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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA service StSII OoStesPe"oens
HOLLYWOOD-Ever since the
production of "Typhoon," which
was such an exaggerated, though
elegantly presented adventure
picture that 1t was widely re-
garded aS a satire on all the old
South Seas hokum, the bosses
around Paramount have suspect
ed that it might be profitable to
ridicule other types of thrillers.
So in 1.-THE Road to Zanzibar"
a lusty swing with the slapstick
is taken at all the jungle films.
And this time, from one of the
opening shots when Bing Cros-
by, Bob Hope and Dorothy La
mour are freed by galloping
rhinos from some old travelog,
there's no doubt that they intend
to be funny. They succeed very
well.
Most of the picture concerns
encounters with African savages,
and there's even the traditional
cooking pot in which the natives
plan to fricassee a few movie
stars. Another time, the two
gents wander into temple, find
some ceremonial drums, and 60
into jam session.
Unwittingly they send some
very insulting messages in jun
gle code, and furious cannibals
converge on the place from miles
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
HOPE HOPES TO BEAT
GORuLA-BUT DOESN'T

Hope Is matched to fight q
gorilla, and after q minute of
Tarzantics the scrap turns into an
hilarious burlesque on modern
wrestling. Finally the beast
heaves Hope out of the cage, then
shakes his hands over his head
in the gesture Of q champion.
At another spot in the picture,
Crosby and Miss Lamour are
padding q native canoe through
an idyllic setting and she says,
This reminds me Of the movies,
where the boy and girl are in
some lonely, beautiful place and
he begins to sing and you hear
a whole symphony orchestra ac-
companying him."
Crosby says yeah, that's the
way It Is, all right. He ripples
the water with his fingers, and q
harp plays. Then an orchestra
Joins In. He and the girl look
astonished, then laugh and 60 in
to q duet.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

No. Is q hand with q mo
trump pattern" but with less
honor trick strength than II re-
quired for an opening suit bid.
Type No. 2 10 q hand with one
long suit, of six cards or more,
with strength in 1t sufficient for
an "out" bid If necessary, but
usually not enough strength for
an opening suit bid.
South's hand today Il typical
o I the No. 2 type on which NC
Pherran opens with one no
trump. North's jump takeout
of three spades says, "Partuer,
there Is sure game In our
cards II your hand II Of type
No. L." The Jump overcsll y
thus q force IL the opening bid
der has the subminimum type
Of hand. II ne holds the freak
suit type. he must use his judg.
how to respond to the Jump ov-
ercsll.
South's holding Of three
spsdes. q singleton diamond.
and the club ace justified him
in carrying the contract TO four
spades. With one spade and
th ee diamonds. he would sin.p-
ly have passed.
In the 'ay North lost one
heart srd one diamond, making
five-odd. -.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
STORIES
. IN STAMPS
Stamps Troce History
Of Worlds TronsPort

XOU can 90 almost anywhere In
= the world in practically any
type vehicle in q stamp collection.
One Of the oldest types Of primi-
tive transport Is pictured on the
North Borneo stamp above. ::
Many stamps are designed to
show progress Of transportation.
Such q stamp was New Zealand's
centennial issue showing OK cart,
railroad, steamship and airplane.
Canoe, sailing vessel and steam
ship were pictured on the u. s.
Hudson-Fulton 2-cent issue Of
1909.
Stamps keep pace with advances
In transportation, a. evidenced By
the streamlined trains Of Ru.
mania's railroad issue, one OF
many such designs. Trucks and
buses have found their way into
stamp albums.
In the air, stamp designers have
traced the progress Of aviation
from Pilatre de Rozier and his
balloon to Zeppelins, and from
Leonardo da Vinci's Tying ma.
chine to the 1910 airliners. y. 8.
issues include aircraft nom the
Wright plane to the trans-PaciAc
Clippers.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
INSULATED CONSUMERS"

