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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
I.M NOT AFRAID, DADDY

The full report OF Gen. Douglas
MocArthur's dash from the Philip
pines has not told all the story. One
very important member Of the Porty
hos been neglected. He is Arthur Mac
Arthur, 4-yeor-oId son Of the general,
orondson and nomesoke Of another
fomous U. S. fighter and friend Of the
Philippines.
The published reports Of the sea-
air journey have said little about Ar
thur, other than, "Arthur was ILL.," One
can imagine, however, how the son
and grandson of soldiers must have
reacted.
You can hear the general caution
ina the boy not to be frightened as
the party embarked in tiny speed
boots. Even chiIds scream might
have betrayed the party. Then the race
through pounding secs. 1t was tough
going for hardened men Of Botoon.
How much more so for q 4-yeor-oId?
But we know Arthur Macarthur
took it all like q soldier - even the
seosickness - and we know he told
his dad, I'm not -ofroid, Daddy"
We're not afraid, either, General.
Well send you planes and men and
guns. We know you'll come through
again. We're sofe with you Leading the
woy. Arthur and all of US.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31

becomes worth while in the military
sense. The Nozi propaganda tech
rioue wouldn't overlook sniPins at
morale with this type of costly repeot-
ed dirt. The propoeondists overlook
practically nothing.
Also not overlooked is the horror
story. A couple Of hoory ones first
heard in 1917 have been remodeled
oIona 1912 lines and have been gain
ina circulation the lost two or three
weeks.
BIG mouthed Joe Blow hos it
straight from q stevedore who helped
load the transports and convoy ships
for Australia that one big vessel cor
ried nothing but coskets. A vosiont is
the anonymous letter sent to SOL
dier's family relating this same story
--os a friend. The training camp dis
ease epidemic theme is most familiar
of oII-but it's around again.
HitIer's propaganda credo is that
most Of the people will believe any,
thing if it's fontostio enough and is
fed to them often enough. The way to
beat it is not to repeat it.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
TOO GOOD FOR AMERICA?

Incredible as it sounds, Assistant
Attorney General Thurman Arnold
charges q large American company
with holding back the formula for q
better synthetic rubber from the Unit
ed Stotes, although the same formula
was turned over to Germany before
we entered the war. Arnold oIso
charged, and offered Senate COM
mittee proof, thot as Iote as Jan. 6,
1912, this company was still reluctant
to let the United Stotes see the for
muIo, despite the criti ca rubber
shortage.
Maybe the formers want too much
for their crops. Maybe labor betroys
the troops insisting upon the 4O-hc II
week. Maybe this firm in question
played ball with the enemy and not
with the country which protects it,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Now she's Republics new
serial queen, starring in 1.-THE
Perils of Nyoka." She goes to
Africa to look for her explorer
40 and part of al she went
right on being chilly dish gar
nished with fancy clothes. The
studio would do no better by
her.
The comedy - of a perverse
sort-came last year when she
went to Warmers and was made
a member of the Navy Blues
sextet. After serving as scenery
in the picture, the gals were kept
together until recently posing
publicity shots on springboards,
burros, beaches, battleships and
the laps of embarrassed soldiers.
TOOK SERIOUS STEP
It was unthinkable that any
participant in this fleshy frolic
could be an actress, although
Georgia Carroll was given
speaking part in one picture.
(She said Yes, Mr.. Whiteside,"
and it was cut) So when the
sextet was disbanded, Kay Aid
ridge decided it was time to do
something pretty drastic.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
MARRIAGE DETERRENT

