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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
TWO WAYS OF LIFE

This second World War is war
between two PHILOSOPHERS, two woys OF
life. two Numerically opposed systems
Of government.
In every land which the Axis hos
conquered. all liberty hos been ruth
Iesslv abolished. The free enterprise
system. where it existed, has been con-
sioned to the rubbish heap. Dissenters
hove foced the firing squod or have
been sentenced to living deoth in q
concentration comp. A whole continent
hos been choined to the Nozi chariot,
ond the peoples Of q dozen notions,
monv of them once democratic ana
free. have been reduced to the stotus
Of Stoves. The individual is nothing
the stote is oil. >e
Our part in this war then, whether
or not we eventually become octve oe'.
Iioerents, is to prove to all the world
thot free enterprise is superior to slave
enterprise-thot democracy is superior
to totolitorionism. And we can prove
that in only one way. Thot is by eneour-
.ooino the private enterprise system,
under fair and suitable government
regulation, to produce as it never pro-
duced before. Thot means thpt we must
encourage privoteIy-owned industry
whether it deals in electric power or
cool or oil or manufacturing or ony-
tl,ino eIse-to do the greatest JOB in
history. 1t means thot all evidences OF
totolitogionisn in this country must be
suppressed. II means that we must con-
sistently oppose stote socialism wher-
ever it oppeors, whatever its monifesto-
ton. We ore fighting for the right OF
free men to engage freely in legitimate
business under q free system. 1t thot
right is lost, we will suffer on irrevoco-
bic defect, no matter how great our
military proves.
Privote enterprise is ready to meet
the test. The record Of the post is the
promise Of the future. 1t is up to oil
men to prove now that the American
way is the winning woy-ond the way
to eventual peoce and security for oil
the people. .....,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

which would cushion the coun-
Try oooinst q collapse Of the
hi9h-ridino defense balloon.
Overnight. the foo stomp
plan, it set UP to oper1te ia
every community, could b.,
turned to relief use and to pro-
vide insurance ooo'nst unen-
p'oyment ond hunger, should
the wor-industrioIized world 40
into q toiIspin.
Looking oheod to this pos,
sibility. Milo Perki heod Of
SMA ond fother of the stomp
plan ideo, has hopes of orodu-
oily extending his odmi ,istro..
ton even on the reduced op--
propriotion which Congress hos
given him for the next yeor.
increased employment helps
reduce the costs in mos; units,
as men and women going book.
to eoinful jobs in private in
dustry leave relief rolls ond'
drop automatically from stomp
plan participation. SMA es-,
t'motes now out the number
OF fomilies eligible for stamp
plan participation at Is per.
cent fewer than at peak octivi-
ty. Z.
II is on these focts that Per.
kins boses the belief that SMA.
activities can be gradually in
creased. even on its 5 per cent
reduced budget. There are.
still several rather bothersone
flies in this soup. One is the
cost Of foods which SMA can
buy. There ore SURPRISES Of
most bosic foods and if prices
stoy at present levels, okoy.
IT they 90 up. SMA can't buy
the qualities it has bought for
the same amount Of money.
CURTAIlMEkT WOULD
BRING HoWlS
Other onnovonces are Ioroe-
~ political. The parity oona
thinks SMA should poy pority
prices for everything. and that
ideo would reduce the quantity
PurchosobIe il put into effect.
Another farm bloc thinks that
no Department Of Agriculture.
expenditures should 90 for re-,
Iief-oII should 90 for form
old. ond relief appropriations
should be extra.
IT for any reoso., at all the
food stomp plan should have
to curtoil its activities in any
community. you can expect q
terrible howl from all concern.
ed. Merchants like it, as we'll
os their relief customers. Stote
and city governments like it
because il tokes, some of the
relief load off their neeks.
Most formers like it because
it gives them something for
surplus crops. Mostly the peo-
pie who don't benefit by it d..
rectIy think its q bum ideo.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
~ PETER EDsok
Dolly Meaitev WsshiasteW
CosrOspondoWt

