Duplex. rs q and Z
bedrms }. 6O-ft lot. fun basement, n
A. furnaces. gar. very nice, only 81, SOC
dn. Saros. LIE 02i7.
SEE BEFORE YOU BUY
500 Emerson. near jefferson this lovely
2-family flat. 5 rooms each. fine condition
large porches. Sacrifice. terms.
ST. CYRIL, mr.. Harper-2 fam. fr., SIS;
II A. furnaces, 2-car gar excellent
condition. ". 0Osi.
COLORED Bargain-LaBelle-T Twelfth. i'm
mediate possession. 2family, 5-s two
furnaces substantial down payment. Town
send s-i236.
THIS! 1921 VlNEwooD
Very nice 2-fam. brk 81 200 10 handle
ICRUTCHER. 476s McGraw TY. 5-556e
.CoLORED-west Side Brick 4-hat;
furnaces, 3 each; 81 600 dn. TO. 6-35ii.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Mistake Corrected

The announcement that the Office
OF Price Administration has modified
its ban on discrimination In the
sale Of fuel oil amounts to a correc-
ton of an obvious blunder.
In its original form the discrimina-
ton order, as applied to retail sales,
required all dealers to sell any Gus
toner as much oil as the latter's
coupons called for. The result of
this would be to put consumers on
first-come, f1rst-served basis. With
the dealers possessing only limited
stocks of fuel oil, this would mean
that some people would get plenty
of oil while others would get none,
thereby defeating the basic purpose
Of ratiOning, which is to insure
equitable distribution of scarce COM
mOdities
Under the modification, dealers
will be permitted to adhere to the
sensible procedure which most Of
them have been following-selling in
only limited amounts, generally 100
gallons, to all consumers. Quite prop
erly, the OPA order requires that
these sales be made to any person,
and that they not be restricted to
regular customers. This, for ex-
ample, gives assurance that person
who moved to Washington since last
winter, and is therefore not a regu-
lar customer of any dealer, will be
able to get some oil, but it also per-
mits the dealers to exercise discre-
ton in spreading their supplies
evenly among all customers. 1t
would have been better, perhaps, had
the dealers also been authorized to
refuse deliveries to persons with
large storage tanks who might have
possibly 500 or more gallons on hand
In order to serve those with small
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Controller Generals Ruling
Held Helpful to Berlin.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The controller general of the United
States, former Congressman Warren of
North Carolina, has made ruling which
Is destined to give JOY and comfort to
Herr Goebbels in Berlin. He has ruled
that United States citizens who work for
the Government, and whose religion for
bids them to work on Saturday, not only
shall lose all benefits from the overtime
pay law. but under Warrens ruling they
will not only lose the pay, but full
days leave will be charged against them
for each Saturday they do not work"
This punitive measure means, OF
course, that all such citizens, because of
their faithfulness in observing their re-
ligious beliefs, while supposedly being
paid for five days work, actually will be
paid for only four days, since annual
leave Is worth the equivalent in cash,
and, all annual leave being exhausted,
they actually would have to pay cash
instead of annual leave.
AL orthodox Jews and other religious
groups will be punished by this shameful
ruling. l am sure Herr Goebbels will
take full advantage Of its propaganda
value and show how it compares with
Nazi punitive measures against de-
fenseless minority groups. H. r.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Proud Epitoph:
Killed on Active Service

For Britains Duke of Kent)
Somewhere his gay young laugh ,UtH
ring again.
He is not held in confines OF the
earth,
Nor does the air constrain him, nor
the sea.
Released through fame, he is become
The brother OF these elements
an essence
That shall rise and Hue and be
Wherever music Is, and gractouSness
and song.
Withhold all grief for one t1ho rent
So tearlessly, so blithely into golden
air
Upon mission NTH brnue men.
He 1UiH haze joined young Brooke,
That other shining youth toho uent
before,
Whose immortality he, too, shall
share.
Proud spirit, loUed like Hector of old
pars
England has more than tears to glue:
The paean for her noble son
Is that regard ,ohtch rises from nu
hearts
For the uninpeded and triumphant
dead. MABEL POsEGATE.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Rational?

