The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-26
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
the attack did delay his takeofi
from Washington airport by
nearly an hour.

the attack did delay his takeoff
from Washington airport by
nearly an hour.
The 5000 Jap prisoners of war
now held In the United States
will be shipped back where they
came from in the near future.
General Macarthur has advised
the POWs can be absorbed with
out difficulty and Major General
Lerch, the Provost Marshal Gen.
eral, has flown to Japan to COM
plete arrangements for the trans
fer. Most of the Jap prisoners in
the u. S. were captured in earlier
Pacific campaigns and remained
obstinately irreconcilable up to
the day the Emperor threw in
the sponge, towel, glove and
works. A few days before that,
one small group at Camp Mccoy,
Wis, did send in a petition sign
ed in blood, swearing that on re-
turn to Japan they would work
for democracy.
JOHNSTON LEARNS ABOUT
PROFIT-SHARING
Eric A. Johnston, new head of
the motion picture producers and
successor to Gear" Will Hays,
recently installed a profit-shar-
ing plan for employees in his cleo
trical concerns in the northwest.
Briefly, the plan called for set
ting aside Is per cent of the net
profits after taxes, for division
employees on the basis Of their
seniority in service and salary
scales. After the plan was put
in effect a group of the employees
protested. 1t wasn't fair, they
said, to the stability of the COM
pany or the stockholders. To
Johnston's surprise, what they
proposed was that 6 per cent net
profits be set aside for the stock
holders first, before any alloca-
ton was made for profit-sharing
among the employees.
So many drafts of plans for
the government of Germany have
been made that it Is almost i'm
possible to keep up with them.
That fact led former Secretary
of Treasury Henry w. Morgen-
than astray the other day when
he criticized the government be-
cause it had not made public its
plan known as JC-1067-Joint
Chiefs of Staff Memo No. 1867.
Morgenthau made this criticism
of his former pals while putting
in a plug for his forthcoming
book, Germany Is Our Prob
lem" in which he finally reveals
deathbed permission - the fam
deahtbed permission - the fam
Gus Morgenthau plan Of 1914 for
governing Germany.
Morgenthau's criticism of the
Truman administration for not
making public 1867 doesn't add
up because he had it in his hands
when he was Secretary of Treas
ury, he was asked to make it
public, and didn't.
LESSON IN WAR PLANT
DISPOSAL
Pointing up mistakes to be
avoided in disposal of surplus
war plants, Labor Department
researchers have just issued a re-
port on the 2O-year record of
plumbers in disposing of World
War powder plant at Nitro,
near Charleston, w. Va.
The plant was built in 1917 at
cost of Sc million dollars. It's
Junk value was considered II
million, but is was sold in 1919
at contract price of eight mil
lion. The buyers then removed
the best machinery and walked
out on the deal. What was left
was resold at auction in 1897 for
only $4,000. The government
over the 20-year period collected
total of five million dollars,
but spent more than that in fore
closures and lawsuits.
Moral drawn from the case is
that the government would have
been better off il it had given
the plant free to someone to
operate.