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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18

from the hangerS-on. And unless
her feet are firmly planted on
the ground, her faith in her own
worth increases out Of all pro-
portion to her success. You know
that this has happened the mo-
ment She informs the publicity
department that there'll be no
more leg art"
Then she becomes dissatisfied
with her roles, balks at going
into a certain picture, and is
suspended by the studio. This
gets her very special kind of
publicity, all about how she
wants TO do roles with signifi-
canoe
For some reason, ii also gets
her serious attention from her
employers. After few weeks
you read that she and the studio
have kissed and made up" and
that the young lady is going to
play Camille"
Then what happens to this av-
erage girl who had nothing to
recommend her and who might
have wound up in a 5-and-10?
Why, she wins an Academy
award,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
SQUEEZE HITS EXPLOSIVES

The War Production Board explaining he m
portonce of fot-soNoge BY housewives, notes thot
THE squeeze between uncontrolled livestock prices
and ceiling regulations governing soes OF fresh neot
has resulted in pockers and butchers leaving more
than q normal amount Of fat on meat reochlng
Americas tables
Once again there is emphasized the weakness Of
hallway measures in the drive against InfIotion Be-
couse control does not extend oil along the line the
housewife gets fot meat, which increases the
cost of the edible portionso the effective price OF
meat has risen notwithstanding the ceiling Mean
while the packer has less fat to contribute to mu1-
ton makers; housewives must be begged to soVe
their drbets the government must wot, worry ond
poy more for the fot it does get
All because one more administrative order was
not thought through in advance.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
. IN HOLLYWOOD

The young lady is in
vited TO tell the story Of her life,
and is encouraged to make it
good If she doesn't make it quite
good enough, the publicity de-
partment does it for her when
her official biography is writ
ten. And then come the pictures
leg art" at the beach and in
the gym; home cooking stuff, in
formals and highly glamorized
portraits.
Later she is placed under the
tutelage of the studio talent
coach, who tries to each her to
walk, to talk and to act. After
a few months of this, she is given
a small role in a small picture.
At this point, she is carefully
studied by hairdressers, makeup
people and other small-fry who
are trying TO decide whether she
will turn out to be a good person
TO know. If they decide she Will
be a star, they Immediately at
tach themselves to her.
DANGEROUS SUCCESS
Gradually, the roles get better
and better. The publicity sWells
in volume. So does the flattery
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
BY PETER EDISON

Practically the only suggestion
made thus far TO correct what
ever il is that's wrong with the
Office of Price Administration
is that the functions of control
over food prices be shifted to the
War Food Administration under
Chester c. Davis. This sugges-
ton comes principally from
farm state congressman who, 1t
may be assumed, don't care
much what happens to food pric-
es as long as they go up, and
who are particularly hostile to
the professors in OPA and the
labor and consumer groups who
are obsessed this strange-to the
congressmen-idea Of wanting to
keep prices down.
Granting that something needs
TO be done about OPA'S food
program if. there is to be effec-
tive price control, transfer OF
this Job TO War Food Admins
tration isn't il. At first glance
such a transfer might seem to
tend towards simplification and
Capitalization of control under
single agency in the interests of
greater efficiency. That would
put food production, food distri-
button and food retail price con-
troll all under the same roof, and
the same boss who would thus
become a real food administra-
tor. But the War Food Admin
istration is giving no support
whatever to such reorganlZa-
ton and the Office of Price Adj
ministration planners go so far
as to say unofficially that If food
price control were given at
VIA, it would mean the end OF
food price control and the sky
would be the limit on initiation.
DAVIS AND PRICE CONTROL
Chester c. Davis, the war food
administrator, isn't a power
srabber. His reputation, built up
in various Washington jobs, Is
that of an administrator VINO
works in whatever harness is put
on him. That may explain why
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
WHITE FEATHER

