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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. SO THEY SAY

You can't expect to hit them
every time. Sometimes it's like
shooting fish in a barrel and
other times you can't hit them
with bass fiddle.
-Lieut.-Col. Richard Carmich-
ael describing air warfare
with Japs in Solomons.
We solemnly vow that we will
not rest until the last German
has been flung out of Slovanic
Prague.
Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign
understandable.
The ways in winch the troops
are better than last year are in
discipline, small unit training and
leadership. The training of small
units, up to the battalion, is par
ticularly important because that
was one of the glaring weakness
es OF the OncommlSSlOned ana
junior officers last year.
-Lieut.-Gen. Leslie j. McNair.
commander Army kroun d
forces.
The time IL takes to build q
ship, fast though we've been
doing it, gets on my nerves. !
decided that / just had to get in
to the fight.
New Jersey shipyard worker,
father of five, on joining Navy
third time.
Many of our students are rest
less and impatient to get started
on actual military training in
preparation for the Job which
they will be tackling tomorrow.
Why should they not receive at
least their basic training while
still in college?
Everett Case, president Col
gate.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

6y xEVEW EUSON
Keep an eye on Lieut. Gen.
Leslie j. McNair, now chief OF
the Army ground forces. He's
likely to get a still more import
ant assignment. General Nc
Nair, quiet, soft-spoken, defin-
itely not the dashing, roaring
dynamic type of military figure,
is given q large measure OF the
credit for the tremendous job
of directing the training Of the
Army to its high degree OF eff
cheney.
Woodworking, he has not
been much in the limelight, but
now the Army is building him
up as more of a public figure,
with more speeches and more
public appearances, presumably
to make him more of a front
man. He is considered the logi-
cal man to succeed Gen. George
c. Marshall as chief of staff,
should Marshall be moved up to
q higher command.
Others who would be in line
for the Washington job as u. S
Army chief of staff would be
Lieut.. Gen. Jacob L. Devers
chief of the armored force, and
Lieut.. Gen. Brehon B. Somer.
veil, commander of the services
of supply.
u. S. income taxes, highest
they have ever been, are still
lower than taxes in Great Brit
ain and Canada. In the u. S.
for q married man with no de.
pendents, federal taxes 60 above
10 per cent for people earning
more than $4,000 a year. Ir
Great Britain the 10 per cent
would apply on incomes of ST.
500, in Canada, $1,000. Top u
S. tax rate is about 80 per cent
for incomes of 81 million OF
more. In Canada the tax hit.
95 per cent on the highest brac-
kets, in Great Britain 81 pei
cent.
BONUSES ALLOWED
Business firms which have
customarily given Christina:
bonuses in years past will be
allowed to give them this yeal
and in future holidays during
the war, and they won't be
counted as violations of the
wage-freezing orders. But in q
firm which has never giver
Christmas bonuses before want:
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
McKE1NY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Richard l.. Frey of New York,
who had dropped out of tourna-
ment play for a while, returned
to bridge competition this year.
With A. Moyse, Jr., he won the
Eastern States open pair cham
pionship, and later Frey was one
of the world championship Mas
tiers team-of-four winners
winners.
happened to kibitz Frey and
Moyse when they played the
hand shown today. Frey sat
South and Moyse North. Every
other North and South pair in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
BRITISH WORKING, TOO

American shipyords making marvellous rec
ords in the to provide cargo croft for war use.
Henry Koser's succession Of feots has caught much
Of the publicity, but OF the time other yards
ore performing what, but for him, would be front.
page miracles.
The secret is pre.fobrcotion. We think Of this
as prime example Of Yankee ingenuity.
But the British ask us to remember thot with lit
tie fonfore they have been breaking shipbudne
records themselves through pre- fabrication. Black.
outs forbid the 24.hour operation which is common
over here. Yet one yard is launching lO,O0Otonner
every three weeks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. BARBS

