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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
BY PETER EDSOk
Monitor-Lecder Washington
Correspondent

A new era Of administrative
Ieeerdemoin and red tope is
coming into full bloom
through the device of what
might be known as govern
ment by directive. " The word
directive" is an old but rore-
Iy used one in diplomatic Ian
euoee. But now there is q
veritobIe flood Of directives
floating around official Wash
ineton. No one can do ony-
thing without q directive. BY
long odds, directive" is the
new fashionable, poIysyIIobic
three dollar word Of l92 in
Washington.
Just how q directive differs
from an order or q memo or q
request or even q mandate is
not quite clear to the average
vacant lot, victory garden va
riety Of lawyer. Certainly, it
sounds much mare official to
get q directive than it does TO
get q phone call, and maybe
thot's the secret 1t is oIso
uncleor as to Just who has the
power to issue directives. An
other back alley borristers'
guess would be that individu-
OILS issue orders while boards,
administrations, commissions
and agencies issue directiVes.
An implied meaning is that #
Agency A has the authority TO
issue O directive, it has the
power Of telling Bureau B TO do
the work, while Agency A sits
back and watches for results.
Thus, the War M q n power
Board can issue directiVes to
the SelectiVe Service Admins
trotion to exempt ongIedozers
from the droft. Board Of Eco
soric Warfare can issue d.
receives to Rubber Reserve
Company to stockpiIe so many
tons Of guoyuIe goo. And SO
on.
Next time you want the boy
to run TO the grocery for you,
don't tell him TO 90, or ask
him to go; give him q direc-
tive. It's so much smarter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
o HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

their first meeting. This makes
him indignant, and he spends
seven reels trying TO keep away
from her .Newly-divorCed
Myrna 10y has been cast again
as a model wife in another Thin
Man movie.
GRANDMA GLORIA
Enrol Flynn is playing the
famed fighter, jim Corbett, but
the first As seconds of his pic
ture shows him in clinch. The
only referee is the Hays Office,
though, because Flynn is hold
ing Alexis Smith ..... Gloria
Swanson will be a grandmother
by autumn. $500. Chester Conk-
lin has a fairly steady role in
My Sister Eileen" but you'll
never see his face. Only his legs
are visible as he walks past the
window Of the basement apart
ment.
Max Baer is back in movies,
playing a tough gunner in THE
Navy Comes Through" It's his
first screen role since he cloWned
away his chance for a screen ca
reer in 1888, after The Prize
fighter and the Lady" He's
starting better noW-learning his
lines, taking orders, and going
home instead of touring night
spots.
The towns sniCkering about a
screen queen who took along a
servant to do her stint of dish
washing at VAC canteen. o..
If it wants scrap for retreads, the
government might try gathering
up the rubber checks bouncing
all over Hollywood these days.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
HARVEST TIME

KANSAS CITY - It's shot
threshing time at the Elliott
shooting park.
Russell w. Elliott. proprietor
of the park, said he would Nor-
row a combine from a neighbor-
ing farmer. Scrape an inch of top
soil from his six-aCre tract and
feed il TO the thrcsher in an eff
fort TO recover an estimated l25
tons of shot that H. accumulat-
ed in eight years of trap shoot
ing.
Elliott already has harvested
90 tons Of brass ends from shot
gun shells Both lead and brass
will 60 into the war effort.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

In the Ohio State tournament,
this year. the mixed pair cham.
pionShip for my trophy was
won by two players who are
well known in bridgc-Elmcr J,
Babin Of Cleveland, paSt-prCSi-
dent Of the American Contract
Bridge League. and Miss Flor
cncc J. Stratford of Cleveland,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
MADE THE GRADE

KANSAS CITY - A promo
ton from second to first lieu
tenant caught up with Earle K.
Radford, Jr., while he was sta
toned on a south Pacific island.
There we're no silver shoulder
bars available to show his new
rank, he wrote his father here,
so the young marine officer Dor
rowed a sole erin iron and did
a neat plating job with sold
er.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
@ MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test = knowledge of cor
rect social usage by answering
the following questions, then
checking against the authori-
tative answers below;
I. Does saying, I'm afraid I'm
imposing on you make impoS-
ing on a friend all right?
2. If you have relatives who
live on a farm and have plenty
of room for guests, is it all right
to hint you would like to visit
them during the summer?
3. If you live on farm, is it
necessary for you to write and
invite all Of your relatives to
visit III during the summer
whether you want them or not?
4 Should city people who &C
cept the hospitality Of C1untry
relatives feel they must return
If?
S. Must you write a bread and
butter letter after spending a
few days in the home of a rela-
tive?
What would you do if
Yo ureall, want friends to
come and s. you
(a) Say when you see them,
You must come over
some time?
(b) Invite them to your home
for a particular occasion
or certain time?
Answers
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
THANK YOU, MA'AM