The rush OF war weddings oppor-
emily may bring drastic measures in
Washington There the Office Of
Price Administration has suggested
that boxers stop slicne bread. This
proposal purportedIy is offered as q
means Of saving time. labor and po-
per.
If the prospective bride is we'll
owore thot she may have to slice the
breed. she'll think again about mar
rying thot Iod before he goes off to
wor Why. one Of these days they
might even ask her to bake it.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, MARCH 81
You wouldn't think that a beau
-tiful face and figure could be a
handicap in Hollywood. Yet
Katharine Aldridge is preparing
to wrestle lions, fight natives,
swim with crocodiles, swing
across chasms, ride camels,
founder in swamps and stab
gorillas in an effort to make
Hollywood forget how nice she
looks in an evening gown or
bathing suit.
The trouble was that Miss
Aldridge used to be model.
The studios have hired hundreds
of models, and still are hiring
them, but the truth is that mod
els as a group have only slight
ly higher average of success as
actresses than girls who enter
magazine contests and win
round-trip tickets to Movie
town.
1t made no difference that
Miss Aldridge had been very
famous model who was all over
the magazines and billboards, or
that sentimental matrons attend
ing fashion shows actually cried
at the sight of her radiant beauty
in bridal gowns. In Hollywood
she was just a clothes horse, or
a leg-art cutie.
SAVED HER SAVINGS
At that she did a lot better
than others in the covey of fancy
shapes who came here in 1887 at
$500 a week and expenses for
Walter Wanger's "Vogues of
1885," Wanger didn't take up
the options of any of 'em, but
several were hired by other
studios. Miss Aldridge, with her
pride and savings intact, went
right back to modelling in New
York. A year later she and
Georgia Carroll went to Honolu-
lu, paused here on their return,
and were halted by movie con-
tracts.
Miss Aldridge began at Doth
Fox as an uppity deb in "Hotel
for Women. Through 1899,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31

A large number of Americans
these days are discovering muscles
they did not know they had. This is on
incident to various kinds Of war work
but it is also result of the return Of
the bicycle as q means Of adult loco
motion.
Taking the bicycle out Of the juve-
nile class, the War Production Board
hos ordered that none but full size
models shall be manufactured during
April, Moy, and june Dealers in Chi
coeo report that bicycle soles are four
times as great as last year, with sub
urbonites cycling to and from their
railroad stations or coneestine the
traffic in village squares during shop
ping hours.
IF Boston bicycle enthusiasts sue
coed in obtaining permission to hold
q contest at Corey Hill in BrookIine on
April l9, they may repeat famous
meet of 1886. Until that date only one
man, Harry D. Corey, had ever pro-
PEELED q bicycle up this slope. Contest
ants from all over the country came
to the hiIl-oIimb, and fifteen Of them
gained the summit - the W nner,
George E. Weber, Of New Jersey, max
ing it in 3 minutes, 1855 seconds.
Yes, this revived mode Of transport
totion is putting q premium on people
with push If you hear someone talk
now about going ground q corner on
two wheels, you may be pretty sure he
means he was riding q bicycIe.-The
Chrstion Science Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
. McKENNY ON BRIDGE
ship trophy.

ship trophy.
Jimmie opened today's hand
with one diamond. His partner
carried on to slam, which does
not look bad, as there are II top
tricks, and if the adverse hearts
split 3-3 there are IL.
Jimmie's first play made the
kibitzers sit up and take notice.
He won the opening lead with
the ace Of spades and led dunn
my's singleton diamond!
This looks like the least desir-
able lead until you realize its
purpose. South held up the ace
and West won. He continued
spades.
The king won and the clubs
were cashed, South discarding a
diamond and a heart. Then the
ace of hearts gave entry to
South to cash the ace Of dia-
monds.
On this trick West was sQueez-
ed in spades and hearts. thanks
to Jimmie's foresight in the pre-
liminary play that "rectified the
count" This precaution was TAX
en- in case the adverse hearts
were not split 3-3.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
High|ights from
the Latest Books

