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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-20
LAWS NO REMEDY FOR
INEETlclENcY

The Institute of Distribution hos.
issued booklet entitled, Store Death
Tokes No Holiday" which provides
vivid picture Of the history and couses
of retoiI mortality.
A high rote Of failure in merchon-
disine is not new development. In
1870, David A. Wells, the leodino
American economist Of his time, esti-
moted that at Ieost 80 per cent Of those
entering retail business foil. In 1900,
John Wonomoker. the greet merchant.
stoted thot only about 4 per cent OF
those who stort merchontile businesses
succeed.
In Iote years, many Of US have more
or less taken it for granted that the
principal cause Of retail failure is,con,-
petitions belief which hos been re-
sponsibIe for the possooe of laws which
in one way or another penoIze the ef-
fieient merchont on the theory thot the
inefficient will thus be helped. Yet that
belief has no foundation in foct. An sx-
housitve survey found that the main
causes Of retail mortality ore lack Of
copito, incompetence, inexPerience,
unwise credits, etc.-ond thot Compel
ition accounts for less than 4 per cent
of failures. And the Federal Trode CON-
mission, investigating the reason for
foilure of l67 typicol stores. found thot
eompetitioh was a primary couse in only
II coses Other surveys, local and NO.
tionol, produce similar evidence.
Whot this odds up to is clear Lows
to curb competition cannot keep the
poor merchant in business long. About
oil they do is to infIote prices at the ex-
pense of all the consumers Of the coun-
try. Store-owners who ore lozy, mex
perieneed, or inodequotely financed al
ways have foiIed-ond they always will.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-20
: Benin % THE SCENES
M WASHIk GTON :


'Tho industry was In this
shope when. the oov'msnt, in
I'm form OF Commissioner
Hsnderson's outfit, stepped in
to the picture. Second hand
machine tool dealers who were
worst offenders were colled to
Washington to explain. There
were some pretty stormy ses-
sions. Manufacturers Of new
squipment were consulted to
ct . fair base for prices. Butt
Whsn the speeuIotors couldn't
ct together and oorse on whot
top prices should be, Price
Schedule No. I" resulted.
Tie scale Of prices In this
instorce Is uninnpostont, OK.
sspt TO HE trode. Machines
less than five yeors old. rebuilt
and ouorontssd, can't b sold
foe more than IS per cent Of
present list prices for similar
equipment. Machines over 20
yeors old, not guaranteed,
cont b cold for more thon 50
per cent Of present prices. In
between is q varying scols.
Whot's Simportont here
again, IS that the principle Of
government price fixing >hds
been established. Commission
Or Hsndsrson's announcement
stotss clearly thot this is the
first Of q series Of price sched-
ulss." Price on zinc and cop
per ore NOW being investigated.
There ore reports that second
hand. zinc hos been sold for
more thon new netol, to get
immediate delivery. Thot's to
~ etonr%nd y
Evening star., 1941-06-29

has been using gliders and parachutes
with startling effect. Suppose Ger
man airships suddenly appeared, es-
corted by fighter planes. and dis
gorged thousands of troops into crit
ical area. as of course they could do.
Can't you picture the instant demand
there would be that we build fleets
of similar airships, but filled with the
safe helium which we have and Ger
many has not?
Must we wait for such a demon
stration? Or shall we build those big
airships now to do the job we know
they can do?"
Perhaps such a program is not far
distant. And. in the meantime, our
blimps are already on the march.
The End
Evening star., 1941-06-29
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

of dive bombers, he thinks, could de-
stroy an airship - and the ship should
never be in place where there was
such a force. But even if dived on,
the airship, zigzagging up and down
and right and left at ninety miles an
hour, would be far from easy target.
AS for the blimps, which we def
nitely are going to have, they will do
their work along our coasts, far from
the range of any surface or air enemy.
so long as the feet out beyond does its
job. The blimps' chore will be to find
mines. spot submarines and either
destroy them with bombs or depth
charges, or keep them under observa-
tion until help can come. They can
do that because they don't have to
keep going to stay aloft.
Evening star., 1941-06-29

