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Evening star., 1942-03-09
Motorists Warned
OF Coming Check
On Auto Stamp Tax
InternuI Revenue Office
At Richmond to Send
Out 20 Investigators

N B. Early, jr., collector of in
ternal revenue at Richmond, Va,
warned today that the day OF
reckoning for motorists who failed
to buy Federal auto tax stamps
would come soon after March Is,
according to the Associated Press.
From the Treasury Department
here some time ago came q statement
saying that "willful violators" of this
act will be vigorously prosecuted" J."
But it was noted that the funds
appropriated for the act included
only $1,500,000 to reimburse the
Post Office Department for handling
the stamps. How prosecution would
be handled has not been made clear.
unless it is through the local COL
lectors' Offices.
The stamps, which first cost 5000
covering the period up to June 80,
have been removed from the post
Offices, it was learned last night,
but are still on sale in revenue col
lectors' Offices for the benefit of
those who NEGLECTED" to purchase
them earlier.
Motorists who purchased the
stamps were warned that they would
have to file receipt cards with col
lectors of internal revenue in order
to escape being held in arrears on
the tax.
Some 100000 of these receipt
cards from Virginia motorists are
on file in Collector Earlys Office.
After March is, 20 investigators
will be assigned to check up on auto
owners who have been lax about the
stamps. Enforcement of the auto
tax law has been postponed until
after the income tax deadline, due
to the jam in the collectors Office,
it was learned. An informal check,
Mr.. Early said. showed that most
Virginia motorists already have
bought the stamps.
There was no indication early
today as to what the procedure will
be in the Maryland collection dis
trict, which includes the District of
Columbia.
Although the 500 stamps have
been withdrawn from the post Offices,
the new stamps costing sl.67, for
four months of the fiscal year, are
on sale.
Evening star., 1942-03-09

place winners will compete In a re-
gional contest some time In April.
Schools to be represented in the
finals include: American University,
Georgetown University, George
Washington University, Wilson
Teachers College, University of
Maryland, Goucher, Western Mary
land and Washington Colleges, and
the University of Delaware.
Evening star., 1942-03-09

ings Committee, told the group that
more millions of fighters are need
ed on the home front than on the
battle front and every one OF us
should enlist as warriors armed with
dollars"
The Rev. DR.. Pasquale Prospero
Parente Of Catholic University Of
fered the invocation. Benjamin
Crifasi, president of the Lido Civic
Club, and Ralph Cipriano, chair
man of the clubs defense savings
drive, also spoke briefly. Harry
Marselli presided.
Evening star., 1942-03-09

You can stretch paper. Call .
collector and he'll stretch your dis
carded paper into q thousand uses
for the Government.
Evening star., 1942-03-09

Charge Your Coot os
YOU would ot home.
If you've credit at
home, it's good at The
Hecht Co. Open q
Charge Account To-
day!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
RETALIATION FOR REPRlsAL

Soldiers do not win battles by kick,
ing children around. The only objec-
tive thot really counts in war is the
enemy himself and his powers of com.
mond. For this reason we must reject
the suggestions tentatively advanced
by certain miItory experts or COM
mentotors that the United Nations
should make q specific retaliation for
the Nozis, wiping out Of the village Of
Ldice in CzechosIovokio.
The murder Of Lidice, itself re-
Prisol for assassination Of the "honq-
man" Heydrich, would be in no way
Cancelled or expoted, nor its repetition
prevented, if the Allies by on air raid
should wipe comparable German viii
loee off the map. Such q vengeance
would take the lives Of Germans who
can no more turn the course Of Nozi
bullying and brutality than the miners
Of lidice could have saved Heydrich
from its consequences.
Retrbution reprisoI retoIiu-
tion - it becomes an endless chain
which occompIishes nothing. It in
duI9es hatred to SOW new hatred. The
only way to prevent more lidices is to
crush the political and military power
that orders them. The United Nations
should continue to hammer strictly
and stroiehtly at military detectives
until that is accomplished. Then, if in
identification is to be sought, let the
count of men, women and children of
Lidice be odded to the number of Nozi
officials and henchmen who shall be
turned over OF the ormistice TO do
penal servitude for their crimes
From the Christion Science Monitor
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20

