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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
By PETER EDISON

II was at Fort Oglethorpc, Ga
-Four thousand WAAC's passed
in review, and not a slip showed.
The seams of their 69-cent gov
crnment issue hose were all
straight Straightcr, i'm all hon
estV, than their ranks.
1t was an all-WAhC band, cV-
en- to the cute little number who
carried the big bass drum, even
10 the color bearer and the color
guard, and 10 FIRST Officer Al
oise ShimkuS of Worcester,
Mass. an ex-designer who had
Just graduated from the Com
mand School in Fort Leaven-
worth, if YOU please. She sang
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18

1t is too early yet to tell whether John |. Lewis
forced to coll truce in his against the United
Stotes, will yet emerge with substantially what he
went otter.
If he loses this fight it will be the first he has
lost Always before, when things looked blacklist for
him. he has managed to Houdni himself and his mine
workers out with peouniory benefits, whoever might
claim the superficial honors
Whether Lewis or President Roosevelt wins this
strike. labor unionsm already has lost Hundreds Of
UNIONS millions Of workers who in no way in
voIved who respect lobor's pledges against strikes
who would not think Of homperne soldiers and
soiIors and marines by holding up production, ore
victims Of Lewis attitude.
In Howoi where the japanese started this wor,
American service men ore reported to be onozed
and nfuroted thot ony or any union should
dare stob the United Stotes in the back at time
like this
Sold Private First Class Ollie Ostrum Of Goose
Creek, Tex: u Gloss this strike any strike, along
with sabotage" Sold Sergeant John S. Hanson Of Sc
otte ." feel no should exercise the constitution
al right to strike os long os there is on American
soldier laying down his life battlefield"
Said Corporal Eory Peterson Of Manhattan, Kon.,
q veteran Of the Bottle Of Midway ANYONE who
strikes in wortime should be put battlefield in
place Of some older in the service Strikes ore
what the enemy wonts IS that whot the American
people wont oIsoo"
Take it from ony who has foced bullets,
shells, bombs ond torpedoes for his country, this IS
how every soldier solIor morine and ooost guards
man feels
After World War there wos concern about the
reaction Of veterans in labor matters 1t direct
ly from bitterness fat wages poid in plants
while men died for $50 month "ond found"
After World War II millions Of men ore going
to be derobIized who will have been en,bttered by
the spectacle Of John |. Lewis pulling O strike in the
mines which supply fuel without which most wor
plants would have to shut down.
Their deep anger is certain to slop over against
innocent patriotic unions and workmen This one in
cident may 90 for toword making the Veterans Of
World War II powerful agency Of unreosonine, H.
ooicoI reaction in labor notters.
Anything John Lewis may have done in the post
to advance the cause of worknemen has been written
off the books now. He hos become organized lobor's
Number One IiobiIity for the postwar future
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

out her Officers, front and cen
tcr-MARCH" i'm a voice that
all could hear on the 40-acre
parade ground.
A lcathcry old colonel Of cav
airy, Hobart b. Brown of the
old regular Army, booted and
spurrcd, wearing service medals
that showed he had chased Villa
in Mexico, and a Croix de
Guerrc with Palm in France,
took the ltfte- He-Hsed- to
train MP's to be tough in the
Provost Marsha! School here. He
used TO be considered hard boil
ed himself. Now he commands
the post which is the Third
WAAC training center, just over
the Georgia line, south af Chat
tanoOga
RECRUITING FALLS OFF
Colonel Brown now beams
with pride over his soft boiled
WAACSs. He thinks they're
wonderful. They think he's an
old dear. There YOU have an
idea Of what's happening to
what they used to call, this
man army It's this woman S
army now. here at Oglethorpe,
at any rate.
For some reason or other, re-
cruiting of the WAACs has fall
len off lately. and the Army
brass hats want something done
about il The first fine flush of
enthusiasm with which the first
volunteers enlisted hasn't fol-
lowed through. A recruiting
campaign is to be launched soon
to build the $4,000 force to the
authorized $50 900, but the real
demand for WAACs is closer to
375 900. There's bill before
Congress now TO increase the
force to that number and make
il a part of the regular Army.
instead Of just an auxiliary.
The WAACs have found 100
Army jobs that they can do
from cooking and baking TO
driving truck The WAACs
claim they do these jobs better
than men can do them, and they
learn to do them faster. The
dope is that the men have to be
taught thing nine times before
they get IT, The gals claim they
can catch on after being shown
twice Surprisingly, about half
of them are married, women
who Joined up after their hus-
bands Ninety per cent Of the
women have volunteered for
overseas service
STILL FEMININE
That's the way il is with
them. If the WAACs are chang
ing the Army, the Army docsn t
seem to be changing the women,
much They wear uniforms, yes,
and they learn to march. They
learn Army traditions and talk
knowingly of general orders and
converse in military jargon.
But for FL their military
ways. the WAACs brag that they
are still feminine. "On hot
days, says one officer. I'VE
don't serve boiled beef and
dumplings just because it's on
the menu Instead we serve a
light salad
We're in uniform" says an
other. but we can still go in for
smart tailoring, and fine under
wear
We have coveralls for ia
tiguc duty. but we don't want
stacks as oar uniforms" says a
third I'VE still prefer skirts.
They still stick to powder and
lipstick though they don't use
them as ostentatiously as in ci-
Vilion life. One officer confes-
scd that in her smart, military
looking shoulder strap handbag
she still carried lace-edged
white hanky. Just TO remem-
Der.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
. SO THEY SAY

