davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

The statement OF purpose OF
the original bill was to establish
a national policy and program
for assuring continuing full en-
ployment." The purpose of the
revised bill is stated by adding
to the above lin a free COMPETE
tive economy, through the con-
certed efforts Of industry, agri-
culture, labor, state and local
governments and the federal
government" This important
difference is made to calm the
fears of businessmen who got
the idea that Congress was about
to embark on some radical So
cial reform in which it would
guarantee jobs to everyone,
come happiness or hard times.
In discussing the revised Full
Employment Bill, Senator Muir
ray quotes from and endorses
Governor Dewey's San Francis
CO campaign speech of last Sept
ember in which the Republican
presidential candidate stated
that the governments first Job
is to create job opportunities
when there are not enough priv
ate jobs to 60 around.
Murray's new bill limits this
last resort government aid Gre
ating employment opportunities
by removing all mention Of
guaranteeing jobs and fur
Their specifying that all govern
ment efforts to prevent unem-
ployment before it happens must
be confined to stimulating priv
ate investment and contributing
to the national wealth. This is
intended to rule out all WPA
and leaf-raking projects.
Though the bill seeks full en-
ployment, no mention is made Of
guaranteeing 60 million or any
other specific number of jobs.
In fact, on Senator O'Mahoney's
suggestion the bill would limit
the policy of the government to
providing job opportunities for
only those Americans who have
finished their schooling and who
do not have daily household re-
sponsibilities." In other words,
no job opportunity for women
and kids who don't need it, and
no forcing of breakup of the
great American home just for
the sake of creating jobs for 60
million people when there
aren't that many people needing
jobs. y,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

Trade paper item: Fifteen
extras called for work as SOL
diers at $1,000 day in new
film demand S35 per day when
asked to work in scene where
explosions were set off on edge
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
NOT DOUBLE TALK

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Feb. g.
R-The son of Chester O. En-
sign, ST., WPB construction
analyst, has been commissioned
at Pensacola, Fla.
Now when Chester, Jr., is
addressed it's" Ensign Ensign"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
FIRED WITH ENTHUSIASM

DENVER, Feb. b II up - A
probation member of the volun-
-teer fire department in a Dem
yer suburb was too enthusiastic
about his work, Sheriff Chick
Foster reports.
The prObationer admitted
starting eight fires just for the
fun of putting them out.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

Through August Of 1914, compared with the
first eight months Of l943, the marriage license
business was off 30 SOB, or g. percent in these 81
cities And in June, 1914, the month Of brides, the
drop was l4.l per cent.
The point is, we think, that June wos not the
month of qrooms You will recall that the Army was
approaching its required personnel about thep. And
it's natural that weddings and droft coils should eose
off at the same time.
For in spite Of the old folks heod.wogging young
people continue to hurry to get married before the
groom goes to war, just as they probably have in all
wors All the tok about the greet hardship and in
Justice that war works on separated newyweds just
cont counterfeit that normal, human need to have
something to cling to when the world is coming
down around your ears. That's why marriages BOOM
ed before the cutbock storted.
The Census figures also give US little insight
into various cities characters For sample Detroit
issued hoIf-oeoin as many marriage licenses os Phil
odeIpho this year, though it has only about four
fifths as many people proving, OF course, that 1t
takes more than elobol war to stampede PhIlodel-
phions into anything.
But one nugget Of dehydroted intelligence re-
fused to expand and clarity itself: From January to
AUGUST, 1914, business at the Kansas City, -Kon.,
license bureau increased 400 per cent over 1913,
while in Kansas City, No., it dropped 3d. per cent.
Try to figure thot one out
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-What industrial commodi-
ties come from Germany's Saar-
land, under invasion by Allied
armies?
A-Iron, steel, coal, gas, GER
amics, glass, chemicals.
Q-Where is BWl?
Am Greenland. It's Army's
Air Transport Command base.
Q-Who is Gen. Chen Chang?
A-China's new war minister.
Q-What is Beguine?
"A Dutch nun.
Q-How long does water re-
main in the human body?
Alb days.
Q-What are V-51R plugs?
A-Ear plugs for gunners.
Now they're used to cut absent
eeism among riveters.
Q-How many persons are
benefiting directly from serv-
icemen's dependency allowance
es?
About 100000.
Q-Does air conditioning add
to safety in mines?
Alt reduces roof falls by
preserving a constant tempera-
ture SO that the shale does not
60 through continuous wetting
and drying, which loosens 1t.
Q-How is jet propulsion APP
piled to helicopters?
A-Compressed air can be
used to drive the rotor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