miliarize themselves with the
other characters and the action
of the play"
WORKING IN DARK
Many actors, and even stars,
start work in pictures with only
the haziest notions of the sort of
characters they're playing or
what the stories are about.
There's an anecdote about a di-
rector who was rehearsing a
scene in which an old man met
a boyhood friend, and just as
they were ready to shake hands,
the elder man put his hands be-
hind him.
The director put them through
the bit for half an hour and
still wasn't Sd ;sficd. Put more
emotion into it when you put
your hands behind YOU" he
pleaded.
The mystified actor said, "All
right, but it would be easier if l
knew why l put my hands be-
hind my back"
Didn't tell you?" asked the
director. you've got leprosyl"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
WHAT ABOUT VACATIONS?

The vacation season is beginning,
and brings with it q new problem this
year. The pressure on plant and man.
power is SO great that, regardless Of the
cost element, employers hate to see
their worknen leave production lines
But, in the long run, will more war
goods be made if the men remain at
work, with extro pay for the vacation
period, or if they take the normal va
cation period to rest, relax and re-
witty themselves
The National Industrial Confer
ence Boord has made q limited survey
indicating that employers ore divided
evenly on the subject Of those can
vossed 50 ore keeping the men on the
job and paying them for the time; 81
ore giving vacation time off as usual.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
RUBBER SCRAP

1t is vitol that the public, from foe
tory owner TO smallest householder, CO.
operate fully and promptly with Presi-
dent RooseveIt's scrop rubber salvage
drive
Estimate os to the quantity Of re-
coverobIe rubber range from q con-
sentative and beIievobIe half million
tons to the apparently fontosic guess
of 10 million tons-5OO pounds q per-
son. # whatever exists is to be utilized
now, while we need it most we must
measure the supply accurately at
once. Only by complete public COOP
Grafton con this be done. But the public
should keep firmly in mind that
this rubber is not for tires for pleasure
driving. We need it to win the war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
o McKENNY ON BRIDGE

After taking his ace of dia-
mOndS, East led the spade, which
was won by the declarcr. The
ten Of diamonds was led and the
Jack held. East led the queen
of diamonds and declarer ruffed.
South led a trump to North's
jack, East discarding the heart
deuce. North led his last dia-
mond and the dcclarcr ruffed
it.
Then came the blaCkout. When
the lights went on again, de-
Clarcr unhesitatingly caShcd the
ace Of clubs and fineSsed against
West for the club queen. He
made fivc-odd the extra trick
being vital in match point play.
During the blackout, South had
been able to reason his play out
as follows. West had opened the
lourth-bCSt diamond from king
XXX. Most players will not
lead away from a king If the
hand offers a reasonable alterna-
tive. Why did West fail to open
the unbid club suit? 1t must be
because he held the queen-x-x.
If ne held four clubs to the queen
or even three small clubs, he
probably would have preferred
that lead to the diamond.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20

Piles, want to create by conquest stu
alton in which they can go to war and
possess, while at war, the raw materials
to make themselves completely self
sufficient.
One goal proclaimed by the Allan
tic Charter is to make raw materials
available to oil peoples That does not,
however, mean that we propose to oP-
portion ownership Of world territory so
that each great notin will hold title to
on exact proportion Of every important
basic commodity.
would we consider giving copper
and oil to Britain or Germony by ceding
q part Of Montana or Of Texos2" ask
Hoover and Gibson. "Are we going to
claim ports Of Russia or BroziI which
contain manganese"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
% HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

r:ng time. Trailers for top bud
get pictures mcy last two and
one-half minutes. This move
should save 100000 feet of
raw film annually.
1t was an awful wrench for
Hollywood to cut the screen
credits to a mere listing Of stars
and featured players. Un fact, at
this writing, the various guilds
haven't voted consent, though
it's almost certain they WILD
THE YAWN PATROL
Producers, directors, writer's,
composers and a flock of tech
niCians have battled to get their
names on the screen for longer
and longer periods i in bigger
type, though they know theatre
patrons yawn audibly at de-
vices such as flower petals drift
ing on limpid pool and spelling
out: Miss Shcarcr's Coiffures
Designed by SYDNEY GUILAR-
OFF"
The conservation committee
knew better than to propose the
complete sacrifice Of such ego in
fation, so the plan is to allow
the usual credits - down to the
last montaGe artist and Coutur-
Ter - on movies while they're
being shown in Hollywood,
where everybody's professional
fricr Is, rivals and potential en-
ploycrs may be impressed. Out
of town only the principals in
the actual cast will be listed.
This should save another TO-
100000 feet of film.
The Screen Actors Guild sub
mittcd proposals for film saving
which would sound perfectly
reasonable TO anyone except a
studio official. 1t W S suggested,
for example, that a lot of re-
takes could be avoided if scenes
could be adequately rchcarsed
and if bit players could be called
an hour or so before they APP
pear before the cameras 10 ia
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

