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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
BY PETER EDISON
Monitor-Leader Washington
CorreSnOndent


Let's get all this whispering
behind the back personality
stuff of the coming political
campaign spread out in the open
right now. and then let's forget
it.
There has been some indica-
ton of an effort to belittle Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey because of
his size and his general appear
snce. There is no law requiring
you to like the looks of any man
if you don't want to, but this
personal criticism of Dewey goes
beyond that.
He has been criticized for
being too pretty to be in the
White House. He has been dub
bed Mr.. Staycomb and Mr.. Mar
eel because his raven locks are
always in place.
Some people don't like his
mustache, asking sarcastically
whether it is Adolf Hitler or
Charlie Chaplin he is trying to
look like.
He is caricatured as pink
nd-puff-cheeked boy, too young
to hold important office.
1t is against DeWey's size
however. that the cruelest' jibes
have been thrown. Because he
isn't a six-footer-because he is
five inches shorter than running
mate John w. Bricker-there IS
a tendency to toss the Little
Man. What Now" stuff at him
One Chicago New Deal paper
cartooned his nomination by
showing a diminutive Dewey in
a big spotlight on bigger stage
with the caption, $50 This Is 1t!
THERE'S THAT SHETLAND
PONY CRACK
There is now the famous crack
about the Republicans not only
being willing to swap horses IN
mid-stream but to swap a horse
for a shetland pony. Also the
story about how he sat on
phone book while being photo
graphed at his desk.
All such stuff is part and par
eel to American political cam.
paign tradition. Men seeking
high office are considered fair
game, the season is always open
Shooting at them is considered
a sadistic form of affection. Can.
didates have to learn to take il
and pity the poor politician who
can't.
Being on the receiving end Of
personal digs is nothing new to
Dewey. He had to take the same
stuff when he aspired to the
presidential nomination fou I
years ago, and when he ran fol-
governor of New York two years
ago. If they hurt him. he has
never WINGED. He has had the
mustache since 1928, and il his
wife likes him that way, there's
no reason why he should change
There is nothing more to be
done now about his height, ply
sically, though he is as tall as
other men in public life, includ-
ing Sam Rayburn,. Joe Martin
Coolidge, Stain, Chang Kai'
Shek.
There is, however, the tenden-
cy on the part Of many voters
to choose their candidates purely
on personal appearance basis
to indulge in personalities In
criticizing a candidate when
logic and good reason fail, to
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

Van Brooks lost no time in max
ing the contract when East made
a slight slip in the defense. He
allowed the opening spade lead
to hold. discarding his deuce Of
diamonds on it. East continued
a spade. Van Brooks ruffed and
led the king of clubs. East won
and made the mistake of not
leading a heart. He led another
spade, Van Brooks ruffed. CASH
ed the queen of clubs and led
diamond. Now nothing could
prevent him from making all his
hearts separately.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
VAIN APPEAL

The Jocketess Mems Society Of America hos is
sued its annual appeal to reason, summonine the
humid homo sopens to 90 forth in his shirt sleeves
But oIos,. the JMSA is voice crying in the wilder
ness Its efforts brave and persistent those
Of Mormon Thomas to be elected president, or the
Philadelphia Phies to win O pennont. AS brave and
persistent, and as futile
Sweterne man will read the annual oppeo, nod
hls opprovo then look up into the cool eoze Of the
eoolIyottired little woman dutfuy slip on his coat,
and take her out to dinner.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON

There are more people Dreak-
ing into show business today
than ever before in the history
of the footlights or the galloping
tin-types.
AL Pearce, the Elmer Blurt If
screen and radio, is our author
ity on the great pilgrimage of
volunteer "parlor entertainers
to the USO camp show circuit.
You would be surprised, he said
how many people with no pro-
fessional theatrical background
suddenly have become great en-
tertainers at camp shows for the
armed forces.
'I've noticed it," he said, ION
every show I've played. In ev-
cry group you fill find two or
three talented people who be-
fore the war were strictly par
lor entertainers"
Like Virginia Craig, ,Pearce
said.
Before the war Virginia lived
with her husband and child in
Los Angeles. Her hobby was
singing, but it was just hobby.
Then her husband went to war
and was killed in a plane crash.
To take her mind off the TRACE
dy, she volunteered for USO
camp shows, sang for thousands
Of soldiers, sailors and marines.
THE girl" Pearce SAFE d,
doesn't know how to walk onto
a stage. But she has the most
beautiful soprano voice I've
ever heard. Some day she'll be
q great star"
HUNDREDS, HE SAYS
There are hundreds of parloi
entertainers who are breaking
into professional show business
on the foxhole circuit.
There was the girl, for in
stance, who rode with Pearce
one day on a USO camp show
bus to San Diego. She was wor-
ried about her hotel reserva-
tons, so Pearce pointed TO the
camp show manager in the par
ty and said he would arrange
for everything. Later the girl
said to Pearce, Gee. that Mr..
Camp sure is nice fellow
Chuckled Pearce, The war
has even forced me to become
a comedian"
Before the war, he said he
functioned strictly as a master
of ceremonies. His Elmer Blurt
character came in for only
minute or two of his shows.
Then l started going on camp
shows" he said. You can't just
60 out on the stage and stand
there. You gotta go out there
and be funny-S So I'd go into my
Elmer character and the guys
would laugh. Now | do an 49,
minute Elmer routine"
The echoes of that camp show
laughter from Elmer Blurts
performances reached Holly
wood and last summer Pearce
landed in the movies in a film
titled. Here Comes Elmer"
SALARY PLUS PERCENTAGE
The picture did so we'll al the
box office that he has just sign
ed another contract for three
more pictures. Pearce gets
percentage of the profits besides
a flat salary. First of the three
films will be Fun Valley"
based on the radio show in
which Pearce has brought Ell
mer to a new comedy high.
Elmer was born shortly after
Pearce entered radio as a sing
er back in 1923. He and his
brother were home builders in
San Francisco when the start OF
the depression caught them with
too many foundations down.
Pearce started emceeing a va
riety show and was doing a
French comedy character for
laughs. Another gent on the
show was doing a BOBBY sales
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
SO THEY SAY

Young people must be helped
to participate in democracy and
identify it as such. They should
learn that a democratic society
is good for them and democratic
experience is satisfying.-Ord-
way Tead, chairman New York
board of higher education.
Several times our cook, whom
we knew as Nick the Greek,
begged to be taken along on
harassing raids, and we finally
consented. While we dropped
small bombs, Nick crouched
grinning at an open gun port
and ladled out garbage that he
had accumulated for several
days.-Lieut. Abraham Hellman,
back from Cape Gloucester.
The truth is we dare not have
depression and unemployment.
Henry j. Kaiser.
We can keep the millions now
in industry and agriculture en-
ployed and we can absorb the
men now in the armed forces
into our working economy, but
re must be willing to produce
and produce on a basis that will
permit greater consumption
Eugene Casey, presidential as
sistant. ,.
Greater freedom for the great
er number necessitates some de-
gree of cultailment of the free
dom of a few. - Sir Stafford
Grips, British minister of air
craft production.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
D IN HOLLYWOOD

man. But the latter got such
kick out of Pearce's French
character that he talked Pearce
into exchanging roles. Writer
Jack Hasty dreamed up the
name, Elmer Blurt, and Pearce
has been blurting ever since.
Ruth Warrick - Hollywood
lured Ruth away from a singing
job with Horace Heidi but has
never given her a chance to sing
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
HighIights from Latest Books

