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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23
DEADLY STRUGGLE

(Terming the struggle "the
greatest battle of attrition ever
fought. German sources pic
tured the immensely of the
armies facing each other along
the Russian front by saying
they were made up of 500 divis-
ions -- from 100000 10 5000
GOO men presently engaged"
there }
In the Belgorod sector, l65
miles south of Orel, the Russian
announcement said that Soviet
troops overcame strong German
resistance and counterattacks 10
continue their sources. The Ger
mans were driven from several
populated areas in that sector.
And the bodies of more tsan l.
600 enemy dead were counted on
the field following a two-day
battle, the Russians said.
The Soviet communioue con.
tlnued 10 term engagements in
the DonetS River basin south of
lzyum and southwest of Vorosh-
ilovgrad as "of local impor-
lance, and said the Germans
were defending their positions
from tanks dug into the ground.
The Russians are blasting at
those positions by thanking
movements and short attacks,
and are beating off Nazi counter
there, they said.
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Gambling

Continued from Page One
chimes are now stored i'm a build
ing located on the park premises.
Following is Mayor Engel-
mans letter:
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There are approximately 75,-
900 volunteer airmen in the
Civil Air Patrol.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

Georgia is the goth largest
state in the United States and
the largest east of the Mississippi
river
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

Beethoven never heard a sim
gle note OF his greatest work,
the Ninth Symphony, because
OF deafness
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-23

Rangoon, Burmese city. gets
its name from a modification of
words meaning END of war"
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There are 1888 miles OF
highways in the state of Colo
RADIO.
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Him.
Continued from Page One
Goodfelows and the Old Crowd
FUNERAL MONDAY

FUNERAL MONDAY
Surviving are his wife, Mar
garet; a daughter Mrs. John
Nunnally, of Mount Clemens; a
son. Arthur G., Jr, in the serv-
ice a grandson, James Nunnal-
ly; his mother, Mrs Anna HIM,
Detroit; three brothers. Clarence.
Raymond and Herman, all of
Detroit, and a sister, Miss Irene
HIM. also of Detroit.
The body viii lie after Satur-
day morning al the Hubbard
Funeral Chapel where services
will be held At 2 p m Monday
with Rev. Wilfrcd Junke offici-
ating Burial VII be IN Clinton
Grove Cemetery.
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Russia

Continued from Page One
with the assertion that the Red
Army had lost more than $4,000
IN dead, wounded or captured
since July Is
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The wheel of Flying For
treSs weighs a quarter ton.
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river.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
Farm Crisis
Laid TO Three
Basic Faults
Fear Is Greatest Enemy
Of More Production
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. -
W The happy notion that we
might feed all the world after
this war has slipped away fast
as il has become apparent we
cannot even feed ourselves and
Allies well during it.
With spring planting only a
few weeks off, some agricultural
officials are conceding that less
food may be produced this year
than last.
The most hopeful Of optimists
only allow themselves TO yearn
for an increase of A per cent,
whereas demand calls for a %
or 100 per cent increase.
Our industrial output has been
expanded $50 per cent over last
year and will jump nearly two
thirds as much again this year,
but the food production is run
ming along just about the same
and the extraordinary part OF
il is no one is even proposing
expansion TO meet the situation.
Food Administrator Wickard
and Manpowerer McNutt are
pecking away at the problem
here and there with soybean
bonuses. and the rationers are
getting ready to impose a radical
point system to divide our food
scarcity, but the idea of crash
ing through the obstacles and
really raising enough for Ameri-
cans, British, Algerians, Rus
slams and others apparently has
not occurred to any one.
A farmer friend of mine, who
Is also a good business man, has
devoted some thought to the
condition and has reached the
conclusion that three things are
wrong-three basic things which
could be met if sufficient energy
and intelligence were applied to
them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
MISREPRESENTATION Again

