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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-14
OUTLOOK CHANGED

LYNXVILLE, WIS.-The 100
hens belonging to w. L. Tall
madge Strut in their henhouse
with spectacles fastened before
their eyes by means of a tiny
aluminium bar.
Tallmadge says the red cellu-
loid lenses have corrected q can
nibalistic trait characteristic Of
even the most aristocratic Of
hens.
Spots of blood on q hen make
other hens "see red," he ex-
plains. They attack the injured
bird en- masse. The rosy lenses,
making all objects appear red,
have eliminated this cannibal-
ism, Tallmxdos claims.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-14

bit actor who hasn't had much
work lately.
Speaking of dying, Robert
Preston again is breathing his
last for Cecil DeMille. He was
shot and killed by Brian Donlevy
in Union Pacific" shot and kill
ed by an Indian in North West
Mounted Police" and now he has
been laid low by a bullet from
Raymond Massey in Reap the
Wild Wind" ut wouldn't be so
bad If I could be poisoned or
stabbed or something" said Pres
ton. But always getting shot, I
feel like I'm in rut."
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-14

Cary Grant has bought the 35-
room home that belonged to
Gene Stratton Porter -. It's q
giggle about the CANISTER actor
who was slated by the script to
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-14
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY

Annual reunion Of the Fight
ing Fifth, the 22nd, IN, he 9Th
REGIMENTS will be held In Mount
Clemens on August 81. Citizens
are expected 70 make q success
Evening star., 1941-08-03

T H | R D
+ [ o o R
BACK. Win
n er Of til e
weekly $500
prize, entered
by DR.. S. S.
} O { + e, 1914
Fig h t eenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Best Snapshots
Of the week in
The Stars
Amateur Contest

Contestonts receive 81 for
eoch photo published with the
weekly S. prize winner. All
photos published will be con-
sidered at the end Of the con-
test for The Stor's four SIS
9rond awards. Winners of the
erond owords will compete in
the notionoI owords poying
$4,000, including erond prize
worth $500. Photos must
hove been token otter Nay l8,
l94l, to be eligible. Photos ore
not returned. Do not submit
negatives.
Evening star., 1941-07-08

Culdees had moved northward
across the open sea TO make their
homes in that cold place.
Most of the colonists were Nor
wegians, but considerable number
came from England, Ireland. Scot
land and the Hebrides. The physical
characteristics of the people are
tall and slender stature, long face.
backward -sloping forehead and
light eyes. The hair is darker than
the blond Norwegians.
Long Tie With Denmark.
The first so years of Scandinavian
colonization was irregular and
struggling and the colonists were
disunited. At last in $50 the
Althing was established, the Ice
andic Commonwealth was organ
lied, Ulfjot'S laws were invoked for
the whole country and the island
became an orderly run independent
nation.
Accumulation of political power
in a few persons jealous of each
other, however, plunged the island
into a period of bloody feuding,
which King Hakon Hakonarson
made the excuse for extending his
control from the mainland over the
island In 1862 he persuaded the
Icelandic nation to take the oath
of allegiance to him, and the COM
Evening star., 1941-07-08

camp. On April Is. 1910, Iceland,
which was represented here until
then by the Minister from Denmark
requested the State Department for
the exchange of direct representa-
tives between Iceland and the
United States AS result, Thor
Thors represents Iceland as consul
general in New York. and Bertel
E. Kuniholm represents the United
States as consul in Reykjavik.
10000 British Troops There.
May 10, 1910, Great Britain took
over the custody of Iceland until
the conclusion of the hostilities. u
Iceland's defense force amounted to
about 10 policemen. BY now the
British have 10000 or 10000 troops
there, which, Mr.. Roosevelt told
Congress, are to be replaced by
Americans. The British have been
raising Notifications and building
strong naval anchorage around
the Hvalfjord. Is miles north of
Revkjavik on the Faxafloi
Since the arrival of the British,
Evening star., 1941-07-08

monwealth had come to an end.
The practical rule of Iceland was
transferred to Denmark in 1880.
and the tie TO Denmark was severed
only on May 16, l94l.
Iceland became a kingdom. ruled
by the monarch in Copenhagen,
by the Act of Union of November
80. 1918. From 1918 to 1941, then,
Iceland was part of a co-kingdom,
but a sovereign state. After the
German occupation of Denmark on
April 9, 1910, the link between
Reykjavik and Copenhagen existed
only on paper. The Althing in May,
1910, declared that so long as the
occupation of Denmark continued,
it would consider the relation be-
tween the two countries in suspen-
sion. A year later the Althing
adopted declaration of inde-
pendence.
Almost at once after the Danish
occupation the first step was taken
which by now has placed Iceland
deeply in the Anglo American
Evening star., 1941-07-08

