davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24
~ PETSR gDsoN
Dolly MsWites Wsshin0tea
Cogrospondont


WASHlNGTON-No mat
ter what your political views.
theirs no denying that I his
man by the name Of Roosevelt
who seems to be in the White
House now IS an old smortie
points.
Ehot foct Is most obvious,
perhops. in observing the way
he hondies his semi-weekIy
press conferences Tuesdoy oft
ernoons and Fridoy mornings
when q h undred or more
w q S h inoton correspondents
crowd into the oval room which
is his office, and there Try to
outsmort him.
Mr.. Smooth, however. con
duck the tough ones with the
odroitness Of on Africo n
dodoer and lough about it,
kidding some correspondent
about having spoiled one for
him, telling another that the
question wos too fifty" or that
it was like Topsy-the answer
hodn't orowed up yet.
QUESTIONABLE
QUESTION
Sometimes the questions ore
too obviously impossible, as
when someone wanted to know
il the President had "ony gen.
eroI opinion on the progress Of
the European war"
The President threw back
his head and roored and OTTER
ward he commented thot he'd
have to grease the palm Of the
Delphic oracle on thot one.
Some Of his answers are per-
hops too honest to make good
copy. When the President was
asked about his conversations
with Prime Minister Mocken-
zie King Of Conodo, he shot
back the answer that they had
talked about German measles.
As q matter Of foct, the meet
ing had been very brief and
the President had told about
his inability to get owoy to
Warm Springs, Co., because Of
on epidemic OF German meo-
sizes at the institution. 1t would
never do for on American pres
ident to get any German dis
ease at this stoee Of the worlds
offoirs.
When someone storts q
question with, Would it be q
foir assumption to say that
-?" the President olwoys cuts
in with on ejaculation thot
stops the question in mid-oir,
before the sub ect is ever
reached /.
FDR
ee1N1S
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1885
Macomb County Trust COM
pany moves from the Bijou The
atre building to the Price build
ing.
Child Health Day on May Is
is being planned by Miss Lennell
Gibson, school nurse.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24
BY VIM. z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

This hand involves simple
defensive play, but one that is
often overlooked, even by the
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24
So YEARS AGO TODAY

The Nelson's are in Detroit
this week. Two weeks more will
conclude the season.
Mr.. Jim Webb, the we'll
known Pittsburgh engineer, and
q famous fisherman, Is at the
National.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24
TGOCUCO
FDR
eEIkTS

Rumors Of appointments ore
always present to make ques-
lions ond usually get evosive
answers until tn motter is oil
settled. To soy that the Presi-
dent would rather duck O trick
question than answer it is not
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24
l0 YEARS AGO TODAY

10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Hundreds Of grade school
children will march in the an
nual Health Day parade next
week.
The American Legion Auxil-
larry gives large card party in
Grace parish house.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-24

This Is the sixth Of a series
of is articles on World Bridge
Olympic hands, giving the
committees par.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
'4oclAL DARklERS
INTO KINDl1NG

Sidney kinosiey-pordon US, ~
vute Sidney KinesIey-is in nornol CT
vllion life d playwright. He hos written
Iysuvy fine plays in which he had Some
fine things to say to all Of US. But ne
neyer sold anything finer thon when ne
nove an interview recently on his ex-
oefiences as an army recruit.
"It IS d wonderful kind OF socio' or
oonism." he said Of the ormy. There IS
Is oreot deal to be sold for anything
hat brings men closer together. =.
think II will be q rebirth OF democracy;
III will tear down q lot Of foIse soc'oi
barriers. X will teoch young men OF
America that reoI distinction are not
distinctions Of class and background,
But Of chorocter, integrity and person.
olity." 49,.
Whether Kingsley knew those
things right along, or whether he hos
leorned them quickly in the ormy, we
don't know. Ii doesn't motter. They're
true. and the sooner every man. woman
and child in America learns them, the
better for all Of US.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14

for rubbing. During production
of "The Flame of New Orleans"
he gave Marlene Dietrich q seri-
Gus talk before an emotional
scene in which she was to
open a door to face Roland
Young and register shyness
warmth and eagerness. h
opened it, instead, on a sway.
backed, dilapidated horse which
Clair had struggled onto the set
Learning the fondness of his
cameraman, Rudolph Mate, for
shooting scenes through cigaret
smoke and soft mist the director
hired a workman to labor all
night on a fountain. Next day
Mate had his camera set to pho
tograph Miss Dietrich through
delicate jets of spray-but the
fountain erupted not water but
willowing clouds of smoke.
AMECHE RAZZES
POWER
Persistent pests such as Don
Ameche, who can't be disci-
plined, are handled gently. AL
though Blood and Sand" had
been delayed several days
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

