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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
DEFENSE MEASURE

DEFENSE MEASURE
GLENDORA, N. j. - Chews
Methodist church has asked its
pastor to quit the pulpit for a
year to help build warships for
Uncle Sam.
The action came after the Rev.
Alexander Kerney, 35, preached
both morning and evening SER
mons Sunday, then donned over
alls to work full night shift at
the New York Shipbuilding COM
pany's yards in nearby Camden.
AS machinist, he makes twice
as much as his 500 month and
parsonage as pastor.
eff he can make more on de-
Tense job, that is the place where
he should co." said Chairman
Raymond Rowand o. the PASTOR
relations committee.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

Hompshire interposed here to
ask II bankers and gonibIers
we're the same thing, and while
the remark got O laugh from
the floor and the gallery, Sen.
otor Bunker replied. mo"
To explain why Senator Bun
ker thought q $500 federal tax
on slot machines was too hiah,
il Is only necessary to quote
from his euclidion arguments:
IA slot machine Is q me-
ehonieoI DEVICE" he explained,
and can be fixed so thot the
customer playing the machine
can get IS, 20 or even as high
as 30 per cent. Slot machine
gambling is Legal in Nevada,
and where the machines ore
le9oIized the toke Is fixed at
- per cent. We in Nevada de-
rive q revenue in the subdivi-
sions and in the state Of $l52
per slot machine. No person
under oge is permitted to pIoy
q slot machine, and thew are
carefully inspected so that the
customers get back the Ieoiti-
mate percentage, or the IS Der
cent to which he is entitIedN
There is that protection pro-
vided. You could not win or
lose q sum Of any consequence
on q slot moehine in our stote
If you played all day ;. :"
AND CENTRALIZED VICE
To continue Senator Bun
ker's orotion:
"ln the stote of Nevada the
$500 rote, added to the SI52
which we legally collect for q
slot machine, would make q
tex Of S352 which would elm
inote about SO per cent Of the
machines and would therefore
eliminate about SO per cent of
the revenue which we receive
from such machines. It would
not eliminate vice. II would
centrolize the vice in certain
loooIities."
Well, no one could possibly
want the Senate to centroIize
vice In certoin localities SO il
wos on that basis thot Senator
Bunker's amendment was poss-
ed-yeos 40, nays Y, not vot-
ing 81. And by so voting, they
kept down the taxes on one
item, at least, and isn't that
Just what you elected them
for?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
BAD IN THE STREET

KANSAS CITY-A black cat
ran in front of Paul Martlnson S
automobile. He jammed on the
brakes.
The car spun. knocked a speed
zone marker so feet, bowled
over a mail box and hit tree at
the bottom of a six-foot ditch.
The judge fixed bond at $500
on a careless driving charge.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10

around on one foot for a couple
of minutes. After a couple of
perfect rehearsals, the actress
muffed her lines in eight success
sive shots. She kept him hop
ping until he was ready to fall on
his patrician puss.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

Interest in the National tour
nament at Asbury Park was
greater than ever before. All If
the major events established
new attendance records.
Perhaps the most thrilled and
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10

