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The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1941-01-10

The following are news items of
the same period:
Samuel Burger, Middleburg, cele-
brated his So birthday. He was in
Hagerstown looking keen and
we'll.
Judge Stake commented on a
report of the Grand Jury, in which
1t was stated, I'VE find quite a
number Of saloons in Hagerstown
are doing quite as much business
on Sunday as during the week."
Judge Stake gave due notice that
the practice must end and that the
liquor men stood fined for viola
ton of the liquor law. The incident
came out of Judge Stake hearing
the appeal cases Of a number of
liquor dealers.
William Mason, employed on the
Western Maryland Cutoff. hap
pened with an accident at Reid, re-
sulting in the loss of both legs. He
attempted to board a passing
Reading freight train. DR.. Derr was
his physician. Mason had a wife
and eight children. He was taken to
the Y. M. G. A. Hospital on West
Washington street. While at the
hospital, the injured man came
ear suffering additional misfortune.
1t seems that a coal oil stove was
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1941-01-10

Water Company that the Mayor
and Council, as committee of the
whole, would meet a committee of
the Water Company for the purpose
OF discussing the water situation.
The following, has all the ear
marks of the late Richard Hamilton,
we'll known editor, of this city,
taken from collection of clippings:
"A good looking young girl with a
Whlte-laCed purple sun bonnet
over Stats, and manly groom. with
blue Overalls and a settled love
light on his brow, came down from
the train, pilOted by a G.. V. brake
man and made for the Court House
and Pilduzer Park There, in the
presence of Cabman Mike Burger
and mighty crowd. they were
married by Rev. Griffith, the reg
uIar park preacher Rev Griffith
went to the States Attorney. to
get order at the scene. but had to
go on without him. The bride was
much annoyed, saying she never
saw such rudeness and had
thought that in HagerstOwn. cen
ter Of civilization and the arts. bet !
ter manners should be obtained. /
After the ceremony, the couple
drove to the Beeler House. They
were Mamye Turner, of Dutch Gap,
Va, way back in Virginia, and the
groom Charles Roadcap, of the
same place.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1941-01-10

Miss Phyllis Belts, this city,
visited her cousin, Miss Arlene
Beard, Middletown.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
|. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

see the next one Not that direc-
tors weren't just as kind to my
generation-they just didn't
have any time to waste.
ard teach a child good man.
ners, too; they're especially ap-
preciated on a movie set, where
discipline is absolutely neces-
sary. When I was little, l didn't
interrupt when an older person
was speaking, or cross in front
of anyone without saying, 'Ex-
cuse me- wasn't allowed chew
ing gum until I was 10 years
old, and when ! was IL ! went
to bed at 8 o'clock. You see, !
had to work the next day."
But few youngsters careers
are planned before they're born.
as was Anne Shirley's. Her
mother, light-opera singer, was
firmly convinced her child
would be a girl and naturally an
actress; the matter was practi-
cally cinched in advance because
she concentrated on photographs
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

now rated as a sectional. cham
pionship by the American Con-
tract Bridge League. 1t Is sched-
uled to be held this year In the
latter part of August, and q vol
unteer committee will under
take the landing of the tourna-
ment until Sam is out of the hos
pital.
While I was a member of the
winning team-of four there last
year, we. won only after . play
off of . three-way tie In which
our team played Hollis team and
Oswald Jacoby's team. ! recall
one of the hands played by Sam
which helped to bring his team
into Q tie for first place.
After South's opening lead
dropped the queen Of spades, he
shifted to diamonds. leading the
king and then the ace. Holt
rukfodr the second round. w
Having nowhere to park his
losing third heart. Holt led out
all his trumps and succsedsd N
developing squeeze. South's
play had left North alone to.pro-
toct diamonds against dummy's
jack. Since North had the only
heart stopper, he found him
ELF unable 70 protect both suits
WHEN Ne last trump ives led.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Italy, Gsrnnony Pledge
Friendship in Stamps

THE Berlin Rome Axis, two
= year.old international pact that
has spread war over the world, u
the subject Of two new stamp is
sues. Both italy and Germany
have released Axis stamps, pietur-
ing Hitler and Mussolini.
G1rmany's selni.postal, above,
has . surcharee for Hitler's cul-
ture fund. Unity Of aims u pro-
claimed In the inscription: 1.-TWO
Peoples and One Battle" Roman
faScoo and the Na1i eagle and
swastika are prominent In the d.
sien. etf
The Axis pact, althoush not
formally signed until May q,
1889, was born four years earlier.
during the italian invoeion q
Ethiopia. AZ that time, the League
Of Nations he'd invoked economic
sanctions against italy. Germany
refused 3 subscribe 70 theso pon-
alties, reeognisod ltaly.s vict0ey.
The dictatorS exchanged state
visits, co-operated In the Spanish
civil war. Whsn Hitler took over
Austria, Czeehoslovalxia. end
MGmel, Mussolini Gnve HE ap-
prevail. II turn, Hitler supported
Italian conQueos n Albgpia.
n SoReenoef. lo1o, JSpan en-
tered ne AHA Hungary. Kumania.
Slcvasia md Bulgaria have sises
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
. BARBS

