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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

With war constant threat to the
world and even a nation like Sweden
thinking it necessary to increase her
armed forces, it may be we'll to see
what we can learn from the two un-
declared wars now going on in China
and Spain. We have been told by ex-
perts for some years that war now will
be short and terrible, because of the
new mechanical devices and improve
ments. The terribleness is admitted;
but what about the shortness?
1t is clear that Japan bit off more
than she could chew; but in spite of
immense superiority in all machinery
of war, no speed limits have been
broken. When fighting began in
Shanghai, Japanese spokesman said it
would be all over in three or four
weeks. Then they extended the time
to six weeks, then to three months, and
six months. Now, after more than a
year of fighting, the most optimistic
statement coming from Japan is that
the war will be finished "soon."
X X X
In Spain, the first success of Gen.
Francois treacherous assault was
rapid, ,and all his partisans were say
ing that he would rule all Spain in a
few months. The first assault was
made on July 19, 1886; and more than
two years afterward, Franco doesn't
rule Spain yet. Like Japan, he had
and still has great superiority in war
machinery of all kinds.
His army is composed largely Of
Italians; and Germany has furnished
his best artillery.
Without this foreign help, the war
would indeed have been brief. AS it
is, in spite Of the interference of the
Fascist powers, the issue is still doubt
full.
If these two experiments mean any
thing, they mean that modern war ma
chinery does not shorten war, unless
the odds are simply overwhelming, as
in Ethiopia. Even there, guerilla war
is still going on, and the Italian army
is still garrison in a hostile country.
The three dictators have tried to make
quick killing on a large nation; once
directly IN Cnlna, once lnQlrectly III
Spain. And they have failed both
| times.
X X X
Railroad workers who say that they
will not stand another wage cut be-
cause as group, they have been cut
more than enough already have some
rather startling facts to support them.
The railroad working force dropped
from 1854 600 in 1929 to 1,137 in
1887, loss of $4,000 jobs.
The railroad payroll fell from S2,-
$40, 100000 in 1929 to $2,O1S,677, GOO in
1887, loss of 1926, $4,000.
Both rolls and payrolls are going
down. Employment on railroads is
now only a little above 100000. Why
/ should further sacrifices be asked from
the workers? They are not responsible
for railroad policies.
And, speaking of those who are OF
pretend to be responsible, quite num-
Der of railroad presidents are getting
from $4,000 to 100000 year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
REFLECTIONS OF A "FRESHMAN'
(By Representative Bruce Barton of
New York in RedbOOk Magazine)

(by Representative bruce barton Ol
New York in RedhOOk MagaZine)
was surprised to discover how little
difference there is between Republicans
and Democrats. Each party includes
within it's own ranks men of different
economic faiths-radcals and conser-
vote divide the House along purely
party lines; nearly every crucial vote
cuts right across. The problem of to-
day are not political, but economic.
AS to the courage of Congressman,
they are about as brave on the aver
age and about as cowardly as men in
any other walk of life. Certainly 95
per cent of the members of Congress
want to do what is best for the peo-
pie of the United States. Given a
reasonable chance for free play, they
will make the right decisions. The
trouble is not with them, but with the
people back home.
The American voters have formed
the habit Of Judging a representative
not by what he can give the nation,
but by what he can get out of the pub
lie Treasury for his own district. In
their hearts, Congressman hate this,
but the voters insist. They organize
themselves into minority pressure
groups and enforce their demands
with the threat of defeat at the polls.
The cure for the faults of Congress
may be, in part, better Congressmen-
though | am frank to say | like them
and have a genuine respect for them
Just as they are. But the deeper and
only permanent cure is a change of
heart in the American people, a
spiritual revival which will give us
the same sort of patriotism we had
during the World War, when we for
got all about getting from the Govern
ment and asked ourselves only What
can | give?"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
GAIN IN CHILD LABOR
REGULATIONS

Washington, d. C. ULNS).-The
Labor Departments Childrens' Bureau
reports Improvements in child labor
regulations and school attendance re-
quirements in more than half the
states during 1887, with marked ad-
vances in North and South Carolina.
The two southern states were cited
especially for adopting basic mini
mum work age of 16. Their action
raises to 10 the number of states with
a l6-year minimum work standard
The others are Connecticut, Montana
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Utah and Wisconsin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15

