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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
ChiIe's First Poper
Founded by Henriquss

FOUNDER Of Chile's first news
L paper In 1873 was Camilo Hem
rioues. He called Il ia Aorara."
which means 1.-THE Sunrise" and
from his pen poured writings
which helped fame the forces OF
rebellion, gain Chilean freedom.
The 4O0th anniversary Of the
founding Of Santiago. Chile. was
eommemorated in lo4l BY series
OF stamps including the issue
above showing HenriQues seated
with q Newspaper In hand.
Spain invaded Chile In 1855.
The Spanish found the Arauca-
mans, chief Indian tribe, harder
to subdue than the Incas. Spain
did not gain control Of the entire
country until ITS.
Napoleon's invasion Of Spain
saye Chile its chance for indie
poodence. The Spanish governor
was forced 70 resign in 1910. AFTER
eisht years Of struggle. In which
Argentina aided the patriots. tn-
dependence was proclaimed N
l0lo.- :.
HenriQuss, who was priest end
,u1hor g well q Journalist, va
forced . De- b Argentine curing
ne revolt. He lived there elohs
yoors, returned - Chile n lo91 .
$500 soo0o,nP nonof. He 0to0
Nay ~ lo>A o ~ - 9 -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
THIRTY THOUSAND IDEAS

Ideos are like fish eggs Most Of
them don't come to anything. But it
there are to be any fish, there must be
millions Of fish eggs. Then you get
eventually q few good fish.
Thirty thousand ideos have been
submitted bearing on defense and war.
Of these something under 100 are being
octvely considered by Army and Navy
Officials, and O dozen ore looked on os
"red hot. Thot isn't O bad average, be-
couse even q holt dozen good ideos, if
they ore good enough, might turn the
balance against the Nozis.
More power to the nations inven-
tors. They have their share to give, and
its good to see thot they're giving it.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23

on q Broadway bid, and IN q
couple of months movie scouts
will be rushing backstage to
discover" her.
At this sitting, I don't find
many second generation Holly
wood males coming into pro-
minence. J. c. Nugent's' boy,
Elliott, is too well established
as an actor. writer and more
recently q director, to count.
John Huston, son of Waite.
Is directing his first picture.
Have you ever noticed how very
few are the children of screen
actors and actresses who are
trained or encouraged to take
up the mask of make-believe?
Frank Morgan, incidentally,
is going around Dragging about
his son, George. It seems that
George has q job, and likes l.,
on the night shift at the Dou-
glas airplane factory. I.
Quite a few kids plan to be-
come directors, producers or
scenarists. Claude Binyon tells
how he scolded Nipper, his son.
for doing 80 badly with his les
sons at school. Don't you want
an education" he asked stern.
ly. what do you think you can
do il you grow up and don t
know anything when you have
to strike out for yourself?"
WELL" said the youngster
timidly, II could be a movie
writer, like you, and make
$4,000 q week."
FATHER KNOWS BEST
THE pretty daughter of Num-
nally johnson, writer-producer,
seemed headed for an acting ca
recr. At least, Marjorie was
headed for New York, and
johnson mentioned 1t to Grou-
cho Marx recently. Groucho
said that his son, Arthur, was
driving east for some tennis
matches and maybe Marjori.
could 20 along.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

four no trump. to start slam
bidding, since the partners had
already agreed on no trump as
the proper contract.
So he tried . kind of asking
bid in spades, expecting that at
worst his partner would 20 back
to four no trump and the spade
bid might then operate to dis
courage what looked from mis-
hand like the most dangerous
opening lead.
But North passed and Fast
could not resist doubling. South,
still trusting his partner, passed
to leave the decision to North.
North. evidently not under
standing the situation, passed
and there was South playing
four spades with only three
small spades In each hand.
But the pattern Of split hands,
1883, al around the table
came to his rescue. He was able
to cash three tricks In each side
suit, without having any round
ruffed.
Dummy was left In the lead tn
play the fourth diamond, and
now East could not prevent the
Jack Of spades from making
for the tenth trick. OF course
East blamed his partner for not
opening Q trump. But how could
West 0usss The fantastic situa-
toni
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD - There are
no Hollis barred in the scramble
for stardom. Old Jack was a
headliner longer and more
steadily than anybody else in
pictures and he still can pay
romantic leads without much
makeup. His boy Tim Is un-
der contract at RKO as top hand
in their westerns. And here
comes Jenney.
Sage brush opera has claim
ed her, too. Jenny Holt. 20
year-old daughter of Jack, is
Hopalong Cassidy's newest lead
ing lady. Five years before she
was born, her father made his
movie debut by riding q horse
off a 3O-foot cliff. She's an ex-
pert rider now, but Paramount
wouldn't let her do anything 50
reckless; the studio wants her
for dramatic roles eventually.
Marlene Dietrichs 16-year
old daughter is slated for q
Broadway bow in the autumn.
And Barbara Denny, daughtef
of Reginald, will begin a movie
career about the same time. She
has had some impressive back
grounding-at the Royal AGA
denny of Dramatic Arts in Lon
don. But Miss Denny isn't up
pity about it; her first Holly.
wood job was standing-in for
Heather Angel.
KATIE TO BROADWAY
DIRECTOR SAM WOOD S
shapely offspring seems well
launched after a flight and
furry of press agent hocus
pocus. After changing her nam
to X. T. Stevens-for the an
nounced purpose of seeking en-
independent career-and after
posing for a series of decorative
pictures, she was kept busy for
a month rejecting studio con
tract offers. Now she has settled
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
SCAT!

