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

COLDWATER - R- Inter-
ment services will be held here
Wednesday for Clarence D. Tur-
ner, 81, divisional freight agent
of the Erie Railroad, who died
in Chicago Sunday night. Turner
was q native of Coldwater.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
Droft Board Member
to Meet Registrars

George w. John, of Draft
Board No. 1, tonight will meet
chief registrars for the third
"R" day Feb. IS in a series OF
interviews to be held at the
Center Line Municipal Build.
ing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

RECORD FREtGHTER RUN
The 6O00-mile run from Buen-
os Aires, Argentina, to New York
City was made by Z Diesel-en-
gined cargo liner in IS hours and
Is days, which Is a record
freiRhter run.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

A saving can be effected by
using only distilled water in bat.
teries. The chemical properties
OF ordinary water, no matter
how clear II may appear, are
harmful TO the plates Of bat
terry. q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
AUTOMOTIvE HINT

Luggage should never be
stacked in front of an automo-
bile's radiator on a trip, as il OBJ
structs the air flow and is likely
to cause the engine to overhead.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03
State


Kelly, IL, of Hillsdale, recaptur.
ed with one of three companion
after their escape from the Hills
dale County jail Jan. II, wa.
sentenced Monday to two to five
years in prison for stealing ar
automobile. Kelly was awaiting
prosecution when he escaped
Circuit Judge Charles o. Arch
sentenced him.
CHARLEVOIX- Up In thu
face of drift ice 10 feet thick
coast guards Monday quit theil
efforts to free four ice-bound
tugs off the harbor entrance
here. Crew members walked
ashore.
DETROIT (R)-Mrs. Henry
Bergeron, 81, of Marlette, wa,
killed and Henry Reid, Fl, EN-.
rloye on her farm, suffered 9
fractured spine when a Grand
Trunk mail train struck their
automobile at the Van Dyke.
Dawson crossing Monday. Reid
was driving.
BAD AxE-R)-Mrs. Phebe
Clark Harrington, wife of Dr.
Charles Harrington Of Bad Axe
and niece of the late Gov. AL.
bert E. Sleeper, died Monday af-
ter a long illness. Survivors in
clude brother, Stevens Clark OF
Grand Rapids.
JACKSON up Heart at
tack took the lives of two con-
victs in the Statetprison IF sonth-
ern Michigan Monday. They
were Alex Shubert, So, sentenc-
ed from Wayne County for for
gerry in 1896, and Allen Howard,
sentenced from Ottawa county
in 1889 for felonious assault.
DETROIT R-Commenting
"If we can keep the war over
there we won't have it over
here" Frank B. Hibbler, 90
year-old aircraft parts worker,
enlisted in the Marines Monday,
the first married man to enter
that branch of service in De-
troit since 1917. --he Marines
now accept married men with
their wives consent and proof
that they can support them
selves. Mrs. Hibbler, mother of
an eight-year-old girl. said, II
hate to see him 60 but l think it's
his duty and I'm proud of him."
o.
CHEBOYGAN- R-Charles
A. Woodland, 80, pleaded inno-
cent in circuit court Monday to
q charge OF manslaughter In
connection with the fatal shoot
ing of Jack Sikorski on q down
town street. Police said Sikor-
ski was in the company of
Woodward's wife at the time
Woodward originally was charg-
ed with murder.
o.
TRAVERSE CITY Up -
Chairmen of salvage committees
for Is northern Michigan coun-
ties will meet here Wednesday.
John D. McGillis, state salvage
chairman, called the meeting to
speed salvage collections in this
part of the state.
OWOSSO - up - Marshall
Simpson, 80, Owosso High school
teacher whose back was broken
when he was thrown from 4 TO-
boggan Sunday, was taken to
University Monday. He became
paralyzed below the hips.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

In area. Alaska IL equal to the
combined areas Of the states of
California, Connecticut MAssa-
chusetts, Montana. Rhode lslsnd
and Texas. 4
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

Ceatlnued from Page I
TO battle the flames set by Jap
anane b0mbs.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

OWOSSO - up - Marshall
Simpson, 80, Owosso High school
teacher whose back was broken
when he was thrown from 4 TO-
boggan Sunday, was taken to
University Monday. He became
paralyzed below the hips.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-03

