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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-24

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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-24

e you feel like shedding .
II nootaiaic tear, the current offer
lng Of books win be right up
your alley. In a variety Of diff
8erent ways, today's books speak
1loQuGntly Of the things that
uscd 20 be-of ways Of life that
are no more or are being threat
eued.
Among the most charming Is
<ssStagecoach North" by w.
StUrrs Lee Macmillan: So, an
authentic account of the life
that Great Great Grandfather
I lived N Middlebury, w., during
the period from 1871 to 184l.
II IL an astonishingly complete
report of typical people in a
typical New England town in
an era when American demOc-
racy was still a very new ex-
p.rience and something not to
Be taken too lightly. It's writ
ten in a way you'll like and
understand, and you'll know
your own great great grand
father better for having read
it.
Also about Vermont, problem
child of early America, is Fred
eric r. Van de Waters "The
Reluctant Republic" (Day: So.
Vermont didn't get into the
United States until 1791-and
Mr.. Van de Waters book tells
you why. He speaks of front
Ter ordeals, Indian raids, boun-
dairy disputes, revolutionary
battles, conspiracies and of the
people-proud, loyal, valiant,
Z patriotic.
The author does his usual good
Job of making historic fact read
like fiction.
ETCHINGS TELL STORY
Nostalgia of q different sort Is
reflected in a remarkable collec-
ton of etchings by England's
greatest artists, under the title
"This' Realm. This. England
(Hastings: $3.75). Edited by
Samuel Chamberlain, this book
IL superb reminder of old
England, the England before
bombers began paying regular
visits. Some of the seen s
shown, you will know from your
daily newspapers, have already
been married by blitzkrieg. And
you will wonder, as you leaf
through these etchings, just
how much of England's peace
full beauty has been destroyed.
Also produced by MIR. Cham
berlain is the series of camera
Impressions in "Martha's Vine
yard (Hastings: $1.25), pictorial
review of this old American
settlement as it is today. Mr..
Chamberlain's knack with q
camera, his ability to arrange
the results to obtain the great
est effect, make this volume
something you will want to keep
on your library table for a
while.
LAST O'BRIEN BOOK
Another child refugees story
Is ~ Go by Sea, ! Go by Land
Harper: So, written by p. l..
Travers and purportedly the au.
thentic diary Of 11-year-old Sa-
brina, who leaves her English
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-24
Fitefs Seek to Remind You
Sf y Beautiful Yesterday
I JUNE q ls4i

home with her brother, James, z,
to and safety In America. Here
Is another book that will make
you gulp occasionally-a book
that reflects beautifully the sim
pie faith and courage Of child
rem, who understand far more
about this war than we are
likely to think.
Each year it has been q pleas
ure to tell short story fans, stu
dents, teachers and writers about
Edward J. O'Brien's annual col
lection Of the best in short fic-
ton. Release of The Best
Short Stories of 1941" Hough-
ton Mifflin $2.75), brings the
announcement that this is the
last volume in a set of ~. Ed
ward ]. O'Brien died in London
last February.
This final collection Is on a
par with all the others. Includ-
ed In the selected best" are
stories by Stephen Vincent Benet
Erskine Caldwell, William
Faulkner, Jesse Stuart, Richard
Wright and other well-known
writer's as well as the several
unknowns whom o 'Brien always
singled out for special atten-
ton.
American fiction will miss
Edward J. O'Brien.
You won't find better round
up of Old West outlaws
the James boys, the Youngers,
the Daltons-than Burton Ras-
coe provides In his Belle Starr,
the Bandit Queen" (Randonm:
$3). The author is q deputy sher-
iff of Pottawatomie County,
Oklahoma, and has checked both
fact and fiction to get a true
picture of the post-Civil War
gunner.
Bellies biography is given in
detail and many of the stories of
her escapades refuted, many
confirmed. Belle was not as bad
as she was painted. The old
time Police Gazette was res
ponsible for q lot of that, Rascoe
says. But she was no sissy.
NEW EATON NOVEL
Evelyn Eaton choose; Acadia,
before the French were driven
out, for the locale of her latest
work, Restless Are the Sails"
(Harper: $2.50), an historical
novel that should enjoy success
equal to h er movie-bound
Quietly My Captain Waits"
There are plenty of thrills in
her sailor-hero's flight fr o m
Boston to warn the French at
LouisburP that the English are
planning an expedition against
the fort. There is excitement
in the siege of the city and in
his romance with an Indian and
with the governors daughter.
AS in the Captain" Miss
Eaton has based many of her
principals upon actual historical
personages, and the events are
backed by extensive research.
These two novels provide in
teresting insights into a portion
of French-in-America history
that has not been fully explored
before now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
EMPLOYMENT AT
new HIGH MARK

