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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25
. HiehIiehts From
The --latest Books .

Writing one historical novel
ID no small task. So consider
the work Of Nell II. Swanson
has scheduled for himself In an
nouncing his intention to write
80 inte4tated novels, oil dealing
with the beginnings Of the Unit
ed States.
This Hercules Of American
nptaon makes m suspicious
stort -, his new project with
The Silent Drum" (Farrar and
Rinehart: $2.76), q story Of the
Conoco- cheaque valley rebel
Non against British authority,
10 years before the Revolution.
You'll and characters Of Swan
sons earlier works, '"The Judas
Tree" and 1.-THE First Rebel"
again in this new story, but the
novel Is separate and individual,
and entirely satisfying for al
who demand action with their
history.
Central character 10 Fritz van
Buren,, runaway bond boy, who
has lived long enough with the
Shawnees to resent his return
to white civilization. But Fritz
goes back, chiefly 70 save the
life Of q small, nameless cap
tive girl. Almost immediately
he finds himself In the middle
of an embryonic was between
the British and PennsylvanianS.
That rebellion-Jim~ Smiths
war-was the nrst spark that
later famed into revolution.
Frontier trade was the cause.
The traders rive Indians guns,
powder, kni'.ss. The Indians
used those same guns and knives
TO massacre frontier settlers.
struck at both Indians and trad
ers.
Newspaperman Swanson sets
and. maintains .. swift pace In
his novel,, Snrr0unQe Ms octl0n
with carefully detailed descrip-
tiou. The complete picture II
vivid ana accurate. Y
Z And, best Of al, the story
rims true. There are no arch
villains, no extraordinary he
roe. These are simple hard
working pioueors, seeking 10
malID = 11v1lg. build homes In
.. 1Pon&i1r wilderness. And II
they ere rough n. they: are cruel,
e = hecaUse The, times were
eo0th md cruel T1,ees wSge
Ne zoendofS Of America; Ia
tiaeir SacriAcss and suffering .
nation W1s born.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25
TEN YEARS AGO

1891
An ampliiled and more or less
permanent bus loop service will
start In Mount Clemens shortly.
The loop will be from the cor.
ner Of Cas- and Gratiot avenues
TO Broadway, Broadway 10
Jones. Jones 70 North, North to
Euclid, Euclid to 0ratiot and
south on 0ratiot 70 the waiting
room 1t Cas- and Gratiot.
The executive board Of the
Monday Musicale will b guests
ut . luncheon q the p. A. e.
next Tuesday when musicians
Of Detroit and surrounding
towns will hear John Erskine
talk. He Il professor In Column
bia University, . well-known
author, and . talented musician.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
I'VE YEARS AGO TODAY

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1885
Deputy Sheriff Pat OGrady
figures out how to spot . stolen
car In fifty, and proves his
system by recovering . vehicle
and arresting two Detroiters.
Macy +. Watkins elected
president Of Macomb County
Trust company.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25
80 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Monitor u able to an
nounce this morning that Col.
Dawes and his construction
company have formally abandon.
ed the shore railroad protest
and there IL little hope that tn
poject will hold up. What now
think those able roosters who
proclaimed that the road would
be built anyhow?
Officers Of the NJ. ClemenS
Shooting and Fishing associa-
ton included. Pres. N. ]. Gibbs:
vice-pres., b. r. Mc.Artf ur3
Sec. Anthony Cxi1ek: Treas i
J. Daily: Directors, II. +. Ters
rim, Arthur Donsldeon. y. u.
Wilson, Chas. L0usby, Casper
Cxt1ek.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25
.. YEARS AGO TODAY

4 new mercantils house. Win
soon opGn- IN ~ Clemens. To
firm VA consist 6 Nr. John Is
Brehlsr and . Dstroit gentle
man. r. Win % into the seoco
"a Naco0b street now occupied
b. Theodore llossr, who movup
into DiewsTs new block. -
Ysunt etroeG IL
oeoqGoe 1ro down % - eou1D
q 1sooa - ~ = luxury -
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25

