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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

creases in the cost of living have
occurred since the inadequate
Little Steel incre eases we're
granted.
But I recognize that most
workers have been able to keep
pace with increased costs by
working longer hours and more
steadily. They have produced
more and so have earned more
even if the price per unit of la
Dor was no greater.
I believe it is in the long
time interest of the individual
worker to accept the economic
injustice of frozen wage rates
rather than to in any way break
down the restraints upon infla-
ton.
Instead, labor must help forge
stronger restraints upon infla-
ton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
PAY NO MORE THAN
CEILING PRICES
By Robert J. Watt
Written for SEA Seryic,

written Tor NEN service
To prevent disaster from in
flation the government has tried
to keep prices from rising. Thus
far the effort has been more sue
cessful in preventing increases
in the price of labor than in
preventing increases in the price
of products.
AS a representative Of labor
and member of the National War
Labor Board, | have often pro-
tested against the increases in
the price of goods which the
working people must buy be-
cause l believe it unfair to keep
wage rates down while food,
clothing and other commodities
have increased in cost TO the
wage Garner.
The so-called Little Steel For
mula was too low when it was
adopted an d substantial in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
. BARBS

One Of the best lines to send
our boys is life line. Give
blood to the Red Cross!
Plenty Of people are making
a fortune these war days. The
trouble is that it takes three or
four of them for living purposes.
You can blame it on human
nature that doing right would
be much more popular if it were
wrong.
Stockholm reports say Hitler
has fled to a heavily guarded
estate in the Rhineland. Okay,
boys-first the hidcout and then
the hide.
The A-B-C of War Bonds is
All Buy Cheerfully!
The bathing beauties on mag
azine covers soon will be diving
right into the l945 calendars.
After the attempt on Hitler's
life failed, a radio program of
military music replaced a prev
iously scheduled discourse on
The determination of Rats
Maybe they wanted the discourse
with illustrations.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
MACARTHUR CLOSEUP

Gen. Douglas Macarthur has
long been a legendary figure
throughout the Philippines, says
Frazier Hunt in his book, Mac
Arthur and the War Against
Japan (Scribner's $3.50, but
the book makes Macarthur no
legend, The general, tall, sin
Ccre with cleaning eyes and
dauntIcss courage, is flcsh-and-
blood hero if there ever was
one.
Describing the generals job
at Bataan, Hunt says: The
block he set on the road south
ward had held up not less than
100000 Japanese troops, 1000
planes and great armada Of
troop, supply and warShlpS. In
stead OF Snufflng out the totally
inadequate defense forces of Luz
zon, as the Japanese high COM
mand believed they could do,
they were forced to settle down
TO a drCary and expensive time
consuming operation
That was not all. Macarthur
was entrusted with stopping the
Japanese in Australia and with
"oniy a tiny fraction, of the
American stream Of production
which was going TO Europe and
North Africa, Macarthur did it,.
"The genius Of a single man
compensated for the lack of ma
terrell and men Of war.
MacArthur's task is described
dramatically. The operations at
Milne Bay. the increasing tenn
po of the drive up New Guinea
until finally the entire island
was ours. are not only interest
ing reading, but Hunt makes
clear why and how each step
was taken.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
Hiqh|iqhts from the Latest Books

With the complete liberation
Of France only matter of
weeks, or perhaps days, Perth
AXIS The Gravediggers of
France doubleday, Doran: So
assumes an historical import
ance in the coming war guilt
trials Of French fascists.
Andre Geraud, writing under
the pseudonym of Pertinax for
three decades, is a brilliant his
tOrian and neWspaperman. He
wrote both for papers in his ma
tive France, being editor Of L.
Europe Nouvelle, and for Eng
lish and American papers: Lon
don Daily Telegraph, New York
Times, Baltimore Sun.
Considered by many to be un-
official spokesman for the
French Foreign Office, his
shreWd, careful and analytical
records enabled him to prepare
the extraordinarily complete
and disheartcning-story of the
downfall Of France.
Pertinax shows precisely how
the weaknesses, the treason, the
Incptitudc Of Gen. Maurice
Gamclin. Premier Daladier,
Premier Paul Rcynaud, Marshal
Henri Petain, and, lastly, the
evIl-faced Pierre Laval, mex
orably welded the spades which
dug the nations grave.
AIinutely, and perhaps a trifle
too much so, Pcrtinax takes each
Of the "gravediggers' apart, not
emitting a single crime. 1t is
written diSpassionately and with
reserve to make a great contcm-
pOrary history and one which
the patriot jurors sitting in
judgment Of their swatlSka-
tainted leaders might do we'll to
read.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
THIS is A BAD TIME
TO SPEND
BY Jack Benny