Department store manager in
Wisconsin was elected judge.
Now we may expect someone
to be fined $2.98.
Summers gone, so the big
fish can 90 back to being small
ones again.
A hand-carved desk sold for
$1,000 in q Massachusetts, town.
And our schools are full Of
them.
The Eeese are flying south
probably to dodge goose PIN
pies.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

Copper is probably our most critical metal. 1t
is 50 vital that the Mint has eurtoIed the coming Of
onecent pieces by half But business octivty is max
ING the ovoobIe supply inadequate. Therefore Mrs.
Nellie ToyIoe Ross. director Of the Mint appeals for
'the unfreezino of millions Of pennies now stuck away
n American homes.
4 1f every Anericon fomy would release 10 PEN
a1ll nh would roke ovoIobIe as much copper as
<|1td OF HE io4l record production.
III nl would Be Investment Of these hoorded
lp tlaf stomps Alternatives would be their
1Ai f4(p less rare coins, or, where there ore
pef money; or their deposit in sovines
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

New Iioht is thrown upon the controversial topic
of swedens wartime trade with Germany by figures
compiled by Tidnneornos TeIeerombyro, leading
Swedish news agency.
Accepting these at face value, which there is no
n apparent reason not to do it would not seem that the
Scandinavian neutral is giving great deoI OF reol old
to the Nozs notwithstanding the precorious position
in which her geographical location and her relative
weakness have placed her.
Sweden is getting more commodities from Ser
many than she exporting to the Reich, measured in
money. But Swedish imports include dividends,
amortization and other non.trode items So it is not
possible, from the doto presented to get completely
accurate picture Of what is happening.
As far os can be told, however, Sweden is sending
less iron ore to Germany this year than in any year
since 1887 and less than the Reich has the right to
. ask under current trade agreements.
Lumber and pulp and paper ore going to Ger
many at less than third Of the average roe for the
DECIDE preceding the war; No munitions are
BEING SENT The export Of charcoal pig iron hos in
creased.
WoIImor F. Bostrom, Swedish minister to the
United States, points out that Germany is sending
seven times the overall value Of iron and steel prod
ucts to Sweden thot she is getting from Sweden.
The answer Of course, is thot Sweden exports
raw materials and imports finished products, which
have much higher monetary value per ton
It would be silly to suppose that Hitler is show
ing generosity to his little neighbour II the exchange
oppeors to be against him. this is only superficial He
is getting whot he wants most at the lowest price he
can get away with Poyng.
But, on the other hand, Sweden need feel no
shame at the port she hos played thus far On the
contrary, she hos preserved high degree Of genuine
neutrality under extremely trying conditions.
The United Nations cannot share in Sweden's
trade for the simple thot lost control over
all seq approaches to Scandinavia and left the lone
neutral iso|oted from everybody but our enemy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. BARBS

When this world struggle is
ended, racial persecution will be
ended.-Winston Churchill.
Turkey will remain a friend
Of democracy and will block the
pathway of aggression to the
Middle East with a million bay
onets. - Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee Chairman Tom
Connally.
We've always thought that
waving a white flag meant a
temporary cessation of HOSTILE
ties, but with the Japs there's
no truce in it.
Luxuries are the things that
make people 60 without neces-
sites.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS
Test your knowledge OF
correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tiOns, then checking against
fhA authoritative answers

tiOns, then checking against
the authoritative answers
below:
/. Is it evidence of good man.
ners for a shopper to criticize
everything a saleswoman shows
her?
2. If a shopper says I'm just
looking" should a saleswoman
insist on helping her?
3. Is it considerate to rush
into a store five minutes before
closing time and expect a clerk
to work overtime in order to
wait on you?
4. Should two women sitting
under hair dryers in a beauty
salon ever attempt to carry on
a conversation with each other?
S. Should a woman smoking in
a beauty salon flip ashes on the
rug?
What would you do if
You are reading a book you
borrowed from a friend
(a) Mark your place by leav-
ing the book opened face
down?
10 Slip a book mark or piece
of paper in to keep your
place, and shut the book?
Answers
!. No.
2. No.
3. No.
4. Never.
5. No.
Better what Would You Do
solution-(b). The first is hard
on the binding of the book.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTONe

