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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

1919 per cent OF the votes in
this unpopularity poll. which
would make them only about
ones venth as harmful as
Lewis.
This poll, like all other polls,
was one of those Sampling af-
fairs, so il may be stretching
matters bit TO say that 70 per
cent of 50 per cent, which fig
ureS out at SO per cent, Of all
the people in the United States
think John l.. Lewis is a danger
Gus man. But further analyzlng
the votes-for-Lewis by income
groups, the poll takers discover
ed that this opinion was held by
rs per cent of the Salarled eX-
ecutlveS, 90 per cent of the
factory labor and So per cent
of other urban labor, even the
lowest of which is high count.
POLITICIAN LEWIS
This survey is of extra added
interest at this time because of
the coal crisis, for which Lewis,
course, gets the blame, being
the No. personality in the dis
pute. What would be of still
more interest would be a poll
of government policy makers on
what they think of John l.. Lew
is, for all through the eight
long months that the miners
wage demands have been kicked
around, there has been evidence
that this situation was being
used TO the fullest advantage
possible in an effort TO destroy
Lewis personally. There are
plenty Of people in high govern
ment positions who believe 1t
would be a healthy thing to
wipe Lewis out politically
But just how dangerous is
John L. Lewis, politically or
otherwise? If memory serves
Alright he was a complete bust
as a political Moses in 1910. He
tried TO lead labor into the
promising land of the Wlllkle
camp, and he failed utterly.
Yet time after time during
the last eight months of nego-
tiatlons over the mine wage, il
has seemed that there has been
more interest in getting Lewis
than there has been a desire to
settle the coal controversy. The
mine operators would like 10 see
him out of the picture, naturally.
To the Democratic politicians he
has committed the unforgiVable
sin of having broken with RooSe.
welt.
AS often as not, these tactics
have played into Lewis hands.
He has been counted out any
number of times, but he keeps
on going When Lewis eXtened
the time of negotiation of new
contract until oct. 81, on con-
dltion that the mines remain IN
government hands. Lewis had to
no I,itt IN his plapp
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
FARM BOY

PHILADELPHIA" You peo-
pie are all city slickerS and don I
know how TO live, ~ Alvin Neren-
berg Is, told his teachers.
Alvin got a Job on a farm at
Thctford. VT, last May through
the school farm program
The Board Of Education fin
ally was forced 10 issue an or
der compelling him to return
home.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
SECRET WEAPON

PORTLAND. Ore - Three
Portland youths spiod an unat-
tended army jeep and thought II
would be a cinch TO operate.
1t isn't like other cars, they
learned
The trio knocked over a road
side mail box. plowed through
20 feet of cedar hedge and NOW
ed down deputy sheriff's fence
before bringing il 10 stop.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
so LONG, RED

stonton T. Red" Welsh hos Engaged in his lost
eempoisn.
The fnoI vote" is in ond the irrepressible Red
hos passed over ths Greet Divide
A strong mon with rough background, Red
nevertheless rose above the surroundings OF his boy
hood ond by virtue OF poir OF freekled hairy fists
sueeed his way TO position OF political prominence
Red" wos, as he so frequently sold himself, mo
soint."
But he wos, definitely, man OF his word u ne
liked you he would. terolIy give you The shirt or
his back"
II Red didn't approve OF you he probably kept it
pretty much TO himself
But life not ust q succession OF elections
ond roueou. amusement pork events for Red" He
r,ointoned good home, brought his family up
properly ond thought at times, beyond the ken OF
mony men.
Whenever this writer is prone TO express unwei9h-
ed opinions he thinks OF OF Reds" fovorte COM
ments:
III foxes eoeh one Of US about two years TO learn
how TO toIk in the first place and then, unfortunate
Iy some 80 or 40 years TO Ieorn when not TO
tolk"
In world OF men Red" respect for his
fortnight willingness TO do bottle physically or
from the political rostru; his friends, ond they were
legion, will miss him enormously.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
HighIights from thu Latest Books

