Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-29

Of { n Is
rumOr, did
not have IL, - -
couldn't meet expenses with
additional rent.
81 would like 10 see some
thing in your column regard
ing this statement :"
Well. this is the first I've
about such "A -rumGr, al
though | understand that some
landlords have been putting up
quite a campaign. Some Of EN-
don't like ceilings.
talked 10 Patrick V. Nc
Namara, the area rent director.
He keeps track of such matters.
He saws that at least 10 dis
trict court rulings have upheld
the OPA, and only one has ruled
the other way.
So far. the supreme court
hasn't ruled on the matter.
You can bet that If il does
get Il hearing in The supreme
Acourt. there Will be So much
Thoise about il that you'll know
IN advance. | would consider u
absolutely impossible for the
ceilings 10 be suddenly abolished,
without ample warning So does
Mcnamara.
After the war, IL will be diff
ferent. II anybody tries TO CON
tinue the system of ceilings. I
will scream my head off
against II.
But, while the war il on, and
the peril of initiation il here, !
believe that the ceilings MUST
he retained. In any event, II
were the reader who started
this discussion, I'd 90 ahead and
have the operation. Her rent,
I believe, will stay the way IL
II for many months 10 come.
Speaking Of letters, here are
a few more.
Somebody mentioned four-leaf
clovcrS. 50 Isabelle Smith Of
ROSoville writes that she has a
collection of 400 clovcrs.
mostly with four leaves. She
has IT'S fiyeS. 20 skies. six
,evens and three eight-leaf
Clovers.
4 soldier at IT. Custer wants
10 know II anybody will sell
him a steam presSer because he
would like 10 buy one for
pressing soldiers pants, shirts,
blouses and overcOatS."
a lady with a fruit plate,
which she says was in the
White House in JefferSon's day.
would like 70 have somebody
auction n of for war bonds.
tho bonds 10 be- gwen 10 an
orphan she knows IN the army
SIN says she was offered
$500 for the plate once. II there
marc any fruit plate lovers who
N-are interested. We Will give
them the lady'S name. Person
ally. We would like 10 sec some
more war bonds sold. but don't
know much abou, fruit plates.
And war veteran from SAgi-
nav writes that he knows n
couple who celebrated their
twentieth wedding anniversary
In Detroit. The wife had 81 300,
and spent IL all on war bonds
in night club. other people
caught the spirit and the club
sold over $1,000 worth that
night. he saws.
From q suburban community
war worker wants 10 know
why he has 10 get along on an
A card. while a guy | know
got 80 coupons for gas for his
blow torch which he uses about
10 times year.
"As man said to me-" he
continues "this rationing II
making liars out Of honest peO-
pie, and ] think he has some
thing there"
Maybe. Maybe not. 7 like 10
think that the liars were liars
already, but rationing shows
them up as being liars.
We learn more darn interest
ing things from the letters that
arrive here and sometimes we
print them and sometimes we
don't.
And sometimes we answer
them, and sometimes we don't,
but that II because we just don't
have time, not because we don't
want to.
Anyway, thought this might
be a good time 10 let people
know that it's really interest
ing to read all the different
things they feel like writing
NPbOut, and to thank them. and
Yet II 20 at that. Some Of you
will get answers. Those who
don't. ought to be told that l
appreciate your interest a lot,
anyway.