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). = Con-
tinued expansion of industry increased
employment approximately 218,000 be-
tween August Is and September Is,
setting naH high records, Secretary of
Labor Perkins reported.
"The advance in employment and
payrolls for all manufacturing indus
tries carried the indexes to new record
high levels, the employment index
reaching 1856 per cent of the 1923-25
average, the payrolls index rising to
1853 per cent" she announced. "Total
civil non-agricultural employment in
September amounted to 40,065, 900, an
increase of approximately 100000
over August.
"The increase for all manufacturing,
however, was of slightly less than the
usual seasonal proportions, as the ex-
pansion in heavy metals and fnachin-
cry industries tapered off. Silk and
rayon goods and hosiery experienced
substantial employment dislocations
and the increase in the automobile in
dustry was less than usual in accord
ance with the effort to conserve crit
ical and strategic raw materials.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
Food Stamp Plan Declared
Unfair To Small GrOcerS

New Orleans .(ILNS).-Three mil
lion dollars worth of food stamps were
sold in New Orleans in the last ID
months in addition to one million, one
hundred thousand dollars worth of
free blue stamps used to purchase
supplies of the Surplus Marketing Ad-
ministration. Independent, and smaller
groceries-the corner grocery store
charge that the chain stores are rap
idly taking their trade, inasmuch as
they (the smaller stores) cannot carry
majority of the supplies available
for the blue stamp users, thereby
throwing the bulk of the purchases to
the larger stores.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
Three Big Problems

"On the one hand, big plants choked
with gigantic defense orders, new
plants rising daily" Odlum declared
''On the other hand, shutdowns, cur
ailments-little plants gasping for
materials. Men and machines throt-
tied into idIeness at time when crisis
cries for every ounce of production
That is the situation as we come to
grips with one of gravest consequences
of total defense.
"In 'priorities unemployment
we face an economic problem, a
social problem, and a military
problem. At stake in it's solution
are not only production vitality
needed today-but the preserva-
ton of our civilian morale and our
economic stability as well. A key
to the success of the whole de-
fense effort may be found in the
words of Woodrow Wilson, who
said: The highest and best form
of efficiency is the spontaneous CO.
operation of free people,
''The spirit of cooperation is not
bred in idle factories, it does not
spring from the hearts of jobless men.
Economic stability will be lost if our
smaller industries, the very founda-
ton of our industrial greatness, the
employers of so per cent of our work
ing force are allowed to crumble."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
STRIKES HELP NAZlS,
'OPM' WARNS LABOR

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-In a
vigorous criticism of strikes in de-
fense industries, the Office of Produc-
tion Management declared work stop
pages aid the aggressor nations.
"The defense program which is
growing larger every day." the state
ment said, depends for it's success on
the patriotic support of labor and
management. Uninterrupted produc-
tion is the pressing need. The inter-
ruption of work by strikes or slow
downs is the greatest help the aggres-
sors can get these days when material
on the battlefield is everything"
The statement went on to direct at
tention to the government machinery
set up to settle disputes and con-
tinued:
"The Office of Production Manage
ment fully endorses the voluntary sys-
tenn set up to handle disputes, and it
expects all parties involved in the
production of defense material to take
no action that will impede production.
"Time is short. We need the man.
hours; your country needs your
strength and skill Let us have all
the cooperation and help possible"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
American Delegation Submits After-war Program to the
international Labor COnference-Discuss Government
Intervention in Employe- and Employer Relations

New York City (ILNS). A pro-
gram of after-the-war world recon-
struction upon the basis of improved
labor standards, economic adjustment
and social security" was submitted to
the International Labor Conference
here by the American delegation. The
program, backed by all the labor, en-
ployer and government members, was
presented in the form of a resolution
to be voted on by the conference.
With the declaration that "the vic
tory of the free peoples in the war
against aggression is an indispensable
condition for the attainment of the
ideals of the International Labor Or
ganization," the resolution said:
''The close of the war must be fol-
lowed by immediate action, previously
planned and arranged, for the feed
ing of the peoples in need, for the
provision and transportation of raw
materials and capital equipment nee
essary for the restoration of economic
activity, for the reopening of trade
outlets, for the resettlement of work
ers and their families under circum-
stances in which they can work in
freedom and security and hope, for
the changing-over Of industry to the
needs of peace, for the maintenance
of employment, and for the raising of
standards of living throughout the
world"
FULLEST Collaboration" Urged
To accomplish this program, the
resolution declared, "the fullest col
laboration between all nations in the
economic field" will be required. Such
collaboration, the resolution said, twill
set tasks of organization and admin
istration calling for the highest abil-
ity and for the most sympathetic un-
derstanding of the needs of the
peoples"
Government intervention in en-
ployer- employe relations, except where
special conditions make it necessary,
was criticised by American and Brit
ish delegates, stirring lively discus
sion at one session.
Robert j. Watt, international repre-
sentative of the American Federation
of Labor and American workers dele
gate, urged "hands off" policy by
government, saying:
Labor is vitally concerned with the
defense program. When labor's well
fare is properly safeguarded the bene-
fetal results affect the entire commu-
nifty. Collaboration must exclude the
interference of government, especially
in the internal affairs of labor unions.
Some Interference Desirable
"In instances of substandard indus
tries government interference is de-
sirable, however, through such legis-
lation as minimum wage laws and
maximum hours. Nor should govern
ment be excluded as mediatory agent
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
u. S. Delegates to ILO Offer World
Plan of Reconstruction, to be Based
on High Labor, Economic Standards

