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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
Administrator Pre- M.

Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown wanted TO say something
else. Most of the time OF prepar-
alton was consumed in trying TO
get the two parties to agree IN
not only the facts. but what
should be said about them.
Last summer when there was
temporary butter shortage the
War Food Administration want
ed to get out quick report ex-
planning why. Owl didn't like
what VIA prepared. and Owl
tool six weeks to get together
the material it wanted. BY that
time the first butter shortage
was over and another situation
had developed.
STAFF SUBDUED
Every effort is made TO boil
out all the propaganda and pol
tiles. A few of the early Owl
pamphlets got out with a suspic-
ion of New Deal economic doc
trine in them and there was a
row in Congress. When a correc-
tive order was issued to cut out
the opinionated stuff last April.
Is of the talented writer's re-
signed in a huff. The staff today
numbers eight, and they're pref
~ we'll subdued.
The question is whether all
this is worth the effort There
is nothing in any of these jobs
that any enterprising neWspap-
er couldn't do for itself. if it
wanted to. Few newspapers. and
few magazines for that matter,
can spend six weeks getting a
half-column or even full page.
Should the government do it for
them? In war time, facts are
made available to someone in
side the government service
which for security reasons aren t
given to the entire press corps.
The Owl writer can't use these
facts any more than the outside
writer or announcer could. but
having the restricted inferma-
tim, the government writer can
make some statements the re-
porter outside the government
couldn't get at. Beyond that, the
advantage doesn't exist.
The report system is bad in
that it is further development
Of the government public rela-
-tions handout system, which con-
tributes to lazy unenterprlslng
press. The report system is not
critical of government effort. II
does not dig for dirt, or expose
what's wrong. The report system
e~ects a barrier between the in-
dependent press and the source
of the news, because the indie
pendent reporter can't get at
the prime source of the news.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
Book Reviews

vidually, affording the critic am
pie spread to study.
Beginning with John Smihert
and closing with a selection of
plates by George Bellows. one is
able TO trace the development of
painting in America. To aid the
layman and the student of art,
the editors have included a COM
plete narrative of the artists and
their contributions TO the field
The book is richly done, and is
valuable possession for anyone
attempting a study of American
artists and their work.
Made available to the Ameri-
can Public for the first time are
the military teachings of the
now being fought, and contains
late, great Polish leader, Gen.
Wladyslaw Slkorski in his book
Modern Warfare" (Roy: So 500.
Although written in 1934-five
years before Germany attacked
Poland-the volume is an expert
treatise on the type Of warfare
many prophetic words about the
conflict destined to come.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11

What kind of makeup does
Mrs. Jack Pierce use?
She doesn't use makeup.
Jack Pierce can't stand il.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
CHINESE REDS

Marshal Chang Koi-shek makes it clear that the
Chinese Communist porty hos not lived up to its 1887
agreement to participate in unified national gov
eminent and give UP its own independent ormies.
He charges the Communist forces with assault.
ing national government troops and Selling terri.
tory, thus obstructng the prosecution Of the war
against Jopon
On the bosis Of reports from China in the post,
many have believed that the Communists there we're
ordently cooperating in the ottenopt to free their
country from Nippon This is not the cose, judging
from the best information ovoobIe They have not
even rested with Sinking the fighting against japan.
Chione charges them with active obstructionsm
1t is to be hoped that the Reds will accept Chong's
temperate invitation to come out Of the cold into
unified China
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
SHIPPING MEN PLAN