why should we build airships if
other nations don't% Captain Rosen-
dahl repeated. What is the lesson
of this war, anyway? Is it that
weapon must not be used until the
enemy has proved by crushing vic
tory that this weapon will work."
Incidentally, he points out. Ger
many had and probably still has two
excellent airships. To use them with
hydrogen would be great risk, for
an incendiary bullet could set them
afre Immediately. But Germany has
MT shown too much fear of risk - at
crucial moments.
"Of course. we don't know what
Germany is doing with them." Cap
tain Rosendahl told me. But there
have been rumors. We do know she
Evening star., 1941-06-29
HE WOULDN'T GIVE UP THE SHIP
Continued from pogs four

before the First World War; without
so much as even scratching a passen-
ger until the Hindenburg burned
When the American-built Akron
was finished in 1881 - the biggest
airship ever built up to that time
Rosendahl became her commander
and went on with his pioneering He
sailed her through weather much
worse than that in which the Shenan-
doah broke up. He demonstrated her
value in searching for lost vessels and
airplanes. But most important of all,
in his own opinion, was the demon
stration that planes could be released
and, on returning, could be hooked
back on to the ship while in fight.
Rosendahl was serving tour of
duty aboard battleship when the
Akron flew into the ocean off the New
Jersey coast, in 1888 And when her
sister ship. the Macon, crashed in the
Pacific in 1885, he was back at Lake
hurst as station commander. He stud
led all the evidence, saw no insur-
mountable problems; instead, he in
sisted that such losses are the price of
pioneering, and that airships had ac-
tually paid less drastic prices than
most other forms of transportation.
But the disaster had swung public
opinion too definitely against the air
ships. The burning of the Hindenburg,
in 1887, was the final straw in weight
ing public opinion - which vexes
Rosendahl almost more than any
thing else For in that disaster he sees
the one big reason why the United
States should make big asset of air
ships. The Hindenburg burned only
because she was filled with hydrogen,
one of the most inf1ammable of gases
Germany has no helium - the one
gas that serves almost equally as well
as hydrogen and is at the same time
Observation-Disclosures the United
States has a virtual monopoly of
helium.
| was talking with Captain Rosen-
dahl the other day at time when he
had Just returned from session on
Evening star., 1941-06-29

1t is signed by a good many
famous men and some you never
heard of - except from their
descendants, maybe.
And, you know, with all its
Shortcomings, this independence
idea Works. Shucks, this country
must of passed a million laws
since l776 limitin' somebody's
freedom. But our intentions was
mostly good and we got quite
a little liberty left. compared to
what they tell me about other
countries.
Take this joint of mine. l own
it. fix the prices an decide on
the menu. Only, while I'm dom
it ] gotta remember somethin'
hope lot of Congressman amt
forgot. It's the part of the Dec
laration of Independence where
it says that whenever you forget
that the customers is always
right, you're damsoon goin' to be
out of business.
Evening star., 1941-06-29
(|2!I5{SI2!9!R2 VA "a
Not Bad Readin'
xAYELL, another lndepen-
" dence Day is just around

YELL, another lndepen-
" dence Day is just around
w the bend and a good
many remarks will be heard on
the subject.
There was Congressman
stopped by here last night, on
his way to a July 4th celebra-
ton. AS near as | could figure,
he favored independence. Ex-
cept maybe he would like to see
the guy who is goin' to run
against him next year in jail.
Anyway, this gent has ham,
burger on the taxpayers an
leaves me with copy of the
Declaration of Independence,
which | read.
It's quite piece. Not men,
tionin' George the Third by
name, but maxim it pretty clear
who it means, it tells him where
to go. Then it says, who do you
think you are? Then it says we
are tired bein' pushed around
and so we are goin' to set up our
own government and push each
other around.
Evening star., 1941-06-29
He Knows fhe Answers


AND that brings US back to the
doubts that rise to mind about air
ships in modern war
Wouldn't it be too easy to shoot
them down?
'Of course they can be shot down."
says Rosendahl. ''But, like the sub
marine and airplane carrier, they have
no business exposing themselves to
enemy gunfire. The chief function of
the big airships would be to carry
planes for scouting far out at sea-
They would be camoufaged and could
cruise hidden in the clouds. Further
more, if one ever got into a spot
where there were enough enemy planes
to destroy it, that would be because
our fleet didn't know the enemy was
there; and. anyway, the airship's radio
would give the alarm long before it
was destroyed - a justifiable sacrifice,
just as scouting surface ship would
be under similar circumstances. Some
British experts wish they had .airships.
Used as plane-carrying scouts, they
could track down enemy raiders and
release more expensive cruisers for
combat duty"
He has no fear that a lone plane,
or even handful of planes, would be
a match for big airship Since helium
is not infiammable, shots into the
general structure would do little harm,
he says. Furthermore. the gunners in
the ship would have all the advantage,
he believes, in that they can fire in
any direction. while the plane must
shoot on the wing. Only strong force
Evening star., 1941-06-29