DR. Max ThorekS autobio2ra-
ply A Surgeons World Clip
p.ncott S3.75) Is far more than
an account of the rise of a man
from the classroom in medical
school 10 a position Of pre-emln-
encc i'm the profession of healing.
II is true that DR.. Thorck's mar
latlNe is IN the tradition Of an
Alger hero, but most Of all it
prevents Self-revealing picture
OF warm humanity and character
Of a man who has done much TO
relieve suffering and further the
progress Of medical science
Thorek 5 youth was spent in
the old ,ro-Hungarian en-
pre-, where his father was a viii
lage surgeon, his mother a mid
wife on constant call 1t was
only natural that he should at
tend medical school in Budapest,
but this was no case Of son
blindly doing his fathers bid
ding Thorek was destined TO
be a surgeon But his destiny
lay IN another country, far from
the homeland.
Uprisings and political riots
grew i'm violence, and Thorek
Sr took his little family TO AM
erica and Chicago 1t was there
that young Max, struggling with
a strange language and against
poverty of slumS, had his real
beginning Eventually, he was
able TO set himself up in practise,
but it was still a long road
marked with obstacles and char
acterized by hard and some
times heroic work in both slums
and hospitals, to the point where
honors both here and abroad
were heaped on him.
Famous patients such as Lily
Langtry, Buffalo Bill. and the
explorer, Frederick Cook, APP
pear in the pages; DR.. Thorck OPP
crates on his hand TO save his
own life; his life is threatened
a hundred and one vignettes
stud. this engrossing story of a
fun and useful life.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
. SO THEY SAY

Let labor think less about the
fun It's going TO have on Satur-
day night and think more about
ways 10 increase production and
buy more bonds. 1890 Treasury
Secretary Henry Morgenthau,
Jr.
Since Pearl Harbor, the de-
struction caused by fire in the
United States has been compar-
able 10 the damage caused by all
enemy bombing over England
during the first two years OF
the war.-Presldent Roosevelt.
The black days OF Guadal-
canal are gone forever in this
war We now have the Japs'
number and we know how TO
handle them.-Brig Gen. Lewis
Woods, first Guadalcanal air
chief.
Due 10 the advancement in
medical treatment, a higher per-
centage (of soldiers) will sur
vive with sehious hsndicapping
disabilities in this war.-James
l.. Monnahan. national comman-
der Disabled American Veter-
ans.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
o IN HOLLYWOOD

pcnniess Brian Aherne said he
alone with PckmgcsC dog nbered lot Of people and
Sury August afternoon in ahat the faces he remembered
frosy the those that finely
told that Noel Coward etched with the acid of expert
fine role his speaking words sharpened
play Mrs Campbell pout- with wisdom mellowed with
cd understanding
All how do | know that We thought Brian had some
young write" thing there.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
SWAP SHOP

Shortage of store goods has
led to barter centers being
established in Germany. Chill
drcn's clothes, kitchen utensils
and furniture are traded, with
10 per cent of the assessed value
Of a commodity going TO the CEN
ter as commission.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM T.. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The one-two punch may be as
powerful in boxing as my coll
leagues, the sports editors, say.
but | doubt that it can be nearly
so disconcerting as the kind OF
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
WHAT OF GERMANY?

Lessons of My Life (Alfred
A Knopf. So by Lord Vansit-
tart, England former perman-
ent undersecretary OF state for
foreign affairs, will prove 10 be
an eye opener for those sluggish
Americans who have eagerly
accepted the naive assumption
that the German masses hate
war, and have been invcigled in
TO 1t by the cunning Fuhrer.
Lord VanSittart contends that
most Germans ARE bad, that
their mothers DID raise them 10
be soldiers. and that we are
fighting not merely Hitler, but
the entire German nation. The
German, he states, does not un-
dcrStand compromise and fair
play, he cannot distinguish be-
tween right and wrong, and he
is spiteful and heartleSs. We
shall not have lasting peace, he
asserts until We understand the
German character. until we
learn 10 think and feel in Euro
pcan terms. and, most import
ant. until We completely disarm
Germany.
The author proposes not only
disarming of Germanys army,
navy. and air force, but also to-
tai suppression Of all para mill
tary organizations, remodeling
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
PR EMU vi

