The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-22
BY PETER EDISON
Monitor-Leoder Washington
Coyyesnondent

'N'''S W. ''SS I w.
glued on the more important
war news, you may not have
realized that right at home
the war hos been building up
around you new super-govern-
mental setup Of over 20 COM
missions, com mittees ond
councils which influence proc
ticoIIy every phase Of your
daily life. These committees
have wartime emergency pow
ers, and are created by and
with the consent Of the gov
erned, but they do things to
you which you would never
permit in peooetime. The way
they regulate your dolly do
ines is really something 10 be
omozed at. Just check off the
list as it hits your commun-
ity and as it hits you:
II you live in O municipal
oreo, at the top Of the heap is
the local Defense Council. In
rural oreo it may be known
as the County War Boord.
Your Defense Council runs
the Civilian Mobilization Pro-
gram, where you and the
members Of your family have
registered for all manner OF
odd Jobs - for which you
won't get paid @ cent - from
mindine other peoples chill
dren TO being on ouxiliorY Po-
licemon.
II you ore in an oreo open
to enemy attack, you may be
mustered into q Citizens De-
tense Corps as on dir raid wor-
den or q bomb putter outer. Or,
you may be recruited in the
Citizens Service Corps, teoch-
ing people how TO eat right,
or checking prices charged by
local merchants.
You have submitted to q
Oroft Board which takes your
husband or sons or brothers
right out Of your family for
duty in the Army.
Your men folk have, or soon
will, fiji! out forms indicating
their special skiIls. II those
skills can be used to odvon-
toee in war production, the
men may be politely requested.
if not told, to go do this -
there - and like it.
There is War Savings
Stomp Committee working on
you to put 10 per cent Of your
pay into war; bonds.
TRANSPORTATION TAkGLE
. In war production areas,
there will be transportation
committees having very def
rite soy-so over how you go TO
work, and when. Hours for 60
: ing to school, to factory, to
! white.coIIor office jobs will be
staggered to eliminate troffic
jams on your transportation
, system. You ore being urged
TO toke your neiehbors to
, work, or ride with them, These
5 tronsport committee may be
! regulating your comines and
eoInes, more and more os the
war moves on.
, Solvoee committees urge
you to sove oil manner OF
things you formerly threw
, owoy. You collect old iron, cop
: per and aluminium, donate all
the old rubber you can find,
hunt through ottic and closet
: for old roes, save your kitchen
ereoses, turn in old toothposte
, tubes, and in some 28 metro
: polton areas, clean, fIotten
, and store your old tin cans.
You must submit to the
t regulations Of oil manner OF
D rotionine boords. Rotionine
boards for the purchase Of q
; new automobile. Rotioninq
= boards for the purchase Of new
}. tires or getting permission to
: have your old ones recopped.
Rotioning boards for sugar. In
some oreos, rotionine for eos-
: oIine. And this is only the be.
: ginning There will be rotion-
/, ing Of some IS other items.
In war production areas.
!. where housing situations ore
I critical, there ore rent control
\ boards which limit the amount
Y local landlords can charge you
r for rent.
In farm areas, committees
may solicit your services tc
> help toke off the crops when