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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON .

to be very few newspopermen
who know the difference be-
tween q doIIor and O dime, and
few Presidents either.
The budget itself, the mes
soge. the tobuIotions and all
the columns of figures ore q
matter Of record. but from the
presidential csides at this con-
ference, there ore q number Of
tips on the shape of things to
come. And to hit the high
lights, here ore just q few:
Only about IS per cent Of
the notions steel production
now goes for war, but this will
be roised to SO or so per cent.
ShipbuiIdine. originally esti-
NOTED ct q possible moximum
Of six MILLION tons q year, will
be roised to eight million and
PerhoPs to 10 million tons in
1913.
Fifty thousand planes q year
used to be thought an unot-
toinoble goal, but by sharpen
ing their pencils the produc-
ton men hove found woys TO
step it up TO $1,000 or even
Us. 900 q year. The types of
planes, combat, bomber, troin-
ing and so on, will hereafter
not be specified.
The $50 billion budget does
not include anything for St.
Lawrence power and novieo-
ton project, nor for any pro-
ject now before Congress in
the form Of q special oppropri-
oton bill.
The budget includes only on
initiol $l3.6 billion for the
war. toree supplemental re-
quets will be made loter, os
will additional requests for
form old, WPA, youth program
and others.
1t is cosy to soy thot oppro-
priotions for fighting the boil
weeviI or cottle ticks should be
cut. but since we ore constont-
" fighting noture in order to
keep from being enveIoped by
roture those appropriations
can't be let go.
FEWER HIGHWAYS
1t will be hard for Congress
to cut highways opproprio-
tons. But as Budget Director
Smith points out, lack of steel
for reinforced concrete roads
may now limit ootuol highway
construction. leaving Congress
over-opproprioted.
A proposal will be mode to
Congress to change the social
security lows so that poorer
stotes will get larger proper
tionote federal grants than
richer stotes like New York.
The President still opposes
the general soIes tox, but he
does fovor additional seIective
excise taxes to roise revenue, to
curb the demand for civilian
goods, to put the brake on in
tlotionory problems, and to
provide q brake that can be
taken off otter the war.
The public will be encourage
ed to buy bonds insteod Of re-
decorating the home and max
ing similar expenditures.
Most hopeful and encourage
ing aspects Of war financing
ore thot the interest rates ore
lower-2H per cent today as
against q per cent and better
in 1917, thot initiation is be-
ing. prevented by price control
ond there is q possibiit',' Of
keeping up the national in
come otter the war, taxes be-
ing kept up at the same time
to reduce the notionol debt.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10

Although diamonds have been
found in Australia, Borneo,
India, South America, and the
United States, the only real
diamond mines in the world are
in South Africa.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10
50 YEARS AGO TODAY
1892

Mt. Clemens merchants are
in tho thick of taking stock.
New Years calling is played
out in Mt. Clemens.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10
TWO FRONTS

wv GNVN'S
The United Stotes must fight on
two fronts.
First, there is the ml'tory front.
American soldiers, soilors and oirmen
are fighting and dying in the POETIC.
Thew are living up to the highest tro-
ditions of this nations miIitory his
tory. They must be given the finest
bottle equipment in the world, and
they must be given it in lavish quon-
tity. All the resources Of this notion,
hunon and material alike, must be
used to thot end.
Second, there is the home front.
We have said, time and again, thot we
are fiehine to defend and PerPetuote
freedom. Thot is true. But the defense
of freedom at home, as on the war
front, demands more than lip service.
1t demands straight thinking from oil.
It demands people who will look
squoreIy at the focts, no motter how
unpleasant they may be. 1t demands
the kind Of national tou9hness that
knows precisely what we are fighting
for, and thot will permit nothing to
stand in the way Of victory on the home
front no less than the military front.
We will. Of necessity, demand and &C.
ocept large measure Of economic die
totorship during the war. Whether thot
dictatorship ends when the war ends.
will depend upon the resolution and
the understanding Of the American
people. The future Of this country and
this kind Of government is in the bol-
once. The people will decide which way
the scales are tipped.
The free enterprise system is at
stoke in this war. Upon the nointen-
once Of free enterprise oil the other
freedoms - freedom Of the press,
freedom of speech, freedom Of religion
hinge and depend. Anything which
weokens and emoscuIotes free enter
prise is the enemy Of the nation. We
cannot have an ever-expondine bu-
reoucroey and have efficiency. We
cannot allow non-defense spending to
90 on unchecked and expect to avoid
economic collapse. We cannot punish
industry and expect it to be able to do
its utmost.
There is nothing dramatic about
these statements. They are simply
home|y truths The winning Of this war
= and the winning Of the peooe that
follows = will depend on how we'll the
American people understand them.
There has never been such unity as
this country hos at present. Every
American stands soIidIy behind the
President in the pledge to wage war un-
til international eonesterism is destroy
ed. The spirit Of the nation is one Of
grim, incorporating determination.
But let all remember thot the home
front is as vitoI to war and to the per-
petuotion Of our way of life as the bot
tIefront. There will be subversive nfIu-
enees on both fronts. Only on awaken
ed, aware people con prevent their
depredotions
We fight for freedom, then. And
we must fight for it oil the way = fight
for II here in America, no less than in
the brood reaches Of the oceans and
the londs beyond.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

