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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
REWARDS OF GENIUS

The spectacle Of the beoted appreciation Of q
genius decd and gone these hundred years, is ol-
woys q sod one And the fote Of Edgar Allan Poe,
though he died only IS years ogo has for some time
been prime example Of too much recognition &C.
corded too ote But the crownng irony Of Poe's post
hunnous had to woit until few dogs ogo when
the manuscript Of his famous short story THE MUIR
ders in the Rue Moreue" sold at auction for S34,
OOO
This, Of course, is more money than poor Edgar
ever saw or ever dreamed Of in his widest Dreams
which we're considerably Wild And it wos paid for
the same toIe told in the same words that an earlier
public though not without toste in such motters
foIed to applaud and reward
But the most ronc aspect Of the sale is that this
hioh-priced manuscript is generally accepted as the
model for that highly profitable form Of literary ex-
preston, the murder mystery.
When you think Of the book, serial reprint, screen
ond radio royalties thot todoys heirs to the Poe Who
dunt tradition collect it would have seemed at least
appropriate for the Stouts Homn,ets, Queens, Gard
ners Chrstes and the rest to have bonded together
to purchase the manuscript themselves, then suit
obIy enshrined il and offered devout thanks every
morning before sitting down to the typewriter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03

second place, that IN I.scu Is an
achievement.
"Skippy' certainly defended
today hand against his brother
IN masterful style. Declarcr won
the first trick In his own hand,
then drew the trumpS and fol-
lowed with hearts, only TO find
that there we're four in the East
hand. b Jay saw a play which
he thought would put his broth.
or on the spot and avoid a pos
sible losing fineSSc. He CaShcd
the ace of clubs and returned
another club, and sure enough.
Simon was IN the lead. But dis
regarding the fact that il would
give declarcr ruff and a stuff
Simon led the last club. B. jay
still needed the diamond finesSc
and when "Skippy' showed ul
with the diamond king, the hant
was beaten.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
(NEA Staff Correspondent

Exclusively Yours: Sgt Joe
DiMagglo has been bitten by
the comedy writing bug. he 5
now contributing gags 10 Aooolt
and Costello d e n n S
O'keefe who just achieved star
billing after having risen from
the extra ranks, would now like
to be a director After
Iol 'i'e III - 'lli'e p4'S 'ei
ld'''eI j" Cui VINES nave i'i'
utI H''pCS t'''te N'i !" a. e'
" bIlell IoIu neI i'lo'icI' 'iAe
h''''' ne ISL d' al lAt d gang
S'er WITHOUT HIS C'e"l'
After three weeks OF sitting
on the set Of Two Years Before
the Mast and working only
few scenes, Brian DO ! eVy
groaned: YOU elther nave 10 De
a rope or a cloud TO get a close
up IN TINS picture, Night
and Day, the Cole Porter tllm-
biography, Will feature 81 OF
Porter 5 MT tunes, Pro-
queer Lester OoWah Will pre-
mere his ant-NaA Him, 10
morrow, the world, IN new
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
WE - YOU AND - MAKE
INITIATION
BY FRANK SINATRA
UriIl La

"IlN'tH ibT NfsN SrTN'N
The other day some friends Of
mine started kidding me because
I sounded off on initiation. They
seemed to think it was funny
that a singer should have any
thing 10 say on such a complex
subject. Well, I'll admit don't
understand all the ins-and-o outs
Of price control and FINANCE. But
here are four things l do know
One: Non experts on eco
nomiCs like you and | make up
about 90 per cent Of the pop
ulation, so it's what we do that
counts Two: Every time one Of
us decides for or against infla-
ton a dozen times a day by
what we do. Three: If we let in
flatiOn get started now, it will
bring on postwar depression
that will make the last one look
like picnic. Four: We know
exactly how TO avoid initiation,
because the experts have told us
how - by buying only what we
vitality need, by supporting price
ceilings and rationing, and by
putting every cent we can spare
- and more - into War Bonds
and savings.
Yes, it's up TO us non-eXperts,
all of us, 10 follow all the rules.
This time, the way | understand
it, it's really got to be all, or
well end up with nothing at all.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03