I have been falsely accused OF
being stingy. Frequently Roches-
ter or Mary or Don or even
Denis tells me | should be more
liberal. l should buy new car.
should buy presents for peo-
pie. 81
I am not tightWad. I'm just
patriotic. They don't realize that,
should I become spendthrift, I'd
only be taking goods off the
market at a point where an in
creased demand for them would
lower the value Of the dollar.
So let them call me a penny
pincher. Believe me, ! know the
difference between being tight
and being thrifty. The govern
ment wants money to be held
in check? Well, I'm just the guy
to check it.
Frankly, folks, this is bad
time to spend. After all, there
really is little that you should
buy except things you actually
need.
Necessities are limited because
you need ration points to buy
them. And as for unrationed
goods, if you buy too much,
you'll either % directly or indi-
rectly make initiation more Sc
rious.
So why buy? Save your
money. Put it in War Bonds!
Today's dollar will do a heap
more buying if it's still around,
come peace.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
INITIATION FEEDS ON
LOOSE DOLLARS
BY Thomas A. Morgan
PRESIDENT. THE SPERRY

Written for NEA Service
Your dollars are the blood
plaSma of the home front. Spent
periodically now they will help
save the democratic way of life
in the United States for which
our boys are fighting all over
the world.
We have all read Of the mir
acles of blood plasma on the
battle field. How wounded sol
diers are on their feet today
who, by all past experience in
warfare, would be dead. Plasma
helped save them for useful
lives.
Democracy at home has an
enemy just as dangerous as are
the Nazis and JapS to our boys.
1t is known as initiation. 1t saps
the strength of the future by
wasting it today. 1t feeds on
loose dollars which should be
saved to produce purchasing
power for the period after the
war.
Spend your dollars wisely,
periodically. Use them as you
would use blood plasma on the
fighting front. Put them to work
where they will help win the
war.
There are simple rules to fol-
low; Buy only what you need.
Pay no more than ceiling prices.
Buy rationed goods only by ex-
changing stamps. And first, and
foremost, buy all the War Bonds
you can and hold them.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
. SO THEY SAY

Excess purchasing power
places a tremendous and unnec-
essary burden on our price CELL
ings and our rationing system.
Taxes should be increased. -
Economic Sterilization Director
Fred NJ. Vinson.
The disappearance of local
economic independence is de-
stroying the foundations of de-
mocracy much more than the
Vaccinations of agitators and
politicians. - Sen. Joseph G.
OMahoney (D) of Wyoming.
The Italian people are very
courageous. The idea that they
are not good fighters is all
wrong. If they have real cause
they will fight and fight well.
Capt. Andre r. Pacatte, back
from Italy.
The British, and in the first
place the Americans, made such
good use Of their material that
a comparison with our break
through the Maginot Line and
the push to the Somme in 1910
is fully justified. - Lieut.. Gen.
Kurt Dittmar, German army
commentator.
It would take all of the 10000
architects in private practise
five years to prepare plans for
reinStating the bomb damaged
buildings Of London. - Walter
O. Hudson, secretary Institute
Of Registered Architects, Lon
don.
Whether there is to be COM
plete rehabilitation of war pro-
duction will be determined at
the peace tables. We may never
go back TO the low level of mu-
nitions production preceding this
war. Lawrence A. Appley,
VINO executive director.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
ADVICE TO LABOR