MA service Siait Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD. June 20 -
Among the benefits certain to
come from the war are the elm
inatiOn Of those interminable
screen credits which so long
have tried the patience Of movie
gocrs, and the shortening of
screen trailers advertising COM
ing attractions.
It's all in the interest Of war
economy. since film contains a
good many chemicals and ma
terials used in explosives. Wash
ington had warned that some
thing had to be done, so a local
film conservation committee is
trying to forcStall heavy hand
cd action by WPB.
BY Chopping out some Of the
eXtravagant claims and often
misleading excerpts from pic
lures being advertised, most
trailcrs will be reduced to $50
feet, or about 90 seconds run
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
o Literary.
Guiidepost o
BY JOHN SELBY
THE EIGHT MILLION" by
Meyer Berger (Simon e. SchuS-

NcytT berger NSlmOn az SChuS-
ter; S2.50).
The lit'ry boys who sit COM
fortably at home and take catty
jabs at the number of books by
returning foreign correspond
ents forgot something It is that
the boys who stay home and
fiddle round Manhattan are
just as prolific makers of books
as the Shirers, the Sheeans, the
PorterS and so on. 1t is, indeed.
a rule that anybody who ever
wrote more than one piece for
the New Yorker shall eventually
collect these pieces into a book
with a snazzy title. Because of
this the peculiar literary tenets
OF that strange magazine are bet
ter perpetuated than those Of
any other contemporary periodi-
cal, barring, perhaps, the "Old
Farmers Almanac"
Meyer BerPcr's THE Eight
Million is better than most of
these collections, better, for ex-
ample, tn a + Sally Benson's
Meet Me at st. Louis" or the
the grab-bags of f. B. White, be-
cause Mr.. Berger really has
worked TO produce his stories
he has mined Manhattan as
Boer m in G $ Kimberley. If a
Bocr mines Kimberley.
And he has produced a mo-
sale, the whole Of which is a
pretty highly Colored, but rec
ognizable picture of New York.
You have Richard B. Harrison
de LaWd Of Green PaStures'D
being buried from St. Johns Ca
thedral, and a stole group be-
hind two guarded doors cutting
diamonds. You have man max
irg fiddles and, hard by, a group
of supers NJ Boris Gudunov"
at the Metropolitan. "Godunov"
Il misspelled in the text, by the
way. You have the eccentrici-
ties Of Mr.. Harris wedding ring
customers, and the eccentricity
Of Mr. Otto, whose speciality is
tying aScots for smart weddings
Sixteen ushers," he'd muir
muir. Sixteen Bridesmaids. /
tied all the ties"
Two of the best pieces are on
the old Tombs and its fortunate
ly-ended history, and on the
old West Forty seventh street
precinct house, also gone to
glory now. One Of the worst is
the pointless piece on the spice
mill, and this, incidentally. con-
tains a remarkable mistake in
arithmetic. The United States
uses, according to this piece.
about 100,000,O0O pounds of
spices a year. Per capita con-
stump t i on is something
like 135 pounds" the para
graph concludes.
But Manhattan is in "The
Eight Million" if you want it.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authori-
tatiVe answers below:
l. When you ask a friend TO
buy tickets or some article for
you, should you give him the
money at the time or say, I'll
pay you later?
2, If you borrow trifling
sum of money from a friend or
fellow worker, should you make
point of paying it back
promptly?
3. Should a woman who
smokes never trouble to take her
own cigarets, figuring there will
always be someone at hand to
keep her supplied?
4 Should house guest who
plans to visit for a week or more
take his sugar or his rationing
card with him?
5. Should a house guest help
with the work if me hostess does
all or most of her homework?
What would you do if
You go visiting with a very
small child not used to eating at
the table with grown-ups-
(a) Ask the hostess if you may
feed him before the others
eat?
(b) Put him up to the table be-
side you?
Answers
|. Give him the money, as
having to advance the money
might Inconvenience him.
2. Yes.
3. No. She should carry her
own.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
Better What Would You Do"
Solution-(a).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
. 50 THEY SAY