ing for the boys until Christmas
Rosemary DeCamp, who
played Jimmy Cagney's mother
in Yankee Doodle Dandy" is
now playing one of his exglrl
friends in Blood on the Sun"
A special Oscar 10 Hollywood
wardrobe mistress, Nan Tate
She's organized a motion picture
knitting club which has contrib
uted 81 afghanS TO the West
Hollywood Army Hospital.
After good scene between
Victor Moore and Ed Gardner
for the film version of Duffy's
Tavern Director Hal Walker
complimented the boys. why
shouldn't it be a good SCene?'
spoke up assistant Eddie Salven.
Between the two of them
they've got 80 years and two
weeks Of acting eXperlence-5O
for Vic and two weeks fer Ed.
In line with the studios pol
icy Of giving her variety of
roles, Deanna Durbln will play
a newspaper reporter who solves
a murder in her next, Lady on
a Train" She'll sing only two
numbers.
NOT IN THE STARS
Vance Carroll, casting direc-
tor for Samuel BrOnStOn, was in
tervleWlng a bit player for part
in Ten Little Indians Before
accepting the role, the gal asked
the birthdate of Director Rene
Clair and started checking a
pocket astrological guide. Good
heavens" she finally screamed,
hes squared my Jupiter She
jumped up, dashed out of the
office and didn't come back.
Look for sensational record
in the Andrews Sisters record
ing of Jimmy McHugh's Don't
Blame Me Another dis
trict attorney role for Otto Kru-
ger in The Wonder Man He's
been prosecuting people ever
since his stage hit in Counsel
lor at Law" And such a nice
guy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
. SO THEY SAY

| am told that in the entire
Southwest Pacific operations,
from the beginning until now,
there have been far fewer Amer
lean boys killed in action than
were killed at the Anzio beach
head - Nelson T. Johnson, u.
S. minister TO Australia.
Workers can rest assured ac-
ton will have been taken by
Congress and by the war agen-
cies TO protect them against
abrupt cancellations by the time
any substantial overall reduc-
tiOn in war goods production is
necessary. - Charles f. Wilson,
WPB executive vice chairman.
The greatest and perhaps the
only perfect gift that we can
give TO the world is the gift of
ourselves at our best, and that
means not just the skill Of our
hands and the cunning Of our
brains, but our dreams, our fin
est resolutions and most solemn
promises to ourselves. - Capt.
William n. Thomas, T. S Naval
Academy chaplain
We are only misleading our
selves if we imagine that at the
end Of a war that has Scared
Europe with deep divisions, all
the countries Of the continent
will lie down together like
lambs. Europe is made up Of
differences. Those differences
will continue TO exist, Sir
Samuel Hoare, British ambas-
sador 10 Spain.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
MAKE YOUR POSTWAR
WORLD HAPPY
BY GEORGE 7. CHRISTOPHER
President Packard Motor Car Co.

BY GEORGE 7. CHRISTOPHER
President Packard Motor Car Co.
Written for NEA service
War workers today are not
only building weapons to fight
the Axis. They are helping pay
for them AS well. Every week
when payday rolls around, many
patriotic, far-sighted employees
invest at least 10 per cent of
each pay check in War Bonds.
Some invest 20 per cent.
These workers are making
their money work for them in
Hhree ways: helping TO pay the
terrific cost Of war, inSuring
themselves of having postwar
dollars to use later to better adj
vantage, and helping to prevent
the country from buying its way
into a depression.
Buying our way into a depreS-
sion? Yes. There is a minimum
Of civilian goods available today.
Their scarcity makes them lux
ury items, able to command
above-ceiling. black m k et
prices from people selfish and
short sighted enough TO pay.
Whenever you pay blaCk-markct
prices, you are helping TO push
the country into a postwar de-
preston.
Jobs are plentiful today, be-
cause of the billions being spent
on the war. This war spending
will end some day, however.
When it does, the country will
60 back on a peacetime basis.
The reconversion period may be
one of serious unemployment.
This is when you will need the
dollars you are spending today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
THE YOUNG, THE HARDY
ARE NEEDED
by ROBERT CARSE
Written for NEA Service

