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Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
HOW SWEDEN HANDLES
INDURTRY AND LABOR

Editors Note: AXel Nenner-Gren,
Sweden's foremost industrialist. has
just returned TO his own country from
a tour of the world. Known because of
his widespread financial interests and
factory-Worker beginnings as the Henry
Ford of Sweden. Wenner-Gren's OBJ
serVations on labor, particularly peril
nent to the United States are repro
dueed here:
1t seems TO some of us here that
America troubles are due largely to the
mutual distruSt among capital, labor and
government. American capital has fought
attempts 10 remedy American backward
hess in social and economic reforms Like
wise. the labor leadership refuses to view
relations with capital from a realistic
viewpoint while Washington is trying
quasi-revolutionary methods which older
Democrats, like Sweden. learned can be
accomplished in the long run only by
orderly political evolution.
Swedish industry, accepts the union
iZation of workers as their inalenable
right and even cooperates to help achieve
II sometimes. Industry is encouraged to
organize on a nationwide basis Just like
labor. This has resulted in two united
fronts and an approximate balance of
power which has brought wholesome mu-
tual respect. Each side knows the power
of the other and neither is very anxious
to bring about ma jor conflict because
each knows from experience that it can
cause the other great damage.
Capital here prefers to deal with
strong and responsible unions somewhat
in the same way that it prefers to deal
with strong and responsible businesses.
Furthermore, under Swedish law, a labor
union is just as responsible for the per-
formance of its contracts as any corpora
tion and can be sued for damages for
breach of contract
Here in Sweden that unWarranted fear
of unioniZation, which is found in some
other countries, is practically non-exis-
tent. Likewise, there is not much fear
on the part of labor that capital may un-
duly prosper In general, labor repre-
sentatives here temper their demands for
wages and working conditions upon what
experience and education has shown that
industry in question can bear Generally,
labor does not object to good profits for
capital but really hopes employers pros
per because laborers know by experience
that only capitals ability to make and
increase profits will permit them ulti-
mately to obtain higher wages
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
IS THIS ANOTHER
TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT?

DR.. A. L. Morgan, ousted chairman
of the Tennessee Valley Authority, has
said lot of words in testimony before
the congressional committee appointed to
look into IVA.
The trouble is, he hasn't yet said any
thing.
Dr. Morgan's latest blast was to the
effect that, ''in my opinion several mil
lion dollars have been wasted in layout
and construction of transmission lines.
If that is so, the public has a right
to know it. If it is not so, DR.. Morgan
has no right to say it. The same state
ment could come from an Eskimo at the
North Pole-and the Eskimo could back
it up with Just as much evidence as DR..
Morgan produced All he did was sug-
gest that the committee look into costs.
He didn't say where several million dol
lars" were wasted, nor how.
Dr. Morgan has created considerable
of furore with his charges of rottenness
in IVA management. He refused to tell
President Roosevelt any specific in
stances, saying he would not talk except
before a committee from congress.
Now he is before the committee from
congress, and still he has told nothing.
He has had three days to tell it in. No
body can be blamed for wondering if,
after all, he really has anything to tell.
Unless Dr. Morgan cuts loose pretty
soon, he will go down as another day
dreamer, political opportunst, or what
have you?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
NOT REAL RELIGION
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

At a religious meeting in Georgia a
woman permitted a snake to bite her and
then refused medical attention. This
supposedly was an act of religious faith
In this instance the faith was not justi-
fled because the woman died. An element
of tragedy is the fact that she was the
mother Of several children.
People do this sort of thing for diff
ferent reasons. Sometimes it comes from
oVer-Wrought religious emotion. Again,
it may be prompted by the desire for
notoriety. One is the manifestation of
bad religion. No emotional expression is
wholesome or helpful unless controlled
by intelligence. The other is an illegiti-
mate use Of religious forms for bad per-
sonal ends.
Not enough is known about this in
cident to judge this unhappy woman. 1t
is clear however, that this sort of thing
is not real religion. genuine act of reli-
gious faith is not the violation of known
laws. 1t is rather an adventure based on
what we know of life's laws, which takes
us beyond ourselves and our own selfish
interests
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

