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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
Hieh|ights from
the Latest Books
BY JAMES E. HILBERT

Many moderns, especially the
non-long hair variety, have felt
for some time Goth century art
could stand some explaining.
Sheldon Cheney does much in
his "Story of Modern Arts" wi
king: So to prove his subject
is something more than a tale
told by the sketch class of an
insane asylum.
Cheney sums up his reasons
for writing the books in one
cogent sentence: Most people
still, / recognize, see and read
pictures, where the moderns
believe that one should see and
experience them"
Those are probably the most
sensible words to the layman in
all the millions which have
been written about modern art.
They and the book which they
preface should do much to dis
solve the nebulous suspicion
of the intentions of modern
painting which turks i'm the
minds of too many people, in
Guiding some directors of art
museums.
Cheney traces the history Of
modern art from its roots in
post-revolutionary France to its
manifestations of the moment
in the work of North and South
American painters. What he
has to say about the develop
ment of the Importance of form
in painting as opposed to real
istic or "story" painting is IN
telligent and crystal clear. His
biographical writing is sensitive
and sympathetic. Few people
have written better about
Gauguin. for example.
Although the work Is remark
ably free from bias In any d.
rection, most readers will find
points If disagreement with the
author. Why did ne rail to
mention Stephen Etnier or Pet
er Blume in his discussion of
contemporary American paint
ers?
Such differences Of opinion.
however. only add to the pleas
ure of critical reading. and The
Story of Modern Art" Is q first
rate performance, q book Of In
finite value either rs q primer
or q supplementary text to mo-
dern painting.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
FIVE YEARS AGO
1887
50 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Presbyterians let their
church contract Monday night.
The tax rate in Mount Glenn
ems is S2.15: in Detroit, S1.9l.
so YEARS AGO TODAY
1882
E. ]. Ode Il Co. Join the
telephone circuit.
Donaldson Bros. made the
first cast in their new foundry
Saturday. running out three
tons of iron.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12.-This
departments bureau of marital
statistics and domestic turmoil
has just emerged from its cloist-
ter with a heartening report on
the year 1941. It seems the
marriages of Hollywood peo-
pie outnumbered the divorces
81 to as.
This is an unprecedented
score and must be significant
of something, whether a boom
in pure sentimentality or a
drawing together of movie folk
for comfort and security in I'M
certain times. True, there were
a couple of fumbles among the
marriages: Moonstruck Judy
Canova's vows, exchanged with
Private James Ripley in Hon
olulu were annuled; and Mary
Brian and John Whitcomb, who
told 1t to a preacher in May, al
ready have recanted to a judge.
Those errors, though, are
more than balanced on the ro-
mantle side by three couples
who decided they had been too
hasty about divorces in pre-
vious years. Thomas Mitchell
married his former wife, Anne
Brewer Hier; Robert Armstrong
remarked Claire Louise Arm
strong; and Stan Laurel, appar-
emily as bewildered as his
friends by a series of impulsive
entanglements, persuaded Vir-
ginia Ruth Laurel to try it again.
TWO-TIMERS
Many of the movie figures
who went to their own weddings
in 194l were saying Il do" for
the second, third or fourth time.
In fact, practically all the we'd
dings of any prominence, ex-
cept that of Deanna Durbin and
Vaughn Paul, involved one or
more divorced people. Even
Judy Garland drew grass wi
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
THE STRATEGY OF TERRORISM

Possibly it was port Of the stroteoy
ct the japanese ottoek on Pearl Horbor
% Intimidote and terrorize the Ameri-
fon peop!e. u 50 it had some interesting
9oN ~ proofs of our terror.
rs bese is thot it frightened
un9 Americans right into the
sovN $1,000 into the Army, and thous-
nds more into the Marine Corps, dur
- tl'e remainder Of the month of De-
qn cIl-time high record.
E!s 3 lepo1ese con friohten US
ess 10y ore-ooino to fright
M Into winning the war. !.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

