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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
BY PETER EDISON
NEA Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON - One para
garph in President Truman'a
universal training message to
Congress has the military plan
ners pretty we'll puzzled. 1t is
the paragraph which says that
after the first few months of
training, selected trainees who
are not physically qualified for
military service could be trained
in certain skills so that If war
came they could take their
places in shipyards, munitions
factories and similar industrial
plants.
This idea appears to be right
out from under President Tru-
mans own hat, and it Is worth a
second look. Army and Navy
staff committees doing the plan
ming on the postwar military
establishment never heard of it
before. No one testified in favor
Va tiAAS 4dSo OC4OAC VA &lIll0 NOIt.
gresham Clifton A. Woodrum's
Committee on Postwar Military
Policy. No mention Of It Is to be
found in General Marshall's re-
port.
At first glance this idea may
look like getting one foot in the
door for national service in case
there should be another war.
The late President Roosevelt's
War Secretaries Stimson and
Patterson IN, Congressman Jim
Wadsworth of New York and
others, advocated compulsory
work or fight bills all through
the manpower crisis of the past
few years.
They didn't get to first base
with their proposals then and
the chances of getting any kind
of compulsory service legislation
through Congress are no better
today. So there apparently Is
no intent to advocate forced la
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD-Ethel Barry.
more was telling us that she has
never seen herself on the screen.
"Why should II" she asked.
1--WE never seen myself on the
stage"
We had to interview Ethel in
bed. She plays the bed-ridden
domineering boss of an eccentric
Boston family in her new pic
ture, Some Must Watch" and
she never gets out of b d
throughout the picture.
''It's the softest role I've ever
had" she chuckled.
Ethel" Director Robert Sod
max. commented, "is my little
bedbug."
Hollywood finally lured Ethel
back to the screen last year after
a long absence to play Cary
Grants mother in "None But
the Lonely Heart" She liked
not seeing herself in the picture
50 we'll that she's back for an
other.
Actually, she confessed, She
discovered that Hollywood has
grown up. She made her screen
debut when the movies didn't
talk.
II hated pictures then" she
said. They gave me stories
written on the backs Of enve-
lopes. Pictures are more like
plays now and getting better all
the time. AS long as I can do a
stage play every year, / may
come out to Hollywood every
summer for picture.
Although her role in the Grant
picture and again in this one is
heavy drama, Ethel would like
to do a comedy. But l like to
play anything, she said, "as
long as it's good"
NO APPLES FOR PICTURES
We asked her about the old
Barrymore family tradition of
sending each other red apples
on opening nights and at the
start of q new picture.
THAT goes for plays only"
she said. Pictures don't count"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
. IN HOLLYWOOD
But she did admit that brother

But she did admit that brother
John once sent her a red apple
just before she had her appendix
out. There was a note attached
"On the occasion of your open
ing. darling"
We never would have thought
1t, but Ethel is a rabid sports
fan. Particularly baseball. Actor
Kent Smith, who plays her doc
tor in the picture, tipped us off
to this.
Several years ago he was re-
hearsing a play with her in Bos-
ton. There had been a lot OF
last-minute rewriting and day
before the opening the producer
sent Kent up to Ethefs hotel
room to rehearse the new lines.
Ethel met me at the door and
said, Sit down, young man.
Then she turned on her radio
and we listened to a world SER
les baseball game for two hours.
We never did rehearse those
lines. But the next day when
the play opened Ethel gave a
flawless performance and blew
up twice"
Director Robert Siodmak said
Ethel had to go back to work.
"My little bedbug loves act
ing in this bed" he said, "but
it's driving me crazy working
out new camera angles"
HUNGARIAN HILLBILLY
Director Siodmak is worth
story himself.
Despite his foreign-sounding
name and Hungarian accent, he
refers to himself as Tennessee
hillbilly. He was born near
Memphis, but moved with his
parents to Hungary when he
was year old and didn't re-
turn to the United States until
Hitler started kicking people
around in Europe. His fine direc-
ton of many European films
Immediately got him a Job In
Hollywood.
Says he:
I'm the only Tennessee hill
billy in the United States with
a foreign accent"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Dor In time Of the next national
emergency. even though every
one may have to be trained for =
bigger part In II.
HE INCLUDED COLLEGE
EDUCATION
COUPLING the Presidents
reference to training In certain
skills" with several other vague
passages In the message and Its
intent becomes q bit palmer. In
the following paragraph the
President refers to selecting out
standing trainees and sending
them to college with government
financial aid. And earlier In the
message he speaks Of improving
the trainees' educational status.
raising the physical standards Of
the nations manpower, lowering
its illiteracy rate and develop
ing the ideals Of citizenship.
Add all these points together
and they sem to provide a sop
to the educators who have not
been able to agree on how the
universal military training pro-
gram should be conducted. Some
educators oppose the idea alto
gether. Others admit its neces-
sity but want the years training
spread over four summer vaca-
tons. Still others want the train
ing to run parallel with school
work. And many want the uni
versal training system used As a
screen to find talent for further
medical, scientific or technical
training.
All such ideas may be noble
OF purpose, but the Army and
Navy planners responsible only
for the country's defense may
we'll ask If such supplementary
activities are any part Of their
business. The military must
avoid getting too deeply involv-
ed in problems of civilian de-
tense. At the same time any uni
versal training program must be
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
ONE SMALL VOICE