one of the oldest in the coun-
try, and was formerly conducted
by the Knickerbocker Whist
Club. This year It was taken
over by the American Contract
Bridge League. I believe that 1t
provides the strongest COMPETE
ton of any tournament in the
country.
Mrs. Wainwright, q former
Pittsburgh girl, was certainly
thrilled when she made this
contract doubled.
Mrs. Wainwright trumped the
opening lead. She cashed the
ace Of spades and discovered the
extremely bad trump break.
Dummy was put in with the
ace of clubs to lead q heart,
which South ruffed. A second
club was led. West ruffed and
led another heart, which South
ruffed.
Now Mrs. Wainwright led her
last club. West again ruffed.
But now West had no safe exit.
He tried leading the nine Of
diamonds. Dummy played the
ten, East the queen, and South
the king.
Then South led the eight,
which held the trick when West
did not cover. The defenders
made only three trump tricks.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
; HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

costly in Observation-Disclosures
of illnesc in the cast, 1t didn't
keep him from heckling Tyrone
Powers big scenes.
There may have been q little
collision in his two days of razz-
ing that necessitated one retake
after another of Powers kissing
the luscious Rita Hayworth, but
his tickling the soles of Matador
Powers feet during the death
scene was too much. So they sent
Ameche q fake message that he
was wanted in Headman "a
nuck's office. BY the time he
caught on, after cooling his heels
for half an hour in the reception
room, Power had died in peace.
There isn't much q business
office can do, either, to prevent
a big-shot's tomfoolery-such as
the time the recording of q must
cal number went sour time and
again because Director w. S. Van
Dyke was standing behind the
orchestra conductor industrious.
ly sucking q lemon.
wild Bill" Wellman has
helped delay many of his own
pictures with such tricks a. put.
ting rubber bands In the sand.
witch a character was to eat, or
having a chair wired for mild
shocks. Lately, though, his ribs
bing has been confined to WISE
cracks.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
FooTkoTE ToA T

we have several times noted tne
manner in which Germony hos been
Iooting the conquered countries in the
most e~enteeI monner-by buying up
their assets at their own prices in FUN
ny money" which they have given an
arbitrary relationship to the money Of
the conquered people. The technique
was first clearly revealed in conquered
France. But nov it becomes cleor that
the same thing is being done in lto!y.
whose conquest is still masked under
the name Of an alliance. Italian foctor-
les ond goods ore being bought by the
Nozis with marks which ore worth as
many lire as the Germans soy they
are. The plan undoubtedly is that even
if Germany should lose the war it would
still emerge with tremendous assets in
many countries which would continue
to pay q tribute Of profits.
1t is eve sold that property OF Unit
ed Stotes firm in occupied France is be-
ing bought similarly, thought this is
hard to believe. American firms which
built factories in Germany found long
ago that they had practically been seiz-
ed, by the device Of not allowing any OF
the profits to be sent back to the coun-
Try which had built ond run the Plont.
Now the same thing may be applied to
the other occupied countries. To the
victor los long as he remains victor)
still belongs in lo4l, the spoiIs.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
MATING THE EXODUS

Many cities are worried becouse 50
many toxpoyers are leaving the city to
settle in suburbon areas, cutting down
HE citys tax income, and speeding up
TIE tendency Of the less desirobIe city
oreos to degenerate into real slums.
There is only one answer, ond thot
IS to make the city areas more livoble
and desirable, so thot people won't
move out. illinois and Chicago ore
WORKING on the problem; 50 are New
York. Michigan and Minnesota. The
'plors ore all olone lines OF condemno-
,flon Of the worst slum oreos, ond then
1afunting tax concessions and financing
Inducements such as will draw private
enterprise to rebuilding the deterio-
roted areas into places that will ogoin
b worth living in.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
TRUST AND MUST

