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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

If you're more use to your
country on q technical Job,
will you stick at it-or 90
have fun?
IT'S EvERYokE'S WAR
II you're in q war produc-
ton plant, will you slow down,
90 on strike or otherwise jock
the job-or will you give it
everything yo', hove3
II you're an employer max
ing such profits you can't sleep
good nights, will you ask the
government to reneootiote your
controct-or will you keep on
trying to live with your guilty
conscience?
II you're in the government,
will you serve your country
or will you keep on playing
politics?
Will you do your bit for the
Red Cross or the USO or the
OCO-or will you fritter away
your spore time like q sociol
porosite?
Enough?
The point is thot this is q
war for everyone, ond not just
the other fellow and the other
gal. And if this sounds q lit
tie bit like the old Teutonic
philosophy that war is an en-
nobIin9 institution, couteriz-
ing the soul with q white-hot
fire. moybe it is.
There ore some people who
feor the United StCtes may not
be able to outproduoe the oxis
unless the u. S. living STANDARD
is reduced TO q level as low os
thot in Germany or Soviet Rus
sio.
It's possible.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, March 4-One
Of the benfits that the war seems
likely to bring to the movie in
dustry-through the demand for
conservation of films the
elimination of several incompet-
ent directors. Most of these men
get big salaries and have posed
as painstaking artists and dog
ged perfectionists simply be-
cause they're in the habit of
filming scenes 10, Is or even rs
times.
Actually, they haven't enough
perception to know when a scene
is good, so they have been max
ing numerous takes and leaving
the final selection to the film ed
itors in the cutting rooms. Most
of the pretentious, slow-moving,
spiritless movies you have seen
were made this way; when act
ors are made to repeat each bit
of action hour after hour, they
behave with all the verve of a
bunch of sleepwalkers.
There's talk of limiting direc-
tors to three takes on each scene,
though it's more likely that they
will be restricted only on the to-
tai film footage used on each
picture. The government wants
to save sulphuric and nitric
acids, gun cotton, silver and 9TH
err acids and metallic substances
that go on or into celluloid.
SHOW GOES ON
Baby Sandy, a bag of 3, is
washed up at Universal AS If
he merely wanted to prove that
he could do it, Dick Barthelmess
established a new screen career,
then tossed it away. He joined
the Navy -. Hedy Lamar, or
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
High|ights from
the Latest Books


Joshua Vidal, son OF Morde-
cal the money lender, worked
at the Hebrew ledger in his IA
theirs counting house in Jews
Street" and yearned after free
dom for his people. Voltaire and
Rosseau had burned Age of Rea-
son and the common humanity"
into his hungry mind.
The time was coming, surely,
when men would forget the scar
let patch. the yellow hat of Avi-
gnon, the ever-driven exile Of
the Children of Irael. "They are
heralding in the spirit of liberty,
father The old world is dead
forever more"
eve are here on sufferance,"
said Mordecai sadly.
81 marvel" said Patriarch
Ventura, Joshua's grandfather,
lat your simplicity"
Ludwig Lewiston sets his deli
cate stage for Renegade" dial:
S2.50) in the profligate Paris of
du B AIRY and her doddering
Louis, when the poor had less
than crusts and ladies had two
lovers in every plot.
Into this "world of peoples"
Joshua ventures as the Chevalier
Jean de Vidal. Yes, a better age
will come says Valdes, himself a
renegade meshumad-as he
charges the runaway 100000,
livres for petit palace near
Versailles and forged patent OF
nobility. But it will not be the
peaceful sluicing sway Of truth
and freedom and fraternity at
the rotten foundations Of Europe.
1t will come with fire, with rope
and scaffolds, and high heads
rolling in the dust.
But Joshua's is the hope OF
youth and gentle spirits. He
finds CLEANS of 1t echoed in the
tolerance of England and Hol-
land; none in Polish prosecutions.
little in the Prussia that has &C
copied Moses Mendelssohn, less
in q Paris that considers broth
erhood' PHILOSOPHERS chic - so
long as they do not gnaw at
prejudice or pocketbook.
Beautiful, and a balm to
broken hopes. is the romance of
Joshua and Marguerite, confess
de Saint-Florentin, who takes
his faith before she becomes his
wife. But Lewisohn's vine-cov.
cred denouement Is garish gild-
ing for an otherwise flawless
flower. The forces with which
he deals in Renegade" are too
rooted and vocal and of too time-'
less importance. for the reader
to be convinced that Love Con-
quers All.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

