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Evening star., 1938-12-21
Experiment Laun(hed
/ | Iolmprove Conditions
h Dispensing Liquor
I connecticut Citizens
!, Committee to Consider
7 Phases Of Industry

AN experiment designed to i'm
nrovs conditions under which liquor
q dispensed was announced today
BY Wesley A. Sturges, executive di-
0ector Of the Distilled Spirits In
atitute and professor of law at
Yale University, and by Donald
North, acting chairman OF the
connecticut Citizens Committee"
The Connecticut Citizens Com
thittee is the head and forefront of
the experiment. If it proves its
value, similar committees will be
organized in other States.
The citizens committee is created,
Or. Sturges and Mr.. North explained
Ia separate statements, to focus
public opinion upon the conduct OF
the alcoholic beverage industry and
The enforcement of control laws IN
Connecticut. Mr.. North said it is
not planned to have the committee
speak either for the vets or the
drys.
Would Reflect Citizen Views.
THE committee will seek to bring
about such conditions in the con-
duct of the industry and law en-
forcement as to make the legalized
sale of alcoholic beverages meet the
settled convictions of the majority
n Connecticut citizens" he said.
7 DR.. Sturges said that If other
such committees are formed in other
States they will act independently;
that there is no effort to have uni
form laws enacted governing the
liquor industry in all the States.
E"Repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment and, in fact, the very Ian
guage of the twenty-flrst amend
Inent implied responsibility on
the part of the citizens in each of
the States to control the future of
the alcoholic beverage industry" he
said.
. II am delighted that citizens of
Connecticut have seen fit to adopt
such q program. I know that in
that State and in many others
there is a job to be done. The in
dustry alone cannot do 1t. Law
enforcement officials need help to
be successful. Residents of any
COIlllIlulllly 1ulIl1olI VIC AA11A AASSNSN
10 complete the chain of adequate
observance of existing control laws
and the improvement Of such
Gatutes."
Liberty of Action Seen Needed.
The citizens committee must
have complete liberty of action if
1t is to serve useful purpose, DR..
Sturges said. The Distilled Spirits
Institute, he said, had contributed
financially to the Connecticut COM
nlittee. He himself launched the
idea of such a committee in dis
cussing plans for bettering condi-
lions with leading clubwomen and
members of mems organizations IN
Connecticut, his home State.
The specific objectives Of the
citizens committee as set forth in
articles Of incorporation are to give
consideration to the qualifications
Of persons applying for permits to
engage In the business of producing
Or selling alcoholic beverages, to
cooperate with public authorities
70 improve the enforcement Of con-
'4rol laws, to study the liquor laws
'Selating to production, sale and tax
alton, and to cooperate with the
industry in establishing such prac-
,tices within the business as will
best serve the social and economic
welfare Of the State.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Justice Jennings to Sit
In Motions Court

The dean of District Court, JUS
Hce Jennings Bailey, who now sits
In a non-jury civil court, will be-
bome assignment justice and sit in
the Motions Court after the New
Year. He will change places with
Justice Oscar r. Luhring, and thus
the veteran justice, who has the
reputation for sending non-alimony
paying husbands to Jail without
1ualm of conscience, will gladden.
Che hearts of wives who want their
spouses to pay up.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat
Yesterday announced the new sched-
ule for the 10 District Court JUS
tices, pending further order of the
court, effective January 3. There
will be no change in the assign
uents to the three Criminal Courts,
thus insuring that the docket will
be kept as much up to date as
possible.
President Roosevelt, shortly after
the convening of Congress, is ex-
nected to name two additional JUS
nces to District Court. The two
will likely be assigned to civil duties.
Evening star., 1938-12-21

duty in the ONCE Of naval opera
tions, Navy Department.
The transfer was described as q
routine relief Of the post, without
bearing on the Pan-American Con-
ference there.
Comdr. Loftin is well known here,
having served tour of duty in the
Office of naval communications, be-
ginning in 1920, and another in the
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Jewish Youth Session
To Be Held Toniqht

