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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-06

The newspaper editor who is paid
to rape his own intelligence; who ha-
bitually accepts bright little pieces
of silver in exchange for his spiritual
decencies- probably gets the bet
ter of the trade at that
The snug academic sob. to whom
tragedy is purely literary term; who
imagines that merely by sitting tight
in his little ivory privy he can high
hat all human pain and trouble out
of existence.
The painfully conceited fellow who
brags about his sweet, winning humil-
ity, never realizing that of all the
tricks in vanity's repertoire of self
betrayal, that one is the deadest give
away and the silliest.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-06
HEELS WITH OR WITHOUT SOULS
By ARTHUR STORM

The fellow who has devoted his
whole life to shooting off his puss,
but is full of edifying old saws about
the moral excellence and practical val
ue of silence-for others.
The charming gentleman who gets
the high moral fantods whenever any
one commits the brutality of calling
a fascist a fascist-but who daily re-
defines the term communist" to
make It fit whomever he dislikes.
The homegrown saint who contemp-
lates his own crimes with glutinous
christian charity and affectionate un-
oozing from every pore
but who demands perfection without
even physical flaw in those whom
he regards as his interiors.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-06
Montana Steady Decline From Corporation

Bribery of public officers was expect
ed and condoned Blackmail, pillag,
by bandit in pay of the mandarin
was constant in time, persuasive il
space. The rich country, with popula
ton varying from 100 million to 30i
million, stagnated through the centu
lries, until Sun Vat Sen fought for
and erected republic about 80 year.
ago. During those 1000 years, con
servatism, ancestor worship, prevent
ed anything new from springing up
To criticize the status quo mean
death, as well as loss of face" The
arousing influence came from abroad
Sun Vat Sen was educated in the
United States, after graduating from
missionary school.
All the nations of Europe except
the Moors in Spain, during the 1,00C
years known as the Middle Ages, were
in cultural lag" Men and women
in serfdom were attached to the land
Barons had their graft or squeeze.
They maintained private bandit arm
les of rowdies to prey upon their
neighbors; there were petty wars,
books were few, and for the clergy,
people were kept in ignorance; mo-
nopolies were sold to royal favorites;
herectics, i.e., men of new religious
thoughts, were prosecuted; Copper
nicus feared to publish during his life
his calculations that the earth was
a planet revolving around the sun.
He would have been murdered by the
chambers of commerce of those times.
Europe stagnated for a thousand
years due to cultural lag"
In CH$ha's case, cultural lag kept
fairly advanced civilization from
going forward; in Europe it caused
the death of most of the old Roman
and Greek civilizations. (The Venus
de Milo's arms were chopped off to
fit her into wall of masonry With
the Indians, it prevented their adj
vance to civilization Its effects are
different on different conditions.
Britain held Ireland in cultural lag
500 years. The effect was the same
as ours in Montana now All the
strong young men and women that
could do so emigrated for good and
all.
The purpose of statesmen is to de-
tect it, and fight to overcome it. Of
such have been Theodore Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt.
George w. Norris. The purpose of
oboop n1aoo.buptino ,,oI;+;o;ooo -
also to detect cultural lag, then get,
and retain office by allying them
selves with those who profit by the
continuance of cultural lag. Of such
are Martin Dies, w. L. O'Daniel, the
silly singing minstrel senator from
Texas, Burton K Wheeler, whose an
les at the door of world politics seem
likely to change the name Treasure"
state to "Buffoon" state Henry Cabot |
Lodge, who led the fight against Will
sons league of nations, thereby |
himself as the arch fool of |
Ill recorded history; Sam Ford, con-
esting the entry of the Missouri and |
Columbia Valley authorities into Mon
ana.
Colonial economy" spoken by DR..
Nelby about our state, has a mean
ng quite close to that of cultural
ag" 1t means here a commonwealth |
hat becomes a state, and then falls
Jack, in fact, if not in name, to CO.
onial status. The great educator, DR..
Gelby, and I agree on the pervasive
cultural lag in this state. He regards
as static, able-that any fight
gainst is in vain He is, therefore.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-06
By LOwNDEs MAURY