Who is there in this chomber," Rep E. E. Cox
OF Georgia asked the House, who does not know
thot in the world grown as small as this world hos,
Russion Communists and Russian domination Of
great section Of the globe, and free America i.
cannot long obide side by side with peace on this
pIonet?"
Wonder what Rep. Cox would have soid if SIM
llor statement had come from representative Of
the Russion government. We wonder what Rep. Cox
thinks he is contributing to the present rather deli
cate state Of Russo-Americon understanding?
Would he have the Russions and the world think
thqeAmsrico is reody to chuck the United Motions
ovpthjxqton overheard before it hos been tested?
Would 10 hove them think thot America, almost
(posFk despoirino Of ooreement. is now about to
psspcs for aggressive wor?
Il may be hoped that Russia and the world re-
olize that one voice CoptoI Hill is not the voice
Of the American people.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08

run with . minimum az mill
tarism, modified discipline and
q lot less soldering than there IL
in the professional armed serv.
ices. That Is the predicament
which the staff planners now
face and II Il the paradox they
must solve. e
A LITTLE EARLY WITH
HIS MESSAGE
ACTUALLY, the Prssidents
message caught the staff plan1
ners . little off base. The mss-
sage had not been expected uni
til January. Consequently thu
postwar planning committees Ia
the War and Navy Departments
were not fully prepared with
their blusprints on how uniters-
q training will work. Such
plans ~ they had drawn up were
made obsolete by the Presidents
message.
Full speed ahead has now
neen ordered, however. and by
the time the House Military Al.
fairs Committee IL ready to be-
gin hearings on Congressman
Andrew J. Mays bill to provide
tor universal training early in
November, answers to most OF
the embarrassing questions
should be available.
What universal military train
ing Is going to cost, no one today
has even the faintest idea, but
1t will be plenty. Pay for q mil
lion trainees alone at $500 q
year, would be 500 million dol
lars.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
. BARBS

What's the difference between
. bow tie and q four-in- hand?
About 20 minutes.
Golden weddings are the re-
suit OF a couple of people GO
ing fifty-fifty.
It's important to others what
you stand for - and to you,
what you fall fori
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08
PAST POLICY AND PRESENT PROBLEMS