South has bid diamonds origin
ally and has rebid them. He
didn't like spades, but was will
ing to attempt three no trump
when North rebid spades.
All these facts point to long
strong diamond suit in South S
hand. East especi lily can see
this probability, for he knows
that his queen is going to drop.
East can also see from his king
of spades that North has six or
seven spades topped by enough
so that the one trick to the king
will be lost in taking out trumps.
OF what use is so-called safe
exit here? The moment the de-
clarer gets in the lead, he will
take out trumps and then run
off Souths diamond suit.
In yesterdays hand the leader
held J-10-x i'm a suit and the lead
of the jack was indicated as his
best opening, from the bidding
and from the rest of his hand.
But for East to open the jack of
hearts here would be silly. lie
has to try to develop the de-
fcnsive tricks in hurry.
Naturally then he has TO count
on finding an honor in Vests
hand i'm whatever suit he opens.
But the jack of hearts is too low
~ be substantially aided BY sim
gle honor. The right lead Is the
five Of clubs. Then il West turns
up with the ace or queen, the
defense may cash or develop
enough tricks to stop game be-
fore the king Of spades Is forced
out.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

igal. "Just let me turn my back
for 10 or IL years, and look what
happens!"
Sign at a Hollywood filling
station: Don't smoke. Maybe
your life isn't worth anything,
but gasoline is" :. Sign (bor-
roWed from a filling station) in
a window display of foundation
garments: 1--WE fix flats"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
MAMA'S LITTLE MAN

KANSAS CITY - Mother
blushed and the cop pretended
he didn't hear when three year
old Sonny whispered: Tell him
to shut up and 60 away from
here!"
A ticket for running red
light was imminent.
But when the youngster wrig-
gled free from mothers hand
muzzle and shouted: Get out of
here and mind your own bust
ness!" Lieut.. Barney Mahoney
threw up his hands.
II give up. You can go ahead
lady
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
DETERMINED

CHICAGO-K. Z. Crago, an
airline employer applied to the
rationing board for delivery OF a
car he said he had purchased be-
fore the Jan. / freeze order, but
was turned down on grounds OF
insufficient evidence of the pur-
chase. He appealed, but again
was turned down.
When rationing started Mon
day. he was the first to apply to
his board and, with approval OF
the board an automobile dealer
sold him the very car he had
been trying to get for more than
two months. 1t was the citys
first rationed automobile.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
EXPORTS HORSES

The kingdom of Bhutan, which
lies on the southern slope OF the
Himalaya mountains, in Asia, ex-
ports horses principally.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
BACK SOON-WE HOPE

BACK SOON-WE HOPE
SALT LAKE CITY-This sign
on the door of Charles E. Jaffa'
printing shop explains every
thing:
CLOSED for the duration. Gone
to help whip the Axis"
He's in the Navy.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
STRIKES STILL

STRIKES STILL
An audience Of 30 million sits in
on the War Labor Boards fact finding
hearings on the little steel" dispute in
voIvino $4,000 workers. That oud-
fence grants the nominal Importance
to both sides Of "union security" and
ST. q doy wage increase. But above
all that audience demands that not
one of those ITS 900 workers lose one
hours work.
After Japan struck, labor pledged:
no strikes; industry pledged; no lock-
outs.
Yet unofficial War Department
statistics indicate mondays lost in
strikes on Army war orders will totol
32,7OO for the first Is days Of Febru-
ory.
The 32,7OO mondays lost last
month may not seem important COM
pared with hundreds of thousands Of
mon-doys lost each month before
PeorI Horbor. But they are important
to that audience Of 80 million. And
the foct that time lost increased over
Jonuory-when "onIy" 5000 mondays
on Army contracts we're wosted-does
not ease the situation.
= Perhaps failure to obtain ST. more
day would work hardship on en-
pIoyes.
Il Perhaps granting Of union secur-
ity" demands would work hordship on
employer.
Hardship? Well, thot is q word we
must all learn the meaning Of before
we win this fight. Some Of us have al
ready learned it to the fullest - the
COB bombed to bits at Pearl Horbor
(. the marine ground into the sand
Of Wake Island the Filipino mo-
chine eunned on the streets Of unde-
tended Manila the soldier dying
on Botoon that his comrades might
fight on these and more.
Others Of us have learned it al
reody-the mother opening q wire be-
ginning 1.-THE Navy Department Deep
ly regrets" the Pearl Horbor Wild
ow working in Los Angeles worpIone
factory the families, sweetheorts
and friends porting the American
war prisoner loborine in Japan L.
the men leaving home for 81 month
=. these and more.
Heavy defect of the ottempt in the
House to suspend extro overtime poy-
ment above 40 hours q week FOR the
duroto n" indicates governmental
adoption Of q clear labor policy may
not be on immediate prospect.
Those 30 million don't like that.
They want this little steel" dispute
settled quickly and clearly.
They want definite government
Iobor policy that will stop - somehow
- the flow of wasted mon-doys.
They want labor to live up to its
pledges: no strikes.
They want industry to honor it's
promise: no Iockouts.
They want empIoye and employer
to reoIize this is wor-for slowly the
$50 million ore coming to know this
themselves.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
IS YEARS AGO TODAY