In 1910 the census shows for Mon
tana 559,456. Last weeks annual sup
plement to the Encyclopedia Britain
MICA gave an estimate of our popula
ton for 1913, the third year of the
Ford regime, at 470,033. Because ra
ton cards are issued to each person
during war, this estimate is sorrow
fully exact. BY the same method
an eastern paper finds out and an
nounces that the flight of strong
young natives from this state has in
creased much since 1913. Induction
accounts for $4,000 gone, but of those
being now released from military
service, only Is of 100 are coming
back here to live. However harshly
some may criticise our governors
other methods, all must concede his
despatch in helping the corporations
drive permanently from the state
countless thousands of the strongest,
ablest, best young men and women.
These enrich the cultural and econom-
ic life elsewhere.
For a fast dwindler, let no ardent
nasci brag of how Hitler depopulat-
ed Czechoslovakia. Year for year,
Ford seems to have done as thorough
job in Montana. Hitler has been
stopped; Ford and his crowd are still
going strong, with no end in sight.
When the meaning is grasped
which scientific historians, .sociolo-
gists, economists wish to convey by
the word, cultural lag" many phe-
nomena in public life are explained,
puzzles are answered. 1t embraces,
Of course, educational lag" and far
more. Lag may arise in methods of
agriculture, forestry, domestic animal
culture, physical culture, the national
sports, music, state craft, the laws,
mining, and other arts, literature, ora
tory
1t is the deadliest disease true
statesmen have to fight, but is one
by which cheap politicians get elected
to, and retain office, i.e. The noto-
rious Dies committee, Henry Cabot
Lodges fight against Wilson's league
of nations. The present day isola-
tionists, Wheeler, Nye, Fish, Herbert
Hoover, Sam Ford, know one trait
of human nature. Men are like do
mesticated animals when fed
enough, they hate to change, and do
not roam intellectually until the for
age gets short; no matter how the
master beats them, they stand by him
as long as he has bones, and throws
them enough to keep them in their
accustomed standard of living
While symptoms of actual decay of |
the commonwealth of Montana do ex-
list, they are not many, nor so no.
ticeable, as the symptoms of what, |
to eager, ambitious young Americans,
is more distasteful, i.e., cultural lag |
To scientific historians and syste-
matized social economists, this is an
actual classified national disease. 1t |
is simpler to cite example than give |
a definition
The Chinese attained civilization
1000 years ago. They made gun
powder, fine China, glass, paper, print
ed, had many good laws, built irriga-
ton works bridges, but about at that
rather low peak cultural lag set in
They became contented with existing
They went neither for
ward nor backward for 1000 years
Official grating became the accept
ed rule. They called it squeeze"
Certain classes gained vested rights
to their squeeze" Sons inherited
certain "squeezes" from their parents.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16
SuperfOrtresses 400 In Number Blast Tokyo

GUAM, April 16-tP)-Another four hundred Superfortresses rained incendiaries early this morning on Tokyo and found the city still burning from last Satur- days fire raid. which burned out ten and three-quarters square miles. Reconnaissance photo graphs showed that 296,OOO, ,0OO square feet in Tokyo's arsenal area had been burned out Satur- day, bringing to twenty-seven and half square miles of area defin- itely credited to incendiary raids on Tokyo up to March tenth.
 Saturdays fires swept over twice the target area including the prized Itabashi arsenal. Jap- ans communique conceded to- days raid started considerable number of fires" Radio Tokyo admitted some of them burned for seven hours. The enemy con- munique claimed, without con- firmation, fifty-five Superfort- resses were shot down and fifty damaged.
 Kawasaki the industrial subur- ban joining Tokyo on the south
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16
Russians Open Huge Offensive On Eastern Front

LONDON, April 16-tP)-The German command announced that the Russians have launched the long awaited large scale offensive from the east side German waist at Berlin. The high command de- clared that the big Soviet steam roller swung into action along . sixty-mile front from the mouth of the Neisse southeast of Berlin
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The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16

holders of special cards of admis- sion were allowed in the House gallery where the joint session was held.
 Speaking from the rostrum where he heard Roosevelt on March first describe the accom- plishments at Yalta, Truman said the American policy remained unconditional surrender" de- claring the nation is deeply con- scious" that much hard fighting remains. The President said "hav- ing paid such heavy price to make complete victory certain America never can become party to any plan of partial victory. We must not traffic in breaches of peace on terms of peace"
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16

was the second target. It is the ninth largest city in Japan and shares with Tokyo and Yokohama railroads, highways, power sys- tenn, communications network. The three cities combined form a twenty-five mile long built-up area along the western shore of Tokyo bay. Pilots returing from today's raid said they saw many fires still turning from their visit forty-eight hours before. Today's holocaust was visible one hun dred fifty miles away. That is the farthest distance Tank fliers have reported seeing flames on any of their raids.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16
U. s. Third Army
 Almost Bisect Germany

