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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
FOUR YEARS m THREE

\ Whot! No junior proms and soPho.
more hops, no melodious sentiments OF
!oyulty 10 the good old college Gloss
perhops even Commencement in Sept
tember2 With between 400 and 500 OF
The liberal orts colleges OF America
bovine to the needs Of defense to the
extent OF making available q three
Sreof iy,ensixe course so thet young
men may get their degrees by the time
they recch droft oae, for more i'm
portunt adjustments than the mere loss
of q prom ore likely to toke place.
Exom,ned closely, the new plan hos
s,one OF the eormorks Of the so-colled
"oenerol college" which has been pro-
vidino background courses on two
year BOSS. So far, at least, this plan
as announced by the Association OF
American Colleges, is form OF sPreod-
inQ the cutter on three slices OF breod
jrsteod Of four-the same amount OF
butter.
Whether academic stondords can
Be kept as high in this sPeeding-uP
process, will depend on the college. The
liberal crts connot be crommed like
objects into duffleboe. Shifting Of
schedules and pressure Of reoding will
make room for more courses, but in
essence increasing maturity Of thought
IS what liberal arts colleges seek.
Whot this adjustment will do to
hloher education can be only conjec-
tuied, depending upon the length and
outcome Of the present emergency.
EulIlength summer schools offering
courses not primarily appealing to
tedchefs, ore oxeody on the increase
III schools that adopt the new plan.
emphasis noy shift away from events
like Commencement, with students, as
row in some universities, getting their
degrees at the end Of any quarter.
There will perhaps be less attention to
corpus life" in the typicolly Ameri
con sense Of the term.
Eoch possible change has its impli-
editions, some Of them contemplated
wjstfuliy. The liberal orts colleges con-
Tess they dc not like it, and will doubt
less lose in certain ways by it, But they
may in overcoming q natural resistance
to ocodemic change make forced revol-
uotions, thot will in the end prove of
permanent benefit to higher education
From The Christion Science Monitor
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
|. SO THEY SAY

There is a growing sentiment
for the preservation of free en-
terprise-P. D. Houston, presi-
dent, American Bankers Associ-
alton.
Every man and woman in
America wants to have q share
in defending the nation. Con-
tributing to the USO is one way.
President Roosevelt, launch
ing the fund drive of the United
Service Organizations.
To safeguard the inviolable
sphere of the rights of the hu-
man person should be the
essential office of every public
authority.-Popie Plus XII.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09

At the recent Vanderbilt Tour
nament I saw some old friends
who have not been active in
bridge during the past few years.
One of these is Louis Berko, an
attorney associated with Fl" Gull
bertson. erko once was . regu-
lar tournament player, but had
been inactive for several years
before he came out of retire
ment to team with Albert H.
Morehead, DR.. r. H. Eck'r, L.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
Dslly Msalsss Nssklssssa

800
WAsHlt<GToN-The Wor
Deportmsn.'s new pct bill
which would empower the
President to seize pfopertv &
one piece Of lsoislotion the
American roilroods don't in
tend to be couoht under this
time, thonk you.
Old-timers in the roilrood
business still shudder when
they remember the lost war
ord the days Of government
operation. They want no part
of any such federal control for
this emergency ord they have
token steps to see that they
don't oct il. Consequently. you
con take with q groin Of solt
those runors that the roiIroods
bod been eouoht unprepored
ond were hovino to rush
through orders for more freight
cars to toke core Of increased
defense transportation loods.
A lot Of things have hop
pered to the roilrood picture
since the roods were coueht
with their trocks down in-lo17,
when freight piled up at the
Atlantic ports, when 5000 cor
loods Of noteriols for Hog Is
land shipyords could not be
unIooded, when covs were used
for storage, when demurrooe
moterioI being shipped to Bri-
charges ran into millions, when
whole troins were tied up in
troffic snorls because Of wild
ordering, unseheduIed deliv-
cry, q complete Ioek Of oroon-
izotion or coordination. Thot
was the mess that Railroad Ad-
ministrotor Williom 6. Me-
Adoo tried to unsIronble.
FOLLOW THE RULE
Today, under }. }. PeIley os
president, the Association Of
American RoiIroods has as its
Rule No. ! for all shippers ond
receivers, Don't load eors un-
til you know they co, be un-
Iooded." Strict adherence to
thot simple rule hos done more
to keep the roiIrood situotion
untonoled than all the govern
ment regulation that could be
devised. and il hos left the
railroads in q sound position
to handle any peak Ioods that
con be showed on them now.
To show how the rules hos
worked, toke O typicoI eose OF
the construction Of the big
powder plant at Rovenno, Q.
The oreo is served by four roll
roads. Before construction be-
oon, troffic men went to the
contractor, got his schedule OF
moterioIs and time wonted tor
delivery. Then, by enforcing
the rule Of don't till-you-
con-unIood, it wos possible to
make sure that roofing didn't
orrive before the structural
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
= DISCERNING DESIGNATION