The Methodists will take in
20 new members as the result Of
the recent revivals.
VIM. Goldenbogen's saloon
and residence at the depot burn
ed at an early hour this morn
ing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04

In its orbit around the sun, the
earth travels at a rate Of about
1000 miles q minute.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04

Cept thot tneir Country - St''I OF tI'S
defensive, they might get down to the
production job with less distraction.
But they ore citizens Of democracy
and will support the war - and the
peoce - better if they share intelIi-
gently and os fully os possible in their
LEADERS, knowledge Of the necessities Of
the situation. In his Woshineton's
Birthday talk, President Roosevelt did
q splendid Job - within the necessary
limits - of helping Americans to un-
derstond the war.
Fundamental to the whole effort to
resist the divide-ond-conquer tech
nique of the Axis is recognition Of the
oIobol nature of the war. Britain and
America have been extremely FORUM
ate in possessing leaders who, portly
because Of naval training and an oP-
probation Of sea power, have 9rosPed
the larger strategy Of this struggle as
clearly as Hitler and his experts in
eeo-poItios But the danger remains
that the people Of the democrocies
have not yet learned the lesson Of COL
leotive security, do not yet see that they
must unitedIy resist on q world front
even when the attack appears to be on
place far away or unimportont to
most of them.
For Americans, remote from most
of the active fronts, the geography les
son the President presented is por-
ticuIorIy useful. To recognize that
Suroboyo is more vitol to their own
war effort than Sonto Barbara may be
difficult - when submarine attacks
California - but os Mr.. Roosevelt
pointed out, if the outposts are lost the
ottocks on home territory will be press
ed all the more freely. If the japanese
are not stopped in the Dutch Indies
they will have to be stopped closer to
America - or in America. Thot is why
it is necessary for the United Nations
strained as they ore to supply for
flung botteIines - to hold on while
organizing superior forces for an Of
fensive.
Thot. is why it is necessary to re-
sist the Axis effort to SOW suspicion and
cultivate jealousy Of Allies. For every
story Berlin or Tokyo tells Americans
about the British or the Russians, it
tells them on equally vicious story
about America. Every plane or ship or
gun they can beeuiIe or friehten Amer
leans into holding back for home de-
Tense today can SO weaken the front
lines that ten planes, ships or guns
may be required next year to regain
the bases lost.
The President was more effective
in denouncing runnors than in giving
the reol ontidote - more foctuol in
formation As to Pearl Horbor, the Lost
word hos not been sold either as to it's
military effects or the manner in which
these have been given the people, But
the President did provide useful infor-
nation about the necessities Of de-
Tense in the Southwest Pacific, about
the difficulties Of supply ct that dis
tonce and about the general effort to
hold on and the hope that I'VE shall
have the offensive soon"
Americans know enough about the
situation to devote themselves to the
three high purposes he listed, to avoid
trying to make turtle out Of the eoeIe,
to refuse to be Summer soldiers" to
dig in on the first tosk-production.-
From the Christian Science Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
PASS THE BEANS
yrvlyyAY EAV &C

