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The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
End OF RArlokINc

So far as can be learned, there was no cerenon-
ioI burning Of ration books any stamps and tokens
thrown to the breeze like confetti in joyous eeebro-
tion. In foet everybody seemed to take it pretty
calmly. though to hear some to|k few months ago
one would have thought thot the whole rotonine
system was deliberate, heort|ess compo;sn by the
OPA to stove civilian America into submission to
bureaucracy.
People generally looked pretty healthy and WELL
fed the day rotionne ended As matter Of foet,
they looked good deal as they had all through the
war; Folks who had sod There ore plenty Of steaks
and I'm going to have my share, black market no
black market" looked no better than those who had
soten only what stamps and ceiling prices could buy.
Looking back now one has to admit that Amer
icos food producers did superb job, and that the
rotionino syste for all its bobbIes and isolated in
equities. served its purpose pretty WE'LL 1t would have
served 1t lot better backed by better public spirit.
AS Il was, nobody seemed to have starved on war
time ration Of fish and eggs. liver lights and trpe.
Steaks. once spoken Of as porehed desert trov-
eler speoks Of voter. home from the wars. Gone
are the hated ration points. the red and the blue,
the stamps and the tokens. Nobody seems oppreci-
oby different or opprecioby happier becouse Of it..
Now there is talk Of on average daily diet Of
$500 seoories for Americans in l946. Thots more
than we hod Lost year. to per cent more than we
hod in the immediate prewor years. It's three and
four ond more times higher than what the people
In Europe will be getting this winter.
Most Of US lived we'll during the war; and orowIed
obout it, Now most Of ore going to live better.
We shoII expect and accept better postwar diet
and toke it for eronted forgetting that this un-
motehed bounty is granted US not because Of any
personal national superiority Of morals and char
octer but simply beeouse we are extremely FORUM
ots to be residents Of the unfoueht-over United
Stotes.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-Why do registered letters
in the British Empire carry Z
blue criss-cross?
A-Custom goes back to Queen
Victoria, who tied blue ribbon or
cord around all her royal letters.
Q-What Is meant by shoot
Ing the line" In air Force par
lance?
A-Boasting.
Q-What Is "jate"?
A-Army Navy contraction
for "jet-assisted takeoff." Planes
are lifted from carrier decks or
too-short runways by small jet
propulsion units.
Q-What is the American orr
gin of the verb lynch?
Ats traced to Charles 5
Lynch, Virginia planter who
took the law in his own hands
In Furnishing his colonists neigh
bors who sympathied with King
George III.
Q-What is the basis of sprays
or dust used to control potato
beetles?
A-Arsenic.
Q-What are the advantages
of the new nickel cadmium
storage battery over the old lead
battery?
Alt Is lighter, stands ex-
treme cold better, holds a charge
when idle for long periods, and
has longer life.
Q-Who Is the first man cred
tied with rational experiments
that led up to the modern air
plane?
A-Leonardo da Vinci began
work on a flying machine In
1895, after having been credited
with the origination Of the para
chute, rotating wing, and aerial
propeller.
Q-What IL the record deep
sea descent?
A-3028 feet, by DR.. William
Beebe In 1894. Underseas ex-
plorer Otis Barton Is preparing
to try for Q mile off Bermuda in
1047.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11

like Vests second bid-the one
no trump bid. He definitely tells
his partner that he has the heart
suit we'll stopped.
Now East should not pass.
East should bid two diamonds.
I would not severely criticize
two spades, but two diamonds
Is the better bid.
West then will bid two spades,
in which case. East certainly can
bid three spades and West will
take the contract to four.
It looks as II the loss should
be held to two clubs and a dia-
mond.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
ILLEGAL SALE OF LIQUOR

The Miehiscn Liquor Control Commission IS to
b eompmented upon the monner in which It hos
recently erocked.down on the illegal sole Of intox'
cents in Moeomb county.
In quick succession enforcement officers have
closed down or otherwise penoIized the Club Mor.Jo
the Hopper Kettle and Toods Tovern. In at least two
OF the cases the sole Of liquor beer to minors wos
involved.
In their own interests bar propretors should, and
many do, look oskones at those Of their members
who - greedy for extra nekeIs ond dimes - expose
The whole Legal liquor industry to possible punitive
eetion by an oroused public.
The sole Of liquor, wine and beer to minors 's
insxeusobIs and constitutes disgrace that Iew-
ebidins tavern operators must not eountsnones II
they, themselves, ore to survive
Unfortunately the three establishments oIrsody
under fire by Liquor Control authorities do not COM
prise the complete list Of offenders In Moeomb eoun.
y. Undoubtedly. If recent summary oction has not
served os deterrent, stots officers. shsrfs dspu-
lies or policemen will step In to weed out those
who place the patronage Of juveniles ond minors
shove their long ronss best interests; and the
welfare Of the coming generation.
In the meantime stats liquor enforcement off.
ess are deserving Of the pubIe's quiet ond sincere
sppvovoI. They are moving in the right direction.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
HOME NURSE
BY Iona L. TROTT
Written for NEA Service