Don't ask how far il Is to q
garage when the car stalls--its
always FIVE miles.
"Germany's armed forces"
says Hitler, will take the lead
during the spring and summer
from the Italians" What lead?
The best way to find missing
relatives is to get rich.
Years ago foreigner design
ed the present American dollar.
Now other foreigners have de-
signs on our dollars.
An official decree orders all
Italian farmers to war on the
fruit-destroying ladybug. They'll
win a battle, yet.
Some of the books that are
bound today ought 10 be gagged.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
TIM cUFFEY ACT

On Aphl rs, the Guffey Act will ex-
pirs. II it Is not renewed BY Congress.
one Of the most omozing experiments
with totolitorion economics will poss
from the American horizon.
The Guffey Act is q priee-fixine
scheme by which the government sets
the minimum price at which cool con
be Sold The consumer is utterly dis
recorded, with the result that he turns
to other fuels.
The government itself is now on oct
i've competitor of the cool operator, as
it is in the business Of selling hydro
electric power. But the cool operotor
may not, under the Guffey Act, sofe-
guard himself against such COMPETE
tion. He con only stond by helpIessly
and woit for q slow death. And the
cool mine workers con only stond by
and wait for the wake.
The Bookings Institution volume,
entitled, Government and Economic
Lite" opproises the value of the 0uffey
Act as follows:
In the long run, me prospects OF
eoin from the current regulation, eth
er to operators or to workers, ore much
less than in the short run. An existing
cooI-burnine equipment wears out, OPP
portunities will orise for shifting to 9TH
er fuels. The pressure Of substitute
fuels, which ore oIreody making steody
inroods into the coal market, will be
increased in proportion as cool prices
ore pushed upword. Higher woees will
give a further stimulus to mechonizo-
tion Of the industry. and thus to fur
Their diminution Of direct employment
The fixotion of wages ond Of coal
prices may bring about even more seri-
Gus curtoilments in consumption than
took place in the recent depression.
In word, the Guffey Act is oppor-
emily one measure of government con-
troll Of natural resource which, from
the standpoint Of the notionoI welfare.
produces no benefit to anyone - not
to the owner Of the mine, not to the
worker in the mine, and not to the con-
sumner.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
. Hiehliehts From
The Latest Books .

Wholly impossible yet entire
ly delightful is Eric Hatch's la
test adventure n laughs, "Un-
expected Uncle" (Farrar and
Rinehart: $2), which provides
as pleasing an evenings reading
as you'll encounter this spring.
In the first place, Seton Man
sley wasn't really Kathleen
Browns uncle. He wasn't any
body's uncle. He was just .
contented old fraud, wintering
in q Florida trailer camp, who
made his living making other
folks like him well enough to
pay for his company.
And Kathleen had never seen
Seton Mansley until he started
fighting her battles q few min
utes after Johnsy Hamilton had
kissed her on the nose. SO Kath-
leen found an uncle, ana
Johnsy fell hopelessly In love.
It took all Uncle" Seton's
best managing to unite Johnsy's
millions ana Kathleen's UMPIRE
dictable impetuousness In matri-
mony and keep them thsfe, e.
pecially since Johnsy's sister old
not approve. But Seton MAJ
sley did II % only Seton Man-
Sley could. ~
Author Hatch brse1es his
story along, light - Z soap hub-
BILE with scarcely break IN the
laughs, yet maintains interest to
the last line.
And II you're planning on 4
spring serenade for the lady Of
your heart, take a~tip from
Johnsy !. He sang his love
SONGS with massed bands Of po-
lice, fire and sanitation depart
m . nts al playing different
tunes and al playing the same
time. That's just . small part
Of this laugh-and-love riot. =
Thomas Br0ughton introduces
up orhap Timothy Was --s
(iGod I'D 49,: ~ In . similar
lint VEN, then shadows hie
sfory SilA traeSdy = he tel0 Of
~ NV effnirS of Timothy Mar
m Timoshy hAd his rsdheadS
--ssversl Of them-but he paid
mice for his fun. 80
"psrhspe Timothy was-" u
smart sophist1e0too, with
enoueh in1osust - carry TIE
reoder aloag - . rather. ois-
hoostsnlno finale ~
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
= Bel lk ID Tue seen lES
m WAStlIll GTCN =