Down through the centuries labors great ef-
fort has been to establish freedom so that slavery
and serfdom and peonage could no longer exist
but freedom, unless it is made to serve it's true
purpose, unless it is continually applied is Of lit
tile value. 1t dies unless continually exercised The
American wage earners hope for the present and
for the future is in the strength, the organized, de-
termined, militant activity of American trade
unionSm.-John p. Frey.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hotchet Gu,
The Truth
O AMERICANS WELL OFF
O Swing"
O NO "FUEHRERS"
O SPIRIT WILL LIVE

Do Americans really know how we'll
off they are?
Old question, usually answered in
the negative.
Spectacle of large part of the ma
ton at rest and play, on Labor Day,
gives rise to the question.
A good time was the prevailing note
of the holiday, lasting three or more
days for many.
There was knowledge of events in
Europe, perhaps some uneasiness
among some, but no sense or fear hov-
cred over the nation to chill the merry
making.
Across our borders no great masses
of armed men stood waiting the COM
mand of megalamaniacal dictators to
launch death and destruction on our
people.
Lighthearted "swing," not the heavy
and portentious beat of martial music,
ruled the American scene.
Did Americans think of this and
give a thought to how fortunate they
were in comparison with Europeans
A few did, most didn't, in all prob
ability.
Americans took the holiday as
matter of course, never thinking how
different it might have been.
No "fuehrers" were in evidence to
spread gloom.
Labor marched in great parades or
gathered in big meetings to hear
words Of peace, not war.
True, there was some mention of
internal dissention, with an occasional
belligerent expression.
Peace and cooperation, however,
were the dominating notes.
Labor executives stressed cooper
alton of employees, employers and gov
ernment to solve our problems.
William Green, Frank Morrison,
Matthew Woll, |. M. Ornburn and
others urged cooperation, in words of
labor craftsmanship.
The cooperative idea is gaining fast
and much will be heard of it from now
on. Labor is ready to help, as always.
x x x
papers are an important constructive
feature Of the Labor Day celebration.
The papers this year were chockful
of good stuff and carried a vast
amount of advertising from pro-
gressive business enterprises of many
| kinds.
Much space was devoted to labor
news of the day and to recalling or
ganized labor's achievements. IL.
Good will and understanding of the
labor movement were promoted and
the effects of this educational work
will carry through the months to come.
Labor Day, 1888, is gone but the
spirit of the days activities will live
until another first Monday in Septem-
ber rolls around.
Labor made a great and permanent
gain when the Norris-La Guardia anti
injunction bill took the Federal courts
out of the strike breaking business.
But one sizable offset to this gain
might have been foreseen from the
first, and is showing up now.
Corporations which want to keep
their autocratic control of labor are
turning more and more to state courts
and state governments.
1t might have been expected, of
course. One way to cure it is for la
Dor to make itself more important in
state elections. There is not much
fear that labor will overlook this rem
edy very long.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
WHAT NEXT?

A cable-laying plOw, which may
spell the doom of the telegraph
pole, has been tested in Ohio. The
plOw digs a furrOw and drops in
its wire, which feeds through from
spOOls like thread through
needle. Along with the telephone
wire, the plOw lays a Uncovered
copper strand which acts as
ground wire. A drag fills the fur
row. The plow is pulled by a
truck or tractor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
RAILROAD JOBS IN SLIGHT GAIN

Washington, D. C. OLNS).-The
ICC reports that Glass One railroads
employed 915,0SS workers in June with
total payroll Of S14O,391 ,94S. This
was an increase of about l per cent
over May. The report shows sharp
decline from a year earlier, however,
when the roads had LII ,683 employees
and a payroll of $167,925,7lS fer the
month.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15

of loyalty to the labor movement :. The labor
movement cannot afford to let division poll
cies destroy that spirit of cooperation which is
labor's major strength"
1t would be pretty hard to state better the case
for stanch upholdng of the principles of organ
lied labor until reunion comes
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
TRUTHS POWDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. POLITICS
. BIG BUSINESS
= WORKING PEOPLE
= POLITICS "ROTTEN"

