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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
MORALE Low?
you CAN BOOST IT!

How much truth there may be in
stories of low nnorole in army comps
we don't know. General Marshall soys
morole wos all right until people stort-
ed debotino about whether service
should have been extended; then it
fell Naturally. Be all that as if may
have been, these things seem obvious
" true:
/. II we ore going to have any
army at all, its nnoroIe should be tip
top.
z. If it isn't tip-too, nothing can be
COINED Nv wrinkine honds and moan
ina about how bod it is.
3. General Lear is right when he
says tt1ot any deficiency i'm morale in
HE army merely reflects low morale
back home
4. The woy to improve morale is
70 improve snoroIe. The army is doing
rs shore. The young men in the army
ore tIee bsSt Ia tns world. They ore OUR
yolino men, Ar,ericons, and there ore
~ bett4y. Nov how about your share?
81 "a kovieW IN your mind exactly
m lvo you done to help keep the
Il plglts' Up. II you hoyen't done
= thlno, isn't it obout timer
olottjS,6 iron, tl1ot basis, let
jy(jon, 70 one thing that is
IL Clesp(ord there is be-
1(od = ~oundIss From Home"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
. SO THEY SAY

The liberty that we cherish is
Knocked and threatened With de-
struction. Only by unity, and
particularly by mutual respect in
the relationships between en-
ployers and their employees, may
we expect to win through.
George Meany, A. F. of l..
leader.
1t is going to be an American
order, suited to our country, to
cur way of life.
Mayor LaGuardia on what's
coming for America.
From the outset, the War De-
partment has striven constantly
to safeguard labor's interests.
-Under-Secretary of War Pat
terSOn. -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
RAckETEERs ACTIVE HEREi

The recent hint Of rocketeerln9 by
Detroit Vegetable ond fruit deo'ers
serv;no Mocomb county markets IS one
thnt SHOULD be vigorously and seorcn-
inoIy explored by the duly constituted
Al. AUGUST Is q distributor serving
! Mount Clemens morket Wos warned
thot q competitive firm in Detroit wos
WnIentv sore about" his entering TINS
f;kld Emphosis was given the warning
q the form of corIood OF Plu9-u9''es
which "toiled" him on his rounds.
On August 20 The Daily Monitor
published an exclusive survey OF MO
comb county produce morkets ind'cot-
mo a definite unwiIIineness upon the
bort of most market proPrietors to get
into trouble" by discussing their
sources Of supply.
Il doesn't smell" too good
Thot "muscIe-men" Of the produce,
or any other, trode should have the
effrontery to menace Mocomb oountys
wholesome .retoiI outlets is unth'nk-
oble: and if such exists it must be
stomped OFT at once.
A few veors back another vegetable
truck driver was warned to leove the
Mocomb county trade alone. he '9.,
nored thot threot and his bulIet-riddled
BODY wos picked up oloneside 9 Mo-
comb county hiehwoy "a few dogs
later. Fortunately the moi, lived al
thouoh he bod been ruthlessIy shot nine
times!
The Mocomb county judiciary hos
eorned for the county the reputation OF
beino an creo where Detroit hoodlums
oct short-sh;ift. II vegetable dealers ore
unowore Of the foct let them peruse the
records Of other Detroiters who hove
sought tc pIoy fost and loose with the
law in this oreo. !"
Before cny further outbreak OF vio-
lence can take place here full invest-
cotton should be launched. Already the
prosecuting attorneys office h q S
moved swiftly in the wake OF The Daily
Monitor expose .ond hos issued terse
warning that eestroint Of trode will
not be permitted in the district.
Il is to be hoped that the warning
will suffice to prevent octuol violence.
But il, through threats, Legitimate
competition is forced to abandon Ma
comb county q racket" does exist
A full and coreful investigation is
worronted
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
BY WIN. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Our foursome stopped al,
Phoenix, Ariz., on our transcon-
tinental bridge tour. / was
pleasantly surprised at the large
number of fine bridge players
there. We visited with Vinton
Hammels, who has come to As
bury Park, N j., several times
to participate in the summer
session of the national tourna-
ment.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
SHOE SOLUTION