Why did Mexico freely ogree to q
convention with the United Stotes pro-
vidine reciprocal use Of dir fields, when
YueosIovio, asked by Germany for GER
tain military facilities, is prepared to
resist to the death?
The difference is simply the differ
ence between trust" and must"
Mexico knows very we'll thot the
United Stotes, even II she had refused
to oeree. would not have gone IN and
taken the fields by force. Therefore,
because Mexico sees thot there IS mu-
tuoI advantage in the pIon, and be-
couse she is under no eompulsion, Mex
leo oroees willingly. But the Yu0osIovs,
seeing what hos hoppsnsd to other
countries when the Noxis needed their
Cooperation" and knowing the Nozi
qbiectives. would rothsr die thon "eo-
.opeeote."
Hhots whot the whole world needs-
more trust" ond less smust,TG
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
BORDER SETTLEMENT
WITHOUT WAR

Can border disputes be Settled only
by war? 1t was q border dispute be-
tween Germany and Poland %thot-touch-
ed off the whole present wor-remem-
Der the Polish Corridor and Donzig?
With the slightest will to peace, this
could have been Justly settled. But the
will to peoce wos obsent.
In Colombo and Venezuela it is
present. Therefore those two countries
of the northern tier Of South America
have been obIe to settle omicobIy O
border dispute which has endured more
than 100 years. These two countries.
worthy odherents Of the Western Hem
isphere policy Of peaceful adjustment.
oereed not only on the border line but
on the common use Of the Orinoco river
and other common waterways, the
some kind of troublesome conflict
which Germany and Poland we're not
obIe to settle.
The United Stotes is proud to be q
good neiohbor" to countries which
can provide this real demonstration Of
what it means for neiehborine peoples
to live together in sanity and peoce. 1t
is the best possible good omen for the
future Internal peace Of the Americas.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Bottlefields Pictured
In Many Stomp Designs

IN M0ny St0FUP OoSs0vSS
DHILATELISTs Of he future
may see the evacuation Of
Dunkirk on . postage stamp Il
Britain decides to commemorate
that military feat philatelically.
Many battles Of history are re-
called In stamp designs.
Danxig's issue, above, catches
vigorous action Of medieval com.
bat In the battle Of Weichsel-
munde. during the reign Of ro-
lands King Stephen Dathory.
Several u. S. issues common.
crate battles. There u fighting In
the Lexington Concord issue. and
q cannon crew In action On Nhe
Battle Of White Plains stamp. The
Burgoyne campaign, George ROC
ers Clark's capture Of vlncennes,
the Sullivan expedition, Battle Of
Fallen Timbers, Braddock'A cam.
paign and the surrender Of YORK.
town al have . place IN stamp
albums.
Latin Americas wars for inde-
pendence are commemorative In
stamps Of Chile. Cuba, venesuela
and others. BULGARIA honors d.
tenders Of Shipks Pass; POLAND
recalls John III Sobe01i's victory
at Vienna. Kumanla shows Prince
Carol at CalatoeiA end NuGUjs
pictures street dshtinG 0f he rev'
olution. Switzerland has . -.
cial issue devoted - hlsto9ie en-
gsesments. AlmoUe every nat3es
preserves The memory 6 vieeseje.
u wag n - OeenQe
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
STRAW oNWINps or CHANGE

Where. would you imooine is the
most modem. up-to-dote, model cotton
mill in the world? New England, where
the textile Industry first lowered in the
United Stutes? Some southern stote
where some enlightened employer is
pioneering? Genmony, proud Of its in
dustriol tecbniques and vountin9 its
soIicitude for the lobor soldier? Russio,
where the industries ore all olIe9edly
run for the workers?
No. According to q group OF United
Stotes industrial reseoreh experts now
in South America, this model textile
mill is on the outskirts Of Sontiooo,
Chile.
Thot is significant. Il herolds the
coming South America, which will not
only be q producer Of raw materials,
but q professor. This trend is inevi-
tobIe. though it may cut into North
American markets for certoin distribu-
tors goods. And this model mill uses al!
North American cotton, and nearly oil
North American machinery. South
American industry is going. to be built
in any event, and, thus it is q pleasure
to see it being built with North Amer
icon did and cooperation.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
. SO THEY SAY

We have no choice las to
or not we will be At
tackled. +. Our only chance
is whether or not we will resist.
Col. William j. Donovan on
his return from Europe.
Missionaries are under the
dogmatic delusion that the holy
war Japan is waging in China
is q war of imperiAistic aggres-
sion.
Governor Of Korea, quoted
in the Toxic Asahi.
For all OF us, the democrats of
the world, you are our country.
Mark Aldanov, refugee who
has seen five revolutions.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
By LUCY NEVILLE