to give them this year, that's
something else again.
SEAMAN AGIN UNIFORMS
Maritime Commission is hav-
ing q recurrence of its old prob
lem of whether sailors on mer-
chant vessels should wear uni
forms or not.
Principal objection to uni
forming the merchant seaman
has in the past come from the
seamen themselves. They don't
like the idea Of uniforms be-
cause they fear that might be
the first step towards putting
them right in the Navy, which
would mean giving them the
much lower rates of pay receiy-
ed by Navy tars instead of the
higher wages ond bonuses they
get in the merchant marine.
MASON PLUS DIXON
Washington is a place where
all accents meet, particularly
where north meets south. A
Boston mother who recently
moved to the capital and hired
a colored maid from Virginia
as nurse for her young daughter,
was astounded the other day to
hear the daughter announce
that she had to 60 to the
"bawthroom" to wash her
"haid." Now the father wants
to hire an elocution teacher to
make the child speak English.
SPARE A RIDE, BROTHER?
A patriotic businessman from
the west came to Washington to
try to get something or othe.
from WPB. He had read ali
about Washington's crowded
conditions and the gas shortage
and the rubber shortage and SO
he decided that while in his ma
tons capital he would show
what a patriotic citizen he was
by always sharing his taxi. He
teamed up with two other bust
nessmen going from the Union
Station to his hotel, and when
he was ready to leave for his
appointment at WPB, he went
to the elegantly green-and-gold
uniformed doorman to explain
how willing he was to double
up.
i've got plenty of time," said
the businessman to the door
man, so why don't l just stand
over here, and when you put
someone in a cab bound for
WPB, you just call me and I'll
hop in with him."
But the doorman wasn't very
cooperative, SO the business
man decided to take matters in
his own hands.
Just then a dapper little fell
low dashed out of the hotel and
into a cab, as though he wanted
to get away all by himself and
alone. But the patriotic bust
nessman dashed over to the Sab.
pulled open the door and shout
ed to the dapper little man in
side, Going to the WP2, mis-
tey?"
The cab driver slammed on
his brakes, the little man bounc-
ed in his two-thirds empty seat,
and then he froze the man from
the west with utter scorn. He
was not going to the WPB and
it was no concern of anyone but
himself where he was going.
AS the terribly chagrined
businessman closed the door
and the cab sped off, the green
and-gold uniformed doorman
came up and tapped him on the
shoulder.
Listen" said the doorman,
"you better let me get you cab
and you better 60 out to WPB
alone. That man you just tried
to climb in with was the ambas-
sador from Peru"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. IN HOLLYWOOD

newsie outside the RKO studio
gate, what he thought about the
new 5000 salary ceiling. The
newsie observed: "It's the only
law, judgment. ruling or opin-
ion passed in Washington in the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

The needs of the war effort
have multiplied our demands for
a maximum and integrated war
production, not only at home
but in every country of the
United Nations. President
Roosevelt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

DENVER - Others may COM
plain of the dangers of submar-
inc duty, but William Magnuson
doesn't think it so bad.
The 20-year-old Navy ship
filter was on q submarine that
helped sink three japanese CRUZ
sers in the Solomon Island area.
He came through without q
scratch.
But en- route home pick
pocket lifted $88, all of his
money. Then an automobile
wreck left him cut and bruised.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .

By The Associated Press
WAR NAMES FOR
WAR BABIES
BALTIMORE - A son was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Rosa Nc
Grady during Baltimore's first
surprise air raid alert yester-
day.
Proud Papa McGrady, an air.
craft worker, announced his Off
spring would be named Alert
McGrady.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
PADDY WAGON PAT

CHICAGO - Unable to OBJ
tain an ambulance to take his
expectant wife to the hospital,
Stanley Napier called a patrol
wagon. The stork, however,
won the race and Mrs. Napier
gave birth to q 7h pound son
in the speeding wagon.
Wen name him Pat" de-
cided Napier, because he was
born in a Paddy Wagon"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Correspondent