One heors the word reinforcement
Used vey often these days in discus
sions Of the offoirs Of nations. The Jop-
onese claim they ore being "encIrc'eo
The Germons, back before World Wor
l. always claimed they we're being en-
circled. ;" They claimed they we're beng
encircIed" Just before this World War
II broke out.
Whot is "encircIement," anyway!
Every country in the world is ene're'eo'
in the sense thot there are other coun-
tries around it. Clearly, then, "eneIreIe-
nent" has little to do with pure geogro-
phy, since in that sense every country IS
perpetuolIy encircled.
The term must mean more than
that.
Il means not only "surrounded by
other countries" which is true OF every
country, but surrounded BY other
countries with whom it is on bad terms,
and from whom it may expect i'll will.
The United Stotes does not regard
itself as encircIed by Conodo and Mex
leo. Jopon, in the hoppy doys before it
DOT deIusion Of erondeur, didn't regard
its chain Of tiny islands as eneircled.
Switzerland, tiny land in the very midst
Of Europe, has never had enlightenment
ijtters, though it is completely sur
rounded bv countries larger and more
powerful than itself.
No country is encircled unless its
neiahbors feor, dislike and distrust it.
Then they begin to seek woys OF CON-
binino together to make q joint and
effective resistance to possible oggres-
sion. And when they do that, encireIe-
ment Of the distrusted country begins.
In other words, country is encir-
cled by itself. A country which main
toins good neighborIy relations with it's
neiahbors, which has good will toward
them and does not covet their lands or
goods or position, is never encircled in
the vicious sense in which the term is
used politically.
There is only one way for country
10 avoid encircIement: in time Of peoce
to adopt such policies and attitudes
toward its neiehbors as to lead them to
trust it and cooperate with it. When
the reverse policies ore adopted, then
those neiehbors combine, driven by the
fear which is the source Of all inferno
tionoI hotreds.
"EncircIement" is the most folse
Of all excuses for aggression, for no
country is encircIed sove by itself alone.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
BUT WORSE IN IOURT

HELENA, Mont.-A black cat
leaped onto the bench as the
prisoner answered guilty, your
honor" to a charge of petit lar
ceny.
The Judge assessed the limit
six months In Jail.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
~ PETER gDSok
Dolly Memites Washington

ssOOKOUU0OWu
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10
It's q neosly shame that all
Of you who have TO pay next
years federal tax bill were not
on hand for some Of the final
sessions Of the Senote debote
on this $l3 billion baby which
will nick you for So billion
more than the bill Of the cur
rent year. II would have done
you good to see your stotes-
men, your chosen senators,
wrestle with the greet issues
involved, for no finer dispIoy Of
the legal mind at its oII-time
low has been since Nero played
his fiddle.
Just get the picture: Here is
the world going to hodes in q
tank. National debt is $40 bill
lion and the costs Of the de-
Tense effort are estimated at
from $50 billion to $50 billion
more. So what happens? So the
Senate spends nearly two hours
debating whether the tax on
slot machines should be reduce
ed from 5000 to $50 q year.
History is indebted for this
spectacle to q statesman man,
ed Berkeley L. Bunker Of Los
Vegas, New, and his address
and remarks to the Senote in
opposition to raising the tax on
slot machines ore worthy Of
inscription in all fifth erode
reoders right along with Pot
rick Henry's immortal words
to the Virginia House Of Bur-
eesses, George Woshineton's
forewelI TO his troops and
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg
address.
Generations Of unshockIed
gamblers - their strong right
arms swinging freely as they
fooe the one-ormed bandits
unofroid; their eyes oeleom
with the light Of patriotism as
they defend their home and
fIreside by stalking their lost
dime on the turn Of three bells
or q couple Of pIuns; the whir
Of the wheels Of chance and
the tinkIe Of the Jackpot Turing
them on to endure greater
hordships for n cir scored
rights to go broke-these ore
the free men who will rise to
bless the nome Of their savior
and chonpion7 Berkeley Bun
ker. For q notion which con
stand feorIessIy before slot
machines will never wither be-
fore the stuko or blitzkrieg Of
Hitler and his minions.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
wOOF! wOOF!

ST. PAUL-When man COM
planned that his neighbours dog
was disturbing his slinber. po-
lice saw to il that the barking
was quieted.
Next morning police were
back when the man reported
someone had stolen his prize
hunting and fishing equipment
from the garage. Officers sur
missed then that the bothersome
banks were directed at the thief
and not at the moon.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
ON GAMBLERS
AND BANKERS

Before quoting from Senator
Bunker's magma chorto on
slots, it might be we'll to ex-
plain who the senator is. He is
@ most moral man, q bishop in
the Mormon church, and he
was appointed TO the Senate
By his governor to succeed the
lote Key Pittmon. 81 would not
want anyone TO think that the
gamblers in Nevada ore inn
moral people, as may be sue-
eested," Senator Bunker soid
OF the close Of his remarks.
MANY Of my friends ore gam
blers. One Of them in portic-
ulor is q former banker. >"
Senator To hey Of New
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-10
HE JUST FORGOT