WASHINGTON - Con-
oressionoI action hacking
about $l3 million off funds
the Surplus Marketing Admin
istrotion will have available
for the food and cotton
stomp plons, schoo' lunches.
Iow-cost milk, and fos the dis
tribution of free food to relief
ers won't necessarily mean the
popular stomp plan will have
to be discontinued or eurtoiled
during the next II months.
With corefuI wotchino. II may
even be obIe TO expond q little.
In the lost II months, SMA
had $235 million for all its
4O-odd .pro9roms. This next
year il will have $2I2 million
direct appropriations OF
500 million. relief oppropri-
otions Of SIS million ond 80
per cent Of the customs re-
ceipts, equcl to $97 million.
With this money. SMA can
continue its main relief octivi-
ties, which outline about as
follows:
I. The stomp plan, cover
ina about four million people
in an oreo which tokrs in holt
the population Of the United
Stotes.
z. Direct purchase Of sur
plus commodities for dietribu-
tion to the needy in areas not
covered by the stamp plan.
This free food is distributed by
stote welfare departments and
reaches nine or ten million
persons.
8. Free school ''lnches and
Iow-cost milk, now given to
five million out Of soma nine
million needy youngsters.
There was O time when
there we're visions Of extending
the stomp plan to the whole
country. Before the defense
boom got going, it wos esti-
mated this could be done for
q mere $500 million Or maybe
400 million at the outside.
With unemployment and re-
lief reduced by the business
pickup, the Job could be done
for less now, but the action OF
Congress ir cutting $l3 mil
lion off the SMA appropriation
buries any such expansion tor
the next year at cost.
DON'T FORGET.
THESE NlTAMIkS
The idea, however. isn't ex-
octIy decd 1t would rise
from the grove in on 'nstont it
some Of the free spenders hod
their way. Paul V. McNutt,
head Of the Federal Security
Administration, mentioned the
desirobiIity Of having every
body full Of vitonins in war
times, and Of course it would
be nice even in peace times or
hard times too.
A more practical approach
10 the problem comes from the
people, some Of them high in
SMA, who see in extension OF
the food stomp plan the pos
sibility of erecting machinery
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
DON'T DRAIN INDUSTRY DRY

There is much toIk these days Of
toxine excess profits" to the hi|t And
to the uniformed, thot brings UP pic
lures Of O righteous government taking
some Of the gigantic earnings OF inered-
IDLY rich corporations.
However, the problem isn't SO sim
pie as thot Real excess profits" ore
toxedrow-ond they ore taxed plenty.
The greet danger is thot in our zeol'
to roise money we will tax away those
modest, normal profits which ore OBJ
solutely essential to the maintenance
and development Of oil industry.
II is for this reason that the excess
profits tax is potentially one Of the
most. menocino Of weapons. Business
must have profits to ottroct new cop
itol. 1t must hove profits to establish
needed credit. 1t must have profits to
rapidly exPond in such extraordinary
periods as the present. And it must
have profits to build up reserves against
thot doy when the war will be over, the
defense boom will have burst, and it
will hove to reodjust itself and get back
to norvnol.
u The government is entirely right in
insisting that there shall be no prof.
teerino ID defense books up
tIrot stondtQ HE limit. But we will make
- terrible mistoke il we use the toxino
power 10 drain s,oruoI industry dry.
Ihcf n tlse long run, would mean ruin
~ - al.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
MEANWHILE, TO THE SOUTH

