The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-13
Observations
Not Too Sweet
is Dismissal Of
Norman Littel ~
Ly HELEN EssARY


capital bouquet Is the recent Jus
tice Department dispute and III,
subsequent presidential dismissa
OF Assistant Attorney General Nor
man Littell.
Makes you want TO sniff a little
old.fashioned bergamot and thyme
you say? Especially when you bur
row deep into the bouquet and fnd
some highly.scented sprigs Of lawy
er lobbyist.
But, pshaw. do not be too bother
ed at such goinCs on. Washington
was always like that. Only more
SO. Two sturdy old veterans at the
Soldiers Home were gossiping the
other day bout what happened
when General Grant was president.
Those WERE the day Of corrup
ton.
History books tell of the frauds
committed on the government and
the people by the Whiskey Ring.
The Whiskey Ring was composed
OF d tillers of st. Louis and several
government officials who pocketed
100000 that should have been
paid into the Treasury.
President Grant himself accepted
as a present from the leader OF the
ring a handsome carriage and a
pair of housekeeping horses. Yet
people said Grant himself was as
pure as he was brave. You could
buy almost anything in those wide
open days with the money you
could get almost any way.
Heigh no. the bribers go. Yes
they still do 90. You almost have
10 look every cocktail in the face
today and wonder why it is offered.
But you do not have to pay for
that cocktail with an introduction
or kind word If you do not want
10 pay. You do not even have to
take the cocktail.
50 you see Washington is i'm
proving. But-and here's
thought Has the Whiskey Ring of
yesteryear developed into a Cigaret
Ring of this year? Then what has
become OF the cigarettes?
! lived through a cigaret stam-
pede in a small restaurant yester.
day at the crowded luncheon hour.
Somebody whispered Cigar
ettes!" The magic word was heard
above the soup. II was as exciting
P5 the word Fire" Whoopee-ee,
Bing, Bang, Rush,
Everybody sprang from the Ia
bles. Everybody but myself / do
not add smoking to my minor pub
lie vices. Before you could say
Roll your own" the delivery man
was stripped Of his wares.
IN CASE YOU HAVE BEEN
WONDERING about the living
quarters of those clever girls of
the Red Cross and WACS in the
far away islands and jungles, lis
ten to this piece OF a letter home:
I'VE have been moved to what
our general calls more fitting quar-.
tiers for the ladies'. And nice quar-
ters they are. We are right on
the ocean with little private
beach. Six girls to a building, each
building partitioned into three
parts with little private sitting
room. We have lovely, new beds
with gorgeous springs. Not like
those rocks were sleeping on.
Everything is perfect with one
expection. We feel as if we were
living in a stockade. Our quarters
are surrounded by a 10.foot high
picket fence. With guard at
every door and others patrolling
around. The ocean entrances to
our quarters are protected by barb
ed wire. And we re miles and
miles from town"
Such protection does not bother
the families OF those wandering
girls. The mamas and papas they
left behind are happy to know their
daughters are being looked after.
NO SMALL PARAGRAPH in
months has brought the response
of my recent one on the little
crosses made of legendary Virginia
fairy stone and given by Mrs.
Alonzo Winslow to. the daughters
of the Crown Princess Martha.
In Fridays mail came a letter
from Mrs. Harry R. Rogers Of
Evergreen Gardens, Lynchburg.
Virginia. And out OF the letter
came a little fairy cross ITO bring
you good luck.
IL have seen the fairy stones in
the rough" writes Mrs. Rogers.
"They are definitely in the form OF
crosses. Some OF the St Andrew
variety. Others Roman. And
the most popular--the Maltese
crosses"
The fairy crosses IN Patrick
County. Virginia, are dug up in
quarry once owned by old King
Powhatan. The legend says that
they are made OF the tears the
fairies shed when they heard OF the
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