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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24

ing lone of the biggest worlds
in the country. -"
Even in the confusion, Brent
managed to ad lib a plug for his
girl friend, Ann Sheridan; and
it'll stay in the picture, too.
Rathbone was grumbling: Zone
Of the biggest countries in the
world, and you haven't any
room; you're always in a hurry,
but you haven't any time. What
have you got, anyway"
And Brent replied proudly:
"Oomph!' It brought a laugh
the first time and ruined an
other take. But they let him say
il after that.
international Lady" is cops
and-robbers picture set to mar
tial tempo, and the first nom
musical in which Miss Massey
has appeared. She'll have a
couple of songs in this one. but
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Foil Of French BostiIIe
Ended Tyranny Of Kings

OBSERVANCE of Bastille Day
in France on July IA will be
tinged with sadness again this
year. For Bastille Day Is Frances
symbol of independence-the an
niversary of the day when Pari-
sian multitudes stormed the an.
cient prison and RACED ii. This
event, in 1889. marked the begin.
ming of the French Revolution
which was to drive out tyranny
and ydespotism.
The stamp above, showing the
Fall Of the Bastille, was issued in
1899 as a semi-postal airmail for
the colonies on the 10th ami
versary of the ancient prisons de-
struction.
After continually rebuffing the
will Of the people, Louis XVI dis
missed a minister favorable to the
masses. The news was spread
around Paris on July IL, and two
days later mobs and some French
soldiers marched to the Bastille
on the outskirts Of Paris.
The Infatuated Parisians re-
leased all the prisoners and killed
the commander Of the fortress.
Fires were sci and laief the walls
of the fortress were pulled down
"stone by stone"
Key TO the Bastille was later
sent to George Washington by
Lafayette and the mcmento Is still
nm disn,av 9t Mount Vernon . -.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
MA ssrvtss. lne.

they're essential to the story. AS
a foreign agent who also MARBLES
on the radio, she uses an elab-
crate musical code to signal &C
completes who are trying to
wreck bunch of American
made bombers.
LIKES THOSE TEARS
incidentally, there are a few
complications in Miss Massey's
own life. A Hungarian, admit
ted to this country three and q
half years ago on working
permit obtained by Metro, she
still doesn't have a quota num-
Der and can't apply for citizen
ship.
AS the result of her long term
of solitary refinement at Metro,
which groomed her to stardom
in "Balalaika" and then let her
60, this current picture is only
the third leading role for Miss
Massey. The second, New
Wine" in which she appeared
with her new husband, Alan
Curtis, is about to be released.
It's musical.
Iona Massey hopes there'll be
a lot of singing pictures now,
though her own preference is for
something to make her cry.
Nothing in years has made her
so happy as Penny Serenade, "
which she said is "is mostly
about little children dying" She
got so tear-drenched that she
caught cold on the way home.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

round of bidding was perfectly
normal. When Jacoby bid two
diamonds and West passed,
Hymes thought his hand was
too good to bid three clubs and
still not strong enough to bid
four clubs. He temporized with
q bid of two spades.
Jacoby saw the possibility of a
slam and therefore bid his oppo-
nent's suit. The information
about the hearts now allowed
Hymes to bid three no trump,
which Is the spot where most
contestants played the hand. ia
CODY decided the hand would be
safer in spades, not realizing
that his partner held only three
Of the suit.
The opening heart lead was
won in dummy with the king.
The deuce of spades was covered
by the queen and North won the
trick with the ace. He led back
the seven Of spades, played low
from dummy, and West won the
trick with his king.
II West, at this point, had led
a diamond, or the queen of
hearts, he could have defeated
the contract, but he did not. He
cashed the ace of clubs and then
led another club. Now Hymes
finessed the nine of spades and
picked East's last spade, the ten
spot, with dummy's Jack, making
five-odd for . top score on the
hard.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
; S3,500,000
30,160,000
17s,4s7,ooo
331,641,000
172,s14,o0O
100000
647.l3O.OOO