None of the current authors
writes so convincingly as Anna
Seghers about the refugees from
Nazi tyranny. Unquestionably
that is because she herself has
but recently reached sanctuary
in Mexico.
She endows her stories with
a dignity that comes only from
objective writing. Her words
are so dispassionate that they
engender little hatred for the
oppressors, but only sympathy
for the unbelievable sufferings
of her homeless people.
Anna SegherS has achieved
this quiet impact in Transit"
Little, Brown, her story of the
refugees who reach Marseilles
and then slowly 60 crazy at
tempting to reach Marseilles and
then slowly go crazy attempt
ing 10 reach friendlier shores. 1t
is story of visas, safe conduct
papers, exit permits, transit Wis
as, petty officiousness, the cal
lousness of consular officials,
and the desperate hopes of the
refugees, who never seem TO be
able to get all the papers in or
der TO catch the last boat out"
Specifically, this is the story
of one Seidler, a German refu-
gee, who comes 10 MarSeilles
with forged papers and gradu-
ally changes from a man des-
perate to get out of France to
one definitely committed to OUT
whiting the authorities and re-
naming there. For Marseilles is
a strangely contradictory city, a
place where the refugee must
prove that he is trying TO leave
in order to remain at freedom
long enough to do so.
Amidst the frantic hustle of
this virtually locked gateway TO
freedom, Seidler achieved a
strange calm. Sensitive to the
turmoil about him, he nevertAc-
less found an even tide TO his
life. He could sit for hours in a
cafe drinking Rose, or visit the
conSulateS almost mechanically
in pursuit OF Vagrant papers Of
permission to do this and that.
II appeared simple matter %
him TO adopt the papers of the
suicide German author, Weldel,
for the authorities were not Sus-
picious. But complications arose
when he met and fell in love
with Weidels widow, Marie,
who knew nothing of her hus-
bands death nor even of Seid-
ler's deception. He was faced
soon with aiding her TO get her
papers in order and at the same
time maintaining his maSquer-
AIDE.
And he might have gotten
away from Marseilles, too, with
Marie and the young physician
who had rescued her from the
Germans. But he didn't, He tells
how and why as the reader sits
down with him in a Marseilles
cafe over a glass of Rose and
a piece of pizza.
1t is Soldiers story that you
read. 1t lacks the dramatic
punch of Anna Seghers' earlier
The Seventh Cross" but in its
own quiet way it gets across TO
the reader and sticks in his
memory.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

on the screen. She'll MARBLE for
the first time in Columbia
MIR. Wrinkle Goes to War"
Vic McLaglen-Vic is six feet
four. His wife, Suzanne, is six
feet two, His daughter, Sheila,
is six feet one. AS the trio en-
tered the Brown Derby the other
night, someone cracked: Look
- there's Hollywood's tallest
story"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

In her first novel, Black
birds on the Lawn" Coward
McCann), Jane Morton shows
promise, in style and character
ization, of better things to come.
Her tale of Henry Tarnol, retir-
ed Kentucky editor, his strange
family and his love for the
neighbors who are their tradi-
tional enemies, has warmth and
reality despite a confusion of
plot, which at time submerges
the people of the story. Hen
rvs love for Dagma, the battle
of her physician son, the bitter
Vindictiveness of Henry's sister,
are woven against the back
ground of the small Kentucky
town with a fine understanding
of the limitations of its past and
the needs of its future. Pleasant
reading.
Cecil Lewis "Pathfinders"
(Morrow) is the story of Brit
ish Wellington bomber and it's
crew of six, one of them all
American.
1t isn't an ordinary novel. II
tells the reader right at the start
what happened to this Yelling
ton bomber; that ii crashed IN
the sea just shy of its homeland;
that at least four members Of
the crew were dead; that two
were alive, but the book doesn't
reveal their fate.
From there, the novel is bro
ken into sections-one for each
member of the crew. The au-
thor, very exacting, goes into
the personal life Of these heroic
filters. Four of the men had un-
usual backgrounds in a way;
two others were from the hum
drum, ordinary walk -of-life.
Personally, we liked the story
about Peter Morelli, the young
American of Italian descent,
whose father had come to
America to build up a fortune
in the restaurant business. Pet
er's love affair with Estha on q
visit back to Italy highlight that
section OF the book.
Then there are Sam Dollar,
the Canadian trapper who join
ed the air forces. believing he
was responsible for his broth
er's death in a Canadian bliz-
Yard; Tom Cookson, the New
Zealander, who wanted to get
the war over and return to his
sailing; Benny .Lukin, the Brit
ish movie critic, who married
unwisely.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

The spider family has SO
known members, divided into
two goups, one having one pair
of lungs, the other two. ..
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

Cost of operating an automo-
bile on a dirt road Is 7.8 cents
per mile; on a gravel road, as
cents; on a paved road, 3.8 cents.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

Five hundred pounds of bull
let-sealing rubber are used in
the gas tank of a Flying For
tress.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

Q-When was the camera in
vented?
A-l05 years ago, by Louis
Daguerre.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