Did you ever see an alley cot follow
ing some person to whom it hos taken
q sudden foncy? The followed man
turns shorply and cries, Scot" He ees-
lures violently with orm or leg. He
speeds up his walk. And then, when he
turns around, there is thot COMPOUNDED
cot, still gliding otter him and. purrine
inerotiotineIy. rubbing against his
trouserIeg.
The American Reds ore such q cot
For several years they were logging of-
fer the President, then obruptIy obon-
doned him. The cot next turned UP rub
bno oooinst America First meetings,
cousing violent go 'woy" eesturnes
Now r. J. Thomas, president Of the
United Auto Workers, running for re-
election, hos been forced to cry Scot"
in loud voice. The Reds have on
nounced thot they're back of Thomas,
and like the others, he feels thot they
cont be for enough beck.
It's q persistent cot, ond hungry.
But nobody wants it, and it's O long way
from home.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
> HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

They thought about it for sew
eral days, right up to the night
before the youngsters were to
leave, and decided it would be
all right. Then. at midnight,
johnson telephoned MARX
"You don't have to worry about
an, ,elopement,y be said - And
incidentally, the trips off,"
Groucho asked why. well,
explained johnson, I've just
had a call from Marjorie. She
and Ken Carter. . press agent
at Universal, have eloped!"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
By the Asssslassl Press

ny toS ASeVvsSSO
DIPLOMACY
WESTERLY, r 1.-Westeriy
police are praising an officer
who tempered devotion to duty
with diplomacy and backed in
to his job.
Assigned to patrol . shore road
and enforce IN ordinance against
undressing in automobiles or the
woods, the officer glimpsed
through q growth Of underbrush
q group of girls sun-bathing--
au naturel--in q clearing. The
policeman did q snappy right
about-face then marched, back
wards, into the bushes yelling
Clear Quit"
The girls did.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
: BEHIND THE seen sS
m WAS M TON =

and prevent q leok Of fogelQ0l
nnticnols' ossets book 10 Et9
ops. y
Under certoln conditions,
trods may even b permitted
with firms on Tire bloekNst, but
only under temporary Iiesnse.
Transactions not yet conplet,
Cd. controcts which huvo only
q short time. to run, and an
Urgency transactions may ~
given license for limited opera
lions. In general. the lid Is -
be kept on fight and frodo
prohibited with any firm N tn
list, though the list itself con
b chonoed BY additions or
removals.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS
To show row the new sleek.
list regulations operlts, toks
the example Of q firm which
hos for many yeors BEEN SELL
ing its goods to South America
through q German 'conpony
now on the blacklist. Find
ing thot It con no longer DO
business with its old oaent. the
u. S. firm is immediately con-
fronted with the problem Of
finding q new outlet.
II the U. S. firm is small ard
cannot clifford the expense Of
sending on executive to South
America to investigate and
sign up q new ooent, It. con,
9 e I ossistonee through the
commercial intelligence office
in the Bureou Of Foreign ond
Domestic Commerce, y. S.
Department Of c o m nnerce.
This office hos compiled q list
Of hundreds Of thousands OF
firms all over the world.
These firms ore roted. in q
kind of international Dunn
and Brodstreet listing. ond
their credit, reputation ond
general business rotine ore OPP
proised, as we'll as the types
Of products which they hondle
and their other connections
are cotoIo9ed. II Is from this
moster index thot American
business men con get leods on
new connections.
U. S. consular ooents IN the
foreign service Of the Depart
ment Of Stote ore equipped to
CORY through further in es.
tobiishino new contacts ond
ooencies for American export.
ers: !. Inspenerol olI the field
woslksina6 = othsss AnAs icon- ~.
publics viii be handled by the
consuIor service.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
BY WILLIAM f. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