Herbert j. Gerst of Norfolk,
former president of the Virginia
State Bridge Association, has al
ready raised funds in Virginia
for the purchase of ID ambu-
lances. At every tournament,
Herb will be found soliciting
funds for this worthy cause,
but it does not interfere with
his ability to play those tickets
in masterful fashion.
Sitting West, Gerst was the
declarer on today's hand. The
first trick brought out the jack,
queen, and ace of diamonds.
Gerst cashed the ace and king
of clubs and led the seven, hop
ing South would be in. South
discarded a diamond.
North saw the danger of a
diamond continuation. He led
the deuce of spades, East play
ed the king and South the ace.
South cashed the king of dia-
monds and led a spade, Gerst
winning with the queen.
Gerst now made a magnificent
guess. He cashed the jack Of
spades, discarding a club from
dummy. He led the heart ten
and let ii ride. 30 did South!
West cashed the acc of hearts
Che could read North's double
TOM, and led the asst spade, fore
ing North In, with only dia-
monds to lead to East's ten, plus
the club jack.
North now regretted his fail
ure TO save his deuce Of spades!
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
BY VIM. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Sheppard Barclay, a member
OF the executive committee of
the American Contract Bridge
League, is the leagues chair
man of its Bridge for Ambu-
lances committee, aiding the
British American Ambulance
Corps. This splendid work will
be continued, but the funds
raised will be used to purchase
ambulances for use where they
are needed most at the time
whether il be an American city,
a battlefield of our u. S.
troops, a naval base or for al
lies in America.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
~ PETER EpSok
Dolly Monitor Washington
cogrespondsnt

WASHINGTON, Jsn. H.
News Of the third meeting OF
the ministers of foreign offoirs
Of the II American republics.
converting at Rio de Joneiro.
Jon. IS, may be buried by war
bulletins, but just the some.
this conference is important in
relation to what happens next
in the western hemisphere.
These Pon-Americon meet
lnes used to be largely orotory.
They're getting over that now
and these sessions of the for
eien ministers, otter the plen-
dry opening session and the
speeches Of welcome ore out
Of the way, have been pro-
oeedine on the "Whot ore we
here for? Ok! Vomonos
Let's get going" ideo.
Whereupon they break up
into committees and try to get
something done. Also, the
delegates and their technical
advisers ore beginning to
know each other now, and the
informal gatherings oeross the
hall and up in GuiIIermo's
room do almost as much for
building hemisphere solidarity
os anything settled around q
conference toble.
A good bit Of formoIity was
necessary in the Buenos Aires
conference in 1896 and at Ii.
ma in 1893. Thot was the
wishful, sentimental period.
but at the meetings of foreign
ministers in Panama in 1889
and Hovono in 1910 there wos
the reol threot Of the European
war forcing the delegates to
adopt realistic policies for
safeguarding the hemisphere.
WEllES HOPEFUL
The tide hos now definitely
swung in our direction, thinks
Under-seeretory Of Stote Sum-
ner WeIIes, the United States
representative at the Rio meet
ing. The American republics
ore standing together and they
manifest q greater desire to
show unity with US. In oddi-
ton, there is on element Of
feor invoIved-o fear Of what
this war may do TO nations
n OF technically involved
thot prompts collaboration. No
one can toIk about or predict
what policies the meeting will
odopt, But none Of the United
Stotes delegates goes to Rio
at oil discouraged about the
possible outcome.
For the first time, q much
more varied assortment Of 3D.
visers goes along with Mr..
The undersecretory is
generally regarded as suffi-
Gent unto himself in handling
diplomatic angles Of any inter-
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
. BARBS

women Will Speak"-news
headline. Sine when is that
news?
Side stepping only gets you
farther away from where you
hope. you are going.
We must stop thinking in
terms of business as usual" BY
the same token we must stop
thinking in terms of strikes as
usual"
Hillman, labor member
of OPM.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON

