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Evening star., 1941-12-24
School Air Raid
.Co.ordinator
|sAuthorized
Request for $3.50
Teacher Bonus Also
Due in Prince Georges

The Board of Education of Prince
Georges County, Nd, yesterday au-
thorized Nicholas Orem, superinten-
dent Of schools in the county, to ap-
point a co-ordinator for air raid de-
Tense activities in all Prince Georges
schools and to ask for funds suff1-
cient to provide a $3.50 bonus for
teachers in county schools when he
submits the school budget next year.
The duty of the new executive will
be the coordination of school de-
fense activities with the work of
civilian defense committees operat-
ing in the county, it was explained.
Mr.. Orem emphasized that every
attempt will be made to see that
defense problems interfere as little
as possible with the normal func-
tioning of the schools.
The boards authorization Of
request for a bonus for Prince
Georges County teachers came in
response to a report by Mr.. Dram,
indicating that an emergency existed
in the school system Of the county,
with regard to the problem Of hold
ing and attracting teachers at the
present low salary schedule. The
difficulty In filling vacancies as they
occur. Mr.. Dram told the board. is
traceable. in part, to the fact that
Prince Georges County pays its
teachers less than Montgomery
County or the District of Columbia,
and, in part, to the demand for
Government workers.
Bonus Request Approved.
Members of the board expressed
the wish that they might take action
to remedy the situation this year,
but said they were unable to do so.
Mr.. Orem was authorized, however,
to include an item covering a bonus
for the teachers when he submits
the school budget for the year
1928 to the commissioners next
March.
Mr.. Orem explained it was the
intention Of the board that the
bonus should remain in effect
throughout the emergency, and said
1t was hoped that the State would
take action to aid the county in the
execution Of the plan.
It was recalled that in 1927 a
bonus of 500 was instituted to help
teachers of the county weather the
imitation. This bonus continued in
effect until 1893. when universal pay
cuts went into effect throughout the
State.
The board appropriated 5000 out
Of its emergency reserves to meet
expenses incurred in school defense,
including the salary Of the co-or-
dinator and the purchase Of first
aid necessities for the schools. This
sum, Mr.. Orem said, was to be re-
garded as flexible.
Hospital Use Allowed.
The board also agreed, subject to
adjustment by the co-ordinator, to
comply with the request Of the
county health department that
schools in the county be turned over
to the health department for use as
hospitals in time of extreme emer-
gency. School buses may likewise be
turned over for use as ambulances
under the agreement.
The board agreed to the sale of
four lots in Capitol Heights which
came into its hands from the estate
of the late John Michael Fox, who
died intestate. His property Is valued
at $375.
Evening star., 1941-12-24
Sand Put Along Route I

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Dec. "a
R.-The highway department has
announced that it has placed 800
small piles of sand on U. S. Route /
between Fredericksburg and Wash
lngton for use by truck drivers and
motorists when they encounter ice
on the grades.
Evening star., 1941-12-24

Totals to date - II 90
In December, Beware of:
l. The hours between S and
10 pm. Ten of the l3 traffic
victims in December last year
were killed within this five
hour period.
2. Crossing q street at some
point other than q croeswalk.
Three pedestrians lost their
lives In December, 1910, while
doing this.
Evening star., 1941-12-24
CoroI Service Planned

There will be a Christmas eve
candle lighting and carol service at
the Memorial Methodist Church,
Hyattsville, Md, at II o'clock to.
night, the Rev. w. Clark Main, pas
tor, announced.
Evening star., 1941-12-24
luroy Druggist Dies

LURAY. Va. Dec "a lP,.-Henry
Mckay, 73, Luray druggist and
business man and former presi-
dent of the Virginia Pharmaceutical
Association, died here yesterday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
CLOSING THE NORTH DOOR

