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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
MEDICAL CARE

THERE is a steadily gaining insistence in the
public demand that steps be taken to develop
land implement national health program. There
lis no difference of opinion to whether all fam
lilies have adequate medical during sickness to
say nothing of preventive to sustain good
Health. Two-thirds of all families have incomes
under S1450 per year; 80 percent have incomes
under $25O0.
Families with incomes between S2500 and $5,-
1000 are able to have medical care for normal i'll
nesses but major sickness or operation bears
heavily on family income. A movement growing
lin popularity within these income levels is cooper
ativeS for medical care-or prepaid medical care
plans centering around disqualification OF group
organized for group medical practice. These move
ments are good and they indicate the way to gov
ernment action, but they lack the permanence pro-
vided by government plans with compulsory con-
trbutions. When income margins are narrow peo-
pie do not or cannot regularly lay aside for medical
care that is not imperative whereas a government
plan would provide regularly for payment of small
Joint contributions and by including larger num-
berS Of persons would reduce the burden on all.
The problem of bringing medical care within the
possibilities of the great majority of families is
social responsibility.
The proposal of the American Medical Asso-
citation to provide medical care through tax sup
ported agencies would provide On y for what the
doctors call the '.medicay needy'-a most dis
tasteful term. Nothing in their proposals consid-
ers the needs of the great masses of selfsupport-
ing Wage-earners and small salaried workers to
whom health is indispensable to continued income
earning.
The American Medical Association has always
cooperated with workmen's compensation covering
accidents and occupational diseases 1t is we'll
known that the problems and difficulties under
worllmen's compensation have grown out of per-
mlttlng commercial insurance companies to have
any part in the administration of social legisla-
ton Social purposes and profit making have moth
ing in common. If we required compensation leg
islation to set up exclusive state funds, we could
then safely expand worlmens compensation un-
der Federal leadership to provide medical care for
nOn-induStral Illnesses under conditions which
the medical profession has found sound
Our Government must be prepared to act upon
some national health plan in the near future and
it should have the cooperation of the American
medical profession and all other interested groups
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
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: IN THE news !
! HUGH B. COX I
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Hugh B. Cox, who is representing
the Department of Justice at the hear
ings of the Monopoly Committee, is
another of those young men who are
forging toward the front in the work
of the New Deal. He is only 33 years
old; yet he is handling this important
work with satisfaction to the public
and his chiefs.
Cox is westerner. He was born
in Iowa, in place called Logan,
which you will have trouble in finding
on a small map. His folks seem to
have moved west, for he went to pub
lie schools at Lincoln, Nebraska, and
graduated from the University of Ne
braska in 1926-when he was not quite
20, He was Rhodes scholar, took a
degree with high honors at Christ
Church College at Oxford.
Back in America, he graduated in
law, and was associated for four years
with the law firm of Root, Clark,
Buckner and Ballatine. Elihu Root,
Senior, could not have been active in
the firm in Cox's day, but his reputa-
tion as the most eminent and expen-
sive lawyer in America still persisted; !;
and Boss Tweed's Endorsement of the
elder Elihu is remembered yet:
"Other lawyers tell me what l can't
do" complained Tweed. "Root tells
me how to do what l want to do"
In 1885, Young Cox came to the
Department of Justice. and has heen
there ever since. He. has had dig
ging and preparing part in some very
important cases, and conducted for
the government the hearings on the
milk trust in Boston. In other words,
he is in line to be one Of those who
tell the more respectable financial
rivals of Tweed at the present time
what they can't do, and how they can
keep from doing it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hotchet Out
The Truth
. "HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL"
= WAGE-HOUR ACT
BENEFITS
= ANTI-AMERICAN
ACTIVITIES
= SHOULD SPEAK FRANKLY