the airship program. Some of the
questions had obviously tried his pa
tience. Why should we build air
ships if other nations don't'" he
quoted. What a question! We have
helium. They haven't. We have long
coast lines, great stretches of ocean.
They are fighting war in a condensed
area. We should build defense suited
to our own needs not somebody
else's.''
Evening star., 1941-06-29

1ou'M find at least dozen uses for this
handsome carving set For instance: For
~ carving steak, roasts fowl; t21 slicing cold,
table ready meats for buffer suppers luncheons,
midnight kitchen raids; t3) barbecues, sreak fries,
picnics, beach parties; IN cottage and camping;
~ cakes pastries pies 6l fruits, vegetables melons,
~ dicng, slicing; t8l cheese slicng and serving 81
individual table service; tlO party prizes anni
versary other gifts; ~ auto lunch kit
Order several sets! AT this bargain price you can
easily afford them!
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
FORFEITURE NOTICE

To Chas. Olsen, his heirs, ex- ecutors, administrators and as- signs
 You and each of you are here by notified that I have eXpend- ed during the var ending July lst, 1940, two hundred dollars in labor and improvements upon the Sand Hill Association Placer mining claim, situated on the r ght bank of Snake River about three and one-half miles north westerly from the mouth thereof and the town of Nome in the Cape Nome Mining and Record ing District, Territory of Alas ka, in order to hold said mining claim under the provisions of U. s. C. Tit 30 See. 28, and amend ments thereto concerning annual labor upon mining claims, being the amount required 10 hold said claim for the period ending July 1st, 194O.
 And if, within ninety days af- ter the publication of this Notice you fail to contribute your pro- portion of such expenditure as a co-oWner, which amounts to one hundred dollars, your interest in said mining claim will become the property of the subscriber, your co-owner, who has made the required expenditure to hold said claim.
 Dated at Nome, Alaska, the 9th day of December, 1940.
 John Carlson, Co-oWner
 Publish Dec. 6 13 20 27, 194O, Jan. 3 10 IT 24 31, Feb. T IA 21 28, 1941.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
Once Upon A Time There
 Was Only One Bowl Game

Sugar Bowl and a sports week Of top-ranking amateur competition in track, tennis, basketball, box ing, yachting and rowing has grown out of their idea.
 The sports committee got 300 citizens to guarantee S100 each for expenses so nobody could lose much during the first three wars. Since then the Mid Winter sports Association has assumed all obligations. They raised $710,- 900 to increase Tulane's stadium the Sugar BoWl-to seat 70,000.
 There is no sectional represen- tation idea behind the Sugar Bowl. An 11-man executive com mitt2e chooses and invites com- peting teams. These teams uSual- ly get 3712 percent of the gate.
 The Cotton Bowl at Dallas was born five years ago in the mind of an oil man, J. Curtis San ford. He just about put on the first game single-handed. But it was a success and Tsxas Christ ian and Marquette drew around $l6, GOO each Sanford just broke even.
 He, along with other Dallas business men promoted the Cot ton Bowl each succeeding year. This year it was turned ov.r to the Southwest Conference to run.
 The Orange Bowl game was conceived nine years ago as a publicity stunt.
 Miami boosters, searching for something to attract early-sea- son attention to the winter re- sort hit upon the idea of New Years Day football game.
 Chick Meehan brought Manhat tan Co lege to play the Univer- sity of Miami. Some $500 spec tators sat in improvisad wooden stands on January l, 1883 and
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
AP FEATURE SERVICE

