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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

to stare at short-skirted cutie
getting on street car.
That's typical of the attitude OF
all Hollywood, and l thought OF
it while gawking around the SET
at Warmers where the title num-
Der of Yankee Doodle Dandy
is being filmed. This sequence
comes in the middle of the pic
ture and is taken from George
M. Cohan's Little Johnny
JONES'" a show first produced in
1904. The costumes are of the
period, being low, elegant and
tight-but also daringly split.
The gals who fill them comprise
a new collection of oomph at
this studio, and it's amusing to
watch the procession Of males
from all over the lot dropping in
on pretended errands.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
BY PETER EDISON
Daily Monitor Washington
Correspond0nt

WASHINGTON, Mar. 2
Governor PouI v. McNutt's o.
flee of Defense Health onc
Welfare Services, known ir
Washington by those people
who know Of it all as ODHWS
will be six months old come
March 3 and this greet oc.
oosion may clifford fittin' op'
portunity to see what it ho:
done and what it's all about
II it hosn't made its impact on
your life. where have you
been? Anyway, you're going tc
hear more of the outfit from
now on. so get, ODHWS con-
scious.
There have been some dirty
suspicious thot ODHWS wos in
some woys another Office Of
Civilian Defense. duplicating
some Of the old OCD boom
doeeIine. There have oIso been
rumors thot in the OCD reor-
eonizotion, q lot Of this boom
dogoIing would be dumped in
the lop Of ODHWS and corried
on from there. Neither Of these
accusations is quite correct.
ODHWS like OCD is sup
posed to be q morale building
organization, or more occu-
roteIy, to have morale build
ina os one Of its principal
functions. ODHWe considers
itself as purely q co-ordinoting
oreonizotioIL O professional or
eonizotion if you pIeose, work.
ing with professional morale
builders to whom is left the job
Of working with the civilian
population. OCD aims its pro-
grams right at the civilian
population.
PLEASE EXPLAIN
OCD is cleaning house Of q
lot Of this volunteer porticipo-
ton stuff but in so doing is
not dumping it on ODHWS.
1t hos, been proposed to move
John B. KelIy's physicoI fitness
activities from OCD to ODH-
WS. Kelly has been asked to
justify the existence Of his
progrom, but the lost word
was thot he hadn't so for de-
Iivered the justification orgu-
ments (Moyris Clancy was in
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE

"Curiously," soys an American
flyer shooting down japanese planes
over the Burma Rood. their bombers
ore foster than their pursuits"
He odds, "Thot's probably because
the bombers have American engines"
The japanese were able to buy
American oirplone motors and tools
tor nine years otter they had shown
themselves oeeressors by the invasion
OF Monchurio in 1881. Not until o.
tober, 1910, did the United Stotes stop
the export Of oircroft ports to Japan.
Meanwhile, some Americans suf-
tered considerable twnees of con-
science. Others, if they read the news
at all, apparently soid to themselves,
We'll, thot's q long way off," Or moybe
It was, Am ! my brothers keeper"
These others howIed down President
Roosevelt when he suggested "quoron-
r'nIn9 og9ressors in the fall of 1897.
Yes, it was curious mentality
that controlled America in those dovs
And it is having grim results for the
American boys who now have to risk
their lives to knock Jopon's American
motored planes out of the sky. Il
makes one curious as TO whether Amer
icons and others otter this war will
nave the moral sense to recognize an
o99ressor when they see one and to
stop orming him.-From the Christian
Science Monitor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
THEIR SWORD AND SHIELD

several things are striking about
the British custom of BLESSING wor-
snlP as It enters the service and goes
OFT TO bottle duty. When n. IA. de-
stroyer Lively was sent out, SoripturoI
reodln0s, prayer. and hymn formed
The ceremony.
Port Of the reading was from the
10Th Psalm - the one which hos
moss fine verses about they that 90
Gown to the SEQ in ships" From the
eex Jestoment wos token part Of the
~ chapter Of Ephesions, incIudino
M 49,:
iE ~ wrsstIe not against flesh
but oooinst principoIi-
powsry, against rulers
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02

of the darkness of this world, oeoinst
spiritual wickedness in high pieces.
Did the hymn speak Of the might
of guns and torpedoes, of armament
or oircroft? No. The soilors sang, 20
God, Our Help in Ages Post. And in
the form of bidding" repeated by
the crew the Captain asked: What do
we fear, seeing that God the Fother is
with your" And the ships company re-
Piled I'VE fear nothing"
Shortly thereafter the Lively play
ed vigorous port in Mediterranean
bottle and was unscothed.
From The Christian Science Monitor
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

