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REAL PERSON
BY DR.. HARRY EMERSON FOSDlCK

tive of self-display is every
where at work.
Many deserve Thackeray's
description of Pendennis, who,
Having most lively magma
ton, mlstook himself for a per-
son of Importance very easily
If other means of satisfying this
desire fail some become crimi-
nails and shine as eminent gang
sters, rejoicing in their motor
iety and angry if the desired
kind of publicity is denied them.
SO Guiteau, President Garfield S
assassin, in his prayer on the
scaffold Indignantly exclaimed,
The American press has a
large bill to settle with the
righteous Father for their vim
dictiveneSs in this matter" Fin
ally, If desperate measures are
called for, some become insane,
and imagining themselves kings,
queens, or multi-millionaires,
walk in their fantasies, their de-
sire for ACKNOWLEDGMENT
happily satisfied 1t is small
wonder that ethics and religion
habitually look askance at this
dangerous motive.
Nevertheless, there is another
side To the matter. The finer
family is, the more the home
makes every member of it feel
that he or she counts. The en-
tire democratic way of life is
based upon the proposition that
everyone opinion ought to
matter. Christ cndues with inn
portance an endless stream of
otherwise obscure people, fill
ing fishermen, tax gatherers,
and prodigals with Ahe clated
conviction that the kind of per-
sons they are and the way they
live are momentous for them
selves, their friends, their COM
munities, and the world.
The entire Christian idea of
life is structurally dependent
upon the importance of persons.
That is to say, self-respect -
Tcnnyson called it "self-rever-
cnce'--iS alike the basis and
the consequences of our most
Swing institutions at their best
and of the most rcdceming ideas
We have in philosophy and reli-
gion. No great living is possible
without self-respect, and self
respect is the old. dangerous,
misused. and morally reprehen-
sible passion for self-aggrand-
izement. elevated. sublimated,
and at 10 good uses.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05

Some Of the above constituents had chance to
speak their minds recently before special House
committee headed by Rep. Howard Smith Of Vir-
onio The committee out Of its hearings with
q set Of recommendations which now in the
hands Of the House Banking and Currency Couon,it
tee.
From ofor some Of the recommendations look
oood - review of OPA and WLB orders in federal
courts; abolition Of triple domoees; ban punt.
tive destructive penalties; protection from punish
nent resulting from conflicting OPA orders But os
q whole the recommendations put tight lid on
wages with tendency toward letting prices rise
They provide for bosio ceilings os Of October
1872 adjusted to meet subsequent cost increases and
profits They also make price advance mandatory
for individuals who can prove loss under existing
ceilings despite efficient management. In short, they
woees than now exists.
This path goes in an opposite direction from the
fight against the Little Steel formula but is comes
out at the same place.
Congress- chief concern must be to create firm.
prce-woee balance, not simply to remove outhor-
ty from OPA and WLB and toke it to Capitol HILL
without having remedied the sterilization programs
basic weaknesses.
1t is true, Of course that nobody really knows
how sterilization is working thanks to conflicting
cost-of-IWne reports This isn't Congress fout But
Congress won't find the to the question by
bureaucratic with hunts.
Sterilization should be the goal Of their quest.
And there ought not to be any pursuits Of red her
rings along the rest Of the route os there have been
in the post
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
GROW LEMONS
IN BASEMENT

GRAND ISLAND, Ore. -U.D
- Although Orcgons enthusi-
aStic victory gardeners have
tried almost everything since
the outbreak of the war, most
of them would hesitate to COM
pete with Californians in citrus
fruits. But Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Stoutenburg of Grand Island
are a couple of confirmed Web
foots and refuse to concede SUI
periority in anything TO the SUM-
shine State. They have harvest
ed a crop of 81 choice lemons
in their basement from a tree
growing in a nail key.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
. BARBS

The fellow who doesn't spend
too much time minding the 9TH
er fellows business sually
knows lot about his own.
Presidential candidates will
throw their hats into the ring
and other folks will dust them
off.
Thirty pounds of butter fell
off a truck and landed at the
feet Of Los Angeles woman.
That settles it-there is a Santa
Claus.
The road 10 success is crowd
ed because it's one-way street
but there's always room for one
more.
Temporary insanity sounds
like good plea in defense Of
r. Taking an incorrect income tax
report.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
UNLUCKY SEVEN =

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A
youth in court because of an al
tercation at a dice game, was
describing the incident with
dramatic flourishes.
II faded him, shook them dice
and rolled" he said and paused.
After moments silence act
ing City Judge Martin Fleming,
Jr., asked; We'll, did you make
your point?"
The defendant said he did -
and the hearing proceeded.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY VIM. E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