PARIS, April 16-R-Ths- Third Army infantry advanced ss within eight miles of Czechoslo- vakia and virtually bisected Ger many whose western front is al- ready split into northern an& southern commands. The Ger mans rushed troops and tankx from the eastern front to Berlin to oppose the grave threat to their ruined capital forty-five milex from the Ninth Army clements ax Madgeburg.
 Three Nazi visisions stamped out the original Elbe river bridge head at Madgeburg, but another" east bank salient at Barby deep ened four miles to within fifty three miles of Berlin on the open Brandenburg plain.
 Some three thousand Germans surrendered by the order of theix commander on the eastern seg-, ment and severed the Ruhr poe ket. Correspondent Don White head said strongest possibility that both sections of the Ruhr. pocket will be liquidated today" Already 146,349 German prison CTS have been counted from the Ruhr with hundreds more filing into prison cages from the indis- trial region.
 The British opened their as-- sault on Bremen and moved to- within two and a half miles of the port. United States Third Army besieged the big Saxony center of Chemnitz from the same distance while the First Army frightened it's grip on Leipzig and cleared the northern third of Sale, fight ing to within two miles of Desiaw fifty-two miles southwest of Ber- lin.
 Canadians and Poles reached the North Sea within five miles of Emden, pocketing perhaps two hundred thousand Germans. The First and Ninth armies formed another trap in the Harz noun tians of three hundred fifty miles Third Army troops are seventy five miles or so from the Russian lines southwest of Berlin. Enemy said the junction Is imminent.
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16
I HUMAN NO CHANGE

WASHINGTON, April 16-xR President Truman promised the grand strategy of the war will re- man unchanged, unhampered" by his accession to the Presidency. Making his first address to the joint houses of Congress the new President declared this nation along with its allies must shoul- der "grave responsibility" in mals- Ing secure the future peace. To accomplish this objective Truman said United States must join in punishing those guilty of bringing on the war. Lasting peace can never be secured If we permit our dangerous opponents to plot fu- ture wars with impunity in any mountain retreat however dis tant." The President apparently alluded to reports that Hitler may attempt to seek refuge in the Ba- varian mountains.
 The armies liberation of today is bringing an end to Hitler's ghastly threat to dominate the world" The President said "Tokyo rocks under the weight of our bombs" The grand strategy of the United Nations has been de- stermined is due in no small means to the wisdom of our de- parted Commander in Chief. We are now carrying out our part of that strategy under the able di- rection of Admiral Leahy, General Marshall, Admiral King, General Arnold, General Eisenhower, Ad- miral Nimitz and General Mac Arthur. I want the entire world to know this direction must and will remain unchanged, unham- pered.
 Speaking only one day after the burial of Roosevelt, President Truman paid high tribute to his predecessor: Tragic fate thrust upon us grave responsibility we must carry on. Our devoted leader never looked backward. He looked forward and moved forward. That is the way he moved and what he would want us to do, and that is what America will do."
 Truman went to the capitol af- ter two early conferences on in- ternational affairs, the first with Stettinius and the second with Stettinius, Eden, and Halifax.
 Long before the President ar- rived at the Capitol. Police and secret service men placed . care Al guard about the building. Only
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-16
BASEBALL Coast League
FRIDAYS GAMES

Oakland 0, San Diego 2; Port land 2, San Francisco 4; Seattle ', Hollywood 5; Sacramento 1, Los Angeles 0.
 SUNDAY GAMES
 Portland 5, 0; San Francisco 1, 2; Sacramento 5, o; Los Angeles 1, 3; San Diego 3, 4; Oakland 2, B; Seattle 10, IA; Hollywood 3, 1.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07
PIN.UPS AN ESCAPE
CT Joe Remains Faithful

And a fine girl awaits him, {"
said Dean Cornwell, illustrator
and muralist, 'she is better de-
veloped physically and mentally
than the girl who was waiting
when Johnny came marching
home in the last war. She is ed
ucated, too. There will be no
flapper to come out of this war,
nourished on bootleg gin"
Judge Arthur William Brown,
magazine illustrator and presi-
dent of the Society of Illustra
tors, said there was no actual
formula for beauty today.
The time is past when the
measurements of Venus De Milo
were the standards for judg-
ment," Brown said.
To-day, a girl may have big
feet, but if she is gracious and
graceful and the feet are coordi-
mated in the movements of her
body, we may say she has beau
ty.
Beauty is something which
touches your artistic feeling
You know it is there, but you
can't find it with a tape mea-
sure"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07
Clinton Fireman
Move Fast When
the Bell Rings

