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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
DRUNKENNESS PUBLICLY
CoNOoNeo ;,


Drunken driving, which is univers-
oily condemned on the highways and
oirwoys, is apparently to be condoned
on the roilwoys-ond by Government
edict!
The cose in question involves an en-
oineer of the Pennsylvania Roilrood.
Over year ago this man was dischorg-
ed for drunkenness otter members OF
his own crew and q competent exomin-
ina physician had testified he wos OBJ
soIuteIy unfit to handle on engine due
to alcohol. Five years before the same
man wos discharged for q similar Of
Tense, and was reinstoted with the un-
Outstanding that another violation OF
this bosic sofety rule could not be toll
eroted. He was also discharged in 1887
for violation of another rule. but ogoin
was token back.
Lost November, the First Division
of the National RoiIrood Adjustment
Boord ordered the engineer reinstoted,
with seniority rights unimpoired, ond
with pay for all time lost otter March
], 1910. The Board bosed it's decision
purely on q technicotity, involving the
procedure of the railroads inquiry into
the cose. And it did this in the foce OF
the foct thot all who had testified at
the Investigation, including the enei-
neer himself, stoted that it had been
carried on foirIy and importiolIy. and in
spite Of the further foct that there was
no denial or doubt as to the condition
Of drunkenness.
The railroads position is further
complicated in that the portion Of its
system over which the engineer is en-
titled to run is within q stote which
makes it a criminal offense for rail
road to knowingly continue the employ
nent Of an engineer who hos been
found guilty Of intoxicotion while on
duty.
This whole motter seems to coll for
reol Investigation An engineer who
is drunk endoneers the lives Of hum
dreds Of people, and Of thousands Of
dollars worth Of property. The roilrood
simply did it's unacceptable duty to the
public and other railroad employees
when it discharged the offender. Such
q decision, If allowed to stand, seems
as dangerous to public sofety and VEL
fore as is a drunken engineer at the
throttle Of an engine.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
NEA Service Staff Csrrespen'

NEA Service 0sett Cerrespeneens
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. Is -
While the movies have been pro-
Tossing so much interest in top
ical events and national defense,
it's astonishing so little has been
done about the draft. After all
this time, the only CONSUMPTION
picture actually In production is
Universals "Buck Privates," q
semi-musical embellished by the
clowning of Bud Abbott and
Lou Costello.
You'd think the Presidents
signature scarcely would have
been blotted on the selective
service act before squads and
corps of writers would have
been drafted by the studios to
whip up scripts on CONSUMPTION.
AS Q matter Of direct or poten-
tial Importance to everybody In
the United States, It would seem
a bit more interesting than
events in the lives of dead com.
posers, bandits, chorus girls and
other oddments of history and
fiction.
But at most studios, the press
agents were the only people
awake. They thought up titles
associated with rookie training
and announced them for pro-
duction, sometimes with tenta.
tive castings and assignments of
directors. In the past, plans
dreamed up by publicists to
make news on dull days have
materialized into actual pictures,
and It's likely that the bally.
hoo boys stirred some executive
interest this time.
BUCK PRIVATES"
SHOULD MAKE MILLION
Any day now, Bob Hope will
begin acting in Paramounts
Caught in the Draft" In about
two weeks, 20th-Fox will start
Rise and Shine" But the fact
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

humor is a little startling, but
il could happen to anybody who
worked three years on a Kate
Smith radio show.
The skinny straight man. and
the plump, quavery-voiced COM
ic have been partners 10 years
however since actors and
stagehands at the Empire Thea
tier in Brooklyn laughed so
hard at their furious arguments
over a rummy game that Abbott
gave up his job as cashier and
joined the act. About the same
time, q couple of chorus girls
got into face-slapping bout
during rehearsal one day. Co.'S
tello and Abbott separated them,
took 'em to dinner for a peace
conference, married them.
COSTELLO ONCE
A STUNT MAN
Their hrst picture, made q
few months ago, was Zone
Night in the Tropics" Except
for their sequences, it was ter
rible. The comedians watched
the first four reels, skunk out
and grabbed a taxi for the air.
port. In New York their plane
was met by a studio represent
alive, with orders for them to
hop back to Hollywood to begin
a new picture and sign a seven.
year contract.
About IS years ago, Costello
came to Hollywood to be an
actor. Instead, he became q
stunt man, worked in 35 silent
pictures, mostly doubled for
actresses In dangerous shorts
such as jumping out of window
for Dolores Del Rio in 1.-THE
Trail of '98." He was short and
slim In those days; now he looks
a lot like New York's Mayor
LaGuardia.
Costello gained quite an off,
stage reputation as funnyman.
but Just as he won the promise
of an acting job the talkies ar.
rived and he was told his voice
was UNIT for the new medium.
He quit and went back east to
take the place of a young man
named Joe Penner, who was
graduating from burlesque.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15