American labor leaders must certainly De oWo'e
bv now that as wartime strikes become Increasingly
numerous the public and the armed forces are be-
comma increasingly impatient with Them bur mus
far only R. }. Thon1os president OF the On'teo Au-
tonoobiIe Workers, seems to have foreseen the in
evitobe reaction Of public indignation which m'9ht
cost labor all the gains it has won in recent years.
Beinq courageous os we'll as foresl9hted, Mr.
Thomas adopted stronq measures. Several months
600 he and other members Of the y. A. w. executive
boord issued severe disciplinary orders against un-
authorized strikes which carried penalties for strk-
ers and 70 local officials who condoned their actions
These penalties have been carried out. And though
they have not stopped w. A. w. strikes, they served
notice that Mr.. Thomas meant business
Now the U. A. w. president hos issued an oP-
peoI to the patriotism and reason OF the unions
million members In words stronger than most die
hard ndustriosts would dare use in public he warns
the union that faces destruction unless "our hot
headed brothers" ore restrained from striking.
He n1nces no words. He charges that "ony per-
son who sets up picket line is acting like onor-
chist"
Mr.. Thomas calls attention to the sIowness Of
government agencies and the efforts OF many man.
oqements to toke advantage of the no-srike pledge
to weaken the unions He does not mention the soft
drink" disputes and other trivial causes Of costly
strikes.
But he makes the telling point that if labor can
endure grievances and keep q record Of its fore
beoronce, it will have great selling point after the
war. But" he continues, There will be no gain in
keeping and publishing our wartime record if that
record is mored by wildcat strikes in war plants"
Apparently Mr.. Thomas understands the pub
lie temper better than most Of his colleagues at the
head Of unions He knows that it does good to
reiterote the nostrke pledge and to dismiss the
growing number Of strikes as Unauthorized" while
doing nothing about them. He knows that it does no
good to quote q low percentage Of man hours lost
through strikes under the nostrke PLEDGE
The public is concerned today less with percent
oees than with the foct that one strike cost ESQ
fighter planes on the eve Of invasion, while another
stopped processing Of PIosmo and PenciIIin which
just won't be there some day when it is needed to
life The public doesn't think that the eriev-
onces behind those strikes we're worth this price, and
Mr. Thonos knows it.
Mr.. Thomas union would do we'll to heed him,
and other labor leaders would do we'll to emulate
him for the good Of their own future
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
SKUNKED,

RED WING, MINI. - A cou-
pie Of Red Wing sportsmen took
two soldier friends to the Red
Wing Gun Club near Hager,
Wis, for little trap shooting.
The party returned without
firing a shot.
Skunks had established living
quarters in the traphouse and as
one Of the men Remarked
The skunk is notorious for
craftsmanship"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19

fashionable restaurants like
Murphy's these days. They can
afford the tariffs, too.
There's still a gas station on
every corner, but most Of them
are closed for the duration.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
Q IN HOLLYWOOD

Bob Murphy has added an
other room to his restaurant.
Grapes hang from the ceiling
and he calls it the Grapevine
Room. You see people wearing
Stacks and Lockheed buttons in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
FINE SYSTEM

PONCA CITY. Okla. - Mrs.
William F. Temples doesn't have
any trouble keeping her three
children out Of the refrigerator.
She put a sigp on the box:
admission | cent"
Off comes penny from thee
children's allowances every time
the refrigerator is opened.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondent


The Hollywood Front-Local
gossip of interest 10 Hollywood
men currently detained on inn
portant business away from
home:
Well, the towns still perking
Especially Hollywood and Vine.
The corner looks like a De Mile
mob took over. It's a mecca for
members of the armed forces
with overnight passes. Even the
Thin Man wouldn't find room
on the sidewalks.
The cafes, beer joints and
chop houses along Vine are so
crowded you sometimes stand
in line. The Brown Derby does
mt open until noon now (the
help shortage and c o s e S
promptly at midnight. Ditto
Mike Lyman's, across the street.
The new 80 per cent tax on
night clubs has all the bistro OPP
orators groaning. Business dur
ing the week is bad, but you
can't get a table on Saturday
nights. If you do, you'll pay 81
for a tired steak and up to Sl.5O
for watered drinks.
People are still screaming,
too, about gasoline. Some peo-
pie have plenty, others are
hitch hiking. Theaters, Of course
are booming. Yes, Ken Murray S
"BlackoutS" is still running.
Starting it's third year. And aft
er all these years, the extras are
cleaning up, too. Warmers sent
out call for 1900 just last
week.
Betty Cradle hasn't lost any
of her glamor since becoming
a mama. The Form casts the
same shadow as before.
HAM ON EVERY CORNER
Meat, butter and eggs are
plentiful in the stores again.
Only limit is. customers ration
points. Of course, there's still
ham on every corner. The liquor
stores have everything except
Bourbon or Scotch. You can buy
a case of either from the black
market for SIPS. Which is too
much.
The goth Century-FOX studio
still serves the best lunch in
town. The price has been uppcd
from IS cents TO a Sl.1O. The
food at the RKO and Paramount
cafes is worse than ever. Billy
Wilkerson, the trade paper pub
Usher, has opened another
swank restaurant since Giro s
burned. He calls it the LaRue.
Plenty expensive, too, but the
best people in town are there.
There's not room or a house
in town for rent. Limit on no
tel rooms is five days and
there's always a waiting list.
Houses which cost $4,000 are
selling for SIP, 200. But homes
which cost $4,000 are down to
$4,000. People don't want the
big places any more. Can't get
servants.
Everyone has a Victory Gar.
den. Even glamor girls like Dor
othy Lamour and Ann Sheridan
are getting dirt in their finger
nails. All the studio messenger
boys have been replaced by
girls, many pretticr than the
stock actresses. Several have
landed contracts.
JITTERBUGGERS SLOWED
The Hollywood Cantccn is
still jumping. But since that &C
tress sued the Canteen for So
600, and collected, claiming she
was injured by a too enthusi-
astic jitterbugging Marine, the
boys have been warned to take
it easy.
Myrna 10y is back in town
&c. a new Thin Man picture
with William Powell. Her mar
riage TO that New York adver-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19