! dropped in at c. B. S. re-
Gently to hear Alfred Drake OF
oklahoma" fame on his radio
program. I thought that this
time would ask all the ques-
tons, but Mr.. Drake had just
finished playing a few hands OF
bridge, on one of which there
had been quite an argument. l
am showing only the East hand,
because the whole point involv-
ed was, what should East bid?
With the East holding | would
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
HE ACTED-ONLY ONCE

HE ACIED-ONL1 ONSE
81 mo- has been directing
quite a few pictures Of late -
"Whistling in the Dark, fish, )"
Song of the Open Road and
now Son of Lassie Before
that he was an actor. But not
for long. He worked in just one
play-the role of an old man
who got killed in the first act.
The only trouble, ne said,
was that when my body was
discovered by screaming maid,
l was SO startled | jumped up.
The audience hoWled when they
should have gasped, the director
rang down the curtain and ran
me right out of the theater.
Right then | decided that the di-
rector was the boss and that was
for me.
Simon said he was very proud
of getting eight pages Of dialog
out of w. c. Fields in one day
for Song Of the Open Road" If
you know about Bills lackadais-
ical working methods, this is in
deed quite an achievement.
1t was easy said Simon. Il
had the set built up on a high
platform. The only way to get
UP or down was on ladder. 1t
was too much trouble for Fields
10 be Ginning up and down the
ladder after every shot, so he
was always on hand when we
needed him"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
LUCK OR SKILL

ZION, 1ll.-Chief OF Police
Alven Ruesch drew bead on a
chicken hawk in tree near his
home with his revolver and fired
two shots. The first missed; the
second rufflcd the birds feath-
ers.
Robert Wilson, IA year old
neighbor boy, asked Chief
Ruesch if he could try his luck.
The chief said okay and Bobby
downed the hawk on his first
try.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
RULE SUSPENDED

BUTTE, Mont-The military
rule that military men can't ride
with WACs even though their
cars are in the same train was
suspended for sailor |. Finch
David, Lewiston, Mont.
Enroute to a new station,
David spotted WAC, his wife,
boarding special car attached
to his troop train. Commanders
consulted. David was permit
ted to ride with the WACs.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
WEATHER BETTOR

DECATUR, III. - Cal Wag
goner is betting it will rain next
Wednesday, May 10, but he be-
lieves he won't have many taxi
ers.
Waggoner, 83 year old retired
bank employee, has bet it would
rain May 10 for 38 years and
says he has won 80 times. That
record, he says, has sure killed
off the interest" and he doesn' t
expect more than five takers
this year.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
TRAFFIC TICKET
CONES HOME

DETROIT -U.p)-- Harry p.
Van After, who prints the traf-
fic violation tickets that Detroit
police hand out, was given one
of his own calling cards the
other day. Its a very pretty
ticket" Van After remarked to
the arresting officer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
GET TOGETHER

WEST SIMSBURY, Conn
Frank Rake stopped to give a
hiking serviceman a ride
and discovered it was his son,
Private David F. Rake, on fur
Tough from Camp Mccoy, Wis.
They hadn't seen each other in
eight months.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .


wrong TO assume that the de-
PENDANTS are a bunch of harm
less iSolationist crackpots whose
re-Pearl Harbor acts and utter
ances are now OF no conse-
Quence.
Thinking of that kind is Just
as loose as the charge, reduced
TO writing and printed pamph-
let by defendant George E.
Deatherage, that this is a Mos
COW trial" another exam
pie of the introduction of the
Soviet system in the United
States under the New Deal" -.
that the New Deal is Jewish"
that what is known as the
fraternal order of B'nai Birth is
the secret police arm of the Jew
ish Kabal international in
character part and parcel
Of the political police of the Sow
let Union. -
ONE STEP SHORT
OF TREASON
II the utterances on which
these 80 defendants stand charg-
ed with conspiracy were no
worse than opposition to the
New Deal and fourth term for
Franklin d. Roosevelt, as is
claimed, then there would be
real cause for fear that civil
Liberties were endangered.
But sedition is not mere DOM
este political opposition. Sedi-
ton is only one step short of
treason.
The United States-its gov
eminent and its people-now
face the task of shaping for
cign policy that will represent
not just the aims of any one pol
itical party, but the hopes of the
majority for future peace. This
is no new problem. The idea has
been long a-borning with both
major political parties. The
ideal is expressed in the Repub-
lican declaration at the Mackin-
&C Island conference last sum-
mer, in the -Burton-Hatch-
Hill bipartisan drive to interest
the country in postwar interna-
tional collaboration to preserve
peace, in the Fulbright and Con-
nally resolutions.
NON-POLITICAL
FOREIGN POLICY, AIM
Realization of all these state
ments of principle is at hand
now in the series of conferences
just beginning, under Secretary
of State Cordell Eull's leader
ship, between the Department of
State and the committee Of eight
senators-four Democrats, three
Republicans, one Progressive.
The laudable purpose of all this
is to keep future foreign policy
determinations out of politics.
The danger of defeating this
purpose is as great today as in
1919 and 1920 when u. S. par
ticipation in a worldwide pro-
gram to keep the peace was act
ually killed by the political iso-
lationists. In the leadership and
following of people holding the
expressed beliefs of the 80 de-
PENDANTS now on trial in Wash
ington there is a similar isola-
zionist sentiment still alive to-
day.
American isolationism can be
more dangerous after this war is
over than it was before the war
began.
To kiss off the sedition trial as
side show and burlesque is
to miss its real meaning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
RODE THE RODS, MAYBE

