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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
FOR THE TEACHER

KANSAS CITY-Apples, yes,
but diamond wrist watches, no.
Miss Lucy Holmes accepted .
seven-year-old pupil's GIN Of 2
bejewelled timepisce and
promptly called his mother.
She admouished her con
(ouch) TO express his (ouch)
admiration more conoervativoly.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
DEMocRAcY's MERIT BADGES

Ihe report that some ZOO boys have
been turned owoy from Boston's Me-
chonic Arts High School because Of
lack Of room accents again the dro
matte turn thot the Nations defense
effort hos given to education.
During the two postwar and de-
preston decades, the chief demand
was for academic courses leading uIti-
moteIy to white-coIIor careers. The
first wisp Of defense orders found hard
pressed factories compelled to set up
training courses to teach generation
Of pencil pushers how to use its hands
on steel.
Shortages Of lathe operators, grind
ers, welders and the like resulted, in the
usual order Of supply and demand, in
higher wages.
Everywhere there ore demands for
more machine training. New Haven
wants q trode school,; Quincy must en-
large its trode school; Boston is over
crowded. So it goes, from Hartford
to San Diego.
\ The trend Of twenty years hos been
reversed in one. Porents who have
worked in shops no longer feel their
sons must work in the office. Sons, for
from feeling that stigma attaches to
shop work, recognize that just as many
possibly more-heods Of industry
spring from the shop side as from the
office side. There is no bar to mons
advancement just because he hos
grease on his hands,
Such morks Of honest endeovor in
furtherine the defense Of democracy
are just about the proudest merit
badges man con weor.-Christion
Science Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

The Presidents Pair event at
Asbury Park this year, for which
the winners were awarded spe-
cial trophies donated by Col.
Robert ]. Gill of Baltimore, Nd,
president Of the league, was won
by Judge A. D. Delmar of En-
lewood, N. j., and David Koran
of Radburn, N. ]. In second
place were Jacob Berson Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, and Milton
Tropp Of Newark, N. j.
One Of the interesting hands
played In the Presidents Pairs
is shown today. Several pairs
reached six spades but only
Koran (North) made the con-
tract. The club lead was won
by the ace, and q heart lead
put dummy in to lead q dia-
mond. The queen was finessed
and won. This finesse, strang-
ely enough, was taken by all
the slam bldderS-and turned
out to be necessary.
Koran continued by ruffing q
low diamond, ruffing q low
heart, then another diamond
ruff. dropping the king. An
other low heart was led from
dummy for North to ruff. Koran
now decided further ruffing
would lead to disaster.
So he cashed the king and ace
Of trumps. leaving himself with
none and West with the queen.
Dummy cashed the heart king.
and a. Koran had hoped, the
hand with the last trump also
had the last heart. That led
dummy continue with the ffth
heart and North discarded his
last two small cards. North
held the diamond ace and the
club king at the end, and West
made only his long trump.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 10
Jean Phillips once was fred by
Metro because she looked too
much like Jean Harlow. For the
past two years Paramount has
been having some misgivings
about her because she looked
too much like Ginger Rogers.
But with q slight remodeling
in the makeup department and
a new hair dress, it may be that
she can be like Jean Phillips.
And then she can 60 ahead.
Or 1t may be that the studio
will just ignore the resemblance
and hope that fans are kind
enough not to regard her as
IAN imitation Ginger Rogers.
That attitude is always q DOGGY
of the moviemakers, though
they've scarcely even tested aud.
fence reactions to players who
look like other players. In fact,
if Miss Phillips does 60 ahead
without changing her appear
ance, she'll be the first actress
who ever survived such a close
resemblance.
STAND INER
Her likeness to the late Jean
Harlow Is not very apparent
now, but Ave years ago 1t was
so striking that after appearing
in one picture, Student Tour"
Miss Phillips was shunted into
the anonymous jobs of standing
in for Miss Harlow and doubl-
ing for the star in long shots.
Perhaps fortunately for her she
was i'll about the time of Miss
Harlows death and was not call
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
. SO THEY SAY