A CORRESPONDENT who
wishes his name withheld sends
me today's hand, which he
witnessed in q rubber game at
a social club. Here Is q once
ina lifetime hand with . ven
geance!
The bidding proceeded nor
mally until South got the notion
of trying for slam. He thought
he might be misunderstood il
he made q conventional bid OF
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

1891
The Branch photographic OF.
flee of Detroit issues q warning
to owners and operators OF
small craft to keep out of ,he
way of big vessels In the ship
channels of the Detroit River, st.
Clair River and Lake St Clair.
A family of 10 are hit by
scarlet fever Mr.. and Mrs. Re-
nard Rivard of Kibbie Street
lose q son and daughter due to
the disease within six days Of
each other. Eight others in the
family are recovering.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

1881
The village of Fraser Is not
only completely out Of debt, but
the treasurer reports that the
village has q bank balance of
$3.50 and C savings deposit Of
$1,000.
Richard Glass, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Glass, was instantly
. killed in an automobile accident
on his 18th birthday annivers-
airy.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

Hector McGregor points with
pride to . fine baby girl.
Mrs. A. A. Jacobs and child
rem, Of Chicago, arrived last
evening at the. home Of her par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Behnke.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
~ pGTGR gpsok
Dolly Meelsss vsshlaossa
coseooooodont

SOsuUO ooUOwv
WASHlNGTo ON - One Of
the most inportont onoles Of
Presidsn { RoossveIt's on
nounceInsnt OF tire Latin Am
sricon trode blocklist, gene
rolly overlooked in the hullo-
boloo over it, sweeping restric-
tive and negative provisions,
IS freeing hemisphere trade
BY reloxino the controls pre-
viously existing on U. S. COM
merce with Control and South
American republics.
Il is on intric6ts and q long
story, ard many details Of its
administration have not yet
besn clarified Ii Washington.
In general, however, by listing
specifically the 1900 blocked
nationals with whom y. S.
firms can no longer do bust
ness, the way Is cleared for
y. S. exporters and importers
to trade with all other firms.
numbering monY times more
than the firms now on the
blacklist.
Heretofore, there has been
considerable confusion about
what Latin American firms
U. S.. nationals could trade
with. There was. for instance.
the general treasury order
freezing trode with all coun-
tries Of continental Europe ond
their nationals all over the
world. Thot order wos aimed
primarily at Germons and ltol-
ions, but it applied oIso to
Sponiords and Portuguese no.
tionoIs, even though they we're
doing business in the Aroen-
tine or BroziI. Whot American
exporters were up oooinst was
on intricote job Of research.
determining whether I he
ooents in Lotin America hod
ony Spanish or Portuguese OF
Itolion or German blood in
them. n 50, trade with them
wos not permitted except IN
der special license.
ALL WON'T De CONFUSION
The new blocklisi sinplifies
that rieomorole tremendously
and it lifts q lot Of bothersome
restrictions which bod beer in
-terferino with the mueh-desir-
ed wartime expansion Of inter
!, Amsslcan &Eode. Erode wifi
Latin America is now entirely
Unrestricted except for the
1900 firms on the blocklist
and for those few essential de-
tense items on which there is
u. S. export control. II nc
longer mokes any difference
whether q firm in Latin Amer
leo is controlled by Sponiord:
or Portu9uese-or even Dutch
men or Frenchmen. II theil
names ore not on the block.
list, it's okoy to 90 oheod and
do business with them.
To leeoIize this trade
Treasury hos issued q genera
license permitting oil such
transactions without the prev.
iousIy required specific IT,
cense. This license opplies te
everything except purely IT,
noncioI transactions, such O:
transfers Of funds. The pur'
pose of this remaining restric.
ton is to keep q check on for.
eion exchonoe transaction:
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
10 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Chamber Of Commerce
declares q semi-annual dividend
Of three per cent.
The races last week ana the
bicentennial this week have
drawn heavily from Mount
Clemens.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
CURIOUS

