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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-22
Overind uloence

Yes. I'm mother And l
know how ambitious parents can
be, particularly parents reared
in poverty, 10 see their children
enjoy educational opportunities
which they themselves lacked.
Yet l also believe that that
same desire is responsible for
much Of the waste and futillty
Of our modern education In
our desire 10 give our. children
superior advantages, We have IN
sisted on programs which leave
them untitled for any practical
life and which cause them 70
waste the richest years Of their
youth
There is no democracy Of
brains, says Principal II. II.
IIelble. regardless of the rage
which Will greet his statement.
But he's right. There is no
equality Of intelligence and it's
-tommyrot 10 claim there is.
Many a husky lad or lass has
about as much need for aca-
demic training as they would
have for spit curlS and panta-
let's. That does net mean that
they are inferior or Of less value
10 their nation, II they learn
those things for which they arc
adapted, but under our present
scheme of things for which J.
TOO. firmly agree our American
parents are largely responsible
they take snap courses which
have no relationship TO their in
dlVIdual caDaCIfICS-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Malay Jungle Slows
Poce Of Axis BIitz

THE world has heard Of the ire.
i mendous strides warfare has
taken in the past quarter century
and il has come to fear the word
panzer in the wars of movement
1t is different in Malaga.
The war between Japanese and
British in Malaga is with modern
weapons. but in jungle terrain
Military tactics there are as old.
fashioned as the headgear on the
Sultan Iskandar pictured on the
stamp above, issued in 1895.
Reporters with the British
troops in the Straits Settlement;
say that the small arms-bayonet,
pistol. and submachine gun-are
the most effective in the tangled
forests where tank and armored
car movement is restricted.
Conflict between Jap and Tom
my is a stalking encounter with
camoufiage the greatest offensive
and defensive aid. Swampy land
and thick underbrush make pas
sage Of the big guns impossible
Targets. too. are obscured. Fo-
liage and heavy mist shroud OBJ
jectives. Effectiveness Of artillery
Are cannot be gagged. for shells
plop into mud unseen by observa-
ton posts or airplanes.
The Malayan jungle put the
blitz on the fritz.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
. McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
tute, saying that she would be
there Wednesday evening.

tute, saying that she would be
there Wednesday evening.
She then took the train to
Washington, but the train from
Washington would not get her
to Richmond in time for the sec
ond session and while the planes
were crowded. she finally per-
suaded the airline officials to get
her a seat. Arriving at Richmond
she found the taxis on strike and
had to thumb ride to the hotel,
but she got there just in time to
take her place for the second
session Wednesday night.
When the third session was
over Thursday evening, she and
her Cleveland partner, playing
their first major event together,
had come close to the champion
ship. The persistence of this
girl from Kansas City is shown
in the following hand.
Ann Bryant, sitting West, dou-
bled negatively twice and final
ly bid the opponents suit in an
effort to make East disclose
whether he held four hearts. She
could always run out in clubs in
case East responded with any
other suit or no trump.
After the heart bid was wrung
from East at the level of four,
North thought he had a sure fire
double. His hearts should win
two tricks, as they did, and he
did not see how declarer could
win ten tricks with both the dia-
monds and spades against him.
The unbid club suit that turned
up in dummy was surprise and
a shock. OF course Feinberg
made the contract easily.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21

