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anCe representative
Eyes. It is the
duty of every citi-
zen to respect the
law and order. An
j n oc e mt person
will not run from
arrest, and if he is
suspected of wrong
doing and tried to
get away it is the
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well, l do think
a polio e m a n is
somewhat justified
in shooting at a
suspect who is try
ing to escape, be-
cause a persons at
tempt to escape is
proof of guilt. How
ever, the officer
The Washington times., 1938-06-30

way he finds necessary. After
all. policemen carry guns to use
either in protecting themselves
from lawbreakerS or in catching
them if they attempt to escape"
X X X
Miss Helen Brown, 21S Fourth
St. S. E., waitress:
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1T does not seem
quite right to me
that an offic e r
should shoot a per
son attempting to
escape if the per-
son is merely a sus-
p e C t. The police
man should have
some proof of a per-
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mo. A person,
S i m p ly suspected,
should n ever be
shot at by a police
man. Unless there
is absolute pr oof
on the part of the
officer that a per-
son has actually
committed a wrong
The Washington times., 1938-06-30

II believe that if
a policeman sus-
poets a man of hav-
ing committed a
wrongdoing he has
a right to attempt
arrest. If the per-
son resiSts he is JUS
titled in arresting
the man in which
The Washington times., 1938-06-30

THAT would de-
pend on the cir
Gu m S t a n c eS. It
seems to me police
men should be eau
tious about using
their guns. Merely
Suspecting a person
of wrongdoing isn't
exactly a good rea-
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should not shoot unless there is
no other way of arresting the
person, and the shots should be
directed to stop the suspect, not
to kill"
Miss Irene Brooks, 1435 N st.
N. w., cafeteria employee:
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responsibility of the policeman
to stop him any way he can.
OF course, shooting should be
done with consideration, for the
criminal should be apprehended,
not killed, especially if he is
only a suspect"
X
Miss Dorothy Albee, 1890
Fourteenth St. N. w. clerk:
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Traffic Toll

The list of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /. 1898. is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Editor
will be eomitted upon request.
The Washington times., 1938-06-30
TheInquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Is a policeman justified in
shooting a person he suspects of
wrongdoing, if the person at
temptS to escape?
The Washington times., 1938-06-30
THE ANSWERS

Miss PhiIimene Archangel,
1927 Lamont st. N. W., Govern
ment clerk.
The Washington times., 1938-06-30

as was his deputy.
III tell ye, Booger." said the
judge, well just shove 'em in
that there safe o. mine and
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West Points OutWOrn
Traditions

WAKING up in the middle of the other night and
w being unable to go back to sleep for some little
time, got to thinking about West Point. The first
The Washington times., 1938-06-30

thought that came to mind was
one of wonder - wonder why
West Point doesn't have a row.
ing team in the annual Pough-
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Let EN- Learn
About Liquor

Joe Hooker and most other Civil War generals Many
general in the Indian wars after the Civil War; was
two-botte man-probaby in many cases because he had
been denied in how handle his liquor at West
Point
West Pointers ought to have every Saturday night off
so long they work through the week properly Ia first
cassman gets six leaves year now) and they ought to
be privileged to drink what they want those Saturday
nights If liquor gets the best of cadet he isn't fitted to
be practicing soldier and he ought to be fired. The
present discipline at West Point is such as you would
expect at boarding school and not at university.
We hope West Point won't be wounded in the feelings
by these remarks By and large it is of the great
schools of all the world But it could make itself still
better by scrappng of it's outworn traditions.
hs
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
OVER 10000, GOO SEEK BENEFITS