Two of the fundamentals Of foreign policy thot
President Trunnon included in his Navy Day speech
have q particular bearing on some Of the worst OF
the worlds present problems. They ore the second
and fourth pIonks Of that l2-ponk platform, and
read as follows:
I'VE believe in the eventual return OF sovereign
rights and se|f-eovernment to all peoples who have
been deprived Of them by force"
I'VE believe that all peoples who are prepared
for seIf-eovernment should be permitted to choose
their own form Of government by their own freely
expressed CHOICE without interference from any for
elan source without interference from any foreign
source Thot is true in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, as
we'll as in the Western Hemisphere"
These beliefs, it should be remembered were not
whipped up at moments notice to meet current
crisis They are Celebrations Of ideas expressed in the
Atlantic Charter as we're most Of Mr. Trunons other
foreign policy statements. And their basic ideas 90
considerably farther back than August l94l, in the
history Of this countrys foreign policy.
So it cannot be thought that Mr. Truman meant
them as specific warning to Russia or anyone else.
When the late President Roosevelt and former Prime
Minister Churchill spoke Of restoring sovereign rights
they obviously were referring to peoples under Axis
domination But the reference still applies, to the
Russion-domnoted Baltic and Balkan stotes to Aus
trio and to British-domnoted Greece.
In the second quoted paragraph. Mr. Truman
took pains to specify that belief in freely chosen
seIfgovernment extends to all the worlds continents.
In doing so he surely was mindful Of the indians,
the AIeerions and the Tunisons. and Of the Anna
mites od Jovonese who are fighting for their
independence
But who Is to Judge when peoples are .prepored'
for seIf-eovernment? What standards Of judgment
ore to be used? How. in general is this country 90
ing to put all its expressed beliefs on foreign policy
into practise - and when?
Thus far there has been an inclination to temp
orize as we'll as to compromise. This government has
blown hot and cold toward the Peron regime in Ar
eentne. 1t has permitted the British and Dutch to
use American lendeose weapons in their colonial
wars.
No one can deny that the whole problem Of proc
tcoI foreign relations is delicate and difficult one
And no one can say thot compromising and temp
orizine con always be avoided But perhaps it will
make the task tfe easier to restote and reoffirm
this countys historical position clearly and force
fully as President Truman hos DONE
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-11-08

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Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25
One Word Led tO Another
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
THIS way"
By Arthur "Bugs' Baer

You might be interested in my own research into
aviation. discard Daedalus and learus for they flew
the NEUROLOGICAL mail
The first foretel the military possibilities of
aviation Friar Bacon in 1878 There is proof
that Archytas made mechanical bird and tossed it
from housetop The bird proved to have the homing
instinct of pound of assorted bolts and nuts
The scientific old Friar knew too much TO make
breakfast of pancake landings He constructed flying
machines in the cellar of his home We might call the
ancient Friar in a hole.
Wilkins said in 1851 1T will yet be usual for
a to call for his wings journey it is to
hear him ask for his boots This encouraged Bore to
combine the best features of both 1870 The machine
turned out to be a kind of plow.
Things were quiet until 1900 when George Cayley
took dive from standing start He broke the old
record for first bounce
In 1S43 Hanson actually built flying machine that
looked like it might get place. And it did BY
freight.
The Aeronautcal Society of London announced on
March 26 1868, that member in good standing had
risen from the ground and flown horizontally There is
no proof that the member in good standing got off
his good standing
student named Doc Pettgrew built model in
1871 and sailed it off cliff. 1t flew with the accuracy
and ultimate destination Of dishes broken dumb
waiter
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25

their child has been stricken
ewith lymphatic leukemia. Melva
is at Warmers, in Burbank. Cal.
Al Pearce's line: Broadway
love is, always the same old
story, but some fellows tell it
better than Others"
The America First Party will
be probed by the Dept. of JUS
tice because OF Cong. Anderson's
committee verdict.
Two attorneys twho have fig
ured in big war trials) will soon
co-star in sensational Washing
ton disbarment proceedings.
MANHATTAN Murals: The
'1 stage door sign on a AID
street theater: Stage Door. No
Admittance To Anybody"
Sign in a ladies lingerie shop:
"Unmentionables. They're the
Talk of the Town"
Sign on the Mills Hotel (fa-
nous flop house,: For Gentle
men Only.
Sign in a Third Ave. store
please Pay Cash! II Isn't That
We Don't Trust You. Our Credi-
tors Don't Trust U.s."
BROADWAY Smalltalk: Lo-
- Gals hear that if Stettinius
clicks in his new role, he will
be the Demmy's choice for
President.
Miguel Covarrubias no longer
paints, chums near. His big in
terest is the anthropology- Of
primitive arts.
Warning 10 investors: One of
the biggest oil men tells pals
royalties, in most cases, have
gypped somebody, rarely the
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25
MARY HAWORTH.S MAIL

