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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

gesture of good neighborliness
will turn out to be Walt Disney's
tour of South America with q
crew of artists and story men
who'll sketch scenes and people
and jot ideas for future animated
cartoons.
In the role Of international
news commentator in woman
of the Year." Katy Hepburn
will speak a few sentences in
seven languages.
Metro has been having some
trouble with the heavy brogue
of Barry Fitzgerald. Nobody
could understand him, he was
told, so he was given q record
ing set and ordered to practise
at home in correcting his diction.
Few days later he reported that
the recording machine was no
good. II talk into it and play II
back" he complained, "but I
can't understand anything I've
said"
When Olson and johnson, first
appear on the screen in Hell.
zapoppin" they'll be seen get
ting out of a taxicab with two
skunks, four pigs, a calf, a quar-
tet each of ducks and geese, 4
flock of pigeons, two st. Bernard
days, two Great Danes and q pair
of bloodhounds.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE
ers ever to sit at the table.

ers ever to sit at the table.
Many of the movie stars en-
JOY rubber bridge at Langdon's
club. The night I dropped in,
Binnie Barnes was playing gin
rummy. George Burns, of Burns
and Allen fame, and George
Stone were playing rubber
bridge, and Lou Holtz was kib-
itzing. Lou couldn't resist the
temptation to get in on the dis
cussion of today's hand after it
was played.
When West failed to lead
club, declarer made grand
slam. A small slam was cold
against any lead. Lou Holtz
didn't wait to find this out. At
ter the opening lead was made
and before dummy went down,
he remarked, "You missed the
boat"
He had been kibitzing South.
With South's hand, he said, he
would have opened the bidding.
Having failed to do so, he would
have bid at least three hearts
over North's opening bid: and
having failed to show strength.
he would have bid five or six
hearts later.
Who can criticize this analy-
sis, even from q kibitzer?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18-Be
hind the screen: A picture calico
Mr.. Cele brity," soon to b.
started, deals with a group o.
once famous people now living
in the same boarding house. The
stars: Clara Kimball Young anc
Francis x. Bushman.
At Metro they're filming ''Un.
holy Partners" a New York
story of about q quarter CEN
fury ago. In the cast are Barbara
Bedford, Charles Ray, King Bag
gott, Mahlon Hamilton, E. Mas
on Hopper and Naomi Childers
six big stars of the same peri
cd. Now they're working as bit
players.
"In Hollywood" says Martin
Greene, when you shake hands
with someone it's generally to
keep him at arms length"
The man who financed the
original production of "Ecstacy"
is pedding the rights for Holly
wood remake. Hedy Lamar,
with or without clothes, won't
be in it. She's happy for the first
time in a filming of III. M. Pull
UNI, Esq.," in which she plays a
plainly tailored career girl who
ages to a woman of middle
years.
Casting notes: Mae West has
an impressive offer to appear
with a circus. Mickey Roo
ney joins Jack Benny and Will
liam Powell as a female imper-
senator; dons Latin American
outfit for q song and
dance number in "Babes on
Broadway" .Sigrid Gurie has
turned down another anti-Nazi
film role, fearing reprisals
against her family in Oslo.
At least two u. S. companies,
Columbia and M-G-M, will make
several pictures in Buenos Aires
with executives and
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
Why THOSE JAPANESE JITTERs1

The japanese government hints
tf,ot it would view with concern the
sending Of American supplies to
Russia.
japan and the United Stotes ore
both at peace with Russia, and there
would seem no good reason for the
japanese to be concerned with Russia S
strengthening herself
Did not Russia and Japan on April
Is, lo4l, q mere four months oeo, sign
solemn treaty, undertaking to main
toin peaceful and friendly relations be-
tween them and mutually respect the
territorial integrity and invioIobiity Of
the other contracting party? They did.
Did not that treaty add thot
should one Of the contracting parties
become the object Of hostiIities on the
port Of one or several third powers, the
other contracting party will observe
neutrality throughout the duration Of
the conflict? 1t did.
Why then object to neiohbor no.
ton Strengthening itself against un-
provoked ottock, when you ore bound
to thot notion by SO beautiful tie Of
friendship
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
the TELEPHONE BUILDING