least 2,0OO,OO stockholders are EN-
ployes buying stock in their own
companies, which means they are
workers.
And despite the disillusionment
of 1929-1933 despite eight long years
of depression, the stockholders
group is found by Barrons TO be
growing rather than declining. Fur
ther than that, 1t has been grow
ing recently at a faster rate than
it did in the days before the depres
sion.
Thus it is small wonder that the
recent furry in the stock market
caused a thrill along the whole bu-
we'll to say that the stock market
merely rejects or discounts in ad-
vance business conditions. But with
seven or eight million people di-
rectly interested in stocks, the psy-
choogical effect of the course of
the markets is bound TO be great.
Thus "the market" not only is in
fluenced by business conditions, it
is in itself an influence on those
conditions.
Whether you deplore it as new
marshalling of lambs for some fu-
ture shearing, or welcome 1t as
evidence of more people having a
direct stake in the national econ
omy, the bare fact that more people
than ever before are stock-owners
is significant one which ought not
to be left out of the calculations of
all political and social soothsayers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
CEMENT FOR THE TEMPLES
OF ECONOMIC LIFE

Sweden has solved the same labor
problems that confront the United States.
How she has solved them Is told in the
adjoining column on this page by one of
that country's foremost industrialists,
man who knows both sides of the employ
er-employe relationship, and one who has
seen similar problems in every country
IN the world. Mutual trust between labor
and industry is his recommendation.
In that phrase, mutual trust, lies
the difference between the chaos that is
industrial life in America, and the peace
that marks industrial life in Sweden.
What this nation most needs is a ce-
ment to make whole again the structure
of industry; to fill the gaps existing be-
tween the parts of that structure-for
both employer and employe are integral
pillars in the temple of industry.
Not until labor is as responsible to
the law as are the employers can the two
factions meet on common ground, and
not until they meet on common ground
will an uneasy spirit of distrust be over
come. With responsibility, the unions
will gain power-but it will be the power
of a righteous cause and not the power of
a dues-collecting charlatan.
Responsibility for labor unions, fast
becoming an inevitable step in the indus
trial life of the nation, will firmly cement
America into one unit. working for one
goal-prosperity.
There should be no class struggle in
this country. If the employers do not
make profits, wages are lost for the
employees. If the employees do not make
good wages, lost purchasing power scales
down profits for the employer.
When both employer and employe in
this country realize the truth of that
simple rule and realize, too, that it
applies in all cases, and not simply to
the "other fellow'-there will be har-
mony in the economic life of the nation.
Cooperation b e w e responsible
groups, not discord and class warfare,
will solve Americas industrial problems
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
Well III! ;
Tell ou..
says
Bob Burns

Women may be lot weaker tnan
men physically but in an emer-
geney they remain cool and men
tally calm while a man will go all
To pieces and lose his self-controi'
Not long ago l took Uncle Unie
and Aunt Boo TO big society func-
ton and some of the guests were
gathered around playing the wheel
of fortune.
In a loud voice Asmt Boo said
I'm gonna play the number oil
my age So she put a quarter on
thirty-two. When the wheel stop
ped ON number forty-seyen, Aunt
Boo didn't bat an eyelash. but Uncle
Unie blurted out and said "See
there, Boo-if you'd told the truth,
you'd won."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
Bruce Cation Says
The Market-a Barometer That Changes Weather

1t is quite usual to think of the
1928-29 era as time when every
body was buying stocks; there were
jokes about boot blacks taking a
flyer in the market.
We think Of that as a bygone
time, as a strange phenomenon
which flared up and died away.
That is why it comes as a sur
prise to see Barron's financial week
ly asserting that there are today
more stockholders in the country
than ever before.
The result of a survey made by
the magazine indicates that there
are probably 25,0OO000 holders of
common and preferred stock in the
country today. Allowing for dup
lications due to those who hold sew
eral stocks, the estimate is that
somewhere between seven and
eight million Americans own stocks,
half Of them being stockholders in
the 1000 leading corporations.
Now that a very large number
of people. 1t is four or five times
as large as the American Legion,
which eXerts very considerable
influence on national affairs. It is
probably as big as the whole of or
ganized labor, AT. of L. and C.
10. taken together. 1t is equal
to the whole population of great
states like Illinois, Ohio, or Texas.
OF course it is not an organized
pressure bloc, and probably it
should not be, for it cuts across
many other lines. For instance, at
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