Among the many great and rood
reasons to buy and buy, and
buy, and buy War Bonds, there
II a selfish one. That II to help
cheek initiation. This vital fact Is
stressed in the following tabloid
editorials which three noted Amer
leans in separate fields OF endeay-
or have written especially for NEA
Service and The MOnitor-Leader,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
OOPS.

OOPS,
MILES CITY, Mont. - Radio
Announcer Don Tannehill oozed
craftsmanship as he Delivered a
blouse for Sale commercial:
"This well constructed, at
tractive home is located on ."
After he finished this an
nouncement on h @ air, he
blanched, blurted:
Good gravy, that's where
live"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
Q FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
NICK O. TIME

NICK O. TIME
INDIANAPOLIS-Mrs. Pearl
Coffman took home what she
thought was kerosene for a
stove. Later the filling station
attendant discovered he had
given her naptha. He didn't
know her address. Three police
squads made a door-to- door can
vass. Four radio stations broad
cast warnings. Finally a little
girl told police: The lady across
the street has a coal oil stove"
Officers burst into the home,
stopping Mrs. Coffman as she
started to pour naptha into the
stove.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM +. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Here is another interesting
hand on counting tricks. This
time it is the declarer who must
count his losers. The first thing
to take into consideration on
this hand is the bidding. West
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
EGG-CESS

EGG-CESS
LOS ANGELES - Yes, saws
c. A. billings, it's true. His red
hen laid five eggs in one day.
Two medium size, three a little
smaller.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19

OIV T.
SHAWNEE Okla

SHAWNEE. Okla. - City bus
drivers say they can spot an
out-oftoWn woman auto driv-
er instantly. If she gives the
correct signal for a turn, she
isn't one of the local girls.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19

Hunt, correspondent and
military observer, has known
Macarthur since days Of, the
first World War. He has had
access to official records, max
ing the book authentic. The
book is amply illustrated with
maps and it may provide an in
tcrcsting commentary in the flu
ture on the general who stopped
the enemy in spite Of having
too little, too late"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
THE PRIVATE SCHOOL

Just what place the indcpen-
dent, or private school, has in
the educational Sct-up Of the ma
ton is pin-pointcd by Ernest
Barrett Chamberlain in Our
Independent Schools published
by the American Book Com
pany.
Mr.. Chamberlain. director of
admissions of Cartcrct School
for Boys, West Orange, n. J.,
examined so Of the better
known independent schools and
states the case for their exist
encc with wealth of facts and
illustrative material. y
He traces the history Of the
private schools from their be-
ginning with tho Boston Latin
School, established in 1885, into
the twentieth century. That
some 100000 students, rough
" 10 per cent Of all students in
the United States, are enrolled
in independent educational in
situations is reason enough for
Mr.. -Chambcrlain's intCrpreta-
ton of the private school to the
public.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-19
NEW YORK, L. s. A.

