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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
1852

The Macomb county banks. a.
far as hear from, pay 10 per cent
dividends.
wednesday was the 99th ami
versary of the birthday OF Dam
iel Webster. At Richmond the
centennial was celebrated in the
public schools.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
LABOR MONOPOLY Uksoukp

The employer members. Of Lobor-
Industry Conference Board appointed
by the President to negotiate an oeree-
ment whereby industrial production
will continue without. strikes or other
delays for the durotion Of the war,
have oereed to do everything in their
power to peacefully settle disputes.
But, as they point out in q public stote-
ment, labor must not be permitted to
use the emergency to enforce CLOSED
shop notion," in which no man could
obtain or hold q job unless he belong
ed and paid dues to union.
The settlement soys: ut would be,
q serious mistake to abandon the prin-
cipIe that the right to work should not
be infrineed by government through
requirement of membership in any or
eonizotion, whether union or other
wise.
1.-THE closed shop is the most high
Iy controversial and emotional ques-
ton in industrial relations today To
accept it as on issue for government
arbitration would intensity oeitotion,
increase labor disputes, and divert the
energy Of both labor and management
from the vital job Of production.
From our experience, we ore convinced
thot the continual presentation Of this
issue before government agencies
would seriously impair the notions
productive activities.
A universal closed shop would
amount to nothing more nor less than
q labor monopoly. A handful Of labor
Ieoders, who are not subject to public
control Of any kind, would be virtual
czors of the country's production fo-
cilties. Not wheel could turn without
their permission.
We must never give any group
domination over this country. We will
lose freedom here at home if we ever
reach the point where the right Of O
man to job depends upon union
membership. What the notion must
have now is production - and every
man and woman, union or non-union,
must do their port.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
SAVINGS BONDS AND SAVINGS

The thought behind defense bonds
wos broader than merely to provide
money for conducting the war. 1t was
oIso thot by chonneIine some Of peo-
Piles excess income owoy from the con-
sumner markets and into savings to be
spent not now but later, competition
for reduced stocks of goods would be
Iessened, and q tendency toward in
flotion mnimized.
Now it develops thot many Of the
bonds ore being bong hit with money
already soved in bank accounts or
with other forms Of sovines Of course
that means q mere transfer from one
form Of savings to another, and de-
feots part Of the purpose Of the plan.
One who buys war bonds out Of SOW
ngs, and goes on spending oil Of on
augmented income on consumer goods
is not really contributing as much to
the national welfare as one who leaves
his former savings where they we're,
and buys bonds out Of new savings
brought about by spending less Of his
weekly or monthly income.
Make your war savings q part OF
your regular budget and shape the
budget accordingly.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
AMERICANS ARE STILL
HoME.oWNERS

In spite Of all that has been sold
about increases in tenancy, in spite Of
all the increases in government hous-
ing, in spite Of debts, mortgages, pay
ment plans, lot Of Americans still
own their own homes, and surprising
number own them free and clear
True. owner-occuponcy is slowly
declining, according to doto compiled
from the l94O census by the v. S. Sow
nes and Loan League Of Chicago. In
1890, figures for q stotes showed an
average Of emancipation Of homes
Of 45.4 per cent. In l94O it had Drop
ped to 4l.4. In l9 Of those stotes, on
average Of 56.2 per cent Of owner-oc-
cupied homes we're owned free Of
mortgage debt.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
. McKENNEY ON BRIDGE

an player, but first place among
men and women for l94l.
Here is an example of Mrs.
Sobers ability to defend a
hand well.
Mrs. Sobel, sitting West,
chose the jack of diamonds for
her opening lead. Both dummy
and East ducked. Declarer led
a top trump and East was in.
East guessed correctly that
the ten of diamonds was held
by West, so he chose the best
exit in the ten of hearts. South
ducked and Mrs. Sobel paved
the way for the only defense
by ducking also.
Dummy won and led a low
diamond, hoping to trap East
into putting up the king. But
East ducked and South ruffed
high. Two more trump rounds
exhausted West, North letting
20 a heart. Then South led a
club.
Again Mrs. Sobel made fine
play by ducking, and the king
won. Dummy led another dia-
mond for South to ruff.
This play made clear to Mrs.
Sobel that South did not hold
the jack of clubs, else he would
not need TO lead the suit from
the South hand. She saw that
if she ducked the second club
lead, a third round would force
her in, and then she would
have to lead hearts up to South's
king. What was to be done?
Mrs. Sobel found the brilliant
solution of discarding the ace
of clubs on the third diamond
lead. Now IL declarer set up
the clubs, East would get in,
and his heart lead through
South would save the day. De-
claner was bound to be set.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