Washington, d. c. 0LNS).-With
4O,O97 ,446 applications for oldage in
surance account numbers on file as of
July 81, the Social Security Board re-
ports that it certified for payment dur
ing 25 working days Of July, 1890
old-age insurance claims amounting to
$7S5,662
In order to pass the 40,000,00O ap-
plication mark, the board received a
total of 532,2S9 new requests for ac-
count numbers in July. The July,
1888 account card total is an increase
of S,236,37S applications over the 81, )
S6l,06S total as of July 81, 1887.
More than half of the claims certi-
fled in July-8, ,S93-were filed by the
heirs or representatives of the estates
of wage earners who have died; single
cash payments to these claimants
averaged 5000 The remainder of
the claims came from wage earners
who had reached the age Of 65.
More than $4,000 claims for single
cash benefits, with a value of about
j$6, 100000, have been certified since
the Federal old-age insurance program
became effective on January /, 1887.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
WHY "PURGE"?
(FrOm Editor and Publisher)

Images of Germany in 1884, Russia
in 1887, are conjured by the frequency
with which the verb and noun purge"
are appearing in current American
political news. Der Fuehrer had his
foes pistoled without trial, and then
announced to the world with the fell
icity for which the German is famous
that the country and party had been
"purged" of their noXious presences.
The Man of Steel went through legal
forms, but the result was similar.
Most of the opposition died of lead
poison.
The similitude between these dras-
tic manifestations of dictatorship and
Mr.. Roosevelt's gentle advice to the
primary electors seems pretty far
fetched to us.
Whether you agree or disagree with
the Presidents tactics doesn't matter
in this instance, for we're not think
ing of politics. AS a wordsmith, we
are just wondering what word will be
available if we ever do come to situa-
tions like those of Germany and Rus
sia
There must be cooler, calmer, SUBJ
stitute in the English language for
this blood-stained word to describe the
relatively mild goings-on in the pres
ent political scene.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
Calvert Distilling Co.
Signs New Contract

Stability of employment throughout
the year for its employees at both its
Maryland and kentucky distilleries
will be one of the aims of Calvert Dis
tilling Company as the result of con-
tracts just signed by Calvert with the
American Federation of Labor.
Calvert is believed to be the first
distiller to attempt to provide its
workers with 40 hours of employment
a week, So weeks a year. The COM
pany will try to avoid as much as pos
sible overtime and short time. How
ever, when overtime is necessary it
will be paid for with time and one
half.
In addition to the above provisions,
the contract calls for weeks vaca-
ton with pay as well as the continu-
alton of Calvert's educational program
whereby the company pays so per
cent of the cost of technical courses
which an employe may choose to study
at accredited schools.
An unusual feature of the contract
provides that each employe with the
company for three months may take
an examination in distilling practice,
the passage of which automatically en-
titles him to a pay boost of 25 per
cent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS ....

Plans for S7,916,702 new con-
struction and Improvement program
are being made by the Cleveland Board
of Education in cooperation with Pub
lie Works Administration officials,
with maturity Of the huge project ex-
pected about November 1, according
to reports.
PWA officials at Washington have
approved an outright grant of $780,
7O2 for the project, and the Board of
Education's share of $4,354,000 is re-
ported available.
New construction included in the
program calls for a central high
ischool, two junior high schools, an
elementary school, a central heating
plant and an athletic building, costing
Approximately $4,415,00O.
Additions are planned at 19. school
buildings throughout the city at an
ESTIMATED cost of $1,591 ,206, with the
remainder of the program cost dis
|tributed in alterations and improve
|ments at practically every school in
|the city.
Plans are being rushed by officials
in nearly 100 Ohio municipalities on
construction projects
jcosting less than 100000, where bond
issues were approved at the primary
for local funds to comply with PWA
grant requirements.
Construction of women's dormi-
tory at cost of 100000 and hos,
lpital addition costing approximately
S115,50O is being contemplated by the
trustees of Miami University, Oxford
who have filed application for PWA
assistance.
Ohio State University officials have
filled application for a 1891 500 PWA
grant in connection with the contem.
Iplated construction Of a mems dorm.
Iitory on the campus at Columbus, es.
ltimated to cost total of $4,000.
PWA approval Of a federal grant
to aid Ohio University officials in re-
building a college building at Athens
at an estimated cost of 100000 was
reported last week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW
TRICKS