TRAVERSE CITY -B-
Chairmen of salvage committees
for Is northern Michigan coun-
ties will meet here Wednesday.
John D. McGillis, state salvage
chairman, called the meeting to
speed salvage collections in this
part of the state.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
TruveI Rutioninq

The likelihood that the American
public is in for travel rationing is
strengthened by the passenger sur
vey the Office of Defense Transpor-
tation is undertaking on railroads
and bus lines.
Rumors have been current for
some time that accommodations on
public carriers eventually would be
parceled out on the basis Of need,
and these reports gained force when
the Government commandeered the
airlines, and followed up by restrict
ing travel on Eastern bus routes.
That the revolutionary rationing
move actually is in the off1ng now is
indicated by the statement of Joseph
B. Eastman, o. D. T. head, that the
data on travel habits to be compiled
at 1O1 principal terminals will be
used "as an aid to adjusting pas
senger travel requirements to the
available supply Of passenger trans
portation facilities and services"
That this course would be resorted
to has been a foregone conclusion.
On the one hand, the Government
must insure adequate transportation
for troop movements and other travel
necessitated by the war effort, while
Evening star., 1942-05-25
A Noise Annoys

All over the Nation war plants are
blooming. Unlike natures plants,
they do not always bloom quietly.
Nature, unrushed and on a peace
production basis, takes her time and
works in silence. It is not to be ex-
pected that mankind, involved in
war, can operate its plants in such
fashion. Clangs, booms, whistles and
roars are inevitable by-products Of
hurry-up production for victory.
This point was missed the other
day in Detroit when a citizen COM
planned in court that one of the local
war plants was making the neigh
borhood hideous with noise. The
magistrate frowned severely upon
the citizen and threw the case out Of
court with loud crash. He advised
the flustered plaintiff to stuff cotton
in his ears and forget it, or words to
that effect.
All hail to His Honor! After all, in
this disturbed world silence is not
possible; the best that can be done Is
to choose wisely between noises. And
If that phonetic choice lies between
the sounds Of factories turning out
war supplies, and the still louder
roar of enemy bombs falling all over
the landscape, the answer ought to
be very easy.
Evening star., 1942-05-25

at the same time conserving existing
facilities. On the other, the public
carriers already are operating at
peak capacity, and undoubtedly
would be called upon to handle an
added load Of huge proportions be-
cause Of the restrictions on the use
Of private automobiles. New equip
ment for non-essential travel is out
Of the question, so there is but one
answer to this situation.
The actual mechanics of working
out rationing program no doubt
will create problems, but they can be
met. Under the system now followed
on the airlines, Government travel
gets priority. Any surplus of accom-
modations is available for ordinary
civilian passage.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Comments on Goering's Purchase
OF Italian Works Of Art.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Hitler's No. lieutenant, perhaps tiring
Of blood letting, now goes In for Italian
art getting.
Associated Press War Correspondent
Richard G. Massock tells us how Goering
Is socking his ill-gained nra, bought
abroad at ''black market" rates, into
the purchase of italian art treasures.
Unhappy days have come to the once
smiling sons and daughters of sunny
Italy. How long, how long will these
true lovers and creators Of things beau
tiful permit the plunder?
So many of us Americans who have
taken Joy in Italian art, and have nice
pictures Of the great Pitti Gallery in that
beautiful "city Of flowers" Florence,
shudder to read these dispatches to the
press Of America.
We hope that the italian people will
rise up In righteous indignation and
put an end to Goering's plundering, so
when the world again is free-an man
kind may return to sunny Italy and be
thankful-thankful that Italy has not
sacrificed its art for nothing.
ERNEST CHARLES RICK.
Evening star., 1942-05-25

ought equally to have the advantage
of being heard by the public; and
that, when truth and error have
fair play, the former is always an
overmatch for the latter" The prin-
ciples thus expressed certainly are
as worthy of observance in the
twentieth century as they were in
the eighteenth.
But if only single citation from
Franklin were to be chosen for pres
ent consideration. it probably should
be that in which he prayed: God
grant that not only the love of lib
erty but a thorough knowledge of
the rights Of man may pervade all
the nations of the earth, so that a
philosopher may set his foot any
where on It's surface and say: This
Is my country!'" For something
approximating that ideal American
boys are fighting at the current
moment.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles z. Trdce1DeH.