portant, and so do all the other
people on the Hardy pictures
Carey Wilson, who's a sort of
general supervisor. Director
George Seitz, and the various
writer's.
The public is responsible for
numerous details of improve
ment in Andy Hardy's dress and
behavior, and the group work
ing on the pictures finds it lit
tie tough sometimes to keep him
from being too prudishly pro-
per. When Rooney wore greasy
old leather jacket through most
of one film, mothers wrote to
Metro complaining that their
sons had dug out their most dis
reputable jackets and were max
ing fad of them.
Sometimes errors of judg-
ment in writing have been
caught at previews, through
opinion cards passed to the audi
ence. One of the most obvious
was in Love Finds Andy Har-
dy," with a sequence in which an
emotionally upset Andy sat
down at the dinner table but
soon rose and said to his mother:
May l 60 to my room? Dinner
isn't so good tonight"
Following this, at the pre-
view, a series of gags and funny
action fell as flat as limp plati-
tude. A few hours later the
worried director found out why:
about half of the preview cards
asked, in effect: How could An
DIV be so rude as to tell his moth
err her dinner wasn't any good,
and why didn't Judge Hardy
bawl him out?"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
BY PAUL HARRISON 4
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. al
When it started the Hardy Fami-
ly series nearly five years ago,
Metro didn't bargain for a child
guidance bureau, an advice-to-
young-love department, and a
dispensary of legal counsel. But
those are what it got-along
with several million dollars, of
course.
The legal service is the only
one of the responsibilities that
doesn't 60 into conscientious de-
tail. Lewis Stone, as Judge Har-
dy, is so thoroughly established
as a common sense lawyer in the
minds of many movie patrons
that he gets stacks of letters ask
ing help on cases-some OF them
astonishingly big ones. Stone
never studied law and can't at
tempt to answer the questions.
So he thanks his would-be eli
ents and tells 'em to consult an
attorney in their home towns.
HELP FROM FANS
But if Stone is deluged with
such requests, he's swamped
with inquiries on father-and-son
relations. These he considers i'm
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
THE FUTURE
INDUSTRIAL SOUTH

Further evidence now comes for
word in support Of the idea that the
country is being made overbefore our
eyes, though the eyes do not always see
Clearly what is going on.
The south wos ropdIy becoming in
dustriolized even before the war crisis.
But the war industries now arising as
III BY magic, are changing the picture
EVEN more ropidIy. Chemicals, pulp and
poper. Hnetols. iron and steel, royon -
XII tbese and many other industries
> oin0 built up in the south as q re-
6f ne war effort. The fociIities
: III viii rtmoin when the war
bssr won.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

The picture was yanked back
into the studio next morning and
the scene refined. This time
Rooney said: Nom, you're the
best cook in the world but ! just
don't feel hungry tonight. May
I 60 to my room?" That fixed
everything fine.
COCKTAIL TROUBLE
A woman visitor went to
Carey Wilson's home one Sun
day and asked for advice about
a party planned by her 16-year-
old daughter and three friends.
They want to serve cocktails"
she said, land the other girls
have permission. My husband
and I aren't prudes, but we don't
want to give liquor to such
youngsters. We decided to ask
what the Hardys would do about
it,"
Wilson took the problem in
easy stride. Serve punch" he
suggested. Let word get around
beforehand that it's pretty po-
tent and that you're worrying
about anyone having more than
couple of glasses. You might
put in just touch of table wine
to make it taste funny"
He got a grateful note from
the mother weeks later. The
punch was a huge success.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
LOOK AT THE OTHER FELLOW!

Somehow there is troit in human
nature that enables the man who hos
foIIen in the mud up to his hips to get
q certoin satisfaction out Of contem-
plating the fellow who has fallen in up
to his neck.
So if you're worried about the tre-
mendous federal debt get what sotis-
faction you can out Of this:
The public debt today of the United
States is slightly less than the annual
national income. In Britain it's twice
the notionoI income. That is the esti-
mate of the Alexander Hamilton Insti-
tute. Thot means thot we may emerge
from the war with q debt Of perhaps
twice our national income, while Britain
will then be in for debt three or four
times the national income of that coun-
try.
Just how all this will end, even the
most proficient economists don't know
About all we can be sure Of is that no
matter what kind Of q hole we find our
selves in, we will have plenty Of COM
pony.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

Ann Bryant of Kansas City
and Harry Feinberg of Cleve-
land finished second in the Ma
tional Mixed Pair Championship
at Richmond, and if transporta-
ton had not been against Miss
Bryant, she might have won the
event.
She left Kansas City by plane,
only to be grounded at st. Louis
for two years; she went on to
indianapolis but again she was
grounded. She telephoned Rich
mond to tell me she would be un-
able to get there in time for the
first session of the event Tuesday
evening and asked for a substi-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
Hieh|iehts from
the Latest Books