Mere superiority Of war pro-
ductlon is not enough. It is not
certain we will win, but | think
We will
Walter Nash, New Zealand
minister to the United States.
1t is worse than stupid-it IS
unpatriotiC-to fight or refuse,
for selfish reasons, to respect
the price, rationing or priority
regulations which are necessary
TO win the war.
George A. Renard, WPB con-
SUltant.
Our soldiers did their Job at
Valley Forge and Yorktown,
they did it at Chateau Thierry,
they did it at Bataan, and they
are going to do it in Tokyo and
Berlin.
Robert p. Patterson, undersec-
rotary of war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTONs

not as q prohibition matter,
but purely to increase the eff
cheney Of the armed forces.
Soviet Russia, soys the Cop
tain, is for more efficient than
the United Stotes on this point,
for in the Red army only the
soldiers subjected TO cold weu-
ther get vodka.
Captain Castor has been q
Prohlbitionist all his life. He
was born to il lin Henry, IIID,
he soys, from q Iona line Of
Huguenot ancestors. He has
never been drunk himself, but
ne has tested everything, for
scientific experiment.
CIRRUS
One-fourth of the S24 bill
lion spent by the notionoI.
stote and local governments in
I94I went for national de-
tense. y Cost of living in
Britain has risen % per cent
since stort Of the war in 1889
Swotches have been linn
tied to six square inches, TO
conserve cloth. So" Inventory
shows $4,000 male and &c.
600 female BICYCLES in stock
for rotioning throughout the
country. Price ceiIino
schedules on fall cIothinq are
now in preparation. - You
can now buy gift toilet kits for
soldiers without turning in an
old toothposte tube. " " Ar
my ordnance has 1900 prime
and 10000 subcontrocts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
BY WILLIAM r.. MCKINNEY
Arann'. InrI a tnthnritr.

During a recent championship
bridge tournament, a blaCkout
occurred at the moment when
one dCClarCr was confronted with
a problem as to which way TO
take a fincSsC The dcclarCr re-
marked later that the b'aCkout
gave him more time to conccn-
tratC. and he was able 20 figure
out the correct play. Here is the
hand.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
ECONOMIC DETERMikiSM


determnism - the theory that World
wors ore inevitable until the notions
creote q sort Of communism OF noturol
resources - is exploded pretty thor
ouohIy by Herbert Hoover and Hugh
Gibson in their new book on THE Prob
lens of Lasting Peoce."
Economic determinism is the ldeo
(which nobody has argued more con-
vincinqIy on the bosis Of mossed tocts
than did Carleton BeoIs two years ogo
in Pon-Americo-thot every greet no.
ton is entitled to own, either at home
or in its colonies, enough Of every inn
portont raw material to make that
nation completely self-sutficient.
This is the theory of the "hove" and
the "hove not" nations. Greet Britain
and the United Stotes, France and the
Low Countries we're supposed to be the
"hove" nations, monopoIizing the
worlds natural resources, controlling
them through some sort Of interno-
tionol corteIs and boarding them from
the "hove not" nations.
The "hove nots, according to their
own claims and the argument Of eco
nomic determinism opponents, we're
Germany, Ito|y and Jopon.
The contention is that we can't be
surprised if the have not" nations in
sist upon creating world wars until
they have won, and retained, their foir
share Of these natural resources in full
national ownership and under COM
pIete national control.
The idea sounds highly plausible,
when q census Of world raw noterioI
sources is cited in support Unques-
tionobIy Britain and the United States,
France and the Low Countries did own
and control the bulk Of the economic
wealth Of the world.
But Messrs. Hoover and Gibson
have gone straight to the roots Of the
problem, cutting sharply through the
superficioIties with which German
propoeondists and misguided econo-
nists confused the issue until the Jopo-
nese attack on Pearl 1orbor made
words futile.
The economic foot is" soys the
ex-presdent and his collaboration,
"thot there always have been and ore
ample raw materials available to any
nation during peace if they will pro-
duce the goods TO exchange for Them"
Germany and ItoIy and Japan
couldn't get enough raw materials
through normal international trode be-
cause they we're using what they had
to make war machines, instead Of pro-
ducing commodities to exchange for
more materials.
THE cry for equity in raw mote-
riols' is partly O cry that comes from q
desire for assured war supplies" soys
Messrs. Hoover and Gibson, correctly.
IT Germany ItoIy ond Japan de-
sired to mointoin peoce, and turned
their productive efforts to peoce goods,
and exchanged. those commodities
with other peoples, they could get oil
the raw moteriols they want, often be-
low production cost.
But thot is not the totoIitorion
goal. Dictator nations, mIitoristic peo-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20