DENVER = rs this Mr..
Smiths home?" a young man
all Mrs. Adam odd when
she came LONE and fc I'd him
in the parlor.
Il came to collect and he told
me TO walk right in in case he
wasn't home" the polite young
man explained, then sauntered
out, assured that he had the
wrong address.
Later Mrs. Todd discovered
he had collected some change
from a sewing table cache.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
% FLASHES
OF
LIFE %
BY the Associated Press
A COY DEA

NEW YORK - Ever wonder
Just how much of bargain the
white man made in purchasing
Manhattan Island from the In
dams for S24?
Well, it was a pretty good one,
il seems, for the Y commits
sion has put Manhattan's as
scSsed value for net year at
1854 ,O78,941.
Red men are welcome to fig
ure out the percentage for
themselves
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
WAR TO WAR

NEWPORT, r. l. - Three
brothers have left one War to
60 to another. Residents of
War, w. Va, the sons of Mr..
and Mrs. James B. Johnson have
gone to fight the Axis - JOS
eph in the army, Edward in the
Marines, and Garnet in the
navy,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
RACKFIRE

HELENA, Mont. - Zeb Mel
horn, who has trouble with pat
riotic pilferers in his restaurant,
sa. if isn't one thing it's an
other.
He kept patrons from taking
that extra lump by adjoining
sugar bowls with miniature
American flags.
Now he can't keep the bowls
equipped with flags.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
NO MORE CHlSELlNG

Uncle Sam, personified in this in
stonce by Leon Henderson, is deadly
eornest about the new gasoline rotIon-
ina machinery now being perfected.
Whether its use is confined to the
eostern seoboord or made nationwide,
Mr. Henderson intends to see thot
there is an end to the sort OF ehIselIn9
which hos been SO cosy under the tenn
porov system.
The setup is designed to see thot
weekly allowances ore fixed on boss
of octuoI need, rather than Of conven-
fence or mere personal desire.
Having oIIocoted to each motorist
what he really is entitled to out of the
limited supply, there will be controls
over filling stations to assure thot the
ALLEGATIONS ore respected.
This would seem not only equit-
obIe, but even necessary if federal ro-
tionine agencies ore to have the re-
spect of the public.
The need for gasoline rotioning in
eostern seoboord areas would seem
clear, notwithstanding the protests OF
some who haven't considered the focts.
The need for it's extension to the
rest of the country is not SO convincing,
is gasoline alone is considered. But if
gasoline rotionine is to be used os q
method for controlling the unnecessary
burning up Of rubber-in preference
to the more straightforward but very
unpleasant alternative Of confiscoting
tires-then obviously Mr.. Henderson
cannot discriminate against the cost.
A set Of tires worn out is four tires
less for the war effort, whether they be
used in Maine or in Texos Thot, obvi-
ously, is the theory on which gas ro-
tionine on 48-stote basis is under seri-
Gus consideration.
Chiseline by motorists and filling
stotions, such os became too common
in the rotioned oreo under the loose
Temporary system, is selfish and un-
neiehbory if it merely results in the
chiseIer getting more than his share
while others get less.
ChiseIing under rubber-soving
program, resulting in unnecessary de-
: struction of our pitifulIy inadequate
rubber pile, would be unpotriotic Some
soy it would be reasonable. We can't
disagree.
Therefore we commend Mr.. Hen
derson for his efforts to make the new
system as nearly fooIproof os ingenuity
can devise. We hope he will put plenty
Of penalties behind its enforcement.
And we hope the motoring public will
be patriotic enough SO that those pen
olties will not have to be applied.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887

A Mount Clemens man had d
Scrimmage with his wife at a
late hour Tuesday night, and
woke up the square.
Liquor dealers complain that
the crowd in Mount Clemens
lust now are not large practi-
TONERS at the bars.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
so YEARS AGO TODAY