"The ancient saying that you can't
teach an old dog new tricks, doesn't
apply when it comes to teaching old
drivers new skills and attitudes" says
DR.. Herbert j. Stack of the National
Conservation Bureau. "This goes for
the adult pedestrian, too"
DR.. Stack describes some of the work
that is being carried on in various
communities to promote traffic safety
work that should and must be great
ly extended if the death and fatality
rate is to be reduced. In many places,
police departments have taken the
lead in providing scientific education
al programs for drivers and pedes
trians. Some departments have es-
tablished schools for violators, and
have found them to be extremely eff
fective in educating the ignorant and
curbing the reckless. Newspapers, ra-
dio and other media have done a
splendid work in keeping the gravity
of the accident problem and it's mani
fold solution before the public.
Also, DR.. Stack said, an intelligent
~ CO1QuCleu euuCdllOlldl program Slll-
plifes the task of identifying that
small group of drivers which refuse
to voluntarily mend their ways, and
can be reached only by arrests, fines,
or revocation of driving licenses.
One of the vital "musts" of any pro-
gram is that it be permanent. AS DR..
Stack warned, so-called safety weeks"
and similar hit-and-miss drives of
brief duration, usually accomplish lit
tie or nothing. What good may be
done is lost almost Immediately unless
the drive is followed by consistent
educational and enforcement cam
paign that is in continual operation.
We've "dodged" the traffic safety
issue too long. We've tried sporadic
campaigns and seen them fail time
after time. There's only one way out
and that is for every community,
large or small, to go after the reck-
less, incompetent and ignorant driver
with campaigns that will get results.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
REVIEW AND AMENDMENT FOR SOCIAL
SECURITY

August marks the third anniversary of the
Social Security Board. States are paying unen-
ployment benefits and with the beginning of 1889
the unemployment compensation laws of all the
81 Jurisdictions will be effective. At this stage
of development Labor should begin it's appraisal of
experience and its methods. We know that our
system is not perfect and that wel-consdered
proposals will help us to conform it to our needs
and conditions. Our first consideration should be
an Improvement in fundamental principles SO as
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

In Germany, questions of hours OF
work and wages, which for years have
been kept on a very low depression
level, are closely bound up with the
war economy, says the Information
Service of the Foreign Bureau of the
German Trade Unions.
The entire economic and financial
structure of war prosperity with it's
vast investments in state enterprises
would soon collapse if hours Of work
and wages could be freely determined
by negotiation between the interested
parties. The attempt to stabilize
prices is not always successful because
the prices are naturally dependent on
the world market and the substitute
materials make things more expensive
since the poorer quality that results
necessitates greater consumption, the
information service declares.
The workers can only get higher
incomes by longer working hours, and
through increased production which is
still being raised by more efficient
methods of work. One of the secret
reasons why the economy has not yet
collapsed lies in the fact that arm
ament costs are in this way transfer
red to the shoulders of the masses.
X X x
But this is not only a German prob
lem because the workers of other coun-
tries are more and more influenced by
what is happening in Germany.
If the working capacities of
nation of rs million are strained
to the limit to produce ornaments,
then the other countries have to
introduce similar measures in or
der to meet the threat with which
they are confronted.
France has just given recognition
of this danger in striking fashion. The
French government has proposed in
crease of the working week from AZ
hours to 4S, especially in the nationa
defense industries, and has told the
people that the 4O-hour week is detri
mental to the safety and prosperity Of
the nation under present circum
stances.
Hours of work must be increased
Premier Daladier says, to meet com
petition with other countries in which
no limit is set on industrial activity
Thus a backward step is proposed il
France because another great natiol
is making everything subordinate tt
preparation for war.
X X X
All countries are under great press
ure to protect themselves when thu
extension of hours of work in Ger
many affects their own economic stu
alton. In that way Germany intrude
on other countries through the law
of international trade, and no part O.
economic life is safe from this dan
ger.
Reports about wages and workin,
hours in Germany are therefore NOR
than just a description of condition
in Germany. They should be CAREFUL.
followed by the working class in othe
countries because in a way they de
termine the measures that should b.
taken to protect social conditions AM
social progress in the rest of the worl'
against the National Socialist danger
European labor is pointing out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
A LABOR DAY PLEDGE
l. NJ. Ornburn, Secretary Treasurer
Union Label Trades Department
American Federation of Labor