Every bit of rubber that ev-
erybody turns over TO Uncle
Sam will snap at Germany and
Japan. Oh, yes-and Italy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20

The United States, during the
first half OF 1910, imported l07,-
O39 pounds of gcranlum oil.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
60 YEARS AGO TODAY

Drs. Smith and Nevius did a
huge business in teeth extract
ing Friday and Saturday Dr..
Smith uses the Hurd machine for
painless extraction.
Law & Shook have a change Of
price list in this issue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
MAN OF AFFAIRS

Captain Goston now makes
his headquarters in O rooming
house on Rhode Island avenue
in Washington, ond from this
headquarters runs his World
Prohibition Federation, found
ed in 1909 but seldom heard
Of since, and his Potrot Ouord
Of America, Of more recent
vjntoge. The Putriot Guord,
soys the Coptoin, now has
committees in 40 states, with
about Is on each committee,
which would give it q top
membership OF 1000. Among
other things, the Guard stonds
for storting more sub c
works in O relief policy Of No
Work-No Pay for obIe- bodi-
ed persons" and "eroduoI sup
preston Of IeeoIized liquor
truffic."
In booking the Sheppord
bill, Goston soys he is doing 1t
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-20
D FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES %

SIS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
Don NJ. Dickinson, of late has
generously offered to rcpaint
and re-carpet Grace Church.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-30
Film Time Clock

ApAMs-"The iPsd Piper" IL q. m,
1888 1850, 7:46, 1924 d. m; LUCKY
Legs" 1851, 3:4s. e;4l. $3.50 p. m.
BROADWAY CAPITOL - Crossroads, -
.i2:43, 4. 7:17 1854 y. m; They All
Kissed the Bride" ii;i4 a. m, 1881, o;is'
s;05 .. 10
oIvsBRELLA - "crossroads. :" 1853.
Bride" i2+sa,- 80. $50. gao p. m.
CINEMA-"shs OF Ball., II noon. 2;lo
Island. i;iO' s;aS, xaS, E4O. 10 p. m.
FIsHER-"crossroady 1858. 500, SOS
i1;l4 .. m; They All Kissed the Bride,
1880. 3:36. 6:42. s:4s p. m.
FOx-"Prid. of the Yankees i2:iT
ters," Nor a. m. 2:s2, 5:57. S:22 p. m.
MADIsON-"Holiday Inn" IL a; m.
2:35. $40, e:i5 p. m; Road TO Happi'
ness" 1883. 4;2s. sos, li;25 ,. m.
MICHIGAN-"Juke Girl" 1l;05 a, M
2:0s. SOL, 1854, 10:47 p. m; The World
at War" 1850. 1852. 6;45, s;3o p. m.
PALMs-sTATE-"wak Island" i2:4i
All. TAI. 1880 p, M Twin Beds
RIVIERA - "cro.ssosds;% 2:Si, so; o..
Bride. !" 1850. s:ss, s:42. GAS p. m.
R-K-O UPTOWN - Crossroads. 1880
$40. 7:55' IL D. m. /: They All Kissed the
Bride" 3:i5. 6:25. e:40 p. m.
ROYAL - Crossroads" s:li. 1ilt
D. m; They All Kissed the Bride" 6:f5'
$3.50 p. m.
TELENEws - News, short subjects,
a. m. TIL IL p. m.
UNITED ARTISTS Married an An
eel, n Ills 3. 1872 pm, Her Cardboard
Lover" li:2T a. m, 1909, 6:5i, 1923 pm.