PORTLAND, Ore.-A Port
land druggist lost the stone from
his diamond ring.
II showed up later--in GUS
toners milk shake.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
COLORFUL CHARACTERS

tOLOhI u Y II htNfhA ihD
He said he remembered Dame
Madge Kendall. the Ingenue'
Of the English-spcakng stage,
80 years old and rcSplcndcnt in
dark red velvet, with vlolets in
her bonnet, sitting erect and ma
jestic at a theatrical tea party.
Young man she command
ed TO Brian I'm a voice which
had carried Lady Macbeth to
the very last row of many a gal
lery, sit here beside me / wish
to speak TO YOU I'm my young
day she said, We we're ladies
an gentlemen from IL to 8, ac-
tors and actresses only from 8 to
IL Nowadays, II seems 70 me,
We are actors and actresses from
II to 8. and play at being ladies
and gentlemen from 3 to IL
Brian said ne remembered
Marshal Foch, I'M his study at
the InvalIdcS i'm Paris ON a win
ter morning IN 1928. His blue
eyes sparkling. his face alght
with enthusiasm, he described
10 Brian how the Allied council
had sent for HIM at the darkest
hour of the war TO offer him
supreme command.
They told him the position
was So grave 1t was thought
probable the Allies would have
10 give up either Paris or the
channel ports
Foch SAID. Paris IS France.
The ports ARE England. | shall
give up neither one nor the
other. will attack
Brian recalled a MIR Birch Of
London, 80 years old. with NUT
ton chop whIskers.
you must have mot a lot OF
people. Mr.. Birch. SAID Brian.
Did you ever know Dickens
Knew HIM well, said Mr.
Birch. Member of my club. Bit
Of snob
Brian said he lunchcd with
Mr. Birch one day in a party
which included Rudyar Kip
ling. Don YOU think, - some
one asked, that The Light That
Failed would make a wonderful
fllm?'
Don't know. said Mr. Birch.
Never read 1t. Never heard Of
II.
KiplIng. Brian said, rodred
with laughter.
PROUD POVERTY
Brian said he remembered
Mrs. Patrick Campbell at the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
FIGHTING FAT

The 200, 000,000--pound fat
quota set b, WPB for household
salvage in 1913 was scientifi-
cally determined as the amount
that could be saved in American
households without hardshi or
deprivation. Actual need goe
beyond that figure
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
PLENTY NEWS FROM DANNY


Louis Goldings new novel,
mo News From Helen Dial
Press. So so is the compelling
story of an EngliShman who has
become separated from his wife
and little boy during the tragic
evacuation Of the Malay PENN
sula. Danny Mathcr. suffering
from the physical ordeal Of his
search for his loved ones in Jap
infested territory is forced at
last TO return to England There
he walks i'm on a strange reun-
ion Of his mother and her four
sisters. Danny wants TO tell his
story. but he finds no audience
among the old ladies, who still
live in the dim past, and he is
treated as an intruder. But his
narrowing and pathetic story
does come out in installmcntS
punctuatcd by orders for an
other round at the village pub,
where he has found a willing
listener in a girl whose r A. +.
sweetheart has failed TO keep an
appointment with her His story
is a gripping one, and deserves
the telling The reader will
share the Impotence of Stella
who says, and means it, IF you
stop now, I'll scream when
Danny pauscs in his narrative.
HIGH-PRESSURE
See What | Mean by Louis
Browne random House: 50 500 ,
is the slam-bang first-person ac-
count Of Hollywood press
agent who took a job with a
bund- Favored organization and
wound up in the custody Of the
FBI.
Glenn Smullett was a crook at
heart, but not a Nazi He didn I
know what he was getting into,
thought the. cadaverous mounte-
bank called The Power was a
harmless tub-thumper, and con-
graduated himself on landing a
job at fifty a week. He made
the fatal step in pre-Pearl Har-
Dor days, had his chance to get
out when the going got hot, and
took IT,
But he couldn't get a job any
where else, SO back he drifted,
and there he stayed until the
inevitable knock on the door
came. Guilty of sedition? Not
consciously, perhaps, but Smul-
lett eff it's Smullett, you can
smell it, stands convicted Of
hypocrisy, smallneSs of soul,
greed. and all in all deserves
whatever he's TO get at the hands
of the government.
Browne minces few words,
and names like Henry Ford,
Lindbergh and William Ran
dolph Hearst pop up here and
there throughout the fast-mov-
ing narrative.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09

OF her government, and intro
duction of an entirely different
spirit in her churches and
schools.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09
ERSKINE JOHNSON