Statistics we're invented for the busy man. Like
dehydroted food, they ore the essence OF bulky,
spoce-consunnine matter, condensed to point where
they can be taken at one gulp.
But statistics can oIso be an idle, fascinating
subject Given the leisure and inclinotion one can
drop these dehydroted pellets Of fact in the liquid
of Imagination and watch them swell almost to their
former substance.
We Ihove spent port Of the afternoon ourled up
with coy table Of figures on marriage these we're
collected at the cost Of some weary leg work by Gen.
sus Bureau employees who went around to license bu-
reous in 81 cities Of 100 600 population more and
found out how business was.
Their findings boiled down to on unsupported
cutbock in motrmony Marriage, while undoubted-
Iy here stoy didn't flourish this year. Like mno-
ture aoIf filling stotons the Brooklyn Dodgers and
roadside hamburger stands it felt the monPower
ond/or noterol shortages.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
Nv ERSKINE JOHNSON

NEA Staff Correspondent
Irving Berlin is South Pacific
bound for a four-month tour
with This Is the Army"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08
STUNT MAN IN FRANCE

STUNT MAN IN FRANCE
A former Hollywood stunt
man, Rex Robinson, is now per-
sonal pilot to Gen. Hugh j.
knerr in France.
William Friml, son of the ia
nous Rudolph, is playing piano
in Beverly Hills restaurant.
Billy Halop, former Dead End
Kid, is now stationed in Eng
land. He's with the Air Force.
Joe Kennedy's son, Jack, and
Phyllis Brooks have discovered
each other.
Bing Crosby is Hollywood's
top money making star of 1914,
according to the annual exhibit
or poll conducted by the Motion
Picture Herald. In second place
is Gary Cooper, followed by Bob
Hope, Betty Cradle, Spencer
Tracy, Greer Carson, Humphrey
Bogart, Abbott and Costello,
Cary Grant and Bette Davis.
Bing is the first leading man to
top the poll. Marie Dressler was
No. / in 1882 and 1893, Will
Rogers in 1884, Shirley Temple
in 1885, 1896, 1887, 1898, Mick
ey Rooney in 1889, 1910 and
1941, Abbott and Costello in
1912, and Betty Cradle in 1943.
Ella Logan is celebrating her
ninth month overseas entertain
ing servicemen with an all-G.I.
show, eve Met in France"
Two special Army planes will
fly Xavier Cugat and his band
on a camp tour between Holly
wood and Florida late next
month.
Gene Kelly has checked into
the U. S. Naval Training Center
at San Diego.
Talking about certain Holly
wood producer Dick Powell
said, HE suffers from high
blonde pressure.
American movies in Brazil
are Turing five million dollars a
year to the boxoffice, a 40 per
cent increase over prewar fig
ures.
THE BERLES ARE TRUCING
Milton Berle and wife Joyce
Matthews have called off their
feuding long enough to collab-
crate on song. "We're in Love
With Each Other"
You can't send greetings via
kilograms but the day after
their marriage, Veronica Lake
and director Andre de 10th re-
ceived this message from agent
Bill Jaffe: Consolidation of two
of Hollywood's film institutions
should provide impetus to the
industry. News enthusiastically
received here"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

Maj. Jack Holt, recently given
an honorable discharge from the
Army, is talking contract with
MGM.
Dinah Shore is first, Helen
Forrest second in Down Beat
Magazines annual poll of the
nations favorite warblers.
William Powell received a
placard the other day from the
Lambs Club in New York an
nouncing Cinema Night. Hon.
oring 1t. Cmdr. Richard Barth-
elmess and Edgar Bergen" Bill
Immediately wired Barthelmess:
Bet you looked cute sitting on
Bergen's lap"
Walter Brennan and producer
Sam Goldwyn have called it
day and Walter will become
free-lance actor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-02-08

