Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-15

10 you To set
- x aside 25 cents
''"' right now
and two-bits each week to turn
over TO the carrier boy when he
collects.
Here are the facts:
1.-The newspaper delivery
boys of America are setting out
10 raise that $50, 0eO, 900 in war
stamps during july and August.
2-The ship is TO be called
Shanghai It's to replace the
carrier referred TO as "Shangri-
La" by President Roosevelt
when the Japs were still guess
ing where the planes came
from that carried the planes
that bombed Toxic.
3-The S20,000.0O0 may seem
Nike a lot Of money for boys 10
Iraise, but they've already sold
$50 $50; coo eco worth Of stamps, so
this should be cinch.
So, what's your verdict: Am
i crazy To say that the boys can
do IL? Or will you dig that
quarter out of your pocket?
Put your two-bits on the
mantel. or on the window ledge,
or on the table beside the front
door. When the boy comes
around, buy some war stamps.
Tell him you'll take a dollars
worth this month and another
collars worth next month.
The carriers have been sell
Ing war stamps since the begin
nrng Of the war.
In fact. 5000 boys in Phila-
delphia signed pledge 10 sell
stamps ffe+iitt-- months before the
Pearl Harbor attack
After Pearl Harbor. the idea
spread all over the United
States.
We are---if Nou'll pardon our
boa sting - extremely proud Of
our own Detroit Times carriers.
The boys m p oyed by this
paper alone have sold approx
imately $4,000. 900 stamps. The
total may he slightly above that
figure by now.
One OF our carriers has sold
more than $1,000 worth. He is
Donald Ureel Of 1905 Hickory.
who has sold 5000 ten-cent
war stamps 10 his customers.
He is our No. ] carrier but
several others are punched not
very far behind him.
His route is on the East Side,
on Eastwood from Gratiot 10
. Kelly. and on Faircrest from
Hayes 10 Kelly
There are BOYS like Donald
Ureel, boys nv the scores, hun
drcds and thousands. all over
the United States. and this Is
what they are accomplishing.
Those I0-cent stamps mount up
40 fast that, In one day, last
October, the sales tOtaled
$1,000, 900.
OF course, there have been
stories in the papers about the
boys stamp-selling, but l con-
fess that / hadn't realized how
enormous an undertaking il was
until Walter Aronoff. our cir
culation director, called these
figures TO my attention.
Our own Times boys are
among the best, too. They are
seventh highest among all the
papers in the country and have
hopes Of moving up two or three
notcheS.
This all explains why the boys
have been selected to spearhead
the campaign To raise money
for such an enormous undertake
Ing a. an aircraft carrier.
The boys have been taking
their stamp selling 10 heart and.
day I'm and day out, they kept
drumming at every customer 10
"buy war stamp today, sir?"
That's genuine patriotism. the
kind Of patriotism that works
without any prodding. And I
might add that it's a magnifi-
cent tribute to the kind of boys
who sell our papers for us.
The dirty little urchins that
Horatio aiger wrote about
might have existed once, but
these boys are n different breed
that d e m IN d 5 not pity but
respect.
So-when the boy rings your
and says. War stamps.
Mister? We're raising money
for an aircraft carrier" you'll
know that he means just that.
He's not Dragging. not pipe \
dreaming, but just giving you
the plain facts.
n ~ N-Is