You are trying TO tell your
self, your mother and me that
you want no friendships except
with girls your own age, or
older, instead of facing the fol-
lowing facts:
I. That your feelings are
hurt because your present
classmates. aged is or so, have
not promptly welcomed you 10
bosom friendship.
And 2 That you are draw
ing into your shell and develop
ing a flock of neurotic false
poses, including a sour grapes
attitude tow ard your class
mates, because they left you in
a parlah position,
! imagine your mother is
aware OF your predlcament: and
equally aware of the falsity of
your face-Saving claims that
you prefer TO choose your own
friends in your own good time.
is4--t ~ : te-ft'-e.-- Se.li-4Hte
some Kind Of social activity, she
may be Lkencd 10 a mother
bird trying with sharp pecks
and Shrill cries 10 pry her baby
bird Off the limb or the ground
and get him on the wing. as
BELTS his nature and intrinsic
powers.
Thus, her performance is we'll
meant, even though her exer-
tions don't reflect much gray
matter.
What she ought 10 do, if she
wants 10 help, is devise ways
and means yof making your
home a social center. or popu-
lar port OF call. for young peo-
pie Of the community, say from
Is 10 20.
But OF course she cannot do
that for you, without some en-
couragement and cooperation
from you.
Certainly your present stiff
necked. anti-social attitude af-
fords her nothing to build on.
VI. II.
EDITORS NOTE-Mory Ha.
worth eounseIs through her col
umn; not BY mail or personal
interview. Write her in care Of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25
Broadway

seller. The royalty business has
come TO be a racket"
AS of October, the casualties
among u. s. war correspondents
with the Third Army were 33
per cent. Because of the "fiuid"
front.
Don't pe surprised to hear
that an s p. m. curfew is on the
sale of alcoholic beverages.
The Govt does not plan 10
close night clubs, but this 8
o'clocker will do the trick.
MEMOS OF a Midnighter; The
WI Rum and Co-Cah Co-Lah"
song was permitted on the air
(MutuaD with the Andrews
Sisters, replacing Rum with
Lime. The major networks,
however, still ban it-and with
out help from radio il sold 280,-
900 copies last week-beating
Marry Doats." ="
Both famous cola companies
are feuding again-over this
song. Pepsi tried TO buy it-but
no go.
One of the swankier gam
bling joynts out on l.. /. charges
suckers 500 admission.
The COLIN hears ALL pleas
ure car driving is 10 be abol-
ished-mebbe in 30 days or so.
Sammy Calm, the song-writer,
and Eleanor Boleyn. the Choir
inc, have II so bad he's even
umming ballads by other
writers.
a well known Long Island
society matron was bought by
her new and rich groom for
5000. 900. That's what he gifted
her eX to give her up.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25

we had at the White House. A
bunch OF the greater minds got
talking about the Presidents
appearance at last weeks in
auguration.
Some said Mr.. Roosevelt
looked strong and full of fight.
Some said he looked like a sick
and exhausted old man. Others
contended he looked frail but
still full Of vigor. while others
argued he just looked as usual.
IRON this we worked around
4 to the varying effects Mr..
Roosevelt had on the spectators
at the big fourth term unveil-
ing. Despite what you may
have CLEANED 10 the contrary,
quite a number of anti-New
Dealers crashed the ceremony.
The Presidents appearance as
he stood on the White House
portico produced the most con-
tilctlng reactions. Many re-
marks / overheard made me
wonder If we were all looking
at the same man.
AS you will have seen in the
news photos and news reels.
the President stared somberly
over the crowd, his expression
scarcely changing.
One woman behind me whis-
pered:
The look on that mans face
frightens me. That's the look
OF a king, surveying his SUBJ
jects"
Another woman said:
THAT face gives me conf
dence. It's the face Of a strong
man conscious of his dutyw
Other comments:
Hes studied that look In
front Of n mirror. What a con-
summate actor"
There stands a ruthless man
"A despot. You can see he de-
spises us for the fools we arew
Never have I seen a kindlier
face. IL has pity and under
standing"
This things a mockery. He's
laughing up his sleeve. See that
sardonic look In his eyes"
"He means every word Of that
oath, literally. No man could
fake that look Of sincerity"
So there you are. Get what
mean by the EYE of the be-
holder?"
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

As I GROW older, which
"A seems darn rapidly. ! be-
>come more and more convinced
That almost everything is in the
eye of the beholder.
mean a thing will look one
way TO you and another way
10 the next fellow. But the way
IL looks 10 you is the living
actualltY no matter what any,
one else argues 10 the contrary.
For instance. If a dame turns
you down, it is fairly certain
you will suddenly realize she
has thin, cruel lips and hard
eyes. And when your successful
rival babbles about her soft lips
and lambent orbs. your only re-
action is that the poor bum
must have astigmatism.
This philosophical outburst
was brought on by a discussion
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25
BRIGHTER SIDE
By Damon
Runyon