Members Of the Tacoma (Wosh.)
Chomber Of Commerce recently chose
as ttot cormunitys most helpful citi-
zen Mrs. Frederick c. Thompson. Her
position as ossistont superintendent Of
Tncomo's Community House links her
but indirectly with the world Of trode
Neither did she corn her present IoureIs
BY applying modern methods. She
gained them by going back some z. 900
ye0vs and applying New Testament
precepts to present conditions, by visit
'n0 and comforting the needy, wotch-
mo over little children, taking food to
the hungry and clothing to the poor.
Coenmunity-house work is exoctine
and time consuming, yet Mrs. Thomp-
son tour d time to do all Of these things
and do them so we'll over period Of
veo5 that the Chamber Of Commerce
saw fit to bestow upon her the title Of
most Helpful citizen" Tocomo, no
doubt, hos many outsondino civic Ieod-
ets whose designation for the honor
would hove been accepted without
stjon. hl1an selecting Mrs. Thomp-
s III 39d} heoded business men dis
4. Npre insight as to what consti-
T. jstontlol "eity building"
ile Tncosno's cotton was for thot
oBe ers likes to think that it is
oil Of the towns, villages
~ ~ the forty-eioht Stotes,
1 IGNORING MRS. Thompson
& according deserved rec
ods u wosnen Who ore
B)v,isoicns ii America.
scisnce Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
: BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASt3lkl GTCN :

on ssdlnos IN boxcors.
Hhot 5 q me principle hos
been used In hondIin0 al Ire
toln under the ieose lend bill.
Goods are simply not shIppsd
TO the seoboosd until there Is
9 boat IN port rsody TO rscsivs
its eoroo.
On OF the first octs in The
present emergency was for thu
roi!roods to put q monoosr III
militory transportation n tn.
office Of the quortern,ostey
general in Washington. II wos
his Job to keep informed on an
Amy and Navy contracts. SUD
ply problems and troop move
merits. Working through the
cor service division Of The A.
sociotior Of American Roll.
roads. i was the function %
this office to anticipate roll.
road problems and see thot ths
equipment wos ovoiloble to as !
the houIino Jobs at tire time
required.
The next problem was to an.
ticipote whot the probable rail
loods might be, right through
1912. The roiIroods osked tie
government for its estimates.
ond the slide rule boys in the
stotisticol section Of what Is
now Office Of Production Man.
ooenent got busy. BY q neat
calculation bosed on what TREY
expected the national income
to be. this year and next, ond
the relation Of thot income 70
the notionoI income and the-
freight ho,lIed in 1926 and
1929, the years that the rail- I
roods broke oil records, they
come up with the calculation
thot freight cor Ioadinos for
this year would be rs per cent
Of the 1860 oeok overooe.
and 1912 holdings obout 81
per cent.
The peak Job for the rail
roods will therefore come in
October, 1912, when they esti-
mate some $50. 900 cars will
be loaded, with the totol for
next year at ~. 4o3 900 cors.
The record for 1929 was 3d.
GOO. 900 cors.
STRIKE THREAT AHEAD
Equipment now being Bet
ter, with freight troin effi-
cheney and performance twice
os good as it wos in 1920 as
to speed Of troins, freight per
cor and per troin, the railroads
think they can do the job
ahead.
Railroads won't, Of course,
be without their heodoches. !
Staring at them ore threots Of
priorities control, restriction Of
shipping facilities to monu. I
focturers not complying with
governmental price regulation
and, most direct and most i'm
portont Of oil, the threot Of q
strike Of their l.l5O,OOO en-
ployes for increased woees Of
half q billion dollars q year.
This is another one Of those
strikes "thot won't be allowed
to hoppen," but the success OF
negotiations will be O test OF
the model Railway Mediation
Board and its cooling off mo-
chineN.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

