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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY

so YEARS AGO IODA1
1892
The council gets In an old
fashioned whack at the city
treasury Monday night, allowing
S2.531.13 in bills.
Warren Stone is a tenor singer
in the Freshman Glee Club OF
the State University.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
Adam Bennett, of New Hav-
en-, was in town yesterday. MIR.
Bennett is getting better.
d. M. Heath and Chris
Schnoor elected president and
clerk of New Baltimore.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
LET ALL KEEP FAITH!
An Editorial Printed from
the Memphis Commercial Appeal

The. Commercial Appeal does not
permit anyone who is not q member
of the stoff to write its editorials.
There are many reasons for this rule,
reasons too numerous to recount here.
Today we suspend the rule to present
as an editorial letter from MEM
Der of the Arkansas Bar who served
with the United Stotes forces in the
first World War. An effort to interpo-
late or embeIIish would only serve to
detroct from the elements Of sheer
forcekuIness thot make it q document
every thinking citizen Of these United
Stotes should read and ponder The
letter follows:
ITO The Commercial Appeal:
my only son was born while | was
in France during the first World War;
Today he is member Of the United
Stotes Marine Corps He sailed from
California the first Of January, and
we have heard nothing from him since.
We know he is somewhere in the Po-
eifie. We are anxious about him.
Thousands Of other parents are like
US.
THE President says we do not
have enough ships to send supplies to
our troops, and thot we must build
ships in q hurry. Even as he spoke sew
erol hundred shipbuIders refused to
work on Washington Birthday be-
cause they were not poid double time.
"How can fathers and mothers of
boys who are in the danger zone and
who are being called upon to sacrifice
their lives feel any surge Of unity
when the President and the Congress
permit q bunch Of shipbuIders and
munitions workers to quit when they
get good and ready
DO our boys at the front get over
time and double time in the fox holes
Of the Philippines? Do our sons who
ore giving their lives to protect the jobs
Of these and others like them quit on
holidays? Like hell they do!
Zone of my friends, who is good
mechanic, with family to support,
went to get q job in q munition plant.
Every day we hear on the radio and
read in the newspapers thot such men
ore needed to turn out munitions for
our soldiers, sailors and marines. But
this man was refused q Job until he
could get union cord. He could not
get q union card because he did not
have enough money to buy one.
lis it the idea Of our Government
that It is more important to preserve
iobor unions than it is to preserve the
Americon Union? Why can't free
born American citizen get q Job in
plant where the Government needs
workers without having to pay tribute
to Q high-powered labor leader?
IF our sons ore to be drafted TO
give their lives for their country, why
should not Labor and CopitoI be droft-
aed to supply them with munitions of
wor9 Why should Congress. which has
ms power to moke lows. be so tender
fof the regard for Ioborers and monooe-
}O,ent who work and prosper in sofety
D nile having an utter disregard for the
ltsos " tIne boys at the front?
q don't like it, and we don't
WIG % right out aloud. Moybe
~ were eIeetino some seno-
cnefnfasesrneo Wiz, will o,o~L
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-10
BY PETER EDSoN
Daily Monitor Washington
CaYYesnondent