EVANSTON, nl.-When Prof.
Harold M. Skeels left for his
Iowa City, Ia, home he forgot
two suitcases he put on the
bumper of an automobile while
he unlocked his own car. A
motorist brought the baggage to
the police station 30 everything
was Just fine when the. professor
'phoned from lowe to report his
loss.
Prof. Skeels teaches psychol-
ogy, which embraces memory.
etc.
Evening star., 1941-01-30

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Evening star., 1941-01-30
Free Interior

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Decorating Service
We win Be glad to
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Evening star., 1941-01-30
The Sale That's Tops IN Value.
Variety. Quality nnd S0rings!

for aned be complete
nee
offered This February the greatest
in
Furniture has Washington
nom Shop and
Evening star., 1941-01-30
SAVINGS FROM lO% to 5O%

You will find in this sale reproductions and auth e
Including French, English Early American, Veto Il
Lans+yle shield Of quality. famous for 50 years.
savings from 1915 70 500 throughout the store.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
The Dean Deal

Dur Auctioneer Hickey is raped - often.
They called him sharp trader when he
peddled Dizzy Dean to the Cubs because
Dean could win only sixteen games in three
years.
Hickey answers emphatically: II told MIR.
Wrgley that if were in his place | would
not buy Dean because felt he was unsound
of arm That fact was written right into the
first papers on the DEAL
Rckey's trades usually turn out so bene-
ficially for the Cardinals that other clubs have
grown chary of doing business with him.
There's only one way to get the best of that
Hickey" says Casey Stengel. boss of the
Boston Braves. :"You let Hickey talk for three
hours on the strong and weak points of the
players he wants to scoop. Then, when
Branch says, Is it a deal? you snap, No.
and walk out on him!"
Hickey knows all the baseball angles be-
cause he's seen the game from so many slants.
He's been player, scout, manager, club sec
retary business manager, vice president, pres
ident - everything but bat boy.
He has put those Cardinal teams together
himself - and building the club into winner
wasn't easy. When Major Branch Hickey of
the Chemical Warfare Service came back from
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Wide World

TOOK at Branch Hickey "a portly man
with graying hair, a slight roll to his
- gait, the suggestion of twinkle in his
brown eyes - and you'd pick him for an
executive who had worked his way up from
behind lathe or plow.
Talk with him and note the Biblical quota
tions that punctuate his conversation - and
you might take him for minister.
But dig into his background trace his
amazing career - and you'll find that he's
Mr.. Baseball himself.
He's the man who originated the much
maligned farm system" - which builds pen
nant winners in the big leagues and keeps the
game alive in many or-league town. He's
, the man who first made Ladies Days popular
at the ball parks back in 1917 - and who
thought up the "knothole Gang" which lets
kids see the games free.
A non-drinking, non-cussing crusader in
hard-hitting, rough-riding, tobacco-chewing
game, he's brilliant bundle of contradictions.
He's highly religious man who has never
played or even watched Sunday ball game
in his life - yet he put together one of the
rowdiest teams baseball has known, the fam
Gus Gas House Gang, 1894 world champions.
He was flop as major or-league catcher a
failure as manager in both leagues - yet
Evening star., 1941-08-31

France after the last war, the club was
$l75,OO0 in debt and had only handful OF
good players.
Hickey had no cash to buy players; so he
set out to develop them on farm teams The
first farm he set up was Fort Smith, in the
Western League, in 1921. BY 1925 he had five
teams hooked up to his Cardinals - and his
rivals were laughing themselves sick.
BY 1926 he culled his first crop of budding
stars - and the first pennant in ST. Louis
history. 1t was Rickey's turn to laugh. To-
day he's still laughing - for farm system
is now must for every one of the countrys
top-ranking teams.
Rickey had to beat both poverty and ill
health on his way to the top Still in his
teens. he saved enough money from his
S35-a-month job as country schoolteacher in
Lucasville, Ohio, to go to Ohio Wesleyan
University for an education. The next half
dozen years were hectic. College studies, col
lege baseball, coaching college football on the
side, playing professional baseball during
vacations. Then on to law degree - he
holds four college degrees now.
Evening star., 1941-08-31

