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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
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THE MONITOR
T. FEES :
FIvE YEARS AGO To-Day

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1886
Stephen Meldrum, lifelong
resident Of Macomb county, died
in Detroit. Services held in New
Baltimore.
The Plain Dirt Gardener, Bet
ter Homes and Gardens writer,
will appear In Mount Clemens
High school auditorium on April
10, under the auspices Of the
Garden Club.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Walter Fennell Is recovering
from q slight conclusion Of the
brain when his automobile turn.
ed over three times on Cas- ave-
nue., following q collision with
another machine.
Miss Irene Hoffman, Girl
Scout director, Is spending her
vacation at her home In Wabash,
Ill.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY
1901 .;e
Edgar Weeks and little daugh-
ter, Miss Genevera, are plan
ming q trip 10 the Philippines.
b. w. williams, Of Fort Ora
tiot, has been nominated for CO.
detship In West Point.
50 YEARS AGO
II. Kuntsmaun opered q tailor
shop In the small store next %
the Hall House.
/. Robert pomer moved into the
Hagen House March 3lst, and d
getting things into hne bhape.
@ xkA0S AGO
1851:
Milton Little has purchased
J. J. Reimold's milk business.
NJ. George Fulton sold %
'heed q fst cattle 70 Deficit pr.
tjoe Saturday. They avoroged
ly4oo pounds and brought 81
eoite live weight. 1Gr. Fulton y
scientific stock yaiso1A-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
BY WIN. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

At the recent Eastern Contract
Bridge championships I kib-
itzed a number Of tables.
l sat behind the West player in
today's hand. Each time he
passed I had to make an effort to
keep q poker face" and when
he let three no trumps get by
undoubled ! was astounded. But
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
Il RIGHT SPIRIT

Just now, when many people seem
unwilling to get right down to grips
with the national defense situation and
to do whot it demands, it is refreshing
to read q wire from P. K. WriqIey,
president Of the gum company, TO the
Defsnse Board. In it WrieIey offers TO
let the defense boord have 100000
pounds OF aluminium which the COM
pory had stored up to make the foil in
which Its gum is wrapped. I'm the in
tereSt Of notionol defense WriqIey
wired, we will be more than oIod TO
3chonDe our wrapping and make avail
sobla4 ~ YOU our entire stock Of alum
Sinu0t roots"
eker this offer would be helpful,
~ with the defense board will
~. But the spirit is admirable.
0p&.xpl4ptory. Second, it in
I6bjs trouble ond prob
&5iejnFepst.
Spying the some
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
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WASHINGTON - Behind
the Iotsst labor disturbances
at the Ford River Rouge works
Is a record Of nearly four
years wroroIina with the Mo-
tionol lobor Relations Board
covering nine principal
cases at Kansas City Chicago.
SomsNilie, Mass, St. Louis,
Richmond, w., Long Beach,
Colif., 6uffolo. DolIos and
Deorborn pIonts-costine no
one knows how much in low
yers' fees, court costs and
time for N. /. r. B. hearings.
One eose went to the Supreme
Court. .
The Labor Board Is, only q
little over. five yeors old and.
all but one year of its stormy
young life hos been marked
by Ford grief. Its Ford files
ore voluminous, the exceptions
mode by the company in the
St. Louis cose alone filling q
box as big as an DID, fashioned
cloak and suit solesmon's
trunk. The problem is how ony-
one could write that much, let
alone read It.
NEW TkouBls
SPRINGS r Q OLD
The present trouble at
Dearborn is, in a way. q direct
folIow-up on the first Ford
case, the one that got to the
Supreme Court. Thot case be-
gan Moy u, 1897. when the
Company was charged with
Interference q n d coercion
against the employees right to
organize and bargain, and
with discrimination against in
dividuoI employees by firing
them for organization octivi-
ties.
Hearings began in July and
went through the rest Of 1887.
q decision and order finoIIy be-
ing honded down just before
Christmas. Then followed
nearly two years Of wroneline,
ending In q new decision in
August, 1899, and the N. l. R.
B. petition to sixth Circuit
Court of Appeals, q month lot
er, to enforce the order.
The court handed down its
decision in October, UNFOLDING
the Labor Board, whereupon
the company took the cose to
the Supreme Court. 1t was only
on Feb. 10 this year that the
Supreme Court denied the
writ Of certionori, in effect
confirming the lower courts
decision.
The Ford company, in COM
plionce with court order, be-
gan to work out back poy for
.rehirino Of men dischoroed
for union activity, but that by
no means settled the problem.
On Feb. Is the c. !. O. United
Automobile Workers filed q
new petition with the board,
charging the Ford company
with new violations Of the Mo-
tionoI Labor Relations act at
Lincoln, River Rouge and
HiehIond Park plants.
Speeding up its slow motion
procedure as q defense meos-
ure, the Labor Board held
hearings March 24-2e. Oral
arguments were moved UP to
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05