1941
Millions who howled approval
of little Hungarian comedian
and his incessant wanna Buy q
Duck?" were touched by sadness
today at the death of Joe Pen
ner.
British may be asked to put up
two billion dollar collateral for
war goods which President
Roosevelt contemplates lending
them.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-10
FIVE YEARS AGO
1897

/. Selfridge Field experts are
conducting experiments with ro-
bot-controlled planes.
Miss Isa be lie Willmarth
elected president of the Young
Women's Episcopal League.
The OAR discusses Ellis
Island.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

(3) This famous picture was
painted by: {a) Rembrandt; (b) Stew
art: (c) Petty;
I'D whistler. II
(D If a Hatfield met Mccoy
there would be: (a) an airplane
crash; (b) football game (c) a
business deal; Id
some gun-play. II
go The abbreviation r. S. v. P.
stands for: (a) Red Seal of Venezue-
Ian Police; (b) Rescue Squad for
Victoria Palace; lc) Responder Sill
vous Plat; (d) Rush Sig
nal Verifying Position. Ii
CO. Allegro in music means: (a)
a fast tempo; (b) slow tempo; (c)
turn the page;
(d) take solo.
U A person called "Scrooge"
would be: (a) an athletic type; (b)
a kindly old man; (c) a miserly old
crank; I'D a conservative
young business man. II
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

collars. But they shrank after
washing and no purchaser knew how
much shrinkage to expect. Shirt
manufacturers had shrinking ma
chimes but they didn't do the job
completely and they had to allow
three-quarters of an inch for shrink
age in each collar. The problem
was to produce a uniformly shrunk
fabric that would not change its size
when given the average laundry
wash.
In 1919 Cluett, a veteran of the
Snanish-American war, an engineer
and an inventor with number of
patents to his credit. joined the re-
search department Of the company
of which his name is now part.
After long series of experiments
he finally produced In 1923 the proc
ess now known as sanforizing and
all those devoted to wearing shirts
with soft collars breathed easier.
tReleased by Western Newspaper unisa.I
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

loan CRAWFORD'S life is an
- example of girl who had tai
ent, ambition and enthusiasm, but
who might never have risen beyond
an ordinary occupation without the
necessary confidence to keep try
ing.
Joan Crawford was born about
1907 in San Antonio, Texas, daugh-
ter of theater manager. Most of
her play hours were spent playing
SHOW" and she danced her way
through many struggling years be-
fore a real opportunity came her
way. At fourteen, Joan went to
work as telephone operator in
Lawton, Okla. Then, she was sent
to a convent in Kansas City. where
she had to earn her way by acting
as kitchen maid and waiting on
tables. After leaving college, Joan
Crawford found a job in Kansas
City department store as a stock
girl at $40 per week, working dur
ing the day and practicing dancing
at night.
Finally a theatrical agent found a
job for Joan in a show which failed
a month later, leaving ner stranded
300 miles from home. Courageous
ly, she found job after job in cab
arets and night clubs in Chicago,
Detroit, and New York. She was
working in a Shubert show, "In-
nocent Eyes" when a Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer executive saw her and
signed her for pictures.
Think of the troubles this girl had,
the disappointments and struggles.
Born in the atmosphere of show
business, she was inspired from the
time she could first toddle to find a
place for herself in that glamorous
life. Then, circumstances took q
hand and forced her into occupa-
tions that were far more on the side
of drudgery than glamour. She
plugged lines into a switchboard,
washed dishes, swept floors, car
ried heavy trays, wrapped pack
ages. But through it all, she KEEP.
her confidence in herself.
@-WNU Service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