The New York Central Rorood carried 20 per
cent more passengers lost Jonuory than in Jonuory,
1913 while the Pennsylvania and New Haven roods
report that they carried 10 per cent more
From oil who rode these lines in January, '43,
GENES the inevitable question: Where3
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY the Associated Press
SPRING AGAIN
BUT DIFFERENT

NEW YORK ManpoWer
problems notwithstanding, the
hotel Governor Clinton got its
annual Spring housekeeping as
usual
Behind the mops, brooms,
dustcloths, etc. were gen.
eral manager Robert Glenn,
members of his staff - and a
number of hotel guests.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05

Simon said he didn't think he
looked good with his hair cut
like everyone else, or he would
mt play the part Simon gave
IN
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-05-05

CONGRESS can win itself some cheers (ond prob
obIy some votes) by overhoulin9 the Price Control
and Sterilization Acts, which ore up for extension
as of June 30 But the Legislators may have to change
their method Of approach if the job is to be really
effective one
Both the OPA and the War Labor Boord could
do with some fixing There have been plenty OF IN
stances of foolshness, arrogance, bullheodedness
and confusion in the former There have been re-
verses, spinners and shovel posses in dealing with
wage disputes. Congress- however, will not help mot
tiers if it continues to regard the whole problem prl-
mory as q campaign issue, which seems to be the
cose now.
The OPA half Of the problem has turned into an
ideoooicoI souobbIe between Administration sup
porters in Congress and foes Of government by d.
rective" In the cheering section Of the latter group
are number Of constituents with sundry complaints
ooonst OPA's administration. The legitimacy OF
these complaints hos supplied the 18th Congress
with some lively and occasionally vituperotNe de-
bote
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-24

miles of the German border with
no sign that the Germans were
rallying for a stand.
Truckloads of prisoners streamed
back in the wake of the American
advance, but there was not single
smoldering enemy vehicle to indi-
cate the enemy had put up de-
termined fight, said his dispatch,
datelined En- Route to Berlin"
Only swarms of German war;
planes fought against this peril to
the German border.
Supreme headquarters lifted the
cloak of secrecy only enough to re-
port the thrust east of sens, which
is IS miles southeast of Paris, and
to report the Tightening of the moose
about tens of thousands of Germans
in the Seine river loop northwest
of Paris.
The Americans, driving from the
south against these shattered rem.
nants of the Seventh army, seized
Evreux in a nine-mile advance.
Evreux, one of the chief German
anti-aircraft centers, is IS miles
from the Seine and only 10 miles
southeast Of where the Germans
are. crossing the river at Elbeuf.
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Marseille Falls
To French Polius
Continued from Page One)

it appeared that the two Allied
fronts would be Joined much soon
er than was originally thought pos
sible-perhaps in matter OF days.
Nazi resistance to the Allied Sew
enth army's smashing drive was
officially described as weak and
disorganized." More than 1900
prisoners had been taken.
In their dramatic dash to Gre
noble, an important communica
tons center OF about 100, 1000 popu'
lation, Yank tanks and doughboys
advanced at least 80 miles beyond
their last reported position. Tonight
they were less than 70 miles from
the Swiss border near Geneva ane
virtually had severed communica
lions between German forces II
France and Italy.
Enroute to Grenoble the flying
column captured scores of towns
including Digne, Sisteron, Asperes
Gap, St. Bonnet and L'Argentiere
the latter only IA miles from the
Italian border. Only at Digne
where it was held up for 10 hours.
did the column encounter serious
enemy resistance. There the Amerl
cans captured Maj. Gen. Hans
Schubert, a German corps com
mander.
Allied headquarters credited
French patriot forces with playing
an effective support role" in thu
actual capture of Grenoble, lonl
a hot-bed of opposition to the Nazls
The city was the first one OF i'm
portance to open its gates to Napo
leon upon his triumphal return
from exile on Elba 129 years ago
From Grenoble the American
spearhead-only a week after tn
landing on the beaches Of southern
France-was, in position to strlk
So miles northwest to the great raj
hub Of Lyon and to throttle all en-
envy efforts to escape up the Rhon'
valley into northern France.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-24
KENANIANS HEAR
BRIG. BOUTERSE