The triple BIS of collective action for Labor
Unonists are Bargaining, Buying and Balloting.
They are the most powerful weapons organized
workers possess. With them, if properly utilized,
labor can change the economic map of America.
Bargaining collectively with their employers
through representatives of their own choosing is
the best method members of Labor Unions have
discovered to raise wages, shorten hours and i'm
prove their conditions. In order to carry out this
triple b. program worker must join Labor
Union of his trade. Stockholders of an industry
do not act individually. Neither are all the stock
holders in body allowed to act as spokesmen for
a certain industry. ndustrialists are well organ
lied. They choose their most able members to rep
resent their organization in all important negotia-
tions Likewise, the worker who is helpless as
an individual must join with his brother unionists
in order to select representatives to deal effectively
with employers. Today, when majority in any
industry belongs to a Labor Union, the employer
is compelled by law to recognize the representative
of the respective Union.
Buying collectively of Union Label Products
and patronizing of Union services is constantly
urged upon members of Labor Unions their fam-
lies and friends by the Union Label Trades Depart
ment of the American Federation of Labor. 1t is
the only way to maintain the labor standards that
have been established through collective bargain
ing. The Union Label is the emblem used to des-
ignate the products which made by unionized
Industries. The Shop Card and Working Button
are the emblems of Union services Workers
should not fail to reciprocate with "fair employ
ers in buying only products of unionzed indus
try. The A. f. of L. Union Label and Industrial
Exhibition recently held in Cincinnati is an out
standing example of Labor's effort to secure for
far" employers our vast Union market
Balloting collectively by all voting members of
Labor Unions and their families is also necessary,
in order to preserve and protect our rights The
American Federation of Labor has had the long
established policy of "electng our friends and de-
featlng our enemies" We must safeguard our
picket; and even to strike, if necessary. From time
to time Union Labor has placed on the statute
books of state and nation most effective laws to
preserve these fundamental rights. 1t is only
through collective balotng for our friends that
organized workers can retain them. We cannot
fits that be obtained and maintained for
American workers through collective action in
Bargaining, Buying and BaIoting.
On this Labor Day, when we celebrate the
progress and achievements of American Labor it
should be most fitting for each person at every
gathering to raise his right hand and take the
Union Label pledge: 81 promise to patronize only
those firms that display the Union Label, Shop
Card or Service Button"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
VIII AT NEXT?

A new battery-less telephone,
signed for use in coal mines, lum-
ber camps and abroad ships, has
been recently announced. Conver-
satiOns can be conducted for dis
tances up to 200 miles. Vibrations
of the speakers voice alone gen.
crate the power necessary to
transmit the sound.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
MOULDERS WIN VOTE

Toledo, O. (OLNS).-EXclusive bar
gaining rights for moulders employed
at the Unitcast Corporation plant here
were won last week by the Moulders'
Union, AFL affiliate, in
an NLRB supervised election. The
Moulders' Union defeated CIO Union
for.the right to bargain for employees.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01

WISDOM
s4*ssssss*..*****s

want the people to come and
take possession of their own pre-
misses; for hold that the govern
ment belongs to the people, and
that they have right to that init
mate access to it which will deter
mine every turn of its policy.
Woodrow Wilson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
Action On Bridges Case
Urged By War Veterans