. POLITICS "ROTTEN"
That is just public business
Nothing essentially dishonest, crook
ed or corrupt about it
Public business never bribed utility
officers
Politics never corrupted any private
interests
But private interests have curious
effects on politics.
Political function is to promote the
general welfare
Mainly, that means making and en-
forcing property laws
Because, our individual and general
welfare
I Depends upon maintaining orderly
relations
Especially in the control and use Of
property
When private interests, profit in
terests-
Want special privileges, either in
making or enforcing laws
Then is when politics begins to be
corrupt
That is, owners of private prop
erty-
Offer part of their profit to public
To get them to make or enforce laws
against the common welfare
Sometimes private interests take
over public Offices
Which is simply a destruction, to
that extent
Of the public nature of public busi-
Big Business has used some very
large chisels-
In carving out it's control of public
affairs
1t never copied from any public GUS
tom or practice
In it's methods of influencing legal
processes
Big Business methods introduced the
private profit motive
In buying control of public welfare
That is where politics got it's cor
ruption-
At which point it ceased to be poll
tics, or public business
Passing over into an alien domain.
X X X
Working people, the mass of the
citizens
Are interested mainly in the general
welfare
Impossible for them to apply private
profit motive to politics
They have always been damaged by
corruption in politics
Concerned only to prevent criminal
practices in handling property
They never tried to get special
privileges under law
Desiring only free opportunity to
work
Freedom as citizens to organize
X X X
No property rights were considered
as concerning the workers.
Until Supreme Court recognized a
property right in jobs
Property rights in uses of organiza-
ton on the jobs
Property rights, not in their labor
But in the opportunity and right to
bargain about their labor
This introduced new legal control
Of property
And the uses of property required
for utilizing labor
Herein arises the current "revolu-
tom
Meanings: change in the control
of property and it's uses.
X X x
Government is the implement of po-
litical action
1t defines and regulates property
and it's controls
In doing so it functions to promote
the general welfare
When government fails so to define
and regulate property
When it fails to secure access to es,
sential properties
For the benefit of the mass of the
citizens
Then government has been corrupt
ed
By the influence of private profits
Then government, and politlca
action
Has become infected with a foreign
virus
Then, politics is 'rotten."
':.:..,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15

1t requires great deal of boldness
and caution to make a fortune, and
when you have got it it requires ten
times as much to keep it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15

The men who try to do something and fail
are infinitely better than those who try to do moth
ing and succeed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15

Men succeed because they appreciate the fact
that there is more to consider than the turning
out of their daily bit.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-15
WISDOM

Whatsoever we beg of God, let
us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Blind Jiggs
Likes His
Pipe

SILVER SPRING, Nd, Feb. 8
Two familiar figures about the
streets of Silver Spring on sunny
afternoons are an elderly, gray
haired, pleasant-faced gentleman
and his blind dog, the latter
always with a corn cob pipe
clutched firmly in his teeth.
The man is o. P. Hansen. 909
Oak Ave, now retired after 25
years spent on the Panama Canal
for the Federal Government,
while his equally well known
four-footed companion is "Jiggs.
Jiggs is a 14-year-old Boston
Bull, who was blinded about 1O
years ago when he was scratched
in the eye by a cat during a
fight. He began to lose the sight
of the other eye a few years later
and has been totally blind for
about two years, Mr.. Hansen said
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Says Boake Carter

