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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27

1t would be interesting to hove some telepothic
entree into the minds Of the inspectors who ueeed
steel tests that they know that the tanker Schen
ectody broke because Of their criminal sIovenIness
Have they been lying awake nights, wondering
whether other brittle steel hos found its way into
ships where could couse them to crack UP just when
the fote Of bottle or convoy hangs in the boIonce2
No punishment will be too severe for the persons
responsible for thot situation, from underIinos who
wnked to the highest superors who instructed or
ocquesced.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
AID FOR THE CRIPPLED

The Mount Clemens Rotary Clubs annual drive
to finance aid for crippled children is in full swlng
Under the able direction Of Oscar Wotz, commit
tee choirmon the service club members have con-
trocted hundreds Of prospective donors-ond have
dug deep into their own Jeans.
There seems little reason to doubt that the cam
poign will be outstanding success even in this doy
Of other vitolIy important drives.
The optimistic picture which Chairman Wotz
paints is tribute to the people Of Mount Clemens.
They have not lost sight Of the children whose pain
wrecked bodies will be assured proper medical and
surgical Many of those youngsters will and
pIoy again just because you Mr.. and Mrs Mount
Clemens, have cored
Rotorions and the general public itself have
son to experience that inner glow Of wormth which
accompanies mission we'll done
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WN. T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

e. | am sometimes asked what
the four suits of the deck at
cards represent. There are sever
al versions, but | rather like
the French version, that they re-
present the divisions of medic
val army: Spades, the lance
points of the chivalrous knights;
Diamonds, the arrowheads Of the
ycomanry or the archers; Clubs,
the clover leaf of husbandry or
the peasantry, and Hearts of
course representing the church.
Some also say that diamonds
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
DOVE OF PEACE

ORLANDO, Fla.-The FBI Of
flee here received call from an
excited farmer at Loughman, 30
miles away, that carrier pigeon
with a secret message tied TO its
leg had roasted in tree on the
farm.
Two agents hurried to the
spot, apprehended the bird, care
fully opened the message, found
that the pigeon was a Sinking
competitor in race sponsored
by a fanciers club.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
SERVICE SONGS

Ida Lupino, the amateur song
writer, has turned out new
tune, Hes High Falutin' When
He's Not Salutin' the Major"
Ted McMichael Of the Mer-
ry Macs has been rejected by the
Army because of athletes heart.
Now that Kay Kayser has
discovered Gcorgia CAROLS
singing voice (and Georgia Car
rolD two studios for whom she
once worked are bidding for her
services Benny Goodman
makes his singing debut in his
next film, The Girls He Left
Behind
John Howard. once reported
engaged to Hedy Lamar, dated
only film newcomer Madeleine
LeBow during a weeks furlough
from the Navy Producer
Alexander Korda is paging Or
son Wclles to star and direct in
War and Peace" to be filmed in
London. Wellcs, set for limited
service in the Army, may get a
defermcnt to do the job.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
PROFITABLE SALVAGE

Providence Rhode Island Us finding that human
salvage poys financial dividends. An experiment in
making "unemployobIes" seIfsupportine returned 81
for every dollar it cost and hos been placed perm
onent bosis.
Each "unemployoble" is given individual poten-
toty tests, followed by training for the type Of work
for which he shows aptitude. Then Job is found
for him through the U. S. Employment Service.
Such work has social value which can NOT be
measured in dollars and cents. It has O war value,
in helping to sotisfy the national need for monPower
And for $500 spent in on experimental month, S272O
was saved thot otherwise would have been poid to
persons for whom jobs found during that month.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
T-BONE PLEASE!