As for the other billion and
q third dollars. thot went for
wo9es to the men in camps.
what the country got in return
J.; perhaps beyond vclue. james
} McEntee. the present direc-
tor Of the corps. stresses the in
tangible benefits Of increased
health to the men themselves,
troinine them to get along with
other men, keeping them off
the streets where they would
have been allowed to run at
Jorge os unemployed hoodlums.
Communism ever ot to them.
In addition to which, most Of
them learned q trade, even il
it wos only to swing on ak in
q lumber comp or drive O truck.
And 81 900 Of them ledsned to
read and write while in CCC
comps, which is O tothe' sod
commentary on the greet
American educational system.
Getting beyond the inton9i-
bIes, the list and numbers OF
parks set up, trolls blozed, for
est fires fought, bridges built.
streams purified. erosions
stopped, dams constructed,
floods controlled, weeds cleor-
ed, pipes laid. wildcats elimin-
oted, soils conserved, stones.
quorried, telephone lines
strung, woterholes opened,
mosquitoes destroyed ETC., etc,
and etc, is four typewriter
poees long, single spoced.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
BY LUCE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD Movieland's
most beautiful spy, Iona Massey,
made a bewildering invasion of
America today, stepping from an
Atlantic clipper in Burbank,
Calf, several hours before de-
parting from Lisbon. But not
even such clever lodging could
shake the logged Mr.. George
Brent of the F. B. I. and Mr.
Basil Rathbone of Scotland Yard,
who have had her under sur
vigilance for a week. They came
off the plane with her.
The clipper is permanent set
in Warner Brothers private
ocean, a tank on the back lot.
On the outside, it's perfect,
full-scale, all-metal model that
cost $4,000.
For a few scenes in Inter
national Lady," Producer Ed
ward Small rented the seaplane
set for day and an evening.
The night shots would show Miss
Massey and her shadows board
ing the ship in Portugal, and the
day was devoted to the arrival
in New York, with good deal
of fast-cracking dialog.
GEORGE PLUGS FOR ANNIE
Reporters and photographers
swarmed around the gangplank,
and every time one of the play
ers muffed a line all the passen-
gers had to 60 back and huddle
in the plane until Director Tim
Whelan signaled for another try.
This went on for hours, with
everybody getting jittery and
even the cool Mr.. Rathbone say
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
. Hieh|iehts From
The Latest Books q

The War of 1912 has been IA
vorite topic of writer's of Ameri-
can historical fiction this year,
but most of the novels detail the
Battle of Lake Erie, by which
final victory was achieved. It is a
welcome surprise TO find an au-
thor who is more concerned with
the men in the ranks-those rag
ged settler-soldiers who fought.
not to win q victory for the in
FAINT United States, but to save
their homes in the Ohio country.
There are few generals and
no extraordinary heroes In Ralph
Beebe's story of the Ohio from
tier, "Who Fought and Bled'
(Coward-McCann: $2.50). Here
is a plain tale of ordinary men,
who went to war and hated it,
who were lucky to get back
home alive. These were the men
who hacked roads through the
wilderness, who froze on winter
marches; these were the starved
ragged frontiersmen who were
led into surrender at Detroit and
into massacre at River Raisin.
Strange partners were Buck
Stark, fresh from Ohio, and Rod
Hale, Harvard graduate. Hale in
herited an Ohio farm, and Stark
helped him keep It. Their ad-
ventures include all sorts of
business schemes from Hale's
lecture on the Mammoth in
Stark's medicine show to fights
with river DULLES, and clashes
with British and Indians. There's
q girl, too, but she contributes
little to the novel.
It's q .usty, man-sized story,
well-seasoned with laughs, and
il tells the story Of the average
man--a hero often overlooked
by both fiction and history.
Mystery fans find . treat in
Harrison r. Sleeves Good
Night Sheriff (Random House
S2). Here II q "whodunit" with
Q minimum Of murder, but we'll
plotted detection Of the killer.
The young physician who tells
the story prcvides The reader
with oil HE clews, and II you're
clever at solving crimes you may
beat the authoe - Tie punch.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
. BARBS

A person who butts in usually
is the goat of an argument.
Right now is when we all en-
Joy the seven real wonders of
the world-Sun., Mon, Tues,
Wed, Thurs, Fri. and Sat.
We're for everybody aiming
high except the fellows who set
prices.
A skirt is a garment which is
always too short, too long, too
tight or too something.
A married mans wife finds his
things for him a bachelor
knows his are on the floor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
CONFIDENCE; NO SMUGkESS,
NO DESPAIR