sxty.one American fog steamship companies
oroonized in the American Merchant Marine lnst''
tute, have promule gated postwar program thot IS
creotno much interest in shipping circles. Comment
is both favorable ond unfovorObIe but certainly the
Oroororn offers good basis for intelligent discus
sion.
The Institute proposes utn1ote transfer OF oil
oovernment-owned merchant ships to private own
ership. This will create some controversy, although
in nation devoted to the thesis Of private enterprise
it would seem to be q very reasonable suggestion.
It is suggested that service be restored on estob-
shed seq routes promptly and progressively, IN or
der to lose no ground that routes opened UP oy
war developments be exploited thet American YES
sells be placed on former trode routes OF the AXIS
powers; that our coostwse and ntercoostol fleet be
nodernized and expanded; ond that we branch out
in indirect and tramp" shipping
Such steps inevitably would strengthen the posi-
ton Of American lines in foreign trade by enabling
US to carry greatly increased share Of our foreign
commerce. They would give employment opportuni-
ties for our large seoeong personnel. They
would give employment opportunities tor our now
Iorqe seoooing personnel They should be taken in
collaboration with our maritime allies.
This leaves one other major recommendation
which, whether or not it should be accepted intact,
concerns matter Of vital national policy. The In
sttute suggests tho ct least five million tons of ship
ping be reserved as pool o.notionoI defense Pur-
poses These croft it is suggested should be laid up
and "sterized" - that is they should not be used in
competition with private operators - perhaps in the
Greet Lakes where they would not deerorote as in
salt voter
This might be way to salvage some Of our in
vestnent in Liberty ships otter they have been re-
placed with more efficient croft.
In considering the program whole, and each
Of it's elements, one thing should be kept always in
mind If we had possessed larger merchant mo-
rine at the end Of lo4l to the extent Of
such reserve pool os this might not be SO
far from Berlin now, and we certainly
would not be SO far from Tokyo
We cont Oxford to be caught ogoin os we
in 1917 and again in l94l.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
. SO THEY SAY

There must be no lag in pro-
duction. Not one of our Air
Forces has the planes it should
have. The biggest battles in the
air and on land are yet to be
fought.-Air Force Gen. Henry
H. Arnold.
Last night, during retreat, /
broke finally and irrevocably
with my old life. In my soul
only one thing remains, hatred
for the bestiality of Germany.
For at the last, one is human
being Diary of Hitler Youth
leader captured in Italy.
Japan still holds what she
held before Pearl Harbor-We
haven't taken a single thing
from them that they had before
the start of this war.-Marine
Brig. Gen. Merritt A. Edison.
The more we study what she
lem of employment Of women,
the more striking becomes the
fact that our future as women
is inseparably bound to the eco
nomic, future Of the country. The
question is not, Can women
continue to work." 1t is will
there be Work?"-Rhea Radi.
VINO official.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-Is the Japanese code,
bushido, embodied in any book?
A-No; bushido is unwritten
law, handed down from about
the 18th century.
Q-Where is the dangerous
snake, the bushmaster, found?
A-Largest member Of the
rattlesnake family, the bushmas-
ter inhabits the Amazon region,
reaches length of eight feet.
and is very poisonous.
Q-When were buttons first
employed as clothing fasteners?
A-As early as the 18th CEN
fury.
Q-What gives rancid butter
its unpleasant odor?
A-Butyric acid, formed by
fermentation.
Q-What is a cabal?
"A private organization en-
gagged in secret intrigues.
Q-Why was Rjukan, Nor
way. recently selected as tar
get blythe u. S. Eighth Air
Force?
A - German chemists were
believed TO be working on a new
super-explosive there.
Q-Who is the first marine TO
be made full general?
A-Gen. Thomas. Holcombe,
recently retired commandant
OF the U.S.M.C.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
on 92eAY f.
REAL PERSON
BY DR.. HARRY EMERSON EOSDlCK

Personalities, therefore, fall
into three general classes. Some
never get themselves together;
they either fail TO grow up into
psychological maturity, or they
60 TO pieces under strain.
Others do get themselves to-
gether but on low ethical levels;
they become egocentric; they ac-
quire absorbing devotions -
money, prestige, fame, even al
cohol-to the pursuit Of which
they subjugate all their powers;
they fall under the spell Of some
single and unifying aim, con-
corning which they feel as Fred
erick the Great felt about glory
Glory =. is folly, but it is
folly that YOU cannot shake off,
when once you get it fastened
upon you"
Still others, however, achieve
Well-organized lives on high
levels. They find values SUI
premely worth serving. Their
lives become coherent, steady.
one directionals They identify
themselves with som e { h n z
greater than themselves, to
which they give themselves.
They face inner tension and at
times vehement struggle in
maintaining the chosen pattern
of their lives, but they maintain
it. They become practicable
characters.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

