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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
REASON FOR SHOP


REASON FOR SHOP
With the understanding that
women do their best work when
looking their best. the company
put into effect a new and mod
ernly equipped beauty salon 10 ac-
commodate IT'S personnel.
The beauty salon will service
women employees by appointment
before and after work shifts.
Completely equipped from noise
less dryers 10 individual makeup
tables, the shop is prepared 10 ac-
commodate al any time, the fac
toryS more than 5000 women en-
ployes.
Among those present at the
opening ceremonies was Mrs.
Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt OF the
War Production Board. who said:
This IN one of the first steps
10 recognize the Importance of
women i'm the war effort.
II heartily approve OF this
beauty salon and will be happier
when steps are taken 10 provide
nurseries for mothers employed
in war plants"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16

A factory-owned and operated
beauty shop for plant and office
personnel was opened today by the
n. A. Woodwork Company in
Ferndale, manufacturers Of air
plane engine parts.
The shop was opened as means
10 help combat absenteeism in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
Ma. YOu CAM Hill
n BOIak'-7 Enlist
BY SCOTT wIGLE

Not so long ago the Bolak home
IN Twenty-eighth ST. bubbled over
with the boisterouS laughter and
joking of many boys, but today a
determined calm has settled over
the old house as a 60-year-old
widowed mother goes about her
daily tasks.
In the front window OF the
weather-beaten family home hangs
a service flag with six blue stars.
This week another star will be
added.
Six boys are now fighting or
training in the armed forces Of
their country. Louis Bolak, 25,
will leave this week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
IS Hurt in Rail Crash

KENOSHA. Wis. March Is
Eighty-fve persons were
injured last night, one critically.
when a Chicago. Milwaukee &
North Shore Electric limited
plowed into the rear of a stalled
local
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16

CHoRT OF CASH? II YOU have
- steady Job, you should investi-
gate Households salary loan plan.
This plan offers a quick. simple way
for men and women who are working
to borrow at reasonable cost. No en-
dorsers are ever needed. You borrow
on your earning ability and willing
ness to repay. We also make car and
furniture loans. Even when making
these loans we consider character and
regular income more important than
the borrower s security.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
HOUSEHOLD FINANCE
CoL 49,: $500 8.

HIGHLAND PARK
l4i3l WOODWARD AVENUE, 2nd Floor
Terminal Arcade TOWNSEND s-2A3f
FERNpALE
2276O WOODWARD AVE. md r.. Room oil
Cor. 9 Mile & Woodward. Ferndale
Phone Lincoln 2-4eoo
GRAND RIVER
1881 GREENFIELD at Grand River
opp. Montgomery Ward vErmout $1,000
9225 GRAND RIVER
Above Joy Road HOaarth T44o
976S GRAND RIVER
Corner Lvernois HOssrth A5oo
DEARBORN
1903 MICHIGAN AVE. One block west Of
Schaeffer Road Oregon $40
Other ones Throughout Nichfg0r
See Your Phone Boob for tie address
offhs once Nearest fop
ms STAMPS EVERY PAY DAY---
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
TELLS'ABoUT HER BOYS

Inside the home at 1867 Twenty
eighth. Mrs. Helen Bolak, born in
Poland 90 years ago, told about
her boys with the stoicism that
is characteristic of her people.
They are good boys and
pray every day that they will
come home SAFE" she smiled, as
she bounced her youngest grand
child on her knee.
"YOu know there are four
empty bedrooms upstairs now"
she explained suddenly.
Mrs. Bolak, whose husband died
over a year ago. is the mother OF
nine boys and five girls. She sat
on a couch in the front room and
counted off her boys who are In
service.
Two of them have been wounded
One in the South Pacific action
and one in Africa.
Stanley, SO, and Raymond, %
were wounded.
Walter, 40, is at Fort Custer
and Michael, 80. is in the medical
corps in Louisiana. Joseph, 81. is
in an army camp in Illinois ano
frankie, 20. is in naval training
at Great Lakes, Ill
STANLEY Is gunner I'm the
navy" Mrs. Bolak explained. He
was hurt several months ago in
the Pacific Ocean and Raymond
was wounded when he was
stringing wire in Africa.
KEEP POSTWAR BUSY
"They write a lot, but I can't
write to them 10 often. You see.
don't write English very well
and the boys can't understand
when 1 write in Polish. But the
girls are good. They write for
me when they come over" the
mother explained.
"They were all so crazy to get
in the army, and they used to
say: Ma, you have to serve your
country and this Is our country
and we are going to fight for it,
II know we will come back
all right. The boys always said:
Ma. you can't kill a Bolak.'"
When Louis leaves only Bernice
II. youngest daughter of the fam
lily. will be living at home with
her mother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
Choose your own plan

