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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Great gobs and little pay
checks" rallied the Co M
mander- in Chief, Look what's
loose again! What's the latest,
big boy, or aren't the reporters
supposed to known"
1T has been, withal, a very
busy trip" Private Willkie said
to the Cammander-in-Chief.
1T sure withal has" said the
Commander-in-chief. what a
trip. What q life. With your
eyes wide open, you're dream
ing"
1T was little hellish on this
last lap" said Private Willkie,
although it could have been
worse. ! actually saw a corpor-
al who didn't cuss me. / ate
Russian food twice, and except
for the haphazard way the vodka
was thrown toward the caviar, 1t
wasn't too horrifying."
But I'm broken and bleed
ing" moaned the Commander
in-Chief. "Oh, / get so discour-
aged sometimes. / try so hard
to make something of you and
what good does it do? Every
time give you a pass to get Oft
the reservation you get in trou-
BILE. How many times have you
been on kitchen police since No
vember, 1940?"
"Only three times, boss, said
Private Willkie, avoiding the
Commander in Chiefs eyes.
Its disgusting and discourag-
ing" said the Commander-in-
Chief. Its more than one poor
Commander Chief should have
to bear. Does Landon get on
X. p? Does Hoover? Does
Cookie Dewey? No."
1T was all Corporal Stains
fault, boss" said Private Willkie,
looking around to make sure that
Stain wasn't there to defend
himself. Just because went
to the left when ! should have
gone to the right, and l zigged
when / should have zagged-and
few things like that"
JUST A WAR SPOILER
"And," said the Commander
in-Chief, shaking his head sadly,
You just casually kept on going
every time you should have
about-faced. And your head was
in the clouds all through drill,
when you should have had both
feet and an ear to the ground.
You were out of step all around
the world. And you sassed
Churchill three times on the Sec
ond front. And you generally
spoiled the whole war. Why
can't you be good boy and
learn the drills?"
II don't mean to be bad, boss"
said Private Wilkie, twisting his
cap in his hands and awaiting
the worst.
"And that's another thing
don't call me boss! Who do you
think you area typewriter
strategist?"
Private Willkie smiled his
most friendly. winning Hoosier
grin. You're a good politician,
boss" he told him, IF you can
use the words good and 'politi-
cian' in the same sentence"
The Commander in Chief
picked up his own pack of Gig
arets before Private Willkie
could reach it.
Private Willkie clicked his
heels and gave the Communist
clenched fist salute.
"Willkie," the tired voice said,
you're not supposed to click
your heels or give the red-nevel
mind, Willkie, just 60 to bed"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
LAw.ABIDING HORSE

LOS LUNAS, N. NJ. = Inc
sheriff is considering keeping
this horse as a decoy for jail
breakers.
A juvenile escaper mounted a
horse grazing in field near the
Jail, expecting to gallop to safe
ty.
The horse bucked violently.
Deputies found the yout n
where he was tossed - still un-
conscious.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
ADAGE Is REVERSED

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-The Ma
rines read it: Like son, like faith
er.
Sgt. A. S. O'Neil, Jr., is teach
ing his 51-year-old dad to be-
come a Marine.
Papa O'Neil, from Phoenix,
Ariz., passed up a commission
in the army to serve in the Ma
rine Corps reserves. Sergeant
O'Neil Is a drill instructor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
TOPSY TURKEY

TOPSY TURVEY
CHICAGO - Fame of sorts
has come early in life for Ar
lene Marie Bertoni.
The five months old upside
down baby" has been pronounc-
cd cured by her physician after
a third operation for a rare all
ment known as diaphragmatic
hernia.
Her intestines were in an up
side down position that almost
caused her death on two occa-
sions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
SIZEABLE STORY

MACON, Mo. - State Sena-
tor Frank Briggs, editor of the
Macon Chronicle, published the
five proposed amendments to
Missouri's constitution with this
warning:
Read that little type. That's
where the meat Is"
Readers must have taken
Briggs seriously. He was bonn
barded with letters to print the
little type big enough for them
to read 1t.
He did - in type this big.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
SERVICE ON THE SPOT

COLUMBIA, S. c. - Former
State Senator James H. Ham,
mond was wa k ng along a
street when a North Carolina
couple stopped him and asked
to be directed to q notary.
"To get married." Hammond
asked and got an affirmative
reply.
Hammond, a notary, hadn't
time to 60 back to his office
so he heard the vows on the
spot, with a sidewalk audience
of so on hand.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
SPECIAL DELIVERY

