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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
REVISION NEEDED

Unemployment insurance legislation
ton was written by the stotes before
the defense drive. Most such laws
provide benefits bosed on earnings for
the year preceding the claim.
Suppose q man had been corning
$1,000 year. He would have q SUBJ
stontioI unemployment benefit COM
ing il he lost his job. But if he we're
suddenly indicted into the Army, and
served year at $25O-35O, at the end
Of that time his unemployment bene-
fit would have evoporoted. Should he
find himself workIess on discharge, and
seek unemployment insurance, the fl
cure would be bosed on his Army poy
for the previous year, and the bene-
fit accrued by his civilian work at much
higher woees would have evoporoted.
About half Of the stotes have oI-
reody revised their unemployment in
suronce laws to freeze benefits at the
time q man is drafted, according to the
American Public Welfare Association.
It's hard TO see how any stote con
justly do less.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

imately that of a lady auctioneer.
She rattles on so rapidly, and
with 50 little punctuation, that
Milestone wrote it into his script
as a recurrent gag: Whenever
Charles Winninger wants to say
something to his daughter, Caro-
line, he writes her d -note to ct
her to stop talking.
The star of half dozen Brit
ish pictures, she dosen't come
from a theatrical family Her IA
Their was the late Rev. B. T. Win
nifrith, rector of Ightham. When
England lost an actress it also
lost, says Stevenson, its finest
cook. Selfishly, he is little sad
dehed by her resumption of
movie work; she never gets home
in time to simmer veal in brandy
or to whip up a batch of crepes
suzette.
The picture, by the way, pro-
vides the most suitable casting
that Ronald Coiman has had in
quite while. He's an established
businessman who spends most of
his time getting much younger
and flibbertigibbet wife out of
romantic scrapes.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
IroIions Fail to Chase
British Out of MoIto

MALTA, lying lao miles from
~ the Italian mainland and 1870
from Africa, is Britain's naval
base in the middle Mediterranean an.
1t is q British bulwark between
Gibraltar on the west and Alex.
andria and Suez on the east.
Since 1898. when England
seized the island from Napoleon.
Malta has been under British con-
troll. II is . British Crown Colony
consisting Of three islands, Malta,
Coco and Comino. The govern.
ment issued the stamp above.
showing the important harbor at
Valletta, in 1901.
Lord Nelson, who captured the
island. said: Malta n absolutely
worthless as a British naval base"
Until the myth Of Italian military
strength was exploded in World
War II. Malta was considered
hopelessly vulnerable by the Brit
ish. The proximity of the is
land to Italy along with the yaunt.
ed Italian air arm were NSusht
to Be too severe handicsps for The
British defenders.
Italy he's boxed In the island
fortress BY mines and subjected il
10 repested sir attack without
much SUCCESS
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

pionship, and with Marian Kais-
er and Lou Mathe, they won the
mixed team flour. They were
also runnersup in the open pair
championship.
Here is a nice defensive hand
that helped Miss Arden win the
mixed pair event. Ehrlenbach
EAST won the opening lead
with the ace of hearts, and South
won the second with the king.
Declarer cashed two top trumps,
then shifted to the queen of
diamonds.
This same situation was reach
ed at several tables where South
played two or three spades. In
all other cases declarer made
three losing only the three aces
and the king of diamonds. The
defenders could And no way to
develop two club tricks before
dummy's diamonds were estab-
lished.
But Miss Arden (West) allow
ed the queen of diamonds to
ride to East, who took with the
ace. Ehrlenbach led the deuce
of clubs and South played the
three. This is where Miss Ar
den made q fine play.
She followed with the queen,
forcing dummy's king. Then
she took the next diamond lead
with the king and led the queen
of hearts. South ruffed, but
now had no entry to dummy.
He had to lead away from his
clubs, losing two tricks in the
suit. and his score Of Ito on
the board was low.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
I'VE YEARS AGO TODAY

