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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, April 28-In
the light of what is going on in
the rest of the world, the story of
Preston Sturges and the three
goldfish should be our lesson
topic for today, Riddles, because
it points a pretty moral.
The go dish figure in Stur-
ges' current picture, Triumph
over Pain" which is the story of
how DR.. William Morton, a Bos-
ton dentist, gave anethesia to the
world. He used goldfish during
his first experiments. So today
we have Joel McCrea, as Nor
ton, working on the goldfish,
which are known to their friends
hereabout as Eenie, Meenie and
Moe Ginsberg.
Not realizing or even caring
about the dramatic role they
were to play, the three lit c
GinsbergS were sw m m n e
around in a large glass bow,
while Director Sturges got every
thing ready. Oscar Lau, the
prop man, stood ready with a
net. Start the camera and the
sound" ordered Sturges, so that
the fish don't have to wait for
anything"
Eenie, Meenie and Moe we're
transferred to a dampened hand
kerShief on a table in front of
the intently peering Dr. Morton,
or McCrea. He was supposed to
have soaked the handkerchief in
ether and now was watching the
effect.
MOE JUMPS
1t was instantaneous. Moe
leapcd off the book, heSitated on
the edge Of the table, then slith-
cred down McCrea's leg to the
floor like salmon headed for
its spawning ground. Oscar
caught it and then returned all
three fish to the bowl TO let them
freshen up.
They taried it again, and this
time all three fish jumped
around like crazy, forgetting
they were supposed to succumb
gradually to the imagined fumes
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
HEROES

GREENCASTLE, IND. - A
pair of bloodhounds whose u.s.
ual duty is 70 track down GRIM
ina turned heroes in search
for tWo-year-old Judith Saun-
ders, who had wandered away
from her home near here.
The bloodhounds, borrowed
from the state penal farm at
Putnamville, shifted some of
Judith's clothing and then start
ed on her trail.
In less than an hour they
found her paying in a creek two
and q half miles from home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Mrs. Wilkinson Wagar of At
lanta, Ga, and Mrs. A M Sobel
of New York successfully de
Tended the women's pair title at
the southeastern sectional cham
pionships recently held at Coral
Gables, Fla. | selected Mrs. So
bel as captain of my l94l All
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
LANDLUBBER
BY the Associated Press

lNDIANAPOLIS-It was lust
such a thing as you might ex-
pect to occur in the country's
biggest city off navigable water.
Seaman Daniel j. O'Neil, 10,
of indianapolis Naval armory,
treated at a hospital for head
and shoulder bruises, said he
had gone to sleep and fallen off
raj ing into the fountain at
the Soldiers and Sailors monu-
ment.
The fountain was dry.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
o MIND YOUR
MANNERS
Test your knowledge of
correct social usage by an
Swering the following queS-
tons, then checking against
the authoritative answers

SWering the following queS-
tons, then checking against
tn e authoritative answers
below:
/. Is it a good idea to give
several excuses when you re-
fuse an invitation?
2. Should a bride be cOnsid-
cred ungrateful and without
sentiment if she exchanges du-
plicate gifts for things she real
ly needs?
3. Should a young man give
a girl lingerie for a Christmas
or birthday gift?
What you do if
You are stenOgraphCr and
wonder how to answer your en-
ployer when he asks ques-
ton
Ca) Say, yes, Mr. Jones'?
(b) Say, Yes, sir?
Answers
I. No. One excuse is more
convincing than several
2. No.
3. No. Not even if they are
Better What Would You Do
solution-(a).
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
TWEET! TWEET!