notiono' meeting, but so in
vo'ved are the war issues that
o panel Of experts from GOV.
eminent agencies other than
the Stote Department will
moke up the contingent from
washington. Undersecretory
OF Commerce Wayne c. ToyIor.
president Of the Export-Import
6onk Warren Lee Pierson. CorI
SPoeth. representing Vice Pres
ident Wolloce's Economic Wor
eoord, and Coordination of In.
ter-Americon Affairs Nelson
Rockefeller Vice Choirmon
OF the Maritime Commission
edword MoeouIey, ond in oddi-
ton the director of monetary
research from the Treasury.
the chief Of the special defense
unit from the Department of
Justice, the director of the Of
rice OF foreign agricultural re-
lotions from the Department
OF Agriculture, and q dozen
others.
lhe. purpose Of this big dele
9otion'is to simplify the max
ing Of decisions at the meet
ing without having to refer
technical questions back to
Washington and so delay pro-
cedure. interesting to note
is the obsence of Army and
Navy officers. This is peoce
meeting and not war stroteoy
council.
In spite Of the size of the
u. S. delegation, each notion
gets only one vote, and that is
cost by the Official represent
otive-in our case, Sumner
Welles. AS the meeting brooks
up into committees, however,
the member Of the delegation
assigned TO each committee
moy cost the vote for his coun-
try.
TWO CHIEF POINTS
With two main questions on
the oeendo prepored by the
Pan American Union-pre-
servotion Of sovereignty and
Territorial integrity Of the
American republics, and the
strengthening of the econom-
&c solidarity Of the American
rePubINs-the meeting will
divide into two principal COM
mittees, but as there are w.
rious sub-topics under the
main headings, everybody gets
q chance to do something.
Even though the representa-
tive OF ony particular country
is not officially q member Of
some subcommittee, still every
country hos O right to send one
OF its delegation around to
any subcommittee and speak
q piece TO put over q portic-
uIor point.
When all the sub commit-
tees report, the resolutions
and declarations ore given TO
q drofting committee, which
puts them in the four Official
Languages Of the American re-
publics-Enelish, Portuguese,
Spanish and French. The
Portuguese is for Brozi| and the
French for Haiti. Then, at q
pIenory session, the Il foreign
ministers cost their votes and
the Declarations Of Rio become
on important document which
the diplomats will refer to for
time to come. But they're all
in the most general Of terms.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
. FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES Q
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

Germany's soldiers, awaiting
signal to attack England from
their French coast bases, are
machine gunned by Raj.
planes in all-night attack.
William j. Marshall, former
Mount Clemens automobile deal
er, has been commissioned
lieutenant-commander in the
Royal Canadian Naval Reserve.
He also served as County
building engineer.
FIVE YEARS AGO
1887
Blind pig operating in Ma
comb county in defiance OF
state law and in competition
with legally licensed liquor and
beer vending establishments
must 60, Sheriff Robert c.
Havel says.
Prosecutor Vincent L. Fitz-
gerald is general chairman of
President Roosevelt's Birthday
Ball.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
IT WILL TAKE FIGHTING 70 WIN

So much has been written recently
about the immense productive focili-
ties of the United Stotes thot some peo-
pie may be getting warped ideo of
what it takes to win war.
1t takes production, all right. It is
good that we con produce umpty-steen
tons of steel and that we can build this
and thot many ships, planes. and guns.
That must be done. right up to the hlt,
on q scale the Axis powers cannot
match.
The erisIy mistake, however. would
be to fall into the habit of feeling that
somehow this wins the war outomoti-
colly, that in some mysterious man.
ner the Axis peoples ore going to goze
ocross the seq at this impressive pile Of
war moteroI and then just die down
and roll over.
Thot is not the way wars ore won.
Wars are won by fighting. Wars ore
won by killing enemy soldiers and
sailors.
In every one Of those tanks there
must be between two and eight fight
ing men. On every one Of those ships
there must be between so and $500
fighting men, Behind every rifle and
moehine gun there must be q fighting
man.
And when all thot armament is
ready, and all those men ore troined,
then they must fight, and many Of them
must die.
We do not for moment minimize
the importance, the vital importance,
of building every weapon our economy
can be mode to produce at whatever
necessary temporary cost to the civilian
standard Of living. We do not minimize
the advantage to the United Stotes and
its allies Of their tremendous material
resources, though if the japanese seize
the Philippine and the Eost Indies, even
thot advantage will be to some extent
offset. These are tremendous odvon-
toees, of which we must make the
most, seven days week and "a hours
q doy.
But victory is not assured by them
We could lose the war if the aggressive
spirit is lost. The war, in the long run,
will be won by killing Germans and
Itoions and japanese. That sounds
harsh, but it is true. 1t is war.
In all our toIk about production and
resources, let US not forget for one min
ute that this is war, and war is killing,
and war is won by beating the enemy's
troops in the field. Let us not beeuiIe
ourselves with subconscious IuIIobies
sung by contemplation Of our greet re-
sources. Two million American men in
the armed forces ore not thus IuIIed.
Other millions foce the reality on
Feb. Is.
Our task is not only to produce
weapons. 1t is to use them. 1t is to
seek out the enemy and destroy him. In
thot task many an American faces
wounds and death.
There is potential victory on the
drowing-boords, in shop, mill and mine.
But it cannot become actual victory
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-12
BROTHERS IN BLOOD

