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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10

Lake. Funeral services were
held Saturday Afternoon at 2:30
conducted by Rev. George B.
Radcliffe with burial in the Nc
Cafferty cemetery. Besides his
wife Jennie he leaves four
daughters and a son all of De-
troit, Mrs. Belle Major, Mrs.
Cecil Lyons, Mrs. Leila Roos,
Mrs. Jennie Rhoades and James
Muir.
Howard L. Stephens a world
war veteran died in the Marine
Hospital in Detroit after a long
illness. Mr.. Stephens was 48
years of age and had been a
resident of this vicinity all his
life. Funeral services were held
from his late home northeast of
of the village Saturday afternoon
at two o'clock conducted by Rev.
James Lees with burial in Bruce
and Armada cemetery. Besides
his wife Irma he leaves three
small children Macia, 6 years,
James years and John year
and a half, also his mother, Mrs.
Andrew Stephens, two sisters,
Mrs. Marion Morrill, of Boston,
Mass and Mrs. Mildred Fon-
tame of Athens, Ohio.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10

Rev. John Adams is teaching
school in his wife's place in the
Harrison school district. Rev
and Mrs. Adams were in an
automobile accident on New
Year when their car slipped on
the ice and hit a tree. Mrs.
Adams was badly cut on the
forehead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Mont
gomery entertained the mem
bers of the Just-A-Mere Club at
their home, Friday evening, jan
uary 2. Mrs. Floyd Finch and
Oscar Schnell won high honors
and Floyd Finch and Mrs. Har-
vey Hebblewhite, Sr., won low
score.
Misses Katherine, Jean and
Phyllis Wilcox returned to their
home in Owendale, Sunday after
spending a week with their sis
ter and her husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Farrand.
Hugh johnson and mother,
Mrs. T. j. johnson of Hinton,
West Virginia were guests OF
their aunt and sister-in-law, Mrs.
Robert Wilson, Friday. Saturday
noon Mrs. Wilson returned to
their home with them. Later she
will go to Florida where she will
spend the winter months.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bachelor
of Carsonville spent New Years
and the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. Chester LOOMS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson
spent New Years with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch John
son of Kalamazoo.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bond OF
Port Huron and Mrs. Clarence
Farrand were New Year guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Aldrich.
The annual board meeting OF
the Congregational church will
be held at the church, Monday
evening, January IL, at eight
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Houston
and two sons of Capac visited
their aunt, Mrs. Jennie Hanna
at the Wilson home, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Oliver OF
Port Huron and Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Baird of Armada were
New Years guests Of Mrs. John
Lewis in Attention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Course
and small son of Detroit were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs
.JOseph Baird.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10

Jack Oake likes to work in pictures especially when he
of attraction for such bevy Of lovely gals
that's his Here he is Boley the ALL
chowderhead of Mark Hengers Rse and Shine
the 10th hit which is due Sunday at the
Jewel Theatre for three day Starred with Linda and
Jack in the hit Walter Brennan George Murphy and
Milton Berle.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10
State
Briefs
Ex.LEGIsLATOR DIES

EX.LEGISLATOR DIES T.
PENT ATER - B -
Charles F. Lewis, IS, former
member of the state legislature,
died Thursday. Lewis, q hard
ware dealer and former postmas-
ter, had made his home here
for SO years. A son and two
daughters survive.
SENTENCE AIMS THIEF
DETROIT -R- Winford Ell
lis, 80, was sentenced Thursday
to a maximum prison term of
three to four years for theft of
$50 from a poor fun1 Jar that
disappeared from the police
headquarters information desk
on Dec. 16. He told the court
he had been drinking and re-
turned SIS of the stolen money.
INJURIES FATAL
DETROIT -(R-- Myron B.
Vorce. of Crosse lie, died
Thursday night at Wyandotte
General Hospital after his au-
tomobile crashed into three
parked cars and a oulldozer in
Wyandotte.
GIFT FROM FORD
DETROIT -(R- Recorders
Judge Christopher E. Stein re-
ceived a gift from Henry Ford
Thursday seven volume
series of the old McGuffey
Reader. The presentation was
made in observance of a long
friendship between the two
men.
PAR ENTS HELD
JACKSON-(P)-Mr. and Mrs.
Joel Palmer were held in the
Jackson county Jail Friday un-
der $1,000 bail after they de-
manded examination of charges
of cruelty to children. Coroner
Jason B. Meads said their three
month-old daughter. Lydia. died
of starvation last Saturday at
Foote Hospital.
TOURNEY STARTS
MARQUETTE-(R-The an
nual Upper Peninsula Debate
tournament began here Friday
at Northern Michigan College
of Education, with teams from
10 high schools entered. The
competing schools are Manis-
tique, Gladstone. Escanaba, Ish-
peming, Iron Mountain, Iron
River, Gwen, Watersmeet,
Wakefield and Ironwood.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES
AND WAR WORKING HOURS

HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY
for informal conversations with sew
eral candidates for congress. Off
the record each one has told me he
is opposed to the maintenance of the
40-hour week in war production
plants; to the forcing of the closed
shop, and the enforced payment of
tribute to labor racketeers by en-
ployees in such plants; to all un-
necessary governmental expendi-
lures for civil activities. But all that
is "off the record" in all but one
case. One candidate was saying the
same things publicly. The others
were fearful of the votes they would
lose if it were known they opposed
the racketeering methods of labor
leaders, longer working hours or the
curtailment of governmental spend
ing. Their one thought was to be
elected on whatever platform would
capture the most votes. There is
but one really honest man among
those with whom I have talked, one
man for whom I should like to vote.
I have never believed the two-faced
man could make an acceptable rep
resentative of the people.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
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GOVERNMENT CRITICISM

GOVEhNMENI ChllIO1SM
IN WARTIME
WE AMERICANS find it hard to
imagine frank and open criticism of
government in England, when the
nation is at war. That is the Eng
lish way that has been in vogue for
more than a century. During the
days of World War I, I listened to
the. brayings of soap-box orators
around Trafalgar square, the gath
ering place of the critics and the dis
contented. English hobbies were
there in numbers, but they made no
effort to stop the harangues. The
orators could condemn and view
with alarm anything and everything,
so long as they did not advise vio-
lence for the overthrow of the gov
ernment. Any talk of guns and
bombs as a means of remedying
conditions was not permitted. The
English are willing that the agita-
tors should talk as means of keep
ing them out in the open and per-
mitting them to let off steam. They
do not fear the effect of what such
people may say, but do not want
them conspiring under ground. Ira
falgar square is a paradise for the
''woolies" and the 'wobblies," for all
who have a panacea to offer for
what they consider social ills. 1t is
the open air free show of London in
war time, as well as in peace time.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27

81 am giving you a-ah, sort of
secretary bodyguard," Montaya
went on, carefully. "But you must
not be alarmed. I simply do not
want anything to happen to you, Mr..
Curtis, that is all. Engineers with
your background in this work we
do not find-you say?-growing on
bushes"
Curt waited.
"The mans name is Emilio Var
gas. Tomorrow he will report to
you. 1t is my wish that he go every
where with you when you are out
on the job. Everywhere. Please,
Mr.. Curtis, observe this closely. You
will find him a competent stenogra-
pher and quite helpful in relieving
you of minor details"
Curt still made no answer. He
commenced to fiddle with his pipe.
Montaya, after one sidelong glance,
paid attention to the tracks before
him.
Curt pondered. A bodyguard for
himself! That seemed to hint at
danger to the Chief Engineer. Dam
ger with its roots in business rival
ry? Danger, as he'd thought briefly
last night, from a personal enemy
of Montaya, striking through an inn
portant subordinate? That would be
a subtle sort of vengeance.
Well, there was Henderson's visit
Saturday night to look forward to.
He'd make the man talk, and talk
plenty. Curt leaned back in his cor
ner of the seat and relaxed for the
rest of the trip.
In the morning Emilio Vargas re-
ported at Curtis office. He was a
slick looking hombre, with sharp
features, elive-tinted skin, swapping
eyes. He had pointed teeth, and
perfumed pomade glued his black
hair fiat to his skull. A revolver,
fancy chased affair in holster that
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
JOY OF SHARING