IN ATTEMPTING to limit Wayne County hereafter to
25 seats in the Michigan House Of Representatives
rural legislators do TO realize that they are
striking directly at the fundamentals of democratic
government
They have forgotten their boyhood lesson that
democracy is a government by the people, with equal
rights for all
They have forgotten that this guarantee of equality
measures the difference between democracy and ars-
tocracy.
AS long as the rural members refused to obey the
constitutional mandate that representation should be
apportoned a basis of population, the onus was on
them WAYNE has struggled through fighting toward the
day when the constitution would be regarded as an unes
capable mandate,
nut now when the outstae majority schemes to under
y mine basic principle of American liberty, the time
has come for the metropolitan to arise in its full
voting strength to protect its interests and more
important, to protect our theory of government
Because the move strikes deeply establishing
trend that will have drastic consequences the metropolis
should receive aid from every county The city dweer
and the farmer may differ about methods of taxation and
distribution of funds but they not united in
defense of constitutional government then we have indeed
reached dangerous state of mind.
On a population basis Wayne is entitled to 80 seats
in the House of Representatives The metropolis is not
seeking that number but it does want than the Il
assigned to it.
IN THE hope of writing 25-seat limitation into the
constitution the House last week rushed the measure
to the Senate by vote of II to "A.
Fortunately, the Senate is not as keen to destroy
our process of representative government and may not
be passed before the deadine, which is Friday.
If it does pass constitutional government we have
known it since forefathers revoed because OF taxa
ton without representation, is in danger of impairment
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
Marc Of Events for %e1 ss"as
BY BENJAMIN DeCasseres-

the young officers OF the army
air service, whose ideals he has
shattered and whose loyalty he
has corrupted; dismiss him In
the name of truth under whose
aegis he has sought protection,
but whose faith he does not
know.
Throw him out! We ask IL In
the name of the American
people, whose fears he has
PLAYED upon, whose hysteria he
has fOmented and wose faith ne
has betrayed"
Sounds like the trial OF a
Dreyfus or of a Benedict Arnold,
doesn't it?-in 1925!
Some men are so big, so
clairvoyant, so sure of their
ground that. to get anywhere
with their ideas, it is necessary
even TO push the government
in the face.
That is what William Meldrum
Mitchell did
AND he made some dent!
THE absurd and archaic re-
Il spect of the rulers and lead
ers of the country for another
is the greatest danger we may
have TO face when it comes to
Furnishing the criminals OF Ger
many, Japan and Italy after this
war.
The kaiser was never tried in
the last war.
He passed his latter years in
peace and security while mil
lions of Allied soldiers and sail
ors who went forth to destroy
him and his sons and the ring
OF military thugs that sur
rounded him gave up their lives
and limbs and eyes.
Respect" for a ruler!
Is that to happen again?
I hope not.
Hand the criminals over 10
those people who seek not jus
tice" but vengeance, for Justice
is for the innocent, never for the
guilty.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01

by the government are so short
that If a few die he cannot make
any money.
EEAR of his farm machinery
l. and repairs and the gasoline
rationing restrictions is the
third factor working toward
curtailment. His situation on
trucks, tractors and tires urge
him not to and, in fact, prevent
him from doubling or TRIPPING
his production as the national
situation requires.
Unless some one takes hold
of this situation like LETTERS took
hold of the similar confusion on
synthetic rubber-and he did
take hold of it and dispell it
food production may decline to
such an extent as to startle the
bureau boys.
Regimented economy seems
to have failed again. 1t worked
all right on the way down, when
it was distributing largesse. But
it has failed completely when
the problem is to get produc-
ton up.
The incident OF Mr.. Jeffers
saying what he thought about
'1oaferS at army and navy
desks" shocked officialdon and
has been getting -Mr-Jeffers
some bad publicity. Apparently
the government is trying openly
10 maintain the principle that
no official should say what he
thinks without getting it APP
proved-an idea which has its
merits.
But behind this controversy
lies the fact that Mr.. letters
has done well with the synthetic
rubber program. For 55 per
cent of his program, he has
been given "directives" (above
priorities) to obtain materials.
1t is only on the other as
per cent that the "army-navy
eXpeditors" have stolen some OF
his materials. This theft will
delay his program by a few
months, but not prevent its full
fillment.
Distributed by King Features synd., Inc
Reproduction in Whole or in Part
Strictly Prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01

