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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19

One night Charlie Schwartz,
an outstanding west coast play
er was paired with q society ma
tron at bridge. During the course
of hand when Charlie was
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19
THE CoRsICAN AND
The AUSTRIAN

II proves nothing. 1t is no 9uIoe
70 the future. But the temPtotlon to
drow poruIeIs between Hitler's invo-
sion of Russia and NoPoleon's TOO
strono. like the desire for on extro slice
Of elderberry pie.
NopoIeon was foreigner, O Cor
sicon. ruling Fronce. Hitler is tor
eioner. an Austrian, ruling Germany.
NAPOLEON rose to power in France
an the tide of revolution. Hitler rose
thus in Germony
Napoleon terrorized Europe Tor
wears. So has Hitler.
Napoleon picked O fight with Rus
sio without scroP OF Provocot,on,
simply because he had decided thot
Russio must be eliminated. Hitler did
the sone
Napoleon had assembled q motley
army Of French, Itolions, Swiss, Dutch,
Poles. and Germans. Hitler is using.
in addition to his Germans. Runonions,
suIeorions, sIovoks, ond italians.
Napoleon advanced as for as Sno-
lensk without serious bottle, and took
that city by storm in two-doy opero-
ticn Aug ~. Is.
Here the pottern begins to diveree
Hitler advanced into Russia in three
qreot movements, in the north against
Lennorod, in the south against Kiev,
and in the center against Moscow.
Thot central drive reached Smolensk
and captured it in q two-doy bottle
about Aug. 10, H. Here Hitler Is
week ohecd Of the Nopoleonic sched-
uie.
Hitler has made greet progress oIso
on both the southern and northern
fronts at the same time, but roughly
speaking he stands today where Mo-
poleon stood at the some time
Now le! US follow the fortunes Of
Napoleon the rest Of the woy On
Sept the Russions stood, and under
the able Kutusoff gave bottle at Boro-
dino on the MoscoWo river. Both sides
had enormous losses 1.-The French 3d.
600, the Russions AZ ,OOO), but kutus-
off Withdrew in admirable order, re-
treotine through Moscow and taking
its people with him. On Sept. Ia No.
poleon occupied the city.
Between the 18th and 18th the
Russians burned the city, and otter re-
naming five weeks Napoleon got out
OF there. BY the time he had reached
JorosIovez, Vjosmo, and Krosnoy.
fighting continually the horossing Rus
slams and Cossocks, cold weather de-
scended BY the time he forced
possoee over the Berezino river, the
suffering from hunger and cold was
terrible.
On Dec Napoleon left the army
10 its fote ond went back to Poris. The
tottered remainder, only 100000 of
the 500, 900 with which he started,
crossed the Nemen to sofety on Dec.
Is. The expedition had cost Napoleon
SOC, 900 lives and 100000 prisoners.
4 All this is reIoted, not to rouse any
foIse hopes that history is about to
repeot itself. 1t seldom does, and then
With voriotIons. But up to point it
roises sofne curious parallels.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19
sY PETER Epsok
Daily Msnitor Washington
Cogvasn0ndent