The thermometer has been
only five degrees above normal
during the past 80 days.
G. L. Phelps will open q coal
yard 1t Tairchild.
- YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1891
The King House u receiving
q general renovation.
Sketches have been made for
. new high school building.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25

Draftees are having the novel experience
81 learning 70 take orders before they Get mar
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-25

{, ,1t would be impossible for Tie
heart of n empire % he pho
ID whsre ~ beating could -
iu1ef6efed with. The 4mp1ro
would uevor mIDve - Canada. i
wsu1d tisapps1r Tint.
lss1o91 a1H6wsll CO.
\. ~ I. 4 y 8. y. N Il. * /.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1941-03-14
Vynikajici ucenec usmrcen.

Pr leteck6m nestesti, jez Sc
udalo ma novofundlandskem
pobTezf, zahynul vynikaj1c1 u
cenec Sir Frederick Banting,
znamy jake spoluvynalezce in
sulinu a S MIN byli usmrceni
diva valecnf letci. Sir Banting
byl vynikajfcfm lekarem, po-
sledn1 dobu cinny jake vrchn1
armadnf lekaT, a nalezal Sc ma
ceste do Angle, ably pfedlozil
Wade svdj nejnovejsl v~ynalez,
|jenz NIUE byt S prospechem
pouzit v nynejsi valce. Pres to,
re bylo nalehano, ably cestu Cd
lozil, nevzdal Sc sveho 1myslu
a zaplatil to zivotem. Byl 40
rokd star a We vedeckych kru-
zfch poz1val vseobecne vaznos-
tt. S MIN zahynuli letci Will
liam Bird a William Snailham.
Jedine pilot kapitan Jos. C.
Mackay z Kansas City Sc "a
chranil.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1941-03-14
Mlady krajan byl usmrcen We
sluxbS u dSlostfelectva.

V Granger, Texas byl vypra-
ven pohreb mladeho krajana
Juliuse V. Vftka, ktery pfisel c
zivot nestastnou nahodou jake
voj1n We sluzbe We Fort Bragg
Severn1 Karolina.
julius V. Vltek slouzil u de.
lostfelectva pravidelne arma.
dy Spoj. Statd jiz sedmy rok
Byl 26 rokG star a zanecha.
zde otce Frantiska V1tka a dvt
sestry. K vecnemu odpocinkl
byl ulozen ma hfbitove Cesko
moravskych bratTl.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1941-03-14
Americky vychod pamatce Ma
sarykove Proklamace guverne-
ri We statech New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut a
Massachusetts,.