WASHINGTON, MARCH 10
Ultimate consumers Of news
incoming you oIl-moy have
your understanding and oPPre-
ciotion of censorship all gum
med up by feor Of q thing you
might coll propaganda tor
home consumption.
To have certoin military in
formation of possible value to
the enemy withheld is one
thino. Thot's necessary and
okoy with most people.
But when this incomplete
picture is cluttered up with ex-
tro trimmings which ore OPP
piled for the purpose OF hyPno..
tizing you iI-to q psychological
belief that he scene is prettier
than it really is thot's some-
thing else again.
Timing complexities this in
q peculiar way. If good or bod
news is he'd up for q time, then
released at some psychological
moment so'thot the good news
makes you feel better or the
bad news is buried by other
GOOD news, then the customers
stnrt complaining. For exom-
pies:
A good many people thought,
and some still think, that the
news Of neorl Horbor was de-
IiberoteIy doetored to deceive
the American people. The Pres
ident had to spike that one.
Again, the rumor got round
in some cities thot the Navy
had held up details Of the first
biq raid on Gilbert and Mar
shall Islands from Feb. ], when
the raid took place, and releos-
ed it Feb. II to offset the bod
news from Singapore. The an
swer to this one was thot the
details we're not given until
otter the roiders got back to
Peorl Horbor because to have
rodoed the news sooner would
have given away the Location
of the roidiny ships and their
route home.
coMMUNIQUE: oKAY
Navy poIicy on announcing
submarine ottocks ond sink
inos hos also been questioned.
When q submarine sinks q Y.
S. vessel, under the present
ruling, thot's news, but when
q u. S. vessel sinks q submo-
rine, thot's q naval secret. The
theory here is thot if axis pow
ers don't know the tote OF their
unheord from submarines, II
makes the operations OF sub
fleet commanders that, much
more difficult and it breaks up
the morale of the enemy SUBJ
marine crews. This experience
stems from the lost war when
German crews finolly refused
to 40 to SEQ. The news policy
on sinkinJs is now under re-
view, however, and may be
changed in some way, such as
permitting TIE announcement
of submarine sinkings q week
otter they occur.
Army and Navy COMMUNE
ques, the day to day news re-
ports of tn. actual war devel-
orments ore, os q motter OF
foct, free from any ProPo-
oondo control. The communl.
ores are written by q colonel
for the Army and O commander
for the Navy. They cleor their
information with each other.
information which comes in
once or twice q day from COM
monders in the several theo-
tiers Of operations. Two OF
three hours otter the reports
ore in, they have been deeod-
ed, rewritten, passed by the
general and admiral in charge
Of press, and issued:
There IRE times when, 1t the
communique c ontoinS no.
news from one sector, second
ory news from another com.
mond may be held up tor 9
dow or two when there is q Iu'i
The one government oeenc>
Evening star., 1942-08-17
The Great Game of Politics
Shortages in War Materials Declared
Due to Feeble Men in Washington

to find that it is now blocked by
shortages over which it has no con-
troll. 1t is industry's Job to turn out
the weapons of war from the mate
rials provided, but it is the admin
istration's job to supply the mate
rials. Industry has done its job to
the hilt; it is the administration
which has fallen down.
Why? The answer is through lack
of foresight and executive capacity
in Washington. 1t is not so much
question of production as a question
of distribution and it is in the
latter that the administration in
capacity has been most clearly
shown. It's system Of priorities has
not worked. It's efforts to co-ordi-
nate and allot have been Intellectual.
It's control has been lax and unin-
formed. 1t has not had the facts
and 1t has not acted with intelli-
gence upon the facts 1t has had
AS a result, we have reached a stage
where a thousand factories are
threatened with stoppage through
a lack of materials. an adequate flow
of which would have been insured
by a competent administration. 1t
is not industry which has checked
short" in meeting the Presidents
requirements; 1t is his own confused
organization.
Facts Ignored.
These facts have been noted by
practically every independent and
informed commentator and news
paper. They are ignored only by
the administration propagandists
who evade the Washington mess by
profound pronouncements about
India, or Egypt, or Russia, concern
ing which they know little Those
who face the domestic realities are
in two groups. Both agree that re-
sponsibility largely rests upon Mr..
Donald Nelson. One contends the
trouble is that Mr.. Nelson lacks real
power. The other insists he has
plenty of power but is not strong
enough to WELD it. Actually, both
contentious are true. Notwithstand-
ing the apparent delegation of all
out authority, there were hidden
White House strings on Mr.. Nelson
when he went to bat. He had two
strikes on him to start with. But,
even had this not been so, 1t is
doubtful that he had it in him to
be the kind of ruthless, forceful,
dominant, driving boss for which
conditions called. At any rate, he
has not been that kind of boss and
the present staggering situation is
the result.
A state of affairs exists which JUS
titles the people not only in resent
ment of pompous administration
preachments about the necessity of
sacrifices but warrants a feeling
that the President and his aides are
falling below the standards they
asked industry, particularly, and
the people. generally, to meet.
Evening star., 1942-08-17
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