Few men have the stature or
completely to Sc. We as the SYM
boy of an era, but Pieter Pat
Reubens, the Flemish painter
who matched his genius in that
medium in the fields of diplom-
acy and court life, represented
his age masterfully. Thus, Low
err of Life" putnam: So, by
Zsoldt de Harsanyi, is less fic-
tionized biography of man than
of an epoch.
From either point of view,
Lover of Life" is a splendid
novel. The whole long span of
Reubens' great career from
schoolboy to court painter, from
court painter to diplomat, is init
mately, excellently told. So, too,
are the histories of his two hap
py marriages.
But it is as portrait OF the
r e n a S a n e that the book
achieves full magnificence. The
figures of the great men of the
time, the Duke of Mantua, the
Archduke Albrecht, Philip III of
Spain, and three great painters,
Breughel, Van Dyck and Velas-
quez, stand firmly in the book
with many others.
All the complications and in
trigues of court life in Italy,
Spain, France, and Flanders are
Accordingly disclosed. Art and
fashion, laws and wars, are all
seen clearly through an artists
eyes.
Lover of Life" is readable
and fascinating, and like de Har-
sanyi's earlier Renaissance
work, 1.-THE Star Gazer," it is
also a soundly documented, ina
ginatively handled exercise in
history. In it Pieter Paul Reu-
bens really lives against back
ground as glowing and full of
action as one of his own paint
ings.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
DlRTY-AND UNPATRIoTIC

The curious American appetite for
dirty stories is being fed these days q
series Of nasty little items exudine the
unmistokobIe odor Of GoebbeIs.
If you're man re q d n g this,
you've probably heard q couple Of them
downtown the lost few days. They're
fully as unfunny as they ore clever in
their aim at planting termites to enow
on civilian morale. Ranging from dis
respectful references to the White
House and its occupants to insonities
about Shortages and Daylight saving
time. these nosties foII largely into the
fence-scribbIine type Of raw smut.
One is printable, however, and
moybe it'll give you an ideo Of the
style. It goes like, this: What kind Of
underwear does Uncle Sam wear. Ask
the Jops. They caught him with his
pants down."
Most Of them are as nude Of wit
as ttot. A couple Of them depend for
point on the ideo that Pearl Horbor
represented not q serious setback, but
q never-to-be-overcome disaster.
Others play upon the pattern Of
strife between labor and employer, the
ultimate in Shortages, the foibes and
failures of civilian defense and the
ever-hondy butt Of roce ridicuIe.
These c copies seem to have
sprung from the gutter all Of q sudden
and all at the same time.
They're as untroceobIe as to true
source as any other smutty saying, but
they're cosy to spot as propaganda mill
shovings because they just about COW
s "a all fomiIior GoebbeIs themes-un-
dernining confidence in government,
bpllttlino the miIitoy services, under
s1ofin0 the defeats. stirring dissotis-
oc3!on over Shortages and sacrifices
jpbor-empIoyer disputes.
!oIl stuff, you soy. So is Jap
u q tree top small stuff COM
VIII . compony Of ". S. Mo-
fShe sniper can drop cou-
loflnss, ths sxpsndlturs
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
. BEHIND THE SCENES.
IN WASHINGTON .
~ PETER EDSoN
Dolly Monitor Washington
CogPoanondont


WASHINGTON, March 81
-MoiIine out Of the four
Poee "Occupotionol Question
noire" to the nine million men
from 20 to - who registered
for selective service Feb. Is is
only the beejnnino. II will be
some weeks before the doto
obtoined from these cords can
be put into use and it will be
months before the job is COM
pleted for all Of the 40 mil
lion men who have registered
in the first and second drofts
and will register in the fourth
and later. Whct will have to
happen is this:
The first cords will be mail
ed out April /. 1t will take
five days or so for the local
droft boards to complete the
job Of addressing the cords
and moiline them, so II q reg
istront doesn't get his card by
April z. this will be why.
Within 10 days otter q reg
istront gets his occupotionol
QUESTIONABLE. =. he viii! be re-
quired to have it filled in and
returned to his local board.
Here is where the first head
ache will come, for no matter
how simple O QUESTIONABLE is,
it's q formidable obstocIe. As
this one m sures 8xl )
inches, hos "a principal ques-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
APRIL FOOL FOOLED

CHICAGO-The April FOOLS
Day joke routine o. leaving a
telephone number for friend to
call may fall flat in Chicago this
year.
Telephone company officials
said that to keep lines from be-
ing tied up too long, their oper-
ators would intercept all calls to
the morgue, dog pound and the
zoo and explain to any unsus-
pecting victims whom they were
calling.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31

father and gets into all sorts OF
trouble involving hidden jewels,
savages and other wild life, tor
ture chambers and villainess
who rides around with a gorilla
in a chariot. The role will give
her a chance to prove that she
can do something besides stand
around like an alabaster Venus.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
GRANDPARENTS
WANT TO SERVE