Romeo will soon have
chance to say Yes or No on the
telephone line.
Hunt & ChaSe's new laundry
is ready for business. 1t prom
iscs tub be SudS-CeSSful
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
REPAID

HELENA, Mont. - Charles
Olsen, Helena valley rancher,
has always had a good memory,
and the belief that people will
pay their debts.
Yesterday a woman handed
him $50, saying, Wen never
forget how on helped us out
of tight spot by giving us that
hay and the calf"
The incident, Olsen recalled,
occurred in 1912.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
DIRGE

SIOUX CITY, Ia. - A vic
tim of war rationing expressed
his sentiments in the following
verse which ne mailed to the
ratiOning board chairman:
And when l die, please bury me
Meath a ton of sugar, under a
rubber tree.
Lay me TO rest in a new auto
machine
And water my grave with good
gasoline"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
WAR BABY

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Mr..
and Mrs. Carl F. Harder are the
parents of new daughter. Her
name is Pearl.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12
CONGRESS kIDDED?

Congressman who like to
throw their weight around and
use their influence to get peo-
pie Jobs have q secret beef
against the Army and Navy for
resisting congressional pres
sure TO get commissions for
their constituents. Only reason
the matter hasn't come out in
public is. that the congress-
men can't prove their case. But
their suspicious center around
O couple Of seemingly HARM
less and ordinary little initials,
&C. !. " It is the belief Of some
congressman t h at whenever
they make q recommendation
that somebody be appointed
to q job, the application is
marked nc. l." And when
those letters appear on any
application, it is doomed from
the start. The letters are sup
posed to stand for "Congres-
sionoI interference"
HEAR THAT HOW'LL
If the congressional decis-
ion to kick the CCC in the
head can be made to stick,
watch for O yowI from veterans
Of World War One. It wos
right otter the infamous bonus
army march on Washington
that, in order to get the bonus
mdrchers out Of the copitoI,
orders we're issued that veter-
ans who couldn't get jobs be
token care Of in CCC camps.
At peak veterans enrolment,
there we're $4,000 ex-soIdiers
taken care Of, and there we're
5000 applicants on the woit-
ing list at the bottom Of the
depression. Today there ore
5000 veterans in CCC, as
signed to some IS camps. Fiji
teen Of these comps have been
working on War Department
projects, 90 on forestry.
The overooe vet Of the lost
war is now 40 years old. Half
OF the vets now in CCC camps
ore unskiIled, 20 per cent ore
skilled, 10 per cent white COL
lar workers, 10 per cent mis-
ceIIoneous. a fourth Of the
CCC vets have two or more
dependents, the remainder be-
ing about equally divided be-
tween those with no depend
ents and those with one.
What the CCC odministro-
ton tried to reach was the vet
who wos not getting other
compensation, the unempIoy-
obIe relief case. How mony OF
them con be rehobilitoted and
fitted into war production IS
one Of the problems thot will
be worrying veterans oreonI-
zotIons.
One Of the ironies Of the
situation is thot Paul Y. Nc
Mutt, overall boss Of CCC in
his capacity Of federal security
administrator, wos once the
Leoion's national commander.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12

Think this one through ond
see where it leoves you Con-
Dress wants TO rose the SOL
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-12

Montgomery. In her new pic
ture, White Cargo" she tries
to kiss Walter Pidgeon during
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01
Set Top Wholesale
Prices For Beet

Top price of % cents pound on
choice beef at the wholesale level
was announced Thursday by the Of
flee of price administration at Wash
ington, effective Thursday.
The price action, specifying the
maximum prices on all grades of
dressed cariasses and wholesale cuts,
limits the top prices which may be
charged by slaughters and whole
salers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01
News Our Grandfathers Read
From Issue OF June Is, 1903

beck, Henson Good, VIM. Good, G. c.
Stratton, Geo. Werlich and VIM. Gar
rett.
Miss Emma and Minnie Benroth
left Tuesday for Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Mrs. Mary Beck of Lima is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Fred Bigler. Miss
Zoe Hilty, the efficient bookkeeper OF
the Arras Cream Separator for about
seven years resigned her position last
Saturday.
Seventeen ladies representing the
Bluffton w. C. 7. u. drove to the
county infrnary last Thursday to ioir
the other unions of Allen county. The
inmates were treated with candy, ba.
nanas and oranges.
M. NJ. Murray and Dan Huber left
Tuesday to attend the National Re
publican convention at Chicago.
Fred Triblehorn and Amos Steinel
were in Indianapolis, Ind, and st
Louis, Mo-, the latter part of las
week looking for a span of mules. Mr.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01
Mems Rubber Work
Shoes, Boots Frozen