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
1885
Plans for the pontoon bridge
at Municipal beach abandoned.
Shores request bus service to
Mount Clemens.
10 YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
Board of Education faces many
delinquent taxes, must econo-
mize.
Milk prices upped Csc per 100
pounds.
IS YEARS AGO
1905
The Macomb street bridge will
be reprinted.
Mount Clemens furnished ID
of the 40 deaths in Macomb coun-
ty during July.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1891
The Light Infantry band is non
compos bustus.
Miss st. John will appear in
o n c I at the Presbyterian
church tonight.
SO YEARS AGO TODAY
1881
The Monitor foresees q larger
role in world affairs for the
u. s. A.
Fame of Mount Clemens min
eral water is becoming world
wide. An order was received
from England this week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
= BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON "

banner, ormies Of the Soviet
mode up Of rs infantry, 10.
calvary ond four nnechonized
divisions. Thirty-sevsn Jopon-
csc divisions ore occupied in
Chino. one is in Korea, one on
Sokholin Island, three Or four
in Hoinon and French lndo-
Chino, ond four or five at
home. Thot's whot the mill
toN experts call extreme dis
persioh. 4:
japanese mechonized forces
ore as bad it not worse than
even the American. Joponsss
cir forces O e approximately
$500 planes ore mostly 1889
models, copies of Gern1on ORR
oinoIs now obsolete, and $50
miles is still the effective ron34
tor bombers eorni.,e bombs. .
From Soiqon, French indo-
Chino, to Singapore Is $40.
miles and from Fornnoso or
Conton to Manila is about the
same. From VIodivostok to-
Toxic is $50 miles.
A JOB FOR THE NAVY
Thot would seem to Ieove,
II UP to Jopon's novy-ond q
right good navy. too-if japan
is to 90 places. She can, Of
course. ride off in all four dir
ections. II she goes north and
runs into the Soviet there is
plenty Of trouble ahead. She.
con 90 farther into Chino at
about the same rote she hos
gone in the lest four years.
She can 90 south, against
the Malay peninsula and Sing
oPore and encounter q greet
many worries. The occupation
Of Indo- Chino can be consid-
cred os accomplished and Jop-
on might even penetrate Siom,
but Singapore is something
else again. Before Japan can
tockIe the Dutch Eost Indies,
she must reduce Singapore,
and it would toke yeors.
To the cost lie the Phillip
pines. They e-e within range,
ond il Jopon did not hove her
hands full in three other dir.
eetions, they would be pie any
time she wanted to help her
self. Engaged os the Jopon-
csc ore on three fronts, q full
shooting. war, requiring COM
plete CO. ordination Of SEQ, dir
and land forces, would keep
the Japanese gentlemen very
busy indeed for quite some
tim, sank you, preose.
So don't bet on war with
japan tomorrow.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
BY PAUL HARRISON
Nea Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, A u G. 4 -
Whenever q studio launches a
worldwide search for somebody
to play an especially desirable
role, you can offer odds among
your credulous acquaintance
that the whole business Is just
q publicity project, and that
the casting quest will swing
back to Movietown and end
with the discovery" of a player
who had been kept under wraps
all the while
The story of Anna Lees dis
covery (for America) is a little
different. 1t was on the level.
And there was no publicity
about Lewis Milestone's search
for girl to play the frivolous
wife of Ronald Colman, in my
Life With Caroline" The direct
or wasn't looking for an un-
known, especially. He'd have
settled for any of half a dozen
suitable local stars, but 1t hap
pened that a squirt in production
filled the program of those and
many lesser actresses who might
have filled the role.
While the director looked
and Producer William Hawks
fidgeted, the picture was post
poned several times. One day
Hawks said, II hear there's an
English picture on the lot that's
got q cute gal in it. I think it
was made q year or so ago but
has just been sent over. Why
don't you look at it,"
HE FOUND HER
So Milestone saw "A Young
Mans Fancy" and came out of
the projection room a lot hap
pier. He said that Anna Lee,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
BLOOD AND GOLD

Alfred Rosenberg. the "phiIoso-
pher" of Nozidom, is reported slotted
to become the Fuehrer's Mccarthy in
captured regions of Russio, if, os and
when any ore captured.
Rosenberg is q veteran Noz lead
er who hos so often predicted O victory
Of blood over gold" in the present war.
Thot's q conflict in which Ameri-
cans can't get themselves much inter
ested. Were interested rather in the
victory Of broins. decency. and morality
over both.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
. SO THEY SAY