As l94l ended, Manuel L. Quezon
took the oath in secret headquarters
Of General MooArthur's army some
where in the Philippines, as President Of
the Philippine Commonwealth.
I'VE have become brothers in blood
shed for the defense of common ideols. ="
So spoke U. S. Commissioner Francis B.
Soyre at this strange ceremony
Manuel Quezon is President of the
Philippine Commonwealth until the end
Of l945. Before the end Of that time he
will actually be governing in that copo-
city over his liberated people. To this
we Of the United Stotes have given our
word. It is as solemn on obligation as
q people can assume.
1t is q cause worthy our undertaking
it, not only because we 90 to rescue
from oppression people conquered by
ruthless force despite their dependence
on US. Il is q worthy cause also because
the same force which overcome them
menoces US, and all the world. There
can be no peoce until it is eliminated.
Shoulder to shoulder, American
boys and Filipino boys are dying in Lu-
zon. They are indeed brothers in blood,
and so the whole Filipino people and the
whole American people become blood
brothers olso.
Thot blood has bIotted out one of
the most vicious theories of which the
Nozi and Fascist mind stonds guilty.
and the Pacific war shows once again
their utter folly.
For what do we have there? We
have Hitler, the racial maniac, cIospino
firmly the yellow fist" he not so LONG
ago protested to despise. And we have
Chino, another yellow roce," as on
anchor Of resistance to oppression. We
have the little brown men" of the Phil
ipPines on our side, and proud we ore
to coll them brothers, for they have
shown their love for freedom in the uIti-
mate woy-for fighting forit.
The racial theories of Hitler and
MussoIini ore proved foIse and ridcu-
Ious by their own standards when thew
unite as partners with race they have
always called inferior. It is not the color
OF mons skin but the color Of his 10y
olties that counts. The seIf-procloimed
pure Aryon" Nozis have bowed down
to the folse gods of tyranny and oppres-
sion. while races and peoples which
they have chosen to coll unenIehtened
and inferior stand head and shoulders
above them, fighting for freedom.
There are vicious, mean, and evil
men and groups Of men in all races.
And so there ore in all races men and
groups Of men capable of standing firm
tor decency and freedom. 1t is q su.
preme irony that the arrogant racial
theories built up by the Nozis should
be 50 eIoquently disproved by the Nozis
themselves
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-27
WORKMEN'S CLAIMS
FILED in FEBRUARY
HINT LOWER TREND

Columbus, Ohio-Wo COM
pensation claims filed with the Ohio
Industrial Commission during Febru-
ary numbered 22,753, a decrease of
1856 compared with January totals,
Chairman Will T. Blake reported this
week to Governor John w. Bricker.
The February claim total was gain
of 23.5 per cent above the number of
claims received by the commission in
the corresponding month of 1941, and
53.8 per cent above the February,
1910 claims figure, the report dis
closed.
Included in the February totals were
ID death claims, 13 less than were filed
in the month previous, and 1881
claims for payment of medical ex-
penses only, involving injuries which
did not cause compensate loss of
work.
Compensation payments to claim
ants totaled $1,018,617.52 during the
mOuUT1, anu Inc COflllllSSlOIl auJIlOIlLCu
disbursement of $518, ,404.46 for claim
ants medical, hospital and funeral
bills, Chairman Blake reported.
Balance in the workmen's compen-
sation funds on February % was
$86,714,7121S. Of this amount, $685.
416,599.05 has been reserved for the
bi-weekly payment of compensation in
claims previously allowed by the COM
mission.
At the end of February, employees
of 59,823 employers were insured un-
der the Ohio Workmen's Compensation
Fund, and 191 self-insured employer
accounts were listed by the commits
sion. A total of 81 physical exam
nations of claimants were conducted
during the month by the commissions
medical section, according to the re-
port.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-27
"F. D. R. Defends Labors No-Strke Record and Urges
4O-HOur Week Be Maintained Effectively Explodes
Fiction That Labor Troubles Menace War Output