My previous article in this Sc
ries on opening leads showed
a hand in which the leader
against a no-trump contract held
two 5-card suits. Neither suit had
been bid, SO that there was a real
choice of opening lead. One was
headed by an ace, the other by
a queen. / advised opening the
queen-suit, since then the ace
would function as a side re-entry
to the hand, whereas to open the
ace-suit would probably leave
the suit high and dry" after it
was established.
In today's hand West has an
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

ideal opening in the jack of
hearts. His spade suit has higher
tops, but they are in tenace, and
a trick may be lost by spade
lead. The chance of losing any
tricks in hearts by opening the
suit is extremely remote.
Now here is a word of caution.
Don't jump to the conclusion,
from today's hand and the pre-
vious one, that il is always cor
rect to open the weaker suit
against no trump, from two suits
of equal length. There is sound
principle here, but the rule cam
not be stated so simply.
Vests hearts, though topped
only by the jack, are actually
stronger than the spades topped
by the king, in the sense that
the hearts can be led with great
er assurance that the lead will
not cost a trick. Now suppose
that West held K-Q-J at the top
of his spades and J-x at the top
of the hearts. 1t would then be
foolish to "open the weaker
suit instead of spades.
The time to open the weaker
suit is when neither suit is head
ed by a good strong honor COM
bination, but still has some top
strength. II the weaker suit is
topped by, say, nine-spot, the
chance of establishing il is so re-
mote that usually il will be bet
ter to open any stronger suit Of
equal length.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02

The U.S.. Army and Navy hoven't
been osIeep in Alaska the post two
years. Land, SEQ and air bases have
been thrown up through the territory
in quick succession. After all only
$50 miles from the Aleution Islands
that jut down from Alaska lies the
japanese naval and air base at Poro-
mushiru.
But the international hiehwoy
through Canada to Alaska is only half
finished. Alaska must have q road over
which men and equipment can be
shipped.
MiIitoy experts in Alaska have
been pleading for q long time. first, to
have the road, and now to have it fin
ished. Current hitch has been q Conod-
ian disagreement over what route the
highway should follow. Some Conod-
ions want it to top mines far inland.
lotest news is that the highway
will follow the shortest and quickest
route, strin9ine from Seattle to Fair
banks behind the coastal mountain
range. It's good news, if no barriers
orise, because fost action is needed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02

harmless story to 60 with it, but
Mr.. Hays helpers ruled the title
too suggestive.
Comedian Teddy Harris ap-
pearance at the Derby the other
day surprised several pals who
had believed he was on his way
to New York. Il can't go yet. "
complained the actor, "A big
deal just came up here, and /
gotta wait until it falls through"
When a studio casting office
wants a bunch of Indians a call
is put in to Joe Youngblood, a
sort of sub-contractor or agent
who has been providing redskin
atmosphere for movies ever
since the days of silent west
ems.
Joe, who's a Choctaw himself,
now has a special group from
many tribes for which he COM
mands special prices; the men,
bers are competent actors, can
talk, sing and dance, and pro-
vide their own regalia.
This band showed up for a
call on THE Forest Rangers" set,
and Joe was told by Director
George Marshall that they'd
have little to do, no lines to
speak, and would receive only
SIS day. Youngblood refused to
cut his rate. Marshall was
equally firm. "Okay," said Joe,
reckoning to his braves. For
half price you get only half
breeds"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON

his oroonizotion) so the mat
ter is still pending. The other
friIIs of OCD will apparently
not be transferred to anyone,
but just quietly put out Of their
misery.
Governor McNutt is still
boss of the shop which oper-
otes on q budget Of $3.50, 600
from presidential funds.
Next-to-the rop executive
work is done by q couple of
others, Charles p. loft in
charge of health and welfare,
IA. L. Wilson in charge Of nu-
triton. Wilson is also director
Of the extension service in the
Department Of Agriculture, so
the active. work is done by Dr..
Helen Mitchell, q professional
nutritionist who is out to pro-
mote the idea thot the country
can and must cot Its way to
victory. Forty per cent Of the
country, she soys, doesn't cot
right, ond is therefore suffer-
ing from hidden hunger.
The nutrition division Of
ODHWS hasn't q large stoff
and it hosn't a large budget.
Its job is largely to coordinate
the work of all the oreonizo-
tions interested in nutrition
and spreod the word Of what
GOOD nutrition amounts to-
through educational campaigns
an! telling other communities
what any one community hos
done to further the cause Of
right eating.
UP TO STATES
The word is theoretically
spread through stote nutritio,
councils. It's up to the stots
councils to poss the word on to
the local communities in the
stote, set up county or city nu-
triton councils and in this
manner get everyone wised up
on the food stomp plan, school
lunches, oduIt education in nu-
triton and food selection, and
so on.
At the lowest organization
level, this should mean that
someone in every community
is running q nutrition course
to tell the good woman who
does the marketing and bends
over the stove for your fomiIy :
how to buy and plan meals so
you'll get the most good out Of
them. If there is q nutrition
program under way in your
community. this plan is work.
ing. il not, you ore supposed
to stort complaining to the ou-
thorities. =
Some Of the local conmu.
nifty programs ore worth writ.
ing ob out. In Springfield,
Moss, the newspapers took up
this nutrition idea and put il
over. They storted campaign Z
for hot meals for the night
Shift in the munitions plants,
with the result thot q Red
Cross oonteen was opened UP
for the owl and lobster trick
forces. There was q drive to
'Pock Pep in Your Lunches. "
The IowIy raw corrot wos given
q plug as something to pre-
vent night blindness for ovi-
otors and truck drivers. :
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
HORRORS OF WAR

WHTTAKEKS, N. C.-The air
raid siren reused the village al
2 am. Firemen rushed to their
posts and air raid wardens don
ned their heaviest clothing, for
i. was cold outside.
From afar came the steady
drone of a motor. Nobody could
figure why Whitakers should be
bombed, for it's by no means a
military target.
Then, with roar, a stream
lined train rushed through town.
Whitakers went back to bed.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
HighIights from
the Latest Books

That line series, RIVERS OF
America, flows on with publ
cation of Thomas D. Clark's
1.-THE Kentucky" (Farrar &
Ripehart: $2.50), an account
which meanders through the
life and times of the dark and
bloody ground" almost as thor
oughly as the stream itself.
No travel guide, no historical
harangue and Chamber OF
Commercish only in Its praise
Of Kentucky food, horses and
whisky. this volume of colorful
writing abounds with the little
things which make America
big. It should interest even
those who think Kentuckiana
Is limited to mint juleps,
colonies and the Derby.
Clark ably portrays the 60
ings-on, past and present, along
the banks of the kentucky from
Pine Mountain, McRoberts and
Hindman down through Beat
tyville, Boonsboro, Harrods-
burg, across to Lexington,
Frankfort and on until the riv-
err slips into the Ohio.
The Kentucky flows through
coal country, mountain coun-
try, moonshine country, Daniel
Boone country, hard-shell Bap-
fist country, aristocratic blue
grass country and Clark writes
from first-hand experience or
from old letters and documents
dug up by him. For instance.
he made a raiding trip with
damned revenooers" for back
ground on his moonshine chap
ter.
He uncovered such items as
this: 1.-THE real heart of the
up-river country is to be found
up the creeks. There is Heller
Sartain whose rock-strewn bed
thoroughly justifies its realistic
lie. During the World
War, quiet but courageous Will
lie .Sandlin brought honor to
Devil-Jump Branch of Hell-fer-
Sartain Creek and the United
States Army by bayoneting "a
Germans at Bois-des-Forges.
Too. here was Uncle Johnny
She'll who in. his 121st year ex-
hibited q six-year-old son at the
Bluegrass Fair in 1919"
Clark writes sympathetically
but not slushily of the noun
tain folk and their feuds and
holy-rol,ering. The more up
pity bluegrass section receives
much space, horses and horse
men are described. Nancy
Hanks, for instance Is a famous
trotter to most Kentuckians,
not the mother of Lincoln.
And his charter on "Ken-
tuckians Must Eat" will send
you scurrying to the banks of
the river for burgop, corn
bread. fried mush. homemade
sausage, fried chicken. and
Kentucky ham. Other states are
expected to fire hack at Clark's
claim that his state produces the
best hams.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
OLD TIMERS