PASS THE BEANS
TWIN FALLS, IDAHO
Everyone knows now about the
tire that was worth more than
the automobile but here's an
other.
Thieves broke into the ware
house of the Kinney wholesale
company, dumped ton of beans
on the floor-and stole the bur-
lap bags.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
~ PETER EDISON
Dolly Monitor Washington
fAssAsAAaA>~S

announcement oS thus darn
war indubitobIy is, before it's
over it may offer q greet op-
portunity for the restoration
of simple American decenoy.
even if we lose, which is q pos
sibiIity.
Perhaps this ideo hos been
sold before and it may have
been sold better, but it cont
be sold too often. II it sounds
q little bit like q sermon, thot
must be pordoned for it is oIso
news.
The underground news of it
is thot war offers unlimited
opportunities for petty and
grand crookedness, selfish
ness, and every misdemeonor
on the calendar of crime.
Hoorders, profiteers, eoueers,
chiseIers and rooketeers Of all
kinds have q chance to get
theirs and get the other fel-
lows too, in wor-time. Over
coming the temptation to give
in TO this nostiness is whot can
restore the character Of Amer
ico to its best.
While unconscionobIe war
piokines ore good, there is q
premium on meonness, as
there is in all boomtimes. To
put something over on some
one else is considered smart.
But once let the country get
in O tough spot, once let q
token bombing Or dir raid hit
the moinIond and q different
scale Of values oppeors on the
book Of etiquette. Sharing.
sacrifice. neiehborIiness and
fair dealing then become the
virtues.
WHAT WILL you Do7
To quit pitching worm-up
roundhouse eenerolties and TO
slam q few specific strikes
over the plate, ootch these:
Are you going TO hoard sugar
Or ore you going t, get along
on less than your ration?
When the rotioning books
ore posed out, will you make
an honest return on your fomi-
Iy-or will you cheot q little to
find woys to get more than
your shore2
When your tires wear out.
will you walk to the bus line
or will you pay O premium
price to some tire bootleo9er
or fence for slipping you q
couple Of hot ones?
If you're O merchant, will
you mark up the prices Of
stocks on your shelves just be-
ccuse the next consignment is
going to cost you more-or
will you do your bit to prevent
initiation by keeping your
prices as low as possible?
If you're q landlord, will you
roise the rent just because
houses or apartments or rooms
ore getting scorce-or will you
keep your previous rotes?
If you're in the supply bust
ness, will you make side deals
through fo.se statements on
invoices-or will you keep hon.
est bookso
II you're q manufacturer,
will you conceal price increos-
es by lowering the quality OF
your produot-or will you re-
duce prices where substitutions
Of cheaper moterioIs make thot
possible2
If the stuff you buy or sell
is under government price reg
uIotions, will you obide by
those ceiIines-or will you fine
woys to beot the moxinum:
by hidden bonuses or commits
sions?
If your raw moteriols ore
under priorities control, will
you abide by those limitotion:
or will you conceal inven'
tories, toke core Of your ole
customers and thumb youI
nose at the government?
Will you stick to bushes:
os usual as long os you con-
or get out offer the war bust.
ness and convert sooner thar
you thought you could?
Will you dodge he droft-
or do your duty?
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
THE REASON

THE REASON
LAS CRUCES, N. M.-Dis-
trict Attorney Martin Threet
missed his first court opening in
nine years. Reason:
Thum dental work Wath in
progreth.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY

The Risk family are getting
ready to 60 into the livery busi-
ness again, on Mulett street.
The new Fenton House will
open May LIST. The painters will
60 to work on the interior next
week.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
'l)ttoe R5TADiDlNG THE WAR

I. !, The Antericon people have one
5Qpt, immediate tosk - to outmotch
Wor Effort Of the Axis. If-they did
Slcw onythipo about the war ex-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04

dinarily not the shrinking type,
has lost 10 pounds Height of
something are the "lipstick teas"
that few groups of gals have
been having. They bring their
empty lipstick containers and
contribute the metal for sal
wage.
New York Yankees and
Brooklyn Dodgers will battle it
out among rival theatres this sea-
son. Goldwyns pride of the
Yanks" and 20th-Fox's Dem
Lovely Buns" will hit the
screen about the same time -.
The self-ribbing vogue continues
in MY Favorite Blonde" when
Bob Hope is seen turning on a
radio and getting the Bob Hope
program. He quickly dials to an
other station, commenting: Il
never could stand that guy
Hope"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-04
PASS PROTECTION