HUNTINGTON, IND.-Hunt-
fngton high school football
players doWned on the 30-yard,
line hear brides sing-really
and truly.
The squad, out for spring
practise, found a nest Of baby
birds there.
The players fenced it in with
sticks and they watch their
step around il.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
DOUGHNUT HOLES

When he was a boy, Hanson
Gregory, a New England sea
captain, noticed that the center
of his mothers cakes were
doughty, and suggested the CEN
ter be cut out before cooking.
Thus came about the hole in
doughnuts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
WELL REPRESENTED

PRESTONSBURG, K Y.
Frank c. Stamper, a Spanish
American war veteran, has five
sons in the armed forces, but
even so his percentage isn't so
good. He has % other children.
AS for Stamper, he's II and
thus didn't even get to register
in the draft.
But if l was young enough"
he declared, I'D Vo unteer."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
SLIGHT INTERRUPTION

HADDAM, KAS.-Haddam's
Oldest business firm-a lumber
company founded in l88O-has
bowed to the war.
Manager Lloyd Sprenkel
c'osed shop and enlisted in the.
Army.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
THE WORKS

DENVER - Twelve-year- old
Do ores Nor ETH gave her all to
a fortissimo finale in piano ex-
erCise.
Under her crashing Of the
keys, piano leg gave way.
The instrument smashed down
on her leg, fracturing her ankle.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
DIVE BOMBER

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.-An
aerial attack-by a duck-put
radio station KFBK off the air
for five hours.
A duck tried to fly betweex
two high power wires near the
station tranSmitter.
An arc set up by its body sew
cred one wire and electrocuted
the duck.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28

This entire proerom is bosed
on the theory that the govern
ment supposedly representing
the majority Of the people,
should not port company with
the right to inquire into the
use Of patents otter thew have
been granted. The u. s. Potent
Office now grants some so, =
900 patents q year, nearly 200
q doy. The Potent Office stoff
con do little more than make
its customary examinations Of
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
SIS YEARS AGO TODAY

Henry L. Rutter, brother of
w. L. Rutter and Mrs. Harriet
Eastman. of this city, died in
Detroit Tuesday.
Mrs. II. b. Hutchins, of Ann
Arbor, was here Wednesday, to
attend Mrs. Crocker's funeral.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
S. o. S.

>. -. y. \
LOS ANGELES-The water
department has on hand a COM
plant that fairly drips with in
dignation.
when it rains the overflow
caused by a water main mound
floods my front yard, and is kill
ing my trees" read the report.
1t was signed by w. B. Sprin-
kle Of Goliath avenue.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
uuT-of.IowN OFFICES
ISOLATiOklSM

The present war was produced not
only by the HitIers and the Iojos but
by good men in the United Nations who
thought isolation was the rood to
peace. It received O great impetus
from Americans when mistaken portl-
sonship turned the Republican Party
from NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Inter
ventionism" ond used it to defect
Woodrow Wilson's hopes for active
American participation in collective
security measures. For q time it OPP
peored that similar shortsiehted op-
position to anything proposed by q
Democratic President would again be-
tray Republicans.
Happily big step out Of that peril
hos just been taken by the Republican
National Committee in voting TO drop
soIotionism. The habit Of opposition
very nearly trtcked the Republicans in
to an isoIotionist position n $40. The
courage Of Wendell WlIkie and NOR
al sense Of the ranks soved them from
such q disastrous step.
But opposition for opposition's sake
kept many of the Republicans in Con-
eress voting steadily against measures
for more effective resistance to Axis
aggression such as CONSUMPTION, Lend
Lease, and the ormin9 of merchant
ships. Others slowly began to see that
support Of the Observation-Disclosures
Knox policy was necessary. Then came
Pearl Horbor. Even the ronkest isoIo-
tionists came out strong for the war.
Men who believed and still be-
lieve but won't soy-thot it wos Presi-
dent RooseveIt's "meddIing" which pro-
duced Pearl Horbor, ore not the most
effective supporters Of collective action
by the United Nations to win the war.
Nor will men who SO misunderstood
world affairs as to believe the United
Stotes had neither O moral nor q Poiti-
cal stake in checking the international
eonestersm which produced Peorl
Horbor be reliable trainers Of the poll
cy Of American cooperation which will
be required to win the peace.
Republicans Of that stripe have
been irresponsbIy sniPing OF Americas
allies and at President RooseveIt's plan
for close cooperation in winning the
war and the peace They tried OF Chi
coeo to place their party on record for
hiehsounding but meaningless decIo-
ration in support Of the Nations war
efforts while keeping under cover oil
their isolotionist purposes. Every
American group except few openly
sedtious fringes is for Support Of the
war effort " The real issue was whether
the Republicans would frankly define
their terms of support as Wendell Will
kie proposed or whether they would
hide and quietly fertiIze seeds Of isoIo-
tionism which would almost surely lose
the peoce
There is plenty Of room for con-
struotive criticism Of the war effort
os in sharper examination Of produc-
ton efficiency ond costs-ond there is
on opening for q new Republican pro-
gram in domestic offoirs. But if the
Republican Porty wos TO be saved from
q rebirth Of solotionism statement
along the lines of the resolution Mr..
Willkie offered wos required.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
AND SO, THE PATENT POOL