PASADENA, Cal. - How did all thsse New Years Day foot ball bowl games get started?
 We'll. the Rose Bowl, oldest of the holiday gridiron attractions put on it's first game in 1916 when Washington State beat Brown 14-0
 But Pasadena had been in the news with a January l celebra- tion long before that. Away back in 1890 it's first Tournament of Roses was held. And the Tourna- ment of Roses parade still far outdraWs the football game.
 More than a million and guar ter people swarm into this town, with a normal 85,000 population to see the fve-mile long morning parade. Around 86,000 s2e the grid game in the afternoon. But the game pays for the parade. The gross is around S325,000 and after $20,000 expenses is taken out the profit is split three ways roughly 26 percent to the Toucna msnt of Roses Association, and 37 percent to each of the com peting teams,
 The Tournament of Roses As sociation allows the Pacific Coast Conference to select the west ern representative in the Rose Bowl. The team is allowed to choose an eastern" club. The Association has 125 active and 300 associate members.
 Seven years ago the New Or leans Mid-Wint-r Sports Associa tion in the process of organiza- tion asked civic and business groups and citizens to join. Only 39 citizens and organizations com bined thought enough of the pros poets to become members.
 But their drsam came true The
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
 COMPANY

 of money to the Territory to as sist in rendering aid to th-se two unfortunate groups of Alaska residents.
 In addition many State Legis- latures are, according to MT. Wade considering extending their unemployment insurance benefits to individuals employed by so-called small employers. Such action is recommended by he Social Security Board, and it is hoped that the members of the Alaska Legislature will consider similar action.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
May Inaugurate New Programs Of Soc. Security

Inventory time is almost al hand and it might be we'll for the people of the Territory of Alaska to take an inventory Ot the social security program and to plan for future developments, according to Hugh J. Wade, Terri torial Director of the Alaska Of flee of the Social Security Board.
 In l940 the Territory of Al aska received in grants from the Social Security Board a total of S310,70299 bringing the total amount of money granted to the Territory by the Board to $83l,- 121.55 since the enactment of the Social Security Act.
 The Department of Public Vel fare in 1940, received $246, 908.14 to be expended in accordance with Alaska's Old-AgeAssistance Law under a plan approved by the Social Security Board. Under this program l,500 ne dy-aged in diViduals are receiving oldage assistance. The sum represents an increase of $65,613.24 over the amount received by the Terri tory in 1889 and there is an in crease of 300 persons receiving aid from this program.
 The Unemployment Compensa- ticn Commission has been grant ed during the year 1940 by the Social Security Board from Title III funds, a total of $63, ,79485 for use in paying the administration costs of that az ncy. During the past year many thousands of dol lars were paid out by this agen- cy in unemployment benefits to persons entitled thereto under the Alaska Unemployment Com pensation Law.
 There are two programs provid ed for in the Social Security Act not yet in operation in the Terri tory of Alaska. They are: Aid to Dependent Children and Aid to the Blind. It is the hope of the Social Security Board that the members of the Territorial Leg islature at the fifteenth regular session converting in January of l94l will give serious thought and study to the advisability of enacting legislation which will permit the Territory to partici- pate in these two additional pro- grams.
 According to MT. Wade if the legislature does take such action the Social Security Board would be able to grant additional sums
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
Marshal Petain
 Ia c or 2 nlz c s French Cabinet
Continued From Page One)

(Continued From Page One) ister Charles Huntz.ger who sign ed the armistice with Germany, becomes ths defense chief. Pierre Flandin, reputedly a pro-Nazi, directs foreign and economic af- fairs.
 The change came as diplomatic circles in Switzerland heard that Bonapartists were negotiating with the Vichy government for the r-turn of Napoleon's great grand nephew, Prince Louis Nap oleon, the Count of Montford, aged 26, to become the ruler of modern France.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03

watched as Miami toppled favor ed Manhattan, ' to 0.
 That was the beginning, al though the affair was then call ed the Palm Festival Game. Ir 1884 Duquesne whipped Miami B to 2. Bucknell walloped Mi ami 26-0 in 1885.
 The game had caught on and the Orange Bowl title was adopt ed. Miami built steel-and-con crete stadium and plans were faid to mahc the event serve double duty in publicizing the state @eitrus industry and tourist attractions.
 Through sheer luck packers managed to match opponents who turned in two corking con- tests. The 1889 game in which Tenness conquered previously ulbeaten Oklahoma, IT to 0, real ly put the Orange Bowl on the map. The gross gate was $91,OO0, each team getting about $27,000.
 This years program featured Stanford and Nebraska in the R9Sp Bowl Tenn Ssep and POst0n College in the Sugar Bowl, Mis- siszippi State and Georgetown in the Orange Bow! and Fordham and the Texas Aggies in the Cot son Bowl. In other less publiciz- ed bowl games Western Reserve met Arizona State in ElPaso's S Sun Bowl.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
WOULD GIVE MONEY