On a night clubbing expedition
Nancy Kelly wore a hunk of
costume jewelry fashioned like a
traffic signal, with small, color
ed stop and go lights operated by
hidden batteries and controlled
by a switch. Worked fine in
keeping the playboys in check
until the red bulb burned out.
A story being told on most OF
the sound stages today involves
an actor who deserted his wife in
1880. Friends reported having
seen him in New York, but she
had no direct word from him I'M
til he stalked into local bistro
a few evenings ago and found
her dancing with another man.
Il thought SOL sneered the prod
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11
Snake Routs Police
They Capture Him but He Turns Tables on Them;
Believed Rather but He Had No Rattles

leisurely escape from the box and
six policemen made a hurried
escape from the squad room.
THE snake - might as well
call him Adolf for want of a
better name-will be taken In
Humane Society headquarters
and first precinct officers will
breathe more easily"
Some of the policemen insisted
Adolf was a rattlesnake but other,
pointed out il had no rattleS.
Another school of thought iden
titled Adolf as a king snakc-bu
literalists argued it had no crown
either.
Precinct detectives dcduce thai
the snake may have been from the
Indian Herb Store. pa Monroe
avenue. Almost any claimant ma!
have il, as far as police are con
cerned.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11
Car Hits Truck;
I Women Die

Two Cincinnati vehicles travel
ing in opposite directions collided
on the Toledo-DiX highway near
Flat Rock early today killing two
women passengers.
The crash was between a truck
trailer driven by sgd LivinSon, 20
en- route to Cincinnati, and an in
bound touring car driven by Will
liam Huff, 80, Negro.
Huff, reported on the wrong
side of the road. struck the heavily
loaded truck in the center. The
truck was thrown across the pas
Senger car. crushing it.
Dead were Rosie Berg and Billie
Cooper Negroes.
a Detroit traffic fatality was
reported in the death of James
Gillespie, so, of 6O31 Rhons ave-
nue.. Gillespie, a mailman, died of
injuries received when struck by
a truck, July s.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11

II seems that two policemen met
a snake today at Monroe and Ran
dolph streets.
Nobody knows the snakes name
but here's the way they tell the
story at police headquarters:
"Patrolmen Willard Dowd and
Henry Espey. In a cruiser. saw
the four-foOt snake and stopped
their automobile. While one of
the Officers tthey won't say
which, put a rag around the
snakes head the other ran for
the nearest bar-just 10 get a
gunnysack in which To put the
snake.
"Under arrest, the Grant
snake WAS taken To first pre-
cinct where II was put In a
wooden box, reptile equivalent
OF cell. The snake made
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11
5 Atlantic Trips in 9 Days
!, American and z Canadian FIers Set Record
in Rushing Urgent Supplies to England

LONDON, July IL GNSD.-Two
American fiiers serving with the
British ferry command and two
Canadian airmen have made five
flights across the Atlantic in nine
days in an American Liberator
Consolidated B-24. it was re-
vealed today.
Then, after a rest of u hours
they flew back to Montreal
making the sixth crossing in less
than two weeks.
The Liberator was under COM
mand Of Pilot Captain Fortune A.
Dugan of New Orleans and his
Capt. Ralph +. Adams Of
Emory. Tex. Radio Officer James
r. Fraser of Charlestown, Prince
Edward Island, and Flight Engi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11

neer Arthur F. Ryan of Toronto
were the o!ner members of the
crew.
The recens flights were made TO
bring urgently needed supplies to
England. bat the usual service is
TO transport official passengers
from Canat, and TO take back TO
Canada bomber ferry crews who
have delivered planes in England.
The crews record is one of the
most remarkable in the records of
the ferry command. 1t has piled
up 500 hours flying time in the
last three months over both the
Atlantic and Pacific and has made
eight trips to and from Australia
in that time. I
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11
Much Ado
California Agencies Play
Pass the Buck

PASADENA, Cal, July II (UP)
The patrolman who saw it called
the state highway patrol.
The patrol called the county
control board.
The board called a civilian de.
Tense officer.
The officer called a SheriffS sub.
station.
The SubStation called an army
bomb disposal squad
The squad went TO the Angelu,
Crest highway and removed q
lethal looking soda water charger
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-11
.RAF Blasts Jdps
On Way TO India

NEW DELHI. India, July II
QNS). - Japanese conveys oil
troops and supplies have been
through Burma towards
India under a steady rain of Royal
Air Force bombs. it was announced
today.
Japanese troop movements UP
the Chindwin River valley were
said to have been in progress for
eight weeks.
Several thousands of tons OF
bombs we're dropped on the enemy,
il was declared.