KASAS CITY-The decision
to become volunteer farmland
is costing David Chasnoff in ra-
ton points.
Chasnoff, giving up golf and
gin rummy, works several hours
each day gratis at a Dodson, Mo,
farm. One breakfast used 10 be
enough. Now he eats one be-
fore going to the farm and an
other upon his return.
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first honors in the Latin Ameri-
can field. They're even naming
theatcrs after him in Chile.
ARMY FILMS
Alan Hale's fire extinguisher
factory is now producing thou
sands Of gallons of insecticide
and spray guns for the Army.
Alan himself is in uniform for
Irving Bcrlin's This Is the Ar
my Eve the cowboys
are going TO sea these days. Tex
Ritter VIII play a fighting ma
rinc his next film Fred
die Bartholomew is seriously i'll
with strep throat in the Army
hospital at Amarillo, Texas.
Promised and hoped for War
ncr's film biography Of Al
Schmidt, the marine hero. of
Guadalcanal who killed 200
Japs Liuet -Comdr. Robert
Montgomery will return to the
screen soon IN propaganda
short. He's back from the South
Pacific on sick leave. Rob-
ert Cummings will be commits
stoned captain in the Army
Air Corps within the month
Eddie Carr reports the Army
has devised a special test for
prospective Commands. Any
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
. BARBS

One of the most delicious cuts
on the hog is the one that
brought down points.
A scientist predicts that some
day we will be able to live on
air. And we're beginning 10 be-
lieve it.
We're not quite as bad off as
Little Be Peep. We know where
our sheep are, but haven't suf-
ficicnt points 10 get them.
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. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY The Associated Press
PROFITABLE

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.--When
that army booklet warned the
North African AEF about Arabs
being sharp traders, perhaps 1t
might have said something to
the Arabs about the boys from
the Nutmeg State.
A local boy writes home that
he sold his dollar watch, which
wasn't running too well, to an
Arab.
Got three dollars for it," he
commented.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
NOT A CEILING COMPLAINT

Roswell. N. M.-Try this one
for size, please.
That's Dayton Talmage, New
Mexico Funeral Directors asso-
citation president speaking to
OPA officials and association
members.
He took several caskets built
according TO OPA specifications,
to a meeting and asked the men,
bers TO try them.
The caskets were too small for
more than half of them.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

belittle, just what is behind this
potato predicament? Is produc-
ton off? Are people eating
more? Has the American distri-
button system gone completely
to pot? Is il the weather? Are
people boarding potatoes? Are
they all going to lend-lease? Or
has the black market got EN-?
The answers would seem TO be
little of each.
People are working harder.
More people are working hard
err. More people working hard
er make more money. Their en-
ergy requirements are up, they
have more money to buy more
potatoes and blooey. Up goes
the potato consumption.
A nice theory is that when
starchy potatose became unsty-
lish, production dropped off to
next to nothing, but that isn't so.
Potato acreage has dropped
off from 3.5 million acres to %
million acres in the last 10 years,
but while that was happening,
the yield per acre has gone up
from 100 bushels to the acre to
over 1870 bushels to the acre,
making the 1912 crop Of 81 mil
lion bushels higher than the
yield of II out of the last 25
years.
All right, but if all those pota-
toes were grown. where are
they? The alibis run something
like this:
Now is the tag end Of the 1912
potato season. New potatoes are
just beginning TO come to mar
kct, or should be. But the Flor
ida freeze cut the early potato
crop by so per cent. Louisiana
and Mississippi crops are three
weeks late. Texas potatoes are
just Beginning to move. And the
next tier of potato states, Ala
bama, Georgia, California, won
be doing much digging till the
first of May.
THE BLACK MARKET BOYS
That puts up the demand on
the holdovcr crops of Idaho and
Maine some $4,000 to 10000 car
loads The Army has practically
taken over all of the remaining
Maine crop. about 5000 TO 1000
carloads, for overseas supply.
No one in Maine can now ship
old potatoes without govern
ment permit, and what the Ar
my doesn't want, the Food Dis
tribution Agency does, for en-
Urgency shipments. There is an
increased demand for Idaho.
Colorado, Oregon and north cen
trail states potatoes TO keep the
dehydrating plants going, to
build up Army reserves. And to
further assist in sweeping the
market clean, there is the nor
NAL spring demand for seed po-
tatocS,
Here comes in your old friend,
the black market operator.
Knowing that people requiring
seed potatoes to plant can get
them on certificate, thousands OF
bushels of seed potatoes have
been sold on the black market at
high, seed potato prices, which
will never be planted any place
except in a pot or oven of some
kitchen stove. Seed potatoes
have even been sold to apart
mcnt house jewellers in some
eastern metropolitan centcrs.
SO that's the potato situation,
and it will be like that maybe
till midMay.
But the experts still say there
isn't any shortage. Potatoes
won't be rationed and victory
gardeners are still advised not
TO plant potatoes as there will be
enough later on TO make up for
what you don't get now.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
. GIN RUMNY QUIZ