Disputes over patents ore
settled in the courts, but whot
this frequently amounts TO is
that the disputonts in q pot
emf infringement suit get TO-
eether and settle their differ
ences by creating O pool Of the
conflicting patents which in
effect gives the pool monopoly
control. ArnoId's drastic pro-
Posols for action against such
patent pools is that the portici-
pants in the pool should be in
dicted for conspiracy in re-
stroint Of trade and, on con-
Viction, the patents be CON-
ceIIed.
The specific suggestions for
the policing and control Of pot
ents, by authority which the
government does moi now have,
ore these:
l.. Prohibit the grontine Of
patents for use as instruments
Of business policy. That is, pre-
vent the abuse Of the patent
privilege in violation Of the
Sherman antitrust law. Corp
orotions VIII c h violate the
Sherman low can be dissolved.
The same principle should be
applied TO dissolve patent pools
which violate that law. This
action can now be taken in the
courts, but it is ArnoId's con-
tention that if the additional
legislation sugge ST ed we're
posed, patents as instruments
Of business policy would not be
taken out, and attempts TO
dominate q market through
patent pools would thus be ter
minated.
z Require that in every pot
ent infringement suit brought
before the court, the antitrust
division Of the government be
notified so that the govern
ment may sit in as q third
porty in the litigation, to pro-
tect the public interest.
3 Give the government the
right tQ cancel any patent
which may be put in q patent
pool for the purpose Of creot-
inn +. r7oooDoIy
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
LOOKS LIKE ABUSE

war to knock down q few big corpora
tions which offend against certain cur
rent economic ideoIogies.
We hope this suspicion is unchori-
table. At the same time, we hope the
unpleasant accusations which have
been mode by certain assistants to the
attorney general will prove to be un-
founded.
For some time news columns have
been pockmorked with allegations that
certain American concerns have deIb-
eroteIy hompered our war production.
There is the long series Of cases in
which Thurman Arnold and his assist
onts attribute this obstructionism to in
ternotiono corteIs, under which Ger
man producers ore sold to have given
Hitler oil the strategic materials he
wanted While our corporations seIfshIy
kept output below national require
mentS.
More recently there is the charge
that the largest producer Of steel, Car
negie-IIIinois, and the fourth largest,
Jones g LoughIn, PersistentIy have vi
oIoted priority regulations over q pc
Rod Of almost year.
This Lost accusation seems almost
unbelievable, even though it is made
by the responsible War Productions
Board
Big Business hos many post. sins for
which to answer. Nobody any longer
assumes automatically that O corpora
ton title and on upper bracket salary
ore evidences Of either supreme intelIi-
eence or unsuitable ethical Standards
Nevertheless, it seems highly inn
probable that such concerns as Corne-
gie-IIIinois and Jones g LoughIin have
deliberately and persistentIy violated
the law and fIouted the national will to
win this war. The coveted Navy De-
pertinent E's awarded to both compo-
MES - almost simultaneously with
WIPES chorees-in recognition Of their
war production contribution, would
roise q question, if common sense did
not
AS for the corteIs cases, there is
compelling ground for wondering
whether some young lawyers enthusi-
osm for headlines did not lead them
ostroy
General Electric, for instance, is &C.
cused Of cousing bottle neck in mo-
chine tools by restricting production Of
tungsten carbide under O pooling or
rongennent with Krupp.
But 6. {. soys fIotIy that the inVen-
ton originated in Germany It was
protected by federal law, under pot
ents. No American concern could have
used it except by agreement with
Krupp. It wos only through the con-
troct between @. {. and Krupp that we
had any tungsten carbide at all. Be-
couse Of the now denounced potent :
pool, we and our allies have been eno-
bIed TO use the valuable metal against
Gernony
The same situation obtoned in the
case Of plastic gloss. If dupont and |
Rohm g Haas had not entered into or
roneements with the Germans, our fed |
eroI law would have prevented any
American corporation from making
the product
II General Electric. dupont, Rohm |
g Hoos have been price squeezing the |
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
OH BOY