On my trip to Detroit for the
Michigan State tournament. l
found Arthur Levy. the newly
elected president of the Mich
igan Bridge Association. and j.
Van Brooks, the treasurer, both
enthusiastic about starting a
War Orphans Scholarships &C
tivity. Both these men. by the
way, are exceptionally fine play
ers and l predict we shall hear
more of them at future major
x~.,.- a.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

The west Teras oil fields pro-
duced 43l,200 barrels during
May, 1914.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

Q-What country has lakes
whose bottoms are a thousand
feet below sea level?
A-NorWay.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-21

Optimistic bidding put Levy
and Van Brooks in an interest.
ing contract on today's hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
Young People Presented in
Fine Concert at Church

Deligt ing everyone who heard 1t,
the young peoples concert given
sunday evening in the Presbyterian
church was an outstanding success,
soioist5 and the violin quartette all
turning in their hest performances,
their best Being very good indeed.
A varied and interesting program
was presented under the auspices
CT the World Friendship Circle OF
the church, with Janet Lyle, vio-
linist; Helen Francis Maynard, pi-
aniSt; Phyllis Lytle, flutist and Ann
Mitchell, soprano, "a the sclois's
Members Of the quartette included
Janet Lytle, Wilma Jeanne Lakey,
Helen Francis Maynard and Carol
Martin.
The quartette opened the program
playing a group of three numbers,
compositions Of Wagner, Kargan-
off and MoszkoWski which they
played remarkably we'll. their under
standing Ct tie requirements fol
coed ems emble work being SELF
evident.
Janet Lytle was heard at inter
walls on the program in violin solcS.
the program being 50 arranged
with alternating violin, riano. arc
vocal solos as to make a Well-bal-
anced one, with pleasant varia ions.
Janet plays with nice tone pro-
ducticn and musicianship making
her rendition of her numbers most
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
Popular Couple
Married Friday
In Yuma

Mr.. and Mrs. f. Stevens of 773
Olive, have announced tic mar
riage of their daugEtol, Bornicc, 10
James H. Black, Jr., United States
Navy, son of Mr.. and Mis-. James
II. Black, Sr, of Eugene, Oregon.
The wedding was solemnized or
Friday in the Gretna Green
wedding chaptl, Yuma, Arizona,
with cnly the brides parents and
her tire sisters, Margie, Tootie ana
10, in attendance.
For her wedding ensemble the
bride selected a smart and most
becoming suit in royal blue with
which she wore matching hat,
her other accessories being in
black. She wore a corsage OF gor-
geous orchids.
The young couple arc new en-
route to Oregon to visit Mr.. Blacks
parents, and at tie end OF his &C.
day turlCugh the bridegroom re-
polts to San Francisco for his or
Gers. He has just returned from
duty in the Pacific theater.
Mrs. Black attended Imperial and
Ell Centro schools including Central
Junior college. Her many friends
and those CT her parents will be de-
cidedly intel ested to learn OF E1r
marriage.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
WE
the Women
LOOK AROUND BEFORE
YOU LEAP TO RENO,
ADVISES MISS MILLETT
Ry RUTH MILLETI

Even in the present shortage ol
ELIGIBLE men, wives still write let
tels in which they hash over all
their husbands shortcomings and
wind up by wondering II they
would be better off if they just
went ahead and got a divorce.
Well, that is too personal mat
ter for anyone to offer acvlce about.
But it seems only fair to give the
ladies this warning:
Before you get rid OF the man
YOU have-imperfect though he may
be-you ought to take a week and
go around seeing how lone women
spend their time.
Wander down to the corner res
taurant or drug store after the NOV
les are out and watch the faces OF
the lonely war wives who are going
around together in an effort to
make long evenings less lonely.
See if you think they look any
happier than you are. Then talk to
some of them about what it is
like to live alone, not to have a
man around to put the car in the
garage, or fix a leaky faucet, or to
sit across from you at the dinner
table.
BETTER THAN NONE
It could be that even a poor
husband is better than none. ANY,
way, you ought to check up and
decide.
And be sure that even though
you don't think your husband Is
any bargain, he'll probably be
snatched up as soon as you let him
go.
The other day wife in Chicago,
suing her husband fer divorce, said
in court that six women had been
pestering her by calling up to see
how soon her husband would be
free.
OF course, after cue considera-
ton you still might feel like that
same Chicago wife who, when her
decree was finally obtained, said
of the anxious women inquirerS
Il want them to know that he's
free again. They can come and get
him!"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29