President Roosevelt and his
chief naval advisers. Admiral
william D. Leahy and Admiral
Ernest J. King, for the last four
days have been hopefully and
anxiously scanning the reports
from Gen. Douglas Macarthur in
Australia and Vice Admiral Rob-
ert Lee Ghormley somewhere at
sea-"
President Roosevelt is reported
to have spent more time than
usual in the basement chart room,
where the movements of all
United Nations ships are shown
on a huge detailed chart.
In Washington only President
Roosevelt and possibly two or
three high-ranking naval officers
know the composition of Admiral
Ghormley's combat force and the
names of the flag officers working
under his command.
While the details Of the United
States fleet In the waters near
the Solomon Islands and New
Guinea are strict military Sc
cret, 1t is known that Admiral
Ghormley has been given every
Evening star., 1942-08-17

of the service and in the various
departments. The activities of
these institutions and the poll
cies followed by them are openly
discussed; and within reason,
and with view to the exigencies
Of war, they are criticized-in
and out of Congress. 1t is our
common democratic belief that
this method is in the best in
terests of these Institutions
always allowing for the proper
social discipline in wartime.
We think mistakes are. to
certain degree, inevitable, under
standable and remediable. But
what infuriates the public is to
learn of something important to
them which has been kept from
them.
Victory by Propaganda.
Now, in all this, there is one
exception. There is one branch
of warfare, now being practiced
by all the powers, which has
proven itself of great potential
power. That is the psychological
war. That is the campaign by
which we attempt to break down
the enemy morale, encourage our
allies, mobilize guerrillas, con-
vince neutrals that their interests
lie with us and prepare the way
not only for winning the war but
for winning the peace.
Politically, this is the most I'M
portant branch of the war. We
cannot win the war with it, but
we can certainly shorten or pro-
long the war, according to
whether our psychological war
fare is intelligent or stupid.
No one needs to be convinced
of its Importance, because we
have seen what enormous Axis
victories have been won with It.
Hitler won all his first strategic
victories by politics and propa-
ganda. Mussolini managed to
keep the Allies bamboozled until
the DAY Italy struck; the Japa-
nese diplomacy and propaganda
was thoroughly intelligent-for
instance in Malaga. And we are
feeling the repercussions of Axis
propaganda throughout the
world-in India, Arabia, Europe,
and even in this country. as our
sedition trials now show us.
Our Government knows that
this war must be fought with
planes and tanks and men, and
also with ideas. In fact, there
never was a war in which ideas
counted for so much. And our
Government has set up bureau
to wage war with ideas. We
don't call this bureau by its real
name: The Office of Psychologi-
cal Warfare. 1t has a neutral
and nondescript title: The Co.
ordinator of information.
So far our knowledge goes.
And there 1t practically ends.
Public Kept In Dark.
What are we telling our
enemies? What are we offering
our Allies? What line are we
taking? What purpose do we
hope to accomplish? What
evidence is there of any success?
Evening star., 1942-08-17

their flank, or of throwing their
fleet into a battle against a Navy
which they can safely assume is
fully prepared for any emergency.
According to the few available
reports the Japanese high COM
mand decided for the latter
course. If the Nipponese lose
and the odds appear to be against
the Imperial Navy Japan's
power will be much impaired
and the people of the United
States may look forward to
further actions in the Pacific for
the purpose of speedily knock
ing Japan out Of the war.
This strategy has been strong
ly supported by the ablest Amer
lean military and naval STRAIT
egists and has been fully under
stood, and up to a point ac-
cepted, by President Roosevelt.
The reasons it has not been used
sooner are political and military
in nature. But whatever con-
siderations have prevented the
American high command from
following this strategy will dis
appear if the present battle in
the South Pacific develops in
our favor.
Evening star., 1942-08-17