"Amerco's ultimate consumer"
Business Week points out, "hos been
weII-insuIdted from the price jumps
that have occurred"
The charts demonstrate that vivid
". Since the outbreak of the war. the
Business Week-AnnoIist CvcIicoI Com
modify Price Index has advanced 20
Der cent. The U. S. Bureau Of Labor
Wholesale Price Index has advanced
81 per cent. Yet the Bureau Of Labor
Cost Of Living Index is unchanged.
Several factors ore responsible for
that, and one of the most important hos
been high degree Of efficiency reach
ed by the retail ndustry-choin and in
dependent, super-morket and variety
store, department store and five-ond-
ten. Progressive retailing, by working
out new methods of bringing goods to
the consumer at lower in-between costs,
hos so for been able to keep from poss-
ing price rises on.
Ii the wholesale price trend con-
tinues upword long enough, however.
the retail index must obviously be Of
fected. As time goes on, in other words.
the cycle is opt to move against the
wooe-eorner-ond particularly against
those persons whose incomes are fixed,
and which do not vary as conditions
change Plant capacity in all lines will
be strained, and in some commodities
there will be shortoees The war boom
will increase the purchasing power Of
certoin kinds Of workers. And this is
the stuff of which initiation can be
made.
One answer to that problem is to
further encourage retailing in its ef-
fort to lower costs-ond to remove from
the statute books each and every law
which places q premium on waste, pre-
vents open competition, and penalties
the efficient merchandise. More than
half the stotes have such laws now.
Certainly, the public interest demands
thot we give retailing, no less than man.
ufocturine, every opportunity to do its
utmost in holding down costs to the
consumers
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
TOBACCO ROAD
READY TO OPEN

The Hays Office-approved YER
sion of Tobacco Road" is being
unveiled now. after being film
ed In deep secrecy mostly be-
cause John Ford loathes all visit
ors on his sets. My only predic-
ton about the film, due to a
we'll grounded respect for Ford's
direction and Nunnally John
sons adaptive talents, IL that the
picture will be q lot better than
the play.
Now you'd think that the more
Objectionable q play was, the less
Hollywood would want 1t. But
20th-Fox was happy to pay
5000, 900 for rights to the novel
and stage production, and it has
paid another $50, 900 to launder
the story for the screen. Johnson
said, I'VE found that the raci-
ness Of the play had nothing to
do with the basic story. 20 we
Just cut Il out"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
SEA SAGA

All the SEQ stories of Melville, Con-
rod and McFee together contain no
more amazing episode than that Of the
Windsor Castle.
Lost November according to one
Of her passengers, the Windsor Castle.
two days out Of Glasgow. was ottoeked
by Nozi bombers. There was q direct
hit with 55O-pound bomb, which
crashed down through her superstruc-
ture. For awful seconds the passengers
waited for the end. But the bomb, hov-
ing smashed its way down to the engine
room, 10y silent. grim. menocine. 1t did
not explode.
Nobody aboard knew how to re-
move the fuse. Nobody knew what min
ute, what second, the deadly thing
might teor the ship to spIinters. And
for two Days the ship raced for Glasgow,
the passengers stondine by the life
boats, the engineers nursing their
mighty engines with instont deoth at
their elbows. None knew at what Sec
ond q time fuse, or some jor or concus-
sion might bring the explosion. For two
doys passengers ond crew lived init
noteIy with death.
Then Glasgow wos sighted, ond ex-
perts come hurying out to render the
bomb harmless. Only q moster touch in
the telling is needed to make this reol
episode take ronk with oil fietionoI
epics Of the sea.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
NO MORE BITING
IN LOVE SCENES

Before blood and Sand" went
into production, everybody con-
cerned with the remake saw the
silent film which was made by
Paramount In 1922. They came
out Of the projection room still
laughing, and the cracks ranged
from naive" TO "corny". ct
crossed 81 ,2S0. 000.)
They'll keep the tragic ending
In the new version, but one
change u certain: there'll be no
biting in the clinches. Fans Of
nearly 20 years ago may have
swooned at the scene where Mia
Naldi ecstatically clenched her
teeth on Rudolph Valentino, but
Rita Hayworth and Tyrone Pow
or will have to pitch . more re-
fined brand Of WOO.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
. THOUGHTS

And 1t shall be, If thou do ut
all forget the Lord thy God,
and walk after other gods, and
serve them, and worship them,
I testify against you this day
that We shall surely perish
Deuteronomy 8:l9.
Yet, II he would, man can
not live all to this world. If not
religious, he will be supersti-
lions. II he worship not the true
God, he will have his IDOLS
Theodore Parker.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

around. When fierce chiefs hold
a shouted conference in their
strange tongue, superimposed
translations in English appear on
the screen and read like dialog
FROM Back Bay drawing room.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
By VIM. e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