T DON'T buy bonds to force
Il the -four freedoms" on the
world.
don't buy bonds to make
this a better world"
1 don't buy bonds TO spread
the gospel of the Atlantic
Charter"
I don't buy bonds to put Ger
many back on her feet-as we
did IN the last war.
I don't buy bonds to give the
Japs another chance in the
Pacific.
1 don't buy bonds to perpetu-
ate communism in Russia.
I don't buy bonds so India
may be free"
l don't buy bonds TO bring the
blessings of democracy TO Ga
zook, Gazeh or GaZah.
No-definitely!
l buy bonds so Germany and
Japan may be completely de-
feated.
l buy bonds to preserve the
free enterprise system, the Con-
stitution and the liberties of our
American people.
l buy bonds to keep the old
u. s. A. free of new-fangled
visions"
l buy bonds not for a new"
America but for that old, COM
Portable America that, looking
back on it now, was pretty near
Utopian.
And l hope you are doing the
same.
THE more I read of Gen.
Il Billy" MitchelPs case the
more farseeing and morally
heroic he becomes.
In 1925 when Mitchell was
brought before a court-martial
for remarking that his superior
officers were lunkheads, or
words to that effect, he an
swered them in these fearless
words when the high command
pronounced his opinions almost
reasonable:
II believe, and say without
any fear of what you may do
to me about it, that the system
OF the department of war and
the department of the navy Is
almost reasonable in that IL
does not give a proper place TO
the air service of this country In
the organization of the national
defense of this country"
But listen to this! 1t is what
Mai. Allen w. Gullion said TO
the court trying Mitchell:
DISMISS him for the sake OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
Letters
To the Editor

TO THE EDITOR;
DERMIT me to voice my dis
l. gust of that Pain in the Neck
Column, signed by Red Herring
Pegler.
I am a union man. The union
brought me many improvements
in my working condition. The
union gave me a sense OF secu-
rity and 1 don't care II my OIL
cials make a million dollars as
long as they still work for my
welfare. I pay my dues be-
cause want to, just like the
manufacturer pays his dues to
the manufacturers association
or Chamber of Commerce for
services those bodies render.
At a time like this, why
should he use his column to dis
unite classes. Why not use his
pen to builc harmony. We have
a war to win. Russian Commu-
nists are showing the world that
Nazis can be beat by licking the
daylights out of them, making
our job much easier.
A sense of decency should re-
frain Mr.. Pain in the Neck from
writing columns like the one in
today's Times. l suppose Mr..
Pegler hasn't that sportsman
ship in him.
TECH. SGT.
HARRY G. ROSTOCK,
1912 Air Squadron,
Kellogg Field.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01

by the government are so short
that If few die he cannot make
any money.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
WAR
A Year Ago Today
FEB. 1, 1912

FEB. I, 1912
Heavy American guns destroy
japanese landing force assembled
at Ternate on south side of
Manila Bay opposite Corregidor.
Toxic announces Japanese
have cut water supply lines to
Singapore island.
Axis forces advance GO To 65
miles eastward In Libya by
passing BARGE I'm their pursuit Of
retreating British.
Germans install Major Vid-
kun Quisling as premier of Nor
way.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
Propaganda
Useful in War,
Not in Peace
Commits Us TO Policies
People VIII Refuse
Monday, February 1. 1913
BY wESTBROOK PEGLER

THE deadly fault of the Amer
lean propaganda by which
the political leaders of our gov
eminent try to win the con-
fidence and cooperation of the
people Of the world, including
the Axis people, is that IL is only
a lure which is certain TO be
repudiated by the people of the
United States because it COM
mits them TO idealistic sacrifices
which they never authorized.
II il succeeds in its purpose OF
helping to conquer the enemy.
it will have been useful to US.
But when the time comes to
make good, the American people
will refuse because, as the first
operation in the establishment
of the four freedoms everywhere
in the world, we would have To
depose our gallant ally. Josef
Stain, and liberate the Russians
and all the other continental
European peoples who, in the
fulfillment of victory by the
Allies over the Germans, would
fall under his rule or the rule
Of his successor.
The Americans will refuse TO
assume that task, not only be-
cause Of the probability Of mill
tary defeat abroad and conse-
quent dissolution at home, but
because we have no mission TO
impose our form of government
on the rest OF the world.
Tha, would be the rule OF a
small minority over a great
majority. even If il could be
accomplished, as. of course. IL
can't. AS a military enterprise it
would be insane. AS a political
project, hopeless.
II Is useless 10 try TO refute
the fact that Russian communism
is no less oppressive. dictatorial,
brutal and treacherous than
Hitlerism.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
China Counsel Needed