Ireland today Is q vast grave
yard. What was good and was re-
publican in it has been crushed.
Liam O'Flaherty, Irish writer.
IF a man works in . factory .
number of years, has shaved
day after day, certainly we
might declare that he has put
himself into that business.
Bishop Bergan Of Des Moines.
AFTER all, labor Is people,
and the national record for TAX
ing the big broad view-either
by business men or by labor
Is none too inspiring.
Morris Llewellyn Cooke,
OPM.
do not want to live in a
country in which I do not know
but that every other man l pacs
on the street may be . secre:
officer listening to everything ]
say, or breaking into my office
or home to look over everything
I may have. ~
Senator Norris, Nebraska, or
the proposal for q Navy -.
erst police force.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
WEAKNESS IS FATAL

The United StoteS IS SLOW 10 o0mit
that the world is whot it is.
For two years the world hos been
beating on our door, sounding sirens.
and ringing alarms, urging US to woke
up Gosh, how we hate to get UP in the
morning!
Britain hated, too, to wake from thot
pleasant slumber. She watched and
hoped while her potential allies, one by
one, fell before the oeeressor At lost
she woke painfully to thot Lost lone
struggle against that oeeressor.
For IS years the United Stotes hos
oozed dreomily out ocross the Pacific.
We saw Japan whip China in 1875 and
Russia in 1905, getting the Kurile is
lands and half of Fornoso. We saw Jo-
pan annex Korea in 1910 We saw the
japanese effort to obtoin from Mexico
q naval base at MoodoIeno Boy. We
saw the German concession at Kioo-
Chico China, and the island Of Yop
foil to Japan, otter the World War; We
saw Japan leave the League of Motions
and toke many "mondoted" islands
permanently. We saw the Poetic Four
Power treoty for stotus quo in the Po-
cific signed by Japan and later repudi-
oted when Jopon saw fit. We saw Man.
churio, North Chino, South Chino, and
now French Indo-Chino foil successive
ly to japanese arms.
This record Of IS years shows two
things: Japan, rightly or wrongly, feels
an urge to expond 1t hos never hest
toted to oct on thot urge whenever
chances looked good
In view of these things, is there the
slightest doubt thot japan will erob
the Netherlands Indies eastern Siberio,
or even the Philippines, whenever the
chances look good? No. Already US
ing the Indo-Chino aggression as lev
er, japan puts pressure on Thoilond
(Siom) for concessions"
The fote of the Netherlands Indies,
source OF rubber and tin, is important
to the United Stotes. We have spent
millions in the Philippines to help on
independent people develop independ-
ent institutions, not to make q fot prize
for Japan.
Perhaps the best chance to halt fur
tnur Japanese penetration lntO SOUTH
east Asia is to make it quite clear thot
there is no weakness there. Public de-
clorotion by Britoin, the Netherlands.
and the United Stotes that single
step beyond French Indo-Chino means
war with all three might do the job.
1t might not. But it is the best chance
Weakness is the one fotol error
With Singapore and the Neither
lands Indies in Japanese honds, the
Philippines ore untenobIe They, too.
would fall. Chino could no longer hold
out. A vost new empire would have at
it's mercy any and every contact the
United States might wish to make with
Asio, just as another power threatens
to have at its mercy every such con-
toct With Europe.
This is insufferoble and unthinkoble.
1t is time to wake UP There is point
where patience oeqses to be virtue
and veroes on sheer stupidity
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

While it took us a week &c
reach San Francisco on our
transcontinental bridge tour, we
were not disappointed by the
caliber of bridge played at the
Pacific Bridge Week Tourna-
ments. Waldemar Won Zedwitz
agreed with Mrs. Mckinney and
me that the defensive play in
the tournament perhaps reached
d higher standard on the average
than in any other section of
the country.
The stars of the first half Of
Bridge Week in San Francisco
were Christine Arden anC Jack
Ehrlenback of Los Angeles
They won the mixed pair cham
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
OUTTALKS BANDIT

KANSAS CTTY-New situa-
tons hold no terrors for Bill
Rice.
The 16-year-old' transplanted
Texan was serving his first night
as desk clerk at an apartment
hotel.
For the first time he had gun
rammed against his ribs by a
holdup man.
But-he talked the bandit into
leaving without Collecting q
penny.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
pEATHeTAi<Es NO VACATION