ball, Hickey is still moving at top speed. He
darts back and forth between the twenty
seven farm teams in his Cardinal system,
scattered from New York to California. He
flies in air liners, speeds in fast cars, debating
as he goes. He likes eighty-mile- -an-hour
chauffeurs, and shorthand writers who can
60 just as fast In his St. Louis Office, Rickey's
bag is always packed, ready for quick take
off to any part of the country.
Hickey must keep hopping on the constant
search for material ''MacPhail in Brooklyn
and Giles in Cincinnati" he says, ''can buy
stars with the cash they draw through the
turnstiles. But haven't the cash to buy
players i must sell them"
And he sells them at fancy figures Dizzy
Dean at S185,0OO Ducky Joe Medwick at
SIPS, 900. Since last fall Hickey has taken in
more than 100000 for President Sam Brea-
dons till by selling half dozen of the teams
first-line stars.
Critics gasped said he was wrecking the
Cardinals.
Hickey scoffed and replaced those men with
flock of youngsters off his farms. The Cards
stand higher in the National League than
they did year ago!
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Sunday Trouble

his first big-league job was with the Gin
cinnati Reds in 1904 And his manager fired
him when he refused to show up for Sunday
games The owner of the club heard about it,
sent for him. Reluctantly, Hickey explained
that he'd promised his mother years before
never to play ball on Sunday. He never has.
He's never even watched game, not even
when he was big-league manager.
That full program of education and work
finally got him. His health broke his weight
dropped fifty pounds.
Il thought was washed up with baseball
then" says Hickey But after had recu-
perated a bit, the game gave me another
chance. went with the St. Louis Browns as
scout, then secretary, then manager and
finally as vice president and business mana
ger"
In 1917 he switched to the Cardinals, as
president of the club. He quit that job to go
to France in 1918, and when he came back he
was no longer president: he was manager
He's been with the Cards ever since, as vice
president and general manager since 1924
and it has been long, hard battle.
He looks back to the spring of 1921, when
his Cardinals were too poor to take train
ing trip and his office was bare and cheer
less. One day, with big deal coming up
Hickey gave this cubbyhole an appearance of
affluence by borrowing the rug from his own
apartment, while his wife was out visiting
friends.
Hickey made the deal, then rolled up the
rug and hustled it back to his apartment -
fearful lest Mrs Hickey discover the loss.
That deal brought the Cardinals Jack
Fournier, and Fournier seemed to bring the
Cards luck. That year the club made money
- and Hickey began to build his way to the
top.
The Cardinal Office isn't bare any more
Neither is the till. But that rug is treasured
possession, STILL in Hickey home. Maybe it's
the magic carpet that started The Brain"
on his way to baseball fortune.
The End
Evening star., 1941-08-31

now his $4,000 salary tops everything in
baseball but the wage of High Commissioner
Kenesaw M Lands
His St. Louis Cardinals draw less than half
as many fans through the gates as do the
Dodgers or Reds - yet annually he writes a
profit onto the ledger.
To show that profit he has to sell his star
players on the auction block every year -
yet he always manages to reshape the team
into pennant threat He has built five pen
nant-wnning Cardinal teams, plus this cur
rent crew which may be the sixth.
A man who never forgets batting average
or player - he has the careers of more than
five hundred at his fingertips - Hickey sell.
dom carries money, and will start from St.
Louis to Sacramento with only silver jingling
in his pockets. Air lines and railroads rush
Mr. Hickey where he wants to go and
present the bill later.
He has not only built the Cardinals into
perennial pennant threat; he has helped to
rehabilitate other National League clubs as
we'll He gave Larry MacPhail his first job in
baseball, recommended him for his present
post in Brooklyn. He took Warren Giles out
of $25-a-week job, made him the highest
paid executive in the minor leagues, then got
him his lob as head man of the Cincinnati
Reds.
Now it's President MacPhail in Brooklyn
- but no such high-sounding title is Rickeys.
Technically he's the Cardinals vice president
and general manager, but call him The
Brain as his intimates in the far flung Car
dinal organization do, and you Il hit the mark.
Pnvofe information
lHE BRAIN" knows the hundreds of play
ers he controls as few owners or managers do.
He inquiries into the personal habits of all his
men.
Once, when Hickey got big star in spec
tacular trade, he sent physician to examine
the player - and an investigator to his home
town to look into his private background.
Players misbehavior off the field cost me
two pennants" he says significantly. Il don't
want it to cost me any more"
Clean living is fetish with Hickey. Clean
speech is must for youngsters joining his
Knothole Gang. And it is the same with the
grown men he bosses He catalogues their
private lives alongside their batting and
fielding averages in the loose-leaf notebook
that is his constant companion.
Hickey has worked hard to make the Car
dinals pay Today, after forty years in base
Evening star., 1941-08-31