Eyes are focused intentIy today on
the Russo-0ermon border, fascinated
by the clash Of titons. There, at this
moment, is centered the clash between
two worlds, one of which, according
to oxis spokesmen, cannot survive For
the third world" Russio, hos been
Pitchforked unwillinely into the bottle
for the democratic world which Hitler
and MussoIini have condemned to
death.
The bottle is bigger than even the
for-fIune bottle-line that seethes from
Arctic Murmonsk to semi-tropic Odes-
50. 1t extends across the world.
For instance, in South America the
shock of the invasion Of Russia hos
been felt no less strongly than in North
America The same forces that brought
changes in mind and changes Of align
ment here, brought similar changes
there. Communists mode the same 3D.
roit hoIf-goiner dive there that they
made here, and for the same reasons.
People who incline to think that even
Foscsm is preferable to Communism,
stiffened their opposition to whatever
did wos being given those who resist
invosion-ond in South America in
general such aid hos always encounter
ed even sitter resistance than in North
America. But in general the same pres
sures and strains felt here ore felt there.
A Hitler victory over Russio would do
the United Stotes immeosuroble harm
in it's relations with the countries to the
SOUTH Why? Because the forces
throughout South America which cry
out loudest against YANKEE imperial
ism" and toss monkey wrenches into
all efforts to make good on the Good
Neiehbor policy ore the some forces
which incline to back Germany against
Britain, and especially now, Germany
against Russia.
II the Nozis beat Russia, they will
oIso have won q great victory in South
America. Every tinpot Hitler every
organizer Of local "storr-troops" in
any color Of shirt, every German, ItoI-
ian, Vichy-French, Franco and japan
csc propaganda, will redoubIe his ef-
forts ond get more respectful hear
ing. And the element in every coun-
try which believes thot "moybe little
more discipline might be good thing"
will surge forward and touch up its
blueprint Of the rood to power. They,
not tonks or planes, ore Hitler's secret
invasion weapon against the Western
Hemisphere.
Let's not be SNUG obout this Danger
in South America. Are we so sure that
each new Hitler victory doesn't
strengthen elements in the United
Stotes who oIso see in it sign that
there rolls the wave Of the future?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
. SO THEY SAY

We don't have to think of our
selves as making an alliance
with the Soviet Union. We
only have to think of ourselves
as welcoming another person
who wants to fight on our side.
Elmo Roper, poll director,
Fortune Magazine.
This conflict is the first out
burst of total warfare. 1t is up
TO democracy to establish total
peace.
John Ciechanowski, Polish
ambassador to the u. S.
We are going to build up a
dual system which will COM
bine all the benefits of plan
ned economy anG of free enter
prise.
Godfrey Crowther, editor, the
London Economist.
We have been living too long
on borrowed time.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
know that honor in these
days has become a platitude, but
il there is to be no faith in
sacred promises I do not see how
q civilized world can be possible.
General De Gaulle Of the Free
French forces.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Old Argentine Stamp
Honors National Hero

7 ARGELY responsible for Ar
gentina's present constitution
al government was General Ur-
quiza. whose portrait appears on
the stamp above, issued by the
Argentine government in 1888.
General Urquiza became first
president under the constitution
adopted in 1853. Urquiza paved
the way for this distinction by
eliminating his former superior,
Juan Manuel Rosas, dictator, in a
war in which he enlisted the aid
OF Brazil and one of the Uru-
guayan factions. Rosas was COM
PEELED to fee to Europe.
Urquiza was elected to the
presidency for a term of six years.
Toward the end of his term of
office, Buenos Aires declared war
on the new federal government.
Urquiza's forces vanquished the
rebels, but the presidents term
ended before peace terms could
be arranged.
Urquiza's end finally came when
he was assassinated during an in
surrection in Entire Rios where he
was governor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08

The majority of players today
are using strong no trumps; that
is. their original bid OF one no
trump Is not made with weak
hand. OF course, there are some
PLAYERS who advocate the weak
no trump, and some who advo-
cate b ding no trump with
freak distribution, but the maj
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
so YEARS AGO TO-DAY

The Romeo papers will take
notice that "it is claimed" that
$50, not 100 baths, are given
daily ut the Mt. Clemens springs.
The number will soon reach 200.
The annual school meeting
will be held on Monday. july
18th. Annual reports will be
read and trustees elected \
place of 8. s. Gale and Geo. M.
Croker. We urge . general at
tendance ct the meeting.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

Mt. Clemens is giving fully
1000 baths q day.
The clairvoyants are enjoying
a fine run of business. They can
tell fortunes. never misfortunes,
by means of cards or the whites
of eRss-and never fail.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
. FROM
THE MONITOR.
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

1886
Macomb county farmers are
being attracted in large numbers
to the new soil conservation pro-
gram, County Agent William
Murphy reports.
Probate Judge Frederick c.
Miller announces q filter sys-
tenn to eliminate state care for
crippled and afflicted children,
whose parents are able to care
for them.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

1906
The Mount Clemens-T oledo
run is the longest run in the
United States without any
change. It will be extended In
Port Huron when there are more
cars.
The State Board of Health has
announced that hereafter the
state law which requires the re-
gistration of all births will be
strictly enforced.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

regimented for emergency du-
ties.
Hollywood is making films for
the visual education of troops.
The Army Signal Corps and the
Research Council of the Motion
Picture Academy beg; the
program last year. All studios
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