A wear has passed since thot Moy
@.l6. 1910, when President Roosevelt
colled the notion to prepare.
So many conflicting opinions ore
advanced as to what we have done IN
response thot it seems worthwhile to
back off once more and look at the pic
Z lure. One hears this one soy: I'VE ore
terrible. The troops ore iIl-equiPPed,
untroinsd for modern bottle. Strikes
\ have nomstruno our efforts; industry
hos not co-operoted. It's bad" The
other soys, "We're wonderful! Every
thing is swell! We ore invincible."
We have read lot Of reports. stud
led lot Of statistics and stories from
those who should know. And this we
conclude:
The first year Of the defense effort
has accomplished more thon any no.
zion has ever accomplished in similar
period. 1t is not enough
There is no reason for despoir.
There is no reason for SNUG seIf-sotis-
faction. The period Of preparation for
defense production neors on end. We
are beginning to produce.
The effort is uneven In some fields
we have accomplished prodieies. in
others, the effort has fallen short,
largely because many, both in the ranks
of management and labor, do not reo'-
ize the importance Of the job. do not
reolize thot it may be q motter Of life
ard deotk for the country and the way
Of life they love.
We might have done more during
these lost Il months; certain ill-justi-
fled strikes, certain governmental
'.nuffs of the ball certain reIuctonces
OF management to get in and pitch;
These have held US back.
But there is absolutely no reason
10 be discouraged or to feel that we ore
foiline.
Whot is post is post The year since
Moy Is, 1910, is gone. We have many
reasons to be proud Of what hos been
done; no reason whatever for despoir
S A second year begins. The pace is
foster. foster. Fortunately, people ore
beginning to buckle down to the task.
Event offer event shows that the only
salvation is in foith and strength.
America shall not lack either In
fnith and growing strength, then, for
word!
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
BY WILLIAM f. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

I've always said that there
wasn't much fun kibitzing the
experts. On about 19 out Of
20 hands they do the correct
thing, so that you just don't
think there is anything to the
hand. But every once in a while
they do give you a hand with
plenty of action.
Oswald Jacoby held the South
hand and Edward Hymes, Jr.,
held the North hand. The first
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
~ PErlR GDsok
Dolly Meaitos Weshiastea
CoggooooO6one

CosToope04oNe
WASHlNGTO N-ln eioht
yeors. the Civilion Conservo-
ton Corps, more fomiliorly
known as CCC, has cost obout
$2.8 billion. II seems like q
lot of money. And as the House
Appropriations Com mi t tee
prepores to nnoke its recon-
nnendotions as to what the or
9onixotion should have for the
next fiscol year, there ore
oooin heard cries that some
thing should be done to It.
President Roosevelt hos in
dicoted the outfit might be in
teoroted q little more closely
with the defense effort, but
whot he has in mind not even
the Gee heods themselves pro-
Tess to know.
Secretary Of Treasury Nor
oenthou hos Indicted this is
one Of the oeencies where cuts
might be mode to help save
that billion.
Robid militorists yell that
the boys should be carrying
guns and ardent pocifists
soreom thot the comps ore too
miIitory oIreody. since these
boys ore mostly l7-2l, under
droft oee.
Some of the economy tolk-
ing congressman soy CCC
could be wiped out altogether
os it completes with private in
dustry.
Congressman from the form
stotes, with conservation and
soil erosion problems to think
about, counter that CCC work
in these fields must not be al
lowed to diminish.
Ccc NOW LOOKS
FOR THE BOYS
But for all this hue and cry,
CCC goes about its business as
usual, has sized up its situo-
ton quite we'll and found it can
do some cutting Of its own. For
this year, CCC hos had $3.50
million. permitting it to oper-
ote l48l camps for O peak Of
300, 900 enroIIees. For next
year, it is asking only $27O
million. permitting it to oper-
ote 1865 comps for O peck "
1874 900. Congress, of course,
may revise the figures up or
down and you cont tell about
Congress.
Whot sharpening is that
CCC like everything else is
feeling the impoct Of enlist
ments for the armed services
and increased employment in
the defense industries. At its
oll-time high, in August. 1895.
CCC had 10000 men in
$500 comps. Today men ore
dropping out Of the comps or
being hired away from them by
private industry at such q rate
that from now till the end Of
Nay CCC is taking in 10000
more boys. tie present
strength being only $4,000.
Back in 1895 there we're from
three to five boys waiting for
every voconey. Todoy they may
not find the 10000. In April
there wos room for So, 900, but
only 10000 applied.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
: BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