/, Guverneri ctyr stat1 americ
keno Vychodu projevili letoi
steJne jake loni jmenem obyva
telstva techto statn svou odda.
most pamatce Masarykove tim
re vydali proklamace Ike dni z
Drezna. Guverner Herbert H
Lehman ucinil tax "a stat New
York, guevrner Leverett III. Sal.
tonstall Ia stat Massachusetts,,
guverner Charles Edison "a
stat New Jersey a guverner Ro-
pert A. Hurley "a stat Connec-
ticut.
l., Proklamce massachusetts,
no guvernera byla v krajan-
skem tisku jiz uveTejnena. Pro.
klamace new-yorskeho guver-
nera ma toto zneni:
"Spojene Staty byly 81 vzdy
vedomy sveho spTfznen1 Sc Sc
sterskou Ceskoslovenskou repu-
blikou. Narody obou zemf me-
ly tyr ideal svobody, snaseli-
vostl, spravedlnosti a zakonne-
no fadu. Byly oba inspirova-
ny neochvejnou virou v demo
kracii.
Y nasl vlastni SIM Nezavis-
lost We Filadelfii, kde svoboda
Aneriky byla pc prve vyhlase-
ma, vyhlasil president Tomas
Garrigue Masaryk v rijnu 1913
obnovu nezavislosti sve zeme.
V kratkem udobf dvaceti let
mlada Ceskoslovenska republi-
ka, jez byla zalozena ma stale
tie lasce k svobode, prokazala
pred celym svetem narok ma
sve misto mezi narody. Jej1 lid,
stejne jake mas, tTlmal prapor
demokracie. Byl vybaven IT,
miz svobodami, jez jsou nasfm
drahocennym dedictvfm.
Dvacet let pc obnovenf Ces-
koslovenske r%epubliky stall Sc
statecny narod teto republiky
prvn1 obet1 nasilnicke chtivosti
a barbarske zadostivosti. Jeif
lid byl zotrocen a zbaven svych
svobod.
Sedmeho bfezna vzpomenou
nasi obcane ceskoslovenskeho
puvodu spolu s mnohymi anne
rickymi pTateli Ceskosloven-
ska, devadesatych prvn1ch ma
rozenin presidential Osvobodite-
lie Tomase Garriguo Masaryka.
Shromazdl Sc, ably uctili pamat
ku muze vskutku veilkeho, je-
hoz cely zivot byl venovan bo-
jovne obrane demokracie.
Tud1z ia, Herbert HI. Lehman
bguverner statu New York, pro
hlasuji t1mto patek, sedmy bfe.
zen, "a Ceskoslovensky den, a.
by lid naseho statu mel pr1lezi.
tost verejne vyjadTit svdj hlu.
boky obdiv pro muze vznese.
neho a svou srdecnou sympati
statecnemu a svobodu miluj1cl-
mu narodu, jenz je nyn1 docas-
ne podmanen mocnymi, ponur.
nymi silami, jez jsou rozhodnu-
ty znicit vsechnu demokracii q
vsechnu svobodu pc celeml sve,
te.
Pravo must opet zv1tezit mad
nasillm. Modllme Sc "a to, a.
by svoboda a demokratickJ
rad byl brzy znovu navracen
ceskoslovenskemu lidu."
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1941-03-14
Druzicka zemreia " kostele.

V Port Jervis, N. Y, Stanley
Cooper skonala nahle v nedeli
v luteranskem kostele sv. Pc
ira, kde byla druzickou ma swat
be. Byla skosena ochrnutfm
srdce.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
WHO SAYS WE'RE SOFT?
Fighting 69t tells why Americans
and boys and girls tougher mentally and
physically. than German propagands want believe
by Col. william J. C'Nild Bilr) Donovan

two prime qualities of democracy have come
to the fore - individual initiative and self
reliance.
But modern war is not a struggle between
armies alone it is struggle between the en-
tire populations of opposing nations. Has a
comparatively high standard of living, demo-
cratically achieved, impaired Our civilian
stamina? Have we smothered our fighting
spirit in material comforts and lost sight of
the nations security in a frantic search for
our own well-being? Our patriotic detractors
seem to think so. But the record doesn't bear
them out.
The national health has improved with
every advance in housing, diet, medical care
and working conditions And health is one
national defense. The other is morale Let's
consider first our balance sheet of health.
In the America of today, the deadliest
diseases take only twenty to thirty per cent
of their toll a generation ago. Ten years have
been added to the life expectancy of the aver
age American since the last war Back in 1896
our American Olympics team competed in
Berlin with the pick of the worlds young
athletes - and walked off with the lions
share of the honors. Today, four years later,
we see new evidences of national vigor in the
young men enlisting in the nations armed
services. Youths who volunteered for armed
service in 1910 averaged two inches taller and
fifteen pounds brawnier than their fathers
who enlisted in 1917.
It's true that life is easier for us today
than it was a generation or two ago. Labor
saving devices on the one hand and social
and labor legislation on the other have vastly
reduced the hazards and hardships of making
Evening star., 1941-02-02