Iceland has figured in the progress
of the war. The blockade Of conti-
mental Europe extends to Iceland,
and the shipping routes 10 Britain
from the United States and Canada
skirt Iceland waters. Those waters
are mined, and the German coun-
terblockade operates within them.
The sinking Of the Hood and the
beginning of the chase of the Bis
marck began in the strait west of
Iceland that separates it from
Greenland.
The Presidents speech of May Il
contained a strong. hint that the
United States would enter Iceland
which Mr.. Roosevelt mentioned
twice by name. In that same speech
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke with satisfac-
ton of the operation of the Navy
patrols on the Atlantic in behalf of
keeping shipping lanes open to Brit
ain. The occupation of Iceland and
the extension of the patrols are
linked.
Nltai LINK IOF SOnVOYS.
Hvalfjord, Iceland, now can be-
come a base Of operation COR the
patrols. Iceland can make the
question of conveys a dead issue
With American ships based at Ice
land combing the seas between
Iceland and Scotland daily for sight
of German submarines, convoys
would be unnecessary. Conveys are
far less efficient than patrols when
patrols can cover every mile of the
oceans.
The closest German strength tc
Iceland is at Norway, 100 miles
distant, long trip for an airplane
Iceland's place on the globe. fal
out in the ocean. makes it unlikely
that it will ever be a Crete, invaded
by parachutists or gliders. For Ice
land, 1t probably holds true that
whoever gets there fust with the
Evening star., 1941-07-08

land planes Seaplanes can operate
from Faxaf1oi. To the west there
Is a lonely lowland valley fronted
at the sea by snoWcap which sits
along a bay called the Heradsfloi
Here airmen could keep watch on
the East, toward Norway, 1000
miles away, where Nazi planes are
based.
Inhabitants Literate.
For the sightseeing American mil
itary men, Reykjayik is interesting
as the most northern capital of
country in the world, but a small
town 20 miles 10 the east, Thing
vellir. outshineS Reyk javik for sur
rounding scenery and historic in
tereSt. For one thing, the village
sits in the midst of a majestic pano-
rama that includes the lake of
Thingvalla, the waterfall of Oxara
and the lava pile of Almannagja.
For another thing. Thingvellir was
the capital of Iceland for centuries
from $50 to 1898. The members
of the Althing met outdoors at
Thingvellir in the summer.
The fishermen and shepherds who
live on this wild dot of earth are a
literate folk. One of their chiefs
long ago wrote one of the worlds
great pieces of literature, the prose
"Edda," describing the lives OF the
Kings of Norway. The author was
u-l1n hny.yo
1179 and was murdered in 1241. He
built a bathing place Of stones in
his town of Reyk jaholt. and 1t still
stands, known TO this day as Snor-
ralaug.
An Icelander of today can read the
"Edda" more easily than We can
read Shakespeare, so little change
has there been in the language dur
ing the centuries. 1celandlc is the
oldest modern language in Europe.
1t was spoken throughout the whole
of Scandinavia about the time when
Iceland was colonized. when people
in England were speaking Saxon and
people in America were speaking in
any number of Indian tribal dla-
lects. 1t has always been a literary
language, and from that fact has
come its uniformity.
Compulsory Schools Since 1907.
Since 1907 school attendance in
Iceland has been compulsory for all
children between 10 and IA, and
illiteracy is unknown there. In
some of the most thinly populated
regions there are so-called movable
schools, where the same teacher
ambulates between two or three
localities at different seasons of the
year. In 1911 the University of Ice
land was established. For years it
met in the Parliament houses be-
cause it had no headquarters of its
own, but since 1888 a lottery has
been in progress to raise building
fund.
Iceland was discovered by the
ScandinayianS about 100 years be-
fore it was discovered by the Amer
ican naval expedition. The date was
around $40 or $50, although long be-
fore then, some unknown year, Irish
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Chauffeur Checks Up
On Garage Man
!, the Associated Press.