The greatest joy Of marriage is
the fact that all the other joys
are shared With the ones you
loue most, your husband and
your children. The incest picnics
are the ones you plan together.
The fun Of building house, or
planting a garden, or just dream
ing of the future, is more fun
,Uhen you can share your enthu-
siasm. And the ,Oorry Of an ul-
balanced budget, the sorrorO of
past n1isfortunes, the fear OF
,ohat tomorrow may bring, can
be less terrifying when you haze
someone to share your anxiety.
Kathleen Norris believes that the
most fortunate ,Oonen today are
those Uho haze happy mar
riage to help them through the
hard days ahead.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27

had seen service, hung at his side.
From his mouth dropped one of the
native, sickly-sweet, brown-jacketed
cigarettes.
Curt found Emilio good guide
and untiring in the saddle. Fur
thermore, the young man was as
good at taking dictation-in Eng
ish-as Montaya had said. So he
was an asset. He was also COM
pany-of sort, and for day or
two. But looking ahead to weeks
and months in the field, Curt knew
how irksome bodyguard would be-
come.
In the two days allotted to it, Curt
completed his inspection of the en-
gineering work throughout the tract.
On the drainage job he met two
more old-timers he'd known when
with Associated. They were cut off
from contact and hadn't heard of
Fora MitchelPs death until Curt
spoke of it. However, Emilio was
close at hand and there was no dis
cussion to be had with either Steve
Harvey or Herb Lawson aside from
shop talk.
Friday morning he settled down in
his office to study of maps and
progress reports, photographic
charts, and various data of his own,
boarded from his tour of work north
of the Negro a few years ago. Much
of it applied here.
BY noon on Saturday he was ready
to start debating memoranda to
Emilio. This took three hours, dur
ing every minute of which the ma
tive smoked his brown cigarettes.
Loosely packed, they burned fast,
ash flew about at the slightest breath
of air. He ran through two pack
ages of them in this time, and Curt
marveled that the man was able to
work with his right eye constantly
screwed against the smoke which
curled up.
First impressions, suggestions,
questions of the work at last on pa
per and out of the way, Curt phoned
Montaya for an appointment early
on Sunday, then went home. It
was his first breathing space since
arriving six days ago.
He played with the children for
two hours. Curt took quickly to
Fora Mitchell's small daughter. The
shyness of her first few days had
worn off in the lively company of
Buddy and Chuck, and her loneli-
ness for her mother was gradually
fading. Lee had seen to that.
When it came time for the chill
dren's supper, Lee broke up the
play in brisk fashion. She sent
Curt to the shower, took charge of
the children, and by the time Curt
had had his bath and a cocktail,
and was stretched out on the bed for
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27

very brown and hard and tall-but
these years flew too fast-bathing on
beaches, going to movie premieres,
going back east again; just one
more family in a pretty suburban
house with double garage and three
baths. Boarding schools for Jack
and Dicky, prep schools. Prepara-
tory schools for what? Surely our
boys aren't getting up to college
years!
Bridge, and the country club;
such pleasant Sundays, with all the
nice children of friends growing up
together. And London and Paris,
but not Rome this trip, because
cable about Geraldine's mastoiditis
brought you flying home to nurse
her back to health through long
months.
But plenty of fun, fun all the way.
Jokes and plans, garden lunches and
new frocks and little envelopes of
snap shots to look at, and birthday
cakes to decorate with more and
more candles.
And dark moments, too. Now and
then chill little stabs of suspicion
about John and pretty Miss Foster
at the office. Now and then dreary
hours, asking oneself if this is all
there is to it; going to the Whites
''in my old velvet" helping the
children with homework, trying to
train Pearl in the kitchen, having
John fuss and fuss about the coffee
and tell me that Billy Black says
his wife's coffee is miraculous, so
why not telephone Betty Black?
A Snoring Husband.
Disappointment in John, too. He
hasn't enough initiative; he lets ev-
eryone in the office walk over him:
he loses money at poker; he snores
and snores and snores, and even
the most vigorous waking up won't
stop him. And he's critical, too,
asking irritably if an 11-year-old boy
needs bicycle worse than a dentist
needs to be paid? Asking pathetical-
ly whether we have to have stupid
old friends of your mothers to din
ner every night? Never compli-
mentary; and when he is a little
convivial terribly embarrassing his
wife.
But still he is John. John who
snatches Dicky up, who knows
enough to hold closed the bleeding
artery with quick, hard fingers; who
says to you quietly, "Get us to the
hospital, dear, quick as you can. It's
all right; it's nobody's fault; just
keep the car moving, that's ALL"
And it's John who goes sober and
capable into the house of death; who
says to you in quiet room of shad-
ows: "You never failed your moth
er, Mary; you were the joy of her
life. You'll be glad to remember
that someday."
Do you remember all these good
days and dark days now, when the
shadow of world crisis is upon us
all, when the woman who has a
good husband, who has a mans
strength and quietness-yes, and
stupidness and unimaginativeness,
if you like, and between her and
the storm, is the luckiest of all
women? And if he is tied to an
office desk, with none of the glory
and distraction of change and thrill
for his portion, do you remember
that once he was young and eager,
too, filled with the longing for adj
venture.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Bell syndicate-wNU Features.

