The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-20
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Henry Ford, modern Croesus of
industry, hasn't been too much
of an open book as a No. / fig
ure in American life. We know
him as the father of mass pro-
duction in the automobile in
dustry, collector of Americana,
and an industrialist with world
wide interests. But we know lit
tie of Henry the man.
William A. Simonds, biogra-
pher of Thomas A. Edison, the
scientist who encouraged young
Henry Ford to continue his ex-
perimentS with the horseless
carriage when Hank was in a
blue funk, has been an intimate
of the Detroit magnate for 20
years. His Henry Ford" (Bobbs
Merrill SO so has an intimate
touch that makes interesting
reading.
Simonds' account of Ford's
life is colorful. There's the tale
he tells of how the young in
ventor was thought rather queer
by Detroiters during his early
days of experimenting. Henry
used to leave his car behind the
road in Belle Isle Park and stand
behind bushes to hear passersby
comment on his creation. He
and one of his early associates,
c. Harold Willis, used to don
boxing gloves and "flail one an
other" in order TO keep warm in
the cold barn in which they were
working.
Monopoly smashing Ford,
builder of a one man empire,
hacker of the Peace Ship all
the facets of his many-sided life
are touched in this excellent
book.
WAR-"Are We Winning tie
War the Hard Way" Title Of
Maj. Malcolm Wheeler Nicol-
sons new book asks that ques-
ton, then answers it.
The major, pr Ssional Army
officer for years and an author
ity on foreign military thought,
is of the same school as former
ambassador to Japan, Joseph
Grew, in that he believes our
chief military problem is to con-
centrate on whipping the Japs.
He told us we should watch out
for a stab in the back from the
Land of the Rising Sun two
years before Pearl Harbor.
Sometimes military experts
write tones that make dull read
ing for the layman. but the ma
jor has analysed our position and
problems in this book (Crowell:
So in a way that is plenty con-
vincing.
AT RANDOM-"Colonel Eff
ingham's Raid" (Duell, Sloan &
Pearce: S250), by Berry Flem-
ing, is funny-bone ticker deal
ing with attempts of southern
colonel to straighten out his
home town through the medium
of a war commentary column in
local newspaper House.
wives will get boot out of 100
Meat-Saving Recipes, by Ann
Roe Robbins (Thomas Crowell
Co.: 81. Book helpful in these
DAYS of meat shortage.
FISH STORY-If you never
thought that the effects of the
sun and moon on the earth in
fluence your rheumatism. pains
of your pet corn, the feeding
periods of fish and animals, and
your Aunt Fanny's sciatica, then
read John Alden Knights Moon
Up - Moon Down" (Scribner's:
$3.50.
Knight, fisherman known
all over the country, some time
ago brought forth his "Solunar
Theory" wherein he asserts that
you'll catch more fish, bag more
game, and your stiff limbs will
protest more often during major
and minor periods of the solar
bodies pull on the earth.
It's no mere bra n S I or m
Knight has propounded his the
DRY is based on long and ex-
haustive research, results of
which are attested by fishermen,
scientists and sportsmen all over
the country.
B-R-R-R-You'll probably not
find it escapist literature. but a
nice book to curl up with these
cold evenings is Fifty Years
Below Zero" (Dodd, Mead: S3),
a tale of adventure in the far
north by Arctic dweller Charles
D. Brewer. The author, a native
New Yorker, is described as I'm
Gle Sans most northerly citi-
zen, having lived at Point Bar
row. Alaska, 100 miles from
the pole, since the 1905.
Meat of Brewers book is the
Z high adventure one finds in the
frigid shadow of the North Pole
whaling. trapping. hunting,
sealing. visiting. observing and
living with the little-known Es-
kirno