Q-To what race do the Hun
garians belong?
A-Magyar.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27
THE NOME MUG GET

schools of thought would define some terms heard frequently now.
 For instance, what pre- ciSely does the Dumbarton Oaks agreement mean by "peace-loving states" to which membership in the United Nations is limited? Does 'peace-loving" refer to popular sentiment or present government pol icy? Does "state" mean the people organized under a government, or the gov ernment itself?
 And what is the "sover- eighty" which some Amer jeans insist must not be sacrificed to any interna- tional organization? Is it the sovereignty that our own states have sacrificed to the union in defense foreign relations, and a host of other matters? Or is it "the power that de- termines and administers the government" held, ac- cording to dictionary defi- milton, "in the body of en- franchised citizens"?
 And what is meant by the people who say We believe in America first" First in what? First for what?
 Lasting peace is every Americans hope. It's pres ervation is his concern. The best way to that pres erVatiOn will mt he fo,,nd in cryptic credos, vague warnings, enthus a sticI generalities.
 We must know what we are talking about before we try to make intelligent recommendations. And for that we need some explicit definitions from spokes- from several shades of American opinion.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27
Friday, April 27, 1945
TIME FOR DISCUSSION
Anchorage TimeS)


 The American people, being now in the mood for debate, might keep right on with a discussion of the part they should like to see this country take in the in- ternational security organ ization which the Dunbar ton Oaks conferees have christened the United Na- tional.
 It would be a good thing both for the sake of the people and of the public servants who will finally make the direct decision on our participation. There are some divergent opin- ions to be reconciled be- fore we can hope to take our place in this United Nations organization. The sooner they are tackled and threshed out, the soon- CT the government can pro- ceed in the assurance that it is backed by unity and good will.
 Some questions have al- ready presented tn e m . selves: Should the Consti- tuition be amended to give treaty-ratifying power to a simple majority of. both branches of Congress, in stead of to the present two- thirds majority of the Sen ate? How much authority s hould the permanent American member of the United Nations security council be given? Would the use of American troops in an international armed action against an aggressor require a formal American declaration of war, or would it be regarded sim ply as a punitive action?
 These are only a start. And there would probably be plenty of acrimonious name-calling in these and later discussions. But a lot of bitterness might be avoided if, before the dis cussions started, responsi- ble spokesmen for various
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27

dollars in 1914 and that workers got 72 per cent of it, Or 116 bil- lion dollars. By workers, I mean people who draw wages and small clerical salaries. Corporation profits that year ran just under ten billion dollars or 6 per cent.
 Ttere is a popular notion that people who work don't get very much of the fruits of their toll. Not long ago somebody repeated 50-year-old piece of political propaganda to me, believing it ev- cry word. He said, Here in America 2 per cent of the people have 90 per cent of the wealth" |" There is not much to say about this statement: It is not true. It has never been nearly true.
 Official Figures
 Last year the national income dollar went like ttis: 72 cents to American workers, 6 cents to cor porations, 8 cents to small busi- nesses in the form of profit, 2 cents to farmers as return on what they produced and another 2 cents to landowners and stock holders in the form of rents and dividends, and to money lenders in the form of interest. Of course all years aren't alike but they vary less than you might think.
 National income bobbs up and down but people who work always get most of it. Back in 1889, which was a typical pre-war year, our national income was not half as high as last years; 70.8 billion
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27

Brigham Young, Mormon leader who died in 1877, was survived by 17 wives and 47 children.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27
CONGRESS PASSES
 FEDERAL RESERVE LEGISLATION 7

WASHINGTON, April 26-(R The Senate today passed and sent to the House legislation dropping the required gold re- serves in Federal Reserve banks to twenty-five per cent of their deposits and notes in circulation. The passage of the measure was by voice.
 Under the present law banks must maintain gold reserves equal to forty percent of their notes in circulation and thirty-five percent of their deposits. The Senate re- jected by voice vote the amend ment which would have increased the price of gold to fifty-six dol lars an ounce offered by Senator Johnson, Democrat of Colorado.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27