is that from mid-September un-
til this writing, the only studio
that got a script and cast into
action was Universal. Buck
Privates" is nearly finished, will
be in the theaters before Feb
ruary, and probably will make
a million dollars.
I have a bunch the vociferous
antics of Abbott and Costello are
going to make them very pop
ular in the movies. OF course ]
may be q sucker for low com.
edy, although by some standards
their hokum is a good many
notches higher than the smart
smut which has been cluttering
the screen lately. The idea of
a couple of burlesque actors
becoming opponents of purity in
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
CRANlUM .
CRACKERS

A year-round sport that en-
tertains in the evening is boxing,
one of the toughest fields, but
also one of the most lucrative
for those who come out on top.
Put, on the gloves and 60 a few
rounds with these questions on
the champions and their recent
bouts.
/. Who was the latest chal-
leger to lose to Heavyweight
Champion Joe Louis?
2. What is the lightest weight
class in boxing?
8. What two boxing cham.
pions, of different classes, re-
Gently fought non-title bout?
=. What heavyweight cham
pion defended his title seven
years with his bare knuckles?
5. What championship bout
drew the biggest gate?
Answers on Page 8
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
By WIN. e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

JEFF Click, Miami, Fla, one
Of the new open team-of-four
champions, has long been rec.
ognized as q great card player.
He was member of the cham
pion team in 1884 and runner.
up In the Masters team-of -four
contest the same year.
Click gives q nice demonstra-
ton Of ccurate card reading In
today's hand. The opening lead
was won by the ace of hearts
and q low trump lead went to
Vests ace. West found the best
defense by returning the queen
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
SO THEY SAY

There are no sidelines in to-
days wars.
Robert p. Patterson, undersec-
rotary of war.
Watch out lest our great coun-
try get into q Thirty Year War,
then And ourselves alone with
the impossible task of fighting
the whole of Europe and Asia.
Philip F. La Toilette, former
governor Of Wisconsin.
Gentlemen choose girls who
are less intelligent than you are.
You'll feel much more COM
Portable with them.
DIR. Blake Crider, Fem Col
lege psychologist.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

of clubs, and Click won with
the king.
Click decided that Vests
trump ace must have been q
singleton, so he now led q small
trump and finessed the nine.
The king of trumps was cashed
and q heart led to the king, so
that Click could cash the queen
of spades to pick up the jack.
On the trump leads West let 60
hearts, and a diamond was dis
carded from dummy.
How was Click to avoid the
loss of club trick and two dia-
monds, besides the ace Of
trumps? He counted that West
must have been dealt exactly
seven hearts and one spade. His
club lead must have been from
at least three clubs, 50 that he
could not have more than two
diamonds. probably less. On
this count, the odds were good
that East held both king and
queen of diamonds. and Click
planned an end play against
him.
First il was necessary TO void
East Of clubs, to take out his
exit. Hoping TO and East with
no more than three clubs. Click
now cashed the ace and led the
third round. West won and led
q heart, forcing out North's last
trump. But now Click led Q
low diamond, East was forced
TO win and return q diamond
into the major tensco.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
; BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHING TON =

