The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-08
Michigan in
Washington
BY Esther Van Wagner Tufty

Many mora mothers OF small chill
dren are likely to take jobs in war
factories because OF a successful
round-theclock experiment in the
care of small children OF war work.
err. in Detroit.
So predicts Florence Kerr, as.
sistant FWA administrator, in
CHI Irge of child care center pro-
gram, financed partially by Lanham
Act funds.
The Michigan boarding school"
is the only one OF its kind in this
country. But the hearty approval
given by the mothers on the night
shifts is certain to make the idea
copied in other industrial areas.
Already plans are afoot for sec
ond such center in Detroit, probab-
ly in Crosse Pointe.
These small children. from two
to five years OF age, stay at the
center all week. located in the old
Jewish Children's no lie, where the
facilities were adaptable. the chill.
dren are brought in on Monday and
kept through Saturday. Parents
take them home Saturday night
and keep them until Monday morn
ing.
This is considered a great I'm.
provement over the 24-hour service
especially for the mother working
on night shift When she should
be sleeping in the daytime was
just the active wide-awake, de-
manding time for the young child.
The cost OF the new service is
$1,25 per day. Mothers are glad
to pay that amount. Lanham
funds are used to buy equipment.
and to provide the enlarged STAFF
necessary for such an undertaking.
On the STAFF Is even a nurse trainee
at night.
Mrs. Eleanor Roocevelt told her
last press conference that she
visited this child care center on
her recent visit to Detroit She's
enthusiastic. Seen as the best
answer for the woman who works
nights, Mrs. Roosevelt said she had
seen similar centers in England
witch were successful, too. Large
ly she thinks because the child
doesn't have two routines and dai.
ly transportati)n from one environ
ment to another. The rested moth.
err makes a better war worker.
Capt. Arthur II. Vandenberg,
Army Air Corps. stationed at Tam.
pa, Fla, is in Washington this
week visiting his parents, Senator
and Mrs. Vandenberg.
A delegation from Escanaba
came to the capital this week seek
ing to expedite the construction Of
a veterans hospital in the Upper
Peninsula. Escanaba has been
mentioned as a likely location.
Senator Homer Ferguson and Con-
gresham Fred Bradley. OF Rogers
City. took the group to see Brig.
General Frank T. Hines, Veterans
Administration said to favor the
project.
To help small business. the
United States Chamber OF Com
merce is leaning toward a solu-
tion OF having groups Of banks, in
vestment houses and perhaps in
surance companies setting up spe-
cial services for making loans TO
small business. Even buying
stocks in email companies. By
pooling the risks and making a
small insurance charge 10 cover
the inevitable losses, much new
venture capital could be furnished
by private enterprise.
The black market in Pullman
reservations has ODT Director
Eastman worried. He has asked
the mayors OF 104 cities to come to
the rescue. (Tt's said you pay $40
extra IL you want a Pullman reser-
walton from Detroit to Washing
ton. IS TO get from Washington
to Detroit)
There's persistent rumor that
the Jap atrocity story broke be-
cause Senator Wheeler warned the
Army, Navy, and White House II
they didn't tell the story he would
I in the Senate.
The timing OF the story with the
Fourth War Bond drive was purely
Observation-Disclosures beneficial, the
/ Treasury admits
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