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The Park Contest
Coal
The cloud of anxiety that has overlaid the country wi~h
increasing weight in recent days as the Nation's vanished
coal supply came nearer, was happily, lifted with the news
Friday night that the miners and operators h~d reached
an agreement for ending the strike.
All of the weighty implications, immediate ot\. remote,
associated with the settlement of .the strike were instantly
waived in the glad knowledge that wheels would move and
lights would burn and homes be warmed. -
At this writing many of the details of the settlement
await clarification but it was early announced that for the
miners there would be an increase in daily wages of 70 cents,
raising their pay to $14.75. Lewis had demanded $15. They
also get 10c a ton increase in the industry's payments into
the Union's Welfare and Retirement Fund, bringing this
item to 30c a ton. Lewis had asked a !5" per ton increase.
For the operators there was elimination _ofthe "willing~
and:'able-to-work" clause under which Lewis had been able
to call a strike at any time the whim struck him. The "Memorial
period" has also been limited to five days a year. It
had been a common. practice of Lewis' to order work stoppages
for longer periods than this for memorials to mine
disaster victims.
The public's immediate conClern will be answered by
continuing light, heat and power, but it must be reconciled
to the fact that they will quickly have to pay more for coal.
This presents to the industry the task of retaining markets
for a commodity already falling in demand and which
will be made more acute by the inevitable shift to other
sources of heat and power. Here in our own metropolitan
area the recent marked shift from coal to natural gas will be
greatly accelerated and this will happen, all over the country
wherever natural gas is .available through pipe lines. The
change to oil will be possible anywhere for tank cars and
trucks cover the entire nation,
In the long term of years, however, the outlook for bituminous
coal is not discouraging. It still exists in such vast
deposits that its deplefion can only be foreseell many, many
generations hence. It is unlikely that all of the bituminous
coal mined since the beginning of the mining industry in
America amounts to ten per cent of the original deposits.
This is a vast reservoir of power which we are apt to overlook
when speculating on the harrowing tales of the early
exhaustion\of oil and gas as periodically dished up to us in
the Sunday supplements.
The same cannot be said for anthracite coal which has
long been a diminishing factor in industrial production and
today is practically limited to house heating, and that almost
wholly in the northeastern section of the country.
A hurried view of the coal reserves of the country shows
that about 288,000 square miles of the nation is unde:r:laid
with bituminous, while the anthracite deposits were limited
to only agout 472 square miles. The bituminous acreage is
600 times greater than that of anthracite.
Probably many generation's before the exhaustion of the
bituminous fields is threatened those limitless sources of
power latent in the sun's rays, the ocean's tides and the force
of the winds will have been harnessed. The possibilities of
atomic power are scarcely explored.
Whether or not, for the present period, the settlement
of the coal strike spells -merely another milestcme on the road
to complete gove~en! ownership and operation of the coal
industry with the mevItable loss charged to everybody via
taxation. t.he not far distant future will disclose.
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A.PRYOR
What.,Goes on
at
\Tour ,LiJJ••ary
, (Geo~geEmerson Brewer) year announces: its. arrival to by Blanch R. Pope. Textbook on
'" '" * many- people in many :ways. For alltypes of upholstering for new
For-: a long time we have. wanted to go into the subject some' it begins with the first furniture and the reconditioning
, ,robin, .for others with the bit of . of old.
of ~'cats" ••• as misused by the press in general. A recent yellow forsythia they manage to Easy.to-make, SlipCovers, by I
case in the news. is a perfect example of what we mean. force indoors. However, judging Herbert. Bast. Photographs and
Withqut putting it in so \ many words,' the dailies have by thereq:uestsatthelibrary for clear instructions on the cutting,
. .books on remodeling, redecorat- fitting and finishing of slip covers
printed things about~the woman in question that makeller ingj.refurbishing and the like, the for different types
.
of chairs and
soun.d slightly pixilated, After using a string _of"quotes~' most- common 'harbin'ger '.is the couches.
and imprE:ssions of theb"'own ...• they end ,an article Wl 1h urge to. '~doove~'" the,'house.
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The So¥jet~Curtain
The maintenance of the Iron Curtain by the Communists
is,a tacit ackriowledgment of the inadequacy of their social
and economic system to contribute to' human welfare.