Eventually, somebody would
write mystery story about muir
der-the civilized brand-in an
air raid, and here we have two
such offerings, "Air Ministry
Room %" (Dutton: $2.50), by
Gilbert Frankau, and Death
Visits Downsprins" Double
day, Doran: $2), by Miles Bur-
ton. Might make good reading to
test your blackout nerves.
Frankau has written numer-
Gus thrillers and lodged plenty
of Nazi bombs in London so
should be we'll qualified for the
job he has undertaken, but in q
foreword this invalidated Royal
Air Force officer asks reviewers
not to reveal his plot.
Very we'll, but the main point
of interest on this tour, all
through a hail of bombs, Is
Squadron Leader Wadsworth's
doubt that his superior, Air. Vice
Marshal Ashdown, was killed by
shrapnel from a bomb. He sets
out to prove it over the opposi-
ton of most of the air ministry
brass hats. Wordsworth encount-
ers some balmy characters, falls
in love and lodges falling walls
in this exciting tale. Wonder how
Sherlock Holmes would have
nabbed the foul wretches OF his
day during modern blitz from
the sky?
Secret agents, q navy cruiser,
a disappearing radio station and
cryptic messages make Death
Visits Downspring" leave you
wondering what could send any
ones blood pressure up faster
than q nice murder in the midst
of air raids.
The mastermind of other Bur-
ton stories, Desmond Merton,
does his stuff again, this time
tracking down the diabolical
slayer of Philip Noakes, butler
on an England estate. Not recon-
for nuttery aunts.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
. BEHIND THE SCENES,
m WASHINGTON "

brossord-orm band to most
people.
Then there hos been q tom
gle on food. The Office Of
Defense Health and WeIfore
services-Poul v. McNutt in
choree-decided il would be q
good thing to prepore q list Of
emergency foods which could
be put on the pantry. shelf for
use in cose of on dir raid. Mrs.
Roosevelt, without asking ony-
body, decided this was hoord-
ing and put the Scotch on the
idea. The McNutt organize
ton, not wanting to cross up
the First Lady, had to with
draw its list.
MORE CONFUSION
lotest ideo is q garden pro-
gram. 1t might seem to q
noyice in governmental Of
foirs that the Department Of
Agriculture would be the logic
al place to hondIe this garden
promotion ideo. But no. o.
flee of Civilian Defense must
hire q garden expert OF its
own and publish its own book.
More confusion.
Unquestionobly, this volun-
tory participation program can
do q lot Of good in furtherins
civilian defense and civilian
morale, boosting waste pre-
vention and salvage, defense
savings and booking up the
Red Cross. But when it storts
trying to run the business Of
everybody else in sight, you
see what can happen.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
MUST MIND THEIR MANNERS

MIAMI, Fla.-Police Chief II.
Leslie Quigg emphasized that
policemen must obey this order.
He threatened those who dis
regarded it with suspension.
Commanding officers of the var
ious divisions were reprimanded
for failing to enforce it and
were instructed to report infrac-
tons.
uniformed men," said the
chief, "must quit picking their
teeth in public"
UTMOST PROBATION
WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. - ].
Stanley Livermore, 81, given a
department stores $500 payroll
by mistake. trudged two miles In
bitterly cold weather to return
Il, although the store has messen-
gers and he has q telephone.
Said Livermore:
II have. a party line, and !
wanted the information kept
confidential"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
. BARBS

Funny world! Finally decided
that the only way to get peace
was fight for it.
Eastern woman Is going to
marry a man who shot at her.
Revenge is sweet.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
WHEN THE NEW AEF'S
GO OUT TO FIGHT

Soon another million or more Amer
icon men will be joining the coors. and
the voneuord Of holf-dozen AtF's OF
1912 will be on their way. They go out
to fight in foreign fields, yet they go
to fight to defend their own country at
home.
We are still more fortunate, in the
very face of these foreign campaigns,
than the people Of most Of the other
countries in the war; We still have
chance to keep actual warfare largely
away from our own homes. Sporadic
ottocks moy be mode on continental
tinted Stotes, but unless things go
worse than we have right to expect.
there is no reason to expect any major
fighting in the United Stotes itself.
Barring Singular iIl-fortune, we
should not have to see our homeland
overrun as the people Of dozen coun-
tries have been forced to see it. China,
Russia, France, Belgium. the Neither
lands, the Philippines, Norway, Greece.
YuaosIovio - all these and many
others have been forced to undergo
the Ultimate in war horror, the destruc-
ton and downfall Of their own homes,
lands and institutions. We shall be
forced to undergo the deoth Of many
fine American soldier, and that will
be hard enough to bear. But the added
horrors which London hos seen, and
Rotterdam, which Chuneking and
Shanghai and Picking have undergone,
may be spared US.
5 The farther from our American
shore our soldiers go to fight the en-
emies Of America, the less the chance
that the war itself can come literally to
America. Our AEFs go to drive war as
for away from America os they can. 1t
is in order to spare their people at home
from meeting face to foce wars hor-
ror's, that these Americans 90 to seek
out the battle far away.
If it seems hard that q soldier
should be sent so far from home to
fight - to Iceland, to Alaska, to Aus
troIio or Guiana or Africa, it is just as
we'll for us who remain behind to re-
member thot it is to protect us and
keep octuoI war at long orm's length
from America that they 90 forth.
Is it possible that the people for
whose protection at home they go out
to die in strange places at the worlds
ends will do less than see that they
are supplied with everything they
need?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
EVEN WAR IS NOT
WORLDS END