bills and messages without
prior consultotion. All OF that
il now chonoed.
Roybum's biggest ossst Is
the foct thot House members
hove him peeged as q squore-
shooter. He hos lots Of con-
flietino friendships, but they
don't todch his job.
The present speaker put
through some Of the N e W
DeoI's key leoislotion - the
houdine company bill and the
bill erecting the Federal Conn.,
municotions Commission ore
somples-but the. Job he is
most proud Of in all his 70
yeors In Congress Is his creo-
ton Of the Rurol Identification
Administration. During the
Christmas holidays he wos
driving Congressman Lyndon
Johnson over q bock-country.
rood in Texos. Suddenly he
pulled up to q halt and pointed
to an electric light line which
swung off to q tiny Goblin by q
lonely cotton potch.
"See thot?" sold Royburn.
That woman doesn't have to
use one Of those old Iord-oiI
lamps any more. She's got
electric lights"
oPPoSlTES MAKE
GOOD TEAM
Royburn and Mccormack,
the porty's flood Ieoder, ore
making q good team. In most
ways they ore opposites. Roy
burn is stoIid, stumpy, bald as
on eoster egg, deliberte, given
neither to orotory nor bock-
slipping. q Texon from way
back. Mccormack is q city
Democrat" from Mossochu-
sets, on imposing looking
chap with on extruding per-
sonoIity and q flair for ming
ling with his fellows. He tends
to be q diplomat; Royburn is
pretty blunt and never dreams
Of tenperino the wind to the
shorn congressman.
Under the surface, Royburn
is q sentimentolist. He still
carries q battered woteh which
members Of his delegation
gave him Is wears oeo when he
wos in the Texos legislature.
The eoveI with which he coils
the House to order each doy
is q souvenir some Dallas high
school boys gave him in 1884
in the innocent confidence that
some day he was sure to be
speaker.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
THOUGHTS

Hereby perceive we the love
of God, because he laid down his
life Tor ": and we ought 70 lay
down our lives for the brethren.
II John SIG.
Who falls for the love At God
shall rise . Snr.-Den. johnson.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO
H09Q

General Chairman Vincent
Fitzgerald announces his COM
mittees for the President's Ball,
to be held Thursday evening,
January 80. The place Of the
ball is yet to be decided upon.
The Half-Hour Club will hold
the annual election at their lun-
cheon meeting on Saturday. Mrs.
william Neville will be hostess,
and Mrs. Duncan Hubbard will
lead the book discussion.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

L EN- xEA1CO AOV INVITE
1881
Thirty-five singers and dancers
will take part in the annual high
school operetta "Once In a Blue
Moon" under the direction OF
Miss Elizabeth Baxter and Fred
erie Crandall. The date Of the
production is not definitely set.
but It will be around the first
of March.
Warrant Officer Harry G. Al
Ian has been ordered to sail from
New York for the Canal Zone.
He has been stationed at Self
ridge Field.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
Dy BRUCE CATION
Dolly Mealtss wsshissseW
CAecoam0n&nAf

SOSyUUpOooUUWt
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is
The speaker Of the House will
be q more importont man In
the government this year than
for q long time.
Sam Royburn Of Texas. who
holds the job, IS the sort OF
man who will return the post
to its old importance. He won't
be q Czor Cannon. but he de-
finiteIy will be one OF the three
or four top men In the admins
trotion.
This is partly because he
is q different sort Of man than
his predecessor, the Iote Will
liam B. Bonkheod, and portly
because President Roosevelt
has adopted q new ottitude to-
ward his porty's leaders in
Congress. The important part
is thot Speaker Royburn hos
RoosevsIt's confidence 100 per
cent-ond, despite holt boxed
criticisms occasionally heard on
the trinees Of the New Deel,
he gives 100 per cent loyalty
in return.
TELL 'EM
THE TRUTH
Two true stories show the
change in the administrators
relationship with Congress.
About q year ooo, someone
at q press conference osked
Speaker Bonkheod il he ex-
pected q presidential message
on toxotion. He replied that
as for as he knew no such mes
sooe was coming. Halt an
hour Ioter. q presidential mes
soce on toxotion was laid on
his desk to be read to the
House.
Just before the last fireside
chat, FOR had Royburn in and
discussed the defense program
and the coming radio address,
remcrkine that he wos hi9ly
pleased with some Of the de-
tense program progress, greet
ly dispIeosed with other ports
Of it.
"Whot should tell the peo-
pie about it. Som?" he asked.
TELL 'em the truth" said
Royburn. "Thot's what the
people expect from you, Mr.:
President. Don't hide the bad
ports. Tell the people just
what you have told me-"
Roosevelt did so and the
point is that now he is tolkina
} TO the speaker Of the HOUSE
before q speech or q bill is
drofted, not ofterword.
GUIDED KEY
LEGISLATION
Sam Royburn came in for
q lot Of criticism in the lost
Congress, which was unruly
and often broke away from the
President. Royburn wos Q
close friend Of Vice President
Garner. Because the House
didn't stoy in line, he was often
accused Of quietly sobotooine
the New Deal efforts.
Thot wasn't true. RoybVrr
was in q spot. Speaker Bank
head was in bad health. and
in effect Royburn hod' to Be
both majority leoder and
, speaker. In addition, Bonk-
heed was q good presiding Of
ficer, but didn't make his job
the vehicle for aggressive
leadership. To top II oil, the
administration was not ploy-
ing ball with its congressional
. leadership, but was sending UP
CTODlEC
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
BEGINNING