INDIANAPOLIS-The DWy-
ers are ready to quit domestic
life for the army.
DR.. Robert Dwyer, "a, Indian
apolis physician, and his A.
year-old wife, a nurse, have ap-
piled for active duty in the medi-
cal corps.
Married two years, both have
grown children by former mar
riages and together they have
eight grandchildren.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TO-DAY

1892
r. c. Ullrich and Paul Ull-|
rich become members. OF the
Silver Ash company.
Druggist Inglis, Of Detroit.(
has finally effected a lease Of,
the Roessell building. He CAL
culates an opening Ma. LIST.
IS YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1887 y
Editor Sutton, of the Rich.
mond Review, was in town,
Monday. He wants to be cleri
of his township.
George Fulton paid $31.50 Cd
acre for that Richmond FARM
Land u cheap up there.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
WITH REGRETS NO DOUBT

CHICAGO - Bushman, { h .
Lincoln Park zoos giant gorilla.
will do his bit for Iational de-
Tense on his 14th birthday anni-
versary. His keeper aid Bush
man would forego his usual 20
pound birthday cake to conserve
food.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
by the Associated Press
= ~ vhnE

THOMASTON, GA. j. d.
Hayes called on John Meier Of
Gainesville, Ga, and found him
nursing cut hands and feet and
a very black eye.
Meier explained he was get
ting ready for bed and turned
the electric bulb to cut off the
light but the bulb fell from the
socket. In grabbing for the bulb,
he broke it against the bedpost,
cutting his hands. Cropping for a
match to make light, he step
ped on the broken glass. When
he stopped to remove the pieces
from his injured feet, he struck
his eye on a chair post.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
A SAD TOUCH

KANSAS CITY-A prisoner
serving a term at the municipal
farm borrowed a nickel from de-
tective Tom Clarkin.
Yesterday, Clarkin spotted the
man downtown and asked re-
payment.
Sorry. Don't have" mutter-
ed the debtor, hurrying away.
Clarkin followed, suspicious OF
the sudden retreat.
The resulting sea 'ch disclosed
thirteen fountain pens, which,
the detective said. the man ad-
mitted stealing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
EASY DOES 1T

EASY DOES 1T
SALT LAKE CITY-Some Of
that backyard rattle is going to
be eliminated.
Commissioners John B. Mathe-
son issued instructions to all gar
bage collectors to quit throwing
the cans around and to handle
them gently.
They have to last for the dura-
ton.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
NOT TOO OLD

INDIANAPOLIS-Am man is
never too old to vote, Ora Glen
ger figures.
Olenger made a trip to the
courthouse to transfer his voters
registration from Ripley to Mar
ion county 50 he'd get ballot in
the primary election May 5.
Assistant registration direct
or Harry A. Copper is sure Olen-
ger is the oldest registered voter
in the county. He's LOT.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The late Merwin d. (Jimmie)
Maier was one of the Four
Aces, who as a team and in pairs
captured every major champion
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
THOUGHTFUL THIEF

THOUGHTFUL THIEF
KANSAS CITY-A bunch of
chickens were stolen from a
Johnson county farm.
At the scene the sheriff found
the thief's billfold, containing all
necessary information for the ar
rest.
Faced with the evidence the
man confessed, the sheriff said.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
PAYS TO ADVERTISE

