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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
Jap-Americans i'm Detention Camps Declare Loyalty

now, the Nisei say, the Kibei are
trying 10 get into internment
camps over here so that they
can avoid service for either
country
MANY SEEK JOBS
The fact is that out Of 5000
Japanese Americans in h $
camp 1878 have asked to be
sent 20 Japan. though they know
we'll that this won't happen until
the fighting is over. Only 33
volunteered for the Japanese
American combat unit. The sale
of war bonds has been very
small. I'm these respects the camp
here and that al Rohwer, about
35 miles away, make poor
showing by comparison with
those in the westerly states
There is a great deal Of mis-
understanding about the Japa-
nese- Americans in this and sim
liar camps They are not Grim
inals. spies. saboteurs or sus-
poets. The FBI put all suspected
people of japanese descent into
internment camps, behind barb
ed wire under armed guard, right
after Pearl Harbor.
Those here are the remainder
Of the ISsei, the NiSei and the
Kibei. who were removed en-
masse, Unfortunately, on short
notice, from their homes in
danger zones. regardless of the
constitutional rights of the two
thirds who are citizens.
They were brought here first
to be checked and sorted. The
majority, who have been found
trustworthy, are 10 be relocated
outside the militarily prescribed
zones so that they can pick up
their interrupted lives again.
Some $500 of chose here will
be put back into circulation as
quickly as possible. The remain
ing 1900 will be put under
guard as internees. and then the
relocation camp will be closed
up.
| have talked with many OF
the cvecueeS, ranging from some
OF proven loyalty TO one who is
the suspected ring-leader Of the
pro-Japanese element, and who
says he wants 20 go to Nippon
and fight for the land Of his fore
fathers.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13

anywhere. the Japs might try TO
stage an invasion.
There are 5000 ISSci. Nisei and
Kibei here The ISSei are Japa
nese born in the Orient, who mi
grated 10 this country and were
not permitted TO become citizens.
The Nisci were born and educat-
cd in this country, and most OF
them are loyal Americans The
-Kibei also were born here and so
are citizens but returned 10 ia
pan 20 be educated.
The Nisei call the Kibci draft
dodgers - They say the Kibei
were sufficiently japanese TO 90
back for their education but not
enough TO remain there and serve
their term in the Jap army And
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
Farmers Rush
to Reap Hay
at SeIfridge

Answering an appeal pub
lished in last Thursdays Mont
tor-Leader, IL Macomb county
farmers today were harvesting
100 acres of hay on the expand
ed portion of Selfridge Field.
In return for the hay, the
farmers will loan their equip
ment to the Army Air Forces
for blowing, preparing land for
seeding and general cleanup
work.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
BY BETTY MCDONALD
NEA Staff CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, July l3 -
Take one acre OF land (prefera-
bly, slight ravine). a uniform
water supply, depth of about 6
feet, fill well, add commercial or
organic fertilizer, plant 100 bass,
1900 Dream and you've got a
pond capable of supplying the
family with 100 pounds of fish
annually.
Back yard" fish ponds in ru-
raj areas is a project that De
partment of Agricultural Offs
Gals are pushing as one means
Of beating the growing food
problem, and as a source of re
creation.
Ponds can easily be construct
ed and can be neighborhood
project, agriculturists point out.
To further educate farmers and
country jewellers in the benefit
of backyard fish ponds. experts
drawn it up in pamphlet form,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
M Scholarships
Available to
Macomb Grads

ANN ARBOR - Twenty-one
Macomb County high schools
will each be able TO send an out
standing graduate to the Univcr-
sity of Michigan every year with
no tuition charge under a huge
new scholarship plan just APP
proved by the Board of Regents
and announced by President
Alexander c.. Ruthven.
Under the terms of the new
arrangement, a full tuition
scholarship is established in the
name of every one of the 500 ac-
credited high school and pre-
paratory schools in Michigan.
This county's accredited schools,
all of which will benefit from
the plan, are: The public
schools in Armada, Center Line,
East Detroit, Fraser, Mount
Clemens, New Haven, Rich
mond, Romeo, RoSeville, st.
Clair Shores, Utica, Van Dyke,
Warren, Memphis. and New
Baltimore, and St. Augustine
High School, Richmond, and ST.
Mary High School, Mount Glenn.
ems.
The first students TO enter
with the new scholarships will
enroll in the University's fall
term, October %. Applications
for the scholarships and for adj
mission to the University will be
available from the principals of
all accredited high schools and
preparatory schools in Michigan.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13