Lake Placid, N. Y, is tradition
ally Americas most popular ,Uin-
ter sports resort. Here is fypi.
cal January scene shOioing aiUO
skiers, the escort breaking trail
for his girl companion.
Paul Smiths hunting lodge few
miles to the north and laid him
down on bed, exclaiming:
"Why, doctor, you don't weigh no
more than dried lambskin."
The 24-year-old physician, just be-
ginning a promising medical career
in New York, had been stricken with
tuberculosis-regarded as death
sentence then. He came to the Adj
rondacks purely by chance, and the
climate helped him live long and
monumental life as one of the
worlds leading disease-ighters.
Monuments to Trudeau.
Lasting monuments to the beloved
physician are the Trudeau sana-
torium, the Trudeau research lab
oratories, and the Trudeau school
of tuberculosis, which exports its
learning to the world.
To hundreds of people all over the
world the Adirondacks still mean
Paul Smiths.
In an ideal setting on Lower St.
Regis Lake this bearded, regal
guide conducted the country's most
famous hunting lodge. It's principal
asset was his personality, for Paul
Originally Apollos) had an endless
fund of stories, a ready wit, and an
utter freedom from awe of pluto
Gratis or royalty.
"When Paul Smith first came tc
the Adirondacks," the saying goes
"the woods were full of Indians
When he died they were full of mil
lionaires; among both old Pau
was equally at home"
Shrewd old Paul died in 1912 {
millionaire himself, for he bought
not only land but waterfalls, ane
sold electric power over wide area
as the north country developed.
Today much. of the Paul Smith
empire remains, but its most con
spicuous center and symbol is gone
the big hotel on lower St. Regis
Lake. It burned in 1880.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

Outdoor camping amid the
pines and birches OF high i'd
irondack mountain lakes is a
popular summer custom, espe-
ciaiiy since the adrenf OF trailer
fraUef.
from Eagle bay, you enter the big
county of neutrality-suspicious. only
2.3 persons per square mile. The
Belgian Congo in the heart OF Africa
is nearly FIVE times as densely popu-
lated as this cityless county.
Above Inlet the road penetrates
a part of the states 2,17O,0O0-acre
Adirondack forest preserve. 1t took
a constitutional amendment to build
this road. Before tree could be
cut or boulder blasted, an amend
ment to the state constitution had
to be approved by the people In a
referendum, for their fundamental
law provides that these lands shall
be kept forever wild.
A busy little metropolis of the
woods is the village of Saranac Lake
today. But imagination conjures
out of the past the picture of
rude, raw mountain hamlet-a col
lection of guides houses and store
past which an "old plush horse"
is plodding, shaggy Kitty, Doctor
Trudeau's mare.
It all began in 1873 when a guide
carried young Edward L. Trudeau's
frail form up two fights of steps in
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

Gordon Bixel will leave Lima
Monday morning for New York city
and Washington, D. G. on free
trip as result of being one of the
winners in the Allen county corn
growing contest. Nine other boys
in the county will also leave as the
result of winning prizes in their
respective communities.
A linen shower was given to Miss
Lavina Geiger, coming bride, by the
Misses Verena Hilty and Elva
Moser at the John Hilty residence
Friday night. Present were: the
Misses Minnie and Adah Good,
Laura and Vida Amstutz, Emma and
Minnie Benroth, Ella Messenger,
Beulah and Louella Geiger, Florence
Locher, Emma and Della Luginbuhl,
Eunah Temple, Clara Bixel, Anna
Steiner, Lavina Geiger, Mrs. Zoe
Romey and daughter Caroline of Mt.
Blanchard; Mrs. S. S. Diller, Mr..
and Mrs. John Hilty, and the host
esses.
A bucket brigade put out the fire
at the brick residence of L. j. Sid
dali on Riley street, Saturday morn
ing.
Bluffton High school alumni and
the regular varsity team win meet
at Schmidt's field on Thanksgiving
Day. The game will be the last
one for Lyle Baumgartner, Clifford
Hall, Murray Tripplehorn, Bryan
Cotner, Roscoe Bowers and Walter
Amstutz.
The new ladies' dormitory at the
college will be ready for occupancy
the first of next week. The dining
hall in the basement has been in
use for several weeks while the up
per floors were being completed. The
building will accommodate about 90
girls.
The union prayer meeting at the
Fred Williams home Tuesday even
ing will be led by Rev. Burton.
Paul, son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. H.
Weaver, who served in the u. S.
army for three years returned home
from the South last week. Paul Sc
cured a job with the Ohio Electric
as motorman.
The following members of the
Vesper Choir have been invited to
sing in a Christmas Cantata at the
First Mennonite church in Berne,
Ind; Miss Vida Amstutz, Miss
Estelle Lugibihl, Miss Hulda Moser,
Miss Martha Baumgartner, Jesse
Bracy, Martin Baumgartner, c. O.
Lehman and G. A. Lehman. The
concert is given as a benefit for the
college piano fund.
Albert Stettler and Albert Bixler,
students at the Ohio State university
arrived Tuesday night to spend the
Thanksgiving vacation at their
homes. Others who are expected
home for the vacation are: l. w.
Geiger, Andrew Townsend, Rene
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF NOV. &c, 1914