Today's hand brings out a play
that even the experts will miss,
and l suggest that you study it
carefully if you want TO inn
prove your game. 1t came up in
the team-of-four contest recently
held at Syracuse. Forty-three
commercial and industrial firms
in Syracuse entered teams in the
contest, A snowstorm caused
the withdrawal of few, but 40
teams actually participated,
making il one of the largest
events OF this kind ever held.
1t is not difficult for North
and South TO get into four hearts
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11

Men and women with a posi-
tive talent for turbulence"
have achieved powerfully inte-
grated lives. Seen from the out
side, they exhibit extraordinary
singleness and unity, expert
enced from the inside, their
lives involve a constant struggle
to preserve the hegemony of
their dominant aims over their
competing motives, doubts, and
fears.
Bobby Jones, notable for his
GOODNESS on the golf links, said
concerning one Of his greatest
games that he stood in the eigh-
teenth fairway devoutly wishing
that his knees would stop knock
ing together long enough for
him to hit the ball. Caruso once
delayed for nearly an hour the
raising of the curtain at the
Metropolitan Opera House be-
cause he had an attack of stage
fright. John B. Cough. a mar
velous orator, remarkable for
his self-possession, once said
that before each address he al
ways felt, This is the time
when | shall fail"
Writers of biography COM
monty select a few dominant
patterns and simplify their por-
trait by an etcher's art. They
present much more orderly
and singie-minded individual
than actually existed. Neverthe-
less, far from being at loose ends
within themselves, such persons
may have achieved powerful
concentration Of purpose and
drive.
Personality is dynamic; it is
going concern; like river, It's
unity consists not in the absence
of cross-currents and backed
dies but in its total flow and
main direction. A river can have
rapids and waterfalls, and still
move powerfully one way.
While, therefore, there are for
tunate dispositions gifted with
temperamental calm. W hose
happiness lies in tranquility,
they alone do not exhaust the
meanings if indignation. Some
happiness is not calm but fierce.
So David Livingstone. after
costly years Of toll and suffering
IN Africa, doing what most Of all
he wanted to do, said that he
had never made sacrifice in
his life. His experience had been
full of struggle, inward and out
ward. He had buried his wife at
Shupanga, crying, "Oh my
Mary, my Mary! how often we
have longed for a quiet home.
slnSe YOU and l were cast adrift
al kolobcng."
The unity of his life consisted
not in the resolution and ending
of all conflict. but in the tolera-
ton of certain inevitable con-
flIcts under the dominance Of
controlling purpose. Christ him.
self cried, Now is my soul
troubled; and what shall / say"
and in Gethsemane, exceeding
sorrowful even unto DEATH" he
prayed lin an agony and This
sweat became as il were great
drops of blood falling down
upon the ground. +" but he was, at
the very least, a marvelously in
tegrated person.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
END OF WAR

If you ore betting the dote when the war will
end, here ore couple Of tips. If we have to slug
our way through France to Berlin, don't risk your
money on anything short Of Iote summer l944 If
your oreody have bet on early summer expIoin it by
soying thot the Germons won't woit for Stain TO
reoch Berlin - they will copituIote to us, in prefer
ence. If you don't like either Of those, what's your
own line?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
By PETER EDISON