There are four doormen around
here blowing those whistles and
that gives them quite an adj
vantage. Can't you whistle,
Irving?
Now can whistle when my
lips are all puckered up from
the cold? Besides, l don't notice
those guys with the whistles
doing so good. l can remember
when there were so many taxi
cabs in this town that when
anybody whistled there would
be a race between four or five
TO see which got there first.
Now a whistle don't mean a
thing to them. Hey-no, he's
got a load.
Irving, / can't help thinking
of how mean that man was who
didn't have any one in his cab
but wouldn't stop.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25

careful IN his observance Of
treatment.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
s. A Ny 49, month old
daughter walks very pigeon
toed and the condition is get
ting worse. What would YOU
advise for correction?
AnSwer-At early ages when
walking is beginning to be
habitual and automatic, IL is
natural for the feet 10 toe IN.
The perfect position for the foot
in walking is perfectly straight,
neither toeing in or out. There
is no occasion 10 worry about
pigeon toes until al least about
the fifth year
B. C.-Do you recommend
radlonic treatment for early
cancer?
AnSwer-NO.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25
Letters From
A Soldier

the army. He doesn't give a rap
for that. It's just:
How can / go home without
'em? There are 5000 people In
Nazareth, Pa, and I'd have to
explain 5000 times how / lost
my stripes, and l can't do IT."
If he said he'd been busted for
insulting a general, they'd prob
ably accept it. Even if he said
he'd been busted for drinking,
fighting or staying out all night,
l suppose they'd forgive him.
But the truth? Neither Naz-
-arctit-, Pa FaeF- any ether -Aafcrf-
can town would accept the plain
truth about Pfc. Charles 4.
Bartolet.
HOW'D you like this for an
H assignment if you were put
on guard?
The Quadrangle, oldest part
of this vast fort, is picturesque
park now with a pool, a flock
of ducks, some swans, a dozen
or more peacocks and their drab
wives, and a small herd of deer.
some of them fawns that look
like Bambi.
Somebody on guard gets that
post every day-guarding the
deer, the peacocks, the swans,
and-with the OPA tightening
up again on ration points-the
ducks.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-25

THERE'S one, Irving; there's
Il one!
Hey, taxi! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Taxi!
There's no use doing all that
hollering, Irving. There's some
one in II.
Why the heck don't people sit
up so people can see them in a
taxi? Are they ashamed of
something? Who the devil are
all these people who are always
in taXis anyway and where are
they going? If a man had any
brains he would stay home and
not try TO get anywhere in this
town the way taXis are, espe-
cially in this weather.
There's another one. Irving!
Quick! Quick! Quick!
Hey, taxi! Hey! Hey!
Oh, guess there's someone
in that, too, Irving.
Why don't you look and see
II their flag is up or down and
then you can tell if anYone's in
it. / can remember when there
was so damn many taxicabs in
this town that you had to keep
your eyes peeled or they'd run
you down any minute. Now you
have 10 have a search warrant
to find one.
7 OOK, look. Irving! That one
~ is going to stop in front of
that hotel up the street, Irving!
II you run you can get il! Oh,
dear, that lady got il.
Now I'm 10 run. am I, after
what Doc Michel told me about
my heart condition? I'm to fall
dead running after a lousy taxi,
am l? Them DANES hide in
doorways to Jump out and grab
them. Why don't they use the
subway?
Irving, maybe we ought to try
the next corner.
There's 10 guys down there
now that have the same idea. 1
can remember when there was
10000 cabs on the streets of
New York and now / hear
there's only about a third that
many and most of them are all
busted up because they can't get
parts. A friend of mine name of
Bill Corum started 10 get in one
the other night and the door
came off in his hand. Why don't
they give the guys parts so we
can have more cabs and not
have to stand here in this sluSh
freezing TO death. Hey, taxi
Irving, there wasn't a soul in
that one but he wouldn't stop
for us. Don't you think that was
mean Of him?
l can remember when those
taxicabs guys needed business so
bad they would beg you TO ride
with them and they would wait
all night for you if you wanted
them 10 but now you ask one
of them to wait a couple of min
utes and he gets sore They are
plenty high hat nowadays. Hey.
taxi!
Irving, l really think we would
do better on the next corner.