The naval and military defense plan
IS now complete on which Canada and
the United Stotes have worked for six
months or more. Thot is the Official on
nouncement Of the joint defense board.
It is good Notwithstanding news.
From tn. uttermost end Of the Alaskan
orchipeIoeos to Greenland there is q
beck door, or series of back doors to
North America. The interest of Canada
and the United Stotes in locking and
doubIe-borring those doors is mutual.
Together they have settled now on
plons to do it.
To undertake jointly, to oeree mu
tuolly, on how to do it wos the first step.
That has been token. Now let no mo-
.erioI thing stond in the way Of trons-
loting those agreements into physical
establishments which will couse any
Tower or any combination Of powers to
nesitote long time before attempting
to violate the Western Hemisphere.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
By VIM. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The third World Bridge Olym-
pic hand presents a difficult prob
lem to the declarer, as only
seven tricks can be counted. To
enter dummy in order to take
the club finesse would waste
timing on the hand. Dummy's
ten of diamonds Is good threat.
II North has the ace of dia-
monds and South the jack, MOTH
ing Is lost by leading toward the
ten. This Is the best line of play
even though IL turns out that
South has both the ace and jack
OF diamonds, rs Il holds North
and South to two heart tricks
and two diamonds.
When South wins with the
jack of diamonds, he leads an
other small diamond toward the
ten, and thus the opponents win
only four tricks in the red suits,
~ the y'iim:nT club finesse can
be taken when dummy II entered
with the spade.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
MADONNA OF THE SHELTERS

lie oruesome to see human beings
n nos n7usks which make them look
like on insone cubist's conception OF q
Morton. 1t is even more 9ruesome 70
see q boby bottled up in eontroPt'on
thot mokes it look likeo biological
specimen in laboratory.
Yet TO this the world hos come IN
Al lo4l. In Britoin they volt, doy by
dov. for the Ultimate horror OF poison
COS. Like any horror long delayed and
olwoys threatening, the feor ond terror
are redoubIed by uncertainty. SO con-
stont compoign must be kept up urging
people to CORY their Cos masks OF OIL
times. and constant education must be
corried on among mothers in means OF
preserving lives Of tiny babies it the gas
comes.
Il is q terrible thing that bodies
should be forced to live thus, the very
breath of life pumped to them through
a stroiner-bobies whose nature! in
heritonce should be air ond sunshine
and the good food that will build them
into sturdy men and women.
Yet the baby who is placed in res
pirotor is being saved from something
worse. Should the fight foil in which
thot respirotor is on incident, that bQby
would live the rest Of its life out in q
n,urkier atmosphere than filters
through the resPirotor.
No good clean air would be ovoiI-
obIe at all in that world, only the foul
and pestiIentioI vopors Of stote-toueht
rocioi hotred. No sunshine Of liberty
would filter in to it in an atmosphere
murky With tronny and RECOMMENDATION.
No light would penetrate the cronnies
of it's cell, though that cell we're q no.
ton broad. No light of the mind and
spirit and the dignity Of the person
would be seen there any more.
They protect the baby today
oooinst poison gos, and the sight Of it
is terrible. But unless thot defense Sue
ceeds, no resprotor will ever protect
that baby in the future oeoinst the foul
miosmo Of the world in which it would
have to live.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
IDLE HANDS

In opening the new Office Of Price
Administration in Washington, Leon
Henderson, its head, observed thot one
way to help prevent uncomfortable
rises in the cost Of living is to see thot
production keeps up with demond in
civilian as we'll as military lines. So long
as there ore some 1900, 900 yet un-
employed in the United Stotes it should
surely be possible to draw them into
productive processes rapidly enough to
meet this requirement.
Ii is true thot the stimulus Of de-
Tense orders and general business octiv-
ity raised the totoI Of employment in
American industry in February to the
highest level it has ever reached of that
lime of the yeor-36, 584, 900 workers.
Yet in March there still we're ,8OO,-
COO persons on the rolls Of the WPA
and ,OOO, 900 more waiting for the vo-
concies thot occurred as WPA men
found other jobs. In addition, more
than 900, 600 we're receiving local re-
lief at lost available reports.
Even this situotion is some improve
ment over March q yeor ooo when 2
3OO,OOO we're on the WPA rosters, or
over two years oeo when the number
exceeded 1900, 600. 1t is understand
obIe that some difficulties exist in
transferring men from relief to the new
Jobs which exist, due to location or to
lack Of the particular skiIIs needed. Yet
with an estimated need for from s.
600, 600 to 5000, 600 new workers in
l94l and 1912, should there not be
even more provision than at present
for training idle workers into readiness
for productive places?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
ExiIed Regent Pictured
On YuqosIov Semi-PostoI
Vs.s.s...s:e.S