Those talks, and the expert
ence of Caucasian officials here,
indicate that most of the more
intelligent citizen evacuees are
bitter about what happened to
them. Bitterness has made pro-
japanese. or at least anti-Amer-
leans, out of some who appar-
emily were at least passively
good Americans before Pearl
Harbor.
But in most instances II has
left the NiSei hurt, bewildered,
discouraged, though still unshak-
en- in their loyalty to the United
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
By 8. BURTON HEATH
MA staff COrreSpondent

THRONE. Ark July l3-JuSt
outside the staGnating remains Of
this once thriving Numbering
town is located one Of the ten
centers in which 100000 of the
$4,000 persons Of Japanese an
cestry in the United States have
been brought together. 20 remove
them from military zones and
especially 20 get them out Of the
Pacific coastal area where. If
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13

Following is one Of four re-
ports. by NEA staff writers,
on the japanese Relocation
Centers which are under Of
fetal investigation.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
BACKYARD Fish Ponds Urged
To Alleviate The Food Shortage

have just completed a study and
available 10 anyone who cares
10 write in to the department in
Washington.
WARTIME RECORDS
American food production is
operating in high gear, accord
ing to figures just released by
the War Food Administration,
who proudly point to these sta
tiStics: lard, margarine and veg
etable oils will increase some
700 million pounds this year; de-
hydrated vegetables have gone
up from a IS million pound high
in l94l to a 200 million pound
record; dried egg production
NAV top $50 million pounds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13

length. Wood furniture is
reduced TO "a basic patterns.
ODDS N ENDS
Prices for frozen strawberries
and asparagus will show an in
crease. according to new OPA
ceiling price indications
Hunters have contributed more
than 10000 deer and elk hides
during the 1942-43 hunting sea-
son for military requirements.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-07-13
WARTIME RECORDS
SOME REDUCTIONS

Manufacturers are making on
ly three styles in women's rub
Der overShoes, all in black
Tea balls come in two sizes now
instead Of their former IA. 9. Z.
Wax paper is limited to rolls on
~ II inches in width, l25 feet in
Evening star., 1943-10-07
[ SefulneSS Oyerrated

Besides, the usefulness of Sibe-
rian bases against Japan, il seems to
me, has been vastly ovelrated, The
most effective Russian bases, in re-
lation to Japan. are in the narrow
belt from Vladivostok northward.
But glance at the map will show
Evening star., 1943-10-07
AMERICAS
AIR POWER
Second Of a Series
BY
Maj. Alexander de SeverSky

that this area is wedged in and vir-
tually surrounded by Japanese-held
Manchuria, Korea, Southern SAX
halin and the japanese home is
lands. 1t as far more vulnerable to
attack by land, sea and air than
the optimists have unthinkingly
assumed
At the first sign of Russian CO.
operation in the war against Nip
pom. the japanese jaws will shut
tight on this strip fronting the Sea
of Japan, and with better than
even chance of biting it off. Vladl-
vostok and other nearby bases are
in the exposed center of a ring OF
Japanese forces
At best, we would face formi-
dable military struggle in defending
tSee SEVERSKY, Page Bib
Evening star., 1943-10-07