When you see a rattlesnake
poised to strike, you do not wait
until he has struck before you
crush him.
President Roosevelt.
The tree toad Is the only ami
NAL / know which can climb and
croak at the same time. Never
theless I've been hearing more
croaking lately than ever before.
Gene Flack, public relations
counsel.
Every anti-democratic regime
now In existence, including the
Russian, has been made pos
sible by the abuse Of the rights
which democracies have grant
ed to all their citizens.
George Boas, the Johns Hop
kins University.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
|. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

ed like Ginger Rogers. So she
was used mostly for fashion stills
and leg art.
Finally Producer Harry Sher-
man gave her the feminine lead
in one of the Hopalong Cassidy
films. Next she got substan-
tial dramatic part In Among
the Living"
She's such a shy gal that you'd
wonder how she ever became an
actress in the first place-can't
bear to watch herself in the daily
rushes and avoids the previews
of her pictures. After q film has
been released and reviewed ap-
provingly. she seeks it out in
some obscure theater and shud-
deringly watches it through dark
glasses and from under black
wig.
FAME FROM FLUKE
How she became an actress in
the first place was on a fluke.
Miss Phillips blushingly admit
ted that she became Miss Culver
City in a beauty contest. The
prize was Of course of dancing
lessons. One day, Metros cast
ing office called the school for
a little mannequin who wasn't
there and the instructor sent
Miss Phillips instead.
The first person she saw evil
IDENTIFY was impressed, because
he started her on a round of
seven interviews. She was so
scared that all she can remember
of that afternoon is that she
emerged with a contract and
tainted while waiting for q bus.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
WHO IS THE vIcTIMs

We in America believe in racial and
religious toIerotion il We believe in any
,thinp at all thot mokes our civilization
distinctive and worth preserving.
n There IS q phase Of that, however,
which we don't often think about. We
think of HE injury done the innocent
c1nlnst whom prejudice ond iII-feeIine
Io6oooto, We don't think often enough
~ nl,af intolerance does to the person
= IL ceeep into his being.
Il Eonc6 iso closing OF doors, q
W rNss pf llohts, shutting out
& dbinks and stuItifies the
L flourish, inlurino the
popSsops, more than ti,e
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
.0SACEGyl9Qf
E llnnlncs
War, Revolution Mark
History Of Nicaragua

NICARAGUA, with IN area Of
: $4,000 square miles. IL the
largest Central American repub-
lie. It lies between the Caribbean
Sea and the Pacific Ocean. with
Honduras on the north and Costa
RIGA on the south.
The country has q population
Of 1,i72,324, most Of whom are
engaged in agriculture and STOCK
raising. The country also has
valuable forests and some COLO
Is mined.
The 1888 stamp above pictures
Dario Park In Manasus. Tnn
park was named after . famous
Nicaragusn poet Reuben Oa5'o
(ls67Alo16).
Columbus discovered Nicaragua
in 1907. II was Q Spanish de-
tendency until 1871. when II ae'
clared it, Independence. Inc
country has had . stormy ponti-
eel history. Revolutions became
% frequent that u was neces-
sary for the United States on sew
eral occasions 70 Land Marines 70
protect American lives ana prop
erty.
defense preparations. Ins N'e.
srseuan army consists OF soout
1000 soldiers and 20 om 49,
There u ., trained ressrve OF soVo'
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19

ed upon to pose In the add
tional shots which were made to
finish the stars last picture. Mary
Dees, who did the Job, wasn't
heard from afterward.
Miss Phillips was let 60 at the
end of her first IL months, and
for q couple Of years afterward
couldn't get more than extra
work in Hollywood. Then, less
Harlowesque in appearance, she
was signed by Paramount, which
soon afterward was startled by
the discovery that she now look
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
COOL UNDER FIRE

FAYETTEVILLE, N. G. - A
big bus filled with soldiers
caught fire enroute from Fay
etteville to TT. Bragg.
The driver snatched an ex-
.tinguisher and began playing q
stream of chemicals on the fire
and smoke.
Not soldier stirred.
Soon firemen arrived and i'm
plored the men to leave the bus
mo" they protested, 1--WE
might lose out seats
They sat until the blaze was
put out and the bus continued
on its trip.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The amateur events of the
American Contract Bridge Lea
que are probably misnamed.
They should be termed nom
Master events, because any
player holding 10 or more Mas
ter Points is barred from the
amateur contests.
But the possession Of 10 Mas
ter Points does not make q play
er a professional. Interest In the
the amateur games IL always
keen. sometimes think 1t
might be q good idea to trans
fer some of the Masters over to
the amateur games and let them
see how well some of the hands
are bid and played by the non
Masters.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
) YEAS AGO TODAY