Clinton Townships volunteer
fire department added speed 10
efficiency early yesterday eve
ming when four firemen were
rounded up and the new truck
taken rs miles TO Harper and
Glenwood avenue in six minutes
from the time a call was receiv-
ed.
The call was from John Par
IRISH, of 30005 Harper avenue,
whose automobile had caught
fire at that intersection.
Parrish himself held his
watch in his hand and timed the
firemen from the moment he
made the call until they started
to work on the blazing car. The
volunteers used 100 gallons Of
water jim hating the blaze.
Supervisor Paul Stepnitz has
suggested that all future runs
of the department be timed from
receipt of the call to- arrival az
the scene of the fire.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07

a director of the Hur0n-Clin-
ton Parkway authority. John
+ has accepted q partnership in
the Detroit law firm of Miller,
Garfield Paddock & Stone,
nationally known municipal
bond specialists and
bond work is what John will
specialize in.
Capt. Larry Pidgeon, known
to some Of you lads when he
worked the Monitor police beat
a few years back before Pearl
Harbor) has been married in
Corpus Christi, Texas, to 1t. Ell
leen Anne Putney, WAVE, for
mer MCHS school teacher.
Larry is partially recovered
from wounds, paralysis, etc,
suffered in the defense of Ma
Mia, and is now working on a
Santa Barbara, Calf, paper.
Back in 1916, when st. Pc
ter's Lutheran Church, East
Detroit was founded, the
church bought a plot of for
ested land on Fort GratiOt
Plank road for $40. This
week, that land at GratiOt and
Nine lie was sold for $115,00O
to the S. S. Kresge company,
which will erect a business
place there and the
church will re-establish on
land purchased nearby. The
new church will be compile
mented by a large school, pas
tors residence, etc.
THE MYSTERY Of the offic-
tally reported death of Sgt. Har-
land c. Bassett, of Roseville,
Who-disappeaEed- a-B-24
flight over Vienna June rs, 1914
was cleared up recently when
returned POWs on his planes
crew told the story. The bomb
er encountered heavy flax and
enemy plane fire which knocked
out all motors and set fire to a
wing. 1t went into tight spin
and only two of the 10-man
crew were able to use their par
achutes. The plane exploded on
nittin gthe ground, the POWs
reported to authorities.
Separated for two months,
two former MCHS boys, Vern
Potrykus, USMC, and Milton,
USN, Chesterfield Township
brothers, met at Pearl Harbor
the other day. Another broth
er, 1t. Melvin, AAF, met Fern
few days before Milton ar
rived.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept.
Up - CT Joe gladly will
leave his pin-up girl on the bar.
racks will when he returns TO
civilian life and will settle for
the l945 Miss back home who is
both feminine and capable,
three judges of the Miss Amer
lea l945' beauty pageant pre-
dicted today.
"The Pin-up Girl was an es-
cape for the service man." said
Bradshaw Crandall, creator of
cover girl illustrations for lead
ing magazines. "She was good
for entertainment. but when CT
Joe get home, he is going TO run
for the girl he wants 10 marry
and spend "a hours a day with -
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07

Mrs. Sarah ClOre, of 22812
Rein, East Detroit, IS a happy
mother these days. Her sons
are hOmeWard- bound: Sgt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07

Jeb wilkins was always
great one for travelling. Two
weeks a year he used to cover
more ground than a Pullman
conductor. Used to come back
from vacations tuckered out.
But the war has changed all
that. Gasoline shortages - and
saving space on trains for sery.
ice men-has got Jeb spending
his vacations home and lik-
ing 1t!
Never knew staying home
could be such fun" says Jeb.
Outdoor barbecues sitting
around and chatting with the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07
Scout Leaders
Plan Dinner
Meeting tuesday