So"y WVwSSVS VOSUSUSt0u
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. l9-
Behind the rather surprising
action Of the Aluminium Com
Pony Of America and the Ten
nessee VolIey Authority in
throwing their arms about each
others necks and making q
deoI to let IVA control the
eompony's power resources in
the upper Tennessee Valley is
one OF those strange romonees
OF big business and big gov
eminent that illustrates the old
principle. "If you cont lick
'er, jine EN-"
In this oose. It oppIies both
woys. The corporation and the
government here lie down in
the same river bed. But it's q
legal wedding and the only
shotgun aspects of the cose
ore q reormoment program,
and in such times you cont
question the motives Of any,
one, tycoon or bureoucrot, for
vomiting to do everything pos
sibIe TO produce more oIu-
ninum.
Aluminium mpony Of
America, hereinafter referred
to as Alcoo for short, hos been
having its troubles with the
government and vice verso for
several years. AIooo has been
damned as q monopoly, though
the company maintains it hos
never done onythine to prevent
anyone else from going into
the business if it could roise
the copitoI. And if the truth be
known, Alcoo heoved O big
sigh Of relief when Reynolds
Metal did enter the field 70
toke the heat off this nnonop-
oily charge. In spite Of the foct
that without q competitor A.
COO hos brought the price Of
aluminium from about 81 O
pound in 1900 to TO cents O
pound in 1919, TO " cents O
pound in lo4l, its profits have
if anything been consistently
good, and thot hos brought
upon it the finger Of New Deal
suspicion.
SWORD STILL HANGS
In April, 1887, the onti-
trust division Of the Justice De-
pertinent filed suit against
Alcoo, charging the company
was q monopoly and q porty
to agreements with foreign
companies, under which the
production Of aluminium in the
United Stotes was restricted.
That trial Iosted from June
1888, to August IS, 1910, and
it produced 60 many million
words Of testimony that Judge
Francis c. Coffey Of New York
hasn't been able TO hand down
his decision yet.
Whatever difficulties Alcoo
may have had with Mr.. Assist
tont Attorney General Thur
man Arrold's division, and
with Mr.. Power Cor Harold
Ickes, and regardless Of the
dirty cracks that have been
token at the company by the
defense moguIs and various
coneressmen-which is an
other story altogether, with
many misunderstanding and
unfair occusotions-there hos
never been q doy in recent
years that AIcoo hos not had
N%%1eiNvo - r;e 80 onI ell TIA
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19
. FROM
THE. MONITOR
FILES .
5 YEARS AGO TODAY
1876

) yEANo AOu 1ODAI
1886
Miss Elizabeth Miller has re-
turned from a vacation in Ten
nessee and other southern states.
Albert Lumley left on Friday
for Amherst College where he
holds the position of athletic di-
rector.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Fraser buys new $500 fire
truck.
Needy families in Warren re-
ceive 800 pecks Of potatoes.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1906
Chas. Roswell has bought out
Chas. Schied's loan office bust
ness, and Mr.. Schied has left
for the East.
The beet crop is beyond all
danger. The field have all been
laid by and are in splendid con-
dition.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press

BY the Asseeistel Press
HIGH FINANCE
OPHILADELPHIA-Mrs. Ger
trude Simon Hirshorn's federal
bankruptcy petition shows:
Liabilities 81 85,015.20; as
sets $50.
Describing herself as q house
wife, she says she has had no
income for the past two years,
never filed an income tax re-
turn and has no bank account.
Most of her listed debts we're
on mortgage transactions dat
ing back to 1929.
WATERLOO
HARRISBURG, Pa.-Harry
E. Kochenour, Jr., turned in
his first alarm in 36 years as a
fireman and 1t sent him to
hospital.
Returning home from church,
the volunteer smoke-eater not
iced an apartment building in
flames, sounded an alarm then
dashed in to help combat the
blaze. An explosion inflicted
severe burns around his face,
hands and arms.
o
THE WILD WEST
LOS ANGELES-Patrolmen
Osborne Rutherford and Will
lam McGree pulled through
Trail Canyon seeking the source
of an anguished "Helpl Help!"
Three hours later they found
a lonesome deer hunter. He'd
been listening to one of those
melodramas on his portable
radio.
CLOSEUP
CARLSBAD, N. M.--Next
time those picture-taking tour
lists can shoot Shorty Broad
bent's rattlesnake from dis
lance.
Shorty. keeper of a roadside
curio shop. held up one of his
larger, liveliest rattlers for a
travellers snapshot and-cops--
ii slipped.
Doctors say Shorty will re-
cover.
IT'S ALL FOR DEFENSE
CHICAGO-Noting q grow
ing trend toward factory en-
ployment of women, q hair
dressers' association has de-
signed FIVE defense styles in
tended to keep hair on tho
girls heads and out Of assembly
belts and gears. The styles
indicated two and q half to
three inches was Q safe length
for tresses.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-19

September ID one of the four months when
lots Of people wish they had saved their income
tax payu,snt - they went alens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03
Deadlines Reached