sentence on promise he'd mend his weighs.
a Lansing, Mich, butcher drew Q suspended
Anyone who works for money alone really
is very poorly paid.
When 1t comes TO history. the average school
kid u willing to let bysones be bygones.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
; BEHIND THE SCENES
M WASHINGTON :

concluded and the booFd,d do
cislon handed down in reoson-
obls time, N. l. R. B. will have
demonstrated what II can do
to speed UP the defense effort
BY handling a major Industry
cdse within Two months or 80.
That Is. unless the lawyers oct
to work on the cose and stretch
II out into another four yeor
morothon argument.
For one thing, the strike
may 90 merrIly on and every
government agency deolino
with labor will find itself in
ereosin0ly on the spot because
they ore all limited in powers.
While II soys in the United
Stotes Government Manuel
thot N. L. r. B. us an inteorcl
cog in the notions program Of
preventing strife and prornot-
ING industrial hornony In this
period Of mobillxino working
forces In behalf Of notionol
defense" you will look pretty
hard and not find q sotisfoc.
tory answer TO the question Of
how 1t can stop q strike like
this one.
AWAIT
FORD ACTION
N. 1. R. B. Is limited by law
to procedure best illustrated by
whot II hos done and what il
hos not been obIe to do In the
nine-now 10 - Ford coses.
Three Of these coses ore still
in the courts, two await new
decisions, three have been de-
cided but owoit compliance by
the Ford company.
For nine months Of the lost
Congress, the activities Of the
N. 1. R. B. and its law we're
Investigated by q speeioI COM
mite headed by Representa-
tive Howard w. Smith Of Alex
ondrio/ Va. His committee
made more than 100 recon-
mendotions for changes Of
the law and then went out of
business. Whether those 100
changes or any part Of them
would improve the work Of N.
L. R. B. is q matter Of conjec-
ture and your own opinion.
based principally on which side
Of the union tracks you live.
N. L. R. B. hos been judged
largely by It's shortcomings.
The good it hos done is usually
lost sight Of, and in that
evoluotion you must bear In
mind thot in five years II hos
handled $4,000 coses, every
one q potential strike, invoIv-
ing nearly 1000 900 workers.
II has held $500 elections
roughly 10 per cent Of its
coses. The other 80 per cent
have been handled by consent
and agreement Of employer
and employees, without action
by the board.
Courts have upheld tho
board better than they have
sustained many 'other govern
ment administrative agencies.
N. L. r. B. has an 8.to-l rec
ord before the Supreme Court,
where three Of its claims have
been denied and ~ approved,
with or without modification.
It has q 5-to-l record in the
circuit courts.
Whatever Is eoekeyed obout
NJ. L. R. B. would still seem to
be in the law which erected
it and gives 1t life.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
SIGNS OF A NEWER
NEW EUROPE

