The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-06-30
On Capitol Hill
BY GEORGE L. KNAPP

Washington, D. c. ULNS).-Labor
Department experts estimate that the
minimum of 25 cents an hour in the
new wage-hour law will raise the
wages of about 100000 persons. 1t
will help the sawmill and fertilizer
industries of the South, small num-
ber of textile mills, also in the South,
where 8 per cent of the workers are
getting less; and some garment fac
tories scattered over many states
mainly in the North; Pennsylvania and
New Jersey being among them.
This is certainly moderate"
start. At the middle of last summer,
however, it is estimated that the 25
cent minimum would have helped only
from 25O,000 to 30O,OOO-in factories.
The 80 cent limit would help, even
now, about 100000; while the number
whose payrolls would be improved by
the 40 cent schedule j S estimated
variously at $4,000 to 100000.
So many people are working part
time now that the experts hesitate to
guess at the numbers who would have
their working week shortened-or
their pay envelopes fattened by over
time after "a hours. In the first half
Of last year, it was figured that "a
hours would shorten the work of l.
100000 persons and 40 hours would
relieve more than 100000.
Discouraging? No. But it shows
that the most needed reforms may
take the longest time.
The Montana railroad crash at a
washed-out bridge is not merely a
horrible accident. Here is a para
graph from the account:
GAS the locomotive crossed bridge
constructed over the creek thirty
years ago, the center span gave way
railroad ofcials said. There HAD
BEEN NO WARNING AS TO THE
CONDITION OF THE BRIDGE"
To every thinking citizen, that is g
confession of neglect. Proper in.
spection could not have helped giving
warning Cloudbursts in the Rocky
Mountain region are nothing new,
and another thing must not be for
gotten:
This crash occurred on the Chicago
Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail
road; a line which with the "Pacifc'
left out of it's name made the bigges
bankruptcy crash of railroad history
a dozen years ago, whipping out abou
$3.50 100000 of investment in serie!
of financial devilments; and which ha
been staggering along ever since. Blu
last year, it paid S66,0C0 in salaries
to receivers. A tenth Of that sun
would have kept this part of the roat
inspected so that such disaster coult
, not have occurred.
Thirty-four years ago, a little late
in the year, worse disaster still oc
cured in Colorado. Eighty-eigh
bodies were recovered from the "cloud
burst wreck" of train on the Den
i yer & Rio Grande-a road which ha
: been so messed up by Gould famil.
: management that the following stor,
: was current in that region:
"Go long," said Rio Grande por
l ter to one from the Santa Fe. 9Th
Rio Grande kills more people than tn
Santa Fe totesw
X X X
!, On July 1920, this year, there wi
be National Health Conference i
f Washington, and Thomas Parrar
, Surgeon General Of the United State:
f will lay before that conference a six
, year plan for the states and the Fec
' eral government to run down and ta
f practically every case of tuberculosi
, in this country. The plan was draw
in New York, largely under the ure
= ing of Homer Folks, executive secre
tary of the State Charities Aid Asso
q citation; and was first given public vi
terance in Los Angeles. But that
= common thing with Washingto
: news.
+ Tuberculosis" DR.. Parran said
;. stating his approval of the plan, :"
battle half won." The death rat
!, from this disease has dropped SO pc
cent in 35 years; and this is a goo
Il time to make drive at the rest of
g 1t calls for drive at case findin,
O especially among families which hay
had t. b. case already. The plan
: to have an X-ray of each member {
|, the family and of each person in clos
: contact with the family.
= 1t is expected to cost about $269
;. 0O0,0C0 in six years, the Federal go
t. ernment furnishing more than tw,
thirds of it; and when it is done, tt
l. hope is to have every case known ar