CHICAGO-When a pretty,
unidentified girl refused to get
off a much-used drawbridge be-
cause she was "a taxpayer,
bridge tender Morris Snyder
called the law.
But the officers found her a
problem, too. Twice they put
her in the paddy wagon. Each
time she jumped out, attempted
to flee. Policeman Donald Kee-
vers finally solved the remov-
ed her shoes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
: BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON .

woS found that this uneven
beot of the German motors
mode extremely difficult the
task Of telling quickly the
heiehtyof an ottockino bomber.
Nov, il is understood. British
bombing plane engines ore al
so being re-eeored to give off
the uneven drone beot so as to
throw off German listening
posts.
Chatter about the mysteri-
Gus Spery bomb sight. perfect
ed for use by U. S. bombers.
hos Of course been limitless.
Hailed as the ereotest secret
weapon Of the present war, 1t
enables bombers to drop their
eggs in pickle barrels from IS
600 feet with unconny reeuIor-
ity. It hos been generally as
sumed thot this device was Civ
en- to the British, but there now
comes from England reports
that the Sperry bomb sight is
Of questionable value, for the
reason that its use is depend
ent on perfect visibility - a
condition frequently found on
the bombing ranges near Den
YER and the California deserts,
but only infrequentIy in Eu-
rope.
AkTl-AlRcRAFr
AkTiQUATED3
Speaking Of onti- eireroft
guns. quite q point hos been
made that the United Stotes
defenses we're practically a
blank on this type Of equip
ment. But some observers
have returned with the theory
that it doesn't make much dif-
ference, for onti-oircroft bot
teries seldom bring down q
plane, and their use in keeping
the bombers up high applies
only to the oreo immediately
above the battery.
Another i d q Of defense
that the British have had to
modify to q certain extent is
the use Of volunteer fire fight
ers to combat confIoerotions
storted by ineendioy bombs.
At first, il was the ideo that
the good tough Britons. spring.
ing from every cot, heath and
hedeerow, would stomp out the
fires and protect their homes
fro m the despoiIer. But it
hasn't worked out quite thot
way. 1t takes nerve to check
these incendiory fires when
thousands Of bombs ore Drop
ping over O city, and under
this type Of roid. the volunteer
IS next to useless. aat
What it tokes is profession
al fire fighters on the job all
the time. And the reoI reason
thot British ship yards, docks,
munitions plants and plane
factories have been able to
keep up their splendid records
Of production is that oil these
strategic centers have been
protected by professional fire
fighting units who stick on the
job like soldiers, while the VOL
unteers head for the bomb GEL
Iors or the hills.
Any place you look, you'll
always find q poor profession
ol beating q good amateur.
Even at soldering.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

DIES MOINES-Nurse Helen
Beadle drove slowly through
downtown traffic, guarding
against accidents.
She had no accident-but
went to a hospital with q broken
leg.
IL was Just riding along and
felt a pain, guess ! must have
given it a peculiar twist" she
said.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
STORK DRAMA
KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.-L.
l.. Coon and his wife raced down
the road August FL, 1910. A son
was born before they reached the
hospital.
Coon and his wife raced down
the road August 81, 1941. Yes,
the stork won again. Another
son.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
10 YEARS AGO TODAY

Widening of Gratiot avenu.
placed on preferred list by State
highway authorities
Funera, for DR.. Michael e.
Cronin, "a, former owner ana
operator of Grace hospital,
Mount Clemens, will be held
today.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
OBLIGING FIREMEN

LINCOLN, NEB. Amazed
onlookers watched firemen lei
surely unload hoses and begin
squirting the outside of a down.
town office building, which OBJ
viously was not burning.
Store owners. tired OF waiting
for a good rain, wanted to test
repairs on leaky windows.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

The Police Commission mas
another big policeman In young
Joe Prevo:
The gasoline tank In the Cass
hotel blew up last night ana
caused considerable damage.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
DY PETER EDsok
Dolly Menites Wsshinsten
Cegresaendant