"ELL man often enough and skillfully
enough that he's looking sick and the
- chances are very good that he will ac-
tually begin to feel sick. He may wobble at
the knees or lose his appetite or even run
fever. But his real ailment is suggestibility.
If he's caught in time and told the facts, the
symptoms usually disappear rapidly.
Suggestibility in nations runs parallel
course. 1t is greatest during period of crisis
when fear puts hairtrigger release on the
emotions. Our own hurried preparations to
meet suddenly realized danger have brought
with them an opportunity that the Nazis
have not overlooked.
Countless suggestions and innuendOes are
being used to persuade us that democracy
has made us "soft" - not fit material to
challenge the tougher products of Nazi dis
cipline." 1t is the same form of psychological
sabotage that Germany practiced so effec-
lively In Europe tc soften" one after another
of the demoUacies, before plucking them off
by force. And the worst of it is that nervous
Americans, many sincere in their patriotism,
are the unwilling instruments in this attempt
to undermine democratic morale.
Just how soft are we, anyway? And what
has democracy to do with it?
Before the outbreak of the war, there was
much Nazi-inspired talk in England about
the "softness" of the demoIacies, including
England. Last July, made flying visit to
England to observe her preparations for the
long fight ahead. An invasion attempt was
expected at any moment. The people were
still stunned by the fall of France. They knew
that they stood alone on their little island
against the most powerful combination of
forces the world had ever known. In the mir
Evening star., 1941-02-02
New Kind of Soldier

ODAY our armed forces are being trained
for new kind of war. New machines and new
weapons have quickened the pace. And the
perfect coordination required of many highly
specialized skills has made necessary the de-
Capitalization of command. New responsible
ity has been thrown on the junior and nom
commissioned officers and on the man in the
tank or plane or mechanized unit Given his
objective, the modern soldier is on his own.
Success depends on his individual skill and
judgment. Thus. in military training today,
Evening star., 1941-02-02

acle of D,mkerque they had brought home
most of their army But in Flanders they had
lost their best equipment guns and tanks
and large quantities of essential supplies.
travelled all over England. visited units
of the navy, the army and the Royal Air
Force. l talked with the man on the street.
What impressed me in every Briton l met
was his calm resolution to fight it out to the
last ounce of his strength. Democracy had
not ''softened" the British people after all.
Germany knew it. The world knew it. And
now the British people know it, too.
Returning from England in August,
travelled all over our own country. was with
our fleet at sea. l saw our camps and training
centers talked with our officers and men.
In those visits, l saw nothing of democratic
softness. But did see plenty of democracy -
democracy speeding ahead to provide this
country with an armed strength to match any
in the world. The dead line set for this gigan-
tic effort was less than two years away. To
arm Germany, Hitler, using the methods of
dictatorship, required seven years and the
enslavement of the German people.
Evening star., 1941-02-02
Making Leisure Count

j HE increased leisure time now available
to all of us is another change in American
life that brings cries of alarm from the democ-
racy-baiters. Apparently they have never
bothered to investigate how Americans have
chosen to spend that leisure. A glance at
recent surveys on recreation should reassure
them. Participation in active sports has par
alleled the rise in leisure time available to
the common man, until today the young man
or woman who does not engage in some active
sport regularly is the exception. Bowling
alone engages 100000; skiing. 800, 600;
golf, $500, 900; fishing, 1900, 900; and hunt
ing more than 100000 Altogether, the
sports army of the United States has grown
to 100000 - and these are active partici-
pants, not passive spectators. Expenditures
for active participation in golf alone totals
more every year than the paid admissions to
all staged sporting events.
No, we're not so soft Democracy has given
us advantages in health and vigor that are
the prime assets in our present efforts to pre-
pare. The doctrine of the greatest good to
the greatest number hasn't failed us in this
hour of greatest need. The call is not for a
curtailment of democracy, but for an extern
(Confinved on pose -
2-2-4I
Evening star., 1941-02-02