In winning the rational open
team-of- four title at Richmond,
Mrs. A. M. Sobel of New York
won, under all ratings, the
title of the outstanding bridge
player of 1941.
For number of years Mrs.
Sobel and Mrs. r. c. Young
of Philadelphia have been rat
ed as the two outstanding wom-
en- bridge players of the world.
This year Mrs. Young won the
national open pair title.
Both were members OF the
national mixed team-of-four.
They finished second in the ma
tional women's team-of-four,
and playing together, they were
second in the national women S
pairs. But Mrs. Sobel won the
eastern pair championship. and
this gives her the rating no,
only of the worlds No. / wom-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

showing a double how TO do
his stunts. Some of the faster
action is dangerous enough to
break a rib or arm, or at least
bruise a mans face, SO Costello
is required by the studio to
have stunt double for those
shots. He brought out his broth
er Pat, who's Older but looks
amazingly like Lou.
Trouble is that Pat hasn't
much knack for physical feats,
while Lou-Who once was
professional stunt man at Metro
is good at them.
l asked if this is the toughest
job the team ever had and they
said no, not half as hard as
Ride EN- Cowboy" Il like
to got killed every day in that
one,' said Costello. I'D never
been on a horse before.
1.-The worst ever, though, was
when l was a stunt man out
here years ago and was doubling
for an actor in a football sequ-
ence. When I went down, all
FL of the other players, great
big guys, were to jump on me
at once. had a depression
just my size made in the
ground and was gonta fall
into that. Only l missed it.
And before I could yell, those
buns were on me. I was squash
ed as flat as a paper doll; really
hustled up."
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 22-Any
dissimilarity between the ORR
ginal Rio Rita" and the YER
sion now being filmed is wholly
intentional on the part of Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer All the stu
dio seems to have retained OF
the musical romance are the
title and three or four songs.
The additions include Abbott
and Costello, a flock of Nazi
agents, a fiesta in a Texas hotel
and plot involving code mess
ages sung on the radio. Also
a monster washing machine in
which Lou Costello has been
taking an awful beating the past
week.
After discovering these things
l began composing couple OF
mean cracks about the ruthless
manner in which Hollywood
mutilates good shows. Rio
Rita" as adapted to the screen
by RKO in 1929, was a swell
picture in my recollection-but
hazy as to detail. So l look
ed up the story and am shock
ed and chastened by the dis
covery that it was terrible. AT
least, according to today's stand
ards. it was pure corn. Much
of the action took place on a
big boat supposed to be plying
the Rio Grande. Such miracle
of navigation would make Co.'S
tello's current adventures in a
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22

washing machine seem common
place.
Actually, the sequence is
great fun to watch after one
gets used to the anguish of the
fat comedian. The set looks
like something designed by Joe
Cook with the aid of M q or
Hoople. Abbott and Costello,
a couple of hotel detectives, are
being chased by spies. Costello
hides in a huge sack OF laundry
and a moment later a workman
gives it the old heave-ho down
a steep chute into a classified
washing machine which is about
eight feet square and 10 feet
high. Abbott sees him there
and, jumping up and down with
excitement, steps on various
control buttons set in a floor
plate.
Water flows into the tank
and a massive, rubber-bladed
agitator rises on vertical smart
and begins to churn it. 7 n e
comic is whirled and batted
around mercilessly, manages 10
escape and climb part way up
the chute, then slips and goes
back into the machine, tn Is
time straddling the agitator. II
carries him to the top OF the
tank where he's alternately
doused by a stream of water
This sort of thing goes on ano
on.
do know that this is the
first time / ever saw a ST.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
High|iehts from
the Latest Books