If, after. thirty years' trial they had dev~loped a social
and economic system directly benefl.cial to their, own people,
they ;would be proud to have this fact ,known and would
encourage the¥,eest mtercourse with the outside world for
first hand inspection and discussion. If they have the proof
of the advantages of COmnlunism as an agency for human
welfare they would make every effort to advertise that fact.
On the contr,ary they have built around themselves as
impenetrable a wall as possible against information coming
into or leaving their countrIes.
They forbid their own people access to information about
the free world and only send ?ut such abolft themselves a~ is
carefully screened by despotIc censors;' - .
Their whole technique is so completely opposed to the
thought and practices of the modern enlightenp.d world as to
disclose the innate barbarism from which they so lately came
Tne result of Russia's action and attitudes is building up
a score of indictments against her throughout the civilized
world which is daily making rapprochement.between her and
the rest of humanity increasingly difflcult. She is prep'aring
a storm against herself which 'will lead to Rer 'oWn d~stru'c~
tion as inevitably as did those preachments ot'Hitler leadjo
the wrecking of Gerl]1any .. This is as certain as that truth
and honor and decency will prevail in the world.
by
Expert Praises
Vi'siting Owls
Chief of Police Tom Trombly
of Grosse Pointe City has receiveda
letter from.L.A. Danse,
chairman of Conservation of the
Detroit Audubon Society, which
has been inspired by the appearance
of the Snowy Owls in our
latitude this year and the disposition
of many persons to kill these
beautiful creatures.
Mr. Danse, who is presumably
an authority on the subject, comes
strongly to the defense of these
arctic visitors. He says that instead
of being destroyers of our
bird life, as many suppose, they
prey on mice and rats and other
small vermin whose destruction
man seeks.
In their native habitat these
owls feed on lemmings and it is
the absence' of these in the arctic
this year that has forced them
down into the lower latitudes to
seek food. He says that only
rarely do the Snowy Owls kill
small birds, wildfowl or domestic
fowl.
His purpose in writing the
Chief was to ask his cooperation
A friend of ours tells us her twelve year old daughter is going in setting aright the facts regardthrough
a stage with which she Is.quite unfamiliar. It has to do with ing these creatures.
not liking her own name and changing both her first and last names ..
from day to day. She will wake up one monling and say, "Mother,' Woods Presbyterian Men
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Simple and S8rio~s
Gauses of Backache
By FRED M. KOPP, R. Ph ...
Rare is the adult who has
never. suffered from backache.
Heavy lifting, over ~xercising,
heels that are too hIgh or too
low are some 'of the simple
causes. of pack pail1s. Back~che
is also a symptom ,of serlo~s
disorder such as kIdney dlS-'
. ease, gall-bladde~. trouble,
rheumatism, arthntls, or the
flu
Ẇhen backache is severe it
is important to £ee the doc-,
tor at once. Where backache
is .slight but frequent, it is
wise to let a'doctor trace the
troublEdo its source.
Take .. only medic,ine pre~
scribed. by a doctol".,Make sure.
it is compounded of quality
drugs1?y, leaving .your prescription
with a trusted drug-'
gist. -
This 15 the 282nd of a series of
Editorial'advertisements appeartDg,
in this. paper each wee~~
Jean T aylo'f'
. . . " - I-~" t,"-' ...
"01l1e ship dri'1JesEast at#/' anotb-er West,
.. ' "John, we really must do some- planning and decorating. for the
While the selfsame breezesblow~ ,. thing about this house, it needs beginner, covering treatment of
It's the /s.et ,of the sails-,and not'the"'gale " walls, windows; floors, furniture
That bids themwher. elo'go... \ . • . . f d' h and color.
When you are con ro~te'wlt What Every Woman Should
Like tlie 1.uinds of. ihe,seaare the ivays of the fates, these words at the, breakfast table Know About Furniture, by
As 'lOe voyage 01~ through. life; one of these . mornings, . you'll Jeanne Judson. Volumes of plates
It's the set of the s~ilsthat'de'ter1nine the goai, know . without questiol).,' that showing period pieces as well as
. .. .... .. ' . Sprl'ng ha_s' a.rriv€d. . ,. modern furniture. . ,.
.And not the storms and the ..sitife."
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One of the wee small hours disc jockeys with a cultured,
drawing-room voice, re,called to us the' other morning, the fact that
the professor told us we'd always hear the best English on the radio
He said, quite clearly, "I hope Miss Soandso is listening ••• and
will know TO WHO this song is dedicated." Amen!