Continued from page IL
over the knee rubber boots, including
"storm king" height; all heavy short
rubber boots; all lighter weight
short rubber boots; rubber pacs and
bootees 10 inches or more in height;
and rubber pacs, bootees and work
shoes less than 10 inches in height.
Under the order all manufactur-
ers, wholesalers and retailers of the
rationed boots and work shoes are
required to obtain from local ration
board official inventory forms on
Thursday, Friday or Saturday of
this week.
Inventory reports must be filed
with the local board by the following
Saturday, at which time each pro-
ducer and dealer will be registered
and given a serial number.
Nor EFFECTED BY ORDER
Those not affected by the freezing
order are mems rubber boots and
work shoes smaller than six six,
lumbermen's overs Ca leather boot
with rubber foot), mems arctics,
CATERS, work and dress rubbers.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01

Taking advantage of every scoring
opportunity Ada Highs powerful
grid team handed Bluffton High a
25 to 0 defeat last Friday night on
the Harmon field gridiron.
Ada's advantage in the contest,
however, was not as decided as the
score might indicate, and had Bluff
ton been able to inject a scoring
punch into its ground gaining game
the tilt would have been a closely
contested affair.
Three times the Pirates marched
inside the Ada 15-yard line, but on
each occasion scoring drive failed
to materialize, and the locals furth-
er hurt their chances with misplays
that directly set up two of the Ada
scores.
On one occasion, the Swank-
coached outfit started from their own
Is and marched to the Ada nine be-
fore giving up the ball, and in the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01

Isaac Stauffer and sons, Chester
and Emett, purchased the Busy Bee
grocery store of ]. A. Thompson and
took possession of same Tuesday morn
ing. Mr.. Thompson came here from
Pennsylvania about three years ago,
forming partnership with his broth
| er-in-law, d. H. Weaver. Mr.. Thomp-
son had to sell because of his health.
The Patterson commencement of
Jackson township will be held in the
township hall in Lafayette, June 10
at o'clock.
The Boxwell commencement of I'M
ion township will be held in the NJ. p.
church, Mt. Cory, Friday evening at
7:30 o'clock.
G. A. Arganbright was reelected
superintendent of the township schools
for the ensuing year at a salary of
| S125 per month.
|. Nj. Jennings, a member of the
school board rendered his resignation.
The same was accepted and S. II. HUI
Der was elected to fill the unexpired
| term.
The following teachers were hired:
Dist. No. 2, ID. ]. Basinger; No. 8,
c. D. Hilty; No. d, F. C. Marshall;
No. 5, Lila M. Conrad; No. T, Clair
Huber; No. s, Guy LaRue; Nos. 10
and 13, Elmer Basinger.
| 1896 was allowed the Bluffton school
| board for the tuition of Lesta Basing-
er, Bessie Burkholder, Grace Freet,
Ora Erect, Elva Moser, Saliva Steiner,
Albert Bixel, David Herr, Milton
Steiner, Paul Andrews, Levi Gratz,
Reese Huber, Warren Kidd.
Grover Klay is home from the west
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Klay.
DR.. n. C. Hirschy was the principal
speaker at the afternoon session of
the Allen county Christian Endeavor
meeting held in Lima last Friday.
Miss Iva Huber very pleasantly en-
tertained Is of her young friends at
her home on Main street Tuesday
night, the occasion being the young
lady's 18th birthday anniversary.
The fire company left this morning
to attend the Northwestern Ohio Vol.
unteer Firemen's meeting at Napol-
con. They will be accompanied by
the Beaverdam band. Jay Mumms
and Leslie Kimmel will go along a:
flag and banner bearers. The mer
going are: Joe Mumma, chief; Bert
Watkins, l.. S. Kimmel, Clyde Yer
ger, Ira Troxel, Arnold Bigler, Joe
Stepleton, Glenn Strahm, Isaac Bro
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01
Kenton's Craze, Urbana.

