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

The Dies Committees latest
thriller, post-mortem report
attempting by inference TO hang
responsibility for founding OF
the already discredited and now
defunct Peace Now" move
ment on young man named
John Albert Collett brings into
the limelight one of the strang-
est personality stories of the
war. BY circumstantial evidence
and implication, young Collect
has been portrayed as poten-
TALLY dangerous and subversive
Nazi agent, sent to the United
States TO organize pacifists into
interference with the American
war effort. But there is not one
shred of evidence to support this
fanciful story and there are no
charges against him. All that can
really be made of his record is
that he is an unfortunate pacifist
zealot, a sincere peace fanatic, a
AZ neuropsychiatric case who
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS .

Test your knowledge OF
correct social usage by
answering the following
questions, then checking
against the authoritative
answers below:
/. Should you ever put silver
on the table which will not be
required during the course Of
the meal?
2. Where is the water glass
placed when one is setting q
table?
3. Should you plan TO use
more than three glasses at each
place setting?
4. When large nut dishes are
used on dinner table are they
usually used in pairs?
5. Should you try to avoid
having at each place all OF these
things: individual salt and pep
per shaker, an ash tray, and an
individual nut dish?
What would you do If
You are choosing candles for
a dinner table
(a) Choose tall tapers?
(b) Choose short candles?
Answers
1. No.
2. Slightly above the tip Of
the dinner knife.
8. No.
4. Yes. For the sake of bal
ance.
5. Yes. The table will look
cluttered, il all are used.
Better What Would You
Do solution--(a so that the
light won't be in the eyes of
the diners.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
FINDINGS AND
CONCLUSIONS

SALT LAKE CITY District
Judge George A. Faust dis
pensed with formalities
Does that man ever spank
your" he asked John Beaver.
Eyes, sir" the child answered.
That's fine. And what does
he call your"
Jack"
"And what do you call him?"
johnny"
Here is fine and friendly
family relationship" comment
ed the Judge. He awarded Gus
today OF John, 8; James, 10, and
Paul, IL, TO Sgt. Clifton Willis,
26, who had married the boys
mother a year ago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03

brings out this particular point.
On the opening lead East play
ed his highest heart, the three
spot. 1t was difficult for West
to know whether or not to con-
tinue the heart and set up the
queen, so he shifted to the king
of diamonds. Now East played
the deuce of diamonds. 1t Is
true that the deuce asked his
partner not to continue dia-
MOI ds-but the three of hearts
was not very encouraging. West
did make the mistake of con-
tinuing with diamond, declar-
err trumped and made his con-
tract.
Now East criticized his part
ner for not continuing hearts,
while all he had to do was to
overtake the king of diamonds
with the ace and lead back the
deuce Of hearts. West would
have known then that East was
out of hearts. He would have
won tho truck with the ace and
returned another heart for
East TO ruff.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
LENDS VARIETY TO
TICKET, TOO

DALLAS. Texas-The Dallas
Bonehead Club, fun-making
organization, announced forma-
ton Of the Bonehead party to
obtain 10000 miles of gasoline
rations for each of its 81 mem
bers by making them candidates
for president of the United
States.
Acting Chief Bonhead Jack
Estes said the idea came from
the success of Claude A. Watson
of Los Angeles. Calf, prohibit
ton party presidential candi-
date, in obtaining such gasoline
rations for his campaign. Wat
son was the clubs guest today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
BARBS .
You don't see as much chicken

You don't see as much chicken
salad these days - with ration
points on pork and veal.
What Britain and US. will do
with Hitler remains TO be seem
il there are any remains when
Russia gets through.
Living in the past or future
keeps you from getting your full
fun out Of the present.
Even a pedigreed dog can en-
Joy life if too much care isn't
taken of him when he's young.
Since the Germans block the
way TO Rome; what is more sp.
propriate than blockbusters?
Our sympathy to FDR in his
study Of the new tax bill. We've
been studying the old one.
Just a nice, lazy thought -
having the JOB of enforcing the
laws of nature.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
. SO THEY SAY