In fost triple play, allow US to
poss on to you series Of most interest
ing quotations assembled by President
Marsh of Boston University, repro
duced by James TrusIow Adams in
"Borron's," and now here set down
once again. They're worth it.
WiIberforee. 1901 ~ dare
not marry - the future is 50 unset
tied"
Pitt, 1906 - There is scarcely
anything ground US but ruin and
despair"
Lord shoftesbury, lS4S -
Nothing can save the British En-
pire from shipwreek."
DisroeIi, l849 - I'm industry.
commerce, and agriculture there is
no hope"
Wellington. 1852 -" thonk
God shoII be spared from seeing
the eonsummotion Of the ruin that
is gathering about Us.
Yet the world did not end because
over q period Of half q century these
gentlemen saw only ruin and hopeless
ness. 1t is not going to end now, in
spite Of nearly universal war, in spite
Of death, debt and destruction.
Man is durable institution. His
powers of survival have been sorely
tested before, and he has always
emerged from the most eruesome or
deals, loving and living as before. So
he will do again.
In q time when everything seems
changing, are there no things which
do not change? Of course there ore
The love Of men and women, the
steady, oonsoline warmth Of friend
ship, the driving power Of ambition.
The desire for the beautiful, the deed
Of kindness, the unseIfish urge, the
desire for knowledge The aspiration
to see and to serve God.
He would be q foolish optimist in
deed who can look compIoeently on the
world today thot should have. been so
beautiful, and which men have made
SO ugly. But he would be not only cow
ordIy but shortsiehted who would look
upon it and soy, I'VE can never do any
better"
The world to come will be what we
make it, and what we give our children
on opportunity to make it. Our imme-
diote task today happens to be the
attainment of victory in q war which
has come to US despite long and in
tense efforts to avoid it.
Thot is only the chapter in which
we ore now reading. The coming chop
ter need not be like the bIotted and
snudeed poees of the past. 1t con be
clean and fine. In the midst of todoy's
troubles we must remember that, for
it is only if we forget it thot we preju-
dice its eventual realization.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
~ PETER EDSoN
Dolly Mentor Washington