GERING, Neb. = Dew
Longs five sons used to take
over his rural mail route on
his days off. Now the route is
leaving the family.
The 44-year-old Long will be
drafted Saturday.
His 49, year old twin sons,
Jack and Gordon, and Elliott, %,
are in the Army. Harry, "a, is
a sailor, and Tommy, 81, is a
Coast Guardsman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
McKEf1NY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

At the m or tournaments
held in New York and Philadel-
phia, we seldom see q new name
among the winners - the ex-
perts usually carry away the
honors. At the recent Philadel-
phia tournament, however, two
newcomers won the mixed pair
championship - Mr.. and Mrs.
Barnett Budin. The open pair
chamriorehip was won by Ma
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
DAMON, PYTHIAS
NHvy w A1IKEE

Wihlbers of Chicago learned
that friendship can be carried
too far.
Howard Miles, so, also OF Chi
cago, was being tried for steal.
ins q bag from q department
store. Detective Paul Heinrich
was listening to the description
OF an accomplice who escaped
when ne noticed Wihlberg. a
spectator.
Wihlberg's sentence was six
months in the House Of Correc-
ton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21

Measured by special appara-
tus, the speed of q driver when
it touches a golf ball Is 70 to
125 miles an hour.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY The Assoeiated Press
All, ROMANCE!

All, ROMANCE!
NEW YORK - William Keat-
ing must pay $25 fine or spend
five days in Jail because he pick
ed some flowe rs for a lady
friend.
He picked them off ceme-
terry grave.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH

ltwouId be easy to draw too much encouragement
from Leon Hendersons plan to provide tires FOR pos
senoer automobiles Thot would result in another
Ietdown followed probably by accusations that Wash
inoton once more had promised more than it could
perform
The important thing to be kept in mind is the con-
tinuol repetition, in the more nteIIieently Phrosed
news reports of such expressions TOR essential Pur.
poses," and "for necessary driving"
Mr.. Henderson does not suffer from any deluson
that he can keep IT OOO 600 passenger automobiles
in rubber for the sort Of casual riding about town to
which Americans are accustomed.
He has taken to heart the impressive logic Of the
Boruch committees warning that our war industrial
economy will collapse unless passenger automobiles
ore provided with tires sufficient to for Wor-eo.
essoy driving.
Motoring in prvote cars, in many instances, con-
tributes Just as much to our ultimate victory the
operation of tank eep, or military stoff car.
We can't win because we won't have the weapons
to win unless we provide tires for such essential mot
orinq Thot is what Mr. Henderson is endeovoring
to do He is not deliberately trying to provide tires
for pleasure riding in any Of it's FORMS
Internationally, Of course. Mr.. Henderson is
obliged to try to supply tires for pleasure rding-tor
driving TO bridge pores to the golf course to shop for
couple Of spooIs of thread to view the autumn Leaves
in the country.
Thot is the troeedy Of the tire situotion-thot in
the effort to find some workable method Of keeping
passenger operating for essential purposes, we
are permitting so much pleasant but quite unneces-
sory motoring, by granting A cards, each good for
around 24O miles month, to persons who do not
need to drive at oil.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
WHO PAYS HIS BILLs9

Gerald L. K Smith. Detroit demoeoeue whose
words are much less than texts for democracy woe.
In 3 vigorous independent campaign for the Y. S.
Z IN Michigan, where COP. voters turned him
- HE priinores.
NJ campaigns cost money. The u S. Senote
Gpmnittee desienoted to keep an eye on cam
Sr2dtTes. Michieonders ore not the only
~ - Wonder where Smith is getting his finonc.
.pf no better spot for bit Of Senote
y16w, than the Michigan race
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21
WATCH THE QUALITY

Nov thot prices are to be fixed on virtually ever
commodity and service, the OPA feors that there vii
be attempts to chisel on quoIity-ether to cheaper
products or substitute lower grades for those which
the fixed price depends.
It is the buyers privilege and duty to be on euore
against such violations Of the intimidation law ont
regulations There oren't enough men and worner
on the governments huge payroll to police prices ons
qualities without the did Of consumers.
And, otter all, it is for our benefit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-21