Approximately 80 clubs, fraterni-
ties and sororities will be represent
ed at meeting of the newly formed
Jewish Youth Conference at $50
o'clock tonight at 1929 Sixteenth
street NV.
Formed to aid Jewish refugees all
over the world, the organization has
grown rapidly, and constitution
Is expected to be completed soon.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Two Navy Men Qualified

Two Navy enlisted men on duty
in Washington have been qualified
for acting pay clerk and placed on
the appointment list, the Navy De-
partment announced. The list, con-
tanning SO names, has been ap-
proved by Secretary of the Navy
Swanson. The local men are James
Evening star., 1938-12-21

ONCE Of naval intelligence, 1932-35.
He lists as his usual residence" the
Army and Navy Club here.
Comdr. Loftin holds the Distin-
guished Service Medal and the Vic
tory Medal with Destroyer Clasp
from this country for World War
service. He also holds the Distin-
guished Service Cross upon a British
citation.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
YuIe Party for Employees

The annual Christmas party for
employees Of the Goodwill Industries
will be held at 7:30 o'clock Friday
night at 1918 New Hampshire ave-
nue. NV. A musical program will
be rendered and gifts distributed
by Santa Claus to the employees and
their guests.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
leoion Christmas Party

) Sergt. Jasper Post Of the Ameri-
~ean Legion and its auxiliary unit
will hold their annual Christmas
party tomorrow at 7 pm. at the
Thomson School. Dolls and toys
will be distributed, and there will
be an entertainment. About 80
baskets of food later will be delivered
to needy families.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Comdr. Loftin Returned
To Duty in Capital

Comdr. Frank Loftin, U. S. N, has
been ordered detached from duty
as Naval Attache for Air at the
American Embassy, Lima, Peru, the
Navy Department announced today.
He will return to Washington for
Evening star., 1938-12-21

L. Learson, chief yeoman, Of Berlin,
N. H., on duty at the receiving sta
ton here, and Henry E. Vanderveen,
aerographer, first class, Of Wichita,
Kans., on duty at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station.
Evening star., 1938-12-21

Germany has prohibited the use
of wheat and rye as fodder.
Evening star., 1938-12-21

-12 and 16-inch sizes with
tubular frame and a large
rear platform with plenty Of
room for the youngsters feet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

MO more convincing example of the tyranny
v of words" to which popular book calls at
tention, is evident than in the Equal Rights
Amendment proposed with persistence and a
strategy worthy of better cause. Equal rights
has an appeal to all who believe in human justice
and democracy, but experience shows that pro-
posal reflects the confusion of theory without
practice, confusion Of means and ends. Pre-
scribing the rules for all does not necessarily
result in equal opportunity rights
Women with centuries of home work and with
traditions of legal wardship as a background do
not find it as easy to establish voluntary collective
with the employer as men workers. so
they ask for minimum wage legislation which con-
Stitutes the government as coordinatOr Of repre-
sentative machinery to fix minimum wages What
women want is the protection of minimum wage
as the foundation upon which to develop collective
When they are protected against a
competitive situation with wages at 10 cents an
hour or less, they have a bettoT approach to equal
opportunity.
The working women of the United States know
the real difference between an appearance of legal
equality in opportunity and more money in the
pay envelope so that they can stand on their own
feet for collective bargaining. They know best
where the shoe pinches and what remedy has pro-
vided relief
The right to vote was the first step toward
equal opportunity in the economic field The work
ing women themselves should determine the
means to their ends.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS
(By Ohio Labor News Service)