The Daily Monitor joins with oil
nrooressye Mocomb county residents
il conorotuIotine the Michigan Bell
Telephone company upon the constru-
ction Of it's spacious new headquarters
in Mount Clemens.
The SIT, 900 structure, but one
step in a SAT 900 local expansion pro-
oronn. will be q real credit to the city,
to the $500 telephone users in the
oreo and to the utility firm itself;
District Manager Robert !. Win
slow, his superiors in the communion
tons firms high command and the en-
pjoyes Of the local unit Of the company
ore proud, and Justly SO, Of the progress
which the new building morks.
Mount Clemens hos enjoyed con-
tinuous telephone service for more thon
so years. During the early years OF that
service the customers we're few and tor
between, the service was errotie and the
facilities we're far from modern OIL
though representing virtual miracles
in their doY.
Todoy the use Of telephone COM
municotions hos become SO solidly en-
trenehed in business and private Of
foirs that it cannot in any sense be in
terpreted as luxury. Business ond
personal relations could jam to really
formidable proportions If such service
we're suddenly withdrawn from the
overo1e Americans life. .
We extend our sincere congrotuIo-
tions to Manager bob" WinsIow. to oil
telephone company employees and to
the public at large which is to use and
enjoy the new building and the new SER
vices contemplated for the community.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
. SO THEY SAY

The closed shop or any equiv
alent thereof is un-American
and monopolistic, and interferes
with the individual FIR e e d o m
granted to all our people under
the Constitution.
Albert w. Hawkes., president
u. S. Chamber of Commerce.
Hitler cannot build. He can
only destroy.
DIR. Otto Strasser, former asso-
ciate of Hitler in Germany.
| wore cotton once and can
again.
Rita Hayworth, movie star.
There are three flags on
top of the Acropolis, the Greek
in the middle, the German on
one side, the Italian on the other.
The Greeks look at them and
say, Christ hung between two
thieves"
Frederick Crane, u. S. oil man
formerly in Athens.
Well, you know what moving
is.
Philosophical remark of Mrs.
Manuel Mercado, Brooklyn,
on finding they had left the
youngest of six children be-
hind at the old address.
MY country has become pri-
son.
Bernstein, exile d
French playwright.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
America's Card Authority

The number of New Workers
who have established themselves
in bridge on the Pacific coast is
surprising. l dropped in one
evening at the Langdon Bridge
Club in Los Angeles, operated
by Lee Langdon, a former New
Yorker who is one of the great
est auction rubber bridge play
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
" PlSSR lpSoIi :
belly Msaiess Weskiassen
cAgy0annAhnne

WASHINGTON. AUG. la
II you don't think times have
changed. consider Just twe
onotS Of the Washington spec.
foele today: l-Blo business
men. Republicans neorIy ali
ore working for the New Deal
odmInistrotion for q dollor {
year; 1.-The Republican par.
ty, which used to, b considered
the protector Of bio business,
hos now token the couse ot
little business under its wing.
This ! ottsr development
comes through House Minor.
lty lsoder Joe Mortin's op-
pointmsnt Of a committee Of
20 Republican congressman,
headed by Chorles A. HolIsek
Of RunnssIesr, indiana, to
study the problem Of the little
fellow squeezed out Of busi-
ness by the defense effort.
Entrance Of the HoIlsek
committee into the picture
brings to q totoI OF fine Ire
number Of government bodies
who ore NOW professionally
worried about the little fsl-
low. The HoIleek committee
isn't on Official congressional
committee. II is purely poll
tieoI. it hos no appropriation,
ard its activities will consist Of
receiving complaints o m
small business men eouoht In
the prioritiss dreft. The com
nitteennsn will probably make
speeches obout them.
In the Senote two commit
tees have tockled the problem.
The Truman committee, in
vestiootino national defense
contracts, hos touched on the
subject in testimony from q
few Witnesses, the Truman in
vestieotors have dug into 1t
considerably. Then there is
the COMMITTEES headed by Sen
otor james E. Murray Of Butte,
Mont, appointed specifically
to study problems Of small b.
siness enterprises. II storted
work even before tho defense
effort got hot, but so for hosn't
come up with anything very
helpful.
SPREADS THE WORK
Over in 0PM is the defense
Controet Service under Rob-
ert L. Mshornoy which hos the
reoI job of trying to promote
sub-controetlno, bringing the
little manufacturer into the
defense program, spreading
the work to "bits and pieces"
production. Its recent job Of
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
ONLY DEEDS CAN NOW SPEAK
FOR FRANCE