Saturday was deadline day for several public responsibilities It marked the first day of March. Income taxpayers don't have to shudder for another ten days, but old age pension taxpayers who failed to get under the line Saturday now face a penalty. They have been amply warned of the approach of the last day of the period set aside for paying this tax. Every opportunity was given them 10 pay. They had no better or no worse chance to pay than those who obeyed the law so faith fully. If they are delinquent they should accept the added responsibility and penalty.
 The same is true of the motoring pub lie. The 1941 license plate insets had to be displayed on all cars being driven on public thoroughfares on Saturday. But the fact is there were several thousand cars in the Waterbury district evidently not supplied with the new markers. There may have been great many reasons for failure to obtain the insets, but in the majority of instances it can only be laid to carelessness Too many people put off to the last moment the job Of obtain ing these markers. They now pay for their procrastination.
 There will always be people like this. It's human nature, we suppose, to post pone the inevitable as long as possible. But the idea isn't good one and if we applied it to. our daily endeavors we'd never accomplish anything. Americans are supposed to be nation of go-getters - on the move from dawn to dusk. Ger tainly in duties like the above we should be no less energetic. We ought to make it a point of pride to avail ourselves of the opportunities that governmental ef- ficiency have provided.
 And word to those hard-working of- ficials and individuals who facilitate these services. They are deserving of every bit of praise possible for hard jcb well done.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03
Profits Still Possible

The private enterprise or profit and loss" system is having rough going these days, but there's a lot of life in the old girl yet, according to some calculating the New York Stock Exchange has been doing. Of 829 common stocks listed on that Exchange. 577 paid cash dividends last year, and the 2,000 ,000 900 thus paid out represented 5.7 per cnt return on the years average market value of all common issues listed.
 So the Exchange reports. adding that during the depressed .l930-40 period, O.650 00O. 900 was paid out in dividends by listed common stocks. Thus, In spite of worldwide confusion. 1t is plainly still
 slhle for great many large business l.,lIts to make money. The private en- prise or profit and loss" system, seems t. have lot Of vitality in 1t yet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03
Brush Fire Season

This is the time of the year when the life of fireman is hard one. He is not merely on duty during eight hours of the day or night, but he is apt to be on the 20 most of this time. It's an endless succession of brush fires. People will start them and people will not learn that they can't be controlled unless the proper precautions are taken to guard against them spreading onto the neighbor's prop erty, whether that be just an empty lot or very fancy garage.
 All sorts of appeals have been made to people who are apt to start brush fires, particularly property owners on the outskirts of the city to be careful of these fires, but they usually fall on deaf ears. Too many people think they can do too much work at one time. It's one thing to burn off lot successfully and another to let loose an inferno of fire with no idea of how it is going to be controlled once the wind has whipped 1t in certain direction.
 There is tremendous amount of re- sponsibility attached to an outdoor fire. That's why in some cities there are lot of arrests because the individuals re- sponsible for them didn't secure the requisite permit before starting it off, although no damage at all may have been done. Permits are supposed to be secured here in Waterbury, too, but probes by the Fire Marshals office almost invariably show that blaze for which the fire department is summoned was not sanctioned.
 Waterbury could do one thing well this spring If 1t just made up its mind to elim- mate brush fires An outdoor fire can and often is controlled. But one man san't successfully burn 10-acre lot on the windy days that this time of the year produces. Let's save fire department energy and property by not playing with matches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03
HerOism Without Heroics

Can death be remarkable in time like this, when men are dying daily in whole sale heaps from Chungking to Cheren? Yes. What heroisms are hidden between the lines of casualty lists, what unseen deeds of selflessness are daily fare in half of England's cities, on Albanian noun tain slopes, or in the glaring Libyan des- erts, we cannot know. Men are so utterly swallowed up in the maw of war that they die unnoticed even among their con- rades. But in this welter of sudden and violent mortality, death can be remark able Dr. Matias Duque is dead. He seized the privilege of dying with diff ference.
 pr. Duque was Havana physician, at one time Cuba's director of public health. AS a physician he was accustomed to look death in the face. AS duelist, he had more than once thrust himself in the way of death. He was not afraid. His mother, then his wife, died of cancer. Then he knew that he had an enemy more worthy than any who had ever received his challenge. His grim face frightened. "Either I'll get cancer" he said, "or it will get me-"
 He volunteered to be inoculated with cancerous tissue, to make of himself a human guinea pig, in the hope that study of case from it's first inception would reveal means of fighting this dread disease which has yielded so slowly to the assault of the medical profession. This was three years ago. Soon it became apparent that Dr. Duques last challenge had hean accented E'Or three wears the fight has gone on, his fellow physicians recording closely every phase of the strug- gle in hope that the challenged disease would at some point reveal path to its own conquest.
 Death and disease won this victory. pr. Duque is dead dying in the tradition of his Cuban colleague who helped defeat yellow fever, and of thousands of other physicians who have knowingly given their lives to save others. All men must die. But not all are given the boon of dying in the forefront of battle against the enemies of man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03