thing he figured he needed for
successful completion of his
mission.
Naval operations in support of
the landing by the marines in
the three principal islands of the
Solomon group required a rela-
lively unimportant force, but
those persons in the Washington
and Pacific headquarters who
planned this campaign realized
that the Japanese would be COM
PEELED to throw into battle an
important portion of their feet.
1t Is assumed in some quarters
that the japanese did not worry
about the demonstration in the
Aleutian Islands and dispa tched
to their naval bases in the Caro-
lines as much of their fleet as
could be spared.
Until more definite details of
Ine DaItle are knOWn-and 1t
will be some time before the en-
counter between the American
and Japanese fleets is ended
the Navy Department and the
White House are not likely to
make any comments or prophesy
about the immediate future. But
there is a strong feeling in usu-
ally well-informed quarters that
this IS the most important battle
we have fought in this war.
Some observers 60 even further
and maintain that if the Japa-
nese risk full-fedged engage
ment and are defeated the whole
aspect Of this war will change,
no matter what further spectacu-
lar victories Hitler may gain this
year. The Japanese cannot lose
many men-of-War without risk
ing everything they have gained
since Pearl Harbor.
Evening star., 1942-08-17

ing else to do. But it's a miser-
able way to begin a war, and
even guerrillas try to regain con-
tact and receive instructions.
Our domestic propaganda tells
us that this is peoples war.
If it is not peoples war in the
field of ideas, where is it a peo-
pies war? Why should we
know what the Axis is telling
us-information that is avail
able to any one who listens to
short-wave broadcasts-and be
in complete darkness as to what
We are telling them?
This war is not a conspiracy.
1t Is an open fight for freedom.
(To be continued)
tReleased By the Bell Syndicate, 1nc)
Evening star., 1942-08-17

administration with the direct
charge of incompetency and an in
sistence that it be ended, the effect
might be very salutary, indeed.
Another real demonstration of
public impatience seems to be ex-
actly what is needed now. Months
ago, when the citizens generally re-
acted against the fan dancing and
other silly aspects of the OCD, they
got results. Congress responded. A
house cleaning was forced and the
whole setup revamped. 1t is not
ideal now, but it is so much better
than it was that there Is no COM
parison.
1t is becoming increasingly clear
that If we are successfully to sus-
tain our role as the arsenal Of
democracy" it is not American in
dustry which will have to be stimu-
lated. That has been effectively
done. If there is failure now the
responsibility will not rest upon in
dustry but upon the feeble men who
have been mismanaging our war
production effort in Washington
There is not much dispute about
that among informed persons. 1t
is conceded-even by the admins
tration-that the industrial plant of
the country has wrought marvel
ously in producing the implements
of war and in preparing to produce
them upon an even vastly enlarged
scale.
Lack of Foresight.
The President, himself, has said
so. Despite red tape and restrictive
labor demands, manufacturing in
dustry has organized itself so as to
more than fulfill the fantastic"
estimates of the President early this
year, only to find that it is unable
to function fully because of short
ages in basic materials, with the
production and distribution of
which industry has nothing and
Government has everything to do.
Industry has been converted, ex-
panded and equipped to meet the
utmost Roosevelt requirements
and to go far beyond them-merely
Evening star., 1942-08-17
Army Officers Check
Shows Uncle Is Recruit

