The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-04-02
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hoped they will do the most
good. Or, If you want q copy
for your own libroV ond
omozement, drop q postcard
to the Office Of Focts and Fig
ures, Washington. DC. It's
free.
divide and Conquer" is q
lot better job than OFFS first
pamphlet, Reports to the Mo-
ton" which wos pretty oener-
oily panied because it was too
long, bod O kind Of superior
mooozine writer's approach on
things and viewed the situation
with Oh such terrificolly rosy
rose-colored glasses. Report
to the Nation" did serve one
useful purpose in that OFF OPP
porentIy learned about pam.
phlets from thot - learned
what pamphlets should not be
at any rote.
EASY TO READ
The question may be roised
as to whether the United Stotes
is q troct-reodine nation. The
country goes for books, moeo-
zines, newspapers, lectures
and radio in q big way. and
everyone is q sucker for q
free toke-one box" Thot
may be the tip-off that this
medium Of trocts and PAM
phlets may be just what is
needed to tell the story. At
any rote the story must be told
and re-toId by every possible
means from the gossip Of gut
ter and bockfence to the shouts
from the house top and ivory
tower. So more power to it.
People who keep up on
things won't find anything
particularly new in OFFS "Di-
vide and Conquer" pamphlet.
Us q rehosh and condensation
Of all the best books on the
Hitler technique " Edmund
ToyIor's "Stroteey of Terror"
Hermann Rouschnine's Voice
Of Destruction" Donovan and
Mowers Fifth Column Les
sons for Americans" Cardinal
HIond's Persecution Of the
Catholics in PoIond' and so
on, including the Federal Conn.,
municotions Commission Mon
itorine Service Digest and the
publications Of the Dies Conn.,
mittee on un-Americon Of
foirs.
But the OFF pamphlet is q
good and convenient boil down
on all this moteriot. II is we'll
written, cosy to read in q half
hour and we'll illustrated by
some Fitzpatrick corto o n S
which you will remember in
your bod dreams because they
we're drawn to knock you right
out of your fovorite over-stuf-
fed, fireside competency.
WATCH OFF GROW
Office Of Focts and Figures
hes recently moved from the
librory Of Congress annex to
the two top floors Of q brand
new eight story building, orig
molly intended to be on oport-
ment house, out near the Lin
coin Memorial. Watch it
grow and 90 now.
In the five months in which
the outfit hos been in exis-
tence, it hos done q tremen-
dous amount Of talking and it
hos more ideos up its sleeve
and through the top Of its hat
than you could write down in
O day. Its bright young men
ore buster and more enthusios-
tic than q hundred bird dogs
at q field triol. Thus for, most
Of the OFF ideos ore off the
record. In their short life the
OFF hos broken out with an
nouncennents and press re-
leoses only II times. Thot's
remarkable restraint for q gov
eminent information agency,
but some Of the ideos in its
hopper are os ambitious os
Adolf. They run all the way
from q belief that IS per cent
Of the governments press re-
leoses ore q waste that should
be token as thot, to on ideo
that OFF should stort q SER
vice on il own to give war
news to the notions " 900
country weekIies.
Time'II tell which ideo
comes OUT on too.