Hope springs eternal" So, as ever
new year brings fresh hope to the
human race.
Hope of happier times, with more
money to spend.
Improvement in business and in
dustrial conditions gives 1889 bet
ter start than 1888 had.
Incomes and living standards are
again on the rise.
That makes for national cheerful
ness and optimism.
A spirit of cooperation among all
groups is more in evidence than in
some years, many observers say.
If this spirit is indeed rife, 1889 is
off to a promising start, despite dark
clouds, domestic and foreign.
x X X
Benefits of the wage-hour act are
expected to begin to "take" in 1889.
AS more and more groups of
meagerly paid wage earners are
brought under provisions of the law
it's effect will grow.
Wages will advance in many Sec
tions.
Help to flat pocketbooks will be first
in evidence where the increases go in
to effect.
Then they will spread, farther and
farther, ultimately giving a boost to
ALL buying power and Frightening
the whole national picture.
x X X
Representative Dies demands that
Administration leaders say exactly
how they stand on continuation of his
House committee inquiry into anti
American activities.
Well, why not?
Attitude of some Administration
spokesmen has indicated dislike of the
Dies investigation but they have said
little publicly.
Why shouldn't they speak frankly,
So he>American people will know be-
yond a doubt where they stand.
AS Dies says, the American people
"have right" to know the facts in
the matter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
FACT, NOT DENUNCIATION,
NEEDED
BY Raymond Clapper

Chairman O'Mahoney, in the first
two series of hearings before his joint
economic committee, has demon
strated that it is possible to conduct
a penetrating and conclusive line of
inquiry without boiling anybody in oil.
The very cold objectivity of the pro-
cedure made the facts disclosed in the
investigating of the glass bottle in
dustry all the more devastating. From
testimony Of top executives in the in
dustry itself, the O'Mahoney commit
tee laid bare picture of tight mon
opoly, combining the crop control
features of AAA and the industrial
regulation of NRA all neatly ex-
ecuted by private industry through a
monopolistic grip on the business of
manufacturing glass bottles.
But nobody was hauled out of town
,, on a rail; rail-, On w,ffgaetrary, as as, the
man O'Mahoney .4hked the glass
bottle executives tor cooperating to
provide the facts, Trust Buster Thur
man Arnold seconded the chairman,
and then Judge Edgar Goodrich, coun-
sci for the witnesses, thanked the
committee for it's unfailing courtesy
and kindness to his clients. If Judge
Goodrich had brought his guitar along,
the hearings would have wound up in
a singing party.
Yet the record of those hearings is
packed with enough dynamite to blow
the present patent system out of the
water, as it may very likely do.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
UNEMPLOYED BENEFITS

THE constructive work implemented by the un-
employment compensation provision of the
Social Security Act is revealed in the statement by
the Social Security Board that for the first ten
months Of 1888 January- OctobeD $40, 1856, 1893
in unemployment benefits were paid to the iobless
in tWenty-nine States which have complied with
the stipulations Of the Act. In October alone the
benefit payments amounted to $35 23O, ,723.
Although the Social Security Act became eff
fectVe in 1896, some of the twenty-nine States in
cludcd in the Social Security Boards statement
postponed enacting suitable State legislation so
that many workers forced into the jobiess army
by employers have not received unemployment
until recently. In Idaho, for in
stance, unemployment benefits were first paid in
September.
The $31O ,359, ,393 paid out by the twenty y-nine
States during the first ten months of this year
and the $35,23O,723 paid out in October are very
impressive bulk figures. But the evident made
quacy of the weekly compensation to provide job
less workers and their dependents with even the
neceSsares of life is disclosed in the information
impaired by the Social Security Board that 'the
average payment for total unemployment in the "a
States for which data are available for October
was $11.3l, and ranged from $5.78 in Mississippi
to $l3.39 in Michigan" and that 'for partial ul-
employment, the average payment in the 16 States
for which data are available was $500, ranging
from $3.50 in Tennessee to 81 20 in Utah.
The varying conception of State legislators re-
gardng the amount of weekly benefits which Job
less workers have and the equally evident convic-
tion of the legislators that the unemployed and
their dependents should be treated as a pauper
class plainly set forth by expanding the high
est and lowest average weekly benefits listed by
the Social Security Board to include the average
weekly benefit in each of the "a States Here are
the figures: Alabama, $S.25; Arizona S11 80; Cal
fornia, $9.8l; District of Columbia, $S.42; Idaho,
$lo12; Iowa, 1898; Louisiana $3.50; Maine,
$9.42; Massachusetts, $l0.73; Michigan, $13.39
Minnesota $1o.53; Mississippi, $5.7S; New Hamp-
shire, 1924; New York, $l1.4S; Oregon, S112l;
Pennsylvania, $l0.S7; Rhode Island, $1035; South
Carolina, $7.37; Tennessee, %.39; Utah, $1OS9
Vermont 1926; Virginia, 9o.47; West Virginia
I9ll.O4; Wisconsin, $11.S4.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
"A World Of THOUGHT"