Before the war, the word
rational had but one meaning in
common use-"reasonable." Now,
perhaps, it may have another-"per-
tanning to rationing." The dictionary
does not say So but of course it takes
time for dictionaries to catch up
with events. Certainly rationing,
while absolutely essential, is not in
variably rational
A striking instance is that of an
Oregon farmer denied boots he
needed to cross a river to get to
his horses. Build a bridge" said
the board. The farmer started to
comply, then ran into a Snag. He
needed boots for that job. Again
the rationing board gave him the
boot, but in a different fashion. He
got two boots, in fact; bridge build
erS, 1T seems, are entitled to them.
This fascinating problem in logic,
however, hardly would be suitable for
a professor to use on his class. The
students, being neither farmers nor
members of rationing boards, would
be too apt to adopt the childishly
simple but intensely practical sug-
gestion that the farmer keep one
horse at home for ferry service.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
M. Mourois' Confidence

Andre Maurois, when he appears
before the newly organized Writers
Club of the Library of Congress to-
morrow evening, will discuss what
has been called the art of BIZ
ography" His qualification for
such a lecture, of course, is to be
found in the practice of the skill to
which he is devoted. He has pub
lished engaging and provocative
studies of Byron and Disraeli, Dick
ems and Chateaubriand and many
other worthless Of diverse sorts and
kinds. Most particularly, he has pro-
vided his public with an autobi-
ography, Il Remember, I Remem-
ber," which properly may be re-
aarded as key to the rest of his
work
1t happens, in M. Maurois' case if
not in the generality of instances,
that art and the artist are indentic
realities. He records his impressions
of the thoughts and deeds of his
heroes and heroines as he discovers
them by the exercise of his own
genius. The illumination of his own
spirit brings out the lights and
shadows Of the portraits he paints
That is natural circumstance, un-
avoidable and, within reason, much
to be desired. DR.. Samuel Johnson
certainly is more interesting char
acter reflected by James Boswell, a
sympathetic admirer, than he would
have been if mirrOred by nobody
capable of such enthusiasm and af-
fection. Thomas Carlyle said more
than commonly has been supposed
when he declared: "A Well-Written
life is almost as rare as Well-Spent
one" Great personalities require
great interpreters, and the latter are
less plentiful perhaps than the
former.
But a competent audience likewise
is wanted. Too often in the worlds
experience there have been noble
men and women who lacked not
merely chroniclers and expositors
but also followers. M Maurois
might do worse than consider in his
lecture to the Library of Congress
group the problem of how to turn
the flowing tide of human loyalty
toward leaders constructively deserv-
ing of the name. The whole ghaStly
tragedy of the present war accrues
from the perversity of crowds be-
witched by demagogues. When the
imperative victory at last has been
achieved there must be a poSt-mor-
tenn examination. The psychological
causes of the strife require to be
diagnosed 1t is vast mental dis
ease-thjs frightful madness that has
afflicted entire nations-and it needs
to be understood, if its recurrence is
TO be prevented.
III. Maurois is familiar with the
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Blasting Berlin

1he most significant aspect of the
great British air assault on Berlin
was the negligible character of Ger
man opposition
These British bombers-hundreds
of them-Were in the air over Ger
man-controlled territory for upward
OF nine hours. Tons upon tons of
high explosives and incendiaries
were dropped on the Nazi capital
as the attacking planes cruised back
and forth over the spreading fires
in the city which Hitler had told his
people could never be bombed.
When the British squadrons had
returned to their bases it was found
that only one plane was missing.
Crew members, many of whom had
participated in earlier attacks which
brought heavy losses to the British.
were amazed at the ineffectiveness
of the Nazi anti aircraft fire and at
the failure of German night fighters
to take to the air.
What is the explanation of this
show of German weakness, and
where is the vaunted Luftwaffe?
Several possibilities suggest them
selves. First, Hitler may have found
is necessary to concentrate his air
strength in combat theaters to offset
the rise in Allied strength at the
fronts, leaving the homeland vir-
tually unprotected. Possibly he is
organizing some new offensive which
is draining Germany of air power.
Perhaps he has not been able to
make good his battle losses, so that
the Luftwaffe really is reduced to a
shadow of its former self, or it may
be that the true explanation lies in
combination of some or all of these.
But, whatever the answer, one
thing is clear: Hitler cannot will
ingly tolerate many more such at
tacks on his capital city. If he lacks
the air strength in Germany now to
meet the challenge of the RAF he
will have to recall planes from the
battle fronts or let his people learn
through bitter experience that the
game is up. Whichever way he
moves, 1t will be a tacit acknowl-
edgement that all is not well within
the Third Reich.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Reports Neglected Facts
About RAF and Mine-Layinx.