A New Orleans widow hos admitted sending six
postcards, which the government considers scurri-
Ious and defomotory, to q college engineering stu
dent who had been deferred 70 pursue his studies
while her brothers ond sons we're made lioble to MIL
tory droft.
Somebody should tell her ond others like her,
gently but firmly that the whole purpose Of the Sc
Iectve Service system TO permit Uncle Sam to de-
eide how and where each young man con best serve
his country Unless there concrete evidence Of droft
lodging = ond this woman comedies she knows lit
tie about the young man. she moIgned g. it ex-
tremey unfair for anybody to reprooch one who hos
been deferred
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18

one no trump, which is doubled
this should be treated as
business double.
If East had made the inspired
lead of a diamond, the contract
on todays hand would have
been defeated. But he opened
a spade. which rode 10 North's
jack. A small club was won in
dummy with the queen, and a
small heart returned. West
made the mistake Of putting or
the seven, declarer played the
eight. Now il was immaterlal
whether East won the trick
with the ace or let the eight.
spot hold. Actually he let the
eight spot hold, which gave the
declarer three spade tricks on
heart
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
LET 'EM SLEEP

War workers labor Ground the clock and many
Of them have to sleep in the doytmc At best thot
isn't cosy, with light seepng ground drown shodes,
children playing in the streets housewives doing their
work. automobiles posing by.
Therefore it is particularly fitting thot Noise
Abatement Week this yeor may 30 to June s.
should be dedicated TO eliminating oil noises thot
would unnecessarily break up the sleep Of wor work
ers.
Health ond war production both depend on.sound
sleep. Doy-seepne workers are on every street in
every block Give them break. The weeks motto
might we'll be let EN- sleep"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
. Questions and Answers

Q-When was Flag Day perm
anently fixed as national hol-
day?
Ain 1896, the date June IL
being set as the anniversary of
the day when the Original flag
was adopted in l777.
Q-What is the most widely
read book ever written?
A-The Koran, not the Bible,
as popularity supposed.
Q-What European city boast
cd paved streets at time when
the streets Of London and Paris
we're almost impossible with
mud?
A-Cordova, in Spain.
Q-When was the first opera
ton with aid of anaesthetlc
supposed TO be performed
Ain 1912. Dr. Crawford w.
Long removed a cystic tumOr at
jefferson. Ga. employing sui
ether. The patient was charged
Q-When did tax stamps first
appear on cigaretsP
A-The order was issued by
the government July 90, 1868
Q-"Don't give up the snip"
is famous cry made BY snip
commander who lost his life in
a U. S naval battle. Can YOU
name him?
Ain the fight between the
u S Warship Chesapeake and
the British warship Shannon,
in 1913. near Boston. the Chesa-
peaks commander, James Law
renee, uttered those words as
he was carried below deck. fat
ally wounded.
Q-What important mineral
product will the ANS find
scarce now that Tunisia is in
Allied hands?
A-Phosphates, in which Tu-
nisla is rich.
Q-What former all American
football player is a fighter pilot
In North Africa?
Atom Harmon. who star
red at the University OF Michi-
gan.
Q-HoW many persons in
Athens. Greece. are estimated to
have starved to death during
Nazi occupation
A-Nearly 100000 are be-
lievcd TO have persisted.
Q--What change soon will be
made in officer candidate
training
A-The course OF instruct,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18

will be extended from three
months to a minimum Of four
months
Off your recipe calls for
sour milk, and you have nothing
but sweet milk on hand, how
can YOU quickly solve your
problem?
Add a few drops of vine
gar 10 the sweet milk.
O. What Englishman served
four times as prime minister?
William Ewart Gladstone,
during the years l868-1892. His
closest runner-up was Stanley
Baldwin, who served in that ca
pacity three times 10 be succeed
ed by Neville Chamberlain in
1897.
Q-What state led the move
mCnt which organized the
Southern Confederacy?
a South Caroline was the
first southern state TO seCede
from the Union. The action was
taken in 1860 Mississippi fol-
lowed suit in January. 1861, and
nine more states voted for seces-
sion in rapid succession.
Q-What is nuncupative
viii?
"A will made orally by a
soldier in active service, or by
a mariner at sea.
Off you were writing a let
ter TO a member of the Cabinet
of the United States, how would
you address him?
Any Dear Mr.. Secretary
is the most acceptable form Of
address.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
. BARBS .