(By Ohio Labor News Service)
A $4,250,000 low-cost housing pro-
ject was reported contemplated last
week by the Cincinnati Metropolitan
Housing Authority, in cooperation
with the United States Housing Au-
thority. Site Of the project has not
been determined, but architects have
been selected.
Construction of a recreation arena,
location of which has been withheld,
is reported contemplated by the
Cincinnati Winter Garden, Inc. Total
cost of the arena, including 100000
for refrigerating equipment to pro-
vide an ice skating rink, is estimated
at $750,O00.
Newark is reported to have been Sc
lected as the proposed location for a
new straw board paper mill, now be-
ing organized with capitalization of
$6O0,O00 Additional details will be
announced on completion of financing
plans, according to reports.
A $5O0,OO0 slum elimination project
at Cambridge is reported to have re-
ceived the approval of Nathan Straus.
administrator. of the United States
Housing Authority. Preliminary sur
veys of the project have been COM
pleted.
Construction of 100 suite, or g.
story apartment building, details of
which have not been decided, is re-
ported contemplated by Columbus
man. Cost of construction is esti-
mated at $250,CO0.
Additions to two school buildings
at Loveland, Hamilton county, are re-
ported contemplated by the Board of
Education at cost of $150,OO0. A
bond issue may be voted upon at the
November, 1898, election to raise
necessary local funds.
A private housing project, to con-
sist of five groups of five houses each
is reported contemplated by private
interests at Sandusky at cost of
$150,000. Majority of the project is
dependent upon FILA approval.
Reconstruction and repairing of a
Toledo commercial building recently
damaged by fire will be started by
owners when insurance has been ad-
justed, according to reports. Cost OF
the reconstruction is estimated at
500, ,OOO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
- 4 !. !. !. i :. i 4 j. i i !. X X .
IN THE NEWS
HARRY S. TRUMAN >
!. ! !. i \ ! J. i i i i !. i i i !

Harry S. Truman, Senator from
Missouri, was born in Barton County,
that state, May 8, 1884. His father
was a farmer; and after finishing
school and getting the low down on
finances by working in several banks,
he went back to the farm as partner
until 1917.
Then he helped organize two regi-
ments of field artillery, and went
overseas with one of them, the 10th,
with the 35th Division. He sailed in
March, 1918. He was captain, and
was ordered to command Battery d,
10th Field Artillery, where he served
on the front until the Armistice. Was
discharged as major, and is now a
colonel of Field Artillery Reserves.
The year after the war ended he
married and has one daughter.
He was elected to the county court
of Jackson County in 1922, defeated
in 1924, and elected presiding Judge
of that court in 1926 by a majority of
10000. He was reelected in 1880 by
a majority of $4,000. He was elected
Senator in 1884 by 100000.
Whether it is the remembrance of
these climbing majoritics that makes
him 50 cheerful and good natured
cannot be told. The fact is that he
gets more boyish pleasure out of life
than any other man on the Hill-and
a number of those chaps have a keen
sense of humor.
He is immeasurably more liberal
than his colleague, Bennett Champ
Clark. He alternated with Senator
Wheeler of Montana in the probe OF
railroads. He has declared openly
that he doesn't care for lending Uncle
ISam's money to the railroads while
they are trying to cut wages.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
: COMMENT ON WORLD
!. EVENTS

DR.. S. S. Goldwater, commissioner
of hospitals for the city of New York
declared in a public statement recent
ly that depression conditions make
imperative the expansion of health
and welfare agencies. Unemployment
he said, means rising sickness rates
The sick rates rose as the family in
come fell, and the sickness index Of
families on relief was highest of all.
"Bad business conditions" said DR.
Goldwater, "should be signal fol
immediate expansion of corrective as
we'll as preventive fascilities all along
the line. People who are periodical!
i'll are less apt to be self supporting
than those who are WELL"
Isn't this a good time to do some
thing about it? Wouldn't it be the
wisest kind of a move to put a sizable
slice of the sum set aside for "white
collar projects" in the Recovery Bill
into health work?
Heaven knows that health work OF
every imaginable kind is needed il
this country. In large regions of the
South, the working power of the
population is sapped to an appalling
extent by malaria.
In large industrial quarters ant
cities in the North, the disabling i'll
ness rate goes up from 120 to 2Os
per 1000 soon after the payroll stops
We know at last that poverty is the
deadliest of all diseases; that in pro
portion to numbers, three times as
many unskilled laborers as pro
fessional men die of tuberculosis, ano
seven times as many of pneumonia
But would not vigorous and wei
planned health drive at least mitigate
the morality of a depression?
At least, it seems we'll worth try
ing.
America is not the only country af
ficted with extremes of wealth ane
poverty. Lord Butte has just solo
about half the city of Cardiff, Wales
seaport of about 100000 inhabitants
for price estimated at around $1O0,
100000. The wireless dispatch to the
New York Times says:
"The transaction included large
part of the city's docks, 10000 houses
1000 shops, 25O saloons, several thea
ters, extensive agricultural lands neal
the city, and a number of villages.
Lord Butte maintains eight homes ano
privates estates covering 117,O00 acres
in various parts of the country"
Butte and other members of his
family own most of the coal mines Of
Wales. Many coal regions in Britain
are known as depressed districts,
where the coal is worked out, NJ
other industry has come in and the
people are saved from starving onl!
by the much berated "dole." The pres
ent Duke of Windsor, when he wa:
Prince of Wales, came back to his Cal
from a walk through a coal village
with the remark:
''This is certainly the nadir 0!
misery"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hotchet Out
The Truth
q TAX BILL
9 COOPERATION
Q MEMORIAL DAY
Q A BOOMERANG