You NAV repay loan in a few DAYS
or in number ofmonthly instruments
whichever best suits your needs.
Charges are made only for the actual
time YOU have the money. At our rate
of So per month. a S25 loan costs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
Fix ChuCkhoIes
To Save Tires,
LETTERS Warns

William M. letters, national
rubber car, today started his Sec
ond day tour of Detroit war plants
to see hoy they are handling the
acute rubber situation.
His preliminary "look-see" was
encouraging he told interviewers,
and he was particularly impressed
with the Army's handling Of the
shortage here.
Whether Jeffers was speaking
OF Detroit's winter-ravaged streets
or other sections of the country
over which he has Travelled on his
current trip. the rubber car
warned that the states and mu-
inequalities should remedy the
chuckholes at once.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
HOLES DESTRUCTIVE

The holes, he said. were particu-
larry destructive TO truck tires be-
cause of the heavy loads carried.
The rubber car summed up the
present situation on rubber as
hopeful but warned that every
one must cooperate 10 conserve.
I'VE can win IL together or
lose II together" he stated.
eth work out and well get
along"
He predicted the pinch about
November or December but opti-
unsteady added that by that time
the synthetic program would be in
operation and il would swing the
production curve upward.
He said the synthetic plant loca-
tons had been definitely decided
and what processes are TO be used.
TAKES TIME, HE SAYS
"One the whole, the situation
hopeful" he said. But we are
dealing with chemical plants
and year or Is months may 20
!. by before we actually know how
well come out"
letters said the reclaim rubber
program was we'll along and there
was enough scrap on hand for the
next two years. He saw the relax
alton of recapping regulations as
aiding the tion greatly
by giving motorists a chance 10
renew their tires before the car
cases are damaged.
Tires for all? LETTERS saw syn
thetics being perfected where they
will be as good as natural rubber
tires.
sour time Is a year ahead" he
summed up. by playing the
game, we can come out on top"
Jeffers spoke last night at a
closed meeting of the Detroit sec
ton. Society Of Automotive Engi-
neers. Today he is the guest of
u. S. Rubber.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
HairdOS at the Plant
To Curb AbSenteeiSm

the plant after inquiries showed
that many absentees returned to
work with freshly done coiffures.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-16
MICHIGAN AT SHELBY
l4225 w. WARREN AVE.

Dearborn Store Open Evenings
Mon, Wed, ri. and Ssi.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Personnel Reform

Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee has given
administrative officers Of the Gov
ernment reason to pause and take
stock, in voicing fears that personnel
abuses will create a volume of pub
lie resentment threatening the civil
service gains of recent years.
The practices which Mr.. Ramspeck
criticised in the National Radio
Forum Wednesday night-particu-
larly, appointments and promotions
based on pull" instead of worth
are not products of civil service, but
flow from unavoidable wartime re-
taxation of civil service regulations
That, however, as he emphasized, is
not understood by the general public.
All that outsiders see are the evils of
the system which is identified in their
minds with civil service, and the
result, as was pointed out short
while ago by the National Federation
Of Federal Employees, is likely to be
an overwhelming demand for re-
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Gray River

the stream Is cold and gray. Its
rocky ,oalls
And trailing mists Utthhold ths
pallid light.
Deep is the tater's uotce as t,Dilioht
falls;
Sadly the brief day n,eroes uith
the night
With Sere zine whispering beneath
my feet,
With feettng plumes that bear mn
frosty breath,
With fading lines where SKI and
boulder meet
Come ,otntry thoughts OF loneN-
neSS-and death.
But as the shado,Cv torrents rush
along,
An ouertone OF joy ascends to me
A thread OF gold-for In the rtver's
song
] catch the music OF the shining
And hear an eager Grille Fastening
home
To totde, blue meadows and the blos-
somtnq foam.
NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Fuscism FoiIed