s YEAS AGO TODAY =
1885
The Business and Professional
Women's club met with Mrs. Ted
Leonardson, Grand avenue, on
Monday evening.
Betty Walters and Eleanor
Ginskurs have been named CO.
editors OF the Mirror for the
coming year.
10 YEARS AGO
1891
Board Of Commerce urges
completion or Courthouse.
County Supervisors prepare
for budges hearings next week.
IS YEARS AGO
1905
Men are wanted at the Utica
gravel pit. Pay IL as high as
$l.75 to 81 q day.
The new depo, at washington
Is . credit to the Detroit United
NailWoyS. mi
Z 50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
An 30 foot boulevard extend
ing from Mount Clemens direct.
~ through Harrison township 70
Lake st. Clair, . distance OF two
miles, - rods 10 proposed.
Miss Meta Donaldson has re-
turned from Richmond.
60 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1851
The cour: house building
committee met Monday and
took Che building from The con.
tractors hands.
!. b. Eldrsdse. =. @. Ken.
drick, william Campbell. snd<
othsrs, have bought the county
risht for the sale Of . new TILE
machine.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
NOW THE RUSSIAN GOLD. TOO

NOW The RUSSIAN GOLD. TOO
Before the Iotest and more octivs
phose of World War u caused often
ton to be riveted on militory events,
there was considerable concern in the
United Stotes about the fact that oil
the worlds gold was drifting to this
country. This hos been obscured by the
clash and roar of the Russian compoign
but it is still going on.
In foct, it is going on with anew
twist. because Russio was one Of the
few countries which still had gold in
quantity. Now Russio is turning over its
cold to the United Stotes in exchange
for desperately needed war supplies.
The monetary gold stocks Of the
United Stotes stood at $22.7l8. $780,
600 at the end of August, an increase
of more than $44, 600, 600 in thot
month alone. The tendency for the
United Stotes to get it oil continues
without interruption.
Renewed assurances come from
Germany thot one of that eounty's
aims is to abolish entirely the gold bo-
sis for money. This is always placed
on q hiqh moral plane, with mouthings
about delivering the world from the
domination Of eoId." but its sincerity
is about on por with other Nozi de-
cIorotions, since they have never foiled
to loot each conquered country Of all
the gold in sight. There never wos
enough in sight. however, SO having no
gold, the Nozis ore oeoinst it.
Nevertheless, it must not be forgot
ten that wherever Nozi boyonets domi-
nate, there the Nozi mark olso domi-
mates. Bulgaria and Serbia, which had
cuna to gold bosis for their money,
have Just been compelled to abandon
it and base their currency on the
Rechsmork. Croatia and Yueoslovio
we're recently added to the new finon-
cioI order" Of the Reichsmork, which
means the Germans may acquire any
ossets in those countries at their own
price, since the relationship between
their curreneies and the paper mark Of
Germany ore set by fiot and mointoin-
ed by the boyonet.
his strongly suggests that me
United Stotes must do something more
with it's gold than sit on it, Once again
we suggest that one thing to do is to
distribute part Of the gold obviously not
needed for any conceivable monetary
use among friendly countries whose
trade we wish to increase and link with
our own. Instead Of loans and credits
when we wish to buy manganese, tin or
chromium or build Pon-Americon
road, is it not worthwhile to consider
the possible effect Of swapping hard
gold which is in excess Of our own
needs, for commodities which we do
need?
This would enable friendly cou'i-
tries to adjust their currencies to that
of the United Stotes, and help to create
q dollar" area Of the world which could
stand against the "phony mark oreo."
Then, when the boyonets no longer
support the mark, there will be sore-
thing stobIe in the world to toke its
place.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
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Cogso0poWooMt
WASHINGTON. Sept. le-
One Of = the most hopeful
signs In Washington these
days is on opporent conscious
ness Of too much red tope and
the desire Of some parties to
90 something about it. Eorly
in the defense effort, Rep.
Andrew Edmiston Of Weston,
w. w., mode news when he
called UP the War Department
to ask II the Army would want
ony pre-fobrieoted buildings
in its construction program.
He got transferred Is times.
but the 10Th fellow he talked
to was the man he had tolked
to first.
Thot incident inspired no.
tionoI orehives Officials to
troee the origin Of tho term
red tope" beck to its first
use, shortly otter the war be.
tween the stotes, when q vet
eron bowIed out q clerk who
was holding up q pension
check, demondine that the
red tope which was then used
in place Of poper clips be torn
off his application 50 he could
get his money. The story got
wide circulation and red tope
soon became synonymous with
government delay. But here
is the third defense effort
since Civil War days. and there
is still red tope.
President RooseveIt's an
nouneement that the length Of
time necessary to approve a
leose- LEND application h q d
been cut from IS days to Is
days, ond was being cut an
other ~ hours by giving
Leose-lend Administrator Ed
Stettinius authority to sign the
applications in ploce Of the
President is q sample Of the
time sowing that can be effect
ed.
An omozine sideIieht. how
ever, is that one Of the first
things Donald Nelson had to
do when he become heed Of
priorities. succeeding Stet-
tinius, was called in q stoff Of
Chicago mail order experts and
clean up q backlog Of more
than 5000 unhondled oppli-
cotions bound up in the Stet-
tinius administration red tape.
The rule is now thot all priori-
ties applications must be
cleared within 48 hours from
the time Of their arrival in
Washington.
Behind q Commerce Deport-
ment announcement Of q few
Days oeo, that il was setting
up its own clearing house to
break q bottIeneck in the
hondIine Of export cIeoronces
for South America, there was
another long toIe Of grief
written in miles Of government
red tope.
One Of the principal con-
Germs Of the Export Import
bank, in Ioonino some $3.50
million to Latin America for
internal development Of the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