BY the Associated Press.
CAMP WHEELER, Ga.-Head
down, 1t. Finlay w. Hester, was
checking equipment forms for new
arrivals.
Name, please" he said to one.
Sullivan" replied the recruit.
First name and middle initial,
please
Sullivan, James K"
"You wouldn't be my uncle from
Steubenville, Ohio, would you?"
yes, sir"
So the lieutenant looked up and
saw his mothers brother for the
first time In 10 years.
Evening star., 1942-08-17

can be induced
to do something
about it. If, for
e x a m p e, in
S t e a d of pa
tiently listening
to endless repe-
tition of patri-
o tic platitudes
from adminis-
tration mouth
pieces the peo-
pie, reversing
the usual proce-
jllre shoIl q
turn upon the
Evening star., 1942-08-17

the day under a rationing plan out
lined by Mayor La Guardia.
Hot water would flow only between
$50 and 9 am. and 5 and pm.
under the program formulated by q
committee of real estate boards and
associations.
The Mayor, announcing that New
Yorkers will be asked in about a
week to accept the limited hot wa
ter. said yesterday that if the public
did not cooperate I'VE may all have
to endure hot-waterless days be-
cause of a scarcity of fuel.
Evening star., 1942-08-17
Gas in Trailer Exp|odes,
Eiqht-MiIe Area Jared
2, the Associated Press.

EH the Associated Press.
GLASGOW, Del, Aug. IA
parked truck trailer loaded with
acetylene gas was blown to bits near
here early today in a series OF ex-
plosions that shattered windows and
shook homes over an Smile radius.
State police said no one was in
jured, although one drum crashed
through a one-car garage and an
other ripped off part of the roof
of the farm home of Mrs. Henry
Suppl. The blasts were felt 8 miles
away in Wilmington and scores Of
householders were awakened.
The Wilmington state police office
said the trailer caught fire while
moving. The driver, Ralph Michaels,
%, OF Baltimore, tried to stop the
blaze with extinguishers, the police
said, then detached the truck and
drove 100 yards away to await the
explosions,
Evening star., 1942-08-17
This Changing World
japanese Believed Ready to Throw Fleet
Into Decisive Bottle Raging at SoIomons

If the Jap feet is defeated In
Australian waters, with the prob
able loss of many important
naval units, their feet will be
forced to adopt defensive tactics
and will be barely sufficient to
preserve the lines of communi-
cation between Japan and the
Southwestern Pacific.
With their limited supply of
raw materials for construction
Of new warships and a relatively
small number of ship yards avail
able in Japan a major defeat in
the Southwest Pacific would be
incomparably more costly to the
Japanese than all our Setbacks
since Pearl Harbor have been to
us.
That the japanese feet suf-
fered severely in the first Coral
Sea battle is evidenced not only
by our own communiques, but
also by the fact that Japan
failed to make the move which
most observers expected her to
make, namely, resume aggres-
sive activities against Australia.
The surprise attack against
Midway was desperate move
on the Japs' part. made In hopes
of catching the United States
Navy mapping and, If successful.
obliterating the effects of the
Coral Sea defeat. In this they
also failed.
For the last 10 days we have
definitely been on the offensive.
The japanese have the choice of
getting out of the islands near
the Australian mainland, thus
giving up all hope of removing
the thorn we have driven into
Evening star., 1942-08-17

thus gettlng no
substantial pro-
duction in any
direction while
aiming at per-
lection in all di-
rections.
This is said
spropos of the
harrage of pub
licity recently
laid down by
W ell meaning
. rSO MS who
either want to
tell the hig h
Evening star., 1942-08-17

Not one OF the
little Oscars, but
the very biggest
one; a life sized
Oscar, wearing
a I " o. a n t S
suit, smoking a
cigar, and big
a n d I o u z h
enough to take
care of himself
in any situation.
CLARK Gable
deserves it. In
m a n y respects,
Evening star., 1942-08-17

ton and 9TH
er spec | a |
war agencies.
B y a n d
] a r ge, the
public knows
what tn e y
are doing and
who is doing
1t. we even
have m
time to time
conmunlqueS
as to what is
happening in
each branch
Evening star., 1942-08-17
LA Guordio Mops
| Plan to Ration
Hot Water
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-Timetable
bathing, shaving, laundering and
dishwashing appears in prospect for
New York City apartment house
dwellers, whose supply of hot water
would be limited to certain hours of