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Detroit that I do mow and that is that in engineering and manufacturing
practice they are on the average all of ten years ahead of any other
center of the country. In the motor plants the manufacturing methods,
the research laboratories, stock control, wage payment systems, etc.
ase so farXdHM4axXK ahead of what #RU you see elsewhere that there is
little comparison. Here you find the best engineeringzbrains in the
country. Here we pay higher wages and make things cheaper thah they do
anywhere else. Proof of that is the rapidity with which this center
changed over to war products which in the short space of a year are far
exceeding in value the peak of motor output. You cant see these things
oy a brief stop here.

Detroit is not &HKK entirely motors. It is the center of the drug industry
also. Parke-Davis and Frederick Stearns #i make the most of them. All of
those gelatin coated capsules of cod liver oil etc you see are made in
Degroit. We hev blast Burnaces here also and the Great Lakes Steel Corp

at Ecorse rolls most of the steel# going into #Oe##¢ autos.

Detroit likes to call itself the $ "dynamic" city, as if there were
something in the air he e groich gavesthe people living in this locality
more enefgy than you elsewhere. The place is healthy, first in the
U.S- in that respect I believe, but the thing that gives things here their
zip is the orderg for cars that roll in from all over the country .
Industry creates practicallyal}j the wealth there is and we certaily have
an industry here. The people &Aere are like the people anywhere else but
the motor industry has probably attractes some of the best engineering
talent in the country.

Detroit is practically free from the graft and civiv scandaks which

seem to a part of most older cities. However I doubt that is interesting.
I never have seen Henry Ford altho I have lived Bere for 20 yrs. Once

I was in a small store down town and noticed a motherly elderly lady there
shopping. She and I were the oly customers. When she left the clerk told
me that she was Mrs. Henry Ford. There were no ladies in waiting or
expensive clothes or big limousine outside. I don't suppose you practige
for air raids in Lawrence. We do here. Have blackouts and the sirens

wail. They had quite a time making them loud enough so that they could

be heard very far. They are scattered over the city. But those in the
know doubt that if MK raiders come that they will waste any time in

the residential districts. They will spot the lakes from the air and
follow the Detroit river and try to strike the three big power plants
along it. I approve of ainti raider preperation but doubt we will ever see
one much as the Axis would like to see us crippled.

When you come to Betroit the Ke. U. Alumni here wil] try to sae you a litte
of the city and perhaps the foregoing will help you to see under the
surface a bit. The statements above are strictly those of a Detroiter

who was born and raised in Kansas and went to K.U. and now lives here

and likes it. They carry no particular authority. We are looking forward

to your visit and we want you to enjoy your Ak x oo

President, K. U. Alumni, 1942.