HO YOU remember in lit
tle-girl days, walking
- home from school with a
chum, and telling her that you
thought no boy would ever fall
in love with you because you
were so freckled, but that every
boy would be crazy about her?
To which she promptly replied
that she never expected to get
married because her hair was
so red, but she confidently
planned to be your bridesmaid.
Do you remember the funny,
thrilled feeling of noticing that one
young man was somehow always
managing to be in the picture, and
the wonder as to whether that was
the way it was to be?
Do you remember the happy, half
ashamed, self-conscious feeling of
having everyone nice to you be-
cause you were going to be mar
ried, the little coffee cups, the jewell
ers' maroon flannel bags holding
the spoons and forks, the horrifying
spot of poison oak on your chin right
up to the wedding day itself?
And the breath-taking beauty of
the gown and veil, and the madden
ing, delightful absurdity of the hus-
band who told you three weeks later
that he didn't think your wedding
dress was particularly becoming,
but he loved you in that checked
thing you used to wear in the kitch-
en- when you were engaged?
Arrival of First Baby.
Do you remember the feeling of
admitting that a baby was on the
way, and wondering why clocks
didn't stop and friends faint away
at the news? The long, hot, bewil-
dering day of scare and pain, and
strange walls and strange faces,
and the tired look at a blanketed
bundle, while your heart cried
anxiously, "If they'll only not let
him fall and take care of him until
/ get on my feet again? And the
slow processes of world settling
down into place with new baby
and a new mother in it?
Do you remember the snowy Sun
day you took him to the Browns and
he howled all day, while the Brown
baby was so smugly good? And the
day he swallowed the end of this
thermometer? And the time John
lost his job, and got another, and
lost that?
The winter you spent with moth
er, for economical reasons, and how
wonderful she was with the babies,
but Dad kept telling John that
good man didn't lose jobs, depres-
sion or no depression?
Oh, yes, and then selling the
scenario, and being able to boast to
everyone about a smart husband,
and taking the first real holiday in
seven years; off in the car, with
only leisure and unknown roads and
delicious meals and restful little
inns ahead, and with plenty of money
in the once-emaciated pocketbook,
and no one to please but your
| selves?
And the dreadful winter when both
children were hospitalized with ton
sils and adenoid trouble, and John
had to go to Hollywood, and third
baby was on the way. That was
the time Louise Chase said: "What
a fool you are, Maryl What you'll do
| is lose John!" And from that mo-
ment your old friendship for Louise
waned like melting ice. For the
baby turned out to be Geraldine, the
miracle child of all time.
General Exodus.
Then Christmas trees, and the
boys in their ridiculous school play,
and everyone moving west, to grow
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
HIAN 9cRASHlIH ;1y1 1v:avR CHURCH Il .sszaz,sAaW

THE STORY so FAR: Jeff Curtis and
his wife, Lee, are already on their way to
TERRA Libre when Jeff receives a note
from Fora Mitchell warning them not to
come. JEFF is to be chief engineer for a
newly organized fruit company. They
arrive in TERRA Libre TO find both Fora
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
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WOMEN INFLUENCE HISTORY
0REW fEARslN
Washington, ID. C.

WOMEN INFLUENCE HISTORY
All through history, from Helen OF
Troy to the Duchess of Windsor,
women have influenced the tides OF
fate. And if it had not been for
woman in the life of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur he probably would not
have been in position to perform
his heroic defense of the Philip
pines and command Australia today.
Just after the last war, the belle
of Washington society was vivacious
Louise Brooks, step-daughter OF the
millionaire Edward T. Stotesbury, a
partner of ]. P. Morgan. She was
the toast of Washington. General
Pershing, just returned from France,
was one of her most devoted attend
ants. Admiral Beatty, hero of the
battle of Jutland, was another.
Once, after dinner at Mrs. Mar
shall Fields both Pershing and
Beatty escorted Louise to her car,
nearly had an alteration over who
was to take her home.
But General Macarthur, then SUI
perintendent of West Point, stepped
in and married the lady. Shortly
thereafter, General Pershing, not
at all happy over MacArthur's vic
tory, transferred him to the Philip
pines.
Macarthur and his wife were sta
toned in the Philippines for several
years. And although the marriage
later ended in divorce, it was Mac
Arthur's tour of duty in Manila
which acquainted him with Filipino
leaders and later brought about his
return as field marshal of the Philip
pine army.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
BORED BY WASHINGTON