20 American republics, hos
been the stipulation that all
import materials needed for
these improvements must b
purchased In the United Stotes.
Roods, rollroods, steel mills,
mines, agricultural Develop
ments-oll were bound to use
machinery mode in the U. S.
A.
Then along came the de-
Tense effort. Exporters mok-
ing road machinery, Ioconao-
tives. mining equipment, form
implements, under contracts
f'noneed by Export-l m port
looms. suddenly found that
they couldn't get priorities on
steel to complete heir Lotin
American orders.
Here wos q snorl that in
voIved holt O dozen govern
ment oeencies - Stote. Com
meres, Wor, Navy, defense
OPM, and the Export Import
bank. Finally q procedure
wos set UP within the office
OF Export Control, which hos
tinoi soy on what goods con.
be shipped out Of the countrf4
ond where. A staff Of hord.
boiled Army officers was sup
posed to cut through all the
red tope in such manner that
one Of these applications
coming into Washington
could be cleared by all six Of
the departments within three
doys. 1t didn't work.
Gen. Russell L. Maxwell.
who hod been in charge Of ex-
port control, was ordered back
to octive duty In the War de-
portment and his organization
wos transferred to the new
Economic Defense Board un--
der Vice President Wolloce
and Milo Perkins. EDB will
now Try to relieve some Of the
red tope pressure which hos
been stroneline priorities op-
pIicotions from the good
neiehbor countries.
MORE TROUBLES
The South Americans them
selves have been screaming to
high heaven. Here a country
hod borrowed millions to de-
veloP. soy, q copper mine.
The copper was sold to U. S.
for defense purposes. But
when this same country want
ed to buy copper pipe or tub
ing made in v. 5. A., perhaps
manufactured from It's own
ore, it couldn't get an export
license. One country, Peru,
solved the problem finally by
threatening to put an export
tax on It's ore. Another re-
public, Argentina, had q COM
nericoI ottoche make the &C.
quointonce Of four copper rex
perts" in the OPM organizes
ton. and then gave UP.
The yeiIs Of the South
Americans were only slightly
less painful than the yeIIs Of
the American manufacturers.
Here was the government, on
the one rnnd sponsoring short
wave rodNo programs to win
the Lotins away from the Nozi
propaganda, while on the other
hand on American monufoc-
turer Of radio sets couldn't get
priorities or export cIeoronces
on moteriols for radio ports
ard sets to keep South Ameri-
cars listening.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
~ the Associated Pysss

ny VIZ A~oOoSosvV TbvUo
TREASURE HUNT
oAURORA, Ind. - An accident
to q mail pouch started . treas
ure hunt along the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad track.
The pouch, carrying m eSti-
mated $4,000 In bills and silver
sent by registered mail to Swift
zerland county banks, was
thrown off at the station.
It bounced back onto the
track and was cut to pieces, and
the money was scattered along
more than q mile Of the right
of-way.
Townspeople went out with
baskets and scooped up the rich.
es. One man got 1923. But
the finders feared they wouldn't
get to keep the money. A post
al inspector was sent from Gin
cinnati to investigate.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-19
WHO FORCES PEOPLE,
ANTAGoNlZES THEM