For once Americas ranking Com
muniSt. Earl BroWder, merits vote
of thanks from his non Communist
fellow citizens. His warning, in a
Chicago speech on September 27,
that We should not count on Sibe-
rlan bases for an air attack on
Japan is wholesome and much
needed realism. It should help
clear some of the fumes of wishful
thinking from the Far Eastern stra-
tegic picture.
| do not know, of course, to what
extent MI. BroWders pronounce
ments are an accurate echo of Mos
cows views. But he may safely be
credited with more accurate knowl-
edge of Russian policies than the
OptlmiSts in our midst who tie their
hopes for defeat of Japan on Soviet
cooperation and, in particular, on
access to Russian bases
1T is an illusion for the United
States to expect that the Soviet
Union will be able or willing to un-
dertake the burden of the military
struggle against Japan" Mr.. Brow
der declared. All chatter about the
Soviets giving up bombing bases in
Siberia is harmful nonsense"
Bases Called Mirage.
1t is harmful in a sense that
Browder did not mention. The mi
rage of those bases at Vladivostok.
Kamchatka and other Soviet mari
time points has certainly been of
small help to practical thinking on
military possibilities for q knock
out blow at the Nipponese home
land If the fortnight Communist
warning that it is nonsense" and
"delusion" turns our thought more
clearly to the use of American bases
it will achieve a useful purpose that
was no part of MI BrOwdcr's inten-
tions.
If Japan is to be finished off be-
yond redemption, the Job will have
TO be done from our own soil AS
soon as that fact is more generally
grasped and conceded, We shall
buckle down to the crucial task of
building the air power necessary for
direct assault on the heart and
vitals Of Japan from Alaska. Tech
nically that has been possible for
some time.
The end of deluSionS that Pre-
mier Stain will offer US an easier
approach would help enormously to
bring strategic planning into line
with teChnOlogical possibilities. ST.
berian bases may ultimately become
available to us anyhOW-hiStOry
moves in curious ways in these years
of global Crisis-but our military
expectations surely cannot be tied
to any such remote hope.
Usefulness Overrated.
Besides. the usefulness Of Sibe-
rian bases against Japan, il seems to
me, has been vastly oVelrated. The
most effective Russian bases. in re-
latiOn to Japan, are in the narrow
belt from Nladivost0k northWard
Rlt pl9nPP At the man will show
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
A Thought for Today
Joint Citizenship

Somebody - perhaps Colonel J. J.
Llewellin himself showed good sense
in calling off the speech in which Colonel
Lewllin purposed to suggest joint British
American citizenship 1t is unfortunate
that the second thought came too late to
catch up with advance copies of the in
tended address which had been distributed
to the press. There is nothing morally
or officially wrong with the idea of
Colonel LleWellin who, as chairman OF
the British Supply Council in North
America, commands some pSeudo-official
attention when he speaks. He intended
to suggest that British in this country
and United States citizens in Britain
should be entitled to vote and hold pub
lie office without undergoing naturaliza-
ton. Presumably he feels that we two
peoples are so close in our goals and our
methods that good citizen of one would
be good citizen of the other.
But the general feeling among Ameri-
cans, and presumably among British, is
that here is no good reason for such
gesture. And the mere proposal gave
Anglophobes text on which to base
disparaging comparisons of British and
American institutions, to cry that the
British would like to put something over
on us.
We do not agree with those who belittle
British democracy. With all its faults,
it Is as good as American democracy, and
no whit better. Nor do we agree with
those who urge that this nation is so great
that Englishmen would profit most from
such exchange of citizenship. There is
a drift away from isolationism. A few
persons fear and few others Wishfully
think that this portends weakening of
nationalism That does not follow
Families have learned to live side by
side, exchanging courtesies, mutually
helpful, tolerant of petty misunderstand-
ings, without swapping wives and chill
dren on community basis. We can NOW
each others lawns and water each others
flowers, without agreeing that the JoneSes,
at will, shall have valid vote in select
ing the Smiths wallpaper, Such give
and-take helpfulness and tolerance as
neighbors normally exercise is all that
nations require to live peaceably side by
side. We do not need, nor do most OF us
want, either joint or common citizenship
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
Prescription

Looking toward the coming of peace
and weighing economic portents, George
t. Trundle, Jr., Cleveland engineer, poses
pertinent question to his fellow indus
trialiStS:
Suppose you do wind up the war with
only hundred thousand dollars cash
in your company treasury. What's the
difference, if you have a product de-
signed, on hand, and ready to sell to the
postwar public?
(Which would you rather have
million dollars in the treasury and no
customers-or a dollar in the treasury
and million customers ready and anx-
iouS to buy?"
His prescription for the future: Lets
get set right now, today, so that the mo-
ment any of us are free from the obliga-
tons of war production we can step out
with plan, product and price; get
under way, establish our markets, main
tain and increase our employment; and
sustain our wage levels"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
AS the Fourth Approaches