recover. No chance the surgeon
said. Well. there might be one
chance. the barest possiblity-n
they could arouse the boy, create
in him the desire to live
Babe Ruth, the baseball marvel
was the boys idol. If only they
could get a ball for the boy auto
graphed by Ruth, it might rouse
his interest and create strength IN
him to fight through.
As it happened, the Babe was
passing through the town. We was
told about the boy.
Johnny" said the dying lads
nurse, an hour later, somebody
is here to see you. Open your eyes.
Look Johnny.!
Into that room walked the AM
erican boys god-the huge bulk OF
Babe Ruth. He wore a polo coat
and a flap cap. He had flat nose
and small. piggy eyes. A huge black
cigar was stuck in one corner OF
his large mouth.
Johnny gasped; then he sat up.
His God sat on the foot OF his bed,
grinning at him, and said:
Johnny, I'm gonna hit a home
run Just for you this afternoon
It's gonna be your home run. You
watch. Now hurry up and get well
SO you can come and see me play
When Babe Ruth went away, he
left an American league ball with
his name written on it. And that
afternoon he baSted one far out OF
the lot for a homer, just as he said
he would.
Johnny lived and got we'll.
This story is told by Paul Gal
lico in his Farewell to Sport" a
book recently published by Alfred
A. Knopf.
In that book Calico tells the tale
of Ruth's amazing life, probably
the greatest success story over writ
ten.
There was another reason for
Babe Ruth's Overwhelming popu-
larity aside from his great success
as a ball player Babe Ruth has the
capacity for making friends. On a
busy day when merely passing thru
a town, he can forget himself and
think of others.
who despise small things. Michael
The greatest men are not those
angelo was one day explaining to
a visitor at his studio what he had
been doing to a statue since his
previous visit. Il have retouched
this part, polished that, softened
this feaure, bought out that muscle,
given some more expression to this
lip, more energy to that limb.
But those are trifles,' the visitor
remarked. 1T may be So" replied
Michaelangelo, but recollect that
trifles make perfection-and per-
fection is no trifle."
Attention and painstaking indus
try always mark the true worker.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
Barbs go

A rise in business forced a knit.
ting mill in Salamanca, N. Y. tt
take on an extra shift of workers
There's one plant that hasn't beer
Worsted by the recession.
There's an OminOus note i'm tn,
invention of a folding porch fol
auto trailers. Watch it, Pa; be.
fore you know il you'll be mOwin,
portable lawn.
Everybody will agree with Tn,
lady lecturer who stated that WON
EN- were just as important as mer
in today's struggle. II it weren'
for women there might not ever
be any struggle.
Hollywood is going To produce
mCvie version of Gunga Din. Peo
pie who know the place fOresee a
the title: "Gunga The Wind"
A farmer in Vermont who re
placed his last horse with a piec,
of machinery the other day tor
his stable down. The rumor
that he remarked of the structure
1T won't belong now
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
News Behind
the News
FDR's Campaign /.
Curtain Raiser


Roosevelt's attempt to encompass
defeat of certain senator's and cleo
ton of others in the 1888 Demo-
cratic primaries is only curtain
raiser. 1t will be followed by two
exciting turbulent political years as
F.. D. r. plunges ahead with his
crusade TO liberalize the Democratic
party and to control its 1910 noml-
nations.
This will be true regardless OF
the degree of failure or success OF
1898 purge efforts, say Roosevelt's
intimates. The President left on
his western trip happier than ever.
He feels he has created situation
where political realignment is in
evitable and that it's more fun
fighting down a straight-line track
than playing the part OF shifty
politician.
Presidential strategy after No
Vember will be worked out as time
goes ON. The strong New Dealish
flavor of recent presidential ap-
pointmentS, plus slaps at Senators
Byrd and Glass of Virginia, Tyd-
ings of Maryland, and McCarran
of Nevada through removal OF
friends from federal office or ap-
pointment of political enemies in
the senator's home states. may pre-
sage one phase of attack. II SO,
there will be battles royal over yari-
Gus senatorial combinations.
Throughout the tenure of the
next Congress there will be no
question of Roosevelt's hope of
driving his programs opponents
from office. In the center OF the
fighting will be those Democratic
senatorial opponents up for re-
nomination and election in 1910, in
Guiding Burke of Nebraska, Byrd
of Virginia, Gerry of Rhode Island,
Holt of West Virginia, King of
Utah, Walsh of Massachusetts, and
Wheeler of Montana.
Neither Roosevelt nor Admins
traitor Harry Hopkins has uttered
the slightest reproof to WPA Dep
uty Administrator Aubrey Williams
since he publicly told WPA work
ers to Keep your friends in pow
err
Both liked the speech, even
though the Senate campaign in
vestigating committee censured
Williams. Hopkins privately says
he will refuse to be muzzled dur
ing the campaign months, regard
less of the committee.
I'm for Roosevelt" says the WPA
administrator. I'm not for Lam
DON"
Various reasons behind the cut
in steel prices and virtual elimina-
ton of the basing point system by
u. S. Steel Corporation have been
revealed, but not all. A direct
threat by Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral Thurman Arnold of criminal
prosecution under antitrust laws is
supposed to have been one factor.
Anyway, it was an open secret that
the Justice Department was plan
ming such proceedings.
But the final push was given at
a secret meeting of the American
Iron and Steel Institute on We'd
nesday, June %. President Eugene
Grace of Bethlehem Steel arose,
said something had to be done and
declared Bethlehem was going to
cut prices on its own.
With that information, U. S. Steel
executives worked feverishly and
brought out q new price schedule
on June "a, effective the 25th.
Whether its price cuts were bigger
than anything Grace contemplated
isn't known, but ending the basing
point system was a direct blow to
U. S. Steels competitors. The feud
between big Steel and Little
Steel is bitterer than ever and the
whole industry is still trying to
figure out where it stands.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