anyone who does not regard
the first and second World War
as a unit has missed the meaning
of our age" This is Heinrich
Hauser's thesis in Time Was
>. Death of a Junker" (Reynal
g. Hitchcock: s..
II il be worthwhile to 60 over
once again the dreary ground al
ready covered by Remarque and
Valtin, by Mann and Hecht and
Fromm, the story of the dull des-
peration in Germany OF the
twenties which bred the men
who started World War II, 1t is
worthwhile only to stress the
fact that this kind of aftermath
must be avoided II World War
III, is to be avoided.
For in the Germany painted
by Hauser, a land OF desperate
poverty, deepening shadow, and
hopeless future, Hitler came as a
relief even at the cost Of another
war. The author was at the 9TH
er end of the social scale from
Valtin, for instance. Hauser was
the son Of an East PrusSian
Junker general; young enough to
have been at the front only the
last few months of Germany's
collapse. He turned just as Val
tin turned to the trade Of bravo;
on the other side, true, but turn
ing nevertheless to the only car
eer open to postwar youtf-that
Of brawler, scribbler and oppor-
tunist in q land where morale
and morals went down together.
A few years ago this book
would have been called depress-
ing, but we are not so readily de-
pressed these days. Hauser is
almost successful in creating q
certain sympathy for the medic
val, militaristic Junker when ne
contrasts them to the sheer bar
bari.y which sent them and the
left-wing elements to q common
doom. Almost, but not quite,
for he makes it clear that the
class which helped bring on
World War II by its failure to
understand or support the Re-
public.
The somewhat kaleidoscope
and jumpy structure OF the book
fits well with description Of the
madhouse il maps, Germany be-
tween the two World Wars, and
il is well calculated to grow
sooseflesh along the spine OF any
German or any thoughtful per-
son 1t the speculation Of what
will happen to Germany after it
has lost the second Of the World
wars il has launched In one life
time.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
clrlFlcA1Ioh

The process of citifyine the country
is still going on at q greet rote, and
there is no reason to expect thot the
war will retord it.
According to the 1910 census,
nearly hoIf the people Of the whole
country now live in 40 Of the great
metropolitan districts - more than Al
per cent Of them, to be exoct. Note
that this refers to metropolitan dis
tricts, not cities themselves, for actual
great cities ore growing more slowly
thon their surrounding territories. Out
lying districts grew by Is per cent dur
no 1hs post 10 years while the cities
themselves were growing only by 9 per
emit.
~ The war, with its emphasis on in
Y 1lrioIizotion, will probably occentu-
5i,is tendency. In all our plans for
ltunoI - must keep in mind this
~ ~ - guide the notionoI
usbon conditions more ond
inmlnd.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Frederick the Greet /.
BROUGHT Prussia to Power
SsssssssssNyse
5AssAa1SG6aae61

Drought TIOSS'O W T0we'
WHEN Adolf Hitler made Aus
" tria a province Of the Third
Reich in 1898. II marked IN
achievement Frederick the Great,
Prussian emperor. never dreamed
possible.
Frederick, pictured on the stamp
above, issued in 1925, labored un"
ccasingly to make Germany q
great European power. He. like
Hitler, brought Prussia into war.
The Seven Years War (l756-l763)
saw virtually the entire continent
allied against Frederick's armies.
Prussia was exhausted and
nearly ruined by the conflict but
at the end OF the war was recog-
nized as one Of the great powers
in Europe. Thereafter IT was in
evitable mat a struggle for dcmi-
nance should arise between Aus
!tris and Germany, with the small
er Germanic states grouped
around one or the other.
In early life Frederick had no
taste for war. He acquired a lik-
ing for literature. learned French
and Latin in defiance OF his father,
and even despised the German
language. He determined to
marry an English princess.
His father, stern Frederick
William I, detested his sons eff
Terminate lcanings. He forced
Frederick to break with the
Princess Amelia and made The en-
peror- to-be work long hours over
minor, tedious tasks. Tutors
dinned the military arts into
Frederick, with the result mat
Germany soon had . strong army
and Prussianisn- became synony-
NOUS with war;.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
IOA1

ONE YEAR AGO IODAH
1941
Charles A. Lindbergh tells
House committee that air at
tacks on u. S. are possible, troop
landings impossible. He ad-
vocated more planes TO strength
en- u. S. bases in both the
Atlantict and Pacific, to guard
against Surprise attack"
Mrs. Charles Sanders of Is
Eastman street won Daily Mon
itor's Best Balanced Food Pur-
chase Contest.
FIVE YEARS AGO
1887
Cold weather averts flood here
as Clinton river rises.
John Gillett has been installed
as president of the Metropolitan
club,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
plsJoINTikG PROCESS
MUST STOP