finally takes the whole thing,
plus Miss Hayworth, to the army
camp so that Astaire can whip 1t
into shape. There are nine songs
by Cole Porter. Bob Alton, who
really is Broadway's greatest
dance director, says that Miss
Hayworth is the best hoofing
partner Astaire ever had.
Routines devised by Alton are
so difficult that the chorus de-
manded and got the 500 weekly
wage of specially dancers, with
an extra $3.50 on days when
they do ballet work.
= .
WAR WRECKS PLOTS
Hollywood writer's are hav-
ing a terrible time covering the
war, and at this time "A Yank
in the r. A. F." dealing with the
Dunkirk evacuation, is about the
only picture that hasn't b e n
changed to include subsequent
blitzes.
When Steve Fisher sold 10Th
Fox a story called Red Cross
Girl" it ended with the Battle
of France. BY the time he came
here to work on it, 1t was sug-
gested he'd better make Africa
the locale. So he called 1t ODE
layed Action" and had his prin-
cipal characters chase the italian
army across the desert.
It was switched again when
the Greece phase began, with
added scenes to include the Bat
tie of Crete. Now he has an un-
easy bunch that it will have to
move to the Suez Canal, but he
declares that he'll make his last
stand there.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
THAT PEACE NAY LIVE

The people OF the United Stotes
have Just observed q Memorial Doy
mode POI jnont by knowledge thot else.
where thousands oooin ore being odded
to the long roster Of war sacrifices.
The quest for freedom and justice
is full of struggles in which men on both
sides have believed they were serving
God and country. Yet generally time
hos shown one side the neorer right,
and when that nearer right hos won,
civilization hos advanced.
Again the irony crises that millions
who obhor the sword ore obliged to
take it up to defend their institutions
oooinst men who would live by the
sword. The defenders Of democracy
and of the right Of peaceful notions
to dwell unmolested are as whole
heorted>in their distoste for war as are
Others who would yield to aggression
for the sake Of q convenient "peoce.
There ore men and women 50 deep
iy convinced of the wron9ness OF war
that they will face even its sacrifices
and will resist the makers of war in
hope thot aggression eventually may be
ruled out of the eorth. These people
need no persuoding that the cost OF
war is terrible. They deplore as deeply
as anyone the loss Of life, both British
and German, in, for example, the
Creton campaign. They do not have
to be reminded that the money spent
on constructing the iII-foted ships Bis
norck and Hood would have built and
endowed several colleges or fed and
clothed millions of needy.
Who is it that needs to be convinc-
ed Of the wron9ness Of mass murder
and the futi|ity Of conquest? Is it those
who stand against the shock Of steel
or those vino prepare it ond unloose it
in hope of notionol gain?
The proeticol peoce-Iovers Of these
times hove learned that neither hotred
of war nor feor Of war are capable in
themselves of overcoming war. Men
must understand and uproot its causes
and must build in its place q structure
of international Justice and ORDER
Anthcry Eden, British Foreign Sec
retov, reoffirmed this goal on Thurs
doy in his statement of purposes as
dining at "the lasting settlement and
internal peace Of the Continent" and q
postwar order (which seeks no selfish
notionol advantage for onyone."
In this quest there is no occasion
either for hotred or feor even Of the
men who seemingly threaten the world
with tyranny. They ore prisoners of
their own evil ways, as the rest Of man.
kind are victims of their own neeIi-
gence. The finest memorial thot could
be reared TO the heroes of all wars
would be world order in which war
would become unnecessary and i'm
possible. The Christion Science
Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09

Lxcie Neville Is pinch.hittin0
for Paul Harrison n0to touring
army camps and defense indus
tries.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
10 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

1891
The "muskies" are biting
and how! They range in size
from six to 40 pounds.
Macomb county's one-man
grand jury investigation Of the
drain office ended last night.
Findings of Judge Herman
Dehnke of Harrisville will b
filed in circuit court this morn
ing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY

A Pioneer meeting will be held
at Richmond next week. -
A band concert and dance Will
be held at Bingham's toniollN.
The Pasods band will furnish The
music. ~
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09

The bicycle rage il sweeping
the town, and Homer DeSlover
has put in a whole new line Of
equipment for renting.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09

- cent. llusl ~ due 70
@m look II things IN the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES Q
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

Twelve Macomb county jury
men award Mrs. Laura Specht
Of Detroit $8,S41 heart balm in
. surprise verdict. Mrs. Sadie
Coughlan of Roseville was the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

60 YEARS AGO TODA1
1881 ).
Long srnss by the sidewalks
and In front yards noticeable al
over town, pressnts . shabby ap-
peorance.
The jail building committee
meets on Wednesday next -
open proposals.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-09