In the past as the Fourth of July ap
preached the days preceding were noisy.
Those who stocked up with fireworks
proceeded to hold pre-Fourth celebrations
and every night you could hear reVerber-
atoms as firecrackers were set off. Stores
had immense stocks of fireworks of all
kinds, for day and night. The Fourth
was a day of noise, repercuSslons, din,
and general confusion from dawn until
late into the night. The night before
the celebration actually began, and then
in the early hours of the morning the
explosions came from all sides.
Then came the gradual change of late
years. Many cities and towns did not
allow fireworks. So in order to celebrate
YOU had to buy your stuff in some other
town where the sales were permitted
Fourths became more quiet This year
will find even less, we expect, of fireworks.
And this year will be missing Also less
general celebration. There will likewise
be less exciting time due to restrictions
on gas. In fact, it almost looks as though
most of us would spend quiet Fourth at
home. There was time when a quiet
Fourth could not be imagined. However,
we have adapted ourselves to the chang
ing times ard where once we thrlved on
the noisy excitement that the day pro-
voked we are now content to spend the
day quietly.
There will be travel of course. Many
will come home for the holiday weekend
servicemen included. Also many will 60
away for the holidays. Trains which are
now crowded to capacity will not be ade-
ouate to take care of the many coming
and going. The Fourth is coming, but
it is a different Fourth than we have
experienced, or will experience, in many
q year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
A Dead Era

In reply to the claims of the food in
dustry that dollars and cents ceilings are
in many cases forcing merchants to sell
goods below cost and in general threaten
the stability of the industry, OPA has
pointed out that the stores made ample
profits in 1912. Such reply merely lends
weight to the contention of retailers be-
cause it does not apply in any respect to
current merchandising realities
During most of 1912, retailers in all
lines operated in free competitive mar
ket Today they are operating in con-
trolled market where prices are set by
decree. Profits of one day alternate with
losses the next, depending on orders Is
sued in Washington. The merchant is
helpless. The most that he can do is ask
for adjustment of prices that will permit
him to remain in business. Food retailers
have done just that. Tomorrow the cloth
ing distributors may be in the same boat.
To correct an intolerable price situation
the OPA will have to do much more than
talk about profits of a dead era.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30

The hot weather of the past week or
so has been pretty demoralizing. AS the
days went by and the heat continued in
tense all we're pretty desperate in their
efforts to keep comfortable, if possible:
Late June brides and grooms sweltered
at church and, as they say in the society
columns, at the reception which followed.
Many brides were costumed gorgeously
in the traditional white, with oceans OF
skirt and train Some of them probably
wished they had worn simple button
down-the-front white seersucker model.
And as for the groom, the best man, and
the ushers - we'll whoever invented the
morning coat and accessories anyway!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
Nazis Ask Lebensraum

While Italians disport themselves and
enjoy the closest semblance to liberty
they have known in years, Nazi officers
in our prisoner-of.war camps demand
as-catch-can, might be called elboW-room.
They want more living space and living
quarters. more room in which to stretch
out. a swimming pool. They say Amer-
can and British prisoners in the Reich
land live in hotels and have pools.
We wonder-would these Nazis be In
terested in swapping the food, clothing
and such luxuries we supply them for
whole village in which to live?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
In Today's Mail

are not voluntary and spontaneous
instead of a compulsory routine is
to make an unf1attering estimate OF
the appeal of our institutions to free
minds.
IF there is any fixed star in our
Constitutional constellation, it is
that no official, high or petty, can
prescribe what shall be orthodox in
politics, nationalism, religion, or
other matters of opinion, or force
citizens to confess by word or act
their faith therein. If there are any
circumstances which permit an ex-
ception, they do not now occur to
u.s.
Our opinion was concurred in by
Justices Black, Douglas and Murphy
who last year reversed their pre-
vious stand, as well as Chief JUS
tice Stone and Associate Justice
Ruthledge. The dissenting jurists
were Frankfurter, Reed and Roberts.
Briefs unfolding the contentious
of Johovah's witnesses were filed
by the A. G. L. U. and the Bill Of
Rights Committee of the American
Bar Association. The American Le-
gion filed brief in opposition. 1t
is estimated that over 500 school
children have been expelled through
out the United States for refusal
to salute. All will now be reinstat-
ed" The question in the minds of
many people of today is, who start
ed the children on the road to this
idolatrous practice?
Sincerely,
A. E. CRANDALL,
r. F. D. No. /, Berlin, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
WRITER CONCURS WITH SU-
PREME COURTS RULING ON
SALUTE TO THE FLAG
Berlin, Conn,
June %, 1913.