The political striP-teose dreorily
executed fer q year by the regime that
claims to speak for the French people
is drawing near its climax. But the
audience is getting restless.
These lnterminoble pirouets, this
endless succession Of now-you-see-it-
now-you-don'ts is growing tiresone. To-
doy we ore going to stand squorely ond
firmly on the terms Of the ormistice;
tomorrow we ore. going to join whole
heortedIy in construction Of on Axis
Europe. 1.-THE only authority is that
which entrust or delegate" but 1.-THE
instinct Of liberty, it still lives within
u.s."
Words mean little any more; few
care what they soy who speak for
France; important only is what they
do who act for France.
One thing ought to be made clear.
Most Of the, things being done in France
today have nothing to do with the or
mistice signed June D, 1910, in the
Compeiene Forest. This was military
convention providing for the stopping
Of the Germon-French war and setting
up framework Of regulation for occu-
pied France.
There is nothing in it providing thot
France must set up q Fascist stote;
nothing providing that minority groups
must be prosecuted and bounded;
nothing providing phony trials to find
convenient scopegoots; nothing bind
ing France to cooperate in any new
order" in Europe; nothing directing
how France should govern itself.
True, France was left little CHOICE
Germany received the right to ternnin-
ote the nrmistice at any time it con-
sidered that the French we're failing to
fulfill its ormstice obligations A mil
lion Frenchmen ore prisoners in Ger
many. Continental France is helpless.
But it is one thing to aid Hitler un-
der compuIsive force, because you are
PROSTATE and helpless. The world would
understand that. But it is quite another
to go for ofeld from the terms of the
ormistce, to do things the Germans
had not even thought Of asking, to set
up on outocrotic domestic regime and
proclaim thot "outhority no longer
emonotes from below" Thot differs
from the proclamation that France
only wishes to stand by her pledged
word in the ormistice.
II France is merely conquered
country with no will except that exer-
cised in Berlin, all right. No one will
reprooch her for having fought and
lost. 1t could happen to any country,
our own not excepted which loses the
concerted will necessary to survival in
this brutal world.
But country in such status must
be treotec by the world as such.
Frances acts, not Peton's words, must
decide.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

Actually, sleeping like a top
means sleeping like mole.
Coming from the French dor
mircomme une taupe," the
mir CONNIE une taupe," the
taupe was confused with the
English word top"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

WINSTED, CONN.-An early
spring and unusually dry wealth
er brought more skunks to Win
sted than this city has seen In
rs years and that says Nursery
man H. Parkes Holcomb, Il q
blessing.
Skunks consider japanese
beetles . prime delicacy, he de-
claFed, and are not only con-
trolling but gradually eliminAt-
ing the pest hereabouts.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
NOT TOO OLD

NOT roo OLD
PHILADELPHIA - Jukius
Wiener registered for afraid
warden service, giving his age ~
81. Later he admitted he was
SO.
II said I was 81" he explain
ed, because I was afraid they
wouldn't take IN old man Of 86."
He was accepted.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
CANINE CONNIvIN0?

DALLAS-WhAes this about
a dog being mans best friend?
Night Waterman l.. N. Gilbert
heard his dog barking. He In
vestiGated. A man jabbed .
pistol in his ribs and took . purse
containing $l2.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASH|NGT ONs