The favors given at party
aren't the only ones with strings
attached 10 them.
Traffic courts dispense justice
except in small towns with
speed traps" There they dis
pense with justice.
Well see lot OF perfect
backs on the beaches this year
and hear a lot Of perfect come
backs.
Britain's prime minister re-
ports that he and Roosevelt are
we'll ahead of the Allied armies
and moving swiftly. Just like the
Germans.
The average doctor. says lex
grapher, knows about $4,000
words. Including please remit.
With butter and meat ration.
ed. we can all rise and sing a
chorus of There Are Such
Things"
Call a spade a spade or SHOW
el or anything you llke-just sc
YOU use one in the garden this
Spring.
Underground radio reports
Hitler is ready TO start gas war
fare. He's been doing that per-
sonally ever since we can re-
member.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
. SO THEY SAY

One thing is aS certain as the
law of gravIty-if we should
allow the Japanese TO dig IN
permanently IN the far-flung
areas now occupied, IL would
be only a matter of tn @ before
they attempted the conquest OF
our American home territory
Joseph G. Grew.
Nothing daunts the small bus
mess man of tho United States.
He viii continue 10 be our eco
monte mainStay after the war
Just as he has been throughout
the history Of this land-Paul
Hoffman. president Studebaker
Corporation.
We're not fighting this war for
the pcrpetuatio OF want. mis-
cry. hunger and unemployment.
! think the world can dispense
with those things permanently
Ralph NJ Hcintz. vice president
Jack & Hcintz of Cleveland, o.
q
II is not necessary 10 be in
humane TO a beaten enemy. but
TO be humane Is not synonymous
with being soft. Humaneness
can go With sternneSS. Neither
lands Ambassador DR.. Alexand-
er Loudon.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
SAD. SAD STORY

ATLANTA-Judge James G..
Davis of the Stone Mountain
circuit, who for several years
has raised registered Aberdeen
Angus cattle strictly for breed
ing, finally parted with a heller
for beef purposes, then proudly
bought a roast cut from the
same animal.
But after Mrs. Davis cooked
II and the family sat down to
the table, the judge couldn't
bring himself to touch it. Nor
could his wife.
IL Just couldn't do it," his
honor said. Il just couldn't eat
a single mouthful Why, just last
week was stroking that heifer S
back"
The servants had feast.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
BREATHLESS ROMANCE
WINNEMUCCA. New. =

WINNEMUCCA, New. - The
bus pulled into Winnemucca.
ID. Stanford Harris, 80. Lay
ton, Utah, and Miss Lorraine
Christensen, 81, Hyrum, Utah,
fled
Obtaining a marrige license
from the county clerk, they
rushed TO Justice Of the peace
John Fransway for the cere-
mony, rounded up two witnesses.
filed the license with county
recorder, and sprinted back to
their bus-all within ten-min-
ute stopover.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
INCONSIDERATE AIRMEk

Allied oirnoen in the funston oreo, in period
Of five Days less then one month shot down 1904
oxis planes while losing only 27O It seems too bod
that they did not get another Is Gernon and Italian
croft = or better yet II. Then headline writer's ond
edtoriosts could have sold -four to one" or more
than four to one" nsteod Of having to crawl on q
mere "oInost four to one"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
ALL is NOT LOST

dier in North Africa can lose
all but his underwear in a
friendly game-and still have
legal tender for good meal.
Natives are crazy about un-
der wear says Staff Sgt. Wood
row Armstrong, particularly the
long handled variety.
ANY Arab will trade you
nice sheep or goat, some eggs
and a chicken for it--and think
he's getting the best OF the
deal"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS

NUTLEY, N j - The public
library, determined that the ban
on non-essential driving shall
not deprive local residents OF
literary culture, is going to de-
liver books by horse and wagon
TO remote sections of town.
And il the venture is success
full, the library announced, the
trips will be instituted several
times a week
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