Unless the synthetic program gets under way fost.
er than it now promises Mr.. Henderson is not going
to succeed in the task he has set for himself His
boards can grant certificates to oll But certificates
make poor tires on any kind Of road. They will be
only as good as the supply of rubber with which to
honor them.
It is possible to make the certificates all good.
We can hold back rubber from the armed services to
provide tires and recops for civilians for non-wor
use.
And how will we nonessentoIs feel, riding around
on tires stolen from the tanks thot for our comfort
must 90 into bottle on metal treods?
Pretty cheap.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
PldYers Are Chosen
For Senior Comedy

The senior play 1.-The Family
Upstairs" is a three-act comedy
depicting the life of typical
FLAT jewellers" living in New
York City. They are not poor
and yet they are far from rich,
a family that manages to exc
out a satisfied life by all the
children going to work. The
Hellers are a typical family who
love each other and still fight
all the time.
Joe Heller, the father is
played by Ellsworth Skeie; En-
ma Heller, the mother, is played
by Jean Kuehn; Louise Heller,
the older daughter, is portrayed
by Jeanne Kelley; Willie Heller,
the son, is played by Lawrence
Koebbe; Annabelle Heller, the
younger daughter, is Beth Mar
tin; Charles Grant, the boy
friend, is Marvin Turner; Mrs.
Grant, his mother, is Kathryn
Metzker; Miss Callahan, a seam
stress, is Janice Kelley.
The entire story takes place
in the Heller home and it is the
rollicking story Of the trials of
an average American family. It
is scheduled to be given March
81. The play is under the direc-
ton of Miss Eunice Curry.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
Hdrdin Cage Team
Plays In Regional

The Hardin high school Bull
dogs nipped tie heels of the
Forsyth "DogieS' all over the
iUtal naples to emerge with &
&c to 10 victory in the cham
pionship game at the district
basketball tourney. This Is the
tu'1d consecutive district CHAIN
pionship won by Hardin basket
GERS under the coaching of Gene
L. Garner.
Thursday, March IL, the Bull
dogs" will invade the Lewistown
court to play Denton in the re-
gional tournament. Hardin boys
left Wednesday and will return
Sunday. Il hope we win says
noncommittal Coach Garner.
Winners and runnerS-up in
the four basketball districts in
this region will play in the Lew
iStown games. Winners and run
nerS-up in the four districts rep
resented are as follows: District
v, Hardin and Forsyth; District
vi, Park City and Red Lodge;
District VII, Klein and Round
up; District TX, Winham and
Denton.
Winner of each regional tour
nament will go to the state
tournament at Livingston along
with the winner and runner up
of the two regional Glass A di-
visions. Thus four Glass B teams
and four Glass A teams will play
for the all-state championship
March Is, 26, 81 at Livingston.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
OFFICE

Commencement was formerly
scheduled for May / but the
date has now been tentatively
changed to April % or 20. Com
mencement speaker will be DR..
Ernest o. Melby, president of
Montana University at Missoula.
Baccalaureate will be held at
8 o'clock in the junior high
gym. According to official sour
ces, no blank diplomas will be
given and no student will be
attired in cap and gown the
night OF graduation unless he
has 16 credits.
Don't forget to buy your de-
Tense stamps every Monday at
the office. Ten and twenty five
cent stamps are being sold,
Principal J. N. Thompson par
ticularly emphasized the wish
that stamps should be bought
exclusively on Monday to elm
mate confusion.
Principal Thompson extends
thanks to all performers, work
ers, and the general public who
made the tournament a success
Particularly appreciated were
the performances of DR.. Lab
bitt and his Indian club drill
the twirlers, the Oronyx, the
band. the seventh grade girls
physical education class, anc
the Hysham, Forsyth and Lodge
Grass drill teams.
The receipts for this year:
tournament topped last years
sales by $50. A total of 1925
was taken in although how
much the profit will be is moi
vet known as expenses have
not yet been compiled. The
amount paid for reserved seat:
is deducted from the total an6
goes into the local athletic
fund.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
Grade School Pupils
Study American Way