Our experience has been that the
squirrels in the public parks are much
tanner than those in the suburban areas.
The latter are really wild and seldom
come in contact with human beings,
whereas the squirrels in the downtown
parks are used to meeting hundreds Of
persons every day. If they want peanuts,
they must take them from hands. In
the suburban areas there are always
plenty Of things for them to eat from
nature.
For instance, in recent days they have
all been busy eating maple seed pods.
They will spend hours eating these.
just as they do sunfower seeds. The
maple seeds, shelled out, are about the
size Of sunflower seeds.
Sunf1ower seeds are large enough to
make q tasty tidbit for these animals.
BY carefully cracking open a seed and
extracting the meat, any one can taste
what there is about these seeds that the
squirrels like. The taste is nutlike;
with delicate flavor all its own.
~ =
Peanut butter books" are another
way to draw squirrels.
Small squares of cardboard are folded
In half, and the inside buttered with a
small amount of peanut butter.
When the squirrels find these, they sit
up and hold them open as If reading.
One must be careful, however, not to
put on too much peanut butter and
never to furnish these books" more than
one or two a day. not more than twice a
week, because peanut butter is very con-
centrated and will make squirrel i'll If
1t is given too much Of it.
Squirrels like to investigate bird houses,
too, and these will attract them, even
when they cannot get into them.
Sometimes they gnaw out the en-
trance hole, and manage to get in. They
do not use such houses for nesting but
merely as shelter.
We know where there is bird house
with its entrance gnawed out to about
4 inches.
In another section of the city squirrels
managed to get into a bluebird house
and in still another they invaded q
house put up for nuthatches.
A typical squirrel house may be tried.
This is about feet long by foot square,
and has an entrance hole about inches
In diameter.
1t should be painted dark brown or
gray or green, and securely lashed in a
stout crotch of a tree, preferably 20 feet
high or more.
Suburban squirrels differ largely.
Some are wild, others more friendly.
The latter may be attracted by peanut
held in the hand, but care should be
taken to make no sudden moves; squirrel
bites go down to the bone and are diff
cult to heal
Sunflower seed, after all, is the best
squirrel attracter we know. 1t will bring
them, every time, also all the birds.
Sunflower seed is the best summer food
for all the birds. Cardinals particularly
like 1t and will bring their babies to 1t.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Why the DeIuy?

1t Is hard to understand why there
has been SO much delay in appointing
the six judges for the new Municipal
and intermediate Appeals Courts.
Nearly two months have passed since
President Roosevelt signed the Court
Merger Act. Provisions of this act
relating to the Appeals Court became
technically effective on May 2 and
the remainder of the act goes into
effect on July 2. These periods OF
grace were written into the law for
the purpose of enabling admins
trative authorities to select judges, to
complete reorganization plans and
to make all necessary preparations
for launching the new setup with the
start of the new fiscal year.
More time was allowed in the case
of the Appeals Court, presumably.
because this was to be an entirely
new tribunal. Thus, if the three ap-
pellate judges had been appointed
within the thirty-day period desig-
mated in the act, they undoubtedly
would have made considerable
progress by now in organizing the
new court, so that it would be ready
to function simultaneously with in
auguration of the Police-Municipal
Court merger. And there Is much
preliminary organization work to be
done If the new Municipal Court,
combining the civil and criminal
work of the present Municipal and
Police Courts, is to get off to a good
start on July 2.
The slowness in making appoint
ments to these benches cannot be
attributed to any difficulty in finding
qualified men for the posts, for there
surely is no dearth of judgeship ma
terial in the large field of local law
yers. The law provides that all three
of the new appellate judges and at
least eight of the ten judges OF the
new Municipal Court must be bona
fide residents of the District. TWO
of the Municipal Court judges may
live in Maryland or Virginia, but
must have practiced law here for al
least the past five years. Of particu-
lar Importance is the chief judge
ship of the new Municipal Court, for
this iurist will exercise general ad-
ministrative control of the tribunal.
The Attorney General and the
President are justified in using great
care in the selection OF men to fill
these posts. It would seem, however,
that they have had ample time to
make a choice and it is to be hoped
that announcement of the appoint
ments will be made at an early date.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
ALEXANDRIA, Va.