1881
It has rained or showed al
most every weekend since the
first of the year. Meteorological
experts report that every week.
end except seven since January
has had precipitation enough
to ruin planned outings.
Merton c. Page is elected the
president of the Mount Clemens
Exchange Club.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
ny the Associated Press
TJUCK CTnp

GUICh S1Of
INDIANAPOLIS-The follow
ers of 1O-year-old Neil Marx In
a game of follow-the-leader
over east side rooftops suddenly
stopped following.
Jumping off q wall, he had
crashed through a skylight into
an empty storeroom. The fire
department had to put down q
ladder to get him out. He was
doctored for cuts and bruises.
BLACKOUT
LANCASTER, PA.,-A 5000
mile journey to witness the
lighting of thousands of candles
as part of an independence Day
celebration proved futile for Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Gable.
They came to suburban Lititz,
where Gable once resided, from
Los Angeles only to have rain
postpone the pageant. Now 1t
won't be presented until Satur-
day and the Gables cannot re-
main here that long.
O.
AUTOMOBILE CORRIGAN
KANSAS CITY, MOBILITY
Yeager. l6, detoured by way OF
Nebraska en- route to his grand
fathers home in Oklahoma.
When Billy found he was
headed the wrong way he was
on Highway $50 in Nebraska.
The youth, sister, Edith, 10, and
friend Leonard Dart, Is. turned
the 1928 machine around and
made Sapulpa, Okla, on SIS
by coasting own the hills.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
NEBRASKA CITY, NEB.,-
It's q bit unreasonable but first
Methodist Church women are
drumming up enthusiasm for q
Christmas party.
The party--a benefit for
groups abroad-must be held
now 20 that contributions will
reach their destination by
Christmas time.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08
by PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
oHOLLYWOOD-The movie
business never has shown any
2umption in defending itself
against attacks. Individual stu
dos seldom hesitate to overpraise
their pictures, but the industry
as a whole is always strangely
shy and modest regarding It's
good deeds.
Lately, for instance, 1t has
come in for scattered criticism
regarding its supposed inactivity
in matters bearing on national
defense. Nobody of the promi-
hence or lung pow,r o. Rep.
Martin Dies has been hollering
this time, nor has there been a
charge of ar ything much more
serious than apathy. More i'm
portant is the fact that Holly
wood, without tryiro to peddle
propaganda in the guise Of enter
tainment, ought to be able to
participate vitality in the big,
hard and nee .ssary job of getting
this country ready to defend it
self.
Hollywood already is playing
such a part. 1t just isn't taking
many bows. 1t could, j. it chose,
point out that the motion picture
industry Is about the onl. bust
ness which is not makinr any
profit from defense work. In
most case, it pays for and do
mates labor and materials. In
other cases, it works on straight
cost basis.
HIDDEN VIRTUES
You've seen sho Is dealing
with the various branches of the
armed services, Ind with recruit
ing and conscripti, n. You've
seen short shorts in which screen
stars give sales talks govern
ment bonds. More directly af-
fecting our actual preparedness,
though, are activities and pic
lures which the rubli does not
see. Scientific rnsearc and de-
velopment is being carried on in
some CT the STUDIO laboratories.
Army and Navy me. ere being
trained by Hollywood techni-
clans, and the latter have been
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-08

are cooperating, and so are the
best producers and directors, up
to and inclu ling Ia u Zanuck
and John Ford.
Here are some of the titles of
a new group of training films
that recently went i. to produc-
ton: "Anti-Aircr TT Searchlight
Battery" Light Machine Gun
Platoon" Engineer Corps
Equipment" THE Comm. Nor
tar" THE 240-nim. Howit7er. !"
All are filmed with casts of ct
ficer exerts and crack, non-com-
missioned groups of men. Holly
wood provides the professional
direction, lighting and camera
work.
The part that individual stars,
comics and uties are playing in
camp entcrt" inment and morale
work is something for which I :
motion picture industry as -
whole gets no credit. Without
wishing to detract from their
generosity and patriotic motives,
/ still want to point out that the
studios themselves, and their
committees of executives, ar
range those shows and make the
celebrities available.
THEY DO THEIR BIT
In every emergency and every
war, whether against armies or
disease or starvation, people in
show business have been counted
on to donate their services, and
they always have responded.
Maybe you were impressed by
accounts of he huge star-sLan-
gled in jamboree in the Holly
wood Bowl recently, which rails
ed millions of dollars for the
United Service Organizations.
That was spectacular, but it also
was relatively easy. You don't
hear about the long trips to train
ing camps that players are max
ing often in buses over Scorching
desert roads. Now they're try
ing to find a few transport planes
so that they can cover more
territory.
The Omaha guide., 1941-07-19