TO the Editor OF The Star
One frequently hears the question
asked as to why the Royal Air Force does
not carry out more of its wonderful
1.0O0-plane raids on German cities. I
recently have been informed part of the
reason for this.
Apart from the fact that bombers are
needed in many other fields, such as
North Africa and Russia and also that
the Raj continues to carry out almost
nightly smaller raids on Germany and
Italy, there is other work to do.
One of the most noteworthy tasks is
OF mines in the sea against Axis trans
port and war vessels.
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris is re-
ported recently to have declared that:
History will show enemy shipping losses
in our air-laid minefields as a major
contribution to the outcome of the war"
These secret, silent, unspectacular op-
erations of the RAF are perhaps the
most important In which they engage
for the war at sea is that in which exists
the most serious threat to the United
Nations safety.
Minelaying is as dangerous and as mo-
notonous as mine-sweeping and it de-
mands the same degree of courage, pa
tience and endurance.
Air-laid mines have to be sown in
great numbers to await their victims
unlike bombs or depth charges which can
be aimed at specific targets. The extent
and scope of these operations is mill
tary secret, even the number of enemy
ships known to have been sunk by this
means cannot be divulged. 1t is certain,
juStif1es the effort. And there is evidence
to warrant the belief that for every
vessel known to have been sunk by mines
at least one other has been lost and
without information of its destruction
having been received.
great part of all the mine-laying
along the 2,000-mile coastline of Western
Europe from the Baltic to Spain has
been done by the RAF. The work de-
mands accurate pin-pointing of targets
minute areas in the vast expanse of
ocean over which the planes operate.
The effect on the enemy's war effort is
by no means limited to actual sinkings;
a considerable proportion of his resources
of manpower and tonnage are diverted
to combat this method of attack. A
constant battle of wits is being waged
by the British technicians and experts
on the one side and by the enemy mine
sweeping service on the other With in
creased production of bombers and their
large-scale raids on enemy cities will no
doubt be intensified. PETER SIMPLE.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

public discussion. AS Herbert Hoover
recently stated 1--WE must have Just as
effective preparedness for peace as for
war. The foundation of prepared =
ness lies simply in public discussion. ;"
To be fruitful, discussion must be in
telligent. This means study. Is the
public willing to study? Millions of
men in the service are devoting one or
more of the best years Of their lives to
study of the art of war. Are civilians
willing to give, say, a minimum of an
hour each evening to study OF the mo-
mentous problem OF planning a lasting
peace?
The tools are at hand. Most con-
venient and useful is the newspaper.
But few papers now give the subject
adequate space. Surely the many COM
plex issues involved in founding a new
world order are worthy of at least full
page daily of authoritative discussion of
pros and cons.
Most papers probably could not afford
to give the space. But the taxpayers
are spending $3.50 600 900 a day to win
the War-would they not willingly sub
sidize page in every daily paper for
presentation of the ablest thought avail
able on winning the peace?
No Government control of the press is
involved. Complete impartiality could
be guaranteed through supervision by an
independent commission representing,
say, the Democratic National Committee,
the Republican National Committee and
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association. ROBERT S, FIELD.
Vineland, N. j.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
EAST AVENUE.

Dear Sir:
Thank you for your fine tribute to
the English sparrow. I especially en-
joyed your article for the sparrow has
long been my particular favorite of all
birds.
Some time ago wrote you about the
starlings who had invaded our garden
and driven off the other smaller birds.
took your advice and stopped putting
bread on the feeding station, and sure
enough, the starlings have ceased to
bother us.
Have you ever seen (and heard a
flock Of sparrows digging into corn
meal? The other day I counted 25 on
our feeding station partaking of this
food-they sounded like a bevy OF wood
peckers.
Il have found that the squirrels also
enjoy cornmeal, although they are not
quite so particular of their table man
ners as the birds, and manage to get
most of it on their faces.
Il was interested in your article about
the black squirrel. for we have had one
in our yard for the past week and he
seems to feed with the gray squirrels in
a friendly way.
Three weeks ago I put out some
raisins which attracted two mocking-
birds. They have been with us ever
since. I think they must be mates as
they are together constantly.
any other bird to come near the station.
He would take his stand in the nearby
tree and as soon as bird would attempt
to light for food, he'd come down like
a dive bomber, make loud, rasping cry
and chase him off.
He was kept plenty busy for while,
but either eventually tired OF this per-
formance or else the other birds got up
courage enough to call his bluff
AT any rate, he isn't so belligerent
now, although he still perches in the
tree and watches every move they make
I'VE thought maybe jay would
prove a good match for him, but even
the jays were frightened off.
This particular mockingbird has a
broken wing, at least I presume it was
broken at one time, for 1t hangs straight
down.
ut doesn't seem to impede his flying
ability but 1t certainly gives him a
rakish air
He and his mate spend their nights
in cedar in the front yard close to the
living room windows, but before it is
light in the mornings we can hear their
voices, and they are the first early morn
ing callers at the feeding station which
Is at the back of the house.
It hope they are with us to stay, and
will raise their family in our yard this
spring.
Both of them are surprisingly tame,
and If one, or both, happen to be on the
station when we open the window to put
out food, will remain there.
Sometimes they light so near the
window looking in at us, 1t almost seems
that, with bit of coaxing, they would
fly in. ..' s- re- ~
During the past snowstorm the male
settled himself on the front door step as
near to the door as he could get. When
I opened the door to put out some rats
Evening star., 1943-01-18