Studler, Elmer Augsburger, Herbert
Marshall, Arthur Santschi, Lawrence
Huber, Homer Kohl and Oscar
Rickly.
S. A. Johns, who recently sold his
blacksmith shop in the Niswander
feed barn is employed by Henson
Good in the brick shop on Cherry
street.
GERMAN SETTLEMENT
A family reunion was held at the
home of Chris Schumacher, Sunday,
honoring their son and family who
leave for Arizona this week.
The Riley township Sunday school
convention was held here Sunday
afternoon and evening. Prof. Huff
man of Bluffton college gave an
address on 1.-The Sunday School-A
Soul Saving Institution"
The Richland Singing Class will
meet at the home of S. w. Steiner
next Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. w. Welty are
the proud parents of a baby girl
since last week.
Eli Burkholder had the misfor-
tune of losing part of his index
finger last week. He reached in the
cog wheels of corn shelter.
Alvin Basinger and Miss Mary C.
Lora, daughter of Mrs. Theoph Lora
were happily married at the Men
MONTE parsonage in Bluffton by Rev.
GottshaIl Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Memo Schumacher
and sons Arthur and Edgar and
Misses Josephine Althaus and Bertha
Diller leave Thursday for an extend
ed trip to the western states.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
Discoverer of Electricity

1t is difficult to say who was the
discoverer of electricity. It is be-
lieved that Thales of Miletus (640-
$40 B. CO. knew that amber, after
being rubbed, acquired the property
of attracting light bodies. However,
no definite scientific information on
electricity was acquired until the
Sixteenth century, when DR.. William
Gilbert of Colchester, England, pub
lished his great work de Magnetic"
in which he laid the foundations OF
electrical science. Perhaps DR..
Gilbert can justly be called the Gre
ator of the science of electricity.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
Celebrates Sind
Birthday

Honoring George Miller, who cele-
brated his Sind birthday annivers-
ary, family dinner was held at the
home of Mrs. Lenore Myers, three
miles south of town, Sunday.
Present were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Miller and daughters Ruth and Mar
ilyn of East Lansing, Mich; Mrs.
Lenore Myers and sons George and
Addison and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Miller of Bluffton.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

= Walt Disney had SnoU White
and her Seren D,carfs and iUe have
just seven questions here. You'll
hare to take the role OF Sno,c White
in today's Guess Again quiz. Just
place mark in the space provided
and check beloiu for the correct
answers and your rating.
ID A phrenologist tells ones for
tune by: (a) reading the palm; (b)
bumps on the skull; (c) gazing into
a crystal; (d) us
ing playing cards. II
t2) In England a person riding on
a lift would be in a: (a) taxicab; |;
(b) street car; (c)
elevator; (d) subway. II
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BlufftOn Woman
Teaching In Heart
Of Tennessee Hills
Continued from page y