ingnesS to help
even though
the recipient of
his favor was
a II unknown
I'm public 2 e d
little boy who
might not even
live to tell the
tale.
The boy lay
close to death in
a hospital. lie had
been operated on
I'D f,5fnJ Ia
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

Despite heavy advertising outlays,
tobacco companies have never suc-
ceeded in interesting the women
of Ireland in cigarette smoking.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

A U. S. survey of company owned
houses in coal towns revealed that
86 per cent lacked running water,
and 81 per cent were without sewer
age connections.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

I sometimes run across a story
SO helpful that it should be re-
peated over and over again.
I have just read such Il story.
OF a nations hero and his will
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
You re Telling Ne -

says she prefers a motorcycle to
an auto when touring. Well, there's
always a chance that a traffic cor
may fortunately mistake you for q
fellow officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
Famous Sayings

The biggest worry of a foreign
spy, it would appear, is that his
chief may discover he is getting all
his secret information by reading
newspaper stories and magazine
articles.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20


New Yorks world fair opening
next year will promote, it is an
nouneed. the peace of the world.
If, gloomily adds the office pessi-
mist, there is a world
If the count and the five-and-
ten millionairess cannot settle the
question of alimony she might offer
him a job in one of her dime stores
He might make good floorWalker
in the fancy notions department.
The Duke of wellington once
refused TO blow up a bridge be-
cause II would have inconyenieneed
the natives That makes the Duke
in the eyes of the Japanese war
lords, though still a great general,
something of sissy.
Dogs born in the city live longer
than those dwelling in rural areas,
according to statistics. Well, for
one thing-they are not SO apt to
be mistaken for wild deer or rab-
bits by city-bred huntsmen.
A 77-year-old midWestern woman
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20
thoughts for the Day

His disciples SAID unto him. Lo. speakest thou
plainly, and speakest proverb.-John 1929.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

They'll Bring You a Profit
Thru Want-Ads,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

A 77-year-old midwestern woman
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-20

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-19
MISS CORRIGAN LEAVES TAKU HOME
 FOR KETCHIKAN

Miss Corrigan, two-months-old Siberian malamute, was probably the saddest passenger sailing on the Mt Mckinley from Juneau Sat urday night, for she was leaving her home and all of her brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts at Mary Joyce's Taku Lodge, to make a new home for herself with John- ny Johnson, PAA operator at Ket- chikan.
 Now there are only 15 dogs left at Mary's, and four of these, broth CTS and sisters of Miss Corrigan, will be leaving soon for Chilkoot Bar racks.
 At Chilkoot seven of Miss Joyce's malamutes are already in training there are over thirty dogs at Chil- koot, and they are in the army there trained sled dogs.
 Miss Corrigan, accustomed as she was to the quiet of Taku, was ex- cited by the noise and all of the people she saw in Juneau Satur- day, and reluctant to part from Miss Joyce. However, her mother once belonged to Johnson in the Inter- for, and it was he who gave her to Miss Joyce last spring, so Miss Cor rigan is really going to visit grand pa, would one say?
 Of course Miss Corrigan is a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-19
JEWELL REPORTS HE ANY FL O0DS IN WESTWARD
Damage Is Being Done as Streams, Lakes Reach
 Flood Conditions