One Of the strongest twists Of the
h,,mnn character is the overPoWerln9
desire. once we have gotten something
that we consider good, to force II on
others whether they consider 1t 9ooo
or not.
Surely if Noziism had been 600
II Germony. the rest Of the world would
hove seen its virtues eventually, ono
odopted them. II Foscism had been
good in Itoly. sooner or later the world
would have recognized Whatever wos
GOOD in it, and adopted those GOOD teo.
lures. IF Communism hod been GOOD
Is Russio. surely the striking exomP'e
az its successes would have impressed
the world to the point Of emuIot'ne
them.
But no. None Of these countries wos
content to build in its own way ono
produce q society whose success would
Be evident to the world. toch had to
lounch into q campaign, before its cwn
house had been set halfway in order,
"a convert the rest Of the world by ar
oument, by intrigue, by plotting. ono
finolly BY force Of arms. 1t is is this
meddlesome, intolerobIe spirit Of inter
Terence obrood which hos been the
ruinotion Of all three.
Twice in the memory Of living men.
Germony hos deliberately thrown owoy
the sympathetic respect OF the worlo
ond an honorable position before It:
Between 1900 ond 1914, Germany led
the world in many fields. Students
flocked to her universities, her SHIPS
sojled The seven secs, her commercial
and cuIturol position wos widely 3D.
rnired. And then, at one sweep, she
threw it all away by resort to war. In
hope Of ottoining suddenly. at one war
like stroke, the supremacy she was
oroduolly ottoining anyway, she gam
bIed all and lost all. Similarly, the Wei
mar Republic Of the Twenties had the
sympathy Of the world, and was max
ina PROGRESS toword one day reeoining
the lost German prestige. And then, in
1888. all thot wos o9oin thrown owoy
for q policy Of getting it all at once, by
war, insteod Of slowly, by Ioborious de-
grees, the hard way.
kuSSlo moo immense SynPOtIly w
the United Stotes when il first threw
off the Czors shockles. Had it been
oble to mind its own business. build its
own SCHOLASTIC society. which would
have been fine enough to draw otten-
ton and emulation, it might have got
ten somewhere. But insteod it strewed
around the world oeitotors who insist
ed on pretending thot every country in
the world was Czorist Russio, and in
trying to dupIieote in each the more
horrible phases Of the Russion Gloss
conflict. The result was the only pos
sibIe result: the creation Of vast onti-
pothies.
Example, not force, is the only real
and permanent means Of conversion.
Let him who hos truth so demonstrate
and manifest that truth that others
will be drawn to il.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-03
ROOSEVELT LODGE
 PLANNING SMOKER
Fall Activities Open With Monday Evenings
 Meeting

A smoker on Monday evening at 8:15 will launch the fall activities of Theodore Roosev-lt lodge, Knights of Pythias. lick Aronson is chairman of the annual affair, to be given at the lodge rooms on North Main street.
 The program will be under the joint management of the entertain ment committee of the local lodge and that of the John Hay lodge of Hartfordp headed by Louis Bogin, and a delegation of some fifty mem- bers of the latter lodge is expect cd to attend.
 The Hartford lodges entertain ment committee will conduct a quiz program between two five-man teams representing the two lodges. This is a type of program in which the John Hay lodge specializes. Prizes will be awarded to the win ners.
 A buffet lunch will be served at the end of the program by the Roosevelt lodge's TefFeshment cOn- mittee, consisting of Louis Frank en. chairman: Joseph Shore and Irving Rosengield. Assisting Mir, Ar. onson on the host lodges enter- tainment committee are Benjamin Diamond, Jack Freedman. Mamie Lax, Joseph Shore and Al Bchein- CT.
 The meeting will be open only to Pythians.