Eots Of people ore worried because
I'M seen,s 70 hove been holes in the
Act.
WI Senotor Carl A. Hatch, who
M III VI Sort Of expected thot there
- s6tsse violotions," he sold in
M feesntIy. you can't expect
!ono stondino to be disrup-
1t The Hitch octs ore just
lily The way under dem
lr dnd under any 9TH
0f6 known The perfect
m II Sveg hit The first
4 llaei< snistokes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
40 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

Aid Heine's resolution against
the sale of cigarettes should be
enforced. Businessmen should
not sell "coffin nails" to kids.
Mrs. Eleanor Marshall has re-
moved to Fraser.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
IS YEARS AGO TODAY.

Walter Dalby entertained a
company of ID gentlemen last
evening.
DR.. ]. Winslow Aver, the alb
sorption medicine man, has been
in the city for = few days this
week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15

DR.. H. c. Lehman, psychologist, says the
few who make million annually are between
so and &c. Most of US will be satisfied just to
live that long.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
WHAT KIND OF A WORLD
20 WE WANT3

Neither Germony nor Britoin hos
stoted with any directness, its wor aims
the kind Of Europe ond the kind OF
world they would like to see emerge
from the war.
As long as both are locked in deoth
Grips. it isn't likely that either viii.
Once al Mnr, the only object is to win.
RemoIdine the world comes otterword.
There con be no harm, therefore,
and perhaps some good. in speculation
about these things ia the United Stotes.
We had hand once in reorronging
Europe. II has reluctant hand, as
shown by the fact that the United
Stotes fought only as an "ossocioted,"
/: never an "olIied" power, ond thot it
never did sign the Versailles Treoty but
mode a separate peace with Germany
! later lTreoty Of Berlin, lo2D. Most OF
the suggestions we mode in 1919 we're
\ rejected, and even those which we're
odopted did not work very we'll.
Vet when Senator Wheeler issued
lis recent prescription for Europe. his
1o4l version of Wilsonion Fourteen
Points, what did he propose? Nothing
batter than another Of those intermin-
able reshuffIin9s, re-coNings, OF the
European map.
Il seems doubtful if anything like
ttot will do this time. No matter who
wins, the detected people will remain q
feet. and stubborn foct. Germany was
beoten, and thoroughly beoten. in
1918, but the Germon people rennoined
) fact. The French people we're beoten
/ His time. and terribly beaten. but they
remain fact, as Herr Hitler is olreody
beginning to discover. Franco olreody
knows that, despite the shootings and
executions, thot the large republican
element in his people remains foct.
Ard the Norwegian people ore focts.
and the Dutch, and the Beleion. and the
Polish and Czech. Military victory does
not eliminate peoples. They remain.
No possible Encouragement Of Eur
ope into another set Of notionoIistic
closets, walled off from the rest by tor
iff borriers and ortificioI restrictions,
con be much better than the one de-
vised in 1919 Encouragement. by
\ IRE way, that embodied q considerable
ornount OF scientific study, ond was by
no means entirely q victor's coprices.
Europe must federote or die. Not as
I TIE Coesors federoted it, or as Nopol-
4 opn tried to federote it, under single
duees working the other people as
\ x)cxes such federation Leaves sofe
no country in the world.
Europe requires q continental econ
on1y, allowing national political and
seultuFol institutions, yet allowing CONT
nentol freedom Of shipping ond inter
course and trode in such way that oil
can live.
III The United Stotes can certoinIy i'm
pose no such order in Europe. nor would
me ~ 50 foolish as to Try. Vet Europe it.
Seelf hos produced almost no leadership
\ with such q vision.
We con only hope thot somewhere.
MA ne trenches or bombsheIters, it is
$oino born
ES&nn(yk OeAaAaApaAsN
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

