The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-02
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JOHN WOOD
CLEANING UP THE DESK

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CLEANING UP THE DESK
PERSONALLY do not like the
dea Of cleaning up my desk. In the
FIRST place always run into work
that should have been done weeks
ago: in the second place cleaning a
desk Is just a lot of waste motion
because in about two hours il will
4 We Just as bad as IL was before the
leaning job. and in the third place,
can never find darn thing ! want
after all the stuff has been assorted
But Archibald Harper keeps asking
me why don't get my desk cleaned
I'D so my Phantom Secretary can
take a rest. and one Of the girls in
the office keeps repeating something
? bout a disorderly workbench re-
tlecting a disorderly mind. and so
7 am methodicall though somewhat
reluctantly. tackling the job OF
cleaning up my desk. And I hope
Archibald Harper will be satisfied
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FIRST COMES THE wire basket
over here on my left. Let's see now.
BEGINNING at the top and working
my way down to the bottom tmOst
people work from the bottom up.
but me, I'm differently the first
thing I find Is a letter from a Mr..
A. w. Barnett Of Springfield. Ohio.
who, on August Is, wanted me to
know that people should own their
homes. This seems rather so-whatish
- but hold! Here Is a one-page
pamphlet attached to the letter;
says something about graded taxes.
All can say is that I would just
LOVE to own my own home. but
as for my taxes being graded -
well I'm still in the first grade
tOkay. So it's corney) ...... Here
Is another note on taxes. jotted
down while ! was talking with Rev.
Charles Hill. who said that only
small percentage Of workers at the
Willow Run Bomber Plant voted
In the recent local election. When
asked why they didn't vote the
majority said hey hadn't paid their
poll tax. Il didn't believe II eitherl
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THIS SCRAP OF paper 1.-TWO
months Odd says Ellen Strauthers
who was then a playground director
at Peter Claver Community Cen
ter, was formerly an Office worker
for the UAW-CIO Only reason /
mention this is because | have been
wondering what becomes OF little
tots when Fairgrounds close down
for the winter ...... Here's a PAM
phlet on Belgian Humor Under the
German Heel q guess heel is an
other way Of saying Hitler), and II
shows Belgian sign artist peddling
cards announcing there's nothinc
more to be sold He's the only one
in his community with steady
Job ...... And what's this? More
old notes that should have been
stories months ago. II says here
that should write a story about
Mrs. z. Beebe Owens, whose work
with juveniles is recognized by the
juvenile Court and recommended
by Rev. Edgar A. Lucas. chaplain
Of the Juvenile Court OF Wayne
County ...... Notes also say she is
interested in establishing a COM
munity home for juveniles
X X X
AHA, ANOTHER LETTER. This
one from Ed Peterson in Chicago
who tells me that one reason many
needed reforms take so long Is be-
cause everybody waits for every
body else to make the first move
II don't know what he's talking
about either.) ..... Well, do tell
Here's . picture Of q horse. Now
remember what time I had get
ting the animal to pose with his
head sticking through a stable win
dow at Joe Louis farm while Sonny
Edwards was cutting all sorts Of
didoes with his camera trying ia
snap the picture. This was supposed
to have been q story. too. hut sincr
OPA meat rationing rules have been
relaxed. that story has been rem
dered null and void ito quote Lee
l. l.
win Davenport - Now the rest OF
you lawyers take il easy - you'll
get your plug next time I clean up
my desk. ..... Underneath the
horse Is a picture Of Edgar Brown
for once he's In the right position)
and placing tn EN- side-by- side
(which IL unfair to the horse) I find
the horse makes a much better pic.
ture than Old Whiskers.
/ x * !.
IN GETTING NEAR the bottom
OF this basket and you can tell Il
hasn't been emptied for months by
this note which has TO do with DR.
S Boynton Milton building a hos.
ptsl out in Inkster. Could've built
an annex by this time tWonder why
Tnkster was ever called Inkster in
the first place. unless il was be-
cause someone wanted the place Ia
be known as lnkster). Al, right!
SO it amt funny
!: X *
WELL WHADDAYAKNOW? I,
says here the Council Of Churches
is ready to join in a crusade againei
radio clowns. Wonder what ever
happened to that movement?
know - either there was no crusade
or the clowns" won ...... As
3 live, breathe and vote the Republic
/ crat ticket. I have a note only three
weeks old! II says Rev. Horace
White writes TO over a hundred
servicemen every week. What are
they trying TO tell me? That the
Good Reverend ought TO explain "a