Once again we marvel at the ability with which Mrs. Alice Bradley and her aides at the local branch of the State Motor Vehicle Department have accom- plished the task of distributing the 194l license plate insets. After watching the manner in which bureau heads and the various clerks kept thousands of appli- cants moving in and out of the Watertown avenue office this past week we can only express the highest praise for the pa tience, the diligence, and the rapid man. ner in which all handled their particular duties. It should be an object lesson to any businessman who cares tC observe the workings of the department under pres. sure. The present methods, too, of handling the thousands of applicants is certainly a far cry from the days when lines moved so tediously as each car owner appeared and underwent rather close scrutiny before the cherished license plates would be handed over for the rather high fees that were exacted in those days. Connecticut can certainly mark this change as one of distinct progress.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03

carefully this time, picking the type of cloudy weather most like- ly to help him. Furthermore, U. s. air experts who have been study ing the British preparations are convinced that Hitler will have to send across the Channel almost everything he's got.
 TENANT FARMERS
 The President Is not losing sight of domestic problems in the Welter of foreign affairs - and recently kept his very precise Under Sec- retary of State, Sumner Welles, waiting an hour while he threshed out farm relief problem.
 Representatives John 1'olan of California and John Sparkman of Alabama had called to protest against Q $25, 100000 cut in farm rehabilitation loans, Q cut made by the Budget Bureau In the Agri. culture Department appropriation. The conference was supposed to last IS minutes. but Roosevelt forgot all about the time, became completely engroesed in the "ec- on0mlc shock" to be felt by ten- ant farmers and migrants after defense spending has tapered of. Meanwhile Welles cooled his heels in an outer office.
 Finally the two congressman
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03
TIME TO THINK OF THE LIVES AND WELFARE OF OUR OWN
 DESTITUTE AMERICANS.
Everett, Mass,
 Feb. 28, 194l.

Everett, Mass,
 Feb. 28, 194l. Editor of The Democrat:
 What does the country intend to do to assure the lives and happiness of our retired veterans of industry? Today through @ fool policy on the part of industry a rigid limit is placed on the hiring of men over a certain age. Even the Civil Service has a very low age over which ap- plications will not be received. When 6 man passes 35 years an American railroad insists that he be relegated to the human scrap pile, and when a man reaches the effi- cient age of 45 a railroad will not re employ him. Thousands of plants throughout the, country consider young blood more efficient than tried and true manhood. a manhood that furnishes thousands of interesting examples of inspiration. While it is true that there are many cases of declining physical and mental abil- ity, yet there loom up amid the general wreck of the bodily ana cerebral powers some striking in- stances of remarkable mental vital- ity and virili:y. sanding out, like beacon lights of nope, far beyond the period of normal decay. These mental heroes counter-balance the achievements of young whipper- snappers, If not in numbers, cer- tainly in productive value and in- fiuence upon the culture and welfare of the race.
 Between the ages Of TO and 83. Commodore Vanderbilt increased the mileage of his road from I20 to 10000 and added about $l00.000. 900 to. his fortune. Wordsworth was appointed to his laureateship at 73, and lived to see his 80th birthday. At 74 Kant wrote his "Anthropol- ogy," the Metaphysics of Ethics'' and the strife of the Faculties" l" Verdi. when 74. produced his mas terpiece "otelio." which is thought to be great advance over any, thing, he had yet written. and in his 8Oth year he wrote "Falstaff. which proved as brilliant an achieve rnent as "Otello." When 85 he wrote his Ave Maria" 'Laudi alla Virgtnc," "etabat Mater" and Ire Deum." all wonderfully beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson at 76 pub- lished "A Mortal Antipathy" and The New Portfolio" and at 70 pub llsIled "Over the Teacups." Joseph Jefferson. the beloved American nc. tor, was ~r effective in all his roles when 7s Gs when at the height of his physical power. Gladstone bee gan his great Midlothian campaign which overthrow the Conservative
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03