Students in GA class in the
Hardin schools have recently
organized their room into a
club, 1.-The Junior Democracy
Leaders," according to Miss Ed
ma Tobias, instructor. The pur-
poses of the club are to encour-
age a high standard of good
citizenship, to develop leadership
and to put into practice the
principles of democracy.
Newly elected officers are
president, Loris Hamlin; vice
president, Mary Ann Koebbe;
secretary-treasurer, Jane Jack
son. These officers hold office
for one month. They appoint
monitors each week for various
duties in the school room and
on the playground. The moni-
tors last week were Donald
French, Jackie Adams, Sonia
Jacobson, Donald Hammer, Ev-
elyn Hyde, Mary Lou Jurak,
Geneave Hartung, Edna Hessler,
Willard Durham and Harlan
Danielson. The class has recent
ly completed the study of De
mocracy Readers" Other read
ing classes will be organized
this week Miss Tobias said.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
SATURDAY SCHOOL

Heads of the Illinois Educa-
ton Association, Illinois Aso-
citation of School Boards and
Illinois Congress of Parents and
Teachers have issued the fol-
lowing joint statement:
THE war does not justify any
general curtailment of educa-
ton. It has increased rather
than lesSened the work to be
done by the schools. Education
is a matter of continuing
growth. It is more than a queS-
ton of knowledge and skills.
Amy speed-up by frightening
the school day or by holding
school on Saturday is both to
impair the educational program
and to deprive the child of
something that can never be
replaced. No one familiar with
the process of education will
endorse the current agitation
for a general speed-up.
Some pupils may be needed
for work on farms and in fac
tories before the end of the
school year. Their Individual
programs may require adjust
ment, but there will be few
schools in which the number
of pupils is sufficient to justify
the shortening of the school
term. It is almost inconceivable
that there could be any justi-
fication for speeding up the pro-
gram of any elementary school,
Public education should have
a representative on the state
defense council to advise as to
the role of education in the war
and to combat unsound pro-
grams affecting the schools,
based either on ignorance or on
hysteria.."
(From the magazine, "The
Nations SchoolS").
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
JUNIOR RED CROSS

Hardin and st. Xavier schools
contributed $50 to the National
Red Cross war fund. Knitting
has been taught the school chill
dren under the direction of Miss
Margaret Leikvold and Miss
Ethel Montgomery. In the fifth
and sixth grades the girls and
boys have completed IS beanies,
according to Miss Montgomery.
Grade school children have
collected cartoons, jokes, and
humorous poems for booklets to
send to service camps, according
to Miss sigma Dahl, Junior Red
Cross director.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
Around The Clock

Edna Mae Hilton made a trip
to her home at Decker.
Carol Wade is back to school
after being confined to her home
with mumps.
Thelma Hyde is back in school
after an illness.
Betty Rhinehart, Beverly
Rhinehart, Bonnie Bell, Bob
Wham, Ronald Litton, Ray
Rumfelt, Marvin Davis and Jack
Warren made a "Trip to Crow
Agency Sunday.
Lorraine johnson was a guest
of Frances Dehnert during the
tournament.
Francis G~ustafson made a trip
to Billings last week.
June McKittrick was the guest
of Mrs. H. K. Fisher during
the tournament.
Marie Dorm made a trip to
Billings.
Harold Stanton returned to
school after his trip to the
coast.
Ida Whiteman is in school af-
ter the illness of her mother.
Leone CHASER was an over
night guest of Violet Belts.
Kaye Rogers went to Billings
Saturday.
Alice Bell Newman returned
to school after being i'll.
Eileen, Charlotte, Floyd and
Mrs. Crosby moved into town fol
the remainder of the term.
Charlotte Stanton and Audrie
Jones made a trip to Billings
Friday.
Miss Stockdal. Miss Graham
Miss Curry, Mrs. Skeie, Miss
Skeie, and Jimmy Morris all at
tended the Community Concert
in Billings Wednesday.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
o NEWS

The Great Falls Tribune fea-
tured at picture of the Hardin
troop No. 20 Scout Color Guard
in the Sunday edition during
Scout Week. All the scouts are
busy baling paper in prepara-
ton for a carload shipment.
Each scout and cub is going to
make a birdhouse. There bird
houses are to be completed by
April /. Scout Executive Ray
Hayden of Billings compliment
ed the Hardin scouts on their
window display picture. Hayden
said it told the full story of
scouting in detail. R. v. Walker,
Hardin scoutmaster is going to
Billings to conduct an investi-
ture service for the scoutmasters
of Billings this month. Several
of the scouts and cubs have Or
dered new uniforms. New pa
trolls have been formed and new
acting patrol leaders were ap-
pointed. Sam Pope Joined the
scout troop.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
Absences, Tdrdies
Make Poor Students