WASHINGTON. Aug. Is
One Of the more omozine and
friehtfuI aspects about the
Science" of modern war is the
way it has Of developing while
in progress. And the uncensor-
ed reports Of observers return
inc to the United Stotes bear
proof that every day. in every
woy, it is becoming worser and
worser.
The cose of oirpIone speed
and ornament is q perfect ex-
ompIe Of wor's increasing eff
cheney. II was only two years
oeo thot the shooting began
how time does fIy-but in the
lovely harvest season Of '39. on
oirplone thot could do $50
miles on hour was all right. To-
doy it must do 400 to $50. or
be shot down. Airplone engines
that could rote 100 or 800
horsepower could get by, but
todoy 1000 hip. is q minimum,
and $500 or better must be
achieved soon if there is to be
superiority in the Dir. Ptones
thot could climb to 30. 900 feet
we're sofe in 80. but today
they must reach 40, 900. Two
machine guns and one cannon
mode combat planes pretty
formidable in the old Days, but
today they pack three or four
commons and six or eight ma
chine guns.
Newest device Of deoth and
destruction is repeatedly the
acoustic or harmonic mine. II
is q successor to the moenetic
mine, which become obsolete
os soon as the magnetic belt
was invented and all h p
we're equipped with this ring
Of cobIes through which q cur
rent was posed to set up on
induction field thot woul c
counterfeit the magnetic field
Of the mine, making it harm
less.
Not much is known about
the acoustic MIN. but the
principle Of its operation i:
fairly simple. Insteod Of being
set off by the ships noturo
magnetic field, it is set off BY
the vibration Of the ships en-
qine, the transmission Of SOUND
woves through voter.
It being practically impossi'
BILE to build a vibrotionless OF
perfectly silent ship, licking
this acoustic mine moy be
lot horded than overcoming
. the magnetic mine. One re
port in Washington is thot thu
Germans have discontinued US
ing the magnetic mine OF SEQ
converting those on hand int
land mines to drop by poro
chute from bombing planes.
THIS MOTOR MISS no MlS:
Another ineenio s use o
sound waves hos been fieuret
out by the Germon technicions
When German bombers frs
came over England, it was no
ticed their engines, insteod o
having q steady, even roar
seemed to exhaust unevenl
ond at variable pitch. British
plane builders we're at first in
cIined to scott. saying tn
Nozis didn't know how TO buil'
good motors. But when the Brit
. ish plane detecting device
tried to pick up Germon plane
by means of mechanical cor
and rodio listening posts,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
GO YEARS AGO TODAY
1881

County Treasurer Tackles and
wife celebrated their silver we'd
ding Saturday, and with rarei
felicity. :.
Judge Avery has decided up
ON the erection Of q beautiful
new residence. on the corner Of
rat and Jones streets, and
work will at once begin.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
s YEARS AGO TODAY
1896

In a letter to the Monitor,
County Agent William Murphy
asserts that he does know his
onions, also lettuce, etc.
Chicken growers begin tat
tooing their fowl in effort to
stop thieves
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
WHAT NEXT?

SANTA MONICA, CALF
Now it's Mr.. California of 1941!
Harold Zinkin, 19-year-old
truck driver, is the Pacific Coast
Aoonis, chosen on the basis OF
muscular symmetry and devel'
opment, carriage and general APP
pearance.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25

50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
J. H. Westendorf and family
are putin. in q week at the
lake. -.
Miss Fanny Croker is visit, ,
ing at home. '
Evening star., 1941-01-25
Anurchic Rumuniu

For the second time within two
months, Bucharest, the capital of
Rumania, and other places in that
unhappy country have been the
scene of frenzied rioting accom-
panied by bloodshed on a consider
able scale. The spark which touched
off this latest explosion was the as
sassination of a prominent member
of the German military mission by a
young Turkish born Greek, reported
to have entered Rumania on a false
passport. Perhaps the assassin was
a professional terrorist such as the
Near East knows only too well.
This obviously political murder
provoked mass demonstrations by
opposing factions of the Iron Guard.
When General Antonescu, the Chief
of State, dismissed the Minister of
the Interior for negligence in pre-
serving public order, the demonstra-
tions grew more riotous and spread
rapidly through the country. The
disturbances seem to have been
resisted by loyal RupA Anian troops,
Evening star., 1941-01-25
Tells of Venezuela Incident
In Cleveland's Day.
To the Editor OF The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
Our mighty Nation seems to be gripped
with mass hysteria which is most un-
becoming. The talk of an invasion by
Hitler is premature and childish.
1t is interesting to record that the only
foreign country ever to invade us was
Great Britain on two occasions. During
the Civil War, our Nation barely escaped
conflict with Great Britain and war
again "brewed" during Grover Cleve-
lands time. Our Monroe Doctrine was
threatened by Britain and the coura-
geous President, unlike many modern
politicians, gave John Bull orders to get
out of Venezuela. This Britain did,
being impressed by Clevelands stern
command.
1t seems absurd to insist that Britain
and America forever will maintain har-
monious relationships. Human nature
is not built that way. So would it not
be q capital idea to remember George
Washington's advice to mind our own
business and avoid foreign entangle-
msnts' BRITISH DESCENDANT.
Evening star., 1941-01-25
FOURTEENTH STREET Sc.