he has not promoted the idea OF
putting food price control under
his supervision, but il also fol-
lows that IL Congress or the
President were TO assign him the
job, he would take it and try to
do something about it.
The Davis idea on price con-
troll. as revealed in his actions
during the less than three
months he has been war food adj
ministrator, differ vastly from
Il current trend Of thought at
OPA. Davis has said that he is
for whatever formula was order
ed to hold prices-meaning that
he would go down the line on
policies adopted by Congress or
the Office of Economic Stabiliza-
ton.
He has, however, expressed
his opposition to controls which
require a lot of policing. He has
been criticized by OPA for not
putting ceilings on livestock. He
is doubtful about the advisable
ity of putting ceiling prices on
beef cattle at the farm level be-
cause of the many grades on the
market and the fear that price
ceilings would induce grad
ing. which would simply be an
other form of inflation--loWer
quality for the same money On
live hogs, he was able to bring
down the price by manipulating
the storage prices on corn so
that il would not be held by
farmers in anticipation Of higher
prices, but would move to mark
ct. The corn price being thus
reduced, the price of hogs came
down in ratio. That was price
control without elaborate polio
ing.
BLACK MARKET
STIMULATION
Davis believes that subsidies
on some cases are useful, but
that any reliance on the wide
spread use of subsidies to StaVe
off initiation is a misconception.
He reasons that If you Subsldlze
scarce goods, lowering their
prices, all you do is increase the
purchasing power, which stimu-
lates black markets.
He believes in keeping farm
price levels which will support
retail prices and induce produc-
ton. He does not favor the in
centive payment plan which the
Department of Agriculture spon-
sored earlier in the year, to slim
ulate the growing of more oil
crops like peanuts. soybeans and
flax Congress turned that plan
down. Davis, instead, favors
the support price plan Of the
Commodity Credit Corporation,
by which the farmer gets assur-
ance Of better prices for his en-
tire production from acreage de-
voted to war products like the
oil-bearing crops than he would
get from acreage devoted TO
wheat, corn or cotton.
The keystone OF the entire Da-
Wis anti-inflationary philosophy
is higher taxation and greater
war savings. 1t will be recalled
that he has been a Federal Re-
serve bank official. His idea is
that if more of this $40 billions
of excess purchasing power the
Well-known inflationary gap
is drawn off in the form OF high
er taxes and more war bond pur-
chases, the money simply won t
be there to spend on the black
market And with excess pur-
chasing power drained off in this
way, prices will tend to keep
themselves in control.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
FRIGID JOURNEY

PHILADELPHIH = = TefTIH-
orator car, sealed for l3 days
with the temperature at 80 de-
grees, arrived from California
containing:
Fifty thousand pounds of po-
tatoes, 10000 pounds of ice and
one pound of cat.
The SPCA said the kitten
thawed promptly when given a
saucer of milk.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18

HAMDEN, Conn. - Pasquale
Mellilo says local residents are
eating more of less-and that's
not double talk either.
Mellilo, the towns garbage
collector, reports that since the
inception of the food rationing
program, collections here have
dropped approximately 40 per
cent in volume.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
McKElNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM 4. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Most players today like 10
play the double of no trump
bids as business. When playing
strong no jumps, some players
even like 10 treat as business the
double of an original opening
bid of one no trump. Normally
in this case most partners
would respond TO the double by
showing their best suit. when
an original bio is made, how
ever, and partner responds win
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
BEERLESS BOISE

BOISE, Idaho Governor
Bottolfsen will proclaim a beer
less Boise day soon because of
dwindling supplies of the bev-
erage. his office reports. The
Army is helping plan the big
event.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
DOWNSTAIRS DRYDOCK

NEWPORT, Vt.-Frank Curran
built a 14-foot motorboat in
cellar and couldn't get it out.
But he looks at the bright side.
He figures that, with the
pleasure driving ban, he could
mt get gasoline tor 1t anyhow.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
HUGE FARMS IN u. s.

There are more than 100000
giant farms of more than 1000
acres in the United States, most
of them being large western
n cattle ranches.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-18
BY ERSkINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff COrrcSnOndent

Film producers have been de-
nounced, derided and bully-rag-
gcd for the stupidity of their
screen stories, but they Will new
or devise a plot as completely
cOckeyed as the average real-life
Cinderella story that Fate palms
off on Hollywood every day.
Sometimes we think that Fate
writes these little dramas in mo-
mentS of WEAKNESS, when she
forgets all she ever knew about
life For in the department of
sheer insanity they beat the
boy meets girl plot all hollow.
To begin with. the average
Hollywood Cinderella, before
she was discovered for pic
lures, had absolutely nothing to
recommend her for motion pic
turc career except a pretty face
and figure Most Of them are de-
void of talent. They can't sing.
they can't dance any better than
ordinary, and they have never
attempted to act Their voices
are bad, their diction is terrible.
And 10 do the average Cinder-
ella Justice, the idea of being an
actress never even entered her
head till Hollywood put it there.
Lana Turner. for instance, was
just sitting al a soda counter
slipping a double malt when it
happened Ellen Drew was serv-
ing a banana split TO an agent in
candy store,
After a studio has signed up
a perSonable young lady who
knows absolutely nothing about
II business, il starts worrying
what TO do with her.
MOVIE NARROWER
She IS called in by the makeup
department, which changes her
eyebrows. her halrline, her
shade OF rouge ana pOWucT fci
hapS dentist puts caps on her
teeth. The hairdrcsslng depart
mcnt changes her couture. and
is lust as likely TO change her
from blond to brunette And the
dress designer tells her what TO
wear Half the time she cmerGes
so thoroughly made over-pcr-
haps TO the total elimination of
her natural charm that when
she FIRST bumps into the man
who discovered her in the first
place, he doesn't even recognize
her.
Then comes the publicity de-
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-17