hot cOmpreSSeS are sometimes
ordered to relieve q cough or
pain in the chest.
A compress wringer may be
made rom q strorg piece Of
cloth about two feet long and
eighteen inches wide. Make
wide hens in each end in which
two pieces of broom handle may
be inserted to be used as levers
in wringing the congresses dry.
Have a kettle of boiling water
on the stove. Assemble on a
large tray that may be carried
to the bedside. q basin, three
pieces of heavy flannel 10 X IL
in size; q large piece of waxed
paper; dish of sweet oil.
Place the wringer in the basin,
allowing the ends to extend over
the sides. Fold one piece Of nan-
mel and lay 1t on the wringer.
Pour boiling water over the
flannel until it is Thoroughly soak
ed. Holding the wringer over the
basin, twist the sticks In op-
posite directions until the water
stops dripping. Empty the basin
and lay the wrinser containing
the compress back In II.
COVER COMPRESS
Carry the tray to the bedside.
Bare the chest and apply q thin
coating Of oil to the skin. Re-
move the compress from the
wringer and test II on tf , inner
surface Of your arm to make
certain that 1t will not burn.
Apply Il gradually to the chest.
Cover the compress with the
waxed paper and then with one
piece Of dry flannel. Adjust the
bed covering and instruct the pa
tient to be quiet to keep the COM
press in place.
The compress sh o u l d be
changed about every ten or fif-
teen minutes for . period Of an
hour unless otherwise ordered.
Another compress should be
ready 10 apply promptly when
the cool one II removed, and
this should Be done under cover
TO avoid chilling. W//If
I, After the last compress has
been removed cover the chest
with warm dry flannel until the
skin has thoroughly dried.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
, SO THEY SAY

Liberation Of Ethiopia was .
proud accomplishment Of the
Allies in the early days Of their
march toward victory. It Is al.
most unbelievable that . pro-
posal should be made by any
one now to tie this little nation
to the country (Italy) that
ravaged 1t. Jacksonville. Fla,
Journal.
The world needed government
on q world level before the
atomic bomb. Now II has be.
come. imperative. - Capt. Har-
old Z. Stassen, USNR.
Although there Is q great un.
filled need for new construc.
ton as q result OF curtailment
of civilian building during the
war, the peak Of postwar con-
struction activity probably will
not be reached until 1949, or
perhaps q little later. - Charles
E. Young, member, National
Producers Council.
Instead of hundreds or thou.
sands (of airplanes) a month,
make II 10 q month. Far better
to spend>S50, ,000, 900 or 50 q year
for this than q hundred or two
hundred billion for years Of war
and the lives 1t takes. Will
liam S. Jack, Cleveland indus /.
trialist. :
II we want young Americans
to grow up In the pattern Of
democracy which countless 9th.
er young Americans have sac.
rificed their lives to enthrone
elsewhere in the world, we will
discourage all social institutions
that put q premium on snob-
bishness.-Jackson, Miss, News.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
Rowing Reporters