, inviting manufacturers in the
Detroit oreo to come in and
see q torn down model Of air
croft and tonk engines, TO see
whot parts they could make, Is
on example Of the construc-
tive work In gliding the change
over from normal to defense
production.
PoroIleIin9 this work is the
effort Of Sidney Hillmon's To-
Dor division in OPM to keep
UP employment during the
tronsition period ond main
tain q steody supply of labor
tor the expanding defense ef-
forts. Both Of these ore posi-
tive steps to benefit The small
business man. particularly the
manufactured, but they don't
cover the problems Of the little
fellow who cont get q piece
Of the defense pie.
Broader in its scope, ond
likewise positive in It's inten-
ton OF oetuoIIy doing some
thing to help the small, or in
dependent b " ! n 9 man
eouoht in the defense rush.
WILL be the work of the new
"smolI business unit" now be-
Ing set W in Assistant Attor-
ney General Thurman Ar
nold's antitrust division. Ar
mold hos just picked his man
to heed this unit IN 5uy Hol-
comb Of Atlanta, Go.
II will Re early September
before Holcomb will be set to
stort furctionine, but in the
meantime. he is willing to re-
ceive letters from small bust
ness men who feel thot they
ore being left out Of the de-
tense picture, or ore octuoIIy
being diseriminoted oqoinst.
When organized, this unit will
have q stoff to follow up on
these complaints and on &c.
onomic stoff to onoIyze Them.
Address: Small Business Unit.
Anti Trust Division, Deport-
msnt Of Justice, Washington,
.. c.
BUSINESS MAN TO
HELP BUSINESS
Holcomb himself is not q
lowyer, which makes him one
of the few non-IeooI lights
in the D. }. setup. He hos
been q small business man,
with experience in BANKING.
bond selling, corporate insur-
once and retail selling. He
helped oroonizc q gasoline
filling station retoiIers' organ
izotion in Georgia, fought the
bottles Of the independents
oeoinst the big refining and
distributing companies. He
ArnoId's attention in
thot ond SO was picked to head
UP this new unit.
Numerous complaints have
been received from small bu-
siness men by the Justice De-
portment. A lot Of them ore
crockpot letters but obout one
In four will have something in
il thot bears further investi-
COTTON.
II the new ArnoId-Holconnb
unit con serve as q real friend
81 the small business man in
Washington, where the big feI-
lows with the lobbyists and
Ipseiol representatives, have an
obvious advantage, usef full
work can be done.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
5 YEARS AGO TODAY

s YEARS AGO TODAY
1886
Roseville church planning
18th anniversary program.
County registration of $4,000
brings prediction Of record vote.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Boat house and garage on
Clinton river owned by John
Charbeneau, destroyed by fire
last night.
Eleven county officials res
cued from Lake st. Clair after
drifting for four hours.
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1895
r. W. Miller will do the
plumbing for the school house
addition.
The Presbyterian ladies have
q bazaar at Harrison and Nj
chol's store, Front street.
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1891 II I
Mrs. Hunt who lives on Jones
street has Q petition in circula-
ton asking the council to re-
move the covered way between
the Kendrick House and the
bath house across the street.
She sets forth that she has lived
In this town 20 years and Ii en-.
titled 70 . view Of the river.
The .Maccabees have 10
members. They are booming.
% YEARS AGO TODAY
1851
Frank Bissell will preach at
the Presbyterian Church next
Sunday morning and evening,
he told the Monitor today.
The Miaees Skinner are visit
iMg friends In The East and plan
- b sway . month or two.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

scripts from Hollywood, and ac-
tors and technicians hired in
Argentina. But I'll bet the best
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

"A first folio q Auditory
Birds q Asnogiea" ~ nd
for oll,9oo O en Amof1e0A
book auction n 100.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

Tracks made BY . dinoeauf
millions q years ego, discovered
In Texas In 1859, mooRaeed more
than q yord IN length.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18
HOT NEWS!

DALLAS - whats wrong
with this car" said Louis Dsw-
son, hopping his brow ~ he
motored home from . vacation.
Still hopping that brow, by
now fxrowed with worry, Daw-
son pulled into . garage. This
cars about ready to blow UP,
It's 20 hot" he told . mechanic.
"Why don't you turn of the
heater3" came the query.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

BELLEvILLE, I'LL. - Pvt
Gerald A. Sparks took . nap In
the shade beneath On automobile
In q parking lot failed - wake
up when the owner departed. He
was treated for minor injuries.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

MY country has become pri-
son.
Henry Bernstein, exil e d
French playwright.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-18

Roseville church planning
18th anniversary program.
County registration of $4,000
brings prediction of record vote.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-06
Our 100000 Aliens