Kenton appealed to him. Girty.
normally merciless in his relations
with whites, pleaded with the IN
dian Council. Kenton's life was
spared.
Born in Virginia in l755, Simon
kenton fed west at 16 after seri-
ously thrasll:ng a rival In love.
He was with Dunmore, with
George Rogers Clark at the -astt
of Piqua. He was with Coso-7
Logan in his Mad R:va~ camp-Igr
and with Genera MAD" An.sn''v
Wayne at the Bsttle of Fallen
Timbers. In 1872 he Joined Inc
Americans and fought the British.
Simon Kenton did more than
his share to bring peace ana CIVIL
ization to the Ohio forests.
He lived to be 81 and saw his
adopted state change from an M
dian-infested wilderness to a rtcf
peaceful land with pleasant town
and wide farms.
Kenton's grave m the Oaadale
Cemetery at Urbana is marked
with a four-sided monument. Or
one side is the head of an Indian,
on the second, the head of bear,
and on the third, the head OF
wolf, and on the fourth, the head
of a panther-a fitting monument
to Simon Kenton, the DAME
Boone of Ohio
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01

Defeats suffered last Friday by
Bluffton High and Bluffton college
grid teams will sharpen their appe-
tites for victory in games this week
end against foes that are expected
to be nearer their equal in strength.
Bluffton High will appear at home
Friday night in the traditional re-
newal of hostilities with Pandora ;
and the college eleven will travel to
Gambler Saturday to meet Kenyon's
1912 gridiron edition.
The game between Bluffton and
Pandora may result in a real battle
this year, especially in view of the
fact that the Riley township outfit
generally plays its best ball of the
season in its annual clash with the
Pirates.
Coach George Swank has been
hard at work with his team this
week to iron out the weak points
apparent in the contest with Ada
| last Friday, and altho Pandora may
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01
Halfback Tressel Scores Three Times
AS Ada Defeats BlufftOn High, 25-O

frst-downs department the Pirates
held the edge, y to II.
In fact, the scoring difference be-
tween the two outfits can be attrl-
buted directly to speedy Halfback
Tressel of the Ada squad, who scored
three of his teams touehdowns, and
helped set up the other.
After Tressel had plunged across
for the initial Ada touchdown in the
first quarter, he intercepted a Bluff
ton lateral and raced 10 yards to
score in the second. In the third
quarter he dashed seven yards for
another tally. Hawley got the other
Ada touchdown in the second stanza
on a two-yard line plunge.
Brightest spot of the game from
the Bluffton standpoint, was the
showing of the green Pirate outfit
that gave ample evidence that a
much-improved brand of ball can be
expected with a little more exper-
ience and drilling behind them.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01
Bluffton High Plays Pandora Here
Friday; College At Kenyon Saturday

be pointing for the contest they viii
find themselves opposed by a we'll
drilled Bluffton outfit rearing to go".
Bluffton college has hopes of
springing an upset in the tilt with
Kenyon at Gambler, Saturday. Altho
hopeIessly outmatched in weight and
experience last Friday, the Beavers
gave ample evidence of developing
into team with plenty of drive,
and Coach A. C. Burcky is working
hard to gain that end In time for
his teams second game of the sea-
son.
The collegian's first home game
of the year will be played here a
week from Saturday with Capital
University of Columbus as the op-
ponent.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-10-01

Meeting an experienced team with
a decided edge in weight, Bluffton
colleges untried Beavers took a 81
to 0 beating in a game with Mt. Un-
ion at Alliance last Friday night.
Altho the Burckymen held their
own against the larger Ohio con-
ference leven only in punting and
passing departments, the team put
up a game battle all the way and
gave promise of developing into an
outfit that will give a good ac-
count of itself before the season
has ended.
Misplays of the green Bluffton
team set up three touchdowns of the
yictors, with the other three coming
as the result of power plays and
passes.
Chuck Sell, Mt. Union backfield
ace, scored four of his teams six
touchdowns, two of which were made
on runs of "a and go yards. In ad-
dition Sell was successful in three
tries for point after touchdown.
Only in the last quarter did the
Beavers hold their own, after allow
ing one touchdown in the first quar-.
ter; two in the second, and three in
the third.
1t was the first college game fol
10 of the Is players who saw actor
for Bluffton in the contest, and sis
of those gridders had no high schoo
experience. Beidler and Klassen
who drew starting assignments al
freshmen, gave good account o.
themselves, and Baumgartner turned
in a performance that may earn hin
a starting assignment against Ken
yon this week.
Wenger spanked the Bluffton at
tack with his punting and passing