emerged. They were beaming about the Presidents promise to have the farm relief cut re. stored. One look at Welles, however, chilled their elatlon.
 And one look was about all the politicos got. Snapping a curt Good morning., he brushed by them into the Presidents study. PLANS FOR DEFENSE
 So far 1t doesn't look as If the strategic plan to scatter defense industries throughout the Amer ican West, where they would be less vulnerable to attack, is on It's way to being carried out.
 On the contrary, Army and Navy brass hats, thumbing their noses at the Defense Commits sion, have punched the new fac- tories into Q few crowded and vulnerable industrial areas. Even protests by Roosevelt have been ignored.
 The military argument is that to scatter the new plants away from established production cen- ters would slow u, the whole pro- gram. But 1t Is significant that the most adamant resistance to "hintcrland" comes from the giant
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03

The President of the United States has taken the position that humanitarian leaders everywhere do, to give the old people adequate and uniform treatment. With ma chine power doing away with man. power 1t Is probably too much to expect that industry will ever ab- sorb men of 40 years and over ani ihe only thing left for us to do Is to provide an adequate pension system.
 To quote Rep. o'Connor again:
 "It has always been Q curious thing to me that, while ignoring our own underprivilege masses, the hearts of our great men and wo- men are so easily touched by the plight of those on foreign shores. TWo-thirds of the people of America, we are informed, do not have all income that meets with reasonable standards for health and decency Yet, most of our prob- lems this year have been concerned with problems abroad. Why is 1t so easy for us to find ample funds for foreign relief-yes-anything and everything outside our own country. and so terribly difficult, or even 'inflationary' to furnish aid and opportunity to our suffering ones here at home? Would it cause an imitation for us to supply ade- quate pensions at this time for the aged of cur land? In spite of huge defense appropriations we are far from exhaustihg our productive ca pacitv. Reputable economists de- clare that money placed in circula- tion by any means, either through pensions, defense or war, cannot re- suit in runaway price infiation un- til ful, employment and full utiliZa- tion of our industrial and agricul- tural capacity is reached"
 While many thousands of com petent workers who have reached the age of 40 and 50 have been scrapped by industry and thrown out of "white-collar" jobs for which many of them are more qualified by experience and physical and mental ability than those that do the "fir- | AttSe tAAS 4ASt ACA&aeAAc sssssg DVssAS" thing has got to be done to help the worthy elderly who are in need of assistance. Not by throwing a measly twenty or thirty dollars each month at their feet but by giving them a decent penEion of an amount sufficient to let them live like hu- man beings. On September n. ie40 President Roosevelt said in consti- tuition Hall:
 ''ou. old age pension system must Dc improved and extended. The amount of the pension should be increased and above all. these pen- sions must be given in q manner whick will respect the dignity Of the life ol service and labor which oir aged citizens have given to the Nation"
 Is 1t tke American wa G. life Co pay an aged person 9ii q month as is done in EloFida7
 EUGENE BERTRAM WILLARD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03

Construction of the third dam and res- ervoir in the Morris hills for the Water bury water supply should not be the stupendous undertaking as were the Morris reservoir and Wigwam. This third dam has long been planned for and when it comes time to throw it up across the natural valley it will be more or less a matter of labor more than an engineer ing problem A long time ago city off cials foresaW the day of the third reservoir and they planned accordingly. The She paug tunnel was planned with third reservoir in mind too. However, the municipal water-supply up at Morris will be tremendous project when this pro- posed new reservoir is finished.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-03


 Weather always has governed Hitler's moves, beginning with Sep. tember l, 1889, when he picked the dry fall season'to invade Po- land. Six weeks later the rains would have made Polish roads q quagrnire. 7: 4 |, stf .' 2 Likewise, Hitler went into Nor- way at time when the snow and winter weather in the north would be against the British. while the milder weather favored the Ger mans in southern Norway. The invasion of France, Holland, and Belgium also was calculated to coincide with the spring and fa- vorable weather.
 So U. s. observers now figure that Hitler will pick @ period in March when he is fairly sure to have one week of good weather, /, plus. favorable tides in the English Channel.
 Most favorable weather for bombing England Is one of fair ly low clouds, 50 that Nazi bomberS can fly above them, then dive suddenly below the clouds where they can sec their . target. and release their bombs. Real fact is that the Royal Air Force licked Hitler's Luftwaffe last summer and licked 1t badly. So Hitler Is almost certain to move