The of aliens being completed the United States
can now take stock of the problem Of the nonezen
That that person in 2s in this country is
alien The figure may reach high 100000. We
know how there who they and where they
are II is now possible to approach the situation
factua basis.
First caution The officials in charge of this regis
aon have from the first stressed the fact that there
nothing disgracefu discredabe about alien status.
This has been factual compilation and there faint
suggestion of culpabty in the summonng registering,
and fngerprintng of all these people. There nten
ton TO prosecute whose only fault that he is
not citizen of the United States.
Director Harrison has also warned officials employers,
and others who may be tempted to demand that
aliens produce evidence Of having registered that they
furnished with receipt registering and that not
half of them have yet received receipt cards from Wash
ington. This will take five six weeks Further the
law provides that aliens need carry receipt cards
received.
The enforcement of this registration is federal
matter through the department of justice While this
department later request certain local cooperation
in identifying those who have failed register there is
has been held turned into witch-hun by any individuals
who think 1t might be good idea.
Many, perhaps majority of these registered aliens
the road to becoming American citizens just fast
the law allows Others will have matters to straghten out
with the department OF justice connected with illegal entry
but even OF these majority will prove quite innocent,
their offense being technical and committed back in days
when these matters not important Only small
proportion as in any large group, will to be maev
oent or dangerous.
The task Of winnowing these individuals out of the
6000000 is distinctly professional askone that belongs
both by law and by sense, trained operatives
Of the department of justice.
Help, cooperation, and sympathy will the vast
majority OF these aliens far better than bounding In thus
ssrving them, shall best serve our common country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-06
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes THINGS

To receive attention IN this coi-
umn lsffsTs must siVe name and
address % NfItfr OnlF initialf
vii % published when recuestsd-
Mr.. Pint: Would an honorable
discharge from the 4. =. Coast
Guard suffice ss q birth certifi-
cate when applying for . pass
port Into Canada These dis
charge papers give records ~
birth date, place Of birth and
descriptive list. PAS.
No passport Is needed. but
proof Of citizenship. or good evi-
dence Is required 10 get back into
the L. s A L. 5. birth oertifi-
cate is rated a. best; sffidavits
OF birth signed by older relatives
IL next best; then come voters
registration certificate. Other
evidence" such ss the Coast
Guard discharge papers you
mention. might be helpful.
Mr.. f1xit: Please tell me the
political status Of each Of the
countries OF Europe and Asia
that have been conquered or In
yaded BY another nation: that
IL, which, II ANY. are actually
ruled BY or are n part of the
aggre~sor nation: which have
puppet rulers or are partly ruled
by the aggressor hut have beea
allowed Ia keep their own iden-
tity. etc: Also. what IL The sta
tus Of their possessions .
JEW. =
That's much too large an
order for this limited column.
even IL the answers were ready
at hand. They aren't, since the
picture ~ constantly changing.
You should plan a few hours Of
reading at the City Library
where the reference department
would help you: and then watch
the newspapers for the new de-
velopments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-06
WAR AND DEMOCRACY

Editor. The Times: IN a recent
telegram 70 our president, leq
famous people urged that he
should take US into this war.
Evidently. these people claim 70
be invested with the power 20
make WAT How many OF the
famous" people seek publicity
in order 10 reap q golden hsr-
vest. regardless Whist may hap
pen TO our boys and 10 our ma
tIonsl economy. How many OF
these people viii De called TO
operate the implements OF war
and 10 fin the graves in Europe
Do they presume 10 speak FOR all
Of rs and for the generations
who will have TO pay for this
war
May God give Us Americans
with the courage 10 fight for
America. and who viii strip the
veil Of hypocrisy and OF deceit
80 that al may see the deadly
venom before accepting the hyp-
motto sting We may soon Be
placed in a trance, but some day
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-06
MONDAY. JANUARY 6

This is a day dominated by
benefic aspects and most for
tunate for women. Thesters,
concerts and other forms Of en-
tsrtainm.nt should profit un-
der this configuration.
Heart and Home: Women are
under the fortunate planetary
rule today which should be help
full for young and old. Romance
should flourish. IL is q lucky
wedding day. promising har-
mony and congeniAlity. In the
new yesr program the prepare
tion OF food should engage at
tention, for nutrition as well as
economy will be OF prime i'm
portAnee as living costs rise.
Diet should be watched because
intestinal influenza may be
prevalent.
International Affairs: Changes
in the Soviet government are
forecast and there may be an
other purge as Stain keeps tho
world guessing about his ulu-
mate plans. The stars warn that
the Russian dictator is TO be
more feared in the future than
Hitler. The spread of Commun-
ism is prognosticAted as Il Is
presented in camouflaged forms.
The winter in Europe will take
on added horrors. as disease
spreads among helpless war We
Tins
Persons whose blrthdRte Il Is
have the sugury OF a year OF
improved prospects and general
advancement property will
prove profitable.
Children born on this day may
be exceedingly intellectual. Phi
losophers and scientists as well
as artists and writers belong 10
this sign