Dear Sir:
After having read your helpful and
interesting articles each day for some
time I've summoned sufficient courage to
write, for would not be true to myself
to say nothing of my debt to you If did
not try to express my gratitude in some
manner.
81 have reached middle age without
learning much about birds, but find my
interest increasing until am most eager
to learn more and more about our feath-
cred friends.
"I feed the sparrows-thats all seem
to attract-bread daily, but want to put
up feeding station, though what kind
to get do not know and where shall
put 1t is another question.
81, have no shrubbery, but there is a
vine-and should the station be near
the ground or several feet high2
II have high board fence-coud 1t
be used for the feeding station?
at was with envy read of your cardi-
mails, for I think I should shrek with
Joy should ever witness cardinal in
my back yard, summer or winter
"I had a robin once.
There are few blue jays out front in
the street trees but a cardinal is a favor
that I could scarcely expect. Thanks
for your splendid article on mocking-
birds.
Il have noticed clumps of leaves in
fLo ha Al Je ~,
trees along the Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
car tracks-are they winter shelters,
bird-built?
will you please name good but SIM
pie bird book-one that will help &C
quaint me with the birds in this section
without being involved2
Thanks again for all your help.
Please write on birds every day.
Sincerely, E. NJ H."
y X
We will let Mrs H in on a secret.
Wherever you live, you will have more
English sparrows than anything else.
To listen to some friends of birds talk,
you would think they had nothing but
chickadees cardinals, mockingbirds, nut
matches, titmice and many other of the
rarer birds.
And these in great focks. too, despite
the fact that they do not fly or gather
in flocks.
The truth is that the sparrows are the
basic birds. as they might be called, in
this entire section.
The only way to get rid of them at any
individual feeding station is to trap or
shoot them. and we hope that no person
does this, because it is inimical to the
very idea Of helping the birds and at
the same time it scares away other birds.
And it harms the doer, whether he
realizes it or not
Many local persons interested in birds
have found that they can have the rarer
birds along with the English sparrows
and the starlings and the pigeons and
the squirrels.
Indeed. it may be questioned whether
bird feeding scene is better of with
out them.
The squirrels, while a nuisance, in some
Evening star., 1941-01-25
Discusses Simple Logic
OF Help for England.
To the Editor Of The Star:

1t seems, with all the paraphernalia
there is nowadays to get people to think
ing and even to showing In such plain
words what to think once they get to
thinking, that there wouldn't be any
trouble about will we or won't we do
something for England.
I'd kinda been feeling all these years
that I'd live to see things figured out
and written down in sort of text books,
like arithmetic. maybe. Then when a
problem like our relationship with Eng
land came up, why all we'd have to do
would be to look up in the index where
to find When to give help to your neigh
bor,'' turn to a certain page and there
you are, plain as the nose on your face.
the rule, with an example to boot Of
course, I'd hate to write any such books
myself and be responsible for all those
examples.
Don't know, though. but what We could
take the time the French helped us back
in our Revolutionary War. I don't pre-
tend to be much of an historian, but
near as I can remember the fathers of
our country were right glad for a little
assisting. 1t may be the French had
more reasons than just helping us, for
all they did, but don't remember.
And that's one of the things time does
for us, besides leaving our hair white
and our faces wrinkled it boils all his
tory down to simple facts so the virtues
stand out little palmer for us to see.
And I reckon it will be much the same
in years to come when our grandchildren
look back on the time we were fussing
about helping England. They'll forget
there were profits here or losses there.
They'll just be proud and Dragging about
their ancestors being the kind of people
to recognize need and know somehow,
by instinct maybe, what to do. Like
the man who dived into the icy waters
to save some other mans children. And
what's more, they say he never even
waited to see if there'd be reward in
case he should take terrible cold and
be laid up afterward. At least, I hope
our grandchildren will never know but
what we did things that way back in
1941. LEOTTA GRAYSON.
Ironwood, Mich.
Evening star., 1941-01-25