Our government is spending
millions Of dollars on short-wave
propaganda TO foreign countries.
IT is obvious to me that the pco-
pie Of the United States want to
know what is being said in their
behalf-Senator Robert A. Taft
of Ohio.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
GREEK GALLANTRY

The miracle Of the Greeks
fight against the axis and the
even greater accomplishments Of
the underground army in that
ancient land are thoroughly dis
cussed in Betty WaSon'S book,
Miracle in Hellas' (MacMil-
Ian: S275).
IT'S a first-hand rccounting Of
the battle Of the doughty Greeks;
a tale of how they vanquished
the pompous Italian army, only
TO be crushed, Inundated and
enslaved by a vastly superior
German army.
Miss WaSon, a foreign CORE
spondcnt stationed in Greece at
the time Of the invasion of that
country, stirs the heart Of every
reader with her vivid accounts
Of the suffering Of these people
under the heel Of the aggressor
And you wonder at the cfficien-
cy Of the secret organization tho
Athcnians have built up that
still continues to provide the au-
thor with information.
What of Crete, the Ausses
and British trapped there, the
faith of the people in the ulti-
mate success of the allies? You'll
get the answers I'M this one.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
.. IN HOLLYWOOD

Brian always told me acting
was a cinch. and laughed at 9TH
or actors who found it pains
taking job. But Brian has chang
Cd his mind.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-18
ART AND SCIENCE, ETC.

ARTISTS. art lovers and lay
men alike will appreciate few
Of the finer things Of life as re-
produced in Rembrandt Paint
ings.' selection Of ll2 plates in
rotogravure and color by Phai-
don Press: So so. For the art stu
dent it is a great treatise on the
technique of this old master: for
the novitiate or skcptis, il is a
revelation. No one could capture
the spirit Of his times-early
18th century-likc this artist.
Book is a faithful reproduction
of his character and marvellous
paintings.
To the average man science is
an enigma. Rogers D. Rusk, pro-
fcsSor and chairman of the Sci
cnce department at Mount Holy
oke College, has made a good at
tempt at clarifying X-ray. atomic
energy. cosmic rays and mcchan-
les in his Forward With Sci
ence' (knopf. $500.
Want good novel? Transla-
ton of Frans Bengotsson' Red
Orm." (Scribncrs: $3.50 by
Barrows Musscy. is that. Hero is
a swashbuckling Dane of the
days of the Vikings, and his
and exploits of other warriors of
that day put Hitler 10 shame.
Full of the folklore of Thor,
Wodin, and other gods. and has a
nice romance TO tie in with the
blood and thunder.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15