@. If one player scores five
boxes 600 points, does he win?
A. No. Twenty points for each
box count only after the player
has scored 100 points. Box scores
do not count toward game. but
only after game is rcachcd
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ONE WITNESS ASSURED

TWIN FALLS, Idaho-Proof
in the flesh.
Virgil r. Borden, deputy sher-
iff, handed a Kimberly resident
a summons to appear in court
on a charge of harboring vi.
cious dog.
AS Borden departed the dog
bit him on the leg.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
CONsCRIPTION

One third of the able bodied
non in thc entire Chinese En-
pre- were conscriptcd by EN-
pcror Shin Hwang I'll TO help
build the Great Wall.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
GENERAL LAGUARDlA

The Senate opposition which persuaded President
Roosevelt not to nominate New Works Mayor lo-
Guordio for brigoder generoIship is healthy
thing. 1t shows awakening revulson against po
Iitieo appointments to high Army rank, and DEM
ostrotes that once the Constitutional provision
requiring Senate "odvice and consent" to major oP-
pontments has come to mean something.
This hos nothing to do With Mr.. lo0uordio's oer-
its dement's for the yet undisclOsed Job the Pres
dent has for him. 1t refers only to the pleasing ind
cotton that democracy still is beIgerent.
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JOIN OR QUIT

The A. F. Of L. Mochnists union has oontroot
with the Warner g Swosey plant in Cleveland There
is no closed shop clause Woner 8 Swosey is SO
hord-pressed for ronpower to produce war goods,
thot some $50 school teachers lawyers and office
workers working four-hour shifts top Of their
regular jobs, to he p out.
These volunteers have been ordered by the Mo-
chinists Union to "jon or quit" Most have joined
unwneIy. Some have quit also unwngly The
union president Comedies thot he has right to en-
force membership but says thot "nsstence Of fellow
workers usually proves effective persuoder.
W1ot would happen if these volunteer patriots
insisted upon keeping both their Jobs and their jobs
and their independence A strike? You guess.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27

guy who can stand next to Lana
Turner for five minutes without
moving is ready for immediate
duty.
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ONLY GOOD NEWS

PAMPA, Tex.-There was no
crime or war news on the front
page of the Sunday morning
Pampa News.
Editors of news today offer
you Easter respite on this page
respite from news that is not
good" Editor Tex DeWccse cx-
planned in a front-page editorial.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
CURIOSITY REWARDED

CHICAGO-Bill Hay, Chicago
advertising artist was given six
years ago an exquisitely decor
ated Easter egg. The design was
so beautiful, Hay could not bear
TO part with il and each Easter
displayed il in his studio.
This year a new girl employe
became curious as TO whether
the egg was still edible. When
Hay stepped out of the studio for
a few minutes. the girls curios-
ity overcame her discretion.
Hay announced his office will
reopen May /.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-27
. IN HOLLYWOOD

is pressing Laurel and Hardy for
first honors in the Latin Ameri-
can field They're even naming
theatcrs after him in Chile.
Evening star., 1943-06-09

Lewis is the bolder. He makes a
frontal and not a flank attack. His
holdup Of the Government to COM
pei concessions, in which he already
has had q measure of success, cannot
be defended. But he is not hypo-
critical and he indulges in no pomp-
GUS pretensions Of piety.
On the other hand, Mr.. Murray,
though constantly proclaiming his
own patriotism and picturing the
attitude of his union as noble in
the extreme, harasses the Govern
ment with embarrassing demands
and stands In the way Of forth
right non-political policies in meet
ing the grave domestic problems.
What the Murrays do is to take
advantage Of their position as ad-
ninistration coddled labor leaders,
with close personal and political
relations with the President, to in
f1uence both the Executive and
Congress in directions inconsistent
with reason and disproved by ex-
perience. Almost always, when
either has seemed on the verge of
moving toward sounder setup,
these White House favored labor
spokesmen have rushed into print
with long opposing statements.
Demands Cause Resentment.
The frequency with which this has
happened is the cause of considera-
BILE resentment among men who
realize the necessity of a clearer
and more co-ordinated war effort.
But nothing can be done about it
so long as Mr.. Roosevelt maintains
his political labor alliances and per-
mits these men to use their close
ness to him as a cloak.
A typical example of the Murray
tactics was given in his letter to
James F. Byrnes, director OF war
mobilization. few days ago. With
the administration still engaged in a
losing struggle with Mr.. Lewis, Mr..
Lewis enemy and the Presidents
Evening star., 1943-06-09
The Great Game of Politics
Damage to Sound Economy Attributed to
Murruy's Tactics, as Well as Lewis