After writing the series Of
articles on the McPherran No
Trump, asked Bobby McPher-
ran to give me six hands he had
played in recent tournaments,
in which the McPherran No
Trump convention had been en-
ployed. Today Is the first of
the six hands.
The McPherran opening bid
of one no trump Is made on two
different types of hands. Type
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

WAsHiNGTo N-senote de-
bote.
They roll out all HE heavy
artillery and lay down q bar
rooe - with oos - when the
upper House gets q bio issue
like leose lend that It con reoI-
" fight about.
Democracy Is at work on
these days. Democracy is SOW
ed dolly.
The crowd comes eorly.
Corridors Of the Senate office
building q big long block away
from the eopitol itself. ore
usuolly empty. You could drive
q load Of hay down any Of them
without worrying about run
Ming over women and children.
But on big debate days, peo-
pie pIod like lost souls through
the miles OF corridors. hope
fully, crimly looking for the
office Of q friendly senator who
will give them posses to the
reserved section OF the oolley.
: Characters you see in SOL
broith's "Side 6lonces. Wom-
en- mostly middle-oeed women.
explaining to each other that
they've always been interested
in politics. Thot's why they're
here. A few old men. A few
zeoIots who know what its all
about. But mostly just people.
Curious.
AN OLD STORY
70 CAPITOL COPS
Back in the CopitoI building
oooin you watch inadequate
elevators lift the crowd by
skies and Fights up to the Sen
ote floor level. Then the long
climb up the marble stoirs to
the ornate heaven that is the
gallery. While elevators re-
served "for senators only"
stand idle.
Doorkeepers and cops herd
the crowd, like eottIe into q
corral at branding time. Waits
and stroys ore rounded up and
kept in line till there's q va
cant chair. Its on old story to
the copitoI cops. who have
heard so much orotoy they'd
welcome q troffic assignment
to the busiest corner in town,
just to get some place where
something happened which
would be more exciting than
sowing democracy.
Now and then q senator
comes up to the gallery himself
with q beoming constituent in
his wake. And the senator him
self makes sure that the con-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
. Hieh|iehts From
The Latest Books .

Josephus Daniels has q long
memory. He Is making the most
of it In perhaps the liveliest and
most important set Of memoirs to
come off the presses In q long
time.
The elderly North Carolina
newspaperman, who was secre-
tary of the navy under Wilson,
is now U. s. Ambassador to
Mexico under Roosevelt, pub
lished his first volume a year
ago, "Tar Heel Editor" Now
comes his second, Editor In
Politics" (University of North
Carolina Press: $500. He plans
to write two more and perhaps q
third, five In all, tracing his re-
markable experience in Ameri-
can politics from the raw deal
to the New Deal.
The raw deal" was the sort
of politics Josephus Daniels
tackled head-on % . young edi-
tor in the Carolinas Of the gay
nineties. And because he tackled
1t he got into trouble. Once
the advertisers threatened to put
his little Democratic sheet out
of existence, another time he was
held in contempt Of court.
This second volume covers the
period from 1893 TO 1913. Those
were bitter years In North Caro-
lima and Daniels chatty yet two
listed book mirrors graphically
the struggle between liberal and
reactionary forces In the south.
Always was the editor on the
side Of the progressives, ''agin"
the corporations, "aEjn" cor
ruption in politics.
But by no means does Editor
Daniels project himself boldly
into these memoirs. . Il anything
he b subordius ted - that you
get q picture Of American poll
tics first ana the story OF JOSE
phus Daniels second.
In 1893 the young editor with
q bride and family responsible.
ties and . paper with dwindling
income, accepted . post ~ as
sistsnt secretary Of the interior
in Wash 'ngton. His political
career dates from that point. He
got $2700 In Washington, lived
on $l0O q month and kept his
paper going with the balance.
Il was { sacrifice but II paid
dividends In The public benefits
that paper, the Rale's Oh News
Observer. returned to North
Carolins over the years.
Incidentally, there Is . very
rood picture Of franklin D.
Roosevelt q Daniels first knew
him IN the second volume. That
was when Roosevelt was . young
state senator Organised . band
Of liberal young Democrats 10
defeat Z pillsging Tammany
candidate, "Blue-Eyed Billy
Sheehan." for the Y. 3. Senate.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