ROSEBURG, O r E. - Bill
Pickett, soldier stationed at
Long Island, couldn't wait to
tell hometown friends about
holding Lana Turner on his lap.
While on commercial air
line trip to Philadelphia, Puck
EFT wrote, the plane bounced,
and the actress walking past his
seat, fell in his lap.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .

50 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
1892
George r. Law takes charge of
A. II. fuckers books and &C
counts.
William J. III 'riCh will build
fine residence this summer. on
South Gratiot.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-04-28
BY PETER EDSOk
Monitor-leoder Washington
Coyrespopdert

WASHINGTON, April 28-
Plain spoken, fearless Assist
ant Attorney General Thur
man Arnold, who socks labor
unions with his left hand and
big corporations with his right,
has come out with suggestions
Of what he thinks the patent
lows Of the United States
should be. For the past week
or so, Arnold and the bright
young men Of his Department
Of Justice Antitrust Division
have been appearing before
the Senate Committee on Pot
ents, delivering q sensational
series Of disclosures which pur-
port to show how patent pools
and patent monopolies have
been used TO curtoil the pro-
duction Of strategic materials
needed FOR the war effort
magnesium, m q c h inc tool
t e e S, explosives, chemicals
and so on. The recital is sched-
uIed to continue, and O sod
serial story it is, too.
The importont thing about
the focts, however, and their
real significance, lies in what
the Department Of Justice anti
trust lawyers think should be
done to prevent patents or pot
ents pools being used to creote
monopoIies which oct as re-
stroints on trode.
Briefly ArnoId's proposals
would give the government
power to police the patent laws
to protect the public interest.
Under the existing laws, the
government only eronts or de-
- -l.@I L..
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-03-20
BOARDING MONEY

The boarding of money is the latest problem
home front and of the most difficult problems with
which to deal.
1t that until recently the amount of money in
circulation in this country averaged between six and seven
billion dollars year. But there is between ii and IL
billion dollars in pockets tin boxes and perhaps buried
in back yards
1t is believed that considerable of this boarded money
has been hidden away by foreigners in this country who
have bank deposits seized in their homeands and
fear similar action here.
There is, of course, for such fear in the
United States and there to think that dollar
bills are any than defense bonds The chief
difference between u S. currency and bonds
that the pay and the currency doesn't.
the boarding of money does create serious prob
lem that it holds possible threat of excessive spend
ing and initiation at any time.
If it continues people who have boarded money may
way which they being required to report their
boards of sugar One way that this could be done would
be to require that old currency be cashed in at least
exchanged for currency before certain date the
holder would be liable to heavy fine when the money is
released
Ordinarily, what do with money is our own
business But, group of people act to take szable
amount of money out of circulation it could disrupt our
whole economic system Our economic system is having
enough difficulties today without permitting this new one
TO gain too much headway.
So if any of want to bury money away for rainy
day. let's bury in the form of defense bonds instead OF
currency Then will keep growing while it is out OF cir
cuation and when dig it up ten SO, every
$l875 hoard will be worth SIS.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-03-20
VICTORY TAXATION