friend, Mr.. Murray, proceeds to make
demands Of the President. through
Mr.. Byrnes, impossible to concede
without great damage to the war
effort.
First, he demands that Mr.. Roose-
welt veto the recently passed tax BILL
though such a veto would plunge us
into financial chaos and cause great
distress to many millions Of citizens.
Second, he insists upon a labor
representative on the new War
Mobilization Board, ignoring the
facts that such labor representation
was given in the original Roosevelt
production board with extremely
poor results, and that he personally
scuttled the first labor board the
President set up by resigning when
he disagreed with It's majority.
These demands were followed by a
lecture to Mr.. Byrnes on the subjects
of production, manpower, price
stabilization and subsidies.
In brief, Mr.. Murray, the White
House favorite, seizes moment of
especial administration anxiety fur
ther to confuse an already badly
confused situation with lot OF
demagogic and unsound demands.
1t is true his arguments carry little
weight with thoughtful men. Un-
happily, however, he has a certain
political power, which is enhanced
by the belief that the President is
even now running for reelection.
This, naturally, imparts political
flavor to all domestic matters.
Effect Temporizing.
1t is tragic thing that every deci-
sion over here now should have to
be considered in connection with its
effect on labor lobbyists Of the Muir
ray type. because they. more than
any others, have blocked an adequate
and comprehensive taxation policy,
forcing the administration into tenn
porizing with the imitation peril until
that fight has all but been lost.
And they are still doing it. This
Is shown by Mr.. Murray's latest
statement, in which again he de-
nounces the sales tax, without which
the revenue the Treasury needs Just
cannot be raised no matter how high
income tax rates are raised.
1t seems likely that as much
damage to the national interests has
been done by these labor leaders
who parade their mon strike"
pledges, which have not prevented
strikes, as by Mr.. Lewis, who has
bluffed and struck his way into
getting what he wants.
1t would be fine If Congress now.
disregarding both White House and
labor lobby. would act in this busi-
ness as it has wanted to act. and
as the people have wanted it to act,
for the last 18 months.
Evening star., 1943-06-09

Admiral Standley is reported to
feel that he is not doing the job
an Ambassador should do.
The Soviet officials are most
courteous and considerate OF him.
He has as great an access to
Stain and Moloton as conditions
permit. He sees them both more
frequently than most other
foreign diplomats in Russia.
Despite the fact the admiral
sometimes is undiplomatic-in the
strictest sense OF the word
he is still persona grata with
the Kremlin. His occasional pub
lie and more frequent private
outbursts certainly are not re-
sented by high Soviet officials.
Becoming Restless.
But in spite Of his privileged
status, Admiral standley is said
to feel that he is wasting time.
Because of his long training as
a naval officer he naturally is
military-minded. He is restless.
because neither he nor any Of his
assistants can obtain positive In
formation on the military and
industrial potential OF our east
ern ally.
He is tired Of writing reports
based on improved handouts"
that is to say. the routine press
communiques to which are added,
for the information of the EN-.
bassy, some details which would
be labeled in this country as
restricted" and not secret or
confidential.
Sometimes this information Is
interesting but does not give the
picture which military men would
like to have.
For a man as active as Am
bassador Standley is, his diplo-
matte activities are regarded as
negative. The Ambassador is en-
gagged In routine work which
might be satisfying to a man
trained in a diplomatic career
but is dull and uninteresting to q
man of the Standley fabric.
There is, of course, a tremen-
dous amount Of paper work to be
done at the Embassy at Kuiby-
shev-long reports about lease
lend. translations Of editorials
published in the governments
Evening star., 1943-06-09
Postwar Food Planners Foce Major Problem
In Differences Of Worlds Eotino Habits