end its operations will be grouped
into five divisions. Their duties, as
explained by Mr.. Jones, will be to
concentrate the flow of essential
business facts from foreign and do
mestic fields, thresh out the signifi-
cant data for defense decisions, and
make them readily available to Gov
ernment and business.
The bureau, at the present time,
has large staff of economists and
business experts. 1t also has on hand
a vast reservoir of information cov-
ering practically every phase of our
industrial and business activity, with
the machinery for obtaining quickly
full facts on current economic de-
velopmentS, both here and abroad
Since effective planning for defense
must be based on complete knoWl-
edge of the Nations economic Struc-
ture, and the capacity and organiza-
ton of individual industries, there
is clearly need for fuller utiliza-
tion of the bureaus staff and
economic data by defense industries
and the Government. To secure a
greater use of the bureaus material
and man power is the principal pur-
pose of the reorganization just an
nounced.
In addition to assembling and
evaluating economic reports bearing
on defense, the bureau can render
another valuable service by studying
the problems which will face the
country at the end of the present
emergency, and preparing plans to
help the administration in guiding
the country from a war to a peace
economy. Because it is of vital i'm
portance that such studies be under
taken Immediately, the statement by
Secretary Jones that I'VE must con-
centrate on those things that will
assist" in the post-emergency, as
we'll as the emergency period, will
therefore be welcomed as indicating
that postwar planning will be part
OF the bureaus new program.
Evening star., 1941-01-25
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trdce1Dell.

aspects, contribute nightly to the fun
and amusement of feeding the wild crea-
lures.
The pigeons, too, although they eat
more than their share, are among the
most wonderful flyers in all the world,
and bring real JOY to the observer who
is willing to overlook what he does not
like about them to concentrate on their
wonderful prowess in the air.
All in all, that bird observer has the
most pleasure, and does the most good,
who will take them as they come, and
make the best of them, realizing that an
English sparrow is quite as hungry in
the cold as the more beautiful chickadee.
There is scarcely any section of the
District OF Columbia where cardinals
cannot be attracted if one puts out faith
fully small amount of sunflower seed.
This may be purchased at any pet or
feed store, and at many hardware stores.
A simple bird food is made by mixing
a few nandfuls of sunf1ower seed with
larger amount of baby chick feed, to be
feed is sold
Higher priced and better mixtures Of
seeds, usually called wild bird food"
may be had at pet shops, but the mix
ture of chick feed and sunflower seed Is
very good.
AS for the famous Washington high
board fence, there is no better place to
put up a bird feeder than this The
station should be nailed at point where
it is easily filled, that is all. The top of
a post, If low enough, or the side of
clothesline post will do very we'll
One of the best of all feeding STA
tions" is the ground, just the plain EARTH
preferably beneath shrub, but beneath
a vine will do, or even the walk is suffi-
cient.
The simplest stations are boxes turned
on their sides, so that the real bottom is
to the back, best to the north or north
west. But, as explained, one doesn't
really need box at all-the bare earth
will do.
A good, simple book on birds is the
Bird Guide" by Chester A. Reed, pub
liShed by Doubleday, Doran & Co.
The clumps of leaves in trees are not
bird-built, but squirrel-built.
They are squirrel nests and may be
seen all over Washington, especially in
the suburban sections. when the leaves
90 off the trees in the fall
While squirrels eat more seed, espe-
cially sunflower, than the birds, they are
very much worthwhile in any yard. for
they are full of the best fun Of life, and
share it with any one who is intelligent
enough to be kind to them.
The saddest fact in this world today
is that intelligence need not be kind but
may be cruel. It Is only when intelli-
gence is tempered with the heart of
kindness however, that it is real intelli-
gence, the sort which stands the test Of
time, and gives dividends of happiness
rather than tears.
Conservation work of all kinds. in
Guiding that which cares for the birds
and other wild creatures in the cold. is
this sort of intelligence and gives this
sort Of happiness.