THE brain" OF BASEBALL

Meet who started chain toaw who put
Ladies Day who thought the Knoihoe sells
his players and right back with better teams
by Harold PARROT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-31
e SERIAL STORY
HIS CHRISTMAS CAROL

4nR STORY. Tho terms of An- Faw DnazbWm's win specifying thnt hig secretary Carol, and i've aaAeE eaDa1ysB nhaIl judge Whe,Asf CT net hIs piayboy son andy fa running the business ace NUEalng e hla fathers policy Of
 rviea e the people" but Carol, who has loved Andy slnce girl- hood, in Q dihlcuIty. Her heart Eimea when Andy, currently tn. v0lve& with Sieek Linda Julian, turns management over Co un. scgytpml0us MT. Herrlck, whose only lGeA ls te make money. She knows that unless Andy mends hls ways and takes over he will Aeso the store to charity by a vote 0f the strange "tury' the lost will pFOvIdes for. Buck-passing Her rick planes employe Bin Reece fer Che toyland. elevator Accident that inJures newsbOy Nicky, al- though Nloky discovers that Blll had reported the elevators condls ton mad was not Go blame. Her. rick also takes credit for cash adjustments made Co customers by Carol without his knowledge, An @7a eff0rt to save the stores reputation. At the annual store party Andy kisses Carol, indicates he e through with Linda. Next day Carol finds Che wills envelop in the vault, but the will is gone.
 
 CAROL - FIRED!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-31

to Andy for her. Ae was loyal enough Co believe that whatever she had done was for the good of the business.
 She refused to let him interfere, 'No. Bill, It's something Andy would never understand. You wouldn't let me interoede for you. You can't do it for me"
 Then you and Mary are going out to dinner with me" he said firmly. You can't sit here and nope"
 'Thanks, Bin," She grasped his hand afgeotionately. I'm not up to it, You take Mary"
 But Carol--" He looked At Mary and Carol saw anticipation in both faces. They couldn't hide their love any longer.
 She had known since the night of the party, Mary had been un- able to conceal 1t. Now she read 1t in Bill's eyes, too.
 She was glad. Bill was genuine and deserved someone like Mary, Someone who really loved him. Not the half portion she gave him.
 Nice going, 9lll," she said gently.
 lie searched her eyes before he answered. "perfeot," he said,
 They went of happily together,
 Carol tried to read q magazine but too much had happened that day to lot her mind find peace, Her thoughts were torn between the memory of Mir. Nerrlcks angry words and the image Of on on. velope which could have settled everything had 1t not been emptyl
 Reluctantly, she answered the lnsistent ringing Of her doorhell, She didn't want to sec anyone, She wanted to Do alone Go think,
 She hadn't expected to open the door to Andy DeArbornl
 (TO 10 Contlnued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-31
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 2. "One Foot in Heaven" (al Happy couple'c honeymoon; (h) old man living on borrowed tlm0"; (c) small town preacher; td) romance in gArfet Of q seven.story tenement,
 3. Hold That Ghost" (a) phan. tom-llke football player; (b) hidden treasure In Q haunted house. (c) return of the escape artist Roudlnl, td) Halloween night adventures of two comedians.
 q. How Green Was My Valley" lal Irish mountain0ers; (b) English Aldermen; te) Scotch farmers; td) Welsh miners,
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