INSIDE information ID valu-
able-yet lots Of people kick
about their doctor bills.
Another chorus girl has mar.
ried q rich mans son. We won
der II she took him at his pa
value.
One thing wrong with , lot
Of homes Il too many couples
think q pair bests Q full house.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
MS ~pEFENsE"

N beoins to look as it some OF me
i3niitlco( moves which ore being mode
Z rs ii,a name Of national defense
4 y,ouId Be carefully Investigated.
current case in point involves the
unifed Gas improvement Company, q
2jusne public utility system serving por-
tI6ns Sc d number Of stotes, This utility,
NIhich hoppens to be the Oldest holding
/ eiounpony in the United Stotes. hos OIL
V,ovs provided its customers with ex-
colient service at low and steadily de-
Ching rates.
Nov the SEC, which is administer
j,u The Holding Company (deoth SEN
te1ce1 Act Of 1895, has handed down
. femorkoble decision. On the grounds
jj,ot the uGl system must be "inte9rot-
\ ~. 4 Il has informed the company thot
X must eonfine its operations to an ~
by 80 mile oreo in Southeastern Pen.
fasyivonio, MoryIond ond Delaware. ond
lIiViest itself Of its properties in Arizona,
II 1nnessee, Konsos, New Hampshire,
Connecticut and even some in Pennsyl-
vdnio itself. This order would reduce the
utijjtys $626, 500, 900 investment by
$275: 600 600 and reduce its income by
obout one-third.
The Choirmon Of the SEC hos i'm
piied that the UGI plon may be used
as . pottern for the entire utility indus
trx, and that it is essential in view Of de-
fei,se reeds. This defense needs" Pleo
is.,enusino observers to scrotch their
hSuds. One vitol defense necessity is
pbpndont electric power, and the util-
it industry has been requested to CO.
6pogote TO the limit IN building new ia
cj|ities and in expanding existing ones.
l HE Industry is to be bedeviled With
officiol dictotes summorily forcing it to
SPLIT Up its properties, with tremen-
dous losses Of business and revenue as
q consequence, it is difficult to figure
odt Row II con carry out expansion
plans.
IS "notionol defense" to be used as
acknowledge forfurthering the waste
fut, bitter and unnecessary war which
oesrtoin group Of public Officials hos
joNo been wooine against the utilities
III 3 drive to seeiolize the industry? II
s., tlne defense program" is being mis-
Used to destroy the system Of free enter
prise and democracy it is supposed to
defend and perpetuote.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

A sleigh load Of Romeo young
people visited Treasurer Tackles
Tuesday night. The loo6 YVES
composed Of n sses Marion Mel
len, Emma shower, Emma Mar.
lam, Ella Brooks. Bertha Hall.
and Nay Beachem, and Dr..
White. Messrs. C. N. Coe. Riley
Homer and Glare Bechem.
Martin, Of the Utica Sentinel,
sports the homeliest dog Ia Ma.
comb county.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
FIRE vs.. BONES

Il isn't likely that our cities will
suffer from bombing roids in the i'm
n1ediats future but it is q good thing to
sprepore for such emergencies before
Try Happen.
Officers Of the New York Fire De-
ponsmert have arrived home otter an
Gsetended trip to London where they
studied the methods the English use in
combotinQ fire under octuoI air raid
conditions. They took their job 50 SER
iously thot they fought side by side with
~ firemsn Of London helping put out
one confloorotion offer another. They
$ound that Britoin's method of combot-
ne lncendiov bombs is based on the
ut thousands Of pieces Of small, mo-
tire fighting apparatus. most Of it
drown.
gl1ese New York firenen, who risk
l1etr lives IN order to bring home q
Nlvl6 account OF how to handle fire un-
Etef uctuol wor confIoorotion condi-
have done q tremendous service
y Dir country. From all indications
ovmons hove found that they can
c6 snach damage with incendiory
Win ths 2. 900 pound explo-
~ That hare at home a fire
IA corelessness can wreck
c:t III d defense Industry as
d sbcmbs With direct
erSction Is centrulix-
=! 1ls!see spsoods' ond
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
80 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

1891
Detroit Is bothered by dog
stealers. II some one would only
come up here and steal q hun.
dred dogs, we will present him
with the freedom of the city
in q collar box.
Lodewyck & Posner propose
to organize . stock company for
the management Of their livery
business. The firm will con-
troll the stock.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