NEA Service Starr Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD. April IA
The order Is going around the
sets at 20th-Fox to cut out the
horse-play and get to work; 1t
costs too much to be funny.
This ultimatum from the bust
ness office came after a perfect
recording was ruined because a
certain star went to the monitor
microphone while another top
actor was singing, turned on the
current and spoke into the sound
track. The joker would be ter
ribly indignant If the money his
cute little gag cost the studio
were deducted from his pay
check.
Everybody else would be in
dignant, too. Hollywood has q
long and glorious history of rib
bling, and nobody expects the or.
der to be enforced because it's
accepted that business managers
are just old meanies. And the
ringleaders in this expensive
joking are the stars and direc-
tors themselves.
BARRYMORE
MEMORIES
Such production delays as
John Barrymore's ad libbing
(often unprintable) are accepted
as q within of the Great Profile.
They always get a laugh, too, as
when he was reading a letter in
q serious scene in World Pre-
miere" the other day and forgot
his line. He hemmed and hawed.
squinted at the paper, and
finally said, "This letter brings
fond memories never could
ready my third wife's handwrit-
ing"
Movietown has Rugged q new.
conner, Rene Clair, to its chuck
ling bosom because the Gallo
director has shown rare talent
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
DyNyIR MsoN
psliy Asaisss Wsshisssss

WASHINGTON - Figures
on u. S. production Of mill
tory olfplonss-now 100 q
month-moy become restrict
ed information some time
soon, and 30, before the ban
goes on, you may b interested
In knowing that The oviotion
proorom Is coming olon9, ond
the dizzy figure Of $4,000
plones isn't as impossible to
conceive as everyons thought
IL wos when first eotopulted
into the blue q year or 50 600.
Building an air force OF that
size moons development olona
three parallel lines produc-
ton OF plones, construction Of
air fields. troinino Of pilots.
The pilots and the fields must
be reody first, or what good
are the planes?
Stortino with 1000 phones
ond obout that mony pilots.
the otmy has expended its
program st4odily, setting new
objectives before The old ores
could BE- reoched. First II was
to oct $500 plones and 1000
pilots by June, lo4l. Thot
oooi was Just set when de-
monds were mode for IS o
new planes with 1900 new
pilots. Thot is the current OBJ
jective, but even before It con
be achieved. the program hos
been stepped UP oooin.
NEED
$4,000 PILOTS
The fifth supplemental de-
Tense bill, just passed by Con-
oress, corried appropriations
for on additional $500 bomb
ers-first step toword the So
600 plane COOL and q train
ina program to the Ultimate
eooI Of 10000 new pilots q
year, which would be suffic-
lent to handle q $4,000 plane
force in combat, allowing for
reserves and requirements.
So stupendous has been this
expansion job that ofny air
corps has recently established
q new stotisticoI division to
keep track Of its projects.
Airport construction and
improvements, for instance, is
O major problem. Fifty new
miIitoY oirports have been
put into service this year,
bringing to ooout 200 the
number Of air, corps depots
bosses and stotions. This num-
Der, however, won't even be-
gin to handle the $4,000
planes olreody contracted for
ond WPA, which hos been
making relief projects out Of
much Of the airport expansion.
has had $50 additional sites
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
THE PLEASURE OF BEING WRONG

The PLEASURE OF BEING WkON0
Sometimes it's nice to be wrong. We
can remember experts who guessed
that the Itolions would overrun Greece
in three weeks. Thot wrong guess
made the magnificent Greek stond q
double pleasure.
After the World War, everybody but
the wisest blitheIy assumed that wor
prosperity would 90 on indefinitely. We
were hurt and puzzled by the dePress-
ion which followed it. Everybody was
wrong.
Now everybody is furiousIy planning
for the depression which is to follow
this wor. The National Resources
Plonnino Board sets down q proorom Of
public works to toke up the slack.
Plans for sowing to cushion the shock
are devised. After all, the United
States is setting up six billions worth
Of new productive facilities, all aimed
al war production. When those CHM
neys 90 block-depression.
So everybody figures. Wouldn't it
b greet If everybody should once again
'prove wrong? II post-wor needs should
require every bit Of that new produe-
ltjc17s us otwoys q bare possibility.
sAyNefvs been wrong before.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
. HiehIiehts From
The Latest Books q