SPARTANBURG, S. ca garage
man told a chauffeur that the new
tires on his automobile were not en-
Cirely balanced" but that would not
De noticeable until speeds Of IS or 70
miles an hour were attained
A few minutes later a State pa
trolman stopped the chauffeur while
ne was travelling IA miles an hour.
Next time" the chauffeur told the
magistrate. Use going TO let that
garage fellow balance them tires"
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Nuzis Claim Seizure
Of Almost All Area
Reds Got Since '3o
Nv tn. Azsoeiated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 8.-The Ger
man Army In two weeks f1ght-
ing has seized nearly all the
territory Soviet Russia has ac-
quired since September IT, 1893,
DN.B., the official news agency,
said yesterday.
1t listed German gains as the
Western Ukraine, Western
White Russia, Bessarabia,
Northern Bucovina, Lithuania
and Latvia-a total area larger
than all Germany as reduced by
the treaty OF Versailles.
Post-Versailles Germany was
about 1872 900 square miles.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
West Will Be Inducted

Millard F. West, jr. newly
elected president of the Washington
Junior Board of Commerce, will be
inducted into Office at a luncheon
meeting of the organization Thurs
day. He succeeds Harold D. Fang
boner in the Office
Evening star., 1941-07-08

nioetest men" has Iceland. A great
naval force might wrest it from the
United States, were it not for the
fact that Great Britain can dis
patch a great naval force to the area
herself.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-02
BUILD OUR GOVERNMENT

in that direction. Why? Because
there is no plan that the human mind
can conceive that will allow the peo-
pie of Europe to consume the neces-
stiles of life under the old order.
Americas ruling class and leader
ship is and has been for some time
counting royalty. American people
who believe in democracy and democ-
racy practiced by the majority OF the
people certainly don't believe in rule
of nazism or fascism. Nor do they
believe in or have sympathy for the
rule of any nation by crowned head
or feudal lords, a system OF govern
ment that the great mass of people
have fought and given their blood to
defeat as far back as there are any
records of civilization. Monarchial
government is fascism in it's worst
form and certainly should not be sup
ported by seekers of Freedom and
Democracy. 1t is rather amusing to
note the propaganda that the pervert-
ers of the American Constitution and
Democracy use. If you are not for
England then you must be for Hitler.
Which is vile way of using pressure
on the common man. Our fight is
not to choose the best of two rotten
forms of government. Our fight is to
build free democratic form of gov
eminent in the United States for it's
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-02
LOOKING
ABROAD

Written for The Peoples Voice
and released by the American Coun-
Gil of the Institute of Pacific Rela-
tions and by Federated Press. Opin-
ions are the author's.)
BY DOROTHY BORG
American Council, Institute of
Pacific Relations
An appeasement group in China is
willing to make peace with Japan.
This group, led by reactionary govern
ment officials in high positions, gain
ed the upper hand last summer when
Great Britain closed the Burma Road.
At that time the country went into
the doldrums and the appeasers seized
the opportunity to weaken the pro-
gressive elements in China They
were motivated also by the rapidly
growing economic crisis which threat
ened to sweep them out of power.
By attacking Communist elements in
the New Fourth Army, they stirred
up conflict which has led the coun-
try to the brink of civil war.
Japan has been trying to bolster
the appeasement group in China. She
knows that civil war means victory
for Japan. Above all, she wants to
end the China Incident so she can
take advantage of the European con-
flict to fulfill her dreams of expan-
sion in southeast Asia. These plans
naturally fit in with Germany's and
there have been recent reports that
terms at Chungking.
The groups which stand out against
the appeasers are the mass of the
people, the communists, and the bulk
of the army. Chou En- Lai, commun-
list leader, has stated that it was "ri-
diculous" to suppose that the Chi
nese communists would stop fighting
the Japanese If Russia signed nom
aggression pact or even an alliance
with Japan. In regard to the popu-
lation throughout free China, the suf-
fering seems to be far greater than is
generally realized.
All observers say the destruction of
villages by bombing is appalling, poor
has led to scarcity of
food, initiation is making itself felt,
and the burden of refugees-often es-
timated at 4O,00O,0O0-is increasingly
severe.
1t is in terms of the people at large
that America is said to hold the bal
ance in China. If the people are
the appeasement group
is strengthened and may achieve its
aims. If the people see hope ahead,
they pick up courage and are ready
to fight the war to the end.
The strong stand taken by the u S.
and Great Britain in the last weeks
must have acted as tonic to the Chi
nese people. American assistance
may well tip the scale against civil
war and a consequent deal with
Japan.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-02