DRINCE PAUL of Yugoslavia,
= who fled to Greece when Yugo-
slavia defied the Axis and over
threw his regency, entered phi
lately's gallery in 1895 on the Red
Cross semi-postal above. Prince
Paul was designated regent in the
will OF King Alexander, assassi-
mated in Marseille, France, In 1894.
Before the marriage Of King
Alexander and Princess Marie Of
Rumania, Paul was mentioned as
a possible successor to the throne
now occupied by the boy-king,
Peter II.
Training, education and family
ties link Prince Paul more closely
TO Britain than to Italy and Ger-
many. Princess Marina, Duchess
OF Kent, Is his sister-in-law. He
was educated at Oxford. In re-
cent years, however, Paul has
shown pro-Axis leanings, visited
Rome to confer with Mussolini,
talked 70 Hitler In 1899.
Prince Paul saw service In The
Balkan Wars and In the World
War. His wife Is Princess Olga Of
Greco
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
PEACE m STEEL

Negotiation OF q new contract be-
tween the Steel Workers Organizing
Committee (C.l.O.) and the United
Stotes Steel Corporation hos proved OPP
porentIy to be q process Of peocemok-
t,o and wage revision for the entire
iron and steel industry in the United
Stotes. 1t seems to insure q large de-
gree If industrial tranquility ond
steody production at time when these
ere Of tronscendent importance.
Indications ore that the granting
Of the full lO-cents-on-hour woee in
crease requested by the union hinged
partly on maintenance of the COMPETE
rive situot;on among the steel produc-
ers For the concession by big Stee"
followed closely as if by preorronee-
nent on the announcement Of q similar
increase in wage rotes by the National,
Bethlehem, Republic, and Youngstown
companies.
Gratifying as ore woee increases
in general, the size Of this one inoPeIs
question whether it may not contrib
ute toward sPiroIng price rise which
all desire to avoid. The company man.
oqement doubtless feels it is important
thot the union hos yielded its demond
Tor closed shop; ond in foct it is help
full to have that issue left aside. But will
the addition of 10 cents an hour to what
IS already forly high wo9e require an
increase in steel prices?
The increase in wooes is materially
larger thon would seem colIed for by
any rise thus far in living costs. Retoi
food prices, according to the Bureau OF
Labor Statistics, have risen only 20
Ger cent during the last year, and
wholesale prices Of commodities in gen.
eroI, less than per cent. Addition OF
10 cents an hour is on increase Of ~
per cent II the overoee steel wage and
Of neorIy Is per cent in'the former
62K-cents- on-hour minimum wo9e.
1t is recognized that labor spokes-
men, in negotiating contract which IS
to hold for q considerable future period,
must Try to anticipate economic condi-
tions offectina the workers. But the
Nation should toke core that it d oes
not unworruntedIy bring about an in
furious initiation Of prices. affecting oil
consumers as we'll as defense workers,
ty too much anticipation Of it,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
FORAN
FATTENS STEWART

When Jimmy Stewart was try
ing to gain nine pounds SO that
he could pass army require
ments. papers reported his day
to-day weight as if he were
training for world champion
ship, but Dick Foran remembers
an earlier time when it seemed
far more important to fatten up
the lank star.
The two had attended Prince
ton University, were members of
its Triangle Club, decided to 60
to New York, room together and
try to land on Broadway. BY the
time Foran finally got an offer
he had decided that Hollywood
needed him more, so he asked,
How about giving it to my pal
Stewart"
Afraid he won't do" the cast
ing director said. There's no
future for a guy that skinny
got no appeal"
Foran then dedicated most of
his time to putting weight on his
6-feet-2 II roommate. He picked
cornflakes as the most fattening
and the cheapest, and poked
them-with cream and sugar, or
dry-down his suffering pal all
day long. Triumphantly, Foran
presented The New Stewart to
the casting director and left for
Hollywood with clear con-
science. Stewart followed a few
years later, skinny as ever, and
won an Academy Award.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Half an hour later, the old guy
told the ecstatic couple goodby
at the stage door and pointed the
way back to the office. They had
met, not one, but five stars and
visited with them in their dress
ing rooms.
Stammered the grateful bride
groom: HIRES my card, and II
you ever get to Portland, look us
up and maybe we can help you"
He showed the card and some
thing else into the friendly
guides hand.
When he gets back to Port
land, he'll find an envelope hold
ing the two one-dollar bills he
gave the old gent, and a note: 1T
was a pleasure to show you
around, and I couldn't think of
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
. BARBS

Burglar in Michigan jailed for
robbing a baby's bank. Read that
to father.
The cheapest-looking thing ut
a bargain counter Is a man.
A pleasant smile goes a long
way, and the best part Of 1t is, it
almost always comes back.
The chronic kicker Is usually
the slowest to kick in.
Bad eggs are sometimes well
come, but not after they 60
broke.
An agricultural college Is feed
ing cows sawdust. How will you
have your plank steak?
Misery doesn't love company
that stays for dinner.
Looking at the bright side
suppose you lived at the North
Pole and hubby stayed out all
night?
Whenever you feel like turn
ing up your nose at people, re-
member the law of gravity.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
FIRsTS
No more frontiers to conquer