The novelists have discovered
New England-the good and the
bad. But mostly the bad.
Bright Was Their Destiny" by
John De Meyer (Funk: $2.50) Is
an indictment of New England's
present-day aristocracy, with IN
assortment Of nostalgia tears for
the stalwart ancestors who
founded and maintained the
hierarchies.
It IL the story Of Pat Walker
and her brother Terse, who step
over the tracks to invade the
ancestral domain Of the o.
goods. The Osgood family has
a substantial hand In almost
every enterprise In the city that
is named after the family. Terse
IL hired TO run the two Osgood
newspapers q n d eventually
winds up with . guiding hand
In the entire family destiny.
Pat winds up marrying Bill,
who has something Of his grand
mothers fierce realism and
reckless courage and some Of
his fathers pride and weakness.
The story moves through strikes
and floods md family decay.
In q crisis, Bins family pride
stands uppermost, end Pat d.
vorces him. But she finds that
Il isn't the end-mors nearly
the beginning.
Even II you love New Eng
land, you won't And II In your
heart to condemn Mr.. De Meyer.
For he too loves New England.
He 10 less bitter than he r hurt
by what has been happening.
And he sees . way out-a WY
to save this section. from the
crushing effects Of Pilgrim sons
who have lost the bright vision.
A farmer ut heart, . banker
by circumstance, George Had
lock Il the extraordinary, low
able creation Of Novelist Free
man Tilden In Better See
George" (Harper: 42:60.)
George II q remns i Of . gen.
Grafton that ID almost gone
those New England men Of hard,
common sense, who were never
disillusioned because they start.
ed out with no illusions about
life. Forced to become . banker
by q board Of directors who
refused 70 conSider anyone else.
George works at . Uttered desk.
keeps one eye On The townmen.
Better See George" b the
warm portrait IL . kindly man
80 human. - Intimate that
ths rsoder feels ~ 3 sitting
with him out under th0 big chm
trse a shs harm a. n ths kitch-
n while csorUs y strainins IL
Nm.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
BY WIN. Z.
Americas Card Authority

AZ q member OF the Eastern
team : Of four champions, Mrs.
Stuyvesant Wainwright of New
York Is the first woman to have
her name engraved on the Rel
singer trophy. Her teammates
were Oswald Jacoby, Sherman
Stearns and Charles Lochridge
of New York, and John r. Craw-
ford Of Philadelphia.
The Eastern Tournament is
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14
: BEHIND TIE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

certified 10 II BY the ormsd
forces for defensive develop
rnent.
Even this won't b enouoh,
though the air corps plonnin0
division cont tell where L
wonts these odditionol fields,
to keep prices down..
School expansion must b
plonnsd for, too. On March
r the first class Of 1000 CO.
diets beoon 30 weeks troinino
under the program aimed to
turn out 1000 pilots q month.
These men spend five weeks
In replacement centers, the
first week being for sxomino-
tior. incubation ord military
ground ironing. nhen for six
weeks they will receive ele-
mentoy flight training at q
eivilion school, and finoIly-o act
10 weeks eoch at army bosic
and advanced schools, orod-
uoting in October as second
lieutenonts in the dir corps re-
serve and being assigned to
duty.
The men who "wosh out" In
this grind and don't make the
erode as pilots are assigned
to duty as noviootors. bombor-
diers. engineers and orno-
ment officers. So reeid are re-
quirements for this troinino,
only five out Of eight students
become pilots q yeor, $4,000
men must be given the course.
WON'T W
STANDARDS
The frequently heard talk
that both army and navy will
have to lower present ston-
lords which require two years
OF college or its equivalent and
the passing Of q stiff general
examination. before an oppli-
cant can be considered for air
corps troinino,' is not nov
given serious consideration.
As long as the 1000 men q
month cor. be found with these
mental qualifications, the bars
will not be let down and 50 for
there has been no difficulty in
finding volunteers to meet
these requirements.
To mointoin the $1,000
plane 80. 900 pilot force, how
ever, on enlisted personnel
must be recruited at the rate
Of .olmost 1000 q month. As
long as the one-yeor seIective
service law is in effect, none
Of these men will be conscripts
for the simple reason that u
weeks Of schooling ore requir-
ed to turn out an eviction
technicion.
All these men, therefore,
are three-yeor volunteers ond
they are the men who become
the rodio operators. photooro-
piers. supply men, bomb sight
technicions, parachute riooers,
weother men and mechanics.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-04-14

Poor relief costs In Macomb
county for February and March
are far in excess Of the budget
drafted by the county finance
committee earlier In the year. II
the 1853 ,480.80 allotted for the
year Is to last through Septem-
Der Of this year.
The new State Bank at Fraser
Ii opened formally.