issue. A compelling instinct has in
spired him in his appreciations, He
values people for the powers of full
flllment which he recognizes in
them; and what he finds in indi-
viduals-the force of ideals which
distinguishes the best of them-he
expects in the masses, the millions
of their brothers and their sisters,
old and young Sorrow has not dis
couraged him. He is sustained by a
confident optimism. The most poign-
antly beautiful words in his book
about himself are those in which he
teStifieS to his unbroken belief in
the authentic spirit of the France in
which he was born: Il know that as
soon as she can she will recognize
her own" Sanity finally will be re-
stored to the Earth, and the artists
have an obligation and a duty to
hasten the day.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Insists Upon Efficient Use
AS Factor in Manpower Problem.

To the Editor OF The Star:
We constantly are hearing of the ne
cessity of a suitable distribution of man.
power to war work, as If a mere distri-
button were all that is necessary.
For example 100 or 1000 men are to
be assigned to a particular job and that
seems to end the duties of the man
power administration as visualized by
those in power. No attention appears
to be considered necessary as to the
efficiency with which the assigned man.
power is to be used. For example where
manpoWer is used efficiently 750 men
may do the work for which 200 may be
required if wrong methods of conducting
work are used or the men are not we'll
trained in the use of efficient methods.
The taxpayer must pay for all war
production and will venture to say that
he is being obligated to pay at least rs
per cent too much because apparently no
study is being made or contemplated to
insure the use of eflcient methods of
work IN much of the war production.
The distribution Of manpower without
seeing to 1t that such msnpower is eff
ciently used is, to say the least. not COM
mon sense. T. WARREN ALLEN.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. TrdeeiUeH.

ins for him, he moved only slightly to
one side, and then hoped back to eat,
almost before I had shut the door.
Are mocking birds usually so trusting
or do you think perhaps that these were
raised by human hand?
Very truly yours, K. S. s.
We would advise this correspondent to
leave the door or window open, in order
to give the Knockers chance to enter
This handsome fighter at times grows
very trusting.
1t is one of the traits of the bird.
We have friend who put raisins on
the edge of the dining room table
A mockingbird came in and helped
himself.
Not all of them will do 1t, but some Of
them WILL and you can never tell until
you try.
We do not believe that our CORE
spondent's birds were raised "by hand"
1t is just the difference in the species.
One mocker will be extra belligerent,
another will not display such pugnacity;
one will fight everything in sight, an
other tend to be more peaceful.
This Is a bird which likes its own
neighborhood, Many of them remain
in and around Washington all winter.
Often the females fly south, to return in
the spring, leaving the male birds to
fight it out with the weather.
Fortunately for the birds, they are not
subjected to the vhims of men behind
desks. AS long as they can fly, they can
fly anywhere they please. Nobody asks
why they are flying.
They need no fuel rationing cards
Nature supplies their heat and energy,
so long as they can get food.
-
Mockingbirds which take up beat In
neighborhood become very tame In the
winter.
Up Brookville road there are half a
dozen of these birds
They like a big hedge. If you come
walking along, the birds fly along with
you. II you stop, they stop, and will
seem to be listening to you as you talk
to them.
On the other hand, many Knockers are
extremely pugnacious, especially with
other birds, and particularly so as the
nesting season approaches.
1t is no unusual thing to see mock
ingbird drive other birds out of a feed
ing station when it does not want to eat
itself. 1t Is just playing dog in the
manger.
Squirrels seem to have quite time
eating any food in meal form.
To serve cornmeal, or anything of
similar consistency, the best way is to
wet 1t.
Peanut butter is another food no sauir-
rel would get in nature. A little of 1t
may be fed, now and then, but not
enough to make the squirrels i'll. 1t is
very concentrated food, and little of
it goes a long way with the wild crea-
lures.
The best way to give it to squirrels is
to make small books" of folded card
board, with half teaspoonful of peanut
butter smeared on the inner sides. The
squirrels will pick up these books and
read" them in most amusing and
evidently satisfactory manner.