50 YEARS AGO TODAY ~
1891
, Drs. Berry and Taylor attend
ed the meeting Of the State Med
icsl Society ut Saginaw TINS
week.
Miss Maude Rowley has recov-
cred sufficiently to ride out.
, 1941-03-27
NCR UNION NEWS

All important events in our life
call for the aid of a specialist.
Doctors, lawyers, and all profess
sional men serve us in the course
of our life. Now we have the OPP
portunity to serve ourselves In
the course of human events. :
Organization is the answer to
the problem we face in our all
absorbing task Of producing a
living. In joining hands we can
forge a chain which will link
us to posterity.
Now is the time to form our
future! Let us drift no further but
move forward in a solid group
toward our destination. We can
help each other solve our prob
lens and in this manner ease the
strain upon the individual. The
United Electrical, Radio and Ma
chine Workers are a part of us
just as we are a part of them.
Help to carry the load! Be wise!
ORGANIZER
, 1941-03-27
9eAo Union NeuA
LocoI 755
welfare program
for DeIco

UE Local 755, of DeIco Products
is rapidly whipping into shape a
welfare and benefit program for
all members of the local. This pro-
gram will pay a certain amount
to each member, when the MEM
Der is i'll or unable to work. This
benefit to the members Of the
local will not cost another cent
than your regular dues dollar.
Local 755 Is taking Zoe Of
every dues dollar, and setting
it aside for this welfare pro-
gram. When q certain amount
is reached, the Payment OF the
benefits will be determined,
and the plan will start to op-
crate. This plan has been i'm
operation at the Auto-Lite
Workers in New Jersey, and
has worked out very well.
The Welfare Program Commit
tee has made a thorough study of
the various benefit plans now in
operation by locals all over the
country. For the benefits that re-
suit, WITHOUT ADDED COST to
the membership, it is a plan that
will be of vitalsservice to every
member of the local.
You receive, under this plan,
without added cost to you q
protection that all of us need.
Local 755 is always on the alert
to offer the best possible service,
security, and protection it can to
its membership r. Z. Hawker,
Department 80, is chairman Of the
Welfare Committee.
BE WIsE-oRcANxzE
, 1941-03-27
Ball players!
Sign up now for
union team!
BY Charles Dill

The list of promising players,
too long to cite here, seeking
berths on Local 755 base ball
team is growing. Nevertheless more
entries are needed. There are sew
eral positions which lack suffi-
Gent candidates to insure compe-
tition. This is the last call. II you
desire to try out it is necessary
that we get your name, depart
ment and position desired. This
information should be turned into
the office. IF you can't get to the
office notify your Steward and
he will get it in for you.
, 1941-03-27
Member heads
Interstate League
for 7Q47

At a meeting of the Inter- State
Baseball League, Thursday, March
20, Charles Dill of Local 755, UE,
was elected president.
This is another triumph for
the UE and CLIO. A few years
ago, the CLIO in Dayton tried
to promote a base ball club,
but it was no go. The CLIO was
taboo. Labor today has so es-
tablished itself in Dayton, Ohio
and the entire country that it
cannot be ignored.
Other officials in this league are
Charles Gsechwinder of the Rialto
Theater, vice-president; Slim Booth
of Devers Pure Oil, Trotwood,
secretary, and r.. E. (Shorty) Gil
more of Showers Sporting Goods
Store, treasurer.
, 1941-03-27

New employees
at Frigidoire

It has been discovered that new
employees at Frigidaire have been
kept on qualifying rate long after
the probationary period of 80 days.
Some of the new employees have
been kept on the qualifying rate
as long as three months. This con-
dition is existing all over the
plant. It is our suggestion that all
employees that have been em-
p1oyed more than 30 days, and
have not received an increase do
the following. Call for your Dis
trict Committeeman and imme-
diately file a grievance for your
Just increase.
, 1941-03-27
Locals plan
delegates to APM
ApriI So

Around ten delegates from the
Dayton CLIO, are expected to 60
to the American Peoples Meeting
in New York City, April S and 6,
according to latest reports. The
delegates will join with others
named in Dayton from other
groups.
Local SOL has definitely
planned to send one delegate,
with efforts being made
to make arrangements for
another. nj. M. Miniard, Fl
nancial Secretary, is the dele
gate chosen. Local 753 has
named Marinnell Ambrose, Of
Egry Register, to attend the
meeting.
Other locals have announced
plans to- meet and choose delegates
this week. Local 806 plans to
send three or four representatives.
Several UE members were named
as delegates by an informal meet
ing which heard Morris Watson
speak Friday.
The American Peoples Meeting,
called by a coalition of progressive,
labor and peace groups, will at
tempt to formulate a program to
defend American democracy, la
boris rights, andhkeep this country
out of war. 3
RE wTSE-NRGANFZE
, 1941-03-27
Urqes workers
ioin UE at MGR
without fear
By Robert T. Bennett,
President Local SO7