"In wholesale trade employment and
payrolls showed virtually no change.
In retail trade, while the increase was
less than usual for the month of Sep
tember, both employment and payrolls
were at significantly higher levels
than last year.
marked gains in non-agricultural
employment between the middle of
August and the middle of September
occurred in the industrial states
New York, Michigan, New Je
Pennsylvania and Indiana, as q eo
suit of continued gains in factory
ployment."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
RAIL UNION HEADS
REJECT AWARD OF
EMERGENCY BOARD

Chicago (ILNS) Compromise pay
increases recommended at Washington
by the emergency board set up by
President Roosevelt to investigate the
railroad wage dispute were rejected in
a statement signed by executives of
the "Big Five" operating brother
hoods.
"The boards recommendation as it
applies to railway workers repre-
sented by the transportation brother
hoods is a twin sister to the Gurley
bonus plan which the organizations re-
jected in mediation and condemned
as un-American before the Presidents s
board" the rail labor chiefs said.
The Gurley plan, railroad scheme,
provided for graduated pay increases
based on indices of cost of living and
rail revenues.
"InvitatiOn" to Strike
ne report, DIS we see IL, ID oil cI-
graved invitation for transportation
men to leave the service" the state
ment continued.
GAS a whole the boards recommen-
dation is the most disappointing of
any recommendation rendered by a
federal tribunal in the past SO years.
"The chief executives of the five
transportation brotherhoods regret
that they cannot advise or recommend
that it be accepted"
j. j. Golf, assistant president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, said the labor heads
oppose the recommendation on two
grounds, the suggested increase is not
adequate, and it is only temporary
The workers want an increase in basic
rates, not bonus, he pointed out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
Small Plant Closings Threaten
Economic Stability and Jobs Of
100000, Says 0PM Official
Spirit of Cooperation Not Bred in Idle Shops, Floyd B.
Odlum Says-Smaler Plants Gasping for Materials,
Men and Machines IdIe One of Defense Problems.

New York City (ILNS) Floyd B.
Odlum, chief of the Office of Produc-
tion Management's new Contract Dis
tribution Division, visualizes his tre-
mendous job of spreading defense con-
tracts to scores of thousands of the
nations smaller factories as one, pri-
marily, of "democratizing defense"
Serious Job Threat
Odlum will call to his service at
least 500 skilled engineers as the key
men in the organization of thousands
that he will assemble to carry on the
new divisions work through ma
tional network of field offices, he re-
vealed in an article, published in the
McGraw-Hill industrial magazine, Fac
tory Management and Maintenance
(Factory).
Some 200 field offices will be opened
by the division in an effort to speed
defense work to most of the 100000
lesser industrial plants which come
under the head of Small Business"
Odlum said.
Odlum stressed the seriousness of
the threat to the jobs of as many as
100000 workers but warned that the
Contract Distribution Division was
created somewhat belatedly" and
could not proceed too hastily because
"a major mistake in policy might set
us back any number of irredeemable
months"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
Suggested Increases Temporary

Suggested Increases Temporary
The labor executives statement was
issued as a call was sent out for a
speedy meeting here of representatives
of all the workers involved in the dis
pute. In addition to the brotherhoods,
Ia incorporating unions are asking
increases.
The emergency board recommended
temporary increases to expire on De-
cember 81, 1912. 1t proposed that the
$4,000 employees covered by the op-
Grating brotherhoods receive 7k per
cent wage increase instead of the 80
per cent they had demanded.
The 100000 employees covered by the
Ia incorporating unions would receive
an additional 9 cents an hour, or an
average increase of 1872 per cent over
present scales, far short of what was
asked
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14