tMr. CaTss, well-known magazine
writer, Joined the Merchsnt Marine
shortly after Pearl Harbor, and II
the author of the best-seller, There
Go the ships" about his advcn-
lures on the Murmsnsk rum
Right after Pearl Harbor, men
of the American Merchant Ma
rine made the promise to Keep
En- Sailing" Since then we
have lost men and ships in every
ocean of the world. Our losses
have been greater in ratio than
those of any other service. Yet,
we have kept our promise; we
have kept 'em sailing"
We are still a small service.
BY the end of 1945 there will be
only 100000 of us, and every
year $4,000 men leave the ships,
worn out, weary, seeking relief
from the strain of convoy work.
New and young and hardy
men must come to us to fill the
crews of the 1000 ships we will
soon be sailing. Their decision
will be made as individuals, for
ours is volunteer service. This
is written in great part to at
tract such men, TO help them a
BIT in their patriotic duty.
AS the tempo of the war in
creaSeS, as our invasion of the
west goes farther inland across
the occupied countries, our task
grows. More and more supplies
must be carried to our fighting
fronts, to the suffering civilian
populations.
Adml. Emory S. Land, chair
man of the u. S. Maritime Com
mission, calculates that in the
next few months 10000 addi-
tional men will be needed.
If they join us and keep our
lifeline intact, victory will be
ours.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03

Two Republican senator's Ball Of Minnesota and
Burton Of Ohio, have given some timely odVce on the
subject Of Americas participation in O world secur-
ty examination The former has called Tor defeat at
the polls of | senators he desgnotes without man,
ino) as "isoIotionsts Mr. Burton has warned that
these senators and others ore already preparing
to block our membership in any international peace
group
These warnings, coming from within the Senate
cannot be safely dismissed as idle words. Nor can
they be called POLITICAL for both senators have iden
titled eight of their oIIegedy isoIotionst COL
leagues os Republicans
Mr.. Burton, unlike Mr. Ball, does not ask for d.
rect action by the voters this month. Instead he
presses for majority vote Of House and Senate TO
rotify treaties instead Of the twothrds Senate vote
now required. And he urges speedy formation OF
world security organization with the warning that
it's opponents in the Senate would "teor apart" any
elaborate plan.
Perhaps Mr. Burton is asking more speed from
the cumbersome machinery Of constitutional amend
nnent and world ratification than they are capable
Of But ct eost his and Mr.. Balls statements recall
and emphasize the paramount part WHICH the SEN
ote will play under present constitutional provisions,
in our joining any world peace movement.
Whether not we Join such q movement depends
bCSS
on the occupant Of the White House. This wos prov
ed Of course by the "wiIIfuI men" Of 10000. But
today, when the presidential campaign looms SO
large in the public mind it is worth thinking about
again.
The two senator's obvious concern is significant
in view Of the foct that the Senate is already on
record as fovorne the ConnoIIy resolution, which
urges American membership in world peace organ
izoon by vote Of IS to 5. This same popular sent
ent is reflected in the House Fulbright resolution
and the platforms Of both major parties.
While this sentiment is at its height, Mr.. Burton
coils for prompt action on both his suggestions
However prompt or slow this action may be- the
two senators have at least given voters implicit no.
tice to examine senatorial candidates records scrup-
uIousy in the light Of their desires for world Sc
curty.
And they have provided them with another re-
hinder thot whatever the countrys sentiment, one
third plus one Of Senate quorum could block Amer
icon participation in an international security orgon-
zotion, and perhaps jeopordze the peace Of the
world
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
NEVER THE TWAIN

COLUMBUS, Ga, Nov. 2-(P
Because he wanted TO be near
his twin brother, Chief Ship Fit
ter Harry M. Garrett of Column
bus, back from % months in the
South Pacific, asked to be sta
toned at San Francisco in pref
erence to an assignment at
Davisville, r. l.
Returning home, he learned
his twin, Mark, also a chief ship
filter back from the Aleutians,
had been assigned to Davisville.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM +. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

| believe that for the first
time in the history Of bridge,
two brothers reached the finals
Of the Masters team-Of-four con-
test. They we're B. Jay Becker,
Of New York, and Simon wSkip-
pyD Becker, of Philadelphia.
Whil9 "Skippy and his team
mates had 10 be satisfied with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BUCK BUCKS THEATER

LANSDALE, Pa, Nov. 2-(P)
- A stage-struck four-point
buck bucked its way into the
Lansdale theater, leaped the
empty seats, wrecked the organ
console, and dashed into a dress
ing room. A deputy game pro-
tector shot it-and turned the
carcass over to a hospital.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