THE Chinese military mission that waited months on
i Washngtons official doorstep, hoping in vain for the
chance be invited to contribute its invaluable nforma-
ton and experience in the Oriental war; is on its way
home.
Washington did not encourage any counsel
operation from the soldiers who know most about the
Japs who have fought them to standstll five years
Gen. Fung King, member of the mission and an
outstanding Chinese artillery officer recently described
the and the ways in which Japan could be beaten
THE means are modest-now; the ways simple
i now
"But the longer we postpone the attack, the more
difficult it will be-" he said 81" Japan is allowed to con-
sodate her gains then if the whole world attacked
it would take TIVE or three years to defeat her.
IF there delay, Japan will organize puppet armies
to maintain communications and order In occupied terri
tories and will be able all her army freely for
actual fighting
But even more important-and most important
she will be able to develop the materials she has
seized-Ol, rubber tin, lead steel and the like"
Gen. Dai-Fung King knows what he is talking about.
He was trained in Japan, like Chang Kai-Shek
He has fought the japanese.
He is conversant with Japanese psychology and
deoogy with Japanese strength and Japanese weakness;
with Oriental geography customs and viewpoints
A ND, backed by this deep knowledge and experience
"A he confirms opinion rapidly gaining in volume
and conviction in America: That Japan bitteres
strongest most implacabe and ambitious enemy, and
that main effort must be exerted against her, i'm
mediately and completely
Unfortunately neither the logic Of the Chinese mis-
sion the logic of events has far made much of
impression strategsts.
They obsessed and fascinated by the European
campaigns
They driven by traditional habit OF looking
toward Europe for the solution Of all problems.
They are not yet conscious of the truth that the
Pacific has become Americas front door.
They not impressed by the evident fact that in
sheer numbers area and industrial potential
Japan is already in possession of empire vaster and
stronger than any other possible in Europe Africa the
Americas
In few years this empire will be an actually.
We will be living in the shadow of its will and
pleasure.
DUT if we act now with the utmost speed with suf-
- fcent forces that japanese empire will not ma
teriaize.
Instead, there will be a commonwealth of Pacific
nations; peace and not war; cooperation and not sg
gression.
This be done.
But it is not being done
Still Americas greatest service TO itself and the
world is TO throw Americas immense power Immediately
into the task of graduating civilizations most cruel and
roller
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
THERE'S much talk these days
Il on the subject of prohibition,
the possibility of its return.
Every one seems certain that
our last dismal bout with pro-
hibition should have taught us
to know better than to think
such a law can ever be success
fully enforced.
AS for one failure being final.
that's ridiculous and is not at all
the good old American way.
eff at first you don't succeed,
try, try again."
M doubt were prohibition TO
go in effect again and as strenu-
ously enforced as food, fuel oil
and gasoline rationing II would
be successful. Were il still not
successful. IL would prove that
our national leaders have no
business discussing the marvels
they intend 10 do for the wide
world once the war is won.
For discipline, nationally or
individually, begins with one
self. And certainly the kind Of
discipline to which Germany and
Japan is subjected will be the
deciding factor in postwar af-
fairs.
ARBUTUS VI. BARBER,
go Greenlawn Ave,
Ypsilanti.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01

TO THE EDITOR:
IN THE January % edition Of
Il The Detroit Times, Philip
Murray, CIO big shot, did in
suit Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker.
This insult j resent.
Captain Rickenbacker has
proven many times with risk 10
his life that he is a real Ameri-
can. Some Of these days some
Of our sons are coming home
with other true stories, yes and
wearing the scars Of battle. dis
ease, and hardships, Will they.
too, be challenged?
I am a veteran and father OF
a son now serving his country.
FRANK G. ANDERSON,
1915 Avenue A,
Flint.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01