The picture of HitIer's New order
in Europe" being at the moment just q
little blurred because Of Y~ueoslovion
spots before the eyes, Greek fire, Brit
ish steam, and ltolion neorsighted-
ness, it is worth while to peer at the i'm
ace of q still newer new Europe" thot
is beginning to toke shape.
They are tolking in free Norway"
now Of q security Bloc" Of notions with
common interests bordering on the
Atlantic. Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian
and perhaps Donish leaders now in
London are beginning to talk OF get
tina those countries together otter the
war, perhaps with Sweden and Finland,
in political and economic cooperation.
At the same time, refugees from the
Polish and CzechosIovokion republics
are getting together and discussing
their fotoI foilure to cooperate. They
are undoubtedly remembering those
October dogs in 1893 when, as Czecho-
sIovokio 10y on the Nozi choPPing
block, Poland merely laughed ond
busted herself in omputoting the Ies-
chen oreos for her own benefit. Re-
memberinQ this, there we're probably
few Czech tears when Poland itself was
overFun.
But remembering all Of 1888 and
1899, It is likely thot representatives
Of both countries can now see how
divided they fell" whereas united,
they might have stood. Such q Czech
Polish federation would have 5O,OOO,-
600 people to stort with, and might
odd many more if the Rumonions, Aus
trions, Huneorions, BuIeorions, Croots
and Serbs, might be induced to 20
operote.
Such units as the North Atlantic
group, and the Central European
group, If some kind Of political and
economic federalism could be con-
trived, might possibly avoid the super
notionolism which wrecked the settle
ment otter World War !.
Is it q dream, this scheming and
pIonnine by refugee governments in
exile? Not necessarily.
Hitler once wrote, in "Mein Kompf,"
A nations chance Of reconquering its
independence is not absolutely bound
up with the integrity Of q stote terri
tory, but rather with the existence Of q
never so small remnant Of this nation
ond stote which, having the necessary
freedom, hos in its power to be
not only the bearer Of the spiritual
communion Of the entire nationality,
but olso the preporer Of the military
struggle for freedom.
He may have been right. And the
pIors for q newer Europe to succeed
the obortive new order" which ore
ven now being discussed by fugitive
groups who meet in free lands, may yet
bear nore enduring fruit than the ugly
orchords being planted with fire and
sword.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-05
A STAB OF Light INTO
THE DIM FUTURE

A mere million dollars is nothing
in the vortex Of billions whirling about
in Washington today. Yet the million
dollars spent by the Temporary Mo-
tionoI Economic Committee during the
post three years in getting together
10000 pages of testimony from more
than 500 industrial leaders may turn
out to be the most productive million
of them oil.
The committee set itself q crushing
tosk-nothine less than to find out the
answers to the questions everyone has
been asking for 10 years: Why want
amid plenty? Whot's wrong with our
economic system?
Now, in 81 volumes, the report is
made. 1t should be the greatest mine
Of information that exists on our econ
omy and how it works, and why it
doesn't work.
Everybody is concerned about what
will happen otter the war emergency
is over. Will it mean another depres-
sion worse than the last one? 1t is GER
toinIy possible unless the ereotest pos
sible foresight is used, beginning now.
The recommendations Of the TNEC
are oimed apparently, at this postwar
period rather than at the period Of the
defense effort, which is no time to rock
boats.
Many and many q sub-study, and
many q recommendation for new laws
will come out Of the vost body Of what
the TNEC has learned about our econ
omy. Only the general lines are clear,
but they ore interesting as q Questing
seorehIieht beam poked toward the
future.
First, the committee is sold on free
enterprise. 1t feels that the only way in
which America will eventually be got
ten back at %peocetime work is by re-
opening the opportunities for new en-
terprise. Those avenues ore now in
creosinely blocked on one hand by the
increasing size Of q few vast corpora
tons, and by increasing government
regulation.
Thus the committee suggests; SUBJ
iecting national corporations to NO.
tionol charter and control; loosening
the grip Of patent rights; abolition Of
bosine-point systems for calculating
prices; repeal Of the Miller Tydines
type Of price-mointenonee laws; gov
eminent restriction Of new mergers;
legal and tax policies which will foster
and protect new enterprises, and thus
encourage them.
Thot is q bare hint Of the line Of
thought that hos come to the majority
Of the TNEC otter hearing oil this testi-
mony. The crux Of the matter is here;
long os American business contin-
ues to erovitote into larger and fewer
Units, on equal Capitalization and ex-
pension Of government is inevitable.
AS free enterprise is restricted, free
government is endangered; political
freedom is impossible without eoonom-
&c freedom.
When the present emergency is
posed, it is clear thot the United Stotes
is going to have to do some fost STEP
ping. Every bit Of light that can be
thrown now on the best direction Of
those steps, light such as the TNEC re-
port is now shedding, is q guarantee Of
future sofety ond progress.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Cornerstone of Old St. PuuI's
Uneorthed by Steam Shovel