to a large leather belt. "This was
made especially for Caruso, and
that hat over there belonged to
Chaliapin."
Nothing has ever been dis
carded," he said as he climbed
to the fourth floor where a clos
ct full of out-dated horse trap
pings and sleigh bells from Italy
hung dust-covered from a nail.
mot even this vase" He pick
ed up a summer blue urn fest
ooned with dancing ladies and
twisted grape vines. Haven't
used 1t since I've been here"
Tony said that each season he
had to have props ready for
about 70 operas and that Boris"
was the worst. There are a
million odds and ends for that
opera, but I manage to find
them all"
On the third bridge that
swings across the back Of the
stage, the Met artist carefully
and laboriously retouches the
ancient sets. Each leaf is a bot
anist's study.
In the rooms near his swing
ing studio the tailors work on
the elaborate, costly costumes of
the opera.
Threading needles with two
swift movements. Antoine, the
head tailor, worked feverishly
on the purple velvet costumes
for Romeo"
1T takes four days to make
one of these" he said, holding
up the beautifully tailored suit.
ALTERATIONS ONLY
The tailor shop Is splashy and
gay with hundreds of brocade,
velvet and satin costumes hang
ing from every inch Of the
crowded, plain room. Buried be-
hind a long row Of costume box
es, hats, coats, leggings, tunics.
feathers and spools, three quiet,
busy tailors sew all day long.
It took q minute for their eyes
to come to focus on an intruder.
I. Hass was carefully whip
ping q silver trim on q heavy
velvet coat.
"Some day I'm going to stop
sewing and never touch another
needle" he said, lit makes you
feminine. A man can't be Tar
zan and do women's work. We
never see the artists. We just
get their alterations. And I've
hardly seen an opera although
I've been here for years. Just
sew and 60 home"
Haas said that each Of the
thousands of costumes was q
masterpiece. The best material.
the best craftsmanship.
You could wear them on
Fifth Avenue IL this was the age
Of Kings"
In the empty gaudy theater
ten or IL cleaning girls could be
seen polishing the gold rails, and
shining the baroque ornaments
In the world renowned Metro
politan Opera House. And q tir-.
ed little ballet dancer, after q
long rehearsal, tainted on the
iron steps to her dressing room.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
By JEAN GEORGE
NEA Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK-A blond, dust
covered stage hand leaned
against Romeos balcony at the
Metropolitan Opera House. He
flipped a hammer in the air,
caught it and whammed a nail
into the make believe marble
pillars.
"Dis joints okay," he said as
a piano tinkled out a melodious
aria, "but I guess I'm just 1--WE
happy. Now you take Tony
over there, he knows all them
songs the artists sing and he
comes back every season to take
care of the props and knock on
the door in the Barber of Sc
ville."
Tony Crispano came across
the ciuttered stage with ring Of
keys in one hand. q big rock in
the other. He is q strong, square
Italian who has been taking
care of the props for the Met for
40 years. He smiled as he put
down the granite stone.
This Is the rock that Wotan
hits when the iron clangs against
granite" he explained. Its
been kicking around here for
years. / don't think they've
ever used another one"
Tony said he knew where
more than 100000 props were
and had q mental inventory Of
swords, axes, lanterns, keys,
hats, guns, handouts and pick
axes that would make a museum
IlOOk sick
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM Z. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

IMAY be leaving myself wide
open on today's hand. It came
to me from Pittsburgh. where
they have . series Of Inter-Club
matches with teams Of eight
which meet every two weeks.
This hand was sent to me by
cne Of the players, taken from
one Of their recent tournaments.
He asked me to comment on the
bidding. The han does present
IN interest bidding problem.
In the first place. South pass
ed an opening bid. However, he
does have q defensive type hand
and should not be criticized. ]
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Corresponde

HULL I WOOO w wanna nave
your husband named "Mr. Model
Husband of 1946?" Wanna have
your girl friends voted Miss
Georgeous Eyelashes?" Wanna
have your wife crowned "The
Lady Without the Dishpan
Hands Of 1946?"
It's easy.
Just give US q Jingle. Well
arrange everything. For free.
yet.
Just to show you how easy It
Is, we had Cred (The Great
John L. Mcclure voted "The
Body Beautiful of 1946" by the
Pin-Up Girls of America, Inc.
1t only took a couple of hours.
For some time we had been
broodirg over those phony titles
which are awarded almost every
day to somebody by somebody
else. We got real mad about it
when we read that a girl up in
Idaho had been voted the Nov
! Lay Me Down to Sleep girl
by the Mattress Suffers Associ-
alton.
THE TIME Is NOW
The time had come, we decid.
ed, to start crusade.
We would expose the inside
workings of these phony titles
which, like grapefruit juice, are
in the public eye every day. We
had just seen the movie, "The
Great John L." in which Greg
Mcclure paraded around in
purple shorts. We would have
him voted "The Body Beautiful
Of 1946" by the Pin-Up girls Of
America, Inc.
So we called up a press agent
named Joe, and said:
Joe the time has come for
action. Today we are going to
have your client, Greg Mcclure,
honored by the Pin-Up Girls Of
America, Inc, and expose the
whole d thing"
Joe caught on quick.
1T II practically In the bag"
he said. What do we do first?"
I'VE get 4 president for the
Pin-Up Girls of America, Inc.,"
we said. Dig one up and meet
me at Lucy's for lunch"
Joe was there with our presi-
dent - q pretty little blonde
named Doris Peterson, who Is q
showsirl in Ken Murray's Holly
wood revue, "Blackouts." Ken
thought 1t was a great idea. He
would get "Blackouts" mention
ed in this column.
Then we called up q Miss Dor
othy Preble. who manages .
very exclusive model agency In
Hollywood. Could we please use
some OF her girls for q half-hour
~ members of Pin-Up Girls Of
America, Inc.?"
"Will the name Of the agency
be mentioned?" Dorothy asked.
mo doubt" we replied. "Coms
right on up" she said.
PHOTO0S ARE EASY
Next we called our Acme
photographer friend, Paul King.
and told him what was going
on. "Pin-up sirls!" said King.
I'm leaving the office right
now"
We oil met at Dorothy Pre-
ble's model agency (plug).
Joe directed the photographs
shots Of the pin-up girls meas
uring McClure's chest. feeling
his muscles and measuring his
waistline.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
.FEUpALlsTIc BLUES IN THE NIGHT