Ethel Barrymore saw a special
showing Of None but the Lone
~ Heart the other night in New
York. You know" she said
later, that Cary Grant is a
much better actor than Holly
wood thinks he is" From a Bar
rymore. that's something
Pat O'Brien has arrived safely
overseas. He will be entertain
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Three noted Americans In
separated fields of endeavor
have contributed the follow
ing tabloid editorials excIus-
lively to NEA Service and the
MonitOr-Leader.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03

tMr. Carss, well-known magazine
writer, Joined the Merchsnt Marine
shortly after Pearl Harbor, and II
the author Of the brst-selIeT, There
Go the ships" about his advcn-
lures on the Murmansk rum
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
FLUSTERED

u. S. ARMY AIR BASE, Mar
shall ISlands-a second lieuten-
ant ordered three men to get
the hell of this landing strip"
They did. Then the shavetail
noticed a generals stars on the
shoulders of each.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-11-03
PRANK

SANTA CRUZ, Calf, Nov. 2
- (P) - Halloween pranksters
turned on $50 hydrants. Now
the city reservoir is two feet
lower and the treasurer $1,000
poorer. 1t cost the city $40 a
turn for each hydrant.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29

DR.. Clcndcniu" vii! answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29
CHAPTER


MIR. THATCHER was very proud
OF his rose garden. He lived in a
small white house overlooking
Town creek, which was the most
sheltered bit of water that sur
rounded Talbot almost on all sides
The boatvards We're on Town
creek and from Mr.. T%hatcher's
front porch N could see most of
the activity of the town. But the
man seldom sat there. His real in
tercst in life was his roses. and
they were at the back of the
house.
Everyone knew Mr.. Thatcher
and his roses. though he liH<ad very
quietly with his mother and GER
tainly made no ostcntatious DISPLAY
of his really beautiful flowers. IN
deed. his rose garden lay mOdcStly
in back of his house and was shut
off from the street by an enormous
prlvet hedge. 1t VAS not from any
selfish feeling, however. There was
II wicket gate, and if you stepped
up " ~ Why 'oll1'l Ntt lllt
rose garden. but if Mr.. Thatcher
were there, and he usually was for
three seasons of the year, you were
most cordially invited in.
Mrs. Bancroft had told Anne so.
and even offered to telephone Mr..
Thatcher, but Anne didn't want to
trouble anyone. The days at the inn
had slipped away. The place now
was crowded and Anne knew it was
time for her to slip away, too. This
feeling was strong in her mind or
the Fourth Of July. All the town
seemed to be up on the Strand &c
watch the sailing races. The porch
had been crowded with visitors
She came to the back streets where
It was peaceful.
She had written to Miss Jurges
at the hospital, and this mornins
q telegram had come telling her te
come back for duty as soon as pos
eible. She had been hurt, had triee
to run a"ay and build up a new lif.
for herself and had failed. She hat
tio more money ana llefe q peer
nothing to do but go back to he.
old work. Reing a nurse had one,
seemed all-important. and she haC
been a good nurse. DR.. Raynor hat
ended that l,ariod of her life. H
had swept her off her feet as h
might have done any young girl
He had been a romantic dream
come true. Perhaps Miss urges il
her quiet way understood all that
So she had said come back. Sh
hadn't waited to write. but ha
tclegraphod.
Anne felt she could look at roses
She leaned on the wicket gate an
at first didn't see the man smilin
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29

.cool roof and NO ,.,r. lilo ca,
r,,p L,,,so FL. ,. ,,
chai,s and =, tain. ON , ,,.,nd ,,,~
Ammo co, down NJ his ,,vi,,,in,
and looked ahout os he Talked
about tho diffaron, rocco aobi.b no
,,i,.l d, c,~,.rulIv rrboro v.or. ~,
nthnr T,,,.rs Eur him ,l.ro v,nro
no ,thcrq in the v,orld Tie noin,ra
,,t ,bo .u,,eri,,I l..," v.haro ~,
when th,y n.na,l i 4ho en,iI.d at
lat
%,
roror
V" =" C"ii' I"''' a"'0
'I'iH ''@''S 'l'"' ''' ''''''''
re very kIi'u. i'ul wont
be here. I'm gong back to New
iofk tomorrow.
He looked at her with steady
eyes behind the heavy glasses. do
you think YOU ought to 90 back?
/ Mt look cross, because / DIDN'T
mean TO be fresh. You see, I've
found a real haven here and | think
others have, too. It's a little world
away from the big world which
hasn't been kind to US. Did you
know that the name of the river,
Tired Avon, really means Third
Haven? Some try to say it "a
Thread Haven because the ships
brought supplies here from Eng
land during Colonial daya. But I
like Third Haven better The third
haven Or harbor coming up from
the entrance of Chesapeake bay.
And Il haven for people, too"
She was touched by the sincerity
of his tone. Il think you love this
placc"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29
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DISTRIBUTED BY IN rfAruRFS SYNDICATE