The tale Of woe the Office Of
War Information in Washington
does not consist solely of trying
to make the Army and Navy
give out information, nor of
waging war with the Congress
for more money and with the
press corps for more news.
Those are three important
fronts, but the bloodiest of all
is the battle which Owl wages
Tn the other civilian Of
fices of the government, try
ing to get them to agree
on what is what and what should
be told the American people
about all manner OF things per-
tanning to the war effort.
Getting and giving out this
official dope was one of the
standing assignments given OWL
when il was first set up 1t was
also an assignment given to
CWT predecessor. the late and
unlamented Office of Facts and
Figures. OFF started off on the
wrong foot by trying to do the
job with pamphlets. OWL con-
tlnued this line until ii was dis
covered that the costs were ex-
cessive and the results negligible
because the United States simply
is not a tract-reading country.
SO Owl hit upon the technique
of digging up its data and max
ing it available to the established
information media Of press, mag
azines and radio in the form of
duplicated reports, leaving 1t up
the writer's and speakers to re-
hash such Of the material as they
desired. .
30 REPORTS IN PAST YEAR
These Owl reports seldom get
out into general circulation ex-
cept in some Of the larger cities
where, sometimes newspaper
will reproduce full text. From
1000 to 5000 copies of each re-
port are run off, at a cost Of $50
per report they ay,-and there
it ends. In the past year there
have been about 80 Of these re-
ports. All have been on more or
less controversial subjects, but
you'd never know it from read
ing the reports, which are pretty
middling dull. They have TO be.
It isn't the fault Of the writer's,
but Of the system.
Every report which concerns
a subject of interest to more
than one agency has to be clear
ed by them all. That's where the
feud begin.
1t took six weeks to get out
the report on civilian gasoline
supply. The Office of Petroleum
Administrato for War Harold l..
Ickes wanted to say one thing
and the then Office of Price
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON

II Just dldn seem rlght 10
find Jack Pierce trimming rose
bushes beside little white cot
tage with red shutters A cob
WebbY garnet with beWitching
chemicals and test tubes would
have been much more appropri-
ate.
Jack Pierce is chief Of the
Universal studio makeup de-
partment, and the dean Of the
cosmetic artists of Hollywood
Reason we expected TO find
Jack in a cobWebby garnet is
tlat he's created more odd,
tightening and downright dia-
bolical characters than any
makeup man in history. He's a
pal Of Frankenstein's monster,
the Wolf Man, The Mummy. the
Invisible Man and a few other
rather juicy characters of the
cinema.
How does he create these
weird makeups? The basic in
gradients are amazingly simple
spirit gum, cotton. powder,
grease paint and hair. The art,
Jack sad, is in the application.
First | make a model" he
said. Sometimes | try them on
myself. Then the actor comes 70
the makeup department and
Jack goes TO work. The Mummy,
he said. was the toughest. f..
"Karloff came in at a. m.
every morning. II took about
five hours to make up his face
and hands and four hours If he
had to be wrapped like num-
my in his box
TRADE TRICKS
AS a master makeup man.
Jack Pierce receives almost as
much fan mail as the stars. There
are two kinds. People who run
little theaters want TO know
about makeup and want to come
10 work for him. The second
kind comes from women who
want 10 be beautiful.
tell EN-, Jack said, that
beauty comes from inside. Beau
" is really written there. Make
up can cover physical blemishes
and change the looks of a face.
But the real personality comes
from within. All makeup can do
is make the good physical points
better and the bad less conspic-
uous
When YOU can make gal
ugly and beautiful in the same
picture. that's art That's just
what Jack did for Betty Field in
the picture. Flesh and Fan
tasy." But the oldest job Jack
ever had, he said, was making
up Charlie Mccarthy. Charlie
played lot Of different roles.
including a Frcnchman. in one
Of his Universal films.
More recently. Jack had quite
a Job making up Claude Rains
in THE Phantom of the Opera
after his face had been burn
ed by acid.
We opined that nc was pretty
CHASTITY.
We'll. anyway said Jack.
that's the way a man would
look And lot of people wrote
in about IT,
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Jack Pierce has been dcvising
weird makeups al Universal
studio for the last l5 years
Came 20 Hollywood right after
tie San Francisco earthquake.
He sold newspapers for p while
and then became q theatcr pro-
iectionist Finally he became an
actor and an assistant director.
Makeup. Jack thinks. has
changed more than any other
single thing in pictures. In the
old DAYS" he said, they used
all sorts OF light colors that
looked pasty Today We use
dark, natural colorS. In the old
days actors used so much make
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
. FNHOttYWOOD

up they ended with masks on
their faces. To-day try to
make the actors and actresses
look like themselves.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11