It has been there for centuries,
but that was three weeks too
long, because we've lost lots Of
American lives in the last 81
days. - Pvt. Vincent Zavada, a
Catholic, after Benedictine mon
astery bombing.
The strongest military ele-
ment of Japan is the army,
which must be defeated before
our success is assured. This can
only be done by the use of large
ground forces. It's useless and
misleading to talk of short cuts.
General Macarthur.
The disease death rate has
been lower in the Army than
the annual death rate during
any one of the last 10 years OF
peace. = Brig Gen. James 5.
Simmons, surgeon generals Of
flee.
After the war the policy pur-
sued by the United States will
have a crucial influence on
world reconstruction and peace.
American policy both during
and after the war is nodded to
the presidents personality and
outlook. - The Yorkshire Post,
British newspaper.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03

ther.
Evans, a clever writer, builds
vivid characterizations around
these tWo-Emma, the former
school teacher who left the COM
fort of her youth TO brave the
blistering sun and frigid bliz-
yards to marry a man she never
quite knew; Burl, the horny
handed son of the soil who
worked like a horse TO become
a successful farmer so that he
could assure bright future for
his wife and two sons-and who
never realized he was losing his
family's affection while he bur-
led his nose figuratively in the
soil.
It's true-to-life novel, again
extolling Womans sacrifice for
her man and family and point
ing out mans acceptance of a
Woman's love as a commonplace
thing.
A pleasantly crazy detective,
nice people who commit murder,
and a rare manuscript which is
stolen combine to make enter
tainment in Murder Make a
Villain" by Denis Scott (Bobbs-
Merrill: So. Mike James, the
detective, supplies laughs as
well as ingenuity in solving the
crime. James is called in TO dis
cover what became of stolen
manuscript insured for $500, 900.
While he is in a tree watching
Sylvia Kent, suspected of a hand
in this bit of villainy, she is
murdered, and from then on
Mike is busy collecting cleWs
and drinking judiciously.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
FREEDOM FROM WANT

Freedom From Wont" is perhaps more nearly
reality in the United States today than ct any time
in our history But postwar doy looms ahead when
plenty Of wise thinking and hard work may be need
ed to keep thot brove utopon promise even close TO
it's present level Of achievement.
Thot stort has been made on this wise think
ing is evident in the eighth annual report OF the 90
cio Security Board 1t contains several new recon-
noendotions which ore designed to give broader
bose and oreoter ronoe to the Freedom" of which
this prooron is q practical representation.
Among other things, the board would extend
old-ooe and survivor insurance to include the self
employed, form and domestic workers, ond employees
of public organizations, non-PrOft Institutions, and
federal, stote and local government. There should
be little quarrel with this, since obviously modest m
comes, cessation Of earning power, and acute need
are not the exclusive properties Of the workers now
covered by social insurance.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
PLANNED ECONOMY

DIES MOINES-State officials
discovered q man and his wife
on the social welfare assistance
rolls had $4,000. Both were in
their nineties. "Why didn't you
spend the money to support
yourselves" they were asked.
1--WE were saving it for our
old age" was the reply.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
COIN BRANDING

ELENA, Mont Corp. Lyle
Ziemer of Dunnell, Mimi, found
a dime under the hide of a mule
he was butchering at Camp Ri
mini War Dog Reception center.
Old timers said the insertion
OF a small coin under an ami
mails hide for Identification was
an early-day practise to thWart
Exchanging thieves.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03

Neither should there be much pickering over the
proposal to protect the social security rights OF the
millions now in the armed forces, to insure against
total loss Of income due to permanent total dis
obiIity.
The Social Security Board also presents sound or
ounents in fovor Of replacing the s. stote and ter
ritorioI unemployment insurance systems with q uni
form national system to be administered locally. Be-
sides correcting numerous current inequalities, the
proposed system would relieve employers Of consid-
cradle complicated bookwork, especially in the
Of interstate employers.
The board would oIso lower the qualifying age
for benefits wives from IS to 60 since points
out, wives are ordinarily younger than their hus-
bands And it would remove the requirements Of reg
uor school attendance now attached to benefit pay
ments to dependent children.
Social Securtys conception Of Freedom From
Want" may hit snoe in Congress on the proposal
thot social insurance be broodened to include Por-
tioI coveroee Of wage losses due to unemployment,
Sickness disability, old oge and deoth, plus con
siderable part" Of hospital and medical services This
would roise the combined empIoyer-empoye tax to
II per cent Of salary.
The Senate turned down the per cent combined
tax scheduled to succeed the per cent tax on Jon
10 move which the Social Security Board chair
man claimed would force the government to sub
sidfze" otdoge pensioners the extent Of s bt-
lion. The House seems likely to follow suit And the
broodened, Il per cent proposal includes the debO
able but not-yet-coneressionay-de debated "socioized
medicine" provision.
One thing is certain. The Social Security Boards
proposals deserve eoreful consideration and temper
ate argument, aimed toward the greatest good and
uncouded by portison clashes Of political philosophy
Social insurance is here to stay Millions have
needed it, even in this time Of supernomol woqes
Millions more ore going to need it badly otter the
war; The whole country has stoke in seeing that the
Iowrnokers give them the best forrest and wises deo
possible
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
HAZARD OF BYSTANDING