AS a reward for selling $4,000
worth of war savings bonds and
stamps, Delbert Hudson, Reno,
New, newsboy, recently was given
a free trip to the nations capital
by the Kiwanis club.
For several days young Delbert
led the life of Riley.
He was entertained by Vice Presi-
dent Wallace, U. S. senators and
high treasury officials. He lived in
an expensive hotel, toured all the
showplaces and polished off numer-
Gus ice cream Sodas.
"Well, Delbert," asked Sen. Pat
McCarran of Nevada when it was
all over, what do you like best
about Washington"
"My bed," yawped Delbert, 'I'm
tired"
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
W.N.U. s e RNiCE

Fora were killed because they knew too
much. Now on tour of inspection with
Montaya he is troubled by the apparent
ly unfriendly attitude of Henderson and
Monahan. A talk with Monahan reveals
that he, too, suspects something is wrong.
NOW CONTINUE WITH THE STORY
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27

and her husband dead, and Jeff sus-
poets they were murdered. Converse.
tons with his employer, Senor Montaya,
and with his friends Jerry McInnis, Bill
Henderson and Stats Monahan confirm
his suspicious that there is something
strange going on and that Mitchell and
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
IRISH FREEDOM
PROBLEM FOR BRITISH

IN DUBLIN, IRELAND, in the fall
of 1918, just before the close of
World War I, I met Countess Plurk-
EFT. She was a radical .Shinn Feiner,
loudly voicing a demand for Irish
freedom. She insisted Ireland be
given the same kind of freedom as
that enjoyed by people of the United
States and denounced England in
every possible term. As she was a
countess, could not understand her
violent antipathy to England and
asked the ''why" of it.
Because the English shot my
son." she replied.
After another question, I learned
that her son had been engaged in
the Easter uprising in England; had
been caught redhanded; had, after
two months in Jail, civil trial and
was convicted of treason and shot.
"You want for Ireland our Ameri-
can brand of freedom" l said.
ireland is a part of the British
empire. In the United States, live
in Illinois. 1t is part of the United
States. AS citizen of Illinois, had
I engaged in an uprising against the
United States in time of war and
been caught at it, I would have been
tried by a drumhead court martial
and shot at sunrise. We value our
freedom, which we pay for with 10y
atty to the existing government. Is
that the kind of freedom you want?
did not get an answer to the
question, but in time Ireland got the
freedom the lady was demanding.
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27
40-HOUR WEEK
IN PRE-WAR FRANCE

BEFORE THE PRESENT world
conflict started, the French govern
ment was so intent on establishing
and maintaining social advances, it
did not have an opportunity to pre-
pare to meet the German menace.
With 40-hour work week, the man.
power of France could not, or did
not, produce guns and tanks and
planes in quantities to Offset those
produced by the much longer work
ing hours in Germany.
France maintained its social ad-
vances but could not stop the ad-
vance of the German army. AS
result, the French workman is
slave to Hitler today. He works the
number of hours Hitler tells him to
work; he eats what Hitler permits
him to have.
SOME AMERICANS have slowed
down. They are the ones who were
in such a hurry to get places that
they burned out their tires by fast
driving. Now they are walking and
will continue to do so for the dura-
ton.
ANOTHER WINTER IS ON THE
WAY and with its arrival General
Frost will again take over the Rus
sian offensive. He represents
tough nut for Adolf to crack. Let us
hope for his early arrival.
Buy War Bonds
HALF TRUTHS CAN BE MORE
destructive than whole lies. The
half truths are not so easily dis
cernible and create wrong impress
sionS.
CHINA VERY MUCH LIKES the
samples of American planes and
fighting pilots. With some more of
the same she could actually do
things to the Japs, but China finds
that promises of help do not effec-
lively stop the charge of the Nip
ponese.
Buy War Bonds
The Ely miner., 1942-08-27

HALF TRUTHS CAN BE MORE
destructive than whole lies. The
half truths are not so easily dis
cernible and create wrong impress
sions.