CONTINUED from page II
elled roads. Since it was impossible
for the mountain folk to come to the
schools in these towns the school was
brought to the mountains.
AS evidence of the schools abil-
ity to meet the needs of the students
and secure the wholehearted CO.
operation of the parents such a
thing as a discipline problem is
practically unknown.
P. T. A.
There are 80 mothers in the school
PTA organization and the remaining
two or three are scheduled to join
soon.
The state department of education
has given the school the highest rat
ing in the county. 1t is the only one
of "a Sewer county elementary
schools with an A rating. No school
int he adjoining Cooke county has
an equal rating. sae leg
1t was first determined what needs
of the community and the children
really were. Then the program of
the school was set up in terms of
meeting those needs.
There was a great need for health
education. From the very first the
school has stressed health with the
result that not only have the child
rem developed strong bodies but also
alert minds.
TUBERCULOSIS
When the school opened in 1924,
so per cent of the students were in
cipient tuberculars. But today after
careful attention to health there are
no tuberculars among the entire stu
dent body.
The most progressive methods are
used at the school. For example,
the boys and girls learn manuscript
writing-that is forming characters
like printed characters, instead of
the usual written characters.
This helps in reading, and later
when they learn to put the charact-
ers together they can write almost
as rapidly as if they used ordinary
handwriting, it was stated.
Crayon pupil-produced pictures
hang on the walls of the school room
giving evidence of correlating art
with the school subjects studied.
HoT LUNCHES
The hot lunches served at noon are
not prepared by adults but by the
children themselves. They do the
cooking, dish washing and cleaning
up afterwards.
The weekly visits of members of
the first four grades to a dentist in
a nearby town are financed by the
PTA.
Sunset Gap is II months a year
school. Reason for this is that when
the roads are hard to travel in win
ter the school is closed down and
liberal vacation periods are allowed
in harvest time. A total of abou
two months vacation is given thru
out the II months of the year.
All of the desks in the 16-year-olt
school are unscarred and unmarked
which is a reflection of the prid,
and concern shown by the student.
for their school.
Every resident in the community
shows much pride in the schoo
which has turned out to be a com
munity center for all kinds of func
tions both educational and enter
tanning in manner.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
The Nome
Is Fanailior--
Sanforizing
FELIX B. STREYCKMANs
end ELMO ScCIT WATSON

Tor the fact that your Adam S
l apple isn't in danger of being
squeezed out of shape by tight
collar after your shirt has been laun-
derea few times, you can thank a
66-ycar-old native of Troy. N. Y
Sanford L. Ciuett. He was the in
ventnr of a pre-shrinking process
which is used to treat one-fifth of
all the available fabrics in this coun-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
Tarneian Rock

The Tarpeian Rock is a precip-
itous cliff forming part of the
Capitoline hill at Rome. In ancient
times persons convicted of treason
against the state were hurled from
the top OF this cliff.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10

try before they
are made up into
wearing apparel
and which has
added a new
word TO our ev-
eryday speech
sanforizing.
After the World
war, American
men, accustomed
to khaki shirts,
wanted to contin-
a
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Many Uncertainties AS
College And H. S.
Start Grid Season
Continued from page II

Continued from page l
into the service. This has necessitat-
ed their release from contracts and
constant negotiations for substitutes,
it was stated by Sidney Stettler, man
ager of athletics at Bluffton High
school.
Bluffton's starting its sports pro-
gram this fall with George Swank,
Jr., Bluffton High school and Bluff
ton college letterman as coach of ath-
letics. He replaces Dwight Diller
who is coaching at Bowling Green
High school. The Pirate squad has
been practicing for the past three
weeks.
Transportation
Transportation of the players to the
different schools also is problem
assuming paramount Importance. The
college team will be transported in
private automobiles and the high
school is planning to use school bus
for that purpose.
However, since the ruling that tire
re-treads may be allowed only for the
buses engaged solely in hauling the
pupils to and from the school, there
are several problems that need to be
ironed out in this regard, it was stat
ed.
The following schedules have been
announced:
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
Astrological Music

A hotel orchestra in New York
city plays only "astrologically at
tuned" music, or music of compos-
ers whose horoscopes show that they
are in harmony during the week with
the stars In the sky.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
A Paradox

Sign at the entrance of Para
mounts commissary on the hottest
noon of the year read: "All football
players must remove cleats before
entering dining room" The studio
was making Touchdown.
Horse Biographies
Like many noted persons, three
horses-Man O'War, Seabiscuit and
Gargantus have their biographies
ready for publication in the offices
of more than 1000 newspapers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-09-10
Long Time to Go

Although climatic and geologic
conditions are changing on the
earth, man should be able to inhabit
it comfortably for at least 1,000,0 900
years, according to scientists.