No more frontiers to conquer
Penn Yam, New York, reports thot
nearly half Of its 800 public school pu-
pills have never ridden on troin-yet.
Only Z per cent Of them have ever rid
den bicycle. In Chicago 500 high
school students have just seen o>sto9e
pIoy for the first time. =.
Who remembers the "firsts" Of half
century oeo and Ioter? The first QUITO
enc ever set eyes ono "horseless cor
rooe" at the head Of O circus porode.
A first "dromo"-UncIe Toms Goblin
ployed in q tent on the village green.
A first plane ride, only twenty years
ago. Rodio? Yes, the adventure Of first
t,eorino proerom by wireless.
Yet as we wonder whot new exPer-
iences and adventures lie oheod, we
find that there ore some boys ond girls
who haven't yet ridden on q troin or O
bicycle.
Porodoxes Of progress!
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
Sill OF DUTIES

Vice President Wallace hos suq-
9ested thot somebody ought to write q
Bill Of Duties for the United Stotes to
bolonce the Bill Of Rights. It's q good
idea. We ore quite right in deciding
thot even the defense drive must be
corried on without sacrificing hard
won rights But citizenship in DEM
ocrocy, and especially citizenship in
this free republic. oIso implies duties.
y|1e more we occept as q motter Of duty,
~ jess likely it is that any greet cry
xxijl orise for infringement or curtoil-
INIT OF rights.
Y smetlnes there is conflict between
II - ~ very few, it should be
~ 0noued thot the droft wos
oePeDt Of their rights. But the
- majority sensed ond felt
3hot here wos matter Of
i5chts, YES, by oil meons!
kept only by holding
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

1885
League of Women Voters
plan to bring Maxwell Devoe,
fled representative of Service
Assembly of Michigan, TO speak
in Mount Clemens.
Traffic across the Straits Of
Mackinaw will be served this
year by four boats instead of the
usual three.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY .
1891
Frederick j. Scnutt passes
away suddenly at his home.
Five new teachers have been
named for next year. They are
Eleanor Hall, June Schwalm.
Elva McFie, Gladys Kunzie, and
Hazel Harrineshaw, who will be
the school nurse.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
In boring for water on his
Macomb street property, August
Blower struck Q flow OF gas at
So feet.
Marshal John appeared on
the streets Tuesday morning at
tired In, 3 fine uniform and .
club at his belt. The marshal
makes q gallant appearance.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
1851
william Jasmund will engage
IN the Ice business this summer.
RI. Selfridge moves onto The
Fletcher farm W IRE rood, and
viii work Il This summer. a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
. Hieh|iehts From
The Latest Books q

Most Americans, for one rea-
son or another, seem to take
their history lightly, content to
rest with a few dates and a
handful of heroes. At any rate,
it is a good time to learn more
as the nation makes history the
schoolbooks may link along with
Lexington and c o n cord $50
years hence.
There is scant excuse for not
knowing. For instance, two
books just off the presses fill the
need abundantly. They are John
D. Hicks two-vo,ume narrative
history 1.-THE United States"
(Houghton, Mifflin: $500 and
Dixon Wecter's combination his
tory biography, 1.-THE Hero in
America" (Scribners: $500.
The first ought to be read FIRST
for what 1t is, a straight survey
course in our past by the we'll
known University. OF Wisconsin
professor; the second to straight
Ell you out on your heroes, how
they got that way, which may
be worthy, and Thy.
For ID years Professor Hicks
has taught Wisconsin's leading
survey course in American his
tory. Now the course" Is avail
able in his books.
But most emphatically, this Is
not textbook. Professor Hicks
divides his story into two parts,
the Federal. Union, America
from Colonial days to the close
Of the Civil War, and the Ameri-
can Nation, u. S. from Recon-
struction to Roosevelt's third
term. It would be, useless to
elaborate here except that prob
ably not since James Truslow
Adams March of Democracy"
a few years ago has q better
course" in our past been avail
able. 1t Is amply illustrated and
carries god maps.
II you remember Wecter's en-
tertaining Saga Of American
Society" yor have some idea of
the book in store in THE Hero
In America" Through the lives
Of such leading and contrasting
lights az Jefferson Ind Johnny
Appleseed, Lincoln and Lipd-
bergh. Washington and whoop.
ing Buffalo Bill he unfolds vir-
tually the history of the country
itself. It is 10th debunking and
reassuring.
There are some interesting
Corrections" about some heroes.
Paul Revere, for example, says
Wsctsr. yves his fame solely 70
Longfellow's poem. II seems he
started that famous ride ell right
ION q tired work horse) but he
never finished IL. The British
captur- d him and one william
Dawes carried the news to Lex
ington. But while Dawes rode
valiantly, ''hs rode into obliv-
ion." Revere had . name with
the ring of keroism.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
BY LUCILLE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