site having been filled in for q
parking lot when the structure was
leveled about 10 years ago.
The papers and coins were soaked
with water that had seeped into the
crypt. A glass jar in which the
articles were cached originally was
shattered, presumably by the jolt
resulting when the stone was struck
by the shovel.
Covering the small crypt was a
marble slab with the following in
scription turned inside for preserva-
ton:
"St. Paul's Lutheran Church, City
of Washington, District of Colum-
bia. June 18th, A. D. 1874. j. P. Van
Ness Consecrated This Site to the
Worship of Almighty God, the
Father, the Son and the Holy
Ghost, Amen"
DR.. Henry w. Snyder, pastor of
the new church located at Connec-
ticut avenue and Everett street NV,
said the site was donated by Gen.
Van Ness. The latter and former
President John Quincy Adams were
among the distinguished persons
attending the laying of the corner
stone, according to an early account.
The steam shovel earlier had un-
covered pieces of the old tablet
which identified the church from
the front
A. D. Pardington, superintendent
for James Baird Co., preparing the
site for a 12-story Office building to
be used by the Washington Gas
Light Co.. said he had been asked
by church officials to watch out for
the cornerstone, adding the stone
was found within a few feet of the
point designated as its probable To-
cation
Luther w. Linkins, chairman of
the church Building Committee,
charged with locating the old cor
nerstone was summoned to take
charge of the stone and its contents.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Nazi Ship Leaves Chile
To Run Blockade
Nv th. Ar.ocist.S prese

BY the Associated Press.
TALCAHUANO, Chile, Jan. 81
The 7,132-ton German freighter
Portland, laden with 10000 tons of
oil, cereals and minerals, sailed to-
day for an unannounced destination
after having lain in Chilean waters
since soon after the outbreak Of war
Maritime circles expressed belief
that the Portland would head for
Japan in an attempt to evade the
British blockade. She recently was
overhauled in drydock here.
The Portland, which piled peace
time trade between Germany and
the Pacific Coast as a Hamburg
American liner, was reported to have
arrived September %, 1889, at the
Chilean port of Coquimbo flying a
Japanese flag. She had sailed Sep
tember 2, the day before Britain en-
tered the war, from Everett. Wash
A member Of her crew later said
she had changed her name and flag
to French after hearing q radio
report that 1t had been changed
to Japanese. r..
Evening star., 1941-01-31
WiHkie Finds British
Defenses Impressive

Earlier Story on Page A-3.)
~ the Associated Press.
DOVER. England, Jan. 3l.-Mud-
splashed and weary after a day in
Britain's front line on the channel,
Wendell L. Willkie declared late to-
day that British defenses against
invasion appeared very impressive
and I wouldn't like to be the Ger
man attacking them
He remarked that he had seen
"some slight shelling" across the
channel, but that "it didn't amount
to anything"
''The defenses exceeded my ex-
pectations in many ways" he said.
81 think the Germans have tough
Job on their hands"
Twice during an inspection of
"Hells Corner'-the Dover defenses
Mr.. Willkie saw anti-aircraft guns
in action against q Dornier flying
pencil"
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Traffic Safety Bills
Submitted 10 Rayburr
By Commissioners
One Proposes to Brouden
Automobile Financial
Responsibility Law

The District Commissioners sub
mitted to Speaker Rayburn today
several bills designed to improve
traffic safety conditions here.
One of the bills proposes to amend
the Highway Safety Act to make the
financial responsibility law applic-
able in all cases of reckless opera
ton of motor vehicles where per-
Sonal injury is caused. It would
add to the present provisions re-
garding driving while under the in
fluence of Intoxicating liquor and
leaving the scene of an accident in
which personal injury occurs. Com
missioner John Russell Young said
this amendment is justified by the
large number of reckless driving
cases involving personal injury.
Cab Insurance Recommended.
The Commissioners also recon-
mended an amendment to the law
requiring that all cabs for hire
must carry insurance for the pro-
lection of passengers. The pro-
posed amendment, Commissioner
Young explained, is to give the
superintendent of insurance of the
District greater control over the
business of companies writing taxi
cab insurance.
The Commissioners submitted also
bill to amend the District Union
Railroad Station Act. The present
act provides that where railroad
tracks cross street the District
must provide separation of grades.
The Commissioners pointed out that
there are a number of spur or
industrial tracks or branch lines
over which trains operate infre-
quently. 1t is contemplated opening
streets across some of these rail-
road tracks.
Grade Work Held Too Costly.
The Commissioners said the pub
lie can be protected by lights and
f1agmen and that the requirement
of grade separations under the pres
ent act would be unnecessarily
costly.
Also submitted was a proposed
amendment to the act regulating
plumbing and gas fitting, designed
to eliminate the practice of master
plumbers permitting other individ-
uals or organizations to use their
licenses.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Cites Remarks
Attributed 10
IsoIationist
Once Favored Toking
Mexico as Defense
Move, Press Told
BY IOHN C. HENRY.