This is simply advice which says: Pass the
rotten apple to the taxpayer. Let him hold It'll"
Most washington gentlemen Of the Govern
ment" these days talk of the war being just
around the corner they plan what shall be done
when the emergency arrives.
When it comes to great nation in an en1er-
gency, its very operation revolves around its
system Of transport and distribution.
Suspend part of the ICC Act and give shipping
into the hands of the railroads, and there won't
be any shipping at all, or none worthy Of the
name.
am sorry Joe Kennedy didn't say to the
Senate Committee something like this:
Gents, these intercoastal and coastal ship
operators are on their uppers, without dime in
their pockets; not because they themselves are all
a bunch of dummies, but because they are part
and parcel Of the mess we have made out OF our
entire transport picture in America for the last
so years.
"It seems to me, gentlemen, that Government
ownership is not the solution for these ship
operators That's just dumping the unsolved
problem on to the taxpayers and letting them
pay the costs of this rotten set-up. What we need
is to examine the whole transport picture of Amer
ica fit each style Of transport into the whole
pattern let each find its own level, carry the
cargoes it's meant to carry on sound economic
basis"
'(Boake Carriers opinions are his otDn, and not
necessarily those of the Washington TirleS.)
Copyright, 1898. Ledger syndicate)
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
TUESDAY, FEB. 8, 1888
Bv Evalw Walsh Mclean

remember the look on that child's face as took
that doll put of the box and put it in her arms.
She looked up at me and said: "Oh lady, this
is heaven. And in very few seconds her little
head fell over and she was dead victim Of that
terrible scourge, tuberculosis.
Cried OUer Little Girl
I went home and cried myself sick. And then
father put his foot down and said Nov, no more
of this. You are too young to go through such
things"
Another surprising experience had was when
I took my maid and went up in little single
gauge railroad to the top of one Of the lowest
mountains near Denver to see my nurse, who was
dying of t. b. Never will forget that night Of
horror. Every poor soul had his little cup be-
side him at the dinner table, and when it came
time to 60 to bed, Maggie wouldn't let me sleep
in the little cottage, so we went out under the
trees and lay there all night nearly freezing to
death, as there was no way of getting back to
Denver until the next day!
I will always be glad that I went up to see
dear little Annie. She died soon after and there
is no truer saying in the world than, "All that
we send into the lives of others comes back into
our own"
No. the West is still the West, as found out
this summer in its grandeur, its natural beauty
created by nature, and the East is certainly dlt-
ferent, with its noise and its manlnade beauty.
There is really no way to compare the two Sec
tions but in my heart still live in the West, and
am proud was born in that funny little house
in the heart of Denver.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
2 D. C. HOLDUPS
NET THUGS SIS

Two holdups and a number OF
housebreakings were reported to
police overnight.
A colored gunman. who held up
a laundry branch at 10 Florida
Ave. N. w., "Short-changed" him
self, Nora G. Fentress, manager.
told police the man held his hand
in his overcoat pocket as though
he had a gun. and ordered her
to turn over all the cash."
She surrendered $22 and the
gunman walked out. In a safe in
the rear of the store 500 re-
mained unmolested. Miss Fen.
tress was robbed at the same shop
last August.
Two colored men, who hired the
taxi of Edward K. Harrison, %,
5000 block Sherman Ave. N. w.,
held him up at Kastle Place and
Foote Street Northeast and robbed
him of 1925. Harrison said the
men hired him in the 800 block
U st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
COURT REJECTS
JORDAN'S PLEA

With explanatory comment the
United States Court of Appeals to
day denied the application Of coun'
sci for Thomas Jordon, convicted
killer of Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes during
the Garden T-Shoppe robbery six
years ago, for permission to apply
for a writ which would have the
effect of reopening the case.
Jordon's counsel had first un-
successfully attempted to nave the
United States District Court grant
the obsolete writ of corum nobis,
but Justice Jesse C. Adkins refused
to hear the application after OBJ
lection by Assistant U. S. Attorney
Roger Robb.
James j. Laughlin, Jordon's at
torney, then made application to
the higher court for permission to
apply for a similar writ and the
application was refused today with
out hearing.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Dale Carnegie
In Demonstration

Dale Carnegie, well-known au
thor and teacher of public speak
ing, will give a free opening dem
onstration of "The Dale Carnegie
Institute of Effective Speaking
and Human Relations" Thursday
night in Constitution Hall.
Carnegie began teaching public
speaking % years ago in a branch
Y. NJ. C. A. in New York city
after being successfully a sales
man of correspondence courses
meat and soup, and trucks.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Training School
Facilities Taxed