away a country by giving away
its air?
The scope OF this threat to
American sovereignty has natur-
ally terrified a, portion of the
American aviation industry, in
on the proceedings so far. The
conflict of opinion already has
spawned a more moderate group
OF freedom of the air" enthusi-
asts who propose only TO carry
that freedom up to the three
mile limit.
This sounds slightly reason
able until you consider that air
routes do not follow sea routes.
For instance. Chicago might be
the future important world air
terminal of the United States,
being the shortest distance
across the Polar air routes from
far-f1ung destinations.
-
A PPARENTLY, the freedom
"a of the air" enthusiasts are
working on the theory that the
United States has more planes,
and therefore, can get more out
of such a policy than foreign ma
tons can get out of us. This
seems 10 be slipShod thinking,
because each of the 20 Latin
American nations, for instance,
could maintain ITS own airlines
into the United States and ignore
ours.
Only two Of those nations are
In a position TO maintain such a
line, but nothing could keep the
BritiSh--or even the Nazis and
Japs of the future-from form
ing their own companies among
residents of each of these coun-
tries and flying over us at will.
The advantage in any rivalry
between the United States and
Britain for control of postwar
air routes would seem to lie
with the British. While their
air minister is screaming about
commercial planes, they have
commercial bases throughout
the world, whereas we have
kept TO our own shores largely
in the past.
The current propaganda SYM
pathy for them may be prema-
ture. 10 say the least.
A new subject has been opened
in a very. very peculiar way.
Distributed nv King Features synd. Inc.
Reproduction in Whole or in Part
Strictly Prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
Fix Streets and Save Tires

= TTY engineers, busy planning postwar improvements
~ for Detroit would do well to plan little immediate
Improvement in the matter of street paving
The bad weather has torn great many Jagged
holes in pavement virtually every main street in De-
to Especially at intersections and street crossings
the paving is smashed and denied into resemblance of
miniature shell holes.
Detroit motorists will testify unanimously that their
tires suffer awful beating travelling along our peck
marked streets We admonished to tires but
with streets in their present shape the only possible
to prolong tire life is to discontinue driving
The city should repair these paving holes soon as
the weather permits.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
March Of Events IN Sf So s.,"s
by BENJAMIN DeCasseres

can be no discussion about that
word.
1t is the thing we are.
II is-the breath we breathe.
II is our soul and our body.
There cannot be. to a real
American. any academic dis
cuSsion about our Liberties.
An argument" about liberty
Is discussion about the right
TO steal my wife. my children,
my bread and butter, my
pocketbook, my business.
America, liberty must be
passion in your heart and mind.
1t is not something 10 be
thought out, to be argued about.
1t is something TO be as
ardently loved and fought for
as you love and would fight for
your woman, your baby.
Liberty such as we have con-
ceived il and established it in
America is not a word.
It's feeling.
If you do not know this 10 be
the supreme fact you are living
in the wrong country.
A WOMAN in a radio debating
"A forum the other evening
told her audience that COM
munism is "slyly being put over
by the radicals having a trick
of never mentioning communism
as among our internal threats.
That is observable if you read
the pink weeklies.
If they do mention communism
as a threat it is done only TO
lull suspicion.
Their emphasis is always on
nazism, just as it is among the
Russia Firsters.
AS a matter Of fact. there are
10 persons in the u. S. A. ready
TO welcome communism 10 one
ready 10 welcome naziSm.
CommunisnHhas been working
here for 20 years. while nazism
has been here only few years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
etters
To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I WISH to say few words to
Il John f. Dietrich, whose letter
appeared February 3.
You say the farmer works for
himself and can regulate his
time to suit himself, and this
crazy fast time. We may be
working for ourselves and we
may not. Just take our milk.
IL we don't get il cooled just so
cool and get il to the station by
a certain time, they tell you
10 keep it.
We pay taxes and buy war
bonds and what would you have
on those store shelves il IL
were not for farmers? Just
where would your -four, eggs,
milk. butter, meat, cheese, po-
tatoes and so on come from but
for the farmers?
The WLB says the farmer is
the main man behind winning
this war because we produce the
main power in the form of food.
But what do we get from il all?
Just lot of long, hard hours of
work from 5 a. m. until pm.
Do you call that eight hours
day?
Can we shut the sun of and
on TO dry our hay so we can
put il in the barn? II il rains
or shines your factories in the
city work "A hours a day any,
way. so what is time 10 you?
You like this time because If
you are on the day shift you
get out of work and have so
many hours OF daylight in which
you can play golf. go fishing,
etc. Don't forget we do. too,
but we need this time so we can
get our crops in.
We need that extra hour. II
means everything 10 us when
we can't get hired help and have
to do that much more ourselves.
And II we did have help. when
6 comes they have put in their
daS-and don't you think il has
been rather a long one at that?
RALPH KLINGLER,
Chelsea, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
MRS. l.. &. SCOTT
1923 Mcclellan.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
YOUR editorial. Protect the
Il u. s. First / think that we
are all for that.
Perhaps il is time We served
eviction proceedings on JapS in
the Aleutians if for no other
reason than for not paying their
rent
The trouble is there are
thousands of Americans that
don't even know where the
Aleutians are, let alone what
they are-stepping stones 10 the
mainland.
Well. there is no reason why
we cannot step on their toes
once in while.
JOHN VI. MAUSER
1925 West Kirby avenue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
IMNhNfEslN ChpNfinU
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