1t has been said that even In the
united States, the cradle of de-
mocracy, though the cradle is rock
ing rather violently at the moment,
it is still necessary to be on guard
against encroachment on inalien-
able and fundamental rights by
Would-be Fascist dictators. Certain
ly this is true in an outrageous case
reported from Lincoln, Illinois. A
woman in Lincoln, attempting to try
on hats in store, was arbitrarily
refused permission by salesgirl.
Naturally at first the shopper could
not believe her ears, but it was true.
Appalled, at this fragrant abrogation
OF fundamental feminine right by a
mlnion Of soulless corporation, she
took the case to court. A sympathetic
Judge upheld the petitioner, award
ing her twenty-five dollars and
warning the store that Mussolini is
still long way off. When last heard
from the plaintiff was back in the
store, gloating over the discomfited
defendant and trying on everything
from a chic little pie plate all the
way up to creations resembling lamp
shades gone wrong. And as she has
twenty-five spare dollars, 1t is even
possible that she may actually buy
one.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceUeu.

much than too little. In nature fishes
can go for days without food. In the
tank they do not need as much food as
most persons think
The best time to feed is In the
middle of the morning, but lacking that,
at first real light
The less water per fish. the less food.
Just how much must be learned through
experience
Put in bit of food, far less than you
think they ought to have, and watch
how it goes
Amounts which fall to the bottom
are to be considered Do not give any
more unit! these are cleaned up
White wafer food is not complete
diet. Better are manufactured foods
which contain the necessary elements,
such as protein, minerals, even vitamins.
A can containing an ounce or two will
cost very little and will last for a very
long time.
IF goldfish have at least a gallon of
water each. the water need not be
changed so often.
But If this rule Is violated as it so
often is, it is best to change at least
half of the water every day.
Fresh water should be drawn from the
spigot the evening before so that any
chlorine in it for publication purposes
will evaporate
This water also takes on room tenn
perature and hence may be mixed in
with the old water without subjecting
the fishes to too drastic a change
Other purifying agents are used at
times and these may harm pet fish. By
putting in no more than half of the
total contents of the tank each day, or
every other day, there Is much less
chance Of harm. -.s
On the other hand if all the food put
in is eaten up, and If the plants are
growing nicely, and If the bottom is
kept clean with dip tube, there is every
chance that the waters may run along
for. days or even weeks without needing
to be changed.
The old standard habit OF giving the
family goldfish a complete change of
water every day was due to keeping too
many fish in too small q body of water.
This Is the most essential matter in
goldfish care.
Practically every one who finds In
terest in these small swimmers wants
a number of them. usually without pro-
viding each animal enough air via water.
Hence almost every bowl or tank is
overstocked. II bowl is used the
water line should come at the widest
place and not at the neck.
Often each fish has no more than 6
square inches Of surface, whereas he
should have at least "A square inches
1t is at the surface that the interchange
of oxygen for carbon dioxide gas is
made. The surface of the water Is
tough and elastic and it is not easy for
the gases to force their way in or out
Hence the necessity for as much surface
as possible.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
EYE STREET.

EYE STREET.
Dear Sir:
May I congratulate you on your
wonderful articles every day in The
Star? thoroughly enjoy reading them
If do not find time to read in the
evening I make sure to save the paper
until I do.
"At present I have three goldfish. I
have them In an aquarium that holds
IL gallons of water. 1t is stocked with
the proper grass and two snails as scav-
engers. Would you please advise me
what is the proper amount and time of
feeding? Some people tell me every day
and others say every other day.
Il am very fond of these little fish
and I will be very grateful If you will
tell me what is the proper feeding and
care to give them, also how often
should the water be changed.
Very truly yours, J. c.
Goldfish ought to be immensely pop
ular from now on
No other pet" can get along on so
little food.
Whereas dogs require pounds Of food
each day and cats pounds each week,
the humble goldfish takes no more than
10 cents worth of food per year
1t is actually a fact that a. healthy
goldfish may be kept so by minimum
Of manufactured food.
Those persons who have had some
doubt about the new granular foods
for their dogs may take heart from the
experience of aquarists.
There is golden mean, Of course,
between overfeeding and feeding too
little.
Some persons advocate too little food
for fishes confined in the home
aquarium.
The goldfish Is notorious for not being
able to handle" it's food
Not being able to utilize it. that is,
under average conditions, which are
none too good In most cases.
Each goldfish should have at least
gallon Of water. Few ever do. It is no
unusual thing to see six fishes averaging
2 inches each all crowded into a gallon
or less.
Since the proper utilization of their
food depends upon oxygen. 1t is no
wonder that feeding them becomes a
problem.
Under such conditions daily feeding
usually results in more food than they
can use. Hence an effort Is made to
cut down on the amount by feeding
every other day.
y II
II goldfish has at least a gallon of
water it can call its own, there is no
harm IN feeding once every day.
II the tank is kept clean and the
plants are growing properly. fishes with
less water may do well.
AS general rule 1t is advisable to
feed only small pinch once a day.
The best rule-of thumb Is to give each
fish as much as 1t will clean up In 10
minutes, no more.
II is easier to err on the side of too
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Curious Attitude