Ex clusively yours: When
Gary Cooper completed work
the other day as Robert Jordan
in For Whom the Bell Tolls"
he received the biggest check
ever paid an actor for one mo-
ton picture. The check You
have to accept grapevine reports
because Hollywood officially
discusses only feminine figures
these days-was for 1925, 900. 1t
topped CO Instance BENEFITS
100000 for two Warner pic
lures 10 years ago.
Cooper's salary for the film
was $175,O00 for certain num-
Der of weeks, with a guarantee
of $25, 900 a week for overtime.
The star started work in the pic
ture July 2.
Uncle Sam, of course, will COL
lect most of it in taxes, but it's
still a new filmtown record.
Cooper will escape the $25, 900
salary limit, which, at last re-
ports, will be retroactive to Oct.
q. He was paid off Oct. "a.
Separation or Comedian Red
Shelton and his wife-with Mrs.
S. continuing as his business
manager and scripe writer is
reminiscent of Airline Judges
marriage to Director Wesley
Ruggles. They separated several
times but always continued liv-
ing in the same house.
SCULLERY MAIDEN
homogeneous sight: Fashion de-
signer Vera West washing dishes
at the Hollywood Canteen. {.
Robert Young teaching celestial
navigation three nights a week
at Los Angeles pre-flight
school.
At every town Jane Wtihers
visits on her current personal
appearance tour a dozen roses
wait at her hotel. The sender is
Private William Shirley, a for
mer actor. Director Ed
ward G.. Griffith asked Tom, the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

CALEXICO, Calf. - Mrs.
Alden G. Maud thinks her nep-
hew, Leon D. Carver, will come
through this war unframed.
She has sent him family
bible, printed in ITO, which
was carried by Carvers through
the French and Indian, Revolu-
tionary, Civil, Spanish-Ameri-
can and World Wars.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07
ABOVE ALL

ABOVE ALL
JOLIET, Ill.-Selwyn Mitch
ell asked the circuit court to
order his estranged wife, Mary,
to return the title to his auto
mobile q jug of anti-freeze for
the car, an extra set of car
keys and-his sugar rationing
card.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-07

past two years that didn't hit
me right square in the middle
of the teeth"
Marlene Dietrich's daughter,
Maria Manton, will be starred in
a Los Angeles little theater re-
vival of THE Little Foxes"
Wallace Beery will 60 Beau
Brummel on the screen for the
first time in 10 years with neat
ly pressed, stylish clothes for a
sequence in Salute to the Ma
rines." Says he: "Tu probably
feel like a character in a zoot
suit"
REEL LIFE, REAL LIFE
Maureen O'Hara's role in "The
Immortal Sergeant" is just a re-
hearsal for a real-life drama.
She's the girl in the picture
whom Henry Fonda leaves be-
hind when he goes to war. In
a few weeks Maureen's husband,
Will Price, will join the Army
as a private.
Other night at the Hollywood
Canteen, Barbara Stanwyck
was approached by marine
and a soldier. The soldier said
the marine had just bet a
months salary that Miss STAN
wyck wasn't the film star.
His months salary" replied
Barbara. I've always said my
face would stop a clock, but ap-
parently nothing stops a ma
rine."
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-02-26