the next best, in that area.
Stated as plainly as possible, my
problem has become simply this: How
much longer will we be permitted to
live? For myself / claim no right to
live. l grant entirely anyone's argu-
ment that | ought never to have been
born. The unfortunate thing is that
1t is forty years too late for proven
tive measures Here l am, and since
/ am here / should like to pay my
way and discharge my esponsibilities,
with as little trouble to others as
possible. until the silly business is
over If | am to continue living |
must have some means of accomplish
ing these things. Some kinds of Ia
Dor are easier for me than others, but
to any kind l am quite willing to
dig sewers if my fellow citizens hon.
estly feel that | have not yet dug my
share of the worlds sewers. II / am
not to live, then who will volunteer
to be my executioner, and who will
look after my family? Suicide would
answer only half the question; be-
sides it is frowned on by moralists
who sleep well and have plenty Of
good food under their belts. What is
societys pleasure? l see no hope Of
evading choice forever.
Sincerely your,
JOHN STAHLBERG.
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automobile industry.
I'VE know" stated Elmer A. Ben
son, chairman of the Farmer-Labor
Association" that workers who are
on strike in the plants of international
Harvester and Allis-C Chalmers are de-
handing small wage increases so that
they may preserve their living stand
ards in the face of increased living
costs.
However there is no reason why
these wage increases IL they are
granted should result In higher prices
to the farmer On the contrary 1t is
the job of the farmer and the worker
in the farm equipment plants to join
hands in forcing the farm implement
trust to terms.
For years this huge monopoly has
been able to maintain its tremendous
rate of profits by squeezing out both
the farmer and the worker 1t is now
necessary while the farm equipment
workers are on strike for just share
of these profits that the farmers also
open up an intensive campaign for a
reduction in the price of farm imple-
ments."
The Farmer-Labor Association this
week launched many-sided campaign
to organize farm support against the
farm implement trust. Benson and
Charles Mum, vice chairman of the
Farmer-Labor Association, were slated
to go on the radio in a series of
broadcasts over five-state area.
In prepared statement, the Asso-
citation blasted the requests of the
companies for government aid in
breaking the strikes on the ground
that they were interfering with ma
tional defense" The Association
pointed out that the International Har-
vester Company has plants operating
full blast in Germany and in occupied
France, turning out munitions for Hit
Ter.
This proves" the statement de-
clares, that national defense is strict
ly business proposition with these
corporations.
1.-THE real interests of national de-
Tense would require that the farm i'm
plement trust lowers prices of its ma
chinery to the farmers so that they
may have an opportunity to share
some of the profits and to mainatin
themselves in the face of an increased
cost of living"
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able to collect monopoly profit from
the entire western world.
The British stranglehold was boil
economic and political. Weak ma
tons and peoples were pawns in the
game of empire-building The Ameri
can ruling class, in its present coop
Grafton with Great Britain, will have
the shirt stripped from its back un.
less it knows what it is about, Beal.
warns.
He sees the process already operat-
sold the U. S. gold (Which is use
less) in exchange for oil and planes
(Which are usefuD. The British are
boycotting U. S. cotton and tobacco
buying instead from Brazil Egypt and
Turkey.
By buying their cotton and other
supplies from Latin American coun-
tries they provide themselves with
markets for their manufactured goods
which are excluded from the U. S.
by prohibitive tariffs Like the Axis
powers, the British are now barter
ing for their supplies and using trade
methods that make U. S. competition
on the old door formula all but i'm
possible.
The author of Pan America" has
collected vast amount of informa-
ton. So much, indeed, that he often
gets lost in the masses. The book is
well worth careful study by anyone
interested in world economics or pol
itics. But the reader cannot follow
the author to any noteworthy conclu-
sfons, because there are none.
Pan America" does not provide any
working formula for the western hem
isphere. The author hopes for peace
and reciprocal relations among free
peoples, but he offers no plan for
bringing about such result.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-02