Us. Involves snokina = NV IN
dustfiol slsIsy az proctic0llv
evssy mochine in the eos,nfry.
Army. tockIed this rs IN, ti,os
'2Os and '30s, and ccmplIod q
tremendous list Of 10000
plants capable Of bQIng ccn.'
vsrted to wor supply pvoduo-. I
tior. ~
The army. however, wos- In.
tsrastsd only In prime manu-
lecturers, firms with plonts
capable OF, mokino on entire
line OF products, or at leost one
complete product. When army
OF ndvy let q contract nov,
they sign; with q prime con-
tractor and let him find his
own woys and moons to oct
the job done. but the focilities
OF these prime contractors
have proved inodeQuote. The
Job is 50 much bigger than the
original ovvny munitions board
survey contemplated. that the
survey itself Is out OF date. So
il must be done over oooin.
John D. sieqsr:, head Of
production in O. P. A.. hos
given that resuvey Job to
Robert L. Mehornoy Of konsos
City. With q stoff Of nearly
200 engineers spreod through
the country, the Mehornoy Or
aonizotion wiIIfurnisho defense
controct information service.
II q prime contractor in any
one district hosn't the ma
ehines-if he hos a bottIeneek
within his own plant, II will b
the Job Of defense contract
service to dig up sub-eontroc-
tors with equipment to perform
one operation, or to moks one
complete port which con b.
shipped to the main pIont' for
assembly.
The service will involve q
littlespuvinoof prime controc-
tors. II production isn't moving
fost enough, the word will be
posed on as to whot sub-con-
troctors should be used for
ports service.
Mehornoy Is right raw In
the middle Of organization.
Most Of his Is co-ordinotors
and So district managers have
been named. Meetings are be-
inc held in various oreos to &C
quaint Iocol manufacturers
with the scope Of the service.
Surveys oIreody mode-Muni-
lions Board, National Associo-
ton Of Manufacturers, stote,
chamber OF comerce, .roi6ood
and public utility stotisfie3 on
industries in eoch oreo-ore
being used. Another month
and the service will be func-
tionine fully. * :
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
THIS ONE OUT

An ironicol paradox was erected by
the seIective service law, and our other
defense measures. They provide for pro-
lection against aggression by the ism"
motions. Yet, strangely. we condone an
expanding ism" within our own bor-
ders.
The Federal government. long be-
fore the poIpobIe excuse Of defense
came into being, adopted definite
policy Of promoting sterilization Of the
privoteIy-owned. publicly : reeuloted
electric utility industry. It booked this
policy with propaganda and cash. Huge
hydro-electric projects sprong UP over
the country from the Eostern Seoboord
to. the Poetic Coast, from Conodo to
The GuIf Of Mexico. Appropriations for
construction of dams and hydro-elec-
trio plants we're granted under the
euphonious labels Of navigation. flood
control, irrieotion, etc. The subsidized
"by-product" Of these projects, electric
ity, hos resulted in the forced sole Of
many private electric companies Cit
liens who had invested their savings in
one Of the countys soundest industries
have lost millions, thanks to the sell or
die" toctics used by their own govern
ment in eliminating the private COM
ponies. And the end is not yet.
The promoters of this program
never use the word socialism. They con-
denim the propaganda" Of private utiI-
tiles thot still have the temerity to fight
for their lives and let the public in on
whot is happening, before it is too lote.
The utility industry quointIy believes
thot if it is to be socoi|ized, with all
that implies to the future Of our coun-
try, it should be done with the full
knowledge and consent Of the public!
The paradox Of spending millions
to establish socialism at home, while
at the same time spending billions to
defend ourselves against on alien brand
Of the same article. does not make
sense. A people who are giving the best
thot is in them to defend what they
feel is their way Of life. deserve better
break.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20

of Sarah Bernhardt and Mary
Pickford. Anne was modelling
diapers and posing for cereal ads
as soon Is she could grin into q
camera; movie work began when
she was three and hasn't stop
ped since.
ANGLES FOR
YOUNG ANGELS
BY the time her schoolmates
were talking vaguely Of being
famous dancers or marrying mil
lionaires, she could listen with
an adult detachment because she
was established In her life pro-
fession.
She was impatient with school
because, except for English and
oratory, it taught her little that
would help an actress. Art
classes didn't include makeup;
geometry taught angles, but not
camera angles.
Maybe boys have II harder
because they're sometimes call
ed sissies when they wear make
up, but girls are put up on q
little pedestal. I know I was
the envy of every girl in school
because / had more dresses than
all of them put together-even
though there were only two who
had less money than I. My
mother made my clothes, but I
had to dress smartly all the time
SO that I'd be ready to 60 out on
interviews"
1T was fun, but I think pro-
fessional school probably is bet
ter for child actors. The teach
ers understand when you say,
Gee, I'm tired--I was In every
scene yesterday"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
BY WIN. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