lem" in America today because there
are no strikes.
2-That the Wage-Hour Act does
not limit working hours to forty a
week and that, in fact, all war indus
tries are now operating on much
longer schedules.
3-That there is no reason why
time-and- d-a-half overtime should not
be paid for work in excess of forty
hours a week.
The President fatty blamed news
paper distortions and irresponsible
Congressional oratory for creating
"the amazing state of public misin-
formation" on labor.
He also issued a warning against
rushing half baked, anti-labor legisla-
tion into enactment at this time when
things are going along pretty we'll.
Congress, he pointed out, could not
pass a law that would make man
turn out more work. That, he OBJ
served, was up to the enthusiasm of
the individual. Parades, band playing
and pat on the back for the men who
are doing good job would do far
more to stir up enthusiasm, he sug-
gested, than restrictive laws.
The Presidents Illuminating lecture
on labor matters to the press followed
an hours conference with his "War
Labor Cabinet" composed of leaders
of the American Federation of Labor
and the CIO.
A. F. of L. President William Green
declared the conference was ''very sat-
isfactory" and added
"We found from an examination of
all the facts that war production was
moving along in a most satisfactory
way.
"The full effort of labor is being
mobilized behind the nations war
production program. There are no
strikes anywhere in the country that
are holding up production.
'The President agreed with us that
the performance of labor in the pro-
duction program is exceptional and
highly commendable.
"The President expressed complete
satisfaction with the spirit manifested
by the A. F. of L. and the CIO in elm
mating jurisdictional questions that
might cause production delays.
"He also agreed with us that the
40-hour week standard should be main
tanned and that all work in excess of
forty hours a week should be paid for
at overtime rates of time and half.
"The President further agreed that
the policies of organized labor will
make it possible to effect continuous,
seven-day-week operation of war in
dustries if materials are available and
industry helps"
CIO President Philip Murray chimed
in:
ut was agreed that voluntary ac-
tion on the part of labor to yield its
right to strike was more satisfac-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-27
Roosevelt Denounces Anti-Labor Propaganda
Drive; Halls AFL-ClO Voluntary Aid To
War Production; Restrictive Laws Opposed

tory answer to the problem of produc-
tion and national unity than resort to
restrictive legislation by Congress"
At his press conference, President
Roosevelt spoke of the part newspa-
pers and irresponsible speeches in
Congress have played in contributing
to public misinformation on labor
matters.
He told of receiving a letter from
a professional economist who drew the
conclusion that Japan would not have
declared war and the United States
would not have lost the Philippines or
the Dutch East Indies of 30,000,000
man-days had not been lost by strikes
in the first twenty-on months of the
defense program.
The President said, with smile,
that he had replied with even worse
news if it had not been for the COM
mon cold we would be in Berlin today,
as that ailment caused loss of CO.,
100000 man-days in the same period.
One false impression abroad in the
country, the President continued, was
that the federal Wage-Hour Law for
bids men to work more than forty
hours week. The fact is, he empha-
sized, that there is not and never has
been any law limiting the work week
4o \, o1, oil of thn
munitions plants are working more
than forty hours week right now.
1t is true, he said, that some plants
are working only twenty hours week
but that is due to shortage of ma
terials.
Throughout his discussion, the Pres
ident emphasized the importance of
voluntary action to speed up war pro-
duction. He told how labor had given
its pledge not to strike after the war
began and said that, as a result, there
are probably fewer strikes in the
United States today than anywhere in
the world, unless it's Germany where
the workers are regimented.
There's no strike problem today, he
stated fatty. That's the big point, he
emphasized.
He criticized newspapers for the
over-emphasis they give to what he
called two-bit strikes which involve
only about fifteen men and which do
not hurt war production. He specific
ally assailed New York newspapers
for making front page news out of a
stoppage of fifteen metal workers. He
said he had never heard Of the COM
pany and expressed doubt that the
stoppage was of sufficient Importance
to deserve big headlines in the press.
This was, he said, an example of
how public misinformation is created
by the newspapers.
We must all get a sense of pro-
portion, the President urged. Labor
has given a no-strike pledge and is
living up to it. The War Labor Board
is functioning pretty well. There is,
therefore, no reason to get excited or
denunciatory about occasional minor
exceptions from the rule.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-03-27

Washington, d. president Roose-
velt, at an epochal press conference,
told the nation that the new anti-labor
propaganda drive is based on bunk.
The President effectively exploded
the fiction that labor troubles are men
acing war production.
On the contrary, he emphasized
THAT there is no "strike prob