4 General Macarthur has banned a teor-jerkne
Yoponess popuIor song coed Moonlight on the
eslped Cqstie becouse the references to the ruined
ysse loo 'fsudolistic.''
XE z 3pps nostoIoio for ruined feudoI costIes is
M - Tin Pom Alleys nostoIgio for tumble
eNn Dixie cobins. we cant soy that we blame the
DaesoI.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11

Got q real cow skull up
stairs that we use in Norma"
he said. "and an armory of muz-
zle-loaders that we are filling
with black powder right now to
shoot off In "Tosca'."
Tony's store rooms cover sew
eral floors Of the ragged but be-
loved opera house. They hold
those myriad, accurate props
that make Metropolitan operas
as traditional as Christmas.
There is nothing faxed. Swords
are Of the finest steel. Flowers
are made petal by petal.
There's q mouse that sits
here and listens to 'Tannhaus-
err" Tony said with q straight
face as . grey shadow darted
through the store room door he
swung open. The musty room
was full Of arms and . small
white-haired gun smith was pol
ishing and grinding the rifles in-
to working condition.
In another room Tony pointed
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
. BARBS

A lot Of young men who were
poor in typography have put
their to- ms on the map.
Uncle Sam wants farmers 70
kill CT their hens. How will
you ave your eggs - or will
your
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
BY DOU0LAs LARSEN

NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHiNGTON-It could on
ly happen In this town-a black
market in white vests.
Things are beginning to pop
on the Washington social front
now that the war 10 over. So, to
be sure her husband would be
able to charge out In white lie
and tails when the occasion de-
mands, the wife of . prominent
government official took her
husbands formal attire out of
the cedar chest.
Everything appeared in order
except his white vest. It was yell
low. And the laundry couldn't
make It white.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11
. IN HOLLYWOOD

This" Mcclure said. sheep
ishly, "is murder"
This" Joe, the press agent,
said, "is sensational"
Then President Peterson read
little speech we had written on
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11


ry mems wear store In town and
couldn't find q white vest. Fin
ally q clerk In one Of the stores
suggested she try down the
street. knock three times and
tell the man that Joe sent her.
She did, and after q little dick.
ering bought 4 vest for $50.
This irked the lady because
a formal white vest Is no more
than the equivalent of q couple
of small pieces of unbleached
musin dipped In plaster of Paris.
She told several Of her friends
about II and was q little reliev-
ed to find they were all suffer-
ing from severe depletions of
available stocks Of white formal
waistcoats due to anticipated de-
mand because Of greater util.
ization for the coming season."
Being COVE ment wives,
they'veflearned to talk like their
husbands.
GOVERNMENT-TOWN
GOES GAY
ALTHOUGH the White House
has announced 1t will not have
q formal social season, there Is a
growing. festive mood among big
shots in this town who, for some
reason, threaten to out-celebrate
the gay Harding administration.
Celebrants, however, are suf-
fering certain privations other
than the white vest shortage
which haven't yet been cleared
up. Wholesale liquor dealers re-
port the nations capital is in the
throes Of one of the worst cham
payne shortages in its history,
especially of the better vintages.
Caterers also are complaining
that 1t Is strictly q sellers caviar
market here.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean, the
towns ace thrower of fiestas,
has, the champagne shortage
licked. Her opening rumpus Of
the season was to welcome Gen.
Omar Bradley, new head Of Vet
erans' Administration, and his
wife into the social swim. This
is a description of the menu:
They ate clear soup and
champagne; filet Of sole with
mushrooms and champagne: sir
loin of beef. with champagne:
Smithfield ham and green salad,
with champagne, and sculptured
ice cream, with champagne"
Evalyn Mclean wore the fam.
Gus Hope diamond-which shone
like sparkling champagne.
Apparently having scrimped
enough on cash from lend-leasc
the various embassies are show
ing the way in the party depart
ment. Just now there is heated
competition between the Chinese
embassy and the French embassy
as to which outfit can pitch the
fanciest affairs. There IL no
question that the Chinese par
ties are bigger, but French man.
age that air of crepe suzette
which is hard to beat.
SOVIET HOUSE Is OUT
OF BOUNDS
JUST now It's not too smart
to be seen at parties at the Rus
sian embassy. The feeling Is that
they're throwing their weight
around a little too much in the
foreign affairs field. But even
this adds a little zest to the
whole situation because you can
be delightfully."- naughty by hav.
ing q couple of vodka fizzes 1t
one of the smaller Soviet af-
fairs.
Calm observers Of this social
phenomena are giving several
explanations. Some say the boys
are just relaxing after the ten
sion of war. Others say people
just have too much money. Some
say it's the new spirit that's per-
vading the first house Of the
land. For the first time since
Harding there's q man in the
White House who isn't ashamed
to admit he sat down with a
bunch of old cronies and played
a game of stud and slipped q lit
tie hootch.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-11