II political efforts to d'sIo'nt me
nrvote electric industry ore permitted
- continue in order to further promote
r.deroI socioIizotion Of that industry
the inevitable result will be serious
homperino Of the war effort, ana
DANGEROUS undermining Of the Amer
lean free enterprise system which we
ore wooine this war to protect.
As any school child knows, electric
power is the very bosis OF Industr'o'
production in thousand fields OF &C.
tivity. Only small percentage OF the
totol power consumed is generated by
industries for their own use. The greet
bulk of it is purchased from Utility
systems. And today. with the tempo OF
war production being speeded again
and oooin,, obiIity Of the utilities to
meet the demand is vitol to the Protec-
tion of America - and to the lives OF
American soldiers, soi|ors and olrnnen
who depend upon the factories at
home for the weapons to wage war.
It is an absolute foet thot 100 per
cent dependable electric service can
only be provided by Ioree systems. The
holding company principle Of oPero-
ton, under which greet power erids
were erected and inteeroted, was large
" responsible for the magnificent pow
er service the American people have so
long enjoyed.
It is regrettobIe that, under the
terms Of the Holding Company Act,
with it's notorious "deoth sentence"
clause, number Of fine power systems
have been broken up. Now we must
reverse that policy and permit the in
dustry, with suitable stote and Federal
regulation, to really do its moximum
for defense. The Presidential an
nouncement to the effect thot during
the next fiscal year it is hoped that
half the notionol income will be spent
for war purposes, indicates how greet
the strain will be on our industrial pro-
duction facilities. The private utilities,
which produce 80 per cent Of all the
power used in this country. must meet
this demand.
The unnecessary, destructive legis-
Iotive shockIes which bind this great
industry, must be broken. Nothing can
be allowed to stand in the way Of totol
production for totol war.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
BY PETER EDSok
Dolly Monitor wsshinstsa


SVssO
WASHINGTON, Jan. a.
The reoI story Of AxeI leonord
Wenner-Gren, Swedish multi
millionaire industriolist who
wos slapped on the Y. S. block
list the other doy as an axis
sympothizer. hos yet to be
told.
All the romantic and dromo-
tic stuff hos of course received
q good going over-his rise
from poverty to weolth; his 81
million, BOO foot, worlds Ioro-
est yotch, Southern Cross; his
friendship with the Duke and
Duchess Of Windsor, Hermonn
Goerine, Sumner WelIes. Greto
Gorbo and the brother Of
Mexico's President AviIo Co.
moeho; his morriooe to q Kan
SOS City eoI, the former Nor
euerite lieoett; the noenifi-
cense of his Shonori-le home
on Hog island. Nossou. Peo-
pie know who he is now. but
the what he is and the how
he GOT thot way make this TO-
buIous character the No. ]
mystery man Of the present
war, the equal Of Sir Basil
Zorohoff in the lost war.
The u. S. Department OF
Stote hos cIomped down q tight
lid on its reasons for putting
Wenner-Gren on the blacklist.
But enough Of the Wenner-
Gren record con be revealed 70
explain why the finger Of sus-
picion hos been placed on this
6O-yeor.oId tycoon. The real
story of Wenner.G ren is thu
story Of his rise to internotion-
al importance.
STARTED WITH CLEANERS
In 1919, with q reported
copitoI of $32. 900 hs organ.
lied the EIectroIux Vacuum
CIeoners Company in Sweden
A year oeo the parent com.
pony in Sweden wos listed O:
q $50 million concern. First
EIectrolux models were intro
duced in the u. S. about 1924
For five years or so parts were
made in Stockholm, but the
company hos made all il.
American models in its Con.
necticut footory since 1888.
About 1926, Wenner-Grer
developed q new mechohico
refrigerator which was sup
posedly offered to his friend
Alfred P. Sloan. While Gen.
eroI Motors wos hesitotine, tn
rights we're sold to servel, Inc
Wenner-Gren took an interes'
in the company and by IoteI
acquisitions Of stock gained {
controlling interest. Sine
1887, however, he hos mol
been listed os q director o
either ServeI or EIectrolux, o.
the parent EIeotroIux com
pony in Sweden. He hos pre-
sumobIy retired from octiv'
management and his connec
ton with these firms is in NJ
way involved with his bocklist
ing, nor ore the American
firms themselves bIocklisted O
under any suspicion.
1t is as q European operate
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
thot Wennsr- Gren hos Coined
most Of his wealth and tonne.