a legal holiday, and compelling every
American citizen of voting age to vote.
A federal old age Pension Of sixty dol
lars per month, if he or she has voted
in every city, county, state and federal
election held, and if he or she has new
er been convicted Of a felony.
z. To prevent further vars by
teaching the so-called white race that
it is high time for them to quit fooling
themselves about white supremacy
with only three-tenths of the worlds
population. They must be taught that
color is due to climatic conditions.
They must be taught that seven-tenths
Of the worlds population is made up
of dark races. They must be taught
that the rays of the sun that blazes
upon the equator and turns the skin
brown, does not affect the brain any
more than the GOODNESS Of the icy glac-
iers affect the brain of the while race,
and that the darker races will not con-
tinue to be crushed by a money-mad
few. If the Fatherhood Of God and the
Brotherhood of man are not welded
into the hearts Of this worlds family
now, by teaching the principles laid
down by our Saviour, it will be welded
into the hearts of our children some
day on the bloodiest battlefield the
world has ever known.
The Omaha guide., 1941-07-19
the Presidents cabinet.

the Presidents cabinet.
3. Federal control of the educa--
tional system and a federal law that
every child must have an high school
education.
4. Assist in the furtherance of
research by u scientists and help our
historians to prove that civilization
was founded in Africa. No passports
to any foreign country until he or she
can show proof of visiting every state
IN America, by showing a certificate
of registration from the governors
office of each state. Help us to see A
merica first, and spend Americas
earning with American citizens,
5. Establish a political influence
which will bring about our pro-rata
Of higher appointments made by our
chief executives, especially in our
army. Demand appointments by the
chief executive to be absolutely on alb
ility and merit, and not color. Give
our Negro boys appointments from
first sergeant to colonel in the army
if they are qualified for the job. The
Negro soldier is the only real Americ-
an on the job, and can be trusted in
time of war not to turn traitor to his
country.
6. Stop graft in politics by pass
ing a federal law making Election day
The Omaha guide., 1941-07-19

6 The re-establishment of the
Christian Religion as Christ taught
it, for the uplifting of mankind elm
mating financial and personal gain.
A practical religion, week days as well
as Sunday. An attitude toward our
fellowmen as a brother in order to es-
tablish a principle which will guide the
destiny Of each others children, for
our neighbours children today are our
children tomorrow.
z. To demand courteous treat
ment- in all places of business, and the
enforcement of the Civil Right Law.
s. To encourage and assist in the
establishment of the following financ-
ial institutions near oath and Lake
Streets; a Building and Loan Assoc
iation, a State Bank, and also a first
class Trust Company for the purpose
Of administering aid and assistance to
our widows and orphans.
g. To encourage the erection of
a ,One hundred thousand dollar Young
Mems Christian Association neal oath
and Lake Streets.
10. To enlarge the Y. w. G, A. so
that it may supply dormitory accom-
modations for the girls who tire Of
home. environment.
IL. To teach our citizens to live,
economically by printing in each issue
a budget system for various salaries.
IL. To make Omaha a better
city in which to live by inaugurating
a more cosmopolitan spirit among our
American citizens.
Ii. To put a stop to the Divorce
Evil by passing a state law making the
m~istreatment. Of a wife Or husband by
either of them a criminal offense, to
be decided by jury. First offense, a
jail sentence Of a short duration; sec
ond o%ffense, one of longer duration;
third offense, one to five years in the
p%enitentiary. This, W. believe, will
make men and women think before
marrying.
IA. We must become owners Of
our city government by paying a SEEM
ingly higher salary to those whom we
employ to administer it's affairs, a sal
airy that will attract men of higher
caliber.