Tax bill, as finally passed, modifies
the undistributed profits and capital
gains taxes.
American Federation of Labor last
February advocated modification or
repeal of these taxes.
Labor explained it was taking this
stand as a step toward restoration of
business confidence.
Business didn't get all it asked in
the way Of changes in the tax law but
it got goodly slice.
Now we shall see what business
does.
1t seems up to the business leaders
to do more than talk hopefully about
economic revival and unemployment.
Action-action that gets results
will be the only thing that counts.
Will business initiate such action?
x X x
Building trades unions are CO.
operating with the United States
Housing Authority in stabilizing pay
and eliminating jurisdiction disputes
on Federal-fnanced slum clearance and
low rent housing projects.
A. F. of l.. Building and Con-
struction Trades Department took the
lead and is urging all building labor
to follow.
Many building trades councils have
already promised cooperation.
Building trades unions in Cleveland
and other Ohio cities have agreed to
forego wage increases in coming
months.
This is the kind of cooperation that
will help building, which can be of the
biggest factor in restoring prosperity.
1t is in line with the cooperation
The Cherry Tree has pointed out is
badly needed.
X X X
Heroes of peace as we'll as heroes of
war deserve honor on Memorial Day.
What could be more fitting than to
remember the great company of work.
ers with hand and brain whose lives
have contributed to the upbuilding of
this nation?
Surely they deserve tribute, whether
they died at their tasks as the result
of accident, were cut off before their
time as the result of gruelling toll or
died a so-called natural death.
In any event, these men and women
as much or more to the national well
fare as the heroes of war.
They were the millions who, "hum-
BILE and nameless, the straight, hard
pathway plod" in every generation
and a grateful nation would honor it.
self by paying them tribute.
x X X
The sit-down strike is foolish and
illegal"
An attorney for the National Labor
Relations Board said this and thereby
surprised a lot Of people.
Lawrence Hunt was the attorney
and he was arguing before a Federal
court in Illinois.
American Federation of Labor con-
demned the sit-down strike when the
fad was in it's heyday more than
year ago.
Sit-down is a boomerang that
harms labor more than it helps it.
Lots more could be said against it
but this sums up the Indictment.
Far seeing persons saw early in
1887 that the sit-down would cause
bad reaction and that it couldn't
last.
They were laughed at for their pre-
diction.
The sit-down soon began to fade
from the industrial picture, vindicat-
ing the prediction it was on the way
out.
Now little is heard of it and where
it is still tried, it proves an unmiti-
gated nuisance to those who fostered
it in the beginning.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
UNITED STATES LABOR BODY
MUST OPPOSE RUSSIAN UNIONS