The comps that CCC 70.
eruits 90 into now have q more
militoN atmosphere thon they
did In the eorIy years, for the
proqrom los been offered
slightly to meet the defense ef-
fort requirements. There oren't
ony guns ond there isn't any
drill. but there ore physicoI
ironing exercises and there IS
heovy emphosis on schools.
Ttere ore l76 fulI-time schools
with on enrolment of over
5000 learning to be cooks and
boxers, motor repoirmen, rodio
men, clerks and suboIte. ms who
con direct comps themselves.
There is no shortage of reserve
officers to commend comps as
yet. but as, these officers ore
colled to active service, they
will be replaced by Geo.
trained leaders.
ABOUT THOSE BENEFITS
Most Of the corpino oeoinst
CCC hos come from corners
with an imperfect knowledge
OF what the camps were doing
or have dore. A Boston orooni-
zotion, for instance, complain
ed that CCC didn't do any,
thing for business and perhaps
get the shock o. its life when
!" received q 'obuIotion show
ing thot ST 468. 500. 600, we'll
over O half Of Gees toto ex-
penses, had gone into the
streoms Of business in these
rNtA~@y:A~.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
HOW ABovT WAsrEi

HOW ABoUT WASTEi
In one Of his recent columns, David
Lawrence pointed out q greet and often
overlooked danger in the governments
present spending program.
"Drostic toxotionHthe most severe
America has ever experiencedEis plan
ned" he wrote. "And yet not word is
heard about cutting out wosteful ex-
penditures.
IF the American people submit to
tax program such as is being rightly
proposed to finance defense and still
permit spendino-os-usuol on projects
that can be omitted or else postponed.
it will mean thot the doy Of reckoning
will bring an economic depression in the
United Stotes far more perlous than
that Of 1898 =.
"ScorceIy week posses that there
isn't some impetus given to projects
which ore being planned on big scole
which have relatively little to do with
defense, but which ore being dragged
into the picture with defense as an ex-
cuse :. Only an alert and oroused
public opinion can do something about
it-ond nooybe the notion will have to
or-onize it's own economy campaign
and make it an issue in the congress
sionol elections Of 1872"
Mr.. Lawrence doesn't just criticize
he points to definite places where
major cuts IN government spending ore
both possible and desirable. There is,
for instance, the proposal thot $780,
GOO, 900 be spent on farm subsidy poy-
ments-o boost of $238, OOO, 900 over
lost year. There is the foct that some
ST ,OOO. 100000 year is still being
spent for relief, even though employ
ment is at the highest level in our his
tory and in many sections there is SER
ious labor shortage. There is the foct
that strong forces ore behind measures
to spend hundreds of millions of dollars
on the St. Lawrence and other social
lied power projects, despite the undeni-
able evidence which shows that the ex-
istine private utility industry is 100 per
cent ready and able to meet all present
and prospective power needs-ond to
develop and build new facilities with
privote money, not with tax money!
The Chamber of Commerce of the
United Stotes has just posed resoIu-
tons asking thot at least s., OOO, OOO,-
600 be saved onnuoIIy by curtoiIing
non-defense spending, and devotine
this money to defense needs, holding
down debt or tax requirements by that
amount.
Mr. Lawrence goes to the heart Of
the natter when he soys that only the
American people can do anything about
this situation. They ore willing to spend
any amount necessary for defense. Are
they willing to make Unprecedented tax
and DEBT sacrifices merely to pay for
political luxuries, for experiments in
stote socialism, for bigger and bigger
bureaucracy, or for on octivity which is
not absolutely unavoidable? Govern
mental waste at this time is q certain
guarantee of on unprecedented econo-
mic and social collapse at some future
time.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
ma = DEMOCRACY

Qr and defense must not be used
oacuse for nsolectino our respon-
oanS ejtizens. Our industries, our
histories ore port and porceI
Nh - 6nterpfise system. Their
Ososef direct concern to every
~ eontotive government
free sntssprise. The
q - prove thot. while
ooontotive govern
ote and win in any
n - totol oovsvnr,suts
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

