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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
WHERE GOVERNMENT FAILS
(From the Terre Haute Advocate,
Tcrre Haute, Ind.)

ICrfe Haute, lnu.)
Every once in while some citizen
expresses the view that something is
wrong with the government of the
United States, Indiana, Vigo County
and Terre Haute.
Back in his or her mind will be some
pet subject upon which the govern
ment, administered by imperfect Of
fcials, has made some error and there
fore out comes sweeping denuncia-
ton of the entire republican form of
government.
AS matter of fact, the American
system Of government is not perfect.
1t cannot be as long as the power of
the voter to control is not reflected
in perfect voting, and this is a few
centuries away. The defects that ap-
pear in any branch Of government to-
day are there because of the failure
of citizens to express themselves at
the polls, or to otherwise show proper
interest in government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

THE American people have been stirred to deep
indignation by the persecution of the Jews and
Others in Germany.
They have voiced Indignation at the outrages
and sympathy with the victims in unmistakabe
manner, as witness expressions by the press and
radio and action taken by many kinds of organza-
tions all over the nation.
Soon they will have an opportunity to show
their sympathy in practical way.
With Matthew Wo and other labor execu-
tives taking prominent part, plans are under
way to form great national organization of
Americans in all walks of life to aid victims of
European tyranny.
Labor's past record in the field of humanitar-
ian help gives assurance it will be in the lead in
the movement. Always a defender of liberty and
and hater Of tyranny and absolutlsm,
labor can be depended upon to give aid in any just
cause.
And labor's aid, with the aid of every other
element of the population will be needed. The
task of saving the victims of Nazism and Fascism
will be a tremendous one, demanding the earnest
cooperation of not only the United States but of
all democracies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
AFL HEAD OPPOSES STRIKE
AGAINST GERMAN SHIPS

Washington, d. G. (1LNS).-Wil-
liam Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, telegraphed Irv-
ing Caesar, music publisher, that it
would be impractical for union long
shoremen to refuse to unload German
ships because it might cause internati-
onal complications.
Caesar had telegraphed Green urg-
ing lon.sLCramen to refuse to work
German vessels in protest against
Jewish persecution by Nazis.
The T. f. Of l.. head said that he
agreed with Caesars attitude toward
Nazi Germany, but that the unions
could not take that form of protest.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
THE CASE IN TWO NUT SHELLS

"rTHE captains of industry created mass produc-
ton, but they could not build up mass mar
ket able to absorb the production of high powered
industry. Therefore, our plant has never been
used to capacity, and we have the spectacle of
millions on starvation incomes in the midst of a
possible penty'
These two sentences from the Monthly Survey
of Business of the A. F. of l.. are about perfect
an Indictment of our present situation one can
expect to achieve 1t is proper to add that none Of
the machines which have transformed industry
were invented by the captains of industry them
selves. And three other sentences from the same
document simply must be quoted:
"We need to think of ourselves as consumers.
The consumer is the key man of the power age.
His buying power is the gold mine out of which
resources for industrial growth must come. Eight
out of every ten consumers derive their buying
power from wages small salaries. Therefore,
the trade union has responsibility spokesman
for more than three-quarters of all consumers"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
BEAUTY SECRETS
WILL NOT HELP MODERN LADY

Washington, d. C.-Violaton of
the Federal Trade Commission Act
is alleged in complaint issued by the
Commission against Johnson-Smith &
Co., ct al, Detroit, Michigan, in the
sale of certain books of instruction.
The complaint alleges that the di-
rections contained in one Of the books,
which purportedly reveals Cleo
patra's beauty secrets, will not, as ad-
vertised, enable a woman to acquire
beauty and will not cause her to be
besleged by sultors half-mad with
admiration for her charms"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
$4,000 INCOMES FOR EVERY FAMILY
POSSIBLE