Columbus, o. (OLNS).-In addition
to adopting nearly so resolutions on
Americans and condemning Fascism,
Communism, Nazism and the German
American bund in their annual en-
campment here last week, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States
urged immediate prosecution of
charges of Communism against Harry
Bridges, CIO leader on the West Coast
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01
WOES OF BIG BUSINESS

"7,051 ,673 profit made by the Eastman Kodak
in 24-week period, a decrease from year ago"
international Nickel nets $16,732,251 for six
months, a decline.'
Amt it awful to see Big Business reduced to
such pittances?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01

Through the development Of team
work between industry and labor,
many economic wrongs can be righted,
many of industry's legislative burdens
can be remedicd, and the maximum of
service which industry and labor may
render can be given the entire nation.
Executive Council, American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01

Maintenance of our democratic society and the
promotion of the good life of the body of our peo-
pie are indissouby linked with united, respon-
sbe, disciplined and generously inspired organ
ization of wage earners.
Professor Felix anSfurter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01

II = DOG FOOD-STOLEN |
SCRAPS"
. DOCTORS FOUGHT
"a MEDICAL CONTRACT
The Medicine Men
Used to do it with hocus pocus-
But they seldom did anything for
nothing
They had to have their perquisites-
Even medicine men chad to live" or
thought So
What they did, with their frogs
hearts, snake bones
Plus plenty of drumming and
screeching-
Did not always kill their patients
They took credit and fame for those
who refused to die.
X X X
Ancient mothers of the tribes
Often had more real remedies, in
their herbs
Whereat the medicine men shifted
contemptuous snorts-
But out of these collections of
herbs and "simples'-
Grew our modern Materia Medica-
Discovered by desperate snatching
for something
Stumbled upon through eras of ex-
pertinent and remembered lore
Piling up accumulated specifics for
this, that and the other
But leaving most of the mystery of
disease and human ills
Where the first medicine men found
it
By the time of Hippocrates-
Successful experiments had given
dignity
A profession had arisen, with ira
ditions and philosophy
Some sense of responsibility, and OF
duty to mankind
Dawning sense Of vast ignorance
Imposing upon all but the quacks-
A proper modesty about the eff
cheney
Of blood-letting by BARRIERS from
finger tips
AS against accurate phlebotomy OF
the hip Joint
For the cure of gout-
While the poor beggars did then
own bloodletting-
Fighting over dog food and stoler
scraps.
How the doctors fought
| 0var Iicoox,or,, ,f ,;ro,,Jo
tion of blood
Again over Pasteur's quarrel with
i LeibnitZ-
/ About infections and germs o1
disease
Allopaths, and homeopaths, hydro
paths, eclectics-
To say nothing of osteopaths, chiro
practors, radiotherapists-
Dissecting the science of medicine
along with the cadavers-
Vomiting forth torrents of paten
medicines
Many doctors, humane friends O.
mankind
Competing with quacks and money
mad specialists
Whlle the less fortunate sufferer
scrambled along with the others
At the mercy of anarchy in the fielt
of medicine
X X X
Comes now the inevitable
People who get sick, have been get
= ting impatient
Preferring to prevent sickness,
: possible
, Desiring competent and kindly medi
cal service
Seeing many physicians, poorly pai
but idle
: Facing enormous costs of hospital
and treatments
Having in common their fears an
risks
The People put their intelligence
and funds
Into a common pool of resources
Employing capable physicians
At a guaranteed income
x x
But this was another new thing
a medical contract
Allowed only to corporations
But it works, where tried.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01

Labor Day affords the opportunity of review
ing the facts of the labor movement, the facts not
only of today but of all time, marshaled in the
order of their proportions and their chronology.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-09-01

The union label spells prosperity for
both employe and employer.
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TRUTHS POWDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS

NIX. MOOESIUS
q "HAD TO LIVE"
. "SIMPLES"
Q "DOG FOOD-STOLEN
SCRAPS"
Q DOCTORS FOUGHT"
9 "a MEDICAL CONTRACT"