All OF the players VINO attend-
ed the Southern Appalachian
Tournament at Asheville, N. c.,
last year will be sorry to hear
that Sam D. Holt, chairman of
the committee, Is confined to u.
S. Veterans Hospital at Oteen,
N. c. Sam is going right ahead
making plans for the Southern
Appalachian, however, which is
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

The Business and Professional
Women's Club are observing Z
week of special activities be-
tween March Is and 20. "EHec-.
tive Democracy" slogan given
by the national federation. Is the
theme Of the week.
Sunday closing Of grocery
stores will come up for . vote at
the April 8 elections, the City
commission decided last eve
ming.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
40 YEARS AGO TODAY

Thomas Gordon Is planninsyop
doing some building on his rbrth
GratiQt property. n
Increased business at the
Mount Clemens Electric Com
pany has compelled the firm TO-
install another arc machine;
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
~ pEfl4 gn5o OIL
psllI jylsalsss Wsskissssa
CT oop ondoWt

WAsl1lkAGTO iN-A three
oun turet ottoek On the triple
problems of ~ Building new
factories in non-lndustriol
oreos where there is surplus
labor supply, ~ finding more
idle machinery to do the de-
Tense production job, and ~
putting idle machines and men
TO work-thot in brief, IS
the Knudssn- HilImon Office
OF Production Monooemsnt's
hope for increasing factory
output In the defense prepor-
edness drive.
II the plan works. itnoy do
q lot to spteod defense money
all over the country insteod Of
concentrating II in the old,
established factory oreos from
Worcester to Bridgeport. from
New York to Baltimore, the
steel and tool triangle, from
Pittsburgh to Cleveland to Gin
cinnoti, the outomotive oreo
west OF Detroit. Furthermore, it
il works, II will save q lot Of
postwar grief, for labor will
not have been concentrated in
these small factory centers
while this defense Job is being
done, then left to find its way
back to the smoIl towns when
its all over.
Chester 1. Dovis, who Is
oericulture's representative on
the defense commission, is one
of the prime believers in this
ideo Of speeding out the in
dustrioI oreo. Breaking. ground
for q new oirpIone assembly
plant in the middle west. Dovis
spelled out the ideo behind
putting such pIonts in DolIos,
Tulso, Omoho ond konsos
City. With form production in
excess Of demond. there is
available in this form belt q
potentioI labor supply thot hos
not been topped. Form me
chonics, with their knowledge
Of troctors and combines.
make good shop mechanics
now, with q minimum Of troin-
ing. And IL these men con be
put to work in their own oreos.
without mass labor niorotiors
such as there we're to Detroit
in the boom times Of the roor-
ing '2Os, the sod spectocles OF
mass exodus may be avoided
when war production stops.
Housing facilities IN the old
industrial areas will not be
over toxed, and with new foe
tories established in form
oreos, they can be used for
postwar production on q part
time basis. permitting labor to
continue form production on
port-time basis. This is long,
range wishfuI planning, but it
has its merits.
WILL COUNT
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
By PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Staff CorYeoDondene
HOLLYWOOD - Anne Shir-
ley was a movie baby who grew
up in front Of the camera. Now,
all of % years old, she's able
to look over the film moppets Of
two decades later and compare
them with herself. Mrs Shirley
doesn't Say that thef younS1e t
generation is skidding merrily
to the dogs on its tricycles and
scooters, but it certainly isn't
working for q career the way
she did,.
1.-The hrst thing you notice Is
how incredibly young they are!"
actress said. They look like
high school kids when they
bring the children to the studios.
But every one of them is firmly
convinced that her child Is going
10 be a star some day.
IF that's what they really
want-either for ambition or be-
cause they need the money!
could tell them a lot of things
more important to child's
career than learning a time-step
before it's a year old. First, I'd
teach it to mind-not just me,
but anybody I told it to. My
mother never let me forget for
q minute that the director was
the man to obey. I'd teach a
child to be quiet, and to 60 to
anybody who held out his arms
to it,"
BABY STAR
PREFERS MEN
That's one trouble they're
having with Deanna Jean Hall,
the 15-months-old cherub who's
Miss Shirley's screen child in
Little Miss Muffet." She de-
finitely doesn't care for women.
She wriggles and whimpers in
feminine arms, much preferring
the assistant directors.
Babies are just like grown
ups" Miss Shirley sagely OBJ
served. you can't treat them
all alike. Still, I've heard my
mother tell about how directors
used to pick a child for a role.
If 1t squalled or squirmed, they
just said, Take it away. Let's
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