We we're talking TO Brian
Ahcrne on the set b tive G n
scenes of Ten Percent Woman
at Columbia stu 10. Talking
about people. Actors and news
paper folk have the emporium
ity to meet many kinds
You know said Brian, u
often think that # man were
TO spend his life i'm prison, form
inG his only impression of the
outside world from popular lit
crature, films and play $, he
might almost believe that the
world is entirely populated by
young people of either roman
tic or farcical nature, and that
the few Older people who exist
do so merely as small character
parts OF no particular interest.
Yet, he said, of all the pco-
pie he had met j., was the older
ones who held the. center of the
stage lnlhlS memory,
Brian said he remembered
meeting Winston Churchill on a
week end in Sussex. Walking
into my host beach hut to
change for a swim, | found my
self fve to face with Mr..
Churchill, entirely naked cX-
cept for a large cigar IN his
hand, and an enormous Panama
hat on his head He paid no at
tcntIon TO me bat continued 10
stand and think while l chang
cd -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-09

The dragonfly is able TO fly
backward as fast as forward.
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PROUD POVERTY

Brian said he remembered
Mrs. Patrick Campbell at Tn,
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
HITLER BOASTS:
NQzis Not Yet Beaten

! Adolf Hitler's absences at key
Nazi party gatherings had caused
speculation as to his health and rea-
sons for remaining under cover. But
wherever he was, his remote-control
message to the German people via q
Munich proclamation was as harsh
and fanatical as if der fuehrer had
delivered it personally.
Ominous to the people OF occupied
Europe was Hitler's declaration that
"we shall not scruple about foreign
lives when such hard sacrifices are
exacted from our own lives"
Germany's future and the future
of Europe, he said, will be decided on
the Eastern front. He boasted that
enemies who believed they almost
had Germany down would be ter
ribly disappointed"
ssNo matter how great the coaii-
ton of our enemies may be-" his
proclamation added, sit is smaller
in power than the strength OF the
alliance of our peoples"
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
FARM PRICES:
Wickard Us. Senate

When Secretary of Agriculture
Claude r. Wickard requested con-
gress for "clear mandate" to pro-
ceed with his 1943 farm production
program, he asked for sanction to
attempt the difficult feat of increas-
ing farm prices without raising
prices to consumers. The "clear
mandate" was appropriation by con-
gress of $10O, 100000 for incentive
payments.
But the senate farm bloc had ideas
of its own about solving the farm
income riddle. Legislation provid-
ing higher ceilings on prices of some
farm commodities passed the senate
by 1872 vote. Under the terms of
the new act, the government no
longer would deduct benefit pay
ments from ceilings.
How much this measure if finally
approved by all branches of the gov
ernment would add to the food bills
of consumers was question neither
the department Of agriculture nor
the OPA was prepared to answer i'm
mediately, because of technical fac
tors involved.
OPA officials, however, expressed
the view that increases in living
costs would be considerable.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
AIR OFFENSIVE:
Allies Harass Europe

Although Allied land operation Of
fensives against Hitler-held Europe
were still in the blueprint stage, the
offensive by air continued to gather
momentum.
Wilhelmshaven, the major Nazi
naval base, and Lorient, the vast
Axis submarine base on the French
coast, were repeated targets. The
Raj celebrated its 18th raid on
Wilhelmshaven by bombing key OBJ
jectives without the loss of single
plane. In one of the raids on Lorient
Allied fliers dropped more than 1000
tons of explosives.
In summary of operations, an
Raj spokesman revealed that 100,-
600 tons of bombs had been dropped
on German objectives to date in the
war and that 1000 daylight sorties
had been made by the bomber COM
mand in 1912 alone.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
CAFE RATIONINC:
StreamLines BilL-of.FQre

Diners-out in restaurants and ho-
tells faced simmer helpings on their
plates and a streamlined bill-of-fare
reducing the variety Of foods Of
fered, as enforcement Of the food
administration rationing orders for
commercial eating establishments
was undertaken.
Aimed primarily at food waste,
the orders governing restaurants.
hotels and other institutions did,
however, provide a larger proper
tionate allotment Of canned and pro-
cessed foods than individual house
holders were permitted to have. Be-
cause allotments were based on the
number of persons served in Decem-
Der rather than on the amount OF
rationed foods actually served, small
cafes and stands would get pro-
portionately larger share of canned
and processed foods than places that
serve for the most part complete
meals.
Restaurant and hotel allowances
were set at a minimum rate Of Is
per cent larger than those for house
holds.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
4.4O3 NEW SHIPS:
To Help Beat Axis