Hitlerism.
COME publicists, who a few
~ years ago. were describing
Hitlerism as brown Bolshevism,
have more recently had less to
say about the practical identity
of the two brutalitarian systems.
This Is polite and expedient
with Russia fighting savagely on
our side, but the Russian form
of government has not changed
and IL must be noticed that
Stain has neither expressed any
intention TO adopt the four free
doms in his country nor 10 in
stitute free government in any
lands which he would occupy.
II il is to be argued that the
four freedoms can exist under
some other system than ours.
then nobody has yet named that
system.
For that matter all four or
them cannot exist at all and
they are, in plain truth, just
sky-writing thought up for
propaganda purposes by two
strong, determined political
leaders with a gift for phrase
making and an alert sense or
expediency.
Freedom from want and fear
everywhere in the world is an
order which cannot be fulfilled
in the time of any person now
living, and probably never can
be in the world. and when the
present military enemies are
beaten the surviving fighters
abroad will want 10 come home
and resume life. and their fami-
lies will demand that they be
brought home.
Any program OF deliberate'
permanent impoverishment here
for the benefit Of the rest of the
world will be beaten at the
polls.
The United States did not en-
ter this war 10 raise the living
standards OF the rest OF the
world, but 10 protect this coun-
try and those living standards
which Americans alone enjoyed.
A ND the American contribu-
"A ton so far has been colos-
sal and i'm the end will be Just
as important in the victory as
the contributions OF Britain,
which stood alone while Stain
co-operated with Hitler, and OF
the Russians who fought only
when invaded and for honest
reasons which they have had the
decency not TO misrepresent
with sanctimonious slogans.
They are fighting for the same
reason that aroused the United
States, namely. love OF home
land. and Stain has been honest
enough, confident enough in his
strength, not to go in for hypo-
critical preaching.
II our propagandists could Kid
the rest of the world and deal
us out at home. our people might
be practical and cynical enough
TO understand and let the four
freedoms pass without challenge.
But when il all seems to COM
init us in dead earnest TO n ma
tional career Of pestiferous do
gooding all over the world, and
to sharing forever our butter
and beef, our clothing, automo-
biles and all else that consti-
tutes the materials standard OF
American life. il suggests that
the country which the fighters
will come back to would be just
another land of want.
/ And who ever gave any one
permission TO promise all this in
I the name of the people of the
United States?
When were the American peo-
pie ever consulted on all that?
They never were consulted. II
just happened one morning in
the news and ever since then a
campaign has been running to
y,naka thar,o believe in was their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-01

TIIE first, he said, is fear, the
l. fear among the farmers,
and he thinks this fear is 60
ing to make production this
year a lot less than the WASH
ington bureaucrats concluded
with their little pens and pencils.
The farmer fears to plant
primarily because he has no
prospect of getting enough help
to harvest. He will trim his
crop planting to what he can
safely handle unless he gets
some formidable assurance from
the government that greater
planting is possible.
A number of solutions have
been offered on this phase-the
importation of Bahamans to the
southern vegetable and fruit
areas and cotton fields, Mexi-
cans to the Middle West, and
even Chinese to the Pacific
Coast-but no one has done any,
thing about it, or offered any
promise.
Temporary release of some
men from the army or nom
essential industry or schools 10
help in planting or harvesting is
-paSSible,-but So far the only
hope offered the farmer has
been the decision of the draft
boards not to take much more
of his help-and talk, only talk
from McNutt about amassing a
land tilling army of civilians
who would probably ruin more
acreage than they harvest.
The production of pigs and
poultry could have been quad
rupled in this country if any one
had the sense, Immediately after
Pearl Harbor, to institute gov
eminent sponsorship of such a
movement, but officials then all
were saying we would have
enough food because we had
great stores of surplus wheat.
Pigs and poultry could even
now be doubled except for fear.
The farmer must pay high
1 price for feeder hogs and pre-
MUM prices for feed for chick
ems, and the margins ordained