While we were listening to him, there sneaked up on us one
of those brigh! (toobright) early morning kiddie programs, where
the narrator strains his conversation through prop laughter that
wouldn't fool a baby wearing three cornered pants. This hearty
comedian (?) sells Freitage's Frunchies or a reasonable fascimile
thereof, and his bus}ness is to make the kiddi~s b~w~beat their
mothers into buying the product. The "lure" this week is a pencil
that writes in four different colors at the same time, To get it, one
merely sends in a box top from Frunchies.
What he tells the kids goes something like this: Just think of it
boys and girls ... a pencil that will write in FOUR COLORS AT
ONCE! Think how pleased and surprised your teacher would be if
you signed your name to your homework with this beautiful. rainbow
pencil! NOW ... all you have to do etc. etc. etc,
Well, we don't know about the teachers of today but we do
know how a teacher of yesteryear would have loved us to sign our
name with a four-colored pencil, She would no doubt take that nice
red apple we brought her and bounce it off our fat head,
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don't you think Joanne is a lovely name? I think I'd like to be called To' Hold Dinner Meeting
Joanne." By evening, her mother' will overhear her calling some- __
one on the phone and saying, "This is Cecily" ... which isn't her The Men's Association of the
name either. She has also joined little out of town clubs and is Grosse Pointe Woods Presbyconstantly
re.ceiving mail from them~ as well as pamphlets she sends terian Church will have a dinner
for, always addressed to the name that appeals to her at the meeting at the church on March
moment.
15 at 6:15 p.m.
We told the slightly frantic mother not to give it' a second The speaker of the evening will
thought. We can well remember when we were a youth, telling be Major Jesse L.- Coburn wing
friends of our mother's whom we hadn't met before, that. our name chRplain of the United States Air
was Dorothy Whiteside ... which it was anything else BUT. We Force, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
looked 'em right in the eye when we said it too ... and 'expected The subject of his talk will be
them to believe it. Oh yes! We thought Dorothy Whiteside had an "Twlight In Japan." Tickets will
be $1.25 and all men of the con-.
air of elegance about it! gregation and their. friends are
cordiapy invited.
The most wboad season: of' the Upholstering Home Furniture,
h b
...,. Spring sunshine. is relentless in
One of the most interesting local elections that as e:en the words: "She has eight cats running- around, the place." its exposure of shabby corners.
held in Grosse Pointe in many years will be decided in the The inference' is clear. Anyone with eight cats running • • •
around must have a screw loose; aC,cord,ing to most repo,'rters~
Park next Monday. Let the library help you reo
President Homer C. Fritsch and three of his associates We hereby take umbrage at such an outrageous conjecture. decorate~ and rejuvenate!
. f It is done all. the time in newspapers . . •..whenever there is tnore Remodeling ..and. Adapting the
on the Board of Village Commissioners are runmng or re~ than one cat in anyone's household. Nary a wotd is ever writk Smail Iiouse .by H. D.Ebei'lin.
election on the record of the very able administration. of vilk ten about the screwability of people who like dogs ..• not even "Before and after'~ pictur~and
1age affairs which he and his immediate predecessors haye the woman whose neighbors complained becailse she harbored plans illustrate these. concrete
given. Mr. Fritsch has been a member of the Board OfVIl- about nine 8t: Bernards! We aren't pretending to' defend cats .' •. su~gestions .formaking ovt!r a'
lage Commissioner::. for the past ten years. not even for our wildcat~. Ruffy's sake . •• buf we don't. think house.
Carl Schweikart and a slate composed of new faces in owning cats is any crazle~ than ,o:wning over five dogs that yap A Home of YolirOwn and How
h
. b t M. . .... 1i.. to Run It, by. Henriet.taRi ..pper-
'\Tl'llage politics are running again.st t e In.cum en s'. r. constantly and disturb the entire .neighborll!l0d ••. or leaving a
d h
. . .. ger. Practicql-and amusingly writ-
Schweikart is the present townshIp superVIsor an IS t e fortune to an old parrot .•• or. keeping a mule in your bathtub ten manual on choosing. a. home,
opposing candidate for Village President. if you are so amind ... BAR! furnIshing it and keeping- it in
The question of the co~version t.o a city, wil~ch cO,mes • . • • perfect running. order.
up at the same time, is not Involved In th~ fight f~r OffIC~S, Madame, are you always picking on your husband because he Good-bye: Mr. Chippendale. by
further than that Mr. Schweikart has declared hImself In keeps careful records of things? Then this. is for you ... culled T. H. Robsjoim-Gibbings. A short
favor of a "strong" Mayor, by which it is, presumed he from a lawyer's report. .. imd sound debunking. of the. worh
th fi h d ship of antiques and a plea for
means a Mayor with real power rat er an a gure ea, "In a recent family partnership, case, the Government con- the American artist and c011tem.