HOW American income can be largely increased
in this age of power is outlined by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor in it's latest monthly sur
vey Of business. Production must be lifted to max
imum levels, says the Federation, which points out
that today large part of the nations industrial
plant is idle, with millions of Americans standing
idle and denied the chance to work and produce in
private industry. The Federation goes on to say:
"Our American economy can achieve $4,000
income for every family, but there is no get-rich-
quick way of doing this. Nor is there any pan
acea that will accomplish it. There number
of steps which will bring us nearer the goal. We
have already embarked the first step: Trade
union organization throughout industry and a
STEADY and rapid increase in wages. We need to
follow this by a new conception of wages: Wages
based on producing power with machines.
''The old conception of wages based on human
skills and energy alone, is totally inadequate. The
workers today not receiving wages justified by
their power to produce. Productivity wages can be
established throug collective bargaining by ()
raising wages according to increases in produc-
tivity in an industry and by (2) some form of
partnership wage which shares excess income
between management, workers and in
VeStOrS'
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

WITH but twenty more days in which to buy all
'" those things we mean to place under the tree
and send to our dear ones away from home, we
might be guilty of doing our Christmas shopping
in hurry and relaxing bit in our determination
to buy only articles manufactured in the United
States.
Be certain you take the time to investigate ev-
cry purchase. Look for the "Made-ln-America'
sign and be absolutely sure that your gift was
manufactured by a firm paying decent wages to it's
Northumberland the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

(Dy OillO 1NSNS oSI
Construction projects totalling
thousands of dollars, reported contem-
plated throughout Ohio in recent
months, are nearing maturity as own
ers announce readiness to take bids or
acceptance of estimates.
Sites are being prepared at Toledo
for a new $l,500,OO0 library at Michl-
gan and Madison avenues, and girls
vocational school costing $635,000, to
be constructed at Washington and
Fifteenth Streets.
Bids for $1,090,O00 u. S. Veterans
Hospital, to be constructed on a 100
acre site at Broadvew and Oakes
Road, Brecksville. Cuyahoga county,
will be asked in December. Funds for
the project have been allocated to the
Veterans Administration.
Plans have been completed for two
of three school projects to be con-
structed by the Massillon Board of
Education at a total cost of $S60,COO.
Work will probably start soon on
Youngstown's $3,l50,O00 housing pro-
iect, as bids for constructing buildings
to house 600 families have been re-
ceived by the Youngstown Metropoli-
tan Housing Authority.
Plans have been completed and the
Steubenville Board of Education will
advertise for bids soon for con-
structon of an $S00,0O0 high school
building.
Another unit of the municipal build
ing and improvement program ap-
proved by the voters Of Youngstown
will mature soon, as plans for $780,
500 municipal building have been COM
pleted and bids for construction will
be asked soon, according to reports.
With revised plans completed, bids
will be asked soon by a community
corporation sponsoring the construct
ion of hotel at Lancaster, Fairfield
county, costing S270,O00.
Reported contemplated last week
was construction of a $300,000 public
music hall by the City of Warren
Funds for the building and an endorse
ment were made available by the pro-
visions of q will made by the late w
D. Packard.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
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IN THE NEWS
DAVID Il. ROBERTSON
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David B. Robertson, classed by
those who know his career as one of
the dozen top statesmen of the labor
movement, has been president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen since 1922. Through
l6 eventful years, he has guided his
union, one of the largest of the rail-
road brotherhoods; and through most
of that time he was chairman of the
Railway Labor Executives Associa-
ton.
He was born in Austintown, a small
Ohio burg, on May 13, 1876. His
father was a merchant; not always a
prosperous one, for David went to
work at II years. He began in a brick
yard, moved to machine shop; and
got his definite direction in life at 49,,
when he became engine wiper on the
Pennsylvania. He switched three years
later; and was successively hoStler,
fireman, and engineer on that road
from 1898 to 1913. He was general
chairman for the Brotherhood on the
Erie system as early as 1905; and
reached the presidency of the order II
years later.
By this time, it will be no surprise
ito hear that David went to night
school and took course in CORES
IpondenCe schools.
He was chairman of the Railway
Labor Executives Association when
the present railway labor act was
passed; and his craftsmanship got
the old act repealed and the new one
ipassed with only a fraction of the
struggle in Congress that had been
Expected. He was in the same posi-
'tion when that act was amended. He
led the rail brotherhoods in their fight
(which helped to keep Judge John
Parker from being confirmed to the
Supreme Court.
\ long, fine career-and nowhere
Inear over, yet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
WHAT NEXT?

The Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company has shipped
the first of twelve units of pre-
fabricated metal farm buildings
to sites selected by the Farm Sc
curity Administration in three
southern states. Each unit in
cludes five buildings-dwelling,
barn, chicken house, outdoor
pantry and sanitary acc0mOda-
tions. Complete prefabrication en-
ables quick erection of the build
ings by boiling the panels to-
gether.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
! COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

NaSoNiSSiS
publishes each year predictions of the
time and height of high tide and low
tide for 104 chief ports of the world.
The figures for 1889 were sent out re-
Gently. They are accurate to an
amazing degree; only an earthquake
can make them really go wrong. With
these predictions go tables of the diff
ferences between given port and the
nearer smaller ports. For example,
in finding the time of high tide at
Mount Vernon, Virginia, on July A,
1889, you would look at the chart
showing the time when that will come
at Washington, and subtract about 80
minutes.
These predictions and tables of
differences are sent to harbor masters
and other port authorities, and to
captains of ships. By their aid, you
can read off, so to speak, the high
tide and low tide at 4,200 ports scat
tered over the world, at any day of
1889.
And all the basic computations are
made, not by the mathematical cal
culations of hundreds of experts; but
by turning crank on machine. They
call that machine "The Brass Brain
and it we'll deserves the name.
This Brass Brain is located in the
Coast and Geodetic section of the De-
partment of Commerce building at
Washington. 1t is about IL feet long,
little over feet at its top part, and
not more than two feet wide. 1t is
composed, roughly speaking, of par
allel lines of plates and braces and
wheels and chains of brass; and the
bringing of each bit of the machine
to the required degree of exactness is
near-miracle of skill. And while it
belongs to Uncle Sam, and is located
in one of his biggest buildings, he
didn't pay for it. 1t was built on odd
time.
Along about the year 1900, r. H
Harris, head mathematician of the
survey and E. G. Fischer, top me-
chanic, decided to make a better tide
machine than any of the three then in
existence. These took account of only
few of the factors which affect tides
the two men named meant to account
for all of them. Uncle Sam made nc
appropriation for the work; but at odd
times, Harris worked out the mathe-
matics and Fischer worked out the
machine, part by part.
1t was finished in 1910; it can give
the results of 81 factors, though not sc
many are commonly needed; it has
given for 2S years more accurate
figures than corps of mathematicians
could give.
| X X X
Recent DEGREES by the Nazi rulers
of Germany have the effect of reduc-
ing the masses Of the workers to com
plete slavery, says the Information
Service of the German Trade Unions.
A circular issued by the Minister
of Finance provides for the employ
ment of pensioners, and for the con.
tinued employment Of workers fol
three years beyond the statutory age
limit of 65. At the same time hun
dreds of thousands of school children
are forced to engage in unpaid agri
cultural work, while millions of young
workers have to carry out forced la
Dor tasks on meager wages. The rea
income of wage earners has fallen be
low the low level of 1882, the sluml
year, and the consumption of goods
has shrunk by nearly 10 per cent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hotchet Out
The Truth
q NEAR-HYSTERIA
. FAT PROFITS
@ NATIONS TOO BUSY
. NYE OPPOSED