The Alaska Railroad has been washed out in several places around seward. streams and lakes are at flood stages and in many instances mnlers dams. sluioe boxes and ether equipment have been carried away due to the unprecedented rain in the Westward. according to As sistant Executive Officer Homer Jewell of the Alaska Game Com mission, who returned to his head quarters in Juneau on the Aleutian after two months field trip through the Interior and Westward.
 It has been raining almost steao- fly in the area for nearly a month, he reported, and flood waters are in evidence everywhere. Lakes and streams are up as much as five and six feet above normal for this time of year. and miners, who early in the season experienced water shortage, are now getting too much in some instances with damage re- sulting.
 The official visited all the fur areas with the exception of the Nome districts. going in over the White Pass and coming back from Seward and trayersing the Yu1on and other game and fur reaions of the Interior.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-19
AWARDS MADE
 AT S.E. FAIR FOR
 HOME CANNING
Spiced Fruits, Jellies, Jams, Preserves Among
 EntrleS

Juneau housewives, from bluShing bride to gray-haired grandma, all entered their attempts" in the cooking canning, rated at the Southeast Alaska Fair, with Mrs H. Stonehouse, Mrs. Bessie Jonas and Mrs. E. c. Sweeney, serving as judges.
 Spiiced fruit awards include: Spiced gooseberries, Mrs. Ray G. Day, first: Mrs. E. E. WeSchenfel- der, second. Spiced peaches, Mrs. V. Manville, first; Mrs. E. E. Weschen- fielder, second. Spiced apricots, Mrs. Ray G. Day, first. Spiced crabmeat, Mrs. Ray G. Day, first.
 Jams: Gooseberry, Mrs. Ray G. Day, first; Mrs. Weschenfelder, second. Blueberry, Mrs. V. Man vile, first; Mrs. H. A. Bach, sec ond. Raspberry, Mrs. Ray Peterman, first; Mrs. V. Manville, second Strawberry. Mrs. Ray Peterman first; Mrs. L. E. Gruber, second.
 Jellies: Apple, Mrs. E. E. Wes- chenfelder, first; Mrs. V. Manville, second. Crabapple, Mrs. Ray G. Day first. Currant, Mrs. K, Blake, first; Mrs. John Satire, second. Blueberry Miss Betty Wilcox, first; Mrs. " Manville. second. Gooseberry, Mrs Ray G. Day, first; Mrs. V. Man. vile, second. Lagoonberry, Mrs John Satire, first; Mrs. V. Manville second. Best assortment of jelly Mrs. Ray G. Day, first; Mrs. V Vanville, second.
 Conserves and preserves: Peach Mrs. J. w. Leivers, first; Mrs. Ray G. Day, second. Grape, Mrs. Ray G Day, first. Watermelon, Mrs. Collin first; Mrs. Ray G. Day, second. La goon, Mrs. V. Manville, first; Mrs Ray G. Day, second. Rhubarb, Mrs Ray G. Day, first, Mrs. V. Manville second.
 Pickles: Mixed, Mrs. Edwin Sut- ton, first. Cucumber, Mrs. Ray Pet erman, first. Mustard chow-chow Mrs. E. E. Weschenfelder, first.
 Fish or Meats: Canned salmon (plain), Mrs V. Manville, first; Mrs E. E. Weschenfelder, second. Spicec canned salmon, Mrs. V. Manville first; Mrs. Ray G. Day, second Canned venison, Mrs. V. Manville first; Mrs. Ray G. Day, second. Spe- cial premium for largest variet. canned Alaska grown products: Mrs Ray G. Day, first; Mrs. V. Manville second.
 Special: Best dozen eggs, Mrs Martin Lynch. Best cottage cheese Mrs. l.. E. Gruber, first. Best as sorted candy Mrs. E. Sutton, first 1 Mrs. L. E, Gruber, second.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-09-19
YOUNG ALASKANS GOING OUTSIDE
 TO UNIVERSITIES

John DiInond, son of Delegate and Mrs. Anthony J. Dimond, and Paul Lien, both of whom have been working in the Fairbanks region during the summer, are southbound passengers aboard the Aleutian Young John is returning to Catho- lie University in Washington and Paul is returning to Columbia Uni versity for his senior year.
 Also aboard going Outside to school are Eileen Sturgell, sister ot Lien, who is going to Barnard Col lege, part of Columbia, and Lois Joy, daughter of MT. and Mrs L. F. Joy of Fairbanks, who is going to school at Hampstead, Long Is- land.