CURIOUS
NEW CASTLE, Ind.-Farmer
Ray Morgan, investigating a
noise in his field toward mid
night, called out, What are you
doing there?"
"Just measuring your wheat. :"
said the intruder-and got into
an automobile and drove off.
Next morning Morgan sent
the license number 70 police and
they looked up the man.
He said he and friends had GOT
so curious about the height OF
unusually tall wheat on Nor
gan's farm that they'd finally
taken q yardstick and flashlight
and gone out to check Il.
THAT KANSAS CLIMATE
WICHITA, Kas. - Thermo-
meters varied from l03 to l0S
degrees in downtown Wichita
and the citizens dripped with
Precipitation. -
They dripped, too, at thu
Municipal airport five miles
away-from the rain. The
THERMOMETERS showed . cool 20.
CONSIDERATE BOSS
CHICAGO - What spectators
thought was q strike was just
Q cooling of period for EN-.
ployes Of Ben Fishbain's Laun-
dry.
The temperature was up "a
the high COS when the laundry's
employees were noticed sitting
outside the plant. But Il was
no strike.
Explained Fishbain: ''lt va
hot. So I aid 70 the workers.:
Take IN hour end Is minuss1
vacation. CO outside and eool
off,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
% YEARS AGO TODAY

Births In Macomb County last
year, o26; deaths, asa; marri-
agea 2S3. These are official
figures. for the first time pub
lished.
"A large party Of Mt. Clemens
young folks departed for WAL
pole and adjacent Islands Mon
day, o1nd win camp out for q
vook 6 ~ dAyS.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

A long-Selt want will be filled
by . new saloon in the Kracht
store, Macomb Street.
George Held has started Q
summer garden next to his
place, on Front Street.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23

You need only one invention to win war
u Il = good enoush.-Charles 7. lettering, G. M.
poooagcA director. :
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
eRsTAz MORALE

In "Mein Kompr Adolf Hitler hos
written Of the mobility Of lmPeriol
Germony to comprehend the forces thot
would Ieod men to foce deoth OF their
own free will. A report by the Commit.
tee for Notionol Morale, group OF uni,
versity psychologists. medical men ond
sociol scientists with headquarters in
New York. indicates that similor in
cbiiity to opreciote fundamental values
exists in Nozi Germany todoy.
The Nozi soldier, the report shows.
IS product Of applied psychology plus
nedicol and alcoholic stimulus. Andy
sis of hundreds OF Germon books on the
psychology Of war hos disclosed on at
tempt to foster sort Of synthetic NOR
ale out Of ersptz ingredients.
The morale consists Of q one-trock
linz st thinking wholly absorbed with
sti1n toeo. Of nttock. IL is boIstered by
uniforms designed to give the soldier
az exaggerated sense OF his own Prov
60. Evidently retreot and defeot ore
ooncepts consciously excluded from
M n,entol equipment. He is protected
from fidicuIe. When oil these oPPlico-
{Idny tail 70 overcome his feor in COM
III. resort to drugs ond olcohol is OPP
porently ia order. according, to the
si,Srodok 8 i lie ,cs7riion; ssldisf's
troinind. extensive development OF
psyctsolc oic1l methods BY the Nczis
indicates moral weakness rother than
strefoth. Moreover, in this war os IN
ti1e lost, The emphosis on purely mote
rial foctors has led Gerron officioldom
rs nroke the mistoke Of underestimate
ina tie stoyin1 power OF their chief
opponent. Britoin.
Il IS obviously impossible that the
British public could have been exposed
Is ih6 so-cdlled benefits Of applied
Psychology as procticed in German
nilitory Circles. The individual Briton
has had to leorn to stand on his own
n,osol feet. In so doing Britons have
discovered surprising reserves OF cour-
.ooe and Of physical as we'll as moral
strength in themselves Some have
been at q loss to explain their expert
ence. Others have recognized that their
strength come from q consciousness Of
HE righteousness Of the couse to which
they had dedicated themselves.
For example: when in 1889 Britoin's
Government decided to oppose Nozi
oppression even at the cost Of war,
British people felt sense Of Peoce in
their country thot had been Dissent
Throughout many months Of "oppeose-
ment." This wos q morale thot no
omount Of applied psychology could
have produced. Nor could the mIitory
forces schooled in theories Of ruthless
ottock break through it.
lust as the Germon authorities in
1914 had leorned little from the history
of free peoples making willing socri-
fjcos for righteous causes, 50 the Nozis
ly0ve apparently learned little Nor hos
kIltjer, who in the days when he wrote
kAein kompf," saw 50 clearly the Ger
synoins hnistoke OF Understanding truly
Jnorot yclues, avoided O siniIor nistoke
AZ 6Dsp1on organization for the present
81 n should Be q couse for encourage
oNqp9 ehompjons Of freedom and
& yphrwhere that the noturoI
- ef bravery and strength ore
3ft4 eollse for which free men
tean know why right is
1T tl,ey ore supported by
Itus Frc1ez ~ Chris
nAsess.. e<,..e
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23
Al OLD FASHIONED PHRASE