Washington, D. S.-Some of the
questions which now provide the world
with "a WORLD OF THOUGHT:
How long can President Cardenas
of Mexico play with fire (Hitler) be-
fore he gets his fingers burned?
1t would be smarter to play catch
with Uncle Sam!
Is the Franco-German "No War
Treaty" squeeze play on Mussolini's
French Territorial ambitions?
Probably, because Hitler doesn't
want too strong competitor for his
World supremacy ambitions!
Who will deny that the Lima Con-
ference is not the direct result of real
threats to the peace of this country
from the totalitarian states of
Europe?
Hitler, because he sees that an
alignment of South American coun-
tries with U. S. will result in his first
spanking from Mother Democracy!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS

A $l,300,000 addition to the factory
of the Addressograph- Multigraph Cor
poration, Cleveland, will be ready for
bids about the first Of the year. Plans
are being completed for the new
structure, reports state.
Bids on three municipal con-
struction projects costing an estimated
$9lS,5O0 are being asked by the City
of Youngstown. Part of large PWA-
Municipal program, the three units
are new municipal building, a
junior high school and grade school.
The United States Housing Au-
thority has approved a loan of $780,
GOO to the Warren Metropolitan Hous-
ing Authority for a $1,101 600 hous-
ing project to be located on II acre
site, location Of which has temporarily
been withheld.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
Labor Parude" Broadcast
Brings Numerous Inquiries

Washington, D. C.-Numerous in
quiries, asking if the dramatization
of the German. boycott incident in
"The Labor Parade" for December
was the true objective of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, have been
received. The answer is, Yes! And
this great American institution hopes
that all America will rise as one in
the boycott against goods and SER
vices originating in Germany, as be-
ing representative Of Americas stand
on the question of human rights.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
Taxes Force Curtuilment
OF Employment In Stores

Washington, d. C.-In 1888 when
the first special chain store taxes be-
came effective in four states, the
largest grocery chain employed 9S,-
1873 persons. At the beginning of the
year when 23 states were levying
special punitive taxes, its personnel
numbered S5,4O4. During the same
period it had closed 3,675 stores.
Taxes in one state forced closing of
nearly 500 stores and closing employ
ment to about 5000 men and women.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
EXTENDS INSURANCE LIMIT

Washington, D. C. QLNS).-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, acting on the auth
ority given to him by amendments to
the National Housing Act, has ap-
proved the increase of $1,0O0,000,OO0
in the capacity of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration to insure residen-
tial mortgages. The limit before was
two billions, all of which but $415,-
100000 had been taken up; SO the in
crease amounts to so per cent.
Residential building has gone high
er II 1855 than III any other year since
1929.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
COMMENT ON WORLD !
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Loud announcement has been made
that the American Medical Associa-
tion will fight the indictment render
ed against it by a Federal grand jury
''to a finish." But the word going
round in Washington is quite differ
ent. That word is that a majority of
doctors do not want to fight, that they
can see that some form of group
health association is coming, and are
perfectly willing to have things tried
out.
At this writing, the odds are that
the Indictment will be settled by a
consent decree, which will open hos
pitals and medical societies to doctors
in group practice.
The uncommon interest which the
public is taking in this matter is not
at all hard to explain. In the last two
or three years, increasing numbers of
people are learning that poverty is
one of the chief causes Of illness and
death. They are getting such facts
as these:
Men getting from 81, 500 to $4,000
a year have an average loss of z days
a year from illness and accidents
men getting less than $1,000 year
have 1919 days; and men on relief have
17.4 days.
Day laborers in proportion to num-
bers have T times as many deaths
from pneumonia as professional men,
and times as many from tuberculo-
sis.
1t is bad policy to fight public opin-
ion which is backed by such facts as
these.
The General Council of the British
Trades Union Congress and the Natl
onal Committee of the Labor Party
have launched a Workers Film AS
sociation, to present the cause of
British organized labor on the
screen. Talking films, educational, po-
litical and some foreign are already
available. Co-operatives are being
formed to buy sound equipment
Nobody has yet wired from Britain
anything to match the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union in it's
play of "Pins and Needless" That is
one of the most popular plays on the
stage in this country; and if the po-
litical nature is less marked than in
the British films, the IGLWU gets it's
message across, just the same.
x X X
The charge d'affaires of Germany
in Washington has filed with our
State Department categorical
promise that residents of this country
falling heir to property in Germany
can have due credits for that prop
erty transferred to America without
let or hindrance. Few papers print
ed the two reasons for Germany's
action.
A week before this notice, Phil
adelphia judge, Raymond Mac Nellie,
refused to allow money from a $91,-
600 trust fund to be sent to Germany.
He said in part: "In view of the fact
that money belonging to beneficiaries
in this country is not permitted to
leave Germany, | do not think it fair
or proper to transfer funds from this
country for beneficiaries in Germany"
Reason 2: About $5,000,000 a year
goes to German heirs from the United
States, and not more than half that
much comes in the same way from
Germany to the United States.
But it was Judge MacNeille who
rang the bell. Hitler might have
dawdled over the second reason; but
he came through on the other in a
week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
WHAT NEXT?