SAN PEDRO, Calf The
half dozen occupants Of three
automobiles were tossed about
wildly in a collision which bad
ly damaged the cars. The only
casualty was bystander, Nick
Santich. 65. A lamp post fell on
him and broke one of his legs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
IN HOLLYWOOD
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondrnt

EIGNtl dIiu a idlA IlIllIOll Npl-
lars amt hay, even in Holly
wood.
And when one gentleman
goes out and spends that much
money on four motion pictures
and is due to get 1t all back on
the profits of just one, its some
thing to remember 10 tell his
grandchildren about.
OF course, Buddy DeSylva
VIII have a lot of other things
to tell them. About diving for
pennies at Catalina Island TO
help pay his way through
school IN Azusa, Calf About
all those hit songs like Avalon
and April Showers which he
wrote when he was the king of
Tin Pan Alley. And about how
he bad three hit shows on
Broadway in one season-"P Pan
anna Hattie "DuBarry Was a
Lady" and Louisiana Pur-
chase"
But spending S11, 100000 on
four pIctures-"For Whom the
Bell Tolls, Lady IN the Dark,
The Hitler Gang and French
mans Greek AS executive
producer at Paramount studio
undoubtedly Will give Buddy
De sylvia the most vivid mem
cries IN his dotage.
AS a matter of fact, when an
eX-song writer spends money
like that its something TO talk
about now, as we'll as something
10 remember. Which is why we
dropped in on Buddy-George
Gard DeSylva TO be formal--ln
his office al Paramount today.
But Buddy beamed, we're
getting back that Sll, 100000 on
the profits of one picture alone.
And, brother, I'm sleeping lot
easier The picture already set
70 pay for the whole works is
For Whom the Bell Tolls,
which, DeSylva figures, Will
bring Paramount a neat IL or
Is milii0n dOttdrS, maybe mUre.a
Lady in the Dark Just re-
leased, viii earn maybe five
million "Frenchmans Creek"
and The Hitler Gang still in
the cutting rooms, are expected
TO haul in another five million
apiece, maybe more.
UNIQUE INTERIOR
There are three things you re-
member about DeSylva's office.
There's small piano just a few
feet away from his desk. Il
don I write songs any more he
said, but can still hear Crosby
sing 'em first Instead of the
usual portraits OF stars, the walls
are covered with photographs of
young playerS-neWcomers ne S
grooming for stardom. And
above the fireplace there's a
photostatic copy of an interview
Clark Gable once gave.
Its my pcrsuader," DeSylva
chuckled. when somebody does
not ike a role, or beefs about
something, just joint TO that.
When / first came to the studio
Brian Donlevy didn't want to
work IN Tire Glass Key He
came TO the office 10 put up a
fight. | was talking on the
phone when he came in, and |
just pointed. He read il. and be-
fore Id completed the call he
was yelling, All right. You win.
Ill play tho d part. "
The phOtostat reads: Inter
viewer-To what do you owe
your success as a star for IL
years? Gable-Because | always
let my studio select my cast, my
stories and my director" 1t
works fine. too, DeSylva said.
DeSylva's pet celluloid baby
az the moment Is fhe Hitler
Gang documentary-type film
about Hltler's rise 10 power.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authoritv