The bitter feud which has been
under way for several weeks be-
tween administration leaders and
the Senate isolation bloc headed by
Senator Wheeler. Democrat, of Mon
tana took a bizarre turn this after
noon when President Roosevelt told
his press conference that he had
been informed several years ago that
the Montana Senator considered
Notification of Europe inevitable.
To meet this condition. the Sem
ator is reported to have said that
the United States must take over
Canada, Mexico and five Central
American republics.
The Senator's remarks were pur-
ported to have been made at din"
ner at the Washington home Of
Rexford Tugwell. former New Deal
brain truster. in 1884 or 1885. The
story was brought to Mr.. Roosevelt.
he said today, by the late william
z. Dodd, who was Ambassador to
Germany.
The Presidents disclosure came
during persistent questioning and
after an initial refusal to discuss
the matter Informed that maga-
zine articles based on the late AM
bassador's diary were appearing and
contained part of this material. the
President then related the version
given him hy Mr.. Dodd.
Patent ConfiScatiOn.
Asked if he had reason to believe
today, the President declined TO
comment.
The Chief Executive also disclosed
that consideration is being given
to possible Government conflscation
of either foreign or domestic owned
patents, if considered essential to
defense
The Government yesterday OBJ
tanned indictments in Federal Dis
trict Court in New York City against
an alleged German American COM
bine charged with sitting production
of magnesium here through patent
| controls.
Mr.. Roosevelt pointed out that the
Government already clearly has
peace-time power, as conferred in
the conscription law. to take over
factories wherever it is found they
are not being operated in co-opera-
ton with defense needs. The same
provision, he indicated might ap-
ply to patents.
Might Operate Plants.
The President then was asked if
the Government might undertake to
operate the Ford factories if that
company persisted in rejecting the
defense labor policies. although its
productive capacity might be vital to
the Nation. His reply was that if
the name of Ford Motor Co. were
removed from the question to
broaden it to cover any plants, the
4 answer would be yes.
/ The President declined comment
on Hitler's speech of yesterday, say
! ing he had not even read it.
Mr.. Roosevelt also was noncom-
initial on pending legislative pro-
posals to restrict labor's right to
/ strike.
Asked again about an appoint
ment OF an Ambassador to London,
the President laughed and said he
would DO something about it Mon
day. To a further question, he said
he doubted he would do anything
about naming a Minister to Lon
/ don at the same time.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
FIandin, Attacked.
By Paris Papers,
May Quit Cabinet
Foreign Minister BIomed
By German Officials
For LovoI Custer
By the Associated Press.

Og lile ASSOCidItu rIcoS.
VICHY. France, Jan. 31.-Informed
sources said tonight there was a
strong possibility that Pierre -Etienne
Flandin would resign as Foreign
Minister as newspapers in German
occupied Paris continued campaign
against the Vichy government.
1t was said that German officials
of the occupied territory took the
stand that M. Flandin was one OF
those responsible for the ousting OF
Pierre Laval, former Foreign Min
lister and Vice Premier, from the
Viehy government.
The Germans also were believed
to take the position that German
French collaboration would be i'm
possible unless M. Laval returned to
the government and other changes
were made in the composition of the
cabinet.
The informed sources said the
Germans considered the present
vichy regimes policy "Anglophile"
friendly to Britain-and that COL
laboration could not be resumed un-
der present conditions.
(Authorized German sources
in Berlin said yesterday a ques-
ton was justified as to whether
French-German rapprochement,
as envisioned in the meeting last
fall between Adolf Hitler and
Marshal Petain, Is to be actively
pushed. The German sources
said M. Laval was considered the
principal exponent of this rap
prochement policy They ex-
pressed astonishment and con-
cern over the failure of Marshal
Petain and Laval to get to-
gether) ~.
Observers expressed belief that the
French political situation was near
ing a new crisis, but would not pre-
dict when a new move was to be
expected