dollars to be exact. Then, workers got 68 per cent of it, and per cent was corporation profit; not much change in how the income was divided, but less than half as much actual money for every body.
 Ancient History
 Back in 1929, the year Hoover succeeded Coolidge as President, national income was 83.3 billion dollars; bigger then, that in 1889. Corporation profits were higher then: g per cent as against 6 per cent in recent years. But wage earners and office help were getting GA per cent of the national income, even then. In 1892 tthe depression wages and salaries took 79 per cent and still some working people went hungry.
 Any fair analysis of national in- come figures over period of years leads to this oservation: workers, laborers and clerical people, get more money with the slightly smaller percentage of a big national income tran with the bigger percentage of small na- tional income. The moral is per- fectly clear. We will all fare bet ter working together for a big national income than by wrang- ling about who gets most of it, and then having small one.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27
LOOKXE
 AMAD W GEORGE $. BENSON \ hsskaSxss1 s1a,.sxjy EoAf1s ' &AGasE <ekGxs&s
NATIONAL INCOME

How we'll a man lives is mat ter that depends largely upon his income and how he divides it. If he earns $40 a week ($2,0OO a year) and spends every bit of it on himself, he can live about as we'll as anybody until some un- foreseen calamity hits him. If he has wife and sbild and an aged parent to support, each individual must subsist on about $10 a week.
 How well the people of any na- ton live is similar matter. It de- pends upon the national income and how it is divided. Just like family income, national income changes from year to year and it is not always divided the same way. National income is the grand total of what everybody in the nation earns. It includes all wages, salaries, farm yields, in- terest, rents, profits and divi- dends.
 
 How About Now?
 The United States Department of Commerce keeps track of our national income figures pretty well, year by year. Already we know that the income of all Americans totaled 1903 billion
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-27

The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7, 100000.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-15
ScOundrel FiIchces
Top G-N1an's Hat

for speech tomorrow night At
IWCA, y p. m, before 100 lady
members of Professional Writers
Club. Call her at Dupont 1000.
Send birthday congrats tn
Harpo Marx, Baby Rose Marie,
and Rudolph Hess.
Frank Ealleh called, ne IL
the former Frank IallOn OF the
New York law fraternity. Says
he liked your line In recent
column, Dried Venom Has
stolen line 10 include in brief
he wired To New York Supreme
Court, He il friend of Jack Tur-
colt Of the newspaper set and IL
staying at the Statler, Room
969.
Send birthday wires 10 Bing
Crosby, Jimmy Walker and
Paul the APOSTLE.
"Bill Flythe, he l. Mrs.
Tlythe's husband. called from
office on your Patton column.
Wants YOU 10 get In touch with
him immediately
send birthday greetings 20
Sam Gold~Nn. sam Chase. Sam
the Barba>ol man, and the sam
10 NeH.
Had call from Ruth
Knowles. Isn't she the former
Ruth Knowles Wants YOU TO
get In touch with her at the
Shoreham Hotel.
"Flas -Mysteriaus call from
y. y. {. at 1880 y. m. today had
me stumped Call operator 80
tNN.CD. She says II j. import
tant."
CEE EISENHOWER was
VI gwen terrific reception
hv the fans when he appeared
A. big football game the other
day As the general passed thr
press box Mr. Dick Mccain.
Tho sports coluUrist. remarked:
"NeNt 20 Blanchard. that fel-
low il the best known man In
the armv."
u..-i.a'ss pr KIM res'l-rs sv-t Inc.
Tsf-ecs--i.- ir sH.'s or l0 psr'
V0-.y rralsres
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-15
LAUGHS--THAT'S
WHAT WE NEED

MO ONE ever has 10 wonder
~ where / am on Saturday
morning. l can always be found,
Pressed in a fresh MILDLY suit,
-itretchcd out on the living room
'loor reading the weekly boys
and girls page in our news
- er.
~here is a whole page of
itories, sports. games, crafts,
Jokes and puzzles. / wave my
black ribbed stockinged legs in
he air and utter little shrieks
If happiness when l come close
o solving a crossword puzzle or
master new and battling trick
o pull on my friends at the
next birthday party I'm invited
10.
There is always a story tell
Ing how TO make yourself
stronger, so you can 90 out and
bloody the noses of the other
BOYS. Last week, for example,
there was story about little
Charlie Fox of New York and
Il was so interesting that l
want 10 quote some OF II 10 you
boys and girls
! Little Charlie Fox was an
example OF the wonders worked
~ the application Of a little
,kill In training the body
Ever since Charlie was old
enough, Papa Fox had been
)lying him with dumbbells.
when other children were
.eachlng for a TattIe, Charlie
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-15
One Word Led TO Another
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER-
A Fifty-Five Mile Stroll

