The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-07-02
by
strauss
SantZ
What's the Matter
With Wyandotte?


With WYandotte?
"Yeh, whatsa matter with Wyan-
dotte?" It's like a chorus OF
angry voices whose walls blend to-
gether into long, luSty Bronx
cheer.
Is there anything wrong with Wy
andotte?
Or maybe with the people in
Wyandotte?
Or maybe with things in Wyan-
dotte? We could have said lack OF
things.
Has the city deteriorated or
is 1t just the heat? Yes, it's hot
and sticky and stinky.
Perhaps it's just an outbreak OF
heat rash but then
All we know is what we read in
the mail each day. Loads and loads
of mail that's hot but not
SO stinky. Loads and loads of mail
with so much of it disheart-
ening we are distressed. In the
newspaper field it is our only bar
ometer saner than the cash
register easier on the soul.
Are the people who are our neigh
bors getting to be grumpS .
grouches or, could it be there's
something to what they're saying?
Believe us. they're saying lot
Madmen? Who knows. Maybe it's
Just the outer fringe the fringe
that is supposed to get things done
that's sane.
Never before to our recollection
have so many persons taken time to
write letters to the editor. It's al
most as If someone put them up
TO It TO make the newspaper
sell but even you don't believe
that.
OF late, It has been like tidal
wave. Something has brought this
on. We must either accuse these
letter writer's of suffering from the
heat or, could it be that even
small town folks are capable OF
staging a revolt but with pen
and paper and lippy Bronx
cheers.
It's one thing to accuse an iso-
lated letter writer of being a sore
head lame brain misfit
or a combination of any two
but. when the letters pour in
>. yelping about this grum-
bling ebout that that is q
horse Of another color.
What do they want2
Just about everything every
thing We haven't got. J.. and, NJ
doubt, won't have for long, long
time to come.
They're hot and sticky. They want
an outdoor swimming pool JUS
like the wide-awake cities have
They want to dip their burning fee
in the cool water of a blue poo
and say. This is heaven Fl. it:
Wyandotte." It's hot anC
sticky and they've been yell.
ing for a swimmin' hole for years
They want 1t now while theil
joints can still bend before
rigor norris sets in.
Can we call them lame brains fol
that7
They want more parks and play
grounds. The newspaper files show
they've been screaming for these fol
nigh onto 40 years. Grandpa anC
grandma are still waitin' for a tire,
to be growed.
Can We call them nitwits To-
that? Or should we ignore their let
tiers let EN- yell their lung
out.
They want to know why we don
have good band concerts in TIT
park why we don't clean VI
the river why we don't clear
up the streets :. why We dom
clean up the smell why W,
don't clean up the smoke -. VIII.
we don't clean up the SCOT. Ans
they want to know why we don
have more cigarettes. Now, just be
cause we can't help them ease tn
cigarette famine can We put all tn
gripers in one class and cal
them all nuts? You try it.
We wouldn't say so. The fines
people on earth are our readers
The finest people on earth live il
Wyandotte. And they have RICH
TO grippe heat or no heat
Now, what can We do about It?
Shall we ignore 'em shall
we let iem yell 4. shall We sas
'em back?
Or, maybe we should get wise II
ourselves and quit kicking tn
hau around. There's an old sayin,
sDout q hundred million French
And there are rules to an,
old ball game and lest we for
get the ump doesn't give u
\ dozen strikes. Maybe we shoult
start putin our eye on the ball
Many Q mighty Casey has strucl
outi
mn HOMESTEAD Is A GOOI