Business as Usual" hos defi-
niteIy been kicked in the head
for the duration. but it remains
to be seen whether "Govern-
nent as Usual" and Boon
doeeIine os Usual" will be
permitted to function.
II is q pleasure to report
some signs that they won't.
WPA is now practically all
defense projects. MA and
CCC stand q chance of be-
ing combined and cut down
to q more reasonable size. And
the Office of Price Administro-
ton and Civilian Supply hos
done q notable job Of interior
redeoorotine by simply house,
cleaning its civilian supply sec
tion which under Miss Harriet
Elliott had been permitted tc
accumulate all kinds Of con-
sumner movement spiderwebs.
In some other respects the
"os usual" situation doesn't
look so good. Toke the VOL
unteer participation program
of the Office of Civilian De-
Tense.
As Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
explained this work to Con.
eressmon ToIon's committee
supposed to be investigating
defense migration but some
what off its beat in the OCC
hearings, q little child drink
ing its milk is contributing its
share to civi|ion defense. Whot
that amounts to is soying thot
civilion defense must meet all
the needs Of all the people all
the time. The notion is strong
only if it is weII-housed, WE'LL
clothed and full Of vitomins,
Anyone who feels frustrated
about anything is contributing
to poor morale.
Working on this major pre-
mise. the volunteer porticipo-
tion department of OCD hos
gone off on all possible ton-
gents like q Wednesday otter
noon ladies' aid society look
ing for O purpose. And it is
here in this field Of general
welfare programs that OCD
effort has appeared to 90 q
bit sour and give civilion de-
Tense q bad name. If the out
fit had stuck to its primary
purpose Of training firemen
and dir roid wordens and oux-
i|iory police and protecting the
oitizenry in cose enemy bomb
ers got by the military, all
might have been we'll. 1t is
the boondoeeIine thot may
come close to cousine the
ruin.
YOUTH MUST BE SERVED
First off, there had to be
q youth program. The formula
for this hasn't jeIIed yet, bu,
coming just at q time when
there seemed to be q good
chance to get rid Of some OF
the worst Of the NYA reforms.
this is something to watch.
Then there was the motte'
Of uniforms. Catering toe
much to the club woman type
which would feel that il
couldn't do war work without
q snoppy ensemble, OCD was
all set to doll UP all its voIun-
teers like the pony ballet from
Groustork. Fortunately, the
Office Of Production Monoee-
ment come to its senses just
in time and told OCD fIotly
thot it couldn't have thot
much wool. II only half OF
the four million women or q
fourth Of them went for these
new uniforms, it would take
enough sleeps clothing tc
keep the fiehtin' men from
looking like anything better
than veterans at Valley Forge.
A compromise is being work.
ed out on this now. The gols
will get q uniform to keep
them style conscious, but il
NAV be nothing more than q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
l94l
Britain's Army Of the Nile
take Tobruk; Norman Thomas
terms Lease-lend act "war in
the name of peace, dictatorship
in the name of defending de-
mocracy."; Defeated Candidate
Willkie flies to London to "see
what's going on.
Miss Marie Behnke and Walter
Tiffin were married by the Rev.
Jacob whitman in Zion Ev-
angelical Church.
FIVE YEARS AGO
1887
Frank Pringnitz has been
elected senior warden ut the
Grace Episcopal Church.
Joseph Cody has been re-elect-
ed director of the Mount Glenn
ems Credit Bureau.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1892
A birthday surprise was given
Miss Maggi eMay Friday even
ing.
Many attended the funeral Of
Geo. P. Robinson.
60 YEARS AGO TODAY
1882
Three tons of machinery have
arrived for the salt and soap
factory.
The Presbyterian ladies give .
tea social at S. F. Atwood's on
Tuesday evening next.
Evening star., 1942-12-13

Alexander r. Shepherd. S. H. Kauff-
Baker. And The Star then had circu-
lation of less than 1000. Today. its SUM-
day issue approaches the 200 900 mark,
while its weekly issue is only few
thousand copies behind this number.
But The Star was growing and growing
fast, and continues to grow despite the
present unsettled conditions.
In 1869 Mr.. Baker sold his shares in
the paper and they were equally divided
among the four remaining proprietors,
. and In 1874 Mr.. Shepherd sold his stock,
which was bought outright by the three
associate owners. Messrs. Noyes, KaufI-
mann and Adams.
Moves to Present Site
In 1881 The Stars old home, at the
southwest corner OF Eleventh and D
streets was given up, and the site is now
occupied by the old Post Office Depart
ment Building. However. 1t was during
this year that The Star management
cast about for a new home. Several
places were considered but none that
seemed to meet all essential require
ments, until the present site at the
northwest corner of Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue, Immediately op-
posite It's former location, was selected.
and the building which then occupied
the present site, together with an ad-
joining structure were bought and the
corner building was remodeled.
Subsequently in 1899 work was begun
on the present corner building which was
first occupied on July /, 1900. Later.
further space being required. additional
land was bought on the Eleventh street
side north of the main structure, and
here was erected the present 10-story
annex which was occupied in 1921.
Pioneering In newspaper work in
Washington in the early days proved
very discouraging to many would-be
editor or owner But not so to Crosby S.
Noyes, who, in writing of his coming to
Washington in December, l847 has this
to say:
II was sickly youngster, left my home
In Maine for Washington in quest of
milder climate. Partly for exercise and
partly for economy's sake walked good
part of the way from Philadelphia to
Washington
"On the last day of that month I had
walked from Bal ,imore as far as Belts