Sometimes l hear a player
criticize his partner for making
a certain play, when the player
himself could have eliminated
the possibility of his partner
making tho mistake. had he
been on his toes. Today's hand
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
. IN HOLLYWOOD

believes to be THEhas been casuabecause WASH
picture World Warrington doesn't always trust Ho
II. lyWood-but | think 1t VIII be
We've done it with metcua motion picture which will be
said Il think turned into 6 prints for
VIII effect theshowngs dubious territories
the The of them right here IN
ernments the film this country"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03

You're going TO hear lot
from India when postwar prob
lens confront world diplomats
after this conflict is over. But
before that vast and mysterious
country of rags and riches can
gam recognition as while, in
dicates Post Wheeler, it will
have to clean its skirts first. AS
il now stands, Mother India has
no one capable Of speaking for
the motley groups that go to
make up the vast population.
With Hindus, Moslems, Sikhs,
the Congress Party, the I'm
touchables and the Maharajas
being so far apart that they can't
see each other for lifted noses,
Wheeler, in his India Against
the Storm (Dutton: $500, is
skeptical of any immediate post
war independently, despite pro-
gress made in that direction
since the war.
Wheeler, probably one OF the
best of the worlds best authori-
ties on India, doesn't take sides;
he praises and damns the British
rule, and does the same for
Ghandi. He decries the caste sys-
tenn that has shackled that ma
ton and at the same time praises
the rule of few potentates who
have spent their fabulous mil
lions for the betterment of their
people.
Particularly interesting is
Wheeler's tracing of the evolu-
ton of midas myriad races and
religions. From the Dravidians
and Tartars Of ancient times TO
the invading French and British,
Indias history has been bloody.
1t is folly to suppose that with
such a background of plumber
bund, the country can expect to
solldify itself and become ma
ton among the leaders Of the
world with the same internal
strife prevalent that rent IL
aSunder time and again down
through the years.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
BRAVE NEW WORLD

Our postwar dream is Of world in which the
man who sent the U. S. Treasury an anonymous gift
Of Sl8oO9.38 would have sent it instead to Miss
Vvien KeIloms, the Connecticut industrioIist who
stamped her foot and told the Treasury she Just
wouldn't pay another cent Of taxes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

has stirred up a fuss out of all
proportion TO his importance.
Collett, now 33, was born in
Oslo of good family. For few
weeks after the German inva-
sion Of Norway in 1910, the
young man served in the Nor
wegian army against the Nazis.
Then his captains disbanded the
force 10 evade surrender and
avoid capture, and Collect made
his way back to Oslo, then across
the border to Stockholm, where
he obtained regular Norwegian
embassy passport with Russian
and Japanese visas permitting
him to come to the United States
by way of Siberia and Tokyo.
BECAME PACIFIST
Incredible stories that he got
this support only by German
connivance are discounted by
NorWegians who say that such
passports were the usual thing
before Pearl Harbor. The idea
was that such young men would
join Norwegian forces training
in Canada, and return to fight,
but young Collett did not follow
this routine.
Arriving in San Francisco, he
went first to the home of an UNI
Gle in Colorado, then came to
New York and took a job in the
New York offices of his family s
firm of Collect and Company,
dealers in vitamin concentrates.
He quit that job after a few
months. He decided to complete
his education and for one semes-
ter was in college in California.
Some place along Hhe line he dis
covered he was a pacifist. He at
tended a conscientious objectors'
school. He got in with the Quak-
ers and, being Incorporating
young idealist, eventually he
met the leaders of several Amer
lean peace societies.
He thought they weren't do
ing enough to promote peace. He
thought there should be a more
militant peace movement, and
in his zeal and enthusiasm, he
sold the American peace leaders
a bill of goods. They thought
they investigated him thorough
ly. He gave as references Mrs.
Daisy Hartman, former u. S.
minister to Norway, who had
known his family in Oslo, the
Collet firm in New York, and
Norwegian Minister Morgen-
stierne.
PEACE NOW" ORGANIZED
Not wanting to be m e
stamped as extremists them
selves, the leaders of the old
and established American peace
societies meeting in Philadel-
phia in July, l943, decided to
support the new Peace Now"
movement for all-out pacifists
favoring q negotiated peace at
any price. For a time, young Col
lett was field secretary of the
movement, and travelled about
the country. In Cincinnati he
was caught climbing a tree out
side a girls dormitory, was ar
rested on Peeping Tom charges,
pleaded guilty and paid Sl00
fine.
About this time, leaders Of
nearly all the old U. S. peace
societies withdrew their support
from the peace Now" move
ment, which was going too far
even for professional pacifists.
Collect himself withdrew from
the organization, saying he
thought the presence of a for
eigner in the organization,
was hampering its progress, al
though he had filed application
for American citizenship in 1941
and had taken out his first pap
ers. He had a complete nervous
breakdown, spent some time on
a farm outside of Philadelphia
and at one time was reported to
be in sanitarium, undergoing
psychiatric treatment.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
WRONG WIGWAM