DETRORIT, lPD Henry Ford said today that if Great Britain needs money he favored giving them all they want
 Tt will end the war in hur- ry,7 he said in a brief interview We did it before and We might as wei do it again"
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
Former British Sub Thetis Sinks Italian Sub

London's Admiralty reported the dramatic sinking of an Ital- ian sub by the British submarine Thunderbolt, formerly the Thetis which sank June 1, 1889, taking 99 men to their deaths.
The Nome nugget., 1941-01-03
MEXICO TO PAY INSTALL MENT ON SEIZED LANDS

MEXICO CITY - Government officials announced today MeXi- co.'s regular installment payment for agricultural lands seized from American citizens will be paid tomorrow. Financa minis ter for the Mexican government said the payment would amount to nearly a half million dollars An additional $24,000 will be paid to individual companies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

A SALE or REBUILT WASHERS
Every washer completely reconditioned and
refinished. All run perfect. Thor, si1.s0.
Conion, like new, t77 So 1000. Sis no
Easy dryer, sac. 70. Nary ethera Feoksll
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-26

A CUSTOMER cancellation forces sale OF
gorgeous new ape. bedroom suite; origi-
nal price Sos: VIII sacrifice. SIS. terms.
WARDS Outlet, 7t34 Harper,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
Legal Notices
NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE OF SALE
SS7,eoO.oe
School District Ne. 3. FraetisnaI, Tswn-
ships Of Harrison and Clinton, Ma
comb County, Michigan.
1871 ROUNDING BONDS
Sealed bids for the purchase of lell
Refunding Bonds of School District No.
Fractional Townships Of Harrison and
Clinton. Macomb County. Michigan, of
the face amount of 357.0o0.o0 win Be
received by the undersigned at the
office Of the Board of Education Of said
school district in the South River School
In said District until 500 o'clock p. n.
Eastern Standard time. on the eth day
Of September, ls4l. at which time and
place they will be opened and consid-
cred by the Board Of Education Of said
school district.
The said bonds will be dated Auglst
l, 1o4l; will be numbered consecutively
tn the direct order Of their maturities,
from l to 81 both inclusive: and will
mature serially 100000 November I,
each year, 1912 to l9<4 both inclusive
and $4,000 November I, each year.
lS45 to 1851 both inclusive. Said bonds
will be coupon bonds Of the denomina-
ton OF $1,000 each: will bear interest at
rate, or rates. expressed in multiples
of " of 10 not exceeding ~ Per an
mum to November 1, ls%S, inclusive and
not exceeding 3isT per anum thereof
ter. payable May !. 1912 and ssmi-an-
nually thereafter on November Let and
and interest will be payable at the
Detroit Trust Company. Detroit. Michi-
gan. Bonds l to 81 both inclusive will
not be subject to call for prior rsdsmp-
tom Bonds 50 to 81 both inclusive, will
be subject to prior redemption In In
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-25
Stiff Sabotage
in Paris Area
Investigate Acts
Against RoiIwoys

oVICHY, Unoccupied France,
Aug. 25-(R-Five acts of sabo-
tage against railways in the
Paris area in the past two weeks
were disclosed by French au-
thorities yesterday as car full
of Germans smashed into cable
trap in a Paris suburb.
Fernand De Brinon, tn e
Vichy Governments Paris Rep
resentative, appealed to railroad
workers not to endanger thou
sands of lives by sabotage. He
said Communists had revived
their activities and blamed them
for the railway damage.
Pierre Pucheu, Minister of the
Interior, also blamed Commun-
lists for disorders he said were
planned to paralyze the govern
ment by provoking German re-
prisals.
German occupants OF the au-
tomobile which drove into q ca
BILE stretched across a street
were said to be injured.
1t was the first incident since
German authorities announced
that all Frenchmen arrested
since the armistice would be
held as hostages to be punished
for any crimes against the Ger
man forces.
Guards also have been report
ed drafted for the railways in
Occupied France to be held re-
sponsible for sabotage.
Pucheu said six persons were
involved in the Staying of the
Socialist leader Marx Dormoy
July 25 and three of them were
later killed in Nice when bomb
they were carrying exploded.
Two others were believed ar
rested and one was still at large.
Those concerned in the bomb
ing of the Vichy Synagogue Au-
gust 10 were reported to have
been members of the Pro-Fascist
Jacques Doriot youth movement.