Mayor selected from the Council itself who would serve as tended that the fact the taxpayers kept. careful records was suspi- porary design, ' ;
window dre~sing for the city government. cious, and argued it indicated that the partnership,~was not 'bona Encyclopedia of rtomeCare and
Th2 administration group are understood to stand for a fide but a device to evade taxes. (Just for the record ... the Dis- Repair, by William ,J. Hennessey.
Commission~Management scheme for city administration, trict Court thought this was a very unusual ar~ment and A guide book of complete and
while Schweikart favors a Mayor with broad executive pow~ ,held FOR the taxpayer.") See? accurate information on ,what is
ers and direct responsibility to the people rather than havin. g '" * * usually thought of as 'a man's
d fi
work about the house.'
that responsibility scattered among a Mayor an . ve or SIX If you've heard this before, just complain to the head office.
Home Guide to Repair, Upkeep
councilmen. A man earning thirty dollars a: week, (you can tell by that that and Remodeling, by William H.
However the particular form of government the Park this is an olel one), collected his salary on Friday and on Monday .Crouse. Practical manual for the
will have if the city change measure carries will depend on morning when he came back to work, he asked the boss for an householder who wants to do
what form the Charter Commission may decide upon, sub- advance on his next pay check. When the boss asked what he had some of his own repair and mainject
to the final appr,oval of the voters.. . . done with the thirty he gave him on Friday, the guy said, "Well. tenance work on house and
. The Schweikart group seem to be makmg theIr campaIgn I spent ten dollars on women. ten dollars on Ukker •• : and ten garage.
on the issue of taxes. They claim the present administra,tion dollars just ridi-eulously." Decorating Your Home"by Kap
has been responsible for boosting taxes, both by millage and • • '" P. Parker. Suggestions for home
assessments. Present taxes now stand within one-half mill If you belong to a club '~nd have a teen aged, daughter, you'd
of the charter limit, which is 20 mills and the highest in better send her to a school of economics before you turn her loose.
the Pointe. One of our readers tells us she got a bill from a club the other
The Fritsch ticket base their claim for support on1he day for "eighty dcllars" for her daughter's bowling, cokes and
excellent use they have made of the money. That they and chewing gum! In checking over the slips she found the junior Miss
their immediate predecessors have an excellent record of had bowled twenty games in one day. Must be the fragile type.
achievement is unquestioned. ,
Mr, Schweikart's record as township supervisor for thepast
five years is also excellent. He is a lawyer by profession
and was at one time Asst. County Prosecutor and has served
as chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, of which
body he is still a member and at present cha~rman of the
powerful Ways. and Means Committee.
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Many periodicals offer helpful
suggestions for redecorating.
House Beautiful, House and
Garden, Better Homes and,.Gardens,
Antiques and Consumer'.s
Research Bulletin are aU avail-
"able at the library.
And: don't let the lack ot tools
dampen y~ur enthusiasm. The
library can offer you\these too,
thanks to the generosity of the
Grosse Pointe Rotary Club. They
may be borrowed in th'e same
. ...'
manner as your library
a two week period.
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Friday, 12:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, I
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WOODS Branch, 20759 lIlack Avenue,
TV. 1-2640, Miss Mastin. Hours: Monday
- ThurSday, 2 p.m. 'to 8:30 p.m.
Friday and Sat}lrday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
FARMS Station.' Old. lJ.~rby 'School,
Miss Roemer •. HourS: Frlda~', 9 n.m.
to 4:30 p.m.
SHORES Station, 795 Lake .Shore
road, Miss WOOdcock. HO'lrs: Wednes~
day. 1 p,m. to 5 p.m.
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To erect a Charter
GROSSE POINTE PARK
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You are hereby notified that on
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Monday,
March
Commission.
TO THE