a living. But Americans still have to work
for their bread, and the statistics show that
two-thirds of the male workers in the United
States are engaged in jobs requiring physical
strength and endurance. Take look down
the list of manual occupations - construc-
ton work, farming, forestry, fishing, manufac-
turing, mining, smelling. Men who make
their living digging coal, forging steel, build
ing roads. cutting timber, stoking locomotives
and driving trucks are not inclined to grow
soft at their jobs And as for fighting spirit,
just try calling one of them ''softie" to his
face.
The other thirty per cent of our male bread
winners are engaged in more or less sedentary
occupations. They are the great white-collar
class, the clerks, the statesmen, accountants,
doctors, lawyers and merchants Great physi-
cal Drawn is not important in their jobs.
But since when have they become group of
weaklings? During the last war, some of the
finest physical specimens in my regiment
were men who had worked in banks, account
ing Offices and department stores.
Evening star., 1941-10-20
Scottish Rite Opens
Biennial Conference
Al Temple Here
Supreme Council
PIons Reception for
Members Tonight

The Supreme Council. Southern
Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Ac-
repted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
today opened its five-day biennial
conference At the House OF the
Temple. Sixteenth and streets
NV.
Presided over by Col John H.
Cowles OF this city grand COM
nander. the council held business
session this morning and planned to
60 to Mount Vernon this afternoon
to lay a wreath on the Tomb Of
George Washington.
The morning session was given
over principally to administrative
business of the Council. Grand
Comdr. Cowles also conducted a
memorial service for the dead who
had been members of the various
Supreme Councils throughout the
world Music for this was presented
by Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, soprano,
accompanied by Harry G. Kimball
at the organ, and trumpeters from
Fort Myer, headed by Louis S.
Yassel. a member of the Scottish
Rite. who is leader of the Army
Band at Fort Myer.
A reception will be held at the
House of the Temple at o'clock
tonight by the Supreme Council to
which all Scottish Rite Masons and
their guests have been invited. There
will be musical program featuring
Edward c. ODell. organist of Balti-
more, and the Chevy Chase
ChanterS.
Special Ceremonies.
The council tomorrow will honor
outstanding Scottish Rite masons by
eelecting those to receive the Thirty
third Degree and the degree known
as knight Commander OF the Court
of Honor. The K. C. c. H. degree
will be conferred Wednesday night
at ceremonies open also to Thirty
second Degree Masons and the
Thirty second Degree will be con-
ferred Friday night, following a ban
uuet for the men newly elected to
this highest degree of the Scottish
Rite.
Many distinguished members OF
the Rite are in Washington for the
sessions. C. F. Kleinknecht of this
city is acting secretary general OF
the council, and council members
are present from all parts of the
Southern jurisdiction, which IN
cludes those States south of Ohio,
west of the Mississippi and the ter
ritories of the United States.
Among the active members of the
council is Gen. Charles P. Summer
all, former chief of staff Of the
Army and wartime commander Of
the lst Division overseas.
Tribute to Gen. Price.
Representing the Northern JurIs-
diction Scottish Rite, of which he is
grand commander, is Melvin M.
johnson of Boston, dean Of Boston
University School of Law and
former grand master of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts,.
Tribute was paid yesterday to the
memory of Gen. Albert Pike of
Arkansas, who was grand commander
Of the Southern Jurisdiction from
1889 to 1891 His name is perpetu-
ated here by the Albert Pike Con-
sistory of Scottish Rite whose
temple is at 2900 Sixteenth street
NV. The eulogy to Gen. Pike was
delivered at the House of the Temple
yesterday afternoon by DR.. Claud F.
Young of Fort Scott, Kans.. after
which the council went to Oak Hill
Cemetery to place wreath on his
grave.
Evening star., 1941-10-20

and returned like water from a
hose to the chromosphere only 5000
miles from the base of the prom
inence. the vortex of which had
then reached a height OF $4,000
miles.
From the top knot broke away
and was elected to vertical height
OF $4,000 miles at a velocity of 81
miles second. There 1t faded
and perhaps wasted away in space" "
The rotating velocity OF this prom
inence, he said, was "a miles a Sec
Evening star., 1941-10-20