1891 ~ h< lt.s
The assertion Is safe . that
measles have kept thonoolid
children out Of school in III
comb county the last month.
The circuit court room was
turned over TO william Strope
and J. r. Dahm, and they are
making . creditable Job q dec
Grating there.v
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20

The fact II that the word leisure" never in
spires me. :. Do we want lot of leisure? Is
leisure the goal! think mott B. Priestly,
British novelist
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
Y 7eExsuRE M THE TREASURY

~ IS Deep down in the vaults beneath
\ - Treasury in Washington there IS q
1l)ICd. Well-seoled door. From behind
4 ~. door comes puneent odor OF dc,
&d1ji,d vooetotion mot at oil the k'no
bf nall one expects in dry voult dedi-
S6fod Is preserving gold and silver bors,
cs crisp erinklin9 new currency
! Ia heavy pockine coses lining one
Saoli.of the sheIf-Iined vault is SOC, 600
rous,ds Of the best raw Macedonian
opjusn. That means three years supply
w one Of the most important strote9'c
raw materials.
Why the Treasury voult? Simply be-
cuusc opium IS very likely to get owoy
( rs stored in privote warehouses. The
pressure for obtoining it is SO greet thot
e might slip through privote hands.
lecWevor closely guarded But in pub
S3ie hands; III the Treosuys own vaults,
twill - there when needed.
Vet this priceless supply was secur-
od BY private deolers. Severol drug
hcupunies put up ST. 600, 600 opiece
3o buy II, at the governments behest.
teyiS = fine example Of cooperation be-
{ytooa The government and privote
oooncies. The government sow O public
r,9od for reserve stock Of this neces-
sur5e 6Fuu. The private companies went
~ 6fd bought ii. And the government
ass1 81 for such use, public or private.
IN be found Necessary for the pub
ttG
LIZ million ounces Of quinine
ht 6 6&d1d to reserve stocks
||5l,( 81 3sS{ S6gsSS emergency which might
nf1ststs VIII, rnolssupply
; N His phcse OF preparedness is BY no
S3gloqtas con(plete. Similar cooperative
o1Slires oFe being token to re-estob-
{Sjisb HE cultivation in South America
6f cjnchono bark. Il Is notjve there. but,
SS3j(eo rubber, its commercial production
posed to the Dutch Eost indies, which
slnjof1t ~ cut of. Government research
3orxnre ais busy on possible substitutes.
sDioitolis, r,ot,unno, bellodono. cos
co iperdc, pyrethum and rothenore
oSG (j3of examples new sources are
b@fn scuoht. A Jewish refugee colony
onto Domingo is developing the
ScnStor beon, and moy provide q West
st hemisphere source for costor oil. u
eporedness IN the supplyof vitol-,
t noeoesury drugs is a fine example Of
MAN. bon b done BY cooperation Of
u pfetsnjent and privote enterprise.
os Understanding and goodwill on
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
10 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Clinton river ID way be-
low average level for this time
of the year, and considerable
concern il felt about the effect
on navisat ton and fishing.
Rumour has IL that work on
the new courthouse will start
next week. ~,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20

Hitler did not release the workers of Germany
from bondage to the bankers but forged anew
chains 70 enslave The working class.-Matthew
Vol, a =. L. vice president
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-03-20
= GLORY ~ SIGHT

Not al the brave bottles are fought
81 H. battlefield, not all the brilliant
ore fought by bemedoled
4nls. X is q pleasure to present q
ross report on another campaign. q
oor FIGHT against q particularly
n1llonont type Of moIorio
T1n yeoss ooo there appeared in
|eoxfl so W.osQuito from Africo, the
~ Gnu,bine, probably carried
1e ~ q pl6ns or q fost French des-
M from 0okdr. Il spread ropidIy,
MI Hon especioliy virulent type
n13illon government and ex-
& teockefeller Foundation
oify counter-ottock. Fumi-
6glsos ond spraying of breed
dA,oIly pushed the mos
pNard The coast, halted his
ll river yvoIleys toword
NJ Df the Foundation
t}&(6sH is ii sioht. They
X 1p9 mot HE lost com