Brig. w. w. Bouterse of the Sal
walton Army discussed religion in
world politics before the Kiwanis
club on Wednesday, saying prefa-
torially that more good and more
harm have been done in the name
of religion than by all other influ-
ences upon human life combined.
Religion, he added, has for cen
turtles been the source of mans
Hottest aspirations and accomplish
ments, and on the other hand the
excuse for some of the greatest
crimes of history.
It found expression in the Allan
tic Charter when President Roose-
welt numbered freedom of worship
as one OF the four great freedoms
that must be preserved, he said.
In our own early history, Briga-
dier Bouterse cited, our forefath-
ers revolted because of state DOM
ination of religion. He said, they
came to the new world to establish
the right to worship according to
the dictates OF their own
consciences without interference by
the state. But later generations in
many parts of the world revolted
against religion, he said, citing the
Russian revolution, the Spanish
Civil war, the French revolution
and the ascendency of Hitlerism in
Germany as examples Of this new
revolt.
He invited his hearers to con-
slider the present situation in the
United States, where only so per
cent of the population are church
members and only seven per cent
of them attend any church. He
noted that because life has been so
easy for Americans, religion has
gone out of style. What this will
mean in the years to come can
only be answered by the manner
in which we have applied the les
sons of this war to our lives, he
said. The men in the foxholes and
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-24
Reds Keep Up Drive
On Romanian From,
Continued from PAGE Nv,

numbers of Romanian officers -,
men nave been slain BY the c p.la
mans who are trying to bar t yer
retirement, Moscow said, even r'el'
the Soviet advance continued
While this campaign was b,
ing its first great fruits in D!
manlan surrender, the First Ivy iO'
ian army of Marshal Ivan s w
new in southern Poland lssbed n NJ.
westward and seized the cjtv Oo y,
Debica. a large aircraft indys.s VI
center and communications noi.s
"a miles east of Krakow ar sO' u,
miles east of Tarnow, next nros
able objective of the offensive 'VO'
Konev's drive swept up mor
than 70 towns between Debica and
Rzeszow to the east. '''o
The following new ofters;,.
northeast of Warsaw advances ~
Russians to within eight miles y.
the formidable Nazi fortress y.
Lomza, 20 miles below tbe F,0.
Prussian border, '''
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were machine gunned in tn e
Boulevard, Bonne Nouville. The
Rue du Faubourg, Rue st. Denis
and the Rue de Rivoli.
There was no word of the fate
of the German force which the
French caught in Paris, and it was
expected to be several days before
any estimate is made by tn e
French on the number killed and
captured. 1t was known the Ger
mans had fled Paris by the thou
sands as the American armored
pincers closed around the capital
during the past few days. Allied
airmen reported roads to the east
damned with Germans.
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American Tank Units
$50 Miles From Reich
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from rage UncJ
lower reaches Of the Seine was
Evreux, which the Americans
freed, while a parallel YankJ adj
vance neared Couches farther west
Resistance everywhere was light
except where the Germans slowed
the Canadian advance in the 45-by-
30-nile pocket by blocking further
bridgeheads across the Toques
river.
GA Belgian communique said Bel
gian troops fighting beside the Al
lies had advanced II miles along
the Channel coast, overcoming stiff
resistance as they famed out above
Deauville, but inflicting heavy loss
es on the Germans.)
1.-THE main battle for France is
already over" declared Associated
Press Correspondent Harold Boyle,
who watched U, S. tanks drive Is
miles east of Sens to within $50
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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Romania Joins Allies;
Wars Against Germany
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
events leading up to Romania's
decision.
On Aug. Churchill told the
House of Commons, Russia has
offered generous terms to Ro-
mania and l have no doubt that
they would be accepted WITH graft
tude by the Romanian people if
only the Romanian leaders had not
a Prussian automatic pistol press
Flying Fortresses have been find
ing God, he said will the rest of
us be as fortunate?'
Accompanying Brigadier Bouter.
Sc as guest of the club was major
K. E. Moss, director of the Harbor
Island USO center.
William H. Shaw, postmaster at
Fayetteville, was the guest of w.
r. Dosher, program chairman.
President Donald King, presided.