PAYS TO ADVERTISE
FORT LEAVENWORTH, KAS.
Some of the rockies are GER
tain Private William F. Niece is
the smartest man in camp.
The license plates on his car,
they point out, read IQ-491.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31

stubs torn off and disposed Of I
according to directions. there
is bound to be confusion.
Mony of the reoistronts will
need help in filing out theY
forms. To provide this help. !
the $500 local draft boords
ord the 800 offices Of the
United Stotes Employment
Service have asked employ
ers and labor unions for help. {
To foreig; born workers,
ond those with the lower |. O.,
the listing Of special skiIIs1
moy be difficult, but thot|
doesn't necessarily me an a
mon is no good as q dynamic
boloncer, internal keyseotino
machine operator, steel mill,
pulpit man or template max
er, to name JUST four of the
228 trodes in which there isl
q shortage Of workers.
CLOSE CHECkUP
When the forms ore filled
out, one goes to the local
droft board and the other tol
the nearest United Stotes En-
Ployment Office. Then comes(
the checkup. Every man must
be interviewed and tested to,
prove that he filled out his|
QUESTIONABLE correctly.
A man who hos been al
grease monkey ISM q me-
ohonic, jueeIer isn't q dy-
manic boIoncer, on internal
keyseoter isn't an usher, a
pulpit man isn't q preacher
and template maker isn't
Q dentist. So employment Of
flee tests must be given to see)
that every man is correctly
classified.
What happens next is in-|
teresting. II q man is cIossi-
fled as q drill press OPERATOR
but isn't working q. it and
there is q shortage Of drill,
press operators, the Employ
ment Service will tell the man
where he can get such work.
and il he takes the Job, I,e|
will be building up his own
deferment stotus if he is perl
forming essential work in q
war production industry. ORR
if q man is qualified for troin-)
ing in an essential industry,
he can be given the opportun-l
ity to build up his skill! SO thotI
in time he may be given del
ferment.
WILL WATCH SHORTAGES
7 he Employment Service,
will keep IocoI droft boards
advised on those trodes in
which there may be labor
Shortages. Maybe, at q given
time, there will be q shortage,
Of form labor. Formers conn.,
ing up for induction into the
service may then be given
temporary deferment.
The emphasis will thus be,
put upon keeping out of the
Army men who ore more urg-
emily needed in war produc-l
ton, Of replacing workers who
can do miItory service With
workers who because Of oee
or physical disabilities may
not be able to poss Army
tests, Of speeding up war pro-,
duction by transferring work.,
ers from nonessentioI to es-)
sentiol industries.
In all this cotoloeuing of
workers there will Of course
be millions Of men in whomI
the war production nochin-'
cry will not be interested.
They'll go into the Army, il,
they can poss physically. For
those workers who do have
special S kiIIs. provision isl
made for putting them on jobs,
where they will be the most
useful. In doi-1 this, there
is no ideo Of forcing skilled
workers to take jobs they
don't want or Of enforced
mass migration Of labor I'd
locations ere they don't
want to live.
When the lob is completed
for all the 40 million seIectivs,
service reeistronts, however,
thu country should have q!
pretty good ideo of what its
nonpower situation is going to,
be for fighting the war.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
. BARBS

It's a small world-but there's
always room for more big men!
A slogan appropriate for war
time is don't put off till tomor-
row what you can put over to-
day.
No one ever became a howl
ing success just by bowling.
When a bad cold meets good
disposition the bad cold wins.
The easier q girl is to look at,
the harder a man looks.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31

I cannot understand the snug
ness of the United States. / can
not unders and its complacency.
Justice Roberts, u. S. Supreme
Court.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-31
RED FACE, TOO

SAN DIEGO, CALIF.-Fire-
men, answering an alarm, found
the upholstering of . red auto
mobile burning fiercey.
II was battalion Chief Ed
ward McLarney's car.
Evening star., 1942-09-16
Six Burned by Metal
In Navy Yard Accident

Six Navy Yard employees were
burned, none seriously, by splatter-
ing metal last night when a crucible
of molten brass fell from a crane
in the Navy Yard foundry.
Treated at the Navy Yard dis
pensary, they were Charles STAN
ford, 30. of 5l4 Twenty fourth street
NV; Joseph Kuczek, so, of Sill
Mellon street Sc; Charles A..
Shiflet, "a, colored, of Alexandria
Va; C. G. Poleat, 80, colored, of
Fairmont Heights, Md; C. G. Pan
son. 80, of Hillside, Md. and Jerry
Gregg, %, colored, of 716 Third
street Sc.