Wendell WiIIke must be regretting that the
BIockfeet indians, who have made him an honorary
member of their tribe. don't have any representa-
tves in the high war councils Of the Old Cuord Re-
pubIicons.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
LEG SPLINTERS

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-A giant
lift at the Mira Iona Quarter
master depot fell accidentally
and crushed one of James
Parm's legs-his wooden one.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
RINGS THE BELL

You hope that there aren't
any generals in the Army such
as the general Marvin John Her.
sey describes in his "A Bell for
Adano' (Knopf. S2.50). And you
hope that there are many more
majors like Victor Joppolo.
Hersey's book is a rather blus-
terry one on the invasion of Italy,
full of rough and tough action
and language. But it's unusually
human, and written by a young
man who knows his Italian inva-
sion through actual experience.
Major Joppolo moved into the
town of Adano with the Army
of Occupation after the initial
invasion of Italy. Humanity he
set to work TO solve the prob
lens of a bewildered people who
had suffered greatly at the
hands OF the Germans and who
were inclined 10 view all milf
tary machines with suspicion.
How he won the respect and
downright admiration of all.
from priest to pauper, is a swell
human interest yarn, and how
he finally was broken by a POM
pous general who ignored hu-
man feelings is a reflection on
our frailties. It's darned good
fictional reading.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03
lust a Few Suggestions

PEeLlkG Tag WORL0S ONION
CROP MlGAT CAUSE HIM To SAeo
"A FEW TEARS FOR TAoSe ++E
++AS MURDERED.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03

"All in Twilight" by Allen
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-03

ErFcSTS 70 +4uMANlzE AelNRlS+t
+-lmmLES AS a SuccFSSoE TO
ADOLF t+lTLEg Axe UNDER WAf.
hAzi NEWS len.
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HiqhIiqhts from tn Latest Books

Roy Evans Doubleday, Doran:
$3.50 is a different sort of nov
ell. 1t deals with the early days
of settling the vast wheat fields
of mid western Canada, and two
characters, Burl and Emma III
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-11

~ ESPITE OCCASIONAL alcoholic mshaps, Jack Bar
Il rymore continued great success IN Hamlet lie
Weared OF the roe however about the sxteth perior-
nance and probably would have carried out talk OF quit
ting this damned nonsense" IL 1T had not been for
singular occurrence
One day deputaon OF old gentlemen, not one OF them
under seventy called Jack his dressing room JACK
courteous recognizing OF them by name as re-
tired actors plsywrights and theatrical personages
Their spokesman shook his white locks, then began 10
address 1--WE all proud OF your vast success
and the old boy gave William Jennings Bryan flourish OF
the arm"We know that should choose to do So you
could continue Hdmtet for years. But we are here
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-11
Prince Scrapbooks, Detroit Times Detroit 81, Mich.

Ia. &c" @ o.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-11
Vets Invited 10 Join
State troops Unit

Veterans of World Wars I and II
interested in joining the Veterans
Component 31St Infantry MIchi-
gan state troops, are asked to
contact II. Col OStrander Al
Michigan state troop hesdquar-
tors. Plqucttc near Brush.
Veterans Who enlist in this
reserve component VIII be used
only IN event Of public disorders
in Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-11

case of death.
Church officials keep strictly
within the territory OF the Vati-
can, save for an occasional trip
no the POpC-S vita n GdStet
Gandolfo
One cardinal is known 70 have
said he is pfcpar"da Tor The worst,
and has resolved what course ne
viii take N they do 10 ms hoii-
ness what was done 10 Pope Plus
VI. Plus VI was driven from
Rome By Napolnon.