When you get two books like
THE Landslide and Ava
lanche" together, you get the
idea that they're practically
alike. Only in title, however,
are the ito books similar-that
and their entertaining quality.
The former is book by Ste
phen Gilbert (Knopf So so. 1t
primarily is fanciful folk tale
of Ireland intended for children,
although the adult reader IS re-
luctant to tab it as such.
Book deals with the adven-
lures of small Irish boy and his
grandfather and relates with
convincing vividness their jour
neys into section of the moors
that, apparently through mag
nation, develops into tropical
jungle overnight. The plants
and creatures that become the
playmates of the boy and the old
man include a dragon, sea
monster, and other monstrositieS
that Guido the imagination of
even the most aginative Iri sh-
mainland the author is Scot.
Book is a bit Alice-in-Wonde
landish, and all the better for it..
Avalanche" (Simon e. Schus-
ter: $3.50 is Kay Boyle's latest
novel. The gal has made name
for herself as a short story writ
er. This one is a pip!
Story revolves around Fenton
Ravel. daughter of an American
mother and French father. who
returns TO France. land Of her
birth, after the Germans over
ran and oppressed it. Bastin-
eau, the man of the mountains
who taught her the story of the
Alps, who rescued her from a
frog pond, who bore her broken
young body down the deep SHOWS
on skis after an accident, is the
other half of the romance. And
a Gestapo agent, posing as a
Swiss. is the dark villain.
Plot is a good one built around
the efforts of the French patriots
to smuggle Free Frenchmen out
of the country so they can join
forces of the Allies. Methods are
particularly interesting, especial
~ the use Of knitted mittens.
-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-11
ART AMERICANA

American painters, by their
works portrayed in Great
American Paintings by John
Walker and MacGill James,
don't take a back seat for any
one. Maybe the works of the
artists in this book don't rank
with the old masters due TO lack
of hoary age, but the stuff really
is there.
The book, by Oxford Univer-
sity Press, IS, provides a history
of American Art from 1929 10
1924. Authors have selected
what they consider the greatest
works from the American col
lection. Each of the l04 paint
ings in the book appears indi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
Drive Begun To Collect Unpaid Taxes

City tax authorities today began an intensified campaign to collect approximately S194,176 in delin- quent old age assistance taxes. A persistent follow-up collection pro- cedure will be adopted it was stated today. The aforementioned amount results from accomplishing delin- QuencieS originating in 1885 and ac- cumulating through 1943.
 The city recently hired 50 part time canvassers, many of whom were city school-teachers to make a thorough canvass of all taxpayers eligible to pay the $3 fee annually As result of this campaign clar1tl- cation of the city's books has been effected in good measure.
 Additional clerical help today started the mailing of notices to delinquent taxpayers and city auth critics stated that two more girl clerks would be added soon.
 Procedure to be followed consists of a method similar to that adopt ed in the collection of delinquent property taxes whereby personal mo- tice is forwarded to the delinquent after which sufficient time is grant, ed for payment. If no payment or reasonable excuse for none is glv- en this is to be followed up by the issuinf of a warrant against the individual by the prosecutor.
 The city anticipates approximate 
 (Continued on Page N
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-27
9th Gains In ItoIy

Rome, Italy, Nov. 27 - CUP) = Troops of the Eighth Army, in a f1anking drive on FaenZa, have cleared the Faenza- Florence high way for eight miles on both sides of the city after cracking German defenses, headquarters announced today.
 British infantry were reported approaching Russi, eight miles northeast of FaenZa, while Polish troops have cleared the enemy from the east side of the Lamone river near Brisiigighella, six miles south west of Faenza.
 The situation inside FaenZa was reported unchanged. British troops were holding 8 position on the east bank of the Lamone river across from the city.
 American forces of the Fifth Army threw back a strong enemy coun- ter-attack south of Bologna but otherwise action on that front was limited to small patrols.