He was eminent as a professional
engineer He was a canny dealer
in land
A phase of Washington's career
frequently overlooked was the bust
ness-like methods he used in organ
izing the Continental army. His
military leadership rested not so
much on strategy, as on his logged
ability to keep an army everlasting
ly in the field, in spite of nearly
fatal shortages of food and supplies.
He won the Revolutionary war as
much by his ability to recruit SOL
diers, feed, clothe and supply them,
handle his officers shrewdly, deal eff
fectively with governors and the
Continental congress and secure
loans from patriotic citizens, as
by his feats as commander-in-chief
of the Continental army
But of all of Washington business
enterprises, he showed perhaps the
greatest ability as a scientific farm
er Moreover, he made contributions
to agriculture's development that
are followed by farmers everywhere
today. The list of things he pio-
neered is surprising.
Washington practiced crop rota-
ton before anyone else in the col
onies tried it. He was the first
American to grow alfalfa. He was
the first to carry on experiments with
clover as a soil-building crop. He
introduced timothy hay to North
America. Three-quarters of a CEN
fury before soil chemistry was dis
covered he carried on experiments
with fertilizers in an attempt to re-
store exhausted fields. These ex-
periments helped pave the way for
soil improvement as it is carried
out today
The reason for Washington's con-
tinued study of crops and farming
methods was because much of his
Mount Vernon lands were not very
fertile, and he was the first Virginian
to see that tobacco culture was suck
ing fertility out of the soil and not
restoring it to the owners pocket
In those days there were no means
for testing the soil and determining
it's need for nitrogen, phosphorus
and potash. Modern fertilizers we're
not in existence; there were no state
agricultural colleges, no department
of agriculture and no county agents
to assist the farmer as there are
today Washington had to rely on
personal investigation. Thus Mount
Vernon became veritable agricul-
tural experiment station. Washing
tons efforts to put back into the soil
plant foods removed by growing
crops are reminiscent of what in
telligent farmers accomplish today
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-02-26
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GEORGE WASHINGTON - in
~ dustrialist and business man
is distinction that might well be
added to the traditional title of
Father of His Country in describ-
ing our first President, whose 210th
birthday anniversary is being cele-
brated by his fellow Americans
throughout the nation.
Washington is remembered best as
soldier and statesman. Yet his
entire life from his early days as
journeyman surveyor to his last
years as a farmer, represent the
career of shrewd, hard-headed,
successful business man.
We're he alive today there is no
doubt that he would be in the thick
of the war production effort. The
machines, the munitions and the
magnitude of the job might dwarf
what he was accustomed to in 1776.
But the mind and ability that made
him No l man of his era would
make him right at home in the
mammoth task of producing the
guns, the planes, the tanks, the
ships and foodstuffs needed to beat
the Axis.
Matter-of-fact entries in Washing
tons many-volumed diaries testify to
the profitable success of his numer-
GUS business enterprises. Washing
ton was large-scale manufacturer
He was the foremost producer and
exporter of flour in the Colonies, OPP
Grating three mills at one time.
Mount Vernon carried on an extern
sive weaving trade that produced
variety of cloth, much of which was
sold. Washington's employees op-
Grated a tannery He engaged in a
fishing business on the Potomac.
Washington was an expert on water
transportation and helped sponsor
the construction of canals running in
ward from the Virginia and Mary
land seaboard. He was capitalist,
placing his loans chiefly on landed
security He was road builder.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-02-26
Lynn Says:

Trying to tackle the winter
vegetable problem? Here's a pa
rade of suggestions that will prop
up your meals:
Baked squash with small white
onions baked in the hollow. A
bit of cream sauce added just be-
fore serving to the onions will
also perk up this dish. Sprinkle
with paprika for color.
Carrots: glaze these with
brown sugar and butter when
baking. For cooked carrots add
a bit of tartness with lemon juice.
Serve canned or cooked lima
beans with this smart mustard
sauce: tablespoons butter mixed
with 1z teaspoon sugar, 1 tea
spoon ground mustard and 2 ia
blespoons lemon juice.
Beets like to be teamed up
with a Harvard sauce. Thicker
the beet liquid with cornstarch
and add a bit of grated orange
rind and juice for delightful vari-
alton.
Sprinkle cooked asparagus with
grated Swiss cheese and brown
under the broiler.
Parsnips: parboil these, then
dip in egg and bread crumbs.
Fry until golden brown.
Turnips: cook and mash. Sea-
son with butter, salt and pepper
and dash of nutmeg.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-02-26
Accent on Dinner

Dinneris the master meal of the day
and as such requires the most mas
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-02-26

and I would adj
wise serving it Of
ten. This one is
especially appro-
pirate for the
menu today be-
cause your oven
will be hot and
v0u ran baka If