Dear Sir:
II have seen several squirrels in my
yard, and have placed peanuts around
for them, hoping to make friends with
them. But so far my efforts have been
useless. Perhaps you can suggest better
way to tame them.
VERY truly yours, r. r. M"
The best way to attract squirrels is to
feed the birds.
This draws them every time!
There is nothing squirrel likes better
than to pretend /. is bird, especially
when 1t comes to eating sunflower seed.
Sunfower seed, you see. is liked by
these rodents even better than peanuts.
The popular idea Is that q squirrels
favorite food is the peanut, but we have
not found this so In our yard.
A squirrel will leave peanuts for sun
flower seed every time.
y 4
There is also something about the ami
mails psychology which makes 1t enjoy
keeping the birds away.
Not that 1t Is a dog -in-the-manger,
by any means. 1t eats the seed hour
after hour.
The idea seems to be that a squirrel
can fly through the trees quite as well
as any bird with wings and that, there
fore, it ought to be able to do anything
else bird does.
Hence when an eating place is pro-
vided for the latter, the squirrels Of a
neighborhood Immediately begin to
gather.
Often 1t is difficult to tell what one
has established, bird feeding station or
a squirrel feeding station.
Many home owners spend great deal
of time trying to keep the squirrels out.
This is a task, as many have discovered.
We believe 1t Is unnecessary, because
the squirrels are very entertaining, IN
their own right.
They also share the food with the
birds, by being so restless that they run
away every now and then, giving the
two-footed creatures chance at the
food.
1t always is possible to put up two or
more feeding stations. so that the birds
always will have a chance with one or
the other.
1t Is seldom that there are more than
a dozen squirrels in any one yard at one
time This, however. often does occur
in suburban areas. So it is best to make
ample provision.
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We take 1t that our correspondent
wants to know how to attract squirrels,
rather than tame" them.
Tanning them requires persistence. or
at least a real attraction for squirrels.
We, evidently, do not have it. We never
have been able to tame" any Of them,
in a real sense.
They fly away as II the devil were
after them when we come into the yard.
No doubt we lack the patience to remain
quietly, minute after minute, waiting
for them to come up for a peanut.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Remembering Franklin

That man is to be envied who has
the joy of rediscovering Benjamin
Franklin. No other American more
richly rewards the heirs OF his
genius. Reading the story of his
life, as it is told by any OF hall
a dozen modern authors. one comes
to regard him as a friend-and he
merits that title through the
warmth and charm of his person.
atty as we'll as through his philo-
sophie attainments, his inventive
skill, his generous contributions to
the public welfare.
George Washington summarized
Franklin's achievement when, on
September %. 1889. he wrote to him:
eff to be venerated for benevolence,
If to be admired for talents, If to be
esteemed for patriotism, If to be be-
loved for philanthropy. can crafty
the human mind, you must have the
pleasing consolation to know that
you have not lived in vain.'
But Franklin ought not to be
thought of merely as one who de-
served the appreciation of his own
generation. His influence is a living
force today. A National Committee
to Signalize Benjamin Franklin's
Continuing Contribution to Ameri-
can Civilization has been organized
and established by the Franklin
Institute in Philadelphia, and
among the documents published by
the body so designated is a review
Of Franklin's thoughts on the free
dom OF religion, speech and the
press-sentiments perhaps more not
ably applicable now than they were
when first they were published.
For example. when Franklin was
only sixteen years Of age, he wrote:
without freedom of thought there
can be no such thing as wisdom, and
no such thing as public liberty with
out freedom of speech, which is the
right of every man as far as by 1t
he does not hurt or control the right
Of another; and this is the only
check it ought to suffer and the only
bounds it ought to know. - Who
ever would overthrow the liberty OF
a nation must begin by subduing the
freedom Of speech. thing terrible
to traitors" Later. on June 10, 1871,
he felt it necessary to explain that,
since the opinions Of people vary,
printers are educated in the belief
that when men differ . both sides
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Tells Of Daily Prayers
For Those in Authority.