Of1cial labor spokesmen have
taken a curious position in their re-
sponse to the plea made by Captain
Eddie Rickenbacker for greater war
production.
Captain Rickenbacker's appeal
was made to workers in the Detroit
war plants after he had returned
from his narrowing trip to the South
Pacific. While in that combat thea
ter he obtained f1rst-hand knowledge
of the conditions under which our
troops are fighting-of the long days
and weeks under fire without ade-
quate weapons and under exceeding
ly trying conditions of terrain and
climate. He was deeply impressed,
as any one else would have been.
1t was against this background
that he spoke to the war workers,
pleading with them to put forth
every effort to build tanks and
planes, to refrain from absenteeism,
slowdowns and anything else which
might tend 10 curtau production.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
form, in which the good will be
swept out with the bad

form, In which the good will be
swept out with the bad.
Representative Ramspeck, who
stood almost alone in Congress for
years in efforts to divorce Govern
ment employment from politics, is
on firm ground in criticizing per
sonal patronage" which is as wrong
in principle, and as costly. as the
political variety. The impending
personnel inquiry by the House Civil
Service Committee should give an
idea of the extent to which favoritism
is influencing job placements to the
detriment of the Federal service. and
make corrective measures possible.
Chairman Ramspeck has given the
inquiry an unusual, and perhaps i'm
portant turn, by urging businessmen
and others who have had dealings
with Government agencies, to give
the committee the benefit of any
thing they have observed in the way
OF inefficient operation or over
stating Compliance with this re-
quest might furnish valuable leads.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Illustrations

Empires are fragile. H. g. Wells, in
his Outline of History" describes
the death of Alexander the Great
and observes: Forthwith the world
empire he had snatched and held in
his hands, as a child might snatch
and hold a precious vase, fell to the
ground and was shattered to pieces"
A similar fate had been recorded
for the Assyrian empire of Tiglath
Pileser III, the Chaldean empire and
the Egyptian. The imperial realm of
the Persians Cyrus and Darius had
stretched from the Hellespont to the
indus, only 10 collapse before the
Macedonian invader who sighed for
more worlds to conquer yet, perishing
at SO, left nothing but legend. Such
Illustration likewise was the DESTINY
OF the empires of Shi Hwang-ti in
China, Augustus Caesar and Con-
stantine, the Carthagenians, KAN
eshka in Hindustan, Zenobia in
Palmyra, Theodosius, Attila, Odoacer.
Iheodoric, Justinian, the Tang
dynasty, Mohammed, the Omayyads,
Charlemagne and his sons. Otto I
and his Saxon successors, Canute of
England and Denmark and Norway,
Saladin, Genghis Khan, Frederick II,
kublai Khan, Rudolf of Hapsburg
Timurlane, the Ottoman Turks, suIei-
man the Magnificent and Charles V
a melancholy list in which each
separate member might be cited to
point a moral" bitter, indeed, to
learn.
1t happens, too, that the same dis
astrous lot has befallen the unknown
builders OF Zimbabwe, Angkor- Thorn
and Angkor-Vat, Mexico, Yucatan
and Peru, mysterious Stonehenge and
Easter Island. Great numbers of
proficient workers and energetic
leadership were required for such
monumental structures as they
raised. A vast prosperity favored
them a while, then faded and ex-
pred. So, celebrity and then oblivion
came to Shah Jehan the Grand
Mogul, Louis XIV of France. Aurung-
zeb, Peter Of Russia and Frederick of
Prussia, Napoleon I and III, Nicholas
II and William II, Francis Joseph
and a thousand other wearers of
imperial crowns.
Ihe latest demonstration of the
delicate character Of empires is that
OF the catastrophe which has be-
fallen the Italian dominion in Africa.
AT the moment when Mussolini de-
clded TO join Hitler in the Second
World War in 1910, he held Abyssinia.
Erltrea, Italian Somaliland and the
whole tremendous expanse of Libya-
a total OF more than 100000 square
miles OF territory. Now all these
dearly purchased colonies are lost.
Cesare Battistis Irredentist move
ment which II Duce adopted to his
own peculiar purposes has proved
costly snare, tragic delusion. An
English poet Of an earlier time, John
Dryden, has penned the perfect COM
ment in the lines:
God is abroad, and wondrous In
His ways,
The rise OF empires, and their fall
SURVEYS"
Evening star., 1943-01-29