Those of who get pleasure from hitting our heads
against wall because feels good when you STOP"
probably get lot of enjoyment out of reading about
the proposed new int tax. It will make this years
contribution to the government appear small by
parison.
The taxes far just in the discussion STAGE
but may not be long before actually paying them
For instead of waiting until next March to collect
1912 incomes the suggestion is that part of the
tax be deducted from wages, beginning the first of July
If the present plan goes through, most of will pay
about double what we paid this month But whether Mr.
Morgenthau's plan is accepted other is subsi-
tuted all going to be turning back big chunk of
income to the government In addition to increased
income taxes, we will also pay heavy taxes luxures
ana have to contribute four cent instead of the
present per cent, to Social Security.
There is doubt that rich and poor alike will find the
new taxes real burden.
But-again for the benefit of the man who enjoys the
thrill of ceasng to hit his head against the wahe
feel glad he isn't Englishman. For taxes paid in
Britain make even proposed taxes seem moderate.
Under Mr. Morgenthaus plan man with two children and
income of 81 500 will pay S32 tax and man with an
of $5 600 will pay tax of $587 In England those
would pay, respectively, $3.50 and S1,655 year.
Most of aren't frightened by tax proposals. We
don't want to contribute all we'll be called upon to do
it's going to be wasted but the tax program will be,
Mr.. Morgenthau anticipates, an instrument of victory
we'll all dig down to the bottom Of our pockets and still
consider it bargain.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-03-20
NM1Axag1;g,;; Z;
Author of 'How to Win Friends
and Influence People"
THE STORY OF MRS. DEE

you will go 37O7 Summit street Kansas City Mo-,
you will something worth looking at 1t is monument
a woman had erected to herself
She born in Kansas City, of sixteen children.
to help look after the other children When she wasn't help
take of the children she went to school, but finally
she had to give when she eleven years DID, and
went to school day after that
She married by the of De Gouveia. But the
not easy to remember and tough to SPELL
So the neghbors fell into the habit of calling her Mrs Dee
The depression struck early in Kansas City-in 1929
and of the first persons it struck Mrs Dee She
had to eXrA money. She woman with two
grown daughterS-how she going to the money?
She went her assets taking into consideration
what she could do better than the average could
At first she could think of nothing She counted her
ings-$2OO
She thought of something she had been complimented
And this how well she could aunder silks and fancy
linens After thinking it over, she decided to take her
money and open laundry specializing in silks and fancy
linens. She wanted to take laundry course, but there
wasn't in Kansas City; she went to the library and
read everything the subject she could There file
of magazines dealing with the laundry and laundry prob
lems She devoured it.
At last she ready rented tiny space, and opened
her specialized laundry She took part of the precious
5000 and day she opened her laundry took ad in
the paper. The ad brought her her first customer.
She hired helper and that first employee still with her.
Mrs Dee laid down principles guide her. l. Su-
perb work. 2. Unfailing courtesy.
She gave her business unique name: Mrs DeeS WASH
Shop" It began to prosper. It's fame spread. Among
laundryen known from end of the United States
another. Experts here to study how she handled
her work.
Mrs Dee is good example of person who had to earn
money and went about in intelligent way She asked
herself what she could do better than the average woman
and then-"capitalized her assets"
Hundreds of other have done the same thing.
We often surprised ourselves at what accom-
plsh-when must.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-03-20
ABOVE THE HULLABALOO
Tortured Air Waves
By LYTLE HULL

fore he is drowned out by nasal
tenor telling Of his lost love through
his sinus. Or you may be waiting
to hear Mr.. Morgenthau pronounce
the death sentence on your income,
when a group of imitation colored
gentlemen. from upper Pennsylva-
MIA, crash in to tell you the plain
tive but now familiar story Of Sweet
Adeline; or the sound of off-Stage
six shooters spells the last roundup
for Dirty Dick the axe murderer.
There is no public on earth as in
telligent and as enlightened as the
American public. Talk to anyone
in the South or in the West, where
the worst radio crimes are being
perpetrated, and he will tell you
that he considers the bilge he has
to listen to most of the time, an
insult to his intelligence.
There are many of the small sta
tions which employ managers with
brains and good taste and sense
of what the people really want.
Their programs are always popular.
(And are frequently in the English
language.) Their advertising has in
creased greatly within the last few
years. But to every one Of these
there seem to be about four lover.
lappers" which blare out deafen-
ing waves of rotgut, or a lot Of
schoolboy poppycock-in what is
supposed to be backwoods English
which not only sicken the listen
ers but drown out the decent pro-
grams.
This column knows nothing about
the technique of radio broadcasting.
All it knows is that the unholy
racketS for which said technique is
responsible in many parts of our
otherwise happy land-are so un-
believably CHASTITY. degenerating.
moronic, bloodcurdling and mental
ly destructive-that the writer can
only foresee revolution, mayhem
and rough treatment in the next
world for those responsible for the
perpetration thereof.