AFitty-FVe Mile Stroll
SEE where f V. During be outwak me foot
i yard that's my racket, but I have dummied
UP challenges since read about old Jim Hooking
Old Jim lUeS in back of the Palisades
Where and he out in all directions. haze
hin, pick then, up and lay them doWn. He could
II up tDith Dan OLeary and Ed Weston.
On his last birthday Old Jim clicks off 55 miles in II
hours And Old jim has 50 candies his birthday cake which
just short of forest fire.
Now know all the good walkers, and Durlngs name IS
the list will accept his challenge because am
Hooking will bust in and say, II Will you
younkers week start and catch you in three days
old Jim says he will 100 miles his first centennial
~ and ! wouldn't bet against him. Now here is thing
l discovered about ankle excursions America
then everything has been changed
Now they walk in the city than they do in the
country. have farmer who would anywhere
ankleback Watch cowboy get into hNer drive mile
catch hoss, he ride half mile in the opposite
direction.
Letter carriers in the city walk. The postman he
country The fellow who used follow the
plow foot the wheel OF tractor and the pow
follows him.
ONE thing remember that every walker liar If
~ he knocks off FIVE miles says 10. walk around
the reservoir in Central Park, which is meandthree
quarters the lap When anybody stops and asks,
How many times have you walked around always triple
H. That's because it Of their business And makes
feel better
There is no fun paIkng II gets as nlonotonous
eggs for breakfast. figured out tOay to make
ii interesting by carrying football and hdUing
strangers tackle
have heard since During challenges he has started
hedge He has blotted inkng that he has bitten off
than he has ration points for. However, Ed take
il easy as l have turned down his challenge.
afraid that S9-year-od jim Hooking Will show up
and make suckers of us both.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-15
Bows. Girls, PAGE
Full of Thrills

being able To smell an object
and tell whether II has just been
touched. Have three small OBJ
Jects placed on n table. Then
leave the room. and during your
absence some one IL 10 touch
one OF the items.
"INHEN you return. walk
straight to the table, and
after a mysterious smelling act
hold the item alOft. This Is IL"
you say dramatically, to every
ones amaZement.
Of course, your confederate
has told YOU which 10 claim.
III the center object was touched,
both Of his feet will be together
on the floor.
"If IL was the left-handed oh
ject, his left foot will be drawn
back Of the other. II II was the
right-handed object, then the
right foot j. back. Do net hurry
the smelling act.
CLOSE your eyes and pretend
10 he concentrating deeply. The
smoother your act, the more
genuine your apparent ability
10 smell a touch Will seem"
can't wait TO GO 10 the Stork
Club 10 work this trick and
watch Sherman Blllingsley's
eyes pop right out Of his head.
My only fear is that as soon as
! walk in the door of the Stork
Sherman viii smell a touch"
Distributed by MeNaught Syndicate, Ins.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-15
Calls Nuremberg
Mad Dog Kennel

Of the Army, Navy and Marines.
A 48-starrific film.
TNITE Radio: The Phillips II.
Il Lord outfit has given up
using the word "penitentiary"
in any of ex-Police Commits
soner Valentines scripts. Rea-
son He just cannot pronounce
it. They use Jail instead.
THE Comic Section: Over at
Il Nillepigue's they were gab-
bing about the suggestion to
put Congress on the air as a
regular feature. Stoo late"
said A listener. They already
have a program titled: 1t PAYS
10 BE Ignorant Jimmy
Durante came TO a broadcast
Shlverlng from the raw, wintry
wind His famed schnozz was a
lurid red because the north
breeze used II for a special tar
get. A dim-wit made matters
worse with this: "Ha. ha. What
makes your nose so vermil-
lion ?" 1T is blushin' wild
pride" replied James, at da
way il keeps outta udder peo-
pies buSineSS!"