Oslo, Norway 0LNS). Matthew
Woll, vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor, told the General
Council of the International Fedora
ton of Trade Unions, meeting in
Oslo, that labor of the United States
is opposed to membership Of Russian
unions in the international body.
Woll recalled that the A. f. of L.,
when it joined the l. f. T. U. last
year, stipulated that there was to be
no cooperation with any labor move
ment which was not independent of
any government.
If the Russian unions became men,
bers, he said, the A. F. Of l.. would
be forced to reconsider the desirable
ity Of continuing membership.
Twenty-six European and other
national labor bodies, with nearly
2O,OO0,O00 members, were represented
at the meeting here.
Main items before the meeting were
the question of the affiliation of the
Russian unions, the international stu
alton, with special reference to Spain
and China, the present economic policy
of the l. f. 4. U. and the 4O-hour
week.
Washington, d. c. 0LNS).-The
American Federation of Labor Execu-
tive Council, in February, expressed
opposition to membership of Russian
unions in the International Federation
of Trade Unions, declaring the So
called Russian unions are not trade
unions in the sense the term bears in
democratic nations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
Go STUNNED

Gallon, 0. (OLNS).-ln secret
ballot conducted by field representa-
tive of the National Labor Relations
Board, employees of the American
Steel Abrasive Co. here last week de-
cided emphatically that they did not
wish the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, CIO af-
tlllate, to represent them III collective
bargaining.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
WHAT NEXT?

Communicating Systems, Inc,
of New York, announces it will
soon offer a televisiOn receiver to
the public for S125. The company
said it had received orders for so
sets. These will be the first to
reach the open market. The re-
ceivers produce a three Inch pic
ture.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
TRUTHS POWDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. MASS MURDER
= USE OF MONEY
. WAR MOTHERS
. USELESS PAUPERS

. USE OF MONEY
. WAR MOTHERS
. USELESS PAUPERS
We hate war!
War is mass murder
So, we hate any kind of mass mur-
der
Of course! if it is far enough
away
But if it is noisy, and near at
hand
Especially if it threatens me or my
wife
Or my son John and his wife
Then mass murder is something to
be abominated-
Just what is murder, anyway?
wrongful, intentional killing
"Of one human being by another
That is what the dictionary says
about murder
1t says nothing about using machine
guns, or poison
Just wrongful, intentional kill
ing
If you don't know that people will
be killed
By living in your sunless, unsanitary
tenementS-
Or if you did not intend to starve
them
When you cut the wages of your
hired hands
Perhaps kind heaven will wipe out
the killing
If you give enough money to an
art museum
After you are dead.
x X x
Using money to kill people
Buying bombing planes and poison
Hiring aviators to go out and shoot
down human beings
That is using money for murder at
wholesale rates
But suppose you have the money
And simply hang onto that money
Just keep the live-preservers when
folks are drowning
Knowing that the money could be
used to preserve human lives
AS certainly as life-belts can keep
swimmers afloat-
Does it matter how you use the
money
So long as your control Of it results
in human deaths?
And, what is the great advantage
to anybody
If the deaths are by slow torture
Instead of by quick firing military
equipment?
Which would you select as the most
merciful-
So long as you know what is going
to happen, anyway?
x X X
tuberculosis is a preventable di-
Sease-
The basic preventive and remedy is
food and sunlight
Given these two things, tuberculosis
would be wiped out
tuberculosis kills human beings
Under certain conditions of housing
and food
You can bank upon the deadliness
of tuberculosis
Under those same conditions OF
housing
You can also bank very good profits
from your slum tenements-
One is at least as certain as the
other
If you bank the rents and profits
You also bank the mass killings
Yes, you do!
Those Spanish and Chinese mothers
and babies
Had Fright to live
A right they could not enforce
These millions of American mothers
and babies
Have better claim to live, a claim
more enforceable
In Spain and China their killing is
"mass murder
Even if the weapons used in Amer
ict for killing
Are only poverty, hunger anc
disease
The killing goes on in masses, more
numerous
The killers know, ought to know
The prime and moving causes o1
these killings
X X x
Some of these killers say openly
That there are too many of these
useless paupers-
And when the game gets too SLOW
and tame
They hire few gun-men and labor
spies to speed it up.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26
WISDOM
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You have not fulfilled every
duty unless you have fulfilled that
of being asant.-BuXton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26

The only subject that can not be
adequately handled IN a one-page
letter is adolescent love.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-05-26

A favoritc way of launching a presidential
boom is to have your candidate come home' from
Herbert Hoover Is now III Belgium
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porated by the Congress of the United States in
the statute scheduled for consideration in the i'm
mediate future.