F. p. Ullrich announced that
latter Jan. 5th will occupy store
Just vacated by Alex. jacob,
with the Largest and Best Stock
of Boots and Shoes In Ascomb
Co."
Lapeer papers aver that Fred
hicks. Of Mount Clemens, 10
about 70 ouen . face scrapery In
the city. He can slash . mans
countenancs end then rub alum
ON it N The most barberous man.
ner known % the profession.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-15
g YEARS AGO TO-DAY

+. n Nellis, Of the Monitor, at
tended The state pre8 convention
& Lansing Tuesday.
Under no circumstsnces do we
reveal ~ names Of correspond
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-10

thank the Potters Picnic Committee
for the splendid donation of $500
which the Made In America Founda-
tion received following last months
great outing in Youngstown.
The MADE IN AMERICA CLUB,
although primarily a BUY AMERI-
CAN institution is also a patriotic
organization. We are opposed to all
"isms" that are in conflict with fun
damental Americanism. All these
"isms" look alike to US whether they
be labeled Communism, Nazism or
Fascism. We have only one "ism" in
our program and that is AMERICAN
ISM. Preaching Americanism goes
hand in hand with our BUY AMERI-
CAN program. You never met a
Communist who was BUY AMERI-
CAN enthusiast
In closing on behalf of the officers
and members of the MADE IN
AMERICA CLUB throughout the ma.
tion, | want to extend to you our sin
cere thanks for the support and co.
operation the members Of the Nation.
al Brotherhood of Operative Potters
have given US in the past, and | an
going to renew our pledge of faith ir
our American institutions as mani
| tested in the Americans Creed By
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-10

Brotherhood, show what it has done
for the pottery workers and for the
prestige Of labor unions in stressing
the harmonious relations that have
existed between you and your en-
ployers for the past fifty years.
Such a newsreel would run into
money of course; but we have a plan
ard program whereby we can produce
frst-class newsreel at saving of
about sixty per cent. Please bear in
mind this picture would be in sound
and color-yes, colored beautifully.
Some day hope we can all get to-
gether-the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters, the United States
Potters Association and the Made In
America Club-on definitely worth
while newsreel that will show the
American public the class, style, quail
ity and design of American made pot
terry, and dinnerware in a way that
will be impressive and convince the
American people that American made
pottery is as good as, in fact better
! than that made anywhere else in the
, world.
The work of the MADE IN AMER
ICA CLUB must continue so as to
help in laying good foundation for
the post war period. We are not sat-
isfied with the several million women
who have signed our pledge-we want
every woman in America made BUY
AMERICAN conscious. Let US en-
roll the women in every village, town,
hamlet and city throughout this ma
ton in the MADE IN AMERICA
CLUB.
l want to impress upon you in clos
ing that we have the most wonderful
opportunity to put forth program
that will be worth while. Right now
the people are thinking in terms of
our own, which is after all the funda-
mental principle of the successful
BUY AMERICAN campaign. " Our
work must go hand in hand with the
efforts of all true Americans to in
still in our hearts a greater love for
our country, more profound respect
for our flag, and deeper sense of
appreciation for our Constitution and
democratic form of government and
what these all mean to our citizens.
| wish to take this opportunity tc
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Railroad and Belleek Streets
THE PLIGHT OF FINLAND


(From the New York Times)
Bitterness against the Soviets and
desire to recover the territory lost
last year are strong in Finland.
Bombed by the Russians, who in turn
claim that Finland permitted its ter
ritory to be used as a base of Ger
man air attacks, the Firms have now
joined the German war against Rus
sia
The Finnish Government and the
Finnish people have been in a most
difficult position. Nobody could have
expected them to fight on the Russian
side. The most that was hoped for
was that they might maintain a pre-
carious neutrality between their old
enemy and the Nazi aggressors. OBJ
viously this is the attitude they want
ed to take. The wounds of last
years struggle are not yet healed,
and physical and economic exhaustion,
plus a stubborn allegiance to demo-
cratic principles, made them pro-
foundly reluctant to participate in the
present conflict.
Like all small nations, all they
wanted was to be let alone. They
gave valiant proof last year of their
determination to defend their inde-
pendence. Without outside help they
fought as no little people except the
Greeks have fought against an over
powering invader.