June %, 1943.
Editor of The Democrat
The American Civil Liberties
Union has just released Bulletin No.
1881 with the heading: Supreme
Court Outlaws Compulsory Flag
Salute" The Bulletin reads:
Reversing its famous Gobitis de-
cision of June, 1910, sustaining the
expulsion Of school children in
Minersville, Pa, for refusal to salute
the flag, the Supreme Court ruled
on June IA by 6-3 vote that the
West Virginia Board of Education
could not compel flag saluting in
the schools.
The majority opinion, upholding a
three-judge federal court in West
Virginia, written by Justice Robert
A. Jackson, went beyond the imme-
diate issues, declaring in effect that
no U. S. citizen can be forced to
salute the flag. He said:
1--WE think the action Of the local
authorities in compelling the flag
salute and pledge trancends con-
stitutional limitations on their pow
er and invades the sphere Of intel
lect and spirit which 1t is the pur-
pose of the First Amendment to our
Constitution to reserve from all Of
fetal control.
ITO believe that patriotism will
not flourish If patriotic ceremonies
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30

ting another. He seems to feel
as if nobody knew anything but
himself, and his whole attitude has
been to regard everybody about him
as dust under his feet.
Someone has said that conceit is
vanity driven from all other objects
and forced to appeal to itself for
admiration. Especially in the case of
young men, it acts as a solvent to
the career which may be in the
process of building. Once people
get the idea that man thinks
more of himself than his abilities
justify, friends begin to turn away
in numbers, and those who under
ordinary circumstances would cheer,
now join the ranks of those who
jeer.
A person afflicted with this mis-
cradle vice should pull the brake
hard every time he feels disposed
TO talk about himself and to see
to it an all occasions that he keeps
what he considers his superior quail
tiles carefully guarded secret.
All Rights REHABILITATION News
paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30

The state OPA director has said that
the best chance we have of ending the
ban on pleasure driving is cutting the
gas rations of holders of B and G books.
There is proposed checkup of 100000
during next month. Another suggestion
is more ride sharing At the present time
so great is the distates for the ban that
it would seem that a compromise might
be reached In other words, let me drive
my car, and I'll do my part in giving other
fellows ride, and not using it too much.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
POTATOES IN JACKETS

A dispatch from London an
nouncing a recommendation By the
Quartermaster Corps that potatoes
be served in their jackets at United
States Army messes in Great Bri-
tain to avoid wastage added that
this would be welcomed by men on
kitchen police. The practice will
also seem a wise one to civilians
who have experienced an acute
potato shortage and have come to
a new appreciation of the vegetable.
1t is estimated that 16 per cent of
the tubers is wasted by peeling them,
for much of the nouriShment lies
in and directly under the skin.
The food value of the potato is
usually attributed to the starch 1t
contains, amounting to IL to Is per
cent, but the protein content.
though smaller in quantity to ~
per CENTS of value, and part Of 1t
Is lost in the peeling process. Fin
icky eaters remove the skin after
cooking; the less finicky eat the
skin along with the rest Of the
tuber. In the case Of new potatoes.
the skin is so thin and delicate
that 1t is shame not to eat the
jacket.
Potato breeders have developed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30

tons with the Axis, in order to
get Lend-Lease supplies from the
United States. This is what
Latin Generals want most.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Secretary of State Hull thinks
thee is too much talk and too
many agencies dealing with post
war planning. He has one of
his own Hull still SNlartS
under Walter Lippnan's criti-
cism of the State Departments
pro-Vichy policy in North Africa.
:. In Latin America, Vice-Presi-
dent Wallace found that SPANS
dictator Franco was most popu-
lar in countries where the church
Is strongest, as Ecuador and Peru.
Peru's land-holding aristiocracy
can survive only with an authori-
tartan government like Frances D..
Senator Happy" Chandler of
Kentucky says it's as futile to try
to persuade him that Japanese
Americans can be loyal to the
United States as to persuade him
that General Bob Lee and all
our boys shouldn't have cleaned
up on the No'therers."
copyright, 1943, by United
Feature Syndicate, IncD