water and used. to calcimine
houses, since the recipients re-
fused to drink it. In the city Of
Vienna veal is regarded as the
most delicious and digestible Of
meats, while lamb or mutton are
considered hardly fit to eat. A
few hundred miles to the south,
however, mutton is the staple
meat diet Of millions of Serbs
and Turks. The British live 20
miles across the channel from
France, but still prefer their
roast beef, watery sprouts and
cabbage, pasty white sauces and
suet puddings to the delicacies
that once were enjoyed in any
Paris chauffeur's restaurant.
Most Of Europe would rather
starve than eat anything made
OF corn meal. Japanese, accord
ing to that great student of civ
ilization. Prof. Arnold Toynbee,
consider that white men who eat
meat smell like carrion, and pre-
fer their vegetables, rice and a
little fish.
U. s. Tastes Most Catholic.
The people of the United States,
because Of the variety Of their
racial origins and the range of
soil and climate that permits al
most every variety Of food to be
produced inside a huge free trade
area, have the most catholic
tastes in the world in the matter
of food. Here we eat Italian,
German, French, Balkan, Czech
and Chinese, ard like it. Here
originated manv of today's sta
piles, notably the Irish" potato,
and green corn. The former has
captured the world but the latter
has failed to tickle the palate Of
any European peoples west of
Hungary.
So when the International Com
mission really gets busy to save
the world from hunger they are
going to flnd that the trouble
with people is that they don't eat
calories or vitamins, but food,
and that food is what you are
accustomed to eating. Human
beings are infinitely perverse
creatures of habit. The COM
mission will have to remem-
Der Jack Spratt and his wife.
For there are even differences
between the food habits of men
and women. How many men, for
instance, really like green salads?
The war, they say, is changing
food habits. In England they
have discovered that there are
hundreds Of varieties Of vegeta-
bles not all Of them Of the cab
bage family. But my guess is
that when peace comes most peo-
pies will hasten. If they can, to
80 right back to their old ways.
Freedom from want will run
up against that other almost for
gotten and seldom mentioned
freedom: freedom to live as you
like. That's what makes plan
ming 50 hard.
Released By the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1943-06-09

/
reporter, some instruction on
what constitutes news, said,
Food is always news. II you
ever have to cover a very bor-
ing public dinner, and the food
is, exceptionally good, report that
instead of the speeches and you
will make the front page I
believe he did 1t once himself,
course for course. but that was in
France, where. in the good old
days, public dinners must have
been better than they ever are
here. I never ate one in years of
dogged service at the public
board which was worth a stick of
type.
But Bolitho was right. Food is
always news-even the communi-
ques issued formally, as the re-
ports of this conference we're
are news. On this subject there
is universal unanimity: Every one
wants to eat and most people
want to eat more and better.
Theoretically, the press was
excluded because there might
have been differences of opinion,
inadvisable to play up in wartime.
AS a matter of fact, however, the
overwhelming majority of news
papermen have as much sense as
the bureaucrats in such matters.
Soviet Asked Food Now.
Russia, we hear, wanted food
now. rather than after the war
and heaven knows she needs it,
with her bread basket in the
hands of the Nazis. But there
will be separate provisions for
that; this conference concerned
only postwar plans for some sort
Of ever-normal granary to pre-
vent the recurrence after the
war Of gluts in one place and
scarcities in another.
The conference did not work
out the details for seeing that in
the postwar world food will not
be burnt or ploughed under In
one place while famine RACES in
another. That indubitable fact
has been one Of the worst revela-
tions of the anarchic condition of
world economy ever since the
last war. A great deal freer
trade would help remedy this
condition with a minimum OF
control, but more than just freer
trade is needed. There must be
international instruments aiding
the distribution Of surplus COM
modities.
A great deal of international
education on the subject of food
Is also needed. There are few
things about which people are
more obstinate than about food.
There are tales, aprocryphal or
otherwise. that after the last war
cocoa, sent to some Eastern Euro
pean peasants, was mixed with