any right to do a job to the best of
ones ability without fear Of under
cover Vaccinations; then surely a
man who is proved by the record to
have rendered outstanding service
should be considered before those
same record to have been little more
than certain experiences in fawning
and flattery or a certain momentary
political correctness. Even If Mr..
Parker's behavior had been otherwise
necessary, he surely would not have
had to interrupt my only chance in
many years to do something to save
my eyesight. / might be willing to
believe in his honesty and good inten-
lions in other matters; but here he
gave evidence of bad faith both In
calling me back to job he had al
ready awarded to someone else and in
later attempting to cover up with the
elaborate pretense that | had merely
been away on a visit. Until that mo-
ment it had been well known to him
and to everyone on the Writer'S Prof.
ect that my eyes were giving me
trouble and that | had seriously over
worked them in efforts to complete
a block OF western state guides in
too brief time. You may remember
that the project was under fire all
over the country in 1889, and des-
perately needed to make a better
showing. Vardis Fisher and had the
western area divided between us be-
cause he had made the best showing,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-02
Bx BEN BUCKLEY

President Roosevelt's broadcast OF
the evening Of March 29, 1941 was
rather weak and confused in its anal
ysis of the world situation OF fascism
war peace, communism and democ-
racy Mr.. Roosevelt said that under
fascism the people were under one
party Chats true) l wonder II the
people of the United States ELECTED
a president and If they thoroughly
understood the political maneuvers OF
the two major parties in our country.
Willkie, the nominee for president on
the Republican ticket, was Demo
crat few months before his nominal
ton by the Republican party. He put
up a good bluff as an opponent to
Roosevelt personally, but accepted
Roosevelt's policy and program as
good. He is now in the Roosevelt
mud puddle with both feet.
Mr.. Roosevelt attacked communism
on it's stand for peace. He says that
communists are the war lords of the
world. While they are preaching
peace they are trying to cause dis
sension among the people. To create
dissension is an almost impossible
undertaking in a government of salts
fled people. Mr. Roosevelt has been
preaching peace all through his adj
ministration, while constantly prepar-
ing for war by the slogan of "All
Aid to Britain to Save the Worlds
Democracy" In Europe, where?
Mr.. Roosevelt brought out in his
talk that nazi Germany sent to con-
centration camp an industrialist who
helped build fascism in Germany
That industrialist must have been
Fritz Thyssen, the master mind of
fascism the mind that conceived the
plan of world fascism with headquart-
ers in Madrid, Berlin, London and
Wall Street and backed by interna-
tional bankers, imperialists and their
cohorts.
The American shores are swarming
with nobility international bankers,
industrialists of the world, fascist ap-
peasers and they are all receiving a
welcome at Washington, D. G.. I was
reading in the evening paper of the
kept press Of March 29th that Wenner-
Gren, friend and consort of the Duke
of Windsor, a Swedish multi-million-
aire and pro-nazi has settled in the
Bahamas, on a little isle known as
Hog Island, one of the British depen-
denotes in America. He is surround |
ing his own hundred acre plot with |
homes for those that can afford it.
A created lake in the center of the
property with deep channels for
yachts leads to the Nassau harbor.
His principality will regularly employ
800 natives.
The Duke of Windsor is the ruler
of the Bahamas and is much pleased
with his friends plans. 1t will be in
teresting to watch these people, the
imperialists and multi-millionaires
searching for and building retreats of
safety, consoling and strengthening
the confidence of each other in their
ability to stem the tide of a moving
mass of humanity that is clamoring
and growing for the necessities of
life. Watch the Americas because it
is almost safe bet that they will be
the last stomping grounds of the
worlds imperial fascists. Europe is
almost sure to go left and continue