Funds for the construction Of 4, 40S
ships for the Maritime commission
were approved when the house ap-
propriations committee reported an
appropriation bill providing $685.
$50, ,435.
The current shipbuilding program
to thwart the Axis submarine peril
and provide transoceanic facilities
for men and supplies has been
mapped through l94S, according to
Admiral Emory Land, director OF
the Maritime commission. The
schedule called for construction OF
2,242 ships Of which 554 were deliv-
cred before January l, 1913. In ad-
dition, he said, it was proposed to
extend the program to provide Tor
2.16l additional ships to be contract
ed for during 1913.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
EASTERN FRONT:
Russians Roll On

All along the eastern front the
Russians had continued a series Of
blasting offensives. Each offensive
was battle unit in itself, but added
to all the others it formed a pattern
that was inexorably moving west
ward across the map toward the
Dnieper river.
Military observers were asking
whether the German defenses on the
Dnieper line were as strong as the
anchors the Axis had lost further
east in the Don and Donets river
basins. If sufficient time had not
been available to strengthen this
secondary line, then the Nazis faced
a crisis more serious than anything
that yet confronted them.
In the upper Ukraine the Red
armies had moved steadily forward
on a wide front toward the Moscow
Kiev railway, their offensive based
on triangle formed by recaptured
Sunny, Lebedin and Akhtyrka.
To the south the Germans had
fought violently in an effort to halt
the Russ maneuver for enveloping
the remainder of the Donets basin
from which hundreds of thousands
Of Axis forces were seeking to retire
In some semblance of order.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
To Haze and to Hold

Three activities had continued to
occupy the attention of American
and other Allied forces in the Pacific
war theater. These were Ito hold
the territorial gains they had al
ready exacted from the Japs; 2-To
destroy enemy aircraft installations,
dock facilities and ships in nearby
occupied territory; 3LTo gather
strength and momentum for further
full-scale land and sea blows at the
Japs.
In unremitting "softening up'' tao
tics, heavy American bombers in at
tacks on the Jap base of Rabaul in
New Britain scored hits on two jap
anese warships, drove a third onto
a reef and damaged 10,000-ton
cargo vessel. U. S. planes scored
hits on Jap barge at Rekata bay
in the northern Solomons and
strafed enemy positions at Munda.
Indications appeared that the Brit
ish drive against the Japs in Burma
was gathering steam preparatory to
a major movement to retake Burma
and open the supply road to China.
The strength of the British was indi-
Gated by the fact Jap effort to raid
Assam airfield resulted in the loss of
80 planes.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
TUNISIA:
Ronsnsel Pays Dearly

The 50-odd miles that Marshal
Rommel had originally advanced
against American forces in Tunisia
had cost the Desert Fox" dearly.
For not only had most of that gain
been lost in retreat, but the Axis
offensive had been converted into a
first-class Axis setback, with heavy
casualties.
Pell nell through the Kasserine
pass Rommel's Afrika Korps tank
forces had retreated to the south
west under powerful Allied gun and
aircraft attack. Seasoned observers
termed RommePs rnaneuver, a typ
ical Axis hit-and-run action. The
Axis had found the American forces
overextended and trying to man un-
tenable positions. The Axis had
struck hard. When the American
high command met this offensive
with a more powerful counteroffen-
sive, the Axis ran for cover.
Thus Rommels first major bid to
cut Allied communications lines had
been thwarted.
AS the Allied fortunes in Central
Tunisia thus turned brightly upward,
reports disclosed that General Sir
Bernard Montgomery's British
eighth army had been on the move
in North Africa and had struck with
augmented power in southeastern
Tunisia. Smashing with tanks into
the Mareth line, General Montgom-
cry had seriously threatened ROM
mel'S rear.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
BRIEFS ... BY Baukhage

About q, 200 books have been sent
from Sweden to prisoners Of war
held in camps in Germany. They
are distributed through the Red
Cross and the YMCA.
Indications are that both hog and
cattle slaughter this year win sur
pass that of last year. while sup
plies of fed lambs this winter and
spring will equal the 1912 crop.
The midland journal., 1943-03-12
4TH FDR TERM?

AS informed observers were pre-
dieting that the war would still be
in progress in 1914, politicos were
prophesying that the Democrats
would draft President Roosevelt for
a fourth term.
In the van for the ''fourth term for
Roosevelt movement were Cover
nor Nicely Of Maryland and Congress
man Adolph J. SABBATH of Illinois.
Dean Of the house, SABBATH said he
had discussed the proposition with
the President and told him ''he owes
it to the country to run again"