Talk of big United States arm
ament expansion program is produc-
ing a good deal of hysteria and near
hysteria.
All sorts of fool statements are be-
ing made.
Such as, for example, that South
America is in danger of actual Fascist
and Nazi attack.
Talk that the chief subject of the
Forthcoming Pan American Conference
at Lima will be collective security"
based on great military and naval
power, has been rife in the press and
elsewhere.
This is another way of saying that
the United States and the South
American nations will discuss banding
together in a military alliance to op-
pose attack by Germany, Italy and
Japan.
Talk of this kind pleases the arm
ament makers no end and they are al
ready licking their chops over pros
pect of fat profit pickings.
X X X
Inc JOCdl1CdTldH lldLlOIlS are LOO
busy elsewhere to consider the fan
tastic idea of military conquest in
South America.
Everything indicates that the ma
jor expansion of Germany, dominating
totalitarian power, will continue to be
toward eastern Europe, as now.
Italy does not look beyond her
Mediterranean "empire."
China will keep Japan busy for a
long, long time to come.
Much more probable than military
attack on the New World will be at
tempts by the totalitarian nations to
extend the Nazi-Fascist idea into
South America
Against ideas battleships, airplanes
and bayonets will be ineffective.
Nazi, Fascist and Communist ideas
only flourish on fertile soil.
X X X
Best way to fight the totalitarian
idea in South America and every
where, for that matter, is to improve
economic conditions.
If the Lima conference will de-
vote its best energies to helping
the South American nations solve
their economic problems so that
there will be no reason for their
turning to the totalitarian powers,
it will be getting somewhere.
Goading them on to big armament
programs will not help.
Promotion of trade between all
nations in North and South America
will help.
Encouragement of peace and respect
for international law will help.
Aid to everything that makes for de-
mocracy and the successful working
of the democratic system, will help.
X X X
Senator Gerald p. Nye of North
Dakota has been saying some things
that please lot of Americans.
Nye headed the Senate munitions
investigation and he knows the wiles
of munitions interests.
Calling for slow down of U. S.
arms expansion, Nye asserted that
talk of threats from foreign powers
was "only a cover of those hell bent
on a mad naval program"
"There is no likelihood of any pow
er or combination of powers attacking
South America" he said.
Warming that the United States
cannot hope to carry the terrific load
of taxation" entailed in proposed arm
ament programs, Nye added:
"If there be those who think that
the armament program is going to
bring recovery, they only have to go
step further and conclude that the
way to bring complete recovery and
the degree of prosperity is actually
to so to war and turn all energies to
armaments."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
TRUTHS POWDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
. SPARKS BLOWING
= FEELING OF SECURITY
. FIGHTING WORDS
= A GRIZZLY BEAR

Sparks blowing
Out of European bonfires-
Begin to glow in the tinder Of the
worlds minds
That is one trouble with fire
1t is an infectious. thing
Like hate!
X X X
There's such feeling Of security
in democracy
Such a confidence in the continuing
quality
Of processes and relations
To which all have given their con-
sent
That peoples minds move reluct-
antly-
To face danger coming from a
distance
But there are Americans who re-
member 1917
How quick the flame fared, and
how hot
How hates were kindled, and how
they drew
Swirling and churning through the
nations life
Snatching up boys and men
Transforming women even into
something unsupported
Sweeping these across three thous-
and miles Of OCEAN
Into the worlds greatest hell of
horrors
That has been done.
X X X
1t might be done again
Again not for lands or gains
Not for the joy and profit of con-
quests
American pacifists are even now
changing front
Basic ideals Of American social and
political life
Property, the cornerstone of social
structure
Are being derided and held up to
scorn-
While democracy itself is pitied for
it's weakness
These are Fighting words" for
Americans
| X X x
Meanwhile, our democracy is busy
With the affairs and problems of
daily living
Concerned with the inevitable
changes
Which go with all vital growth
Striving to master the Machine
That it may not become America S
Frankenstein-
May not gather in it's whirling
gears
Men, women, children, whom it
should rather serve
1t is not easy, quickly to turn
aside
Minds of some foreign menace and
disorder
While striving to attain some poise
and order here
Reluctantly we listen to the sounds
of war and hate
X X X
But is the challenge comes toe
TO the core of our own central anc
ICOllJfOlllIlS puTpoSe-
If the infection thrusts too strongly
in upon us
If world anarchy and savage hates
menace our own land
This slow democracy of labor anc
productive peace
Can be aroused, as History testi
fes-
1t then can fight, with the swift
thrust
Of grizzly bear, slow to begin
But massive in momentum.
x x X
But why do the heather rage?
And why should these Nazis i'm
agine vain thing?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

William 0. Douglas, head of the SEC, views
with hope the better relations between govern
ment and business, and hopes for cooperation. Be
tween government and some business, yes. But
it would take surgical operation, performed
chiefly with AK, to get either cooperation Oh
patriotism into some other forms of business.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
SOME THOUGHTS ON WAR

TTAR does not, and can never, prove which side
w is right, but only which side is the stronger.
No nation is wholly or chiefly composed of villain
Gus individuals. All warfare is atrocious, but most
"atrocity stories" are unture-James Hilton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
WISDOM