It's the vacation season, but death
Isn't tokino any.
IN ti,e first six months Of this yeor
IL notped l6. 81 lives on the highways
H. ~ Jstted Stotes. Lost year he cut
4 only IA, 42O in the first six
te1vsl is Up only z per cent,
8 Arceedsd in boosting his
can't, With the heavy
st6rsurmer vocation
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
~ PETER spsok
Dolly Monitor Wsshinsten

eu9N sOSOV
Dolly MeNites Weshinsten
coseespomdent
WASHINGTON. 'Aue A.
The more you read the less you
know. and the more you follow
the. dope of HE experts the
more you believe that Big Bill
knudsen was riehi-"An ex-
pert IS q mechanic away from
hone.'
Thot general neootion can
be oppIied to miIitoy experts.
political experts, oil eeonom-
lists, experts on foreign Of
'foirs ond particularly experts
on the Far Eost. In the opinion
Of the people who should know,
there oin't any such onimol as
that lost.
An examination Of the rec
ord Of most so-eoIled experts
on the Far Eostern situotion
will prove this costly. A yeor
oeo they beoon predicting
that the Y. S. fleet would go
to Singapore that war between
the U. S. and japan was newt
obIe, and thot the Japanese
we're ready to seize the Dutch
eost Indies any IS minutes.
On the general theory thot If
you pre- d ! c t q thing long
enough and hard enough it
will come true Inder the law
Of overoees, all these things
may hoppen. Blu: don't do
without eotine until they do.
for there ore any number Of
reasons, miIitory as we'll as
economic, that they oren't 60
ing to come off instonter.
Whatever you think Of the
administrators policy or lack
Of policy toward the blind alley
browl in Europe. credit must
be given where credit is due,
and the policy will regard to
the Far Eost and particularly
Japan has thus far been plan
ned and executed with skill.
The importance Of the Orient
in the international picture hos
not been overlooked. but the
bait and the line p;oyed out
to the Poetic big game fish
hos been we'll handled, beouti-
fully timed ond with just
enough Of the slack Of op-
peoserent so thot fishermen
Uncle Sam hos not become
fouled in his own line and
drooeed into the drink.
Economically, the octuoI
freezing Of Joponese credits
and the threo; Of enboraoes
on oil and silk have been good
pressure to make Toxic stop
and consider. Actual embor-
goes would do the japanese
more harm than sending the
fleet to Singapore
JAPANESE TIRED
MiIitori|y, japan is roted the
third nost-weoy country in
the world, ,Spoin and Itoly
alone being oheod Of her in
that kind Of despair. Further
more, japan is in the position
Of the big fish which swallowed
the hook and cont spit it out.
he hos on army Of less than
She hos on army Of less than
two Million 800. 600 under
arms and another 200, 900 or
so called up. She has the man.
pcwer for an crnny Of. four mil
lion, but cont get the arms or
equipment for them. That is,
she hos 81 divisions under
arms and the most she con
roise is 66, insteod Of the
potential 200.
Information is perhaps none
TOO oocurote, but the best dope
is that 10 divisions ore in Mon-
chiikII0 ndninsf fha fAu0 red
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
. BARBS

Police jailed an eastern man
for blackmailing people parked
in autos. Protecting our wild
life.
The old world seems worse
than it really is because you hear
so much about the bad things
that never happen.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
ANXIOUS HOURS

ST. HELENA, NEB.-Being
pinned under his overturned
tractor for two hours while his
cries for help went unanswered,
was narrowing enough for farm
er Frank Feiner.
But what really worried him
was the fact the motor kept rum
ming and q punctured tank
dripped a pool of fuel oil around
him. He escaped injury.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
. FAST ohE...BUT WIDE