TRY a little harder" he urged. "Do
little more. That little more may
save the lives of thousands of your
fellow citizens"
From the news reports of his tour
OF the war plants it does not appear
that the workers took any offense at
his remarks. On the contrary, they
are reported to have applauded and
cheered this hero of the First World
War. But Philip Murray, president
OF the CIO, and r. J. Thomas, head
OF the United Automobile Workers,
have been sharply critical Asserting
that Captain Rickenbacker's remarks
we're "regrcttable," Mr.. Murray said
that he either is "misinformed or
does not understand" According to
Mr. Thomas, the flyer is misinformed
because he has been gathering all of
his information from the industrial
lists. Hence, according to Mr..
Thomas, the workers will think that
Captain Rickenbacker is a labor
hater.
1t is not clear just what meaning
Mr.. Murray and Mr. Thomas intend
ed to convey by these remarks. Ger
tainly they do not doubt that our
troops In the Pacific and elsewhere
need more supplies to carry on the
fight under terribly adverse condi-
tions. Nor do they deny that pro-
duction could be increased if there
were less absenteeism and if a greater
effort were put forth all along the
line. Possibly they resent any criti-
clsm, direct or implied, of the pro-
duction effort, but they will find it
difficult to convince the American
people, including the workers, that
Captain Rickenbacker is a labor
hater on the basis of the earnest and
restrained appeal which he made in
Detroit.
Evening star., 1943-01-29

Wheeler H. Peckham OF New York.
Senator David B. Hill at once began a.
campaign of opposition. The Senator
developed sufficient strength to make
the confirmation of the nominee i'm
possible. Whereupon, the President
nominated William H Hornblower Of
New York. Again the Senator CAM
paigned against the choice of the Presi-
dent, and again developed sufficient op-
position to make the confirmation of
the nominee out OF the question. 1t
was understood that the nominations
had been made without consultation
with the Presidents bitter rival in New
York politics. Moreover, MIR. Cleveland
had won third nomination in the 1892
convention to the great disappointment
of Senator Hill who from the time he
succeeded Cleveland as Governor jan
uary 6, 1885, was himself an aspirant for
the presidency.
Despairing OF obtaining the conf1rma-
ton OF any New York nominee for the
highest bench, without consulting Sena-
tor Hill, President Cleveland solved the
situation by nominating Senator Ed
ward D. White of Louisiana, and since
the nominee was member .of the
Upper House, Senator Hill realized at
once that whatever his antagonism to
the President, he could not possibly
thWart such nomination. The con-
firmation of the nominee Qater Chief
Justice) followed at once
j. w. NAGLE.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Asks Solution
or Difficult Problems.

To the Editor OF The Star:
VIII you allow me small space In
your letter column to ask If any one
knows how those who depend upon road
traffic for living are going to live?
The writer has a small poultry farm
and depends upon trade coming out from
Washington to buy his products. He had
nice business until this administration
allowed few men more power than they
could stand and tFay began clamping
down here and there regardless of the
results. Now his business is ruined.
We are constantly appealed to by the
Agriculture Department to increase our
egg and chicken production, and we have
tried to, and now the same Government
has prevented OUR trade from getting
where our products are,
W. PARKE BUXTON