There is something on earth
greater than arbitrary or despOtic
power, and that is the aroused in
dignatiOn of the civilized world.
Daniel Webster.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

Each man has an aptitude born with him to do
easily some feat impossible to any other Do your
work. have to say this often but nature says it
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and
the pattern which was weaving when the sun went
down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow
Beecher
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

Why dig up relics Of fossil culture in California
when fossil culture III its most barbalic form is
walking abroad III Nazl Germany?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

He who would exchange liberty for temporary
security Is not worthy of either.-tranklln.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
CHRISTMAS SEALS

RUYING Christmas Seals will aid great work.
- See that you have Seal on every letter you
send between now and Christmas Decorate your
packages with them, too.
Evening star., 1938-05-10
SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE.

DON'T FAIL @ ~ sEE SEE r THIS M NEW " HONE
Beautiful Cape Cod 5-room. center hall:
slate roof. corner lot; fine construction;
insulated ultramodern kitchen: delight
minutes mi esSi1 from KEY Key Bridge. 1oc bus line
monthly Drive out, Lee highway. turn
left on Utah ST.. Just beyond Cherrydale.
Open for 1nspectlon. 1870 North Utah 81.
6-rm. stucco home. gar. -new-house cond..
National 94oO. or local broker
PRICE REDUCED TO $3.50 SMALL
cash payment, balance monthly; no re-
BsShs bsce shsde trees @cu vii Ill
have to see this home in order to appreci-
ate it's value. Best neighborhood in Ar
iington Drive out Lee highway. turn
owner. Walnut 724e.
BERWYN. Mp--IN WOODED. SECTION
plot; y block car line: will sacrifice; $3.50
down. $50 monthly. OWNER. Berwyn 46.
sEABR9oK sEAl' ss'sSo 4 4 Fowl. RI LEc LT IT, on
Hen Eamoaston. gIase nj 57 oSn Wells ave-
agreeable surprise, price, terms. Hyatts-
ami; ideal for home and inn combined
priced right: terms. Big list country
~ sYN 0ts TO- s rsaussd s
,95o-CI9sE m Va: g ROOMS. BATH
schools. etc This is in very good condi-
II you have property to sell or for gent.
HINES soN sf1s soysh Wilson nab blvd: Ss Aims
ton Va. Walnut 1916. k,
Evening star., 1938-05-10

C. r M1KkELsoN &. SON, Clev 1855.
REasoSkBf sMo0SkHfAGE 4 d.s2{ 60. b BARGAINS! {
TRUST. So
~ Cleveland Park tonly $3.50 pt).
l2l Nj. Pleasant 25 fl. wide ionly
$3.50 MOI; large rms, 2 b., rec. rm',
gar. -''''
90 Mr.. Catholic Univ. (only $3.50
mo- Br., s. d.. & r.. b.. 3 porches. gar.
Evening star., 1938-05-10
HOUSES FUR. OR UNFuR.

MAY Is TO SEPT, 15-BEsT SECTION
NV; very cool; 4 bedrooms. Reasonable
Phone Cleveland 5527.
Evening star., 1938-05-10
l ACRE.
6 rooms, electricity, 2

rooms, electricity, 2 chicken houses.
garage; S4, 000 $500 cash, S35 mo- Err.
Vim REALTY CO. Call Hyattsville S65,
WOODSIDE. MD. 1928 GARFIELD ST.
6 rooms and bath, automatic heat, dou:
BILE garage. large lot: Practically new and
CONTINUED % Next Iaa0J
Evening star., 1938-05-10

CoLoRED-ON L SINE OF N. CAP,
Must see to appreciate. 2-story brick:
& rooms bath; cleo; small down payment.
balance like rent
COLORED. SIS 25th PL. N.E-6 RMS.
bath rockwool insulation. h.-w h.. land
scaped lawn. Open daily from am. to
pm: $3.50. Call Decatur 1160.
Evening star., 1938-05-10
WEST OF 18TH ST.

Four bedrooms. ~ baths. stone front;
thoroughly modern and in new-house con-
dition Unique in design and finish. Close
Very reasonably priced at 1880, and on
terms that will surely suit you. This home
is worthy of your inspection. Call Emer-