FIVE YEARS AGO IODAA
1886
Olga Fricker's dancing classes.
sponsored by Young Women's
Episcopal League will give their
annual recital Jun, 6, under the
direction of their teacher, Dor
othy Hood.
Margaret Bruel, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bruel, and
a junior at Marygrove College IN
Detroit wins prize in nation
al contest for college students
with her short story "As Usual"
The story will be published
shortly.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone.
Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau,
and a new player, Clark Gable,
are showing at the Macomb
theatre in 1.-THE Secret Six"
Rhea Nye and John Artman
will be married the early part
of June.
40 YEARS AGO TODAY
1901
August Brewer has purchased
the Heath property for $500
and plans extensive improve
ments.
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
A. +. Donaldson, Director of
the School Board, asked con-
tractors to submit bids for con-
struction of q new ward school.
Bids were to be received up un-
til May goth, he said.
w. c. Highs real estate agen-
cy has sold to Matthew Slush q
lot on Union streets. Terms pri-
vatc.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
1854
J. Z. Scripps, Of the News, 10
writing letters from iYurrup.
Hall & Shook has dissolved.
Mr.. Hall CONTINUES the lumber
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24

Making good - q soldier IL no different from
making good In civil life. The rule II the same
know your own job and Be ready to step into
the Job Of the man ahead Of you.
SOLDIERS Handbook.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24

! do not begrudge America its happy hours,
but realize that of all countries in the world
America has the greatest fear of sorrow.
Isabel de Palencia, exiled Spanish liberal
leader
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-24

Lucie Neville is pinch-hit-
ting for Paul Harrison, now
touring army camps and de-
Tense industries.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04

from the consumers sales tax
whehi the same are made from
wheat flour and rye flour with
q sugar content of less than ten
percentum.
In promulgating the abov'
ruling the department took mic
consideration the intent of the
legislature and did not include
in the list Of tax exempt cor
nuditicS quite number ol
yeast raised sweet bakery pro-
ducts such 4 cinnamon roll
cinnamon buns, coffee cakes
doughnutS. so on, and further
holds that the consumers sales
tax shall apply and be collected
ON the sale of all products OF
similar character.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04
WILLIAMS CHOSEN AS
MUSIC SUBSTITUTE

p. Ahmed Williams, servisor
of music in the Negro schools
of Mcdowell county, has been
chosen to instruct in the music
department Of the college in
the absence of Professor G.. d.
Reese. Professor Reese is on
leave for the remainder of the
summer session.
Mr.. Williams is a graduate Of
the music department of West
Virginia State. He has done gra-
duate study at the Juillard
School of Music and holds the
Masters degree from New York
university. Mr.. Williams will
begin his new duties immediately
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-07-04

series of yrannca laws and iltreatment
the cause The English were then engaged in other military
adventures and could not bring great military action
bear the rebelouS coionss and the liberal
Engnd the coonists cause Thus came to pass
England granted the North American colonies independence
The American colonss to work organize orderly
government and other matters appeaining thereto AMI
cestor of God fearing and having
lived under tyannica European governments where religion
regulated the the state determined to make
religious freedom reality here The country hourished
like the began progress in almost all the
arts and sciences that has continued this day which has
made the United States the mightiest nation on earth
This we accomplished by unwaverng pursuance the
set by great of the nations years We
great because downrodden and oppres
ed OF the earth offered freedom and chance
opened to the of the earth-we are the
land of opportunity. Today hundred million men and wo-
men in foreign lands would like nothing better than
and become Americans
Old World hates and it's ancient quarrels which have
ed up again have dogs of war Today most Of
Europe is under the heel of modern Caesar Adoph Hitler
who plainly aspes rule the earth and to that end
has for twenty years built up war machine now on
the rampage in Europe America at peace and she
hopes that the American eagle nd the dove of peace may
tnuc to dwell in harmony here but may blind
to possibility that we be at in defense way
of life Even sainng every muscle to build huge
army vast and the earth our many
factories working the clock around to furnish the
we must have Thus it is quite apparent that as
toast to country its birthday this year are saun it
for what is today and for what hope will be tomorrow
me land OF the free and the homeof the brave while
luY inclined and Godfearng ready fight for the bless
ingS of political and religious freedom
The time when can look July Fourth as day for
cc and various other forms of good time yet passed
ut we look across the Atlantic with misgvings The ris
ing tide of Nazsm knowledge intends to DESTROY
our way of life and ensave popuanc We hate war
ou we snail not dodge if be wished upon us Our 1941
message to the world is of defiance to forces that would
destroy and enSavc Amcrica-a message that cheers
oppressed peoples troddcn into mud by Mlitarism FAM
% al" residence ooSed by the bloody hands of Adoh Hitler!