WAUKEGAN, Ill.-Mr. and
Mrs. Silas Nichols set aside two
days for their wedding anniver-
sary--so all their friends could
come and visit them.
Nichols, who is Lake county's
oldest Civial War veteran, was
"a on Washington's birthday. His
wife will be "a on May ID.
The wedding anniversary Is
the couples Goth.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
THE OFFENSIVE

When HonniboIs armies were at
the very gates of Rome, the Romans
sent an expeditonory force against his
homeland of Carthage And Rome won
the war.
When the infideI Turk threatened
all Christendom, the West did not woit
for him to come and conquer The cru
soders advanced to the Golden Horn.
defeated the Turk and threw him out Of
Europe.
At the first bottle Of the Morne,
Foch dispatched to the indecisive Joffre
this message: my right is exposed, my
left is heavily attacked, my center is
unable to hold it's position. cannot re-
distribute my forces. The situation is
excellent. shall attack"
One Of Americas active soldiers
no gents room general or saloon strote-
9ist-now declares the only way to win
the present war is for America to at
tack the heart Of the enemy, specificoI-
ly to strike against Germany through
ItoIy.
His name is Leut.-CoI. w. F. Ker-
nan and his new book, "Defense Will
Not Win the War;" carries much the
same message as the implications Of
President RooseveIt's recent fireside
chat.
The message is thot America and
her allies cannot hope to win by at
tempting purely defensive actions be-
fore widely scattered points once so
fonly called "fortresses. That as
long as Hitler and his bloody crowd can
count on escaping direct attack them
selves, they can always choose their
battlefield and smash the strongest
defense by assembling q mobile, over
whelming force at one point
History is on Colonel Kernon's side
recent history in Europe and the Far
Eost and ancient history wherever
wars have been fought. Defense does
not win wars, and that goes for the type
Of defense that employs strong navy
with no army capable Of winning de-
cisive victory on land.
Britain, while still possessing her
mighty fleet, felt the hot breath Of de-
feot and still feels it Britain first built
her navy to transport armies to win
wars on the other fellows home field.
When Britain came to rely on that
navy as force for defending places
like Singapore all around the world,
then Britain stood in peril Of her very
life.
1t would be difficult to soften Colo
mel Kernon's Indictment Of the defen-
sive poetbod ~ uorforo
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
WRECKED BY CUTIE

There's legend in Hollywood
about a dance director who, af-
ter working all day with 12C
skimply clad chorus girls
wrecked his car while driving
home because he turned his head
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
. BARBS

Another movie divorce in Hol-
lywood. Too many of the trials
of being a movie star are held
in court.
About all that footing your
own horn does is make people
keep lodging out Of your way.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
OUT OF -HE PAST

PITTSBURGH - Steve La
bash has just received q Christ
mas card from Private Joseph
Masucci, Pittsburgh soldier in
the Philippines, mailed Novem-
Der "a. It reads; This is q won
derful country Wish you were
here!"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
FIRE SALE

FIKE SALE
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The
Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at
Illinois Wesleyan University
ended its Hell Week for Japan"
with torchlight parade and Q
sale of defense bonds that total
ed $4,000.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
UNDESIRED BEDS