in industries where collective bargain
ing has been established firmly and is
of long standing.
"But the American Federation of
Labor is opposed to compulsory legis-
lation governing labor, including COM
pulsory arbitration. Direct negotiation
between labor and industry, without
government interference, is far SUI
perior to the invoking of any official
tribunal, temporary or permanent. In
the last analysis, unless labor and
management mean labor and not
merely the A. F. of L. or c. o.
can collaborate to meet the problems
of a world threatened by savagery
there is no hope"
True Representation Defined
AS to the question of labor repre-
sentation on government agencies, on
which he criticised the administra-
ton, Watt said that representation
imposed from without is not true rep
resentation in the sense in which it is
understood by people accustomed to
the use of the ballot box"
Labor representative should be
designated by labor ITSELF" he de-
clared.
Watts view was supported by Har-
old Stewart Kirkaldy, secretary of the
Iron and Steel Trades Employers As
sociation of Great Britain and by Sir
Frederick William Leggett, chief in
dustrial commissioner of the Ministry
of Labor and National Service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
Small-House Contractors
Sign Detroit ALL. Pact

Detroit, Mich.-Under a new con-
tract, several thousand carpenters in
Detroit, formerly working on small
houses under non-union conditions at
wages under 81 an hour, will get 80
per cent wage increases, the Carpen-
ters' District Council of Detroit an
nounced.
The contract was signed with the
Builders Association of Metropolitan
Detroit. The new scale is $1.25 an
hour, a 80 per cent increase. The
work week is reduced to 40 hours and
double time is paid for Sundays and
HOLIDAYS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
FARM WAGES BEST SINCE 1880

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Faced
with a declining supply of available
workers, farmers have been able to
keep hired men this fall only by
sharply increasing wage rates, the De-
partment of Agriculture reports. Ag-
ricultural wage rates on October
ad advanced to 165 per cent of the
1904 average, 5 points over July /,
36 points over year ago, and were
at the highest level since 1890.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-11-14
AFL DISCUSSION MEETING

New Orleans (ILNS).-Problems of
affiliated unions of the A. F. of L. in
Louisiana will be discussed and fu-
ture program of organization dis
cussed at Baton Rouge, November 49,
Frank P. Fenton and George L. Googe
of the A. F. of L. have signified their
intention to attend.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-20
First Methodist Ministers I'm Montana TerritOr1
Were Men of Heroic Character; BraUed Dangers

With Major Mossman's authoritative
persuasion, I got another very good
picture OF another mother and baby,
and managed to get a cunning little
papoose into my own arms long enough
to get snap OF II.
Indians Patriotic
Old yellow Horse, one Of the oldest
Indians on the reservation, and an
old acquaintance Of our ranching days.
came to the side OF the car
"Okeechita OkShena, tukte2" (Where
is your soldier boy2) he asked, and
when I told him "Still In the army"
he murmured. "Nepo wanitch" che
didn't die). in satisfied tones. and
shook my hand solemnly before he
turned away. And may say, In pass
ing. that the patriotism displayed by
the Indians Of the Fort Peck reSer-
walton was of the very highest order.
many Of the young men volunteering
for service, and the donations 10 the
Red Cross and similar organizations
were remarkably large.
The Indian Dance
But to return to our picnic. There
were more races, and a bucking con-
test, in which a boy with one leg off
at the knee actually rode a bucking
horse to a finish. pie eating contest.
and some original Indian games, OF
which, lacking an interpreter, could
make nothing.
Finally, as night drew on. the crowd
adjourned to the big circular dance
han. which the Indians have built
cred about the immense Indian drum,
and suddenly It's rhythmic throbs smote
the air in a Humorous boom-boom.
and the men lifted up their voices In
a shrin minor chant One by one the
older Indians. respondent nov In
feather head-dresSes, bells, rattles and
all the paraphernalia Of the dance.
Continued on Classified Page
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-09-20

wyanfellows, Wisnall, Phillips, Millard
and Forbes.
Some time in May, 1866, Brother
Haugh left Virginia City and went to
the city of Helena. In the summer,
I think about August, 1866, the Rev.
James King was sent to Virginia City.
He left the territory some time in the
month of March, 1867. I continued to
preach until I went in June, 1857, to
PhilipSburg.
Returned to Camp
ION my return to Virginia City IN
the spring of 1868, we were refreshed
by the presence of the Rev. George
Comfort, now presiding elder Of the
Bozeman district. Methodism now be-
gan to spread Brother Haugh was IN
Helena and Brother Comfort was In
Virginia City. About this time Brother
Haugh left the territory and the Rev.
S. G. Lathrop, of Chicago, came as
superintendent.
Then Brother Comfort returned to
his home In Pennsylvania, and Brother
j. A. Van Anda came to Virginia City.
He soon went to Bozeman and was
put in charge of the Virginia City
work. This was in the year 1870. In
the spring of 1871, T. G. Tiff came to
Helena, but soon removed TO Missoula.
From this time on Methodism has been
continually spreading"