astronomer, was 5000 miles In diam.
eter at the base, tapering to $500
at the ,op. Pictures were taken
at one-minute intervals with
movie camera attached to a tele-
scope
"A smokelike column projected
from the top Of this prominence
reached height of $4,000 miles" "
DR.. Petit said. and a cloud prof.
ected along with it floated gradual
ly away at a height of 47,000. miles,
The smokelike column bent over
Evening star., 1941-10-20

ond. adding that another such tor
nado prominence had been observed
to increase its whirling until 1T
blew up like a desert storm"
DR.. Petit said prominences have
been numerous in recent months
with unusually clear seeing" so that
the movie shooting had been good
Evening star., 1941-10-20
Argentine Leader Urges
Strong Anti-Nozi Stand
B, the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina, Oct.
eo-Nicolas Repetto, Socialist presi-
dental candidate in 1887 yesterday
urged Argentina to abandon her
policy of strict neutrality and to
"join with the nations which fight
for the defeat of Germany"
The administration has been
weak, Mr.. Repetto said, in its at
titude toward the virtual demand
of the Chamber of Deputies for
custer of the German Ambassador,
Baron Edmund Won Hermann, on
grounds of activities hostile to Ar
gentina.
Mr. Repetto said Argentina should
not wait for Berlin to act, but "ex-
ercising An essential right should
provoke the departure Of an un-
wanted diplomat"
Evening star., 1941-10-20
browns in Automobile

SEAFORD, Del. Oct. 20 LP,.-J.
Roy Cannon, 55, former Democratic
State Senator, was drowned today
as his automobile plunged into the
Nanticoke River near Seaford.
Evening star., 1941-10-20
movies Show Column of Fire
Leuping 66,OOOMi|es From Sun

He told OF obtaining movies of a
tornado prominence which showed
it had threads like a right-hand
screw, with the screw revolving
clockWise."
The vortex Of this prominence,
said the Mount Wilson Observatory
Evening star., 1941-10-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PASADENA, Calf, Oct. 2o.-Dr,
Edison Petit says that motion pic
lures are proving valuable in study
ing the motions Of prominences,
great clouds of fiery gas which shoot
ont from the sun
Evening star., 1941-10-20

the Laurel business section de-
stroyed two industrial buildings and
two homes today with an estimated
loss of $6l 900.
Evening star., 1941-10-20
Fire Hits LoureI, Del.

LAUREL. Del. Oct. 20 lP.-Fire
that for a time threatened to sweep
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22
DEATH PENALTY
 IN LABOR STRIKE
Netherlands Given Strict Warning By Adninistra.
 tor for Germany

The Hague, Netherlands, via Ber- lin), May 2l.-(UP)-The death penalty was decreed today for par- ticularly serious cases of labor law violations. Dr. Arthur Seyss-In- quart, German administrator for Holland, decreed that any worker participating in a strike or any em- ployer guilty Of lockout was liable to not less than one years impris- onment, and that the punishment might be life Imprisonment or death. The closing of factories or business without sufficient reason also was forbidden. Activity in behalf of any or dissolved political party, and the possession or distribution of anti-German literature, pictures or other materials, were outlawed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-22
15O,OOO Law Officers, Under J. Edgar Hoover, Open Drive On Fifth Columnists

which is now an active, vigilant, alert army safeguarding the internal security of our nation," Hoover said.
 Hoover outlined the Allowing oL'- jectives of the mobilization:
 1. Establish protective measures against fifth column agents in every section of the country, reducing the possibility of their travelling around undetected.
 2. Give state and local police the training and experience required to keep them constantly on the alert to the problems of national defense, developing them into adjuncts of the intelligence services of the FBI.
 3. Demonstrate that despite dif- faculties arising from limitations on the jurisdiction of police due to the boundary lines of cities. counties or