Absences and tardies in the
junior and senior high schools
have been appalling. Records
show that the majority of stu
dents only attend school when
they feel like it. For this reason
we are publishing the list OF
students who have perfect at
tendance records for the first
semester and the first six weeks
period of the second semester.
The two students who have
the lowest attendance records
in each home room are also
published here. The most num-
Der of perfect attendances was
found in Miss Leikvold's home
room made up of seventh grade
girls, and the best all-around
attendance is exhibited by Miss
Kurtz's home room composed of
sophomores. Parents are urged
to assist the school in this prob
lem and insist that their chill
dren attend school unless they
heve a legitimate excuse.
The following students have
perfect attendance for the first
four six-weeks periods: Floyd
Crosby, Harold DeVore, Claire
Harris, Tommy Scally, William
Simmons, Billy Snyder, Anna
Belle Clawson, Donna Cochran,
Grace Mikami, Lolabert Nelson,
Billy Scally, Willie Reichart,
Dorothy Weinberg, Lois Litton,
Martha Saunders, Nellie Miller,
Julia Dygert, Marie Dorm, Paul
inc Davis, Ellsworth Skeie, Carl
Mcdaniel, Bobbie Lewis, Lucille
Landon, Dorothy Dewald, Dor
othy Hammer, Robert Tally,
Bernice OFT, Jean Beck, Eileen
Dygert, Betty Hammer, Esther
Hoffman, Florina Hoffman, Pat
ty Jackson, Joyce Koebbe and
Joyce Stobaugh.
The following students have
the lowest attendance records in
school: Clifford Graham, Bruce
White Bear, Albert Bockel, Dor
othea Hardt. Otto Schaffer,
Mary Gesell, Victor Yerger, Lysle
Haverfield, Alven Unverzagt,
Burdette Salverson, Lorraine
Becker, Irene Aman, Hugh
Linn. Eunice Schaffer, Rachel
Schaneman, Wesley SHIRLEY,
George Real Bird, ALBERT Nc
Kittrick, Bernard Walters, Hen
ry Stienmetz, Jack Burks, Her.
bert Dyckman, Junior Poor,
Emanuel Herbel, Bill Three
Irons, Vera Louk, Jimmy Hyde,
Marvin Turner, Dorothy Eek
man and Della SCHNEIDER.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-03-12
Superintendent
CORNER

Educators and school people
generally have become suddenly
aware of the need of more ex-
tensive vocational education in
the American schools to meet
tn wartime needs. Hardin to-
gether with the majority of
schools in the state, has been
rather slow in recognizing the
need for such a revised curricu-
lum. It has emphasized the old
traditional academic course al
most to the exclusion of the vo-
cational departments. It is true,
however, that we have a fine
department for home economics
and commercial work and a
beginning for the vocational ag
department.
The National Defense school
or sometimes known as OSY
(Out OF School YOUTH was in
augurated in several schools
throughout the country last
year. Upon completion of the
new shop building this defense
school was i~naugurated here last
Jan. S. And according to the
latest available figures of the
registrar of the school, there
has been a total enrolment of
1913 studets taking the various
courses. No doubt this number
would have been greatly in
creased if 81 many had not
been called to the service from
this area. We find several 9TH
er evidences of an increased in
tereSt in the so-called adult ed
ucation at this time which leads
us to this one question, "Have
we as Americans and educators
alike been woefully negligent
with our adult education re-
sponsibility and also haven't we
stressed our academic education
at the expense Of the vocational
type?" Have we not put too
much emphasis on the 20 per
cent who may go on to college
and paid little or no attention
to 30 per cent who may have
to make their livelihood immed-
lately upon graduation? Another
aspect of this same problem
which should be mentioned is
that many Of them have special
aptitudes and interests for me-
chanical skills and have little
or no interest for the more
abstract things in our tradition
al curriculum.
It IS the hope and wish of
the board and administration of
school district 17-H to make
provision for the larger group Of
young folks through the voca-
tinaliZed curriculum to make
them better prepared for the
great task Of earning a living
through their mechanical and
artistic skills to make them
more useful citizens to society.
Yours for continued growth in
our schools.
I Elmer Skeie.