DR.. James Lewald, superin'
tendent of the District Training
School for Feeble.Minded, warned
the Board of Public Welfare to-
day the increasing number of in
mates will tax the facilities of the
new hospital building which will
be completed this year at the
school in Laurel, Md.
DR.. Lewald told Welfare Direc'
tor Elwood Street the schools en-.
rollment has reached an all.time
high of 557. With this growth, he
added, very little relief" could
be expected when the hospital is
built,
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

EVaIyn ". Mclean w ''0117'o" ' =.
marvellous, natures slow process of building up
and tearing down through thousands of years
or mans quick progress, with his wonderful in
ventions during a very few years.
Life was certainly much simpler when lived
It out West No man of real standing ever had
to sign paper. His word was as good as his
bond. Money in those days was real money and
O little went long way.
Every Thanksgiving my maid and I used to
make up 10 or IS baskets, after getting list Of
poor families and take these baskets ourselves
to the homes. Father encouraged me to do this
and got great joy and pleasure out of it. until
one day walked into desolate little alley in
heart of Denver, and lying on the bed was
beautiful golden-haired girl nine years old Her
one desire was to have doll and I shall always
The Washington times., 1938-02-08

Summing up Kennedy had this to say:
Coastal ship revenues are slipping inter-
coastal operators have no money with which to
build new Ships the West Coast foreign service Is
inadequate; old ships cannot be replaced because
of the Government tanker-building program;
yards are full up for two years; program must
be laid down to make intercoastal ships compete
with buses and railroads; perhaps revision in
the ICC Act, forbidding railroad from operating
a ship line should be repealed; latter all, some
of the railroads have considerable money and
perhaps that's way out!"; new subsidies are no
good, because they'd be objected to and upset
the national economy.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Killer Freed
AcQuittdL Ordered in
Fatal StGbbing

James Broom, 80, 800 block Of
Fourth st. N. E., on trial in U. s.
District Court for the Staying Of
Ia friend who had intervened in
a quarrel between him and third
person, was acquitted on a directed
verdict yesterday.
Testimony was that Gilbert
Hawkins, 20, of the same address.
had been stabbed with a knife
welded by Broom during a quarrel
over an automobile with his land.
lord, William johnson, 81.
Broom told the jury that he did
not pull the knife until johnson
had struck him over the head with
"a chair and a crowbar and thrown
hot grease in his face. The stab
bing of his friend had been acci-
dental, he said.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
Dear Washington
By Helen EsSary

Mrs. H. sighed little and crept upstairs. She
knew at once she was defeated She had known
it subconscousy from the first moment she
planned the schedule. But she had been the
victim of her own EHtdey and her desire to be
like that woman in the magazine.
However, she wasn't prepared for what awaited
her. Pinned to her pillow, on the back of her
typwritten sheet of direction, was letter in
Mamies own labored pencil.
Ready to Quit
Dear Mrs. Hopeful: CANT unerstan why you
treat us like this. We always tries to do our bes
works hard. am on my feet from 7:15 to $3.50
at night. You hoared me to be a cook. does
the upstairs work as a favor. feel awful that
you treats me like this. If you don like me,
Willie and will get another job He don min
what you say but do. If you had tole me you
wanted a made you ought to have Sed so. was
not hoared to be made. was hoared to be
cook, not to turn down beds. En- we ought to
have more money. We is working for too little
Enbody knows that I am sorry we CANT be
frens Goodbye. MAMIE BUTLER"
P. S. 1t is best to draw delicate veil over the
next week in the once happy household of Mrs. H.
Silently. heavily, Mamie did her upstairs work,
carefully avoiding Mrs. H. The meals were per.
fectly cooked as usual. Willie served them smil-
ingly The vacuum cleaner sounded daily through.
out the house. But Mamie never spoke to
Mrs H., except by small notes, such as: 1--WE needs
10 pounds of potatoes"
Once Mrs H. went into the kitchen to speak to
Mamie. With one hand Mamie was pouring water
out of cup onto shrunken geranium in the
window SILL With the other she was wiping tear
with her apron, or maybe it was dish towel.
The scene was more than Mrs. H. could bear.
She sgnalled to Willie to stop the vacuum cleaner.
"Tell Mamie to cheer up" she said. I'm going
to raise your wages five dollars month"
''Yes, man." said Willie land turned the
vacuum on full speedI"