The Mahama Gandhi is off his ninth fast begin to
suspect that old bird has black market midnight snacks
Some day, the Mahatma is going his record and
himself at the time.
He is all skin and bones that is too fat for him
I'm the Mahatma isn't satisfied. He alergc 10 skin
He will look his best day is in glass case
IN museum. And he will feel his best too.
y Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15

Do aIN~Sle good YOU can.
~ All tho means YOU can.
In all The WAYS you can
In All Tho places YOU can.
A. al the times YOU can.
To al Jh1 people YOU can.
As long rs ever YOU can
John Wesley.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
Highway Dept. Politics
Played by Both Sides

THE headong rush of the legislature to take from the
voters their power TO elect state highway commits
matter of public concern II not OF suspicion
Why/fhe haste?
such major change in form Of government,
creating hreeman commission in place of the elected
office should be discussed in every county and weighed
carefully
There has been no public demand for this revolution
AIRY step toward greater bureaucracy.
Yet the bill popped suddenly from the highway COM
uee of the House was rushed through without public
hearing and passage the Senate is demanded before
next Friday.
THE excuse for this incautious action is the fact that
the Republican state convention in Detroit next Friday
will nominate candidate for highway commissioner, if
that office still exists
That, of course, is nonsense.
IT, after thorough study, the three-man appointive
plan appears worthy of trial. the law be passed and
the office abolished Election of commissioner in
April will make difference.
Since 1909 the people of Michigan have elected their
highway commissioner. 1t has been a privilege they
cherish And they have chosen well, for Michigan has
national reputation leader in highway development.
ITO BE sure highway department employees have been
i active in politics and sometimes dirty politics But
this has been true under Republicans well under
Democrats And has been true of the secretary of
states department in the highway division Yet no
one proposes three-man commission to substitute for
the secretary of state.
In any event this political activity by state employees
is now prohibited under civil service.
The proposal smacks of another case of too many
cooks
For instead of engineer at the head of the depart
ment the state would have three commissioners, chief
engineer to direct the program and the auditor general
would become highway official in charge of finances
But whether there any advantages the immedi-
point is that the plan has been given little any,
study.
INSTEAD of opening the door for public discussion, the
l lawmakers attempting even to prevent refer
endum the proposed law
Why are they afraid of a public vote such
definite change in government procedure?
Why do they invoke gag rule preventing public
debate?
Senator Joseph Baldwins bill creating a commission
to study the plan thoroughly before legislative action has
far merit AT this writing it appears proponents
of the socalled highway department reform playing
just muddy politics ever played by the scape
goat highway department.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
w AR
A Year Ago Today
FEB. Is. 1912

Singapore surrenderS 10 Japa-
nese seven DAYS after island
fortress was invaded and on
the seventeen day after invasion
Of Malaga began. Toxic claims
10000 British prisoners taken.
Prime Minister Churchill. an
nouncing fall Of Singapore in
London broadcast. calls II "a
heavy and far-reaching military
defeat"
Jspa transports land
troops near mouth Of Nusi
River in Sumatra, while so miles
away, Dutch set fire 10 Palem-
bang oil fields. estimated 10 he
worth more than Si0O, O00. 600.
Australian warship rescues
1,534 British troops from large
liner set aflre by japanese dive
bombers seven miles south OF
Singapore.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
THERE'S another kind of sting
- coming to the Norwegians.
It's a Riksting, or Chamber of