One Of two things now seems likely:
either the Germans will lounch onother
blitx-blow that will bowl over the Rus
sions. or else they will foce q prolonged
sostern campaign, perhaps even de-
fensive one.
Churchill hos told what would hop
pen in the first cose. He expects on
;rnnediote ottock on England, per-
hops by September; certainly no less
ts,on on overwhelming ottock on the
Mediterranean oreo.
But in the other cose? Suppose the
Nozi bIitz-mochine boys down into q
lono winter campaign in Russia? Here's
tip, for what it proves to be worth,
from q man with good contacts in Eng
land: -
.perhoos Hitler would be deposed, or
oppedr to be deposed as Gern1on Fueh-
RI. The army commanders would seize,
81 oppeor to seize, control Of Germany.
Then q tremendous Peoee appeal
would be mode to enolond on this bo-
SIS: ut was Hitler with whom you
couIdn't make peoce. Now he is out.
The army wants. no trouble with Eng
Iond or the rest Of Europe. It wants
only to lick Russio and deliver Europe
from the Red Menace. How obout it,
b0ys? YOU call off the dog. %Relieved
Of the wor in the west. we can lick Rus
so. Everybody will be ahoPpy"
The thought in such on approach is
tl1ot there were tremendously intluen-
tioI forces III England and in the world
which repeatedly ovowed no III will
toword the German people; once Hitler
wos out OF the way, means Of living
With 10000, 900 Germans could be de-
vised.
But unfortunately Germany hos elec-
ted to sacrifice that good will which
definitely did exist toward the German
people. Lord Astor Of CIiveden was
Identified with thot oppeosement posi-
ton as strongly as any. Yet today he
writes to w. R. Matthews, editor Of the
Arizona Stor: Con we come to terms
and have durobIe peoce by treotino
With the good and decent element in
Germany, especially the German or
my?" No, soys Lord Astor today, whot-
ever he might have thought once. Be-
couse the old ruling clique Of the Ger
man army which once thought it could
use Hitler for his own purposes, has
been destroyed by him. All high posts
hove been given only to Nozis, and the
Germon army is indistinguishobIe from
the kozi porty. Hence, There is no
distinction at present between the Nozi
party, the German army, and the Ger
man people"
II such q man as Lord Astor has al
reody completely discounted in 3D.
vance any such German peooe overture
as the one suggested above, you may be
sure that If any such "fost one" is
pitched, it will be for wide Of the pIote
One Of the tragedies Of the war is
not Germony hos succeeded in de-
stroyino oil confidence not only in Hit
ler, not only in. the German army but
Ia the German people,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

TEKAMAH. NEB. - They'll
crown her Queen of Texan
nua!" at this city's celebration
whereupon Mrs. Lorinda Farley
will ride in the big parade, lead
the grand march 1t the celebra-
ton ball. deliver m address and
recite her favorite poems.
Mrs. Farley y 100 years old.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
ny the Associated Press
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

In lhE SfOILlOhI
OSAN DIEGO-Coast Defense
troops at Fort Rosencrans did
their duty-and then found
themselves in a jam for it.
Officers of the navy transport,
Flying Cloud, complained the
coast defense searchlight beams
trained on them during inspec-
ton blinded men on the bridge.
Previously, a commercial vessel
captain made similar COM
plant.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-04

This is insufferoble and unthnkoble.
1t is time to wake UP There is q point
where patience ceqses to be virtue
and veroes on sheer stupidity
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-10-23
MI. MoultOn New Owner
of A. H. Meyer Ranch

HIGHLANDS-The w. z. Hacker
family moved Sunday from the A.
II. Meyer place on the Highlands
to the NJ. N. Hudnall home across
from the Highland clubhouse. The
Meyer place has recently been pur-
chased by M. NJ. Moulton Of Ken
newick.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Serier Of Port
land were weekend guests at the
home of their daughter, Mrs. John
Ferguson and family. On Sunday
the group motored to ProsSer TO
visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth Serier.
MIR. and Mrs. Lloyd Nelson and
family moved last week from the
old Slaugerhaupt place on the
South Highlands to the old Art
Walker place on cemetery hill.
Mrs. Walter Miller of Colville was
house guest Of Mrs. Tony Mayer
last week. She is a former school
mate of Mrs. Mayer and was here
to attend the Rebekah assembly held
here last week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-10-23
Relatives and Friends
Visit at Fort Lewis

HIGHLANDS-Harry Higley, &C.
companied by G. H. Meyer, made q
trip ito the coast this week. They will
visit at Longview, CheIlalis, Tacoma
Seattle and with Don Higley, who is
stationed at Fort Lewis.
Miss Dorothy GLASGOW Of Pascc
was an overnight guest at the home
of her parents, MIR. and Mrs. Art
GLASGOW Wednesday night.
Miss Dorothy GLASGOW Is a Walla
Walla visitor today (Thursday.)
F. M. Robbins and Paul Wotton
of Puyallup were weekend hunt
ing guests at the home of Robbins
brother, N. E.. Robbins and family.
Joe Richenback of Mossyrock
spent the weekend at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Richen-
back. He returned Monday to his
work. ~
81 MIR. and Mrs. Frank Warner and
children of Pasco were dinner Wis
itors Sunday of Frank BenS.