At her. He made a WELCOMING gcs.
ture with his pruning shears. The
sunlight flashed as they moved. lie
called out:
Come in, Come in"
She hesitatcd and he r, to
open the gate for her. I'm afraid
I'm intruding," she said. but since
I'm going away 49,"
Her voice trailcd of. Mr.. Thatch-
er shook his head. Il THOUGHT YOU
were staying with us all summer.
Miss Withcrs told Mother only last
night that she was srlrr Won were"
Anne bent over a big red rose to
smell if before answering. Il think
Miss Wlthors jumps TO conclusions
sometimes"
He chucklcd. "Don't dislike her.
shes a good soul at heart. And she
likes you"
Me? Why should she ?"
He pushed back the light hat he
wore with a green visor which
threw a strange shadow over his
eyes. Miss Wlthcrs is a good Wom-
an, my mother says, and has a
strange code. She only talks about
people she likes"
II suppose that means she's been
talking about me-"
When you live in Talbot a while
longer youll not be content Will
life unless Miss Withtrs IS talking
about you a little. We have nt
newspaper here. Weston has {
weekly and some of us pet Ealti.
more papers and some Fhiladel
phia. They don't tell us anythins
about III little world. And it is {
little world all of its own. Mis-.
Withers does tell us things"
Il suppose every town has a gos
sip"
What is gossip" He stopped t,
snip a rose which had passed it.
prime. I've been hoping you,
come see my roses. I've wanted t
talk to you. I've een YOU about an,
I've been tempted to go up to Sc,
you and hold out my hand and say
Let's be friends. I'm John Thatch
er and I know you're Anne WI
SON"
She laughed and held out he
hand. x wish you'd done it Ion;
ago"
He shook hands gravely. "HoI
do you do, Miss Wilson. But m.
point is, why did I want to knol
you? You're very pretty, but tina
would only make me say to mysel
. that I q an old enough fool t
have a little sense. But Miss With
ers made you a real person wit
her talk, BY the way, she is usual
. the friend of the stranger in town.
| There was a large platform
!, the center of the garden with a tai
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29
The Study Of Drugs

the flowers or che root 81 fOvglove
was most active. He decided on
the leaves. Then. trying it out on
patients, he showed how much by
weight of the leaves were neces-
Safy To obtain his effects. And by
what changes in the pulse, etc, the
patients were relieved.
Methods Used
Such experimental methods are
always used in our day before CIV
lnG rev drups to the public. Take
the new drug, dcmcrol. 1t is used
for pam. We never have enough
good drugs to countcract pain. 1t
has been known for Il long time
that in some kinds Of pain a com-
blnatlon Of atropinc and morphine
works better than morphine alone.
Atruplne qulctS the contraction Of
the smooth muscles Of the inteS-
tines and the brOnchi, and the kid
hey pclVlS, so it can he seen that
when pain is due to collie Of thcs.
muscles %atlopine would reinforce
morphine which qultts pain by
deadenng the receiving centers in
the BRAIN and central nervous sys-
TEN.
So instead Of going out in the
fields and endlessly trying to find
some plant which would combine
these yirtu.s some oroanir rba,n-
lists lust iupoI.d atoms around NM.
til they had svuthe.;zea . si,L-
stance which resembled the stluc-
ture Of both atropine and NOR
phine. The chemists determined
also its solubillty in water and in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29
BY LOGAN CIENDTNINC. MD

WHEN THE doctor gives you
som" medicine he rather expects
to have you ask him some ques-
'IohS. Tie expects it because 1t is
perfectly natural and hr has been
"p against it before. Not only are
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-29
Original Substances

In old days the substances that
were used for medical purposes
were mostly plants, minerals,
rocks and parts Of animals tpow-
dered newt eyes, etc.). Their en-
ployment was based on a kind of
vague reputation. Uncle Henry
has the collie and if we could only
get him some black sassafras
leaves he would recover, because
that is what cured old Lady Cub
benfelder two years ago.
When the leaves OF foxglove
(digitalis) We're introduced into
medicine fos the cure Of dropsy
they We're found in the prescrip-
tons Of an old herb woman who
had 20 other kinds of roots and
leaves in her connection. DR.. Will
liam Whitening, Of Birmingham,
initiated scientific pharmacology
by his study Of whether the leaves.