New things used at home and
elsewhere include fans which
draw warm air out of hOt-air
registers in hard heat rooms,
electric a extension cords which
stretch when required and then
recoil to take up the slack, and
batteryless fl S h | i & hts with
spring operated electric gener-
atOrs which are wound up like a
watch.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
DARST RECOVERING

Columbus, o, (OLNS).-Tom Darst,
New Philadelphia, former president of
the Ohio State Conference of Brick
layers and well known in labor cir
cles, returned to his home before
Christmas after undergoing a serious
operation in White Cross Hospital
here
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
MIR. MODESTUS

II BATTLES
o DEMOCRACY PUT TO REST
Peace
Or security
Men have not always wanted
peace
Sometimes, not wishing to be dis
turbed-
Men have been willing to go to war
for the sake of peace
Then, there have been the men who
lived by war
Tartars, Goths, Huns, Vikings,
Norsemen-
Legions of Rome, and Mohammedan
hordes--
These did not want security, for
very long at time
Blood-letting was their tradition
Every nerve, muscle and impulse
was trained for battle
They fought for the raiders loot
They thought little Of farming, less
of craftsmanship
Except that they made armour and
built fighting ships
If they tarried too long at the camp
or homestead
Their women taunted them as cow
ards
The trail of the soldier is a long,
trail
Coming down all the centuries
Path by which mankind has travelled
to where it is today
Red-blooded men, have always been
those who could fight
X x x
Has been mainly the story of war
Only recently has emphasis fallen
elsewhere
Human acquisitiveness discovered
easier roads to wealth.
Dying soldiers could not "take it
with them
Possession came to be more import
ant than risk of battle
Power passed from the point of
sword
To the holder Of title deeds
Miners picks brought more gold
than swords and lances-
greatly reduced by the change
Corporation management conquered
greater realms
Business men lived longer than
famous generals
Welded wider and more permanent
leadership
Manufacture and commerce began
to put new premiums on skill
Even men in the ranks rated higher
for production than for destruction
Mailed fists were replaced by arms
of the Law
Rule of Legal Rights crystallised
Rights of Conquest
Until Civilization imposed upon the
Nations
International Law.
X x X
Framework, scaffolding, skeleton of
this body
Democracy became essential, how
ever qualified
To peaceful acquiescence in control
by possession
Security could be had only by peace
in the world
war threatened to disturb all legal
property relations
War became more costly than it's
loot could balance
For those who are in possession
Only common consent gave power to
property
Which could be had, when and so
long
AS distribution of benefits out
weighed
Possibilities of loot
x x
Then arose the Have-Nots--
Coming too late to the battle
fields
They rallied to leaders who imple-
mented their envy
Saw a world fat and fearsome-
Refusing to WELD or adequately to
fashion
Weapons Of terror, or impose disci-
plines of war-
Smashers OF accepted customs, de-
posed gods of peace
And now put Democracy to its final
test
Of threatened Universal War.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-29
WISDOM