In a disCursive, almost am
bulatory style, Simeon Strun-
sky, New York Times editorial
staff member and contributor to
many Of our leading magazines,
has written a story Of New
York, mo Mean City, (Dutton;
So. And it's no mean city TO
him, for his semi-philoSophical
discussions of the streets, the
sections, the houses and the peo-
pie are warmly affCCtionate in
tone. The subject of his native
city has always been close to
StrunSky's hearts, and he offers
TO New Workers and to the city's
visitors a new insight into the
life around them.
Here is an interesting racial
and religious breakdown Of New
York'S population into its dom
inant elements Of Irish, Italian,
Jewish, Protestant and Negro
inhabitants, with a braCkCting OF
their respective parts in munich
pal life. The Irish, for example,
have always played a dominant
role in the politics of the city, as
the Italians have in food, labor,
music and baseball. Here, too,
is a colorful dissertation on the
City's geographical highpointS,
with notes on Rockefeller Cen
ter, Madison SdHarc Garden,
Grants Tomb and Greenwich
Village.
Alternating between dcsCrip-
ton and Interpretation, Strun-
sky's survey is prcpondCrately
humorous. There is. however,
a thread of social criticism that
ties together his ramble through
New York. BaSiCally, ne is ana
lying the mass life Of the city,
and he finds that life, allegedly
foreign" TO be, beneath the
surface, American TO the core.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Mrs. Evelyn Anderson
Heads Victory Unit

Mrs. Evelyn Anderson was elected
president of Victory Unit, District
of Columbia. American Legion
Auxiliary. Other officers are. Mrs.
Clara Newton and Mrs. Lucy wilkins,
vice presidents; Miss Edna McIn-
tosh, treasurer; Mrs. Astrid Hagg-
blom. chaplain: Mrs Albertine
Bradley. historian; Mrs. Marie Blue
and Miss Edna Bennett, color bear
ers; Mrs. Rose jacobson, sergeant at
arms.
New officers Of Kenneth Nash Unit
are Mrs. Lillian Judd. president;
Mrs. Evelyn Starnes, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Nellie Lindville, second
vice president; Mrs. Eta Nash,
chaplain; Mrs. Dorothy Lindheimer,
sergeant at arms; Mrs. Jellie Wright,
historian; Mrs. Ethel Wilt, corre-
spending secretary; Miss Evelyn
Black, treasurer: Miss Virginia Ma
loney and Miss Allie B. Wright,
color bearers.
United States Department of Agri-
culture Unit: Mrs Pearl M. Heagerty
president; Mrs. Elizabeth Moriarity
and Mrs. Kathryn Standley, vice
presidents; Mrs. Adelaide Miller,
treasurer; Mrs. Beverly Barney,
chaplain; Mrs. Cecile M. Berger,
sergeant at arms, and Mrs. Terese
Mariotti. color bearer.
Mrs. Ruth Beighlie. rehabilitation
chairman of Sergt. Jasper Unit, will
conduct a bingo party today at
Mount Alto Hospital.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Comdr. Pennington
Launches Drive for
Legion Membership

Lee r. Pennington, new COM
manded of the District of Columbia
Department, the American Legion
has launched a drive for new mem
bers, which he believes will reach
a total of $4,000 by the close of the
year. There now are more than
$4,000 veterans enrolled,
The 1s45 Booster Club campaign
started last week and cards are
available at Legion headquarters for
members paying their 1945 dues
prior to the national convention,
which Is meeting in Chicago, Sep
tember l8 and 10.
Those holding cards will be
eligible to compete for prizes of a
$50 War Bond, six SIS Bonds or a
Legion uniform.
National Cathedral Post has ten
dered to the department the Frank
Buckley Memorial Membership Tro-
ply, to be awarded each year, COM
mencing in 1945, to the post of
the District first reaching its as
signed quota of members. 1t is a
memorial to the late commander of
this post.
Officers in posts elected were:
Vincent B. Costello: Commander
Thomas Costello; first vice COM
mander, William st. Cyr Barring
ton; second vice commander, John
NJ. Griffin; third vice commander
Joseph H, Lied; quartermaster
Henry M. Alexander; sergeant at
arms, Robert Meyer; master at
arms, Paul l.. Tomardi, and chap
lain, Harry McMasters.
Capital Commander, w
H. Taylor; first vice commander