Ed DEDO
CHICAGO-American soldiers
have been sleeping in Japan for
the last six months. Japan" Is
the name of one of the fleet of
sleeping cars assigned by the
Pullman company as troop trans
ports. Like the Yokohama, an
other car in transport service, it
will soon have its name changed
to a number.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
CLEANED OUT


PHILADELPHIA - Edward
Cavanaugh was mighty mad after
he paid his income tax, but II had
nothing to do with Uncle Sam.
Someone in the huge crowd
jamming the tax office lifted his
SIS gold watch.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
HORSES, HORSES

HORSES, HORSES
FORT TILEY, Kas. The
army may have had some new
maneuvers in mind when it
placed Pvt. Leslie E. Brodkorb
in the cavalry.
Before induction, Brodkorb
was a member of the Royal Re-
penskys, a circus equestrian
troupe.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
so YEARS AGO TODAY

r. G. Ullrich heads the fire
prevention committee Of the
board of commerce.
Capt. J. N. Tucker and wife
lose their young son. He died
yesterday, aged six years, after q
long sickness.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
BY PAUL HARRISON

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. ALI
over the lot: Ray Milland was
called in by the studio to make
a new sound track for a Sc
quence in "Mr. and Mrs. Cugat'
the part where he's wearing a
suit of armor. AS originally
filmed, his voice from the he'll
met sounded perfectly normal,
but what they wanted now was a
comic, muffled effect with a
trace of resonance like a man
mumbling in a we'll.
So here were Mr.. Milland and
Howard Joslin, the sound eff
fects specialist, and crew. First
Joslin gave the actor hunk of
fire hose and asked him to talk
through that. Sounded terrible.
Next they tried large cello
plane bag, which was better
except that it cracked. Finally
Joslin sent for a huge copper ket-
tie. This was suspended verti-
cally from a tripod, and some of
the vibration was muffled with
towels. Milland put his face in
side and began to talk again.
Perfect!
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1897

E. r. Egnew and Robert Shook
are in Grand Rapids, buying
furniture for the Avery.
A pleasant call from Brother
Buzzell, of the Romeo Hydrant,
last Friday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-02
SHADOWS CENSORED

The Hays Office now censors
shadows. In TALES of Manhat-
tan" there's a sequence which
would have been perfectly all
right if all of it had been filmed
directly. Instead, the director
got one of those arty impulses
and turned the camera toward a
wall for a shadow shot. The
censors cut it because the light
ing accentuated some of Miss
Rogers curves -. The censors
also have given Paramount the
red light on the old farce title,
up in Mabel's Room" Studio
promised a completely new and
Evening star., 1942-02-22

their guests Mrs. Nordlinger's
mother, Mrs. Leo Greentree OF Rich
mond, Va, over the holiday week
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Rich, jr.,
returned today from trip to Flor
ida.
Mrs. Louis Simon Of the Shore
ham left Thursday for New Ro-
chelle, N. Y, to spend a week with
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Merryle S. Rukeyser and
their three children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lust
At Miami Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Lust have
Joined Washington friends at Miami
Beach for a vacation Of four weeks.
Mr., and Mrs. Maurice Kohner and
their daughters, Constance and Jo-
sephine, formerly of Bethesda. are
now residing at 1912 Northampton
street, Chevy Chase.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Goldenberg
are vacationing at Miami Beach,
where number Of Washingtonians
are spending the winter months.
Mrs. Nelson Greller and her young
daughter Wilma, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. William Morris, at her
home in Atlantic City. Mr.. Greller
accompanied them for short stay.
Mrs. Harry Miller Of Atlantic City
is spending the holiday week end
here with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Max Pines.
Mrs. Myron Hess. also Of Atlantic
City, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Leo
S. schoenthal, over the holiday week
end.
Mrs. Sara Levy and her sister, Mrs
Henrietta Levy, are back from the
South, where they spent two weeks
in Tallahassee, Fla, their former
home.
Mrs. E. S. Woog OF New York Is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Joseph
Dreyfuss of Sedgewick Gardens.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Dunbar Rosentha
are at Miami Beach for severa
weeks of vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Dreyfuss have