A man should never be ashamed
to own he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying in other
words, that he is wiser today
than he was yesterday.-Alex-
ander Pope.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-27
WASHINGTON PRODUCE

various varieties: North Carolina, fair
quality, $3@3.25; New Jersey. $405, few
higher. mostly $4.5O@A75.
Celery-Market steady. One Florida
arrived; 4 broken cars on track. Flor
ida. Florida standard and 16-inch crates
trimmed tops, individually washed, Az.
10 dozen, s3@5, mostly ss.7S.
Corn-Market steady. No carlot ar
and Georgia, crates, 32@225; Alabama
dozen bags, S1.75.
Cucumbers-No carlot arrivals; no cars
on track. Market about steady. Florida,
Sushe hampers Sd1Es 81, 81 N9PfH,S Section 30
Lettuce-Market slightly stronger. Two
California arrived; / car diverted; .
broken and / unbroken cars on track,
dozen. S3@3.7S, mostly $3.50 3:76;
poor quality and condition. $292.b0; New
Jersey, Eastern crates. Big Boston type,
50675c.
arrived; 2 broken and / unbroken cars
on track. 50-lb. sacks, yellow Bermudas
Texas, u. s. No. 1, $3.50 a LIS; U: s.
Commercial and U. s. No. O. S1@l'6O'
mostly $1.25.
Cauiiflower-No carlot arrivals; 2 broken
cars on track. California, crates, sac
$50, mostly $2.25.
Peas-cne California arrived: 3 broken
cars ON track. Bushel hampers: Califor'
mia, market slightly stronger, $3@2.1O;
North Carolina and Virginia, holdovers
poor condition, SOC.
Tomatoes-Market steady. Two Texas
arrived; I broken and 3 unbroken cars
on track. Lug boxes, ripes and turning,
wrapped: Florida. 6x6, S1.25@1.5O, few
higher: SKI, $101.26. Texas. 6x6, S1.66
OILS. few 50.
waterm elons-Market steady. No car
lot arrivals; no cars on track. Florida,
Tom Watsons. 34-36-lbs. average, 90c o
81; 2S-30-lbs. average, 65975c.
Snap Beans-No earlot arrivals; no
cars on track. Market about steady.
Bushel hampers: Georgia and North
Carolina, green flat type and round
stringless, 75c@$1. mostly soc; few
round stringless, $1@1.10.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-27
TEN SPOTS open.
IN SPEED RACE.

INDIANAPOLIS. May AZ ON
S0.-Just 10 places remained to-
day to be filled in the starting
lineup for Mondays 50O-mile auto
classic, following successful ef-
forts Of four more speedway stars
to qualify. The four, together
with 10 previously qualified.
seemed certain Of rolling to the
starting line on Memorial Day.
They were Kelly Petillo, who
relaxed after two desperate at
tempts to shatter existing records
and qualified his car at a sedate
1887 miles an hour; Shorty
Canton, Detroit veteran, 120.906;
AL Miller, Of Detroit, 1876, and
AL Putnam, Of Van Mugs, CAL,
whose 1871 average for the Is
mile trial sprint was the first to
fall below 11S miles an hour.
Dusk was settling over the rae
ing park when Petillo ventured
out Of the pits and began his
third strike" trial. He had pre-
viously exhausted two chances
fruitlessly when hard luck logged
him.
Qualifying trials will continue
through today and tomorrow.
Nineteen cars remain unquaH-
fled and the starting field, II It
Is to comprise the traditional 80
cars, must be completed from
these. But time pressure was the
biggest obstacle to the drivers and
laboring over their
In the speedway sheds,
for rule notifications introduced
this year left numerous changes
to be made and there was pre-
ciouS little time in which to make
them.
That the new rules, lifting all
fuel restrictions, promised q faster
race than ever was run here be.
fore became evident when Shorty
Canton turned in the seventeenth
trial run above two miles .
minute.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-27

the windy City as part Of a
d oub l e-header attraction, Is
news to, the Colonial forces. No
contract was signed -. DEL
BISSONETTE, former George
town University baseball player,
who carried on for some time in
the majors, Is now manager Of
tho Glace Bay team In the Cape
Breton Coliery League in Nova
Scotia.
BUDDY LEWIS may make
the majors next season-no not
the Mats Buddy, but Indian
apolis' Lewis, who is one Of the
standout catchers in the
American Association. PAUL
WAIVER, Of the Pirates, is out
TO collect 200 hits this year,
which would make nine years Of
such tremendous hitting to tie
TY COBB'S record When
JAKE WADE, Of the Tigers, re-
ceived word last week that he
was the father Of a son, he In
formed his teammates the boy
would have no such name as
JACOB" A few days later he
ceiVed . letter from his wife
announcing the infant had been
named JACOB FIELDS WADE
ID.