A dinner meeting of the Ma
comb Council of Scouting, in
Guiding all council members,
scoutmasters, assistants and
committeeman will take place
Tuesday at $50 pm, at the
home of Russell Stark, Conger
Bay Drive, opposite Denmarsh.
Announcement of the affair,
expected to be as popular as the
one held last year, was made by
Guy Verkler, president of the
scout o)uncil.
General business for the fall
and winter season will come up
for discussion, and also a report
of the executive board meeting
held in Pontiac last night.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07

ploded ar ei9nt Mile and
Genther. Warren Township.
OnIookers Dragged three 9TH
er persons from the bIozing
car undoubtedly saving
their lives for they were
injured In the two-car collision
which preceded the holocaust.
When we mentioned the
Tokyo Bay peace signing last
week we recalled some of the
boys who had ringside seats on
warships During the
week, navy releases gave us
the names Of several others
50, just for the record,
you should know them: S &c
Kennth F. Tobley, IFS Huron
street, S NC Victor C. Debate,
Route 4, and s nc David d.
Dragon Washington, Mich, all
aboard the carrier Shangri-La,
and Radarman SIC Gordon Z.
Burgess, aboard the heavy
cruiser Quincy.
Two mysterious fires which
broke out simultaneously at the
Broadway Market and Richards
Mill about 2 a. m, last Saturday
have been under investigation by
local authorities and the state
Fire Marshals Office, and a 49,
year-old man, said by police to
be a member of the CD auxil-
larry fire department, has been
held for questioning. A woman
said she saw him pull a false
alarm.
Most Of you fellows over
seas know John H. Nunneley,
member Of Nunneley & Nun
neley law firm; former assist
ant prosecutor; present Cir
cult Court Commissioner and
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07
AROUND THE CITY


tro-Master Corporation, Detroit,
has purchased 16-acre tract Of
land out Hubbard near the rail-
road tracks, ostensibly as a man.
ufacturing plant. The
Charter Revision Commission
has completed its work, and a
vote may be held on the prOpos-
ed streamlined City Charter this
year. Hope you're home for the
balloting. DR.. w. j. Kane,
health officer, reveals no case
of polio reported in TIE city
since Jan. /, and only one in ell
Macomb County during 1945.
Leo j. Gagnon, %, ex-ser-
geant with much Pacific action
experience during five years
service, is our newest police
man. The VFW has taken
in 35 more WW-2 vets.
General Detroit artists are
painting cOlorful murals on
the ward walls at Sigma Gam
ma circus and playt0wn
scenes for the courageous
crippled children to enjoy.
AROUND THE COUNTY -
Maui uouan'c fbroa,uook fnnn
dry strike, started when a sup
erintendent was Slugged by
some workers, is still on.
A blast due to ignited lacquer
fumes wrecked Walter Beck's
bowling alleys at New Balti-
more. Shores commission
ers have given the nod to cit
liens petition for another vote
this fall to make the village into
a city, a proposition Which fail
ed in the spring by 70 votes.
Thirty-siX new citizens were
admitted in this county by Wis
iting Judge Paul R. Cash.
Memorial services at Utica Sun
day will honor Cpl. Frank Sta
Piles, who died on Okinawa.
Arthur l.. West, 10, of the
Modern Press, we'll known
printing craftsman and
printer for IS years, died this
week in a Detroit hospital fol-
lowing a lengthy period of i'll
health.
A 35-CENT CHARGE levied
against his county car for driv-
ing on to a county drain jutting
into Lake St. Clair has aroused
the ire of Drain Commissioner
Bill Harper. He found that OPP
orators of beach at the Shores
are using the Nine Mile drain
abutment as pier and when
he investigated they tried to
charge him 35 cents for car ad-
mission, he told Shores solons.
The officials admitted they had
licensed the beach, but had not
added the Nine Mile drain to the
bargain. County and village le-
gal talent are trying to unravel
the mess.
Mrs. Sarah ClOre, of 22812
Rein, East Detroit, IS a happy
mother these days. Her sons
are hOmeWard- bound: Sgt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07
BY THEIR RIBBONS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM

These ribbons arc
badges of honor. The
least we can do is to
know what they mean.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-09-07
From where | sit by Joe Marsh
Jeb wilkins
loses the wonderIvst

kids and family :. basking in
the sunshine with a glass OF cold
beer that's Hving," Jeb says.
From where 1 sit, jobs dis
covered what millions OF other
Americans have learned through
the war. Whether your choice Is
beer or buttermilk horse.
shoes or checkers. ia quiet book
or a BIT Of friendly conversation
%. there's no place like homo -.
where we grumble the most and
get treated the bestl
&s M"u<