To the Editor of The Star:
In this awful hour in the destiny Of
America and mankind, I do not care a
mill what President RooseveltS or any
other mans political fortunes may be.
What concerns me as an American
citizen more than all else is that Mr..
Roosevelt, as the head of this Nation
both civil and military, and the Con-
gress, lead America to victory over the
enemies of liberty and Christianity.
So I lift my voice day and night in
prayer for the President and all Of those
associated with him in authority, that
the blessings Of the Almighty may rest
on us as well as them in our tremendous
responsibility that our vision, faith and
courage fail not.
WILLIAM H. HARGROVE.
Jerico Spring, Mo.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
River-Bottom Former

He holds the topsotl cupped ioithtn
his hands,
The rich, dark Ioan OF rtper-botton1
bends; i
And In his minds eye sees the
golden grain -
1t totH produce II gipen time enough,
And cultivation, and the sun and
rain
In right proportion. 1t Is often said
That farming Is a dull, prosiac task,
A ,oork for hands untitled for the
skilled
Labor of factories and mines and
mills.
But he Uho handles earth must daily
The miracles of nature and employ
The tools OF ,reather NTH a greater
craft
Than men Dho operate the past
machines.
Farming Is iDork for one iol.oss heart
and hand
Possesses feeling for the fertile land.
BILLY B. COOPER.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
Bv Frederic J. Hdsktn.

A reader can get the dnsDer to any
question of fact by tDrtttno The EDe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
D.. C. Please t1cIose stamp for return
postage.
@. What did the Army ration consist
Of in the Revolutionary War7-D. P.
A. In ITS the Army ration included
16 ounces salt beef. IL ounces salt pork,
IL ounces bacon, 16 ounces dried fish,
22S5 ounces corn meal, 6.857 ounces dry
beans, All gill sirup, beer or cider.
@. Which was the first salaried base
ball team7-R. G. D.
A. The Cincinnati Red Stockings IN
1869. They played through the entire
season without defeat. winning 81 games
and tying one.
Q. Do termites actually eat woodi-
E. r. E.
A. Termites are able to live on a diet
Of dead wood. This is made possible by
the existence in the alimentary canal
Of minute one-celled parasites which
digest cellulose.
@. How many senses have we?-F. w.
A. Eleven senses are now quite gen.
orally recognized. The notion that we
have only. five goes back to the ancient
Greeks. Aristotle enumerated them:
Sight. smell, hearing, taste. touch.
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Maps New World Order
Based on American Pattern.

To the Editor of The Star:
I have read, reread but cannot COM
prehend an article quoting Walter Nash,
Minister of New Zealand. as saying a
slogan-"Japan for the Japanese
been adopted at the White House meet
ing of the Pacific War Council on May 81.
Today I read the same quotation in
the Radio Digest, release of the War
Department.
Surely our leaders are not waging war
with the objective being Japan for the
japanese" Germany for the Germans"
ITALY for the Italians" Are we headed
for another Versailles?
Such an objective does not seem pos
sible 1t only means periodical wars in
the future.
The meeting Of President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill at sea was
both dramatic and timely. and the So
called Atlantic Charter" Is satisfactory,
as far as 1t goes. But why not go further?
The entire world Is at war. A new world,
politically, must function when this
conflict is over.
How can this new world be built7 I
say by adoption of our form of govern
ment throughout the world, as ours has
proven itself the most practical and sue
cessful. This would mean-yes, the
thought is drastic: The United States Of
the Americas North and South America
plus Canada; the United States Of Eu-
rope British Isles, Scandinavia, the
continent, Africa: the United States of
Asia (China, Japan and IndiO; the
United States of the South Pacific (Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, Dutch East Indies),
and the United States Of Russia, each
group to adopt our form Of government
In its entirety.
A universal currency, world wide,
should be established. The English
language ultimately should be the world
language. Study of English should be
compulsory in all countries. Encourage
ment of Irrational trade, travel and
understanding would be requisite.
I think the world policy should be:
1.-THE aggressor who loses, loses ALL"
Such definite policy, in civil life, curbed
banditry. A like definite policy Of pun
ishment for an aggressor nation. its
leaders and its people, ultimately would
do away with dictators controlling and
swaying the plain citizens" If the
citizen refuses to take tho gamble, real
izing defeat means loss of all he has,
wars will be hard for ambitious, selfish
leaders to start. If they cannot start
wars, we have peace.
JAMES 8. ROBERTSON,
Evening star., 1942-05-25
Asks Pointed Questions
About War Effort Wages.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Iwonder how much increase there will
be in work being done overtime If pro-
vision is made for time-and-a-half pay
for such work7
Do the Government employees really
feel that they should do their "bit" in
this great war effort only II they receive
liberal compensation for it? Is that VIC
tory that Is to be ours worth every ones
bit" only If they receive compensation
for every ''bit" with time and half for
any extra ''bit"7 VT.