thot Wennsr- Gren hos Coined
most Of his wealth ond foms.
For one thing. he is one Of
the successors to the Iots-Io-
mentod Ivor Kruger. When
that match kings poIoee Of
notch boxes collapsed, Wen
ner-Gren is supposed to have
picked up many Of the
motches.
For onother thing, Wenner-
Gren OF one time had q domi-
nont interest in Foerens Air
croft and in the Bofors Armo-
ment works of Sweden, manu.
foeturer Of the famous Bofors
onti-oircroft guns which ore
even now being manufactured
for v. S. forces in q v. S. plant.
Original patents on this gun
were supposedly held by Krupp
in 0ermony-note the connec-
tion-but we're acquired for
the Swedish compony through
Wenner- Gren negotiations.
In some way that only q
lifelong student Of European
power eorteIs could exploin, the
Wenner-Gren interests ore al
so interloeked with those Of
Sofino, Leading public utility
Of Sweden. Sofino before the
war linked with other European
power interests. One Of them,
known in the United Stotes as
the Morse Electric Nitrogen
Company, in which Wenner-
Gren was prominent, hos been
identified in financial circles
as on |. 6. Forbenindustrie Of
fiIiote. !. G. F. is of course the
German dye trust, perhaps the
most powerful cortel in the
world, with direct connections
to the Nozis government.
MokoPoLlST OF PAPER
1t is as the "Swedish pulp
king" that Wenrer-Gren comes
into most Of his influence and
wealth. Wenner-Gren hold
ines Of Swedish timber lands
ore tremendous. From the
tinberlond comes wood pulp
for poper, and right with it.
electric power. Swedish po-
permokers Rave been largely
dependent on Wenner-Gren
puIpwood. The scandinavian
poper industry being q domi-
nont business throughout the
world, Wenner- Gren's position
as the fountain head Of that
industry led him naturally to
efforts to organize q world
wide poper oortel or trust. The
ideo was that this poper Mono
poly would control production
and distribution otter the pot
tern Of the totolitorion corpor-
otion.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-22
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1900

Various big projects are van
ishing into thin air. Same old
story. /,
George Chambers sells q set
of Chambers Encyclopedias to .
resident of Stanwood, Iowa, as
the result of an ad he placed in
The Monitor.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Alexandra Officials
Map New Move 10
Obtain School Funds
Budwesky and Wi|Iioms
To Discuss Case With
FWA Men Tomorrow

A new effort to obtain funds
promised to Alexandria for its
school budget will be made when
City Manager Carl Budwesky and
School Supt. T. C. Williams meet
with officials of the Federal Works
Agency tomorrow.
An allotment of $4,000 was prom
ised the city from Lanham Act
funds, but to date only $4,000 has
been paid. Federal officials have
asked for a review of city and school
finances before they will decide If
the remaining $40 600 is to be paid.
The influx of war workers has ne
cessitated increasing the school IA
cilities and one of the largest groups
of new pupils comes from Chinqua-
pin Village where civilian employees
of the Naval Torpedo Station dwell.
The city gets no taxes from this
development.
City officials have not been ad-
vised as to the status of Chinquapin
Village, but if it is not considered
a naval reservation. it's children
will not have to be admitted to the
schools in the event that Federal
funds to complete the 1912 budget
are not forthcoming
Virginia law states that schooling
must be provided for all childreu
between the ages of and 20 living
within the city or county limits OF
on a Federal, Navy or Army res
ervation. The village is outside the
city limits.
Evening star., 1942-08-09
Alexandra Plans Course
To Train Volunteer Firemen

Alexandria Fire Chief James M.
Duncan, jr., has announced plans
for school to train volunteer and
auxiliary firemen in the near fu-
ture.
A six-week course with classes
three nights week is planned and
Mr.. Duncan hopes to have an en-
rollment of about 300. Glasses will
be taught by William Barbour, fire
department instructor; Chief Air
Raid Warden Bernard Padgett, Mr..
Duncan and guest instructors from
Washington and Maryland.
While there is no age limit for
either volunteer or auxiliary fire
men, Mr.. Duncan feels that the men
should be between the ages of 18
and As.
There are now between four and
five hundred volunteer and auxiliary
firemen attached to the department,
but since military service is claiming
many of them, a large new group
is needed.