1885
Between 10000 and 100000
parcels Of property In Macomb
county will be offered for tax
sale next May, It was es-
timated by County Treasurer
Carl Brandenburg.
More than 500 teachers are
expected next weekend in
Mount Clemens for Macomb
County Rural Teachers As
ISOLATION convention.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
Is YEARS AGO TO-DAY

- YEARS AGO COOAY
1905
Measles are reported all over
town. The county Jail has also
been affected, end criminal
cases may be held up for some
time.
The Chesterfield Creamery has
purchased the equipment of the
Warren township plant, and will
established q new skimm'ng
station.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
20 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Macomb county Republic
cans will hold their annual con-
vention Tuesday afternoon.
The Probitionists will take
their sewing to Richmond TO-
morrow to elect delegates for
the state convention.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
: BEL HIND THE SCENES
M WASHIlN CTON :

stitvont 0ots Inside. 1hot's q
vote. coma. next election. ond
more importont than the few
paragraphs missed from the
logic Of q 6orkIsy or Q Clark.
Besides there will b other
logic.
I Democracy at work. Oemoc-
roey will be saved todoy.
The show storts at noon.
Proyer. Roll call. Appointments
to confirm. Requests to have
editorials rom newspapers
they should have read and
speeches they should have
heord reprinted in the Con-
oressionol Record where they
won't be seen. Petitions from
the Navajo indians:
Judge Us, deor popo, and
distinguish our couse from
lndion Bureou that IS not
holy: deliver Us from the un-
just and deceitful John Col
Iier. For you ore our last
hope, deor popo."
Etc. Signed by Many Mule
Son and obout 500 other Mo-
vojos. Referred to the commit
tee on Indian offoirs.
Democracy at work. Democ-
rocy will be soved today.
SENATORS LISTEN
AS SENATORS SHOULD
Then the main act comes on.
"Mr. President (of the Sem
ote) ] approach the discussion
Of this historic measure with q
profound appreciation -" for
an hour and q holt.
Senators sit in their red
leather upholstered swivel
chairs behind school-like desks
in semi-eirculor rows before
the vice president. Republicans
to his left, Democrats to his
right. Some SLOUGH. Some lean
forward. Most listen intent
Iy, politely, looking like seno-
tors should. Some go on, reod-
ing. They come and 90. Poee
boys in blue serge knieker
suits come and 90. Messages.
Coils to the corridor. Whisper
inos, from one senator to his
neiehbor. Some move to other
scots to hear better. But moth
ing stops the speaker. No loud
speaker system here, just old
fashioned orotory, where they
yell IL out and wave their arms.
No opp.ouse when q speaker
finishes. It's against the rules,
but when the gallery does
break loose. the vice president
gets tough. No one reoIizsd he
could be so tough.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24

rs shout time that German propaganda
-wuliam oNeil, president General Tire.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-02-24
TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY

Jack Dempsey will come to
Mount Clemens to referee
boxing bout In June.
The new Bankers Club IL
headed by Jacob Ullrich.
Evening star., 1941-11-04
Stores Urged 10 Help
Workers Buy U. 5. Bonds

More than a dozen life insurance
salesmen. who volunteered to help
nromote sales of defense savings
bonds. today sought to sell the man
agements of Washington's eight
largest department stores on tne
idea of installing a salary allotment
plan to help their employees buy
bonds.
The campaign began this morning
AT a breakfast at the Hay-Adams
House at which the volunteers were
given their appointments with the
managements of the stores. The
group will meet at 430 pm. Friday
in the Office of John D. Marsh,
chairman of the life underwriters
section of the District Defense Saw
ings Committee. Mr. Marsh presided
at the breakfast. H. l.. Rust. Jr.,
general chairman OF the Defense
Savings Committee. addressed the
group.
Those attending included Curtis
Martin, Dunont Beerbower, Claude
A. Cook, Maurice w. Geens. John 2
OBrlen, n. NJ. fldhc, NAoi eo
Suter, Louis Maphis, Samuel
Chantker, Russell P. Freeman, E
Leslie Hardisty, T. Loehl OBrien'
Joseph M. Silverman, Guy Withers'
Earle Hough, Hugh Lynch, admin
istrator. and Walter Burkdull. dep
utv administrator OF the District
Defense Savings Committee.
Department stores called on today
were Palais Royal, Goldenberg S
Garfinckel's. Hecht Co.. Woodward d
Lothrop, Jelleff, Kann's and Lans-
burghs.