There are many things entering
into organization at MGR. First,
there is the fear angle. The fear
of what management or super
vision might think or do If we
join the UE-CIO. Secondly, there
is the fear of company union re-
prisaIs, of what they might not
do for us If we join the CLIO.
Let us take the first fear
and analyze it. First, manage
ment and supervision are very
well organized in their own
behalf, so they evidently be-
lieve In organization. Secondly,
you are very well protected
by the Wagner Labor Act
which states that manage
ment cannot discriminate
against any labor group. Last
ly, the strongest and largest
labor organization in the
world, the CLIO, is in back OF
you all the way.
Now to analyze the second fear
angle, we all know that the COM
pany union has had the bargaining
rights at MGR for a long time and
have failed to live up to the name
of being a labor organization. 1t
is a weak ineffective group, whose
only right to exist was given them
by the management of MGR. This
was done by the management to
keep the CLIO out of the MGR.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the
only reason for the existence of
the EIU at MGR today.
Allow me to point out this
pertinent fact to you. We must
organize NOW, to keep Duh
OCRATTC way of life.
We all know that there are
men and organizations in this
country of ours today, who
are plotting to DESTROY QUIZ
DEMOCRACY. The CLIO way
is real DEMOCRACY.
BE WISE-ORGANIZE
, 1941-03-27
MGR
Me4
AND
&aA;~~4

We are getting a good bit of
comment on our new Neon signs,
as a few company union repre-
sentatives are coming up to our
meetings now. Advertising does
pay.
Congratulations to the new
members in Enameling and
Screw No. I. Nice going, fell
lows, remember that we are all
behind you.
The EIU had a very good little
note about the CLIO in the last
issue of their last Laughing stock
sheet. The EIU says that CIO talks
as they act, all this is very true.
The EIU must act when the CLIO
speaks, as that is the only way
the employees at MGR ever do
get anything. The UE-CIO doesn't
promise anything that they cannot
accomplish. The members of the
CLIO do not have to starve on
promises as the EIU does every
day.
4
We wonder just why JESS
COLEMAN, the company union
representative is now eating
his lunch with a man from
another department. Aren't the
boys from the lathe depart
ment good enough or are you
trying to sign him up.
, 1941-03-27
MeGresor pact
neors completion

McGregor Unit Of Local 806,
UERMWA will soon bring to a
conclusion the contract negotia-
tons. Practically all the major
points have been agreed upon and
subcommittee are now ironing
out wage inequalities. The nego-
tiating committee is composed of
Wilfred Sims, chief plant steward,
Walter Loeb and Forrest Kester,
assisted by K. N. Kirkendall, or
ganizational director Of Local 500.
, 1941-03-27
Fngidaire
FLASHES

The boys in PIG Department are
wondering when all the promises
given them are going to turn into
something that you can spread
on bread.
Wonder how q certain fore
man likes the cakes the good
little boy brings in to him
every day. The old saying,
can apple for the teacher"
certainly applies here.
The other day a certain indi-
vidual of Department PIG walked
up to the boss man and said, "Say
Boss, do I git time and agin for
Saturday work."
X
GEORGE DAUM, of super
vision has invested In some
rural real estate in the country.
Boys, here is your chance to
get In good. Just go out to
, 1941-03-27
End drift,
secure the future.
in UE-CIO
G.. w. EdrnOndson

Where are we drifting? What
must we face in our future and
that future which we leave to the
generation to follow us?
If we face the facts which con-
front us squarely and without the
evasions we so often make when
called for a prompt decision we
can decide this important issue.
, 1941-03-27
THE AMERICAN SCENE
ToAz 10 Anse1ico
By Harold Barrett, Jr., D.

BY Harold Barrett, il, Ue1co Dept .
Here's to the health of America
And here's to her warm goodwill;
Vote a toast to the land that stands for Peace,
Henceforth, and forever will!
A toast to her wond'rous countrysides,
A salute to the flag that waves;
So here's a vote for America,
The land of the free and the brave!
A vote for the youth of America
In whose hands W. place our trust
To protect our freedom and our Peace
From cruel hands that reach out in lust;
The youth that will sweep on when we've died,
Keep our progress moving along;
So here's a vote for America
Whose youths hearts are brave and are strong!
(copyriehted by Harold Barrett, Jr.)