MIR. and Mrs. Edward Jones are
both under treatment at the Memo
rial Hospital, Milford. for injuries
sustained in an automobile accident
on Saturday afternoon. The acci-
dent occurred at Roxana. when
they were returning to their home
ON Dukes street after delivering
some things to the farm home now
owned by Cashar Evans, formerly
owned by viii and Maude Richards
McCabe, where the Jones' and her
mother. Mrs. Lizzie Freeman, were
expecting to move the first of this
week. Mr.. Jones received injuries
of the limbs and chest, though not
serious. Mrs. Jones was seriously
hurt about the head and face, one
eye being badly hurt and a number
of teeth knocked out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Lynch (Doc)
of BridgevilIe, formerly of this
town. were guests of her brother
and sister-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Pc
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Cannon, OF
Boston, Mass, are receiving con-
gratulations upon the birth OF a
daughter, Beverly, born on Decem-
ber L, weighing 3 lbs. Mrs. Cam
non will be remembered as Lillian
Hickman. formerly of this town.
Special Christmas services will
be held in Bethel Methodist Church
ON Sunday, December 10. The
Church School will convene at 9:45
in the morning. The Morning Wor-
ship will be held at IL o'clock.
The WOmen's Choir will render
special Christmas music. The pas
tors theme will be Preparations
for the Christ Child" At the eve
ming service the Mems Choir will
sing Christmas Carols. The Ocean
View Mems Quartet will render
selection. The pastor. Rev. c.. f.
Davis. will use as his subject.
Christ, the Light of the Centuries"
Harry Richards. OF Philadelphia,
visited his father, James A. Rick
ards. over the weekend. MIR. n.
Richards gave an inspiring talk in
the Sunday-school.
The Christian Church bulletin is
as follows: The Missionary meet
ing was with Miss Lula QuilIen and
father. Clinton Quillen. on Thurs
day night, December 3. A good
attendance was present. The busi-
ness was conducted by the presi-
dent. Mrs. George Mitchell had
charge of the program. After the
hostess served refreshments. they
adjourned to meet with Mrs. Mamie
Long the second Thursday in Janu-
ary.
The Ladies held their Pal party
on Saturday night. December IL. in
the Sunday-school room. Every
one had a good time. and enjoyed
finding out who their pals were. We
received new pals for next year.
and hope everyone will be thought
ful to their new pals.
The Love gift for Thanksgiving
amounted to S244.00. Thanks to all
who took part in this work for the
church. A donation will be made
next Sunday for the starving in In
dia. Come help in this worthy
cause. The Lord said: "Inasmuch I
as We do it unto the least of these.
ye do it unto Me
Milford chronicle., 1943-12-17

Mrs. William Stephens. Peter wha-
ley. Homer Pepper, Howard Pep
per, Clifton Hastings and Urah
Long. Mrs. Homer Pepper had
charge of the pictures and Mrs.
Peter Whaley read the story. The
Junior Choir presented the music
with the aid of Mrs. Hester Dunn,
Mrs. Elmer West and Mrs. Frank
Mumford.
A fine baby girl was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Preston c. Townsend at
the Peninsula General Hospital in
Salisbury. Md. on Thursday, De-
cember 8. Her name is Meredith
Ann. The young lady is the first
grandchild for Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mOnd B. Morris and is also a grand
daughter of former-U. S. Senator
John G. Townsends Jr. Mother and
daughter are both doing nicely, but
it is not yet known if they will be
able to make home for Christmas
Day.