The Joponese minister to Australia,
must. somewhere, have received q thor
.ouoh educotion in the curious mental
processes that pass for thinking in
Nozidom. Queried on japanese ombi-
tions. Totsuo Hawai- replied thot he
disliked the word drive" which Amer
icons PERSISTED in applying to that inn
petus which hos sent the japanese Ie-
oions into Monchurio, North Chino,
CoostoI Chino, and Indo-Chino. Thot
word, so popular with Americans. isn't
applicable to the japanese situation. he
sold,
Further, he was slightly annoyed by
O question as to whether Japan contem-
plotted Territorial expansion" toward
the Netherlands Indies. Territorial ex-
pension" is on oId-foshioned phrose. he
objected.
Well, so it is. 1t has. at least, the
virtue of being clear and we'll under
stood. In the 18th century. when every
major nation in the world wos grabbing
off every bit Of weakly defended terri
tory it could find lying around loose.
everybody knew what territorial exPon-
sion meant. It meant thot somebody's
reol estote had been grabbed by sone-
body stronger, and that thereafter it be-
Ionoed to the winner. Thot was that.
1t was crude business. and it wos
q crude phrase thot wos used to de-
scribe it. But it had at least q certain
straightforward honesty.
Not SO much can be sold Of the
terms used to describe the same thing
these dogs. The fashion hos arisen. and
an ottempt is being made to foist it on
the whole world, to do the same thing
but to coll it Equitable adjustment Of
frontiers" or establishment Of co-pros-
perity spheres" or Setting up Of q new
order" or taking over the duty Of pro-
tecting," Or simply denomination"
All such Phrases ore less accurate
as we'll os less honest than old-fosh-
Toned Territorial expansion. The dis
tinction in foet is without measurable
difference.
Is one we're to try to measure that
slight difference, it would lie in rubbing
in the wound Of unjustifioble aggression
the sot OF meoIy-mouthed lying and
hypocrisy.
Wherein Iiesthe difference between
~ 9th century Territorial expansion and
10th century rev orders?
Only in this: In the former time,
even in the most imPerioIistic coun-
tries men remained free enough so tEot
few could still rebel and protest and
coll the spade q Damned shovel But in
todoys oe9ressor. countries not only is
no man free to protest. but the effort is
mode to smother protest even in coun-
tries yet free under on avalanche Of
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-23

Rl;ssio. soys
hhve been
Nv with q
billy
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-02

Three Of the most promi.
nent tribes In the Philippines,
the Igorrotes, Moros and Tag.
alloys Cleft to right around
the table, are represented In
this group Of new army
trainees.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-02

Students of the University OF the Philippines all MEM
bers of the ROTC shown here during recent review
The planes overhead Of regular United States Army
keen interest in military training and defense OF their
homeland Is shown by these officers of tomorrow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-02

"A problem
the defense of the Philippines.
These island outposts in the Pacific vital frontier
in the defense of the United States They will continue to
be in 1916 when plan to relinqush all title and
troll them.
Today our defense Of the Philippines is wholly in
adequate dspte the promising display Of preparedness
photographed on this page
The islands in urgent need Of a strong naval
base.
They are in urgent need Of strong airplane base.
They are in urgent need of strong Notifications
No matter how well-traned, how naturally effective
the Philippine sodiers-at present the islands claim
twelve divisions Of regulars and reserves supplemented
by 900 u Army regulars and native Scouts the force
Is neither large enough sufficiently equipped resist
successfully invasion and conquest by any major power
Nor will be in 1916 when the islands hope have army
Of 100000 to 100000 trained men, including pilots
In short, the United States responsible for the de-
Tense Of the Philippines whether they have indie
pendenee The responsibility is purely of
national security We abandon this distant outpost
this natural frontier without placing the of future
in the Pacific perilously close TO American cities.
We have wasted valuable time. We have been woefuly
shortsghted in minimizing the Importance military of
the Philippines 1t is necessary NOW to make the island
outposts impregnable.
1t is necessary NOW to fortify them powerfully,
supply them with sufficient naval and air equipment
to discourage attack by any aggressor.
In their security lies securityin the Pacific.