the back of an envelope. pro-
claiming Greg Mcclure "The
Body Beautiful of 1946" and ev-
erybody went home.
And we have the photographs
To prOve il.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-14
One Word Led to Another
By Linda and
Jerry Walter
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

1t my impression in 1921 that peace treaties
were pretty much like recipes in brides cook book !
Nothing turns out the way it's written
We never have signed any formal habeas grabbus or
midimus givvums to police or feed the world
Yet always wind up shaking the official table
cloth out Of the generous window
II you remember the start of Mussolini and Hitler
you will recall both of them denounced America as
selfish nation that wouldn't give you lumber in forest
fire
Worse than that. Mussolini said clearly that
America wouldn't give anybody the cores from Apple
Week
l made note of it at the time because
Herbert Hoover offered to stoke 100000 conquered
Europeans the winter.
That a terrific number of appettes to stuff and
suggested Herbert intended to Rpleys Retreating
Chinese walters.
Now, I'm big hearted lad who will give away spray
from waterfall know that the memory of free meal
lasts until it is time for the next one.
But feeding the world is tremendous job. Even at
the map scale of one inch to the mile.
Canada, the Ukraine, Australia and the Argentine
also tremendous granaries of the world Each of
those overstuffed raise much filings
America.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-14

1.-No. just the opposite. It
often leads the children to take
sides, and grow up quarrel
some, nagging persons. Often
too, a mother sees in her son
the very things she dislikes in
her husband, and takes IL out
on the son. The father often
does the same with the daugh-
ter. Many parents begin maxi
ing bad husbands and wives out
of their children while they are
still in swaddling clothes.
2.-No. He may attract you by
his dress or voice or manner
and many people think this is
personality" But these things
do not tell you whether he Is
a scoundrel or a Sunday School
superintendent-or both-or a
scholar and a gentleman or an
ignoramus and liar. or
whether he is aggressive or SUBJ
missive, timid or self confident.
Experiments have shown YOU
can tell precisely as much about
a person with your back turned
as you can by looking at him.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-14
On the
Side

for speedy divorce trials is three
minutes.
Hildegarde Loretta Sell. The
energetically effervescent chan
teuse. She was born In New
Holstein, Wis. Where her papa
ran a delicatessen store. Miss
Sell owes a lot to her manager.
Anna Sesenko. II was Anna who
suggested the use I'm billing the
single name. "Hildegarde." IL
turned out to be a miilion-dollar
idea.
A SKIS a u. S. marine sergeanti
IA what ever has happened
to Margaret SULLIVAN, that elfin
figure with the candid face and
soft magic voicef I hear she
has decided 20 desert the screen
for the stage. That she Ii loss
tolls film fans forever"
7Note - Miss SULLIVAN has
hinted she might retire from
both screen and stage. But I
don't believe she will.)
TT S. ARMY sergeant wants TO
u. know in what town there
is a monument to the comic
strip character, Popeye. This
monument Is In Crystal City.
Tex, in the heart OF the spinach
growing section. Salinas. Gals
great lettuce growing center.
should put up a monument To
the man who first thought OF
the idea of putting lettuce In
ham sandwiches.