pleasing. She played selections
from such representative composers
as Bach, GODDARD, Massanet and
Schubert.
Both Technically ard from the
interpretatiye standpoint, Helen
Francis Maynard is an excellent
pianist and she displayed her ver-
Satility Sunday nigh in her con-
trasting selections two numbers
from Ferde Grofe'5 Grand Canyon
Suite and : two movements of a
Beethoven concerto.
Phyllis Lytle FOR the few months
that she has studied, is a capable
flutist and her two solos were
charming selections and very well
played, indicative of considerable
talent.
Ann Mitchell has not only a
sweet, clear voice, but she sings
with feeling and understanding
Her two numbers included a Mo-
zart selection and the Hageman
Christ Went Up Into the Hills
very appropriate for. the Sunday
evening concert.
As a nice climax to tie program
which the quartet played, second
group Of three numbers which in
cluded competitions by Chopin
Don't and Dvorak.
Zona North, church director CT
music, played the accompaniment
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
Mccoy Recital
Attended by
Large Group

A capacity audience testified as
to the interest in the recital pre-
Sented Sunday in Douglass hiel
school auditorium by pupils of
Frank Mccoy, student teacher, who
himself is a student OF Orla Kenah
The performers, who have studiec
with Frank only one year, showed
marked Improvement even the
small Beginners giving evidence
a good technical foundation and
an understanding of their music.
The advanced Students work was
marked by mu;icianly interperta-
ton as well az nice tone quality. Al
PLAYED from memory and haG con-
siderable poise and self possession
In addition to the piano sOlos
duets and tWo-piano selections.
Matte Bayloe, pupil CT Gfayct
Burt, was presented in a vocal 500
which added variety TO the pro-
gram. Mrs. Bayloe, accompanied
by Mrs. Burt, showed a decldea
progress as the result of her year
of serious study.
Frank himself played a piano
solo and also a tWopiano number
with Leora A. Potts, Robins Re
turn" ,Fisher), the later being one
of the highlights of the evening,
the enthusiastic audience Gemand-
ing an encore.
The program also featured the
awarding OIL certificates OF prog
reSS, Mrs. Emily BesanC making
the presentation and it was climax
ed with the group singing of the
national anthem, George w. Burt,
directing with Thelma Mccoy
Haynes and Frank Mccoy at the
two pianos.
Many flowers decorated the stage
making a pretty setting.
Students who took part were
Beatrice washington. Lupe Gomez
cage 81, Ethel Robins, Manuel Wi
mar, Caroline Valenzuela, Bertha
Mae Walls, Wilma j. Johnson, Le-
thia A. Goss, Leora Potts.
Mrs. Cordella 3. Webster was il
charge of the usheretteS, Villa Mae
MCGOWAN, Opal Wiley, Henrietta
Gomez, Gertie Mae White, Lucille
Williams, Betty c. Young.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
Present Day Club
Entertained by
M. J. Dowds

Present day club members were
entertained Saturday by Mr.. ant
Mrs. M. J. Dowd, having dinner. q
program and a game of bridge at
the DoWd home.
For the program. Mr.. DoWd, chief
engineer for the Imperial Irrigation
district, talked informally on his
recent trip to Washington. D. C.
in opposition to the proposed water
treaty with Mexico.
Tonne Sue Froeterg sang a grour
of beautiful soprano solos with ac.
compartments by Dorothy Ann
strong.
Bridge prizes we're won by Mr.
Hulse, Mrs. Heald, J. d. Nesbitt
j. E. Brock.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hulse were
guests and the members pre- ont in
GUIDED; DR.. W. w. Apple, Mr.. ant
Mrs. j. E. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. r. A
Chestnut, Judge and Mrs. Elmer w
Head, Mr. and Mrs. George Kirk
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. NeSbitt, Mr.. ano
Mrs. JOHN T. Rice, Mrs. Mont j
Reid, MI. and Mrs. Guy A. Weak
ley, and the hosts.