- coming to the Norwegians.
It's Riksting or Chamber of
Corporations.
It's new Quisthing to re-
place the old Norwegian Stor-
thing, the Parliamen of
Norway.
Quisling also has inaugurated
compulsory m m b ship in
unions.
Three years in the jug for
those who do not join.
Talk about Leopold of Bel
GUM. who stayed with his
people," as some Belgians brag
about.
Well, so did Quisling and La
val stay with their people.
And see what they got!
/ prefer those kings, queens
and leaders who skipped out
to fight!
WATCH the sly, underground,
w subtle workings of the blue
shoots to bring back the evils
of bootleg and speak-easy pro-
hibition on us.
There are dozen bills in
Congress which aim TO slip over
the corruption, graft and public
degradation Of prohibition under
the guise of protecting the SOL
diers and sailors"
There is another movement TO
prohibit any soldier or sailor
from taking a drink in a public
bar after midnight.
This will produce the same
situation that we had in 1917
1919.
No man in uniform could
legally take drink at a public
bar.
The result was that our SOL
diers and sailors went under
ground" literally in cellars, in
hideaway bars-where they got
stewed to the gills just because
these places were not open TO
the public gaze and the inspec-
ton of the MPs.
A MODE of using the pro-
~ hibition movement in the
interest of the Germans is re-
vealed in the following by Elsie
Mccormick in the American
Mercury:
German propaganda at
tempt To take advantage Of
every cleavage in American life
Is shown by the effort TO pro-
mote prohibition.
"All at once, Boston mothers
began tn ask about widespread
drunkenness In the army camps.
~ checkup Of the German
short wave radio showed that
II had begun, week or two be
fore, 10 pour out false stories
about army camp drinking and
to urge mothers To have liquor
taken from men In the armed
forces"
Begin your fight now. Ameri-
cans, against prohibition.
It's morale-buSter.
It's a sneak-maker.
1t will play right into the
hands OF the enemy, for pro-
hibtion means nation of liars,
sneaks, label-forgers, grafteIs,
and poisoned and
blinded soldiers and sailors a
black eye for democracy. which
will cause all Germany and
Japan 10 tee-hee.
WHAT do We fight for?
w What do we give up our
earnings for?
What do We die for7
IL IS for one word-Liberty.
With real Americans there
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
WHY don't branches OF the
w OPA work together? In
der the act freezing labor, one
of the reasons why a man can
change his job is to be nearer
TO his work. I'VE bought
home three months ago TO be
nearer my husbands work. Ac-
cording TO the rent control di-
vision OF the OPA we cannot put
the tenant out for another two
months.
In the meantime, In addition
TO using gasoline (about two
gallons per day. and wearing
out tires; we are burning, for
heating purposes, about s gall
Ions of fuel oil per day. The
house we purchased has coal
furnace, and the man who
bought this house intends TO
burn coal.
We also have personal rea-
sons for wanting 10 occupy our
house, which is completely mod
ern. We now live in a house
without basement and we can
not keep it comfortable.
We have three children. 7, s
and 3, and expect a new baby
within a month. The 5-year-
old is sickly
We would like 10 hear from
others who have. or have solved.
similar problem.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15

Electric equipment is scarce
because the rave materials are
going into the war cTort But
YOU can save now and get back
81 for every SO YOU invest in
War Bonds so YOU can buy that
rarCe or whatever YOU want
after the war is won.
T. s. Treasury DepartmsrA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-15
What War Bonds Buy

THE SEXTANT is q hand navi-
eating Instrument for measuring
by reflection, position OF the
sun and stars so a mariner can
determine his position al sea
The present day Sextant. called
an endless tangent screw sext-
ant costs about S235.
II takes several months 20
manufacture. test and prepare
these delicate instruments for
service and we need thousands
of them on our ships al sea.
Your purchase Of War Bonds
not only pays you 81 for every
s. you invest, but helps buy
these essential navigation in
stFumentS for our navy.
o. s Treasury Department