drWy camps ana QeJeHSc tH0bS-
tries.
BY LUCILLE NEVILLE
NEA Service staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD-One problem
that. the studios can't seem to
solve is how ~ let visitors act
ually see movies being made and
let them meet the players. One
or two lots have guided tours,
but these are restricted to out-of-
towners with some drag, and
working sets usually are closed
to them.
A newly-wed couple from
Oregon, however, got a surpris-
ing view of stars the other day,
and they're due for another, big
ger surprise when they get
home.
They managed to &c an okay
to see RKO and were being
taken on a not too exciting trip
through the lot when they be-
came separated from their guide
They hesitantly opend a sound
stage door and looked for some
body to direct them. 1t was be-
tween scenes and nobody-much
less any actors-was in sight.
"Oh dear" said the bride, in dis
appointment, II wish we colud
see just one star, anyway"
STAR
SEEKERS
Just then a down at-the-hee
old fellow wearing scuffed shoes
and a frayed machinaw who had
been whiting in a corner. came
owe ran asked il he could help.
They explained they had lost
their guide, but admitted they
had hoped to get peek at ce-
lebrity. This was their last day
in Hollywood.
"Wel-l-l, now" said the old
guy, rubbing a chin which need
ed shave pretty badly, Miss
Anne Shirley's working in this
picture-thing called The Devil
and Daniel Webster'-and SOS
that Mile. Simone Simon. Would
you like to see them, and Jane
Darwell, and Thomas Mitchell,
and James Craig? - they're
somewhere around"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
" PETER gDSoN
Dolly MeNltes WeshlNsteW

WASHINGTON = One OF
the best things that hos hop
pened in Washington in O long
time is the coming Of William
S. knudsen as director Of the
Office of Production Monooe-
ment. Twice in the lost week
he has been before congress
sionoI committees which ore
trying to find out what's wrong
with the defense setup.
First, he went to the Mill
toy Affairs Committee, which
could only see red on labor
troubles, then to the Trumon
Senate Committee, which reoI-
" hos q chance to do eonstruc-
tive work in exploring con-
troets that may have been too
hostiIy mode and too expen-
sively corried out.
Before I these committees,
Mr.. knudsen hos handled him
self so we'll thot he hos had the
committeeman eotino out OF
his hand and thinking every
thing wos greet, which il wos.
After kn0dsen's testimony be-
fore the Truman committee, q
little old lody edged her way
through the crowd and said
she just wanted to shake his
hand and pat him on the back
and tell him what O good Job
he wos doing.
kNUDSEk
KNOWS
The mans utter simplicity
and indebtedness, plus q rich
sense of hun,or, and his knowI-
edge Of what he's toI king
about, enable him TO get
things done.
Giving the background Of
leaving his job in Detroit to
toke over defense production,
he sold simply thot one doy
THE President called me up
on the telephone to soy he
wanted me to come oown to
Washington. | asked for q doy
TO go to New York TO tell my
people about it. The next doy
come to see the President.
Il wos all over in IS minutes.
| wos working in Washington. "
The story Of what he hos
done in Washington has OF
course been told. How the
plans for on army Of 400, 900
we're roised to provide for on
army Of ] 400, 900. How plane
production schedules we're rois-
ed from 1000 to $4,000 q
year. How the machine tool
industry expanded from $2OC
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
kNUoSEN'S
DEFENSE LINES

OPM Director Bill Knud-
sens testimony b efore the
Truman committee made one
Of the best official perform
onces the capitol hos seen in q
long time. Here ore some Of
his terse comments:
How did he feel about
strikes?-"I feel q little bet
ter than ! did q month oeo."
More on strikes THE
technique Of getting men out
on the picket line is perfect.
How to get them in oeoin is
what we don't know"
What wos going to be done
about the aluminium shortage?
-"We're going TO make some
more aluminium"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-21
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

This Is the third Of q series
Of articles on World Bridge
Olympic hands, giving the
committees par. ~