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Nogales international., 1938-12-24
Banker Plays
Role Of Santa
For Prisoners
Distributed Money to Charity
Under Name. mickey
Finn"

SIOUX CITY, IOWA.-A mysteri-
Gus Santa Claus whose identity was
revealed only at his death early in
1887, will be remembered here each
Christmas as one Of Sioux City s
most beloved characters.
His name was Ed T. Kearney, a
real estate man and banker who
brought Yuletide JOY to hundreds
with anonymous contributions to in
mates of prisons and missions. His
gifts were always accompanied by
poorly written letters bearing the
signature, Mickey Finn"
A sample Of Kearney's unusual
letters has been uncovered in the
note written to the sheriff OF Cook
county, I'LL, in 1880:
CHICAGO ILL dec o 1880.
pLesE USE tile sMal cHecK inClosEd
to by sum nuts er kandY eR fRutE fer
enY pore pepu YOU may haV With
you in yUre jAle ON cRisMus day
firm ME-,
AN tel EN- 60 sTraTe AN don't
drink eNy buZe fer the roTin sTuf WE
giTs now will SUR xii ANY one WHO
drinks IT.
bin sick AN kant git much work
AN AM hard UP myself but 90 sTratE
Now fer fond out that crUkdNiss
don pay NUN.
AN give eM al tile bEs lUv AN
WiShiss Nv thEr tReW frEn AN well
wiShir.
yUrrs tRewLy,
mickey finn.
The identity of Mickey Finn"
was not discovered until Kearney
was in a Sioux City hospital during
his last illness. A daughter, pos
sessed ,of some circumstantial evil
dence, confronted her father with
the question and he confessed that
he was Mickey Finn" When his
private papers were examined clip
pings were found substantiating his
confession.
The character of Mickey Finn was
created early in the 1900s when Mr..
Kearney was president Of bank at
Jackson, Neb. He met many bank
ers from over the country at conven-
tions and when he started his Santa
Claus role in the person of Mickey
Finn" he simply wrote his banker
friends in other cities and obtained
their cooperation in sending the
checks and keeping his identity Sc
cret.
Nogales international., 1938-12-24
Anti-Contmu1,ist Flags
Replace Beloved Santa
In .Japan's Christmas

TOKYO.-Santa Claus has been
banished from Japan, much to the
sorrow of thousands of boys and
girls who had come to love the pa
tron saint of Christmas. A home
ministry ordinance now forbids the
usual festival manner of celebrat-
ing. Japan, although not Chris
tian nation, has been celebrating
the day with growing ardor annu-
ally, with department stores featur-
ing Santa Clauses similar to the
American variety. But now shop
keepers have announced that in
stead of the usual decorations their
establishments will display Japan
nese, German and Italian flags, rep
resenting the three leading anti
communist nations.
Nogales international., 1938-12-24
Holly
Still Spreads
Ho|idayCheer er

In homes throughout America this
Christmas the holly plant will carry
on its age-old duty of spreading
Yuletide spirit, a custom that dates
back to the pagan tribes of CONT
mental Europe.
Originally the holly grew wild in
the United States over range from
Massachusetts, to Missouri and
south to Florida and Texas. But toe
much harvesting in northeastern
United States has destroyed much
of the natural growth. Today most
holly is grown from Norfolk, Va, to
Florida within so or 60 miles of the
Atlantic coast, and westward in the
Gulf region to Louisiana.
Current popularity of the holly is
a continuation of the custom of the
Druid feasts which honored the mis-
tletoe and holly in pagan rites. In
Europe the tribes under Roman rule
sent holly branches to each other as
Nogales international., 1938-12-24

evidence of good will. Homes and
churches were decorated with holly
laden with crimson berries when the
pagans celebrated the feast of Sat-
urnalia, the turning on of the SUM-"
Yuletide, the feast made to the
Celtic sun god. Yaioul, finally be-
came the celebration of Christmas,
and the holly tree, known as the
holy tree, became the sacred tree
for decorations at our Christmas
festivals.
Holly does not bear berries un-
til it is five years old. Before that
time the male and female trees can
not be told apart. There are more
than 300 species Of the plant, all of
them native to the temperate and
tropical regions of both hemi-
spheres.
Only the American and English
holly trees have rich green leaves
These are outlined with sharp spines
or teeth, and the fruiting branches
have round crimson berries.
Nogales international., 1938-12-24
Christmas All Year!

CHRISTMAS, FLA.-There's nary
a snowflake in this southern COM
munity but it's the only town in
America that has Christmas at
mosphere the year around. Each
Yuletide season cards and pack
ages come from all parts of the
world to be stamped and mailed
again by MRS. Santa Claus" other
wise known as PostmistreSs Juanita
s Tucker. The post office was es-
tablished June q, 1892. Offices at
Christmas, KY, and Christmas,
Ariz-- have heen abandoned.
Nogales international., 1938-12-24
leicester Badger Feast

LEICESTER, ENGLAND. - One
Of the strangest surviving Christmas
customs is the Leicester badger
feast, started by poachers in Nor
man times. Soon before the feast
the village lads catch a badger, kill
and dress it. On Christmas eve it
is strung on spit over a huge fire
in the inn. When it is ready the par
ty attacks it with fingers-no cut
lery is allowed. Singing and toast
ing accompany the feast, which at
tracts practically all the villagers
and nearby farmers.
Nogales international., 1938-12-24
LEGAL NOTICE
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

The annual meeting of the stock.
holders of The First National Bank
of Nogales, will be held at the
Banking rooms in Nogales, Arizona
on Tuesday, the 10th day Of Janu-
ary, 1899, at 800 o'clock P. M.
for the election of Directors and
any other business that may prop
erly come before this meeting.
OTTO III. HEROLD
PRESIDENT
publish Dec. 10, II, "a, 81, Jan. D
Nogales international., 1938-12-24
FROM SAN DIEGO

Mr.. and Mrs. Tommy White of
San Diego arrived Saturday to
spend the holidays with relatives.
Mr.. White is brother of Mrs.
Thomas L. Hall and Ben White.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
Oregon An+i-Labor
(Continued From Pdqe One)

coaltonists secured its contract, Ex-
ecutive Secretary Nickerson of the
Oregon State Federation of Labor
said:
"The adoption of this bill is an evi-
dence of political debauchery such as
previously had not been seen in this
State. The campaign in support of
the measure marked new low level
in shameful expenditure of money to
deceive the voters.
Labor could not match the slush
fund which employing interests pour
ed into streams of communications
such as radio and newspaper adver-
tising.
Labor does not admit defeat, and
will challenge the measure in the
courts. Also we are confident that the
great court of public opinion will null
lily this iniquitous measure when the
truth becomes known, for this sort OF
thing cannot endure in a democracy
A. +. of l.. Aids Court Test
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
assigned Joseph Padway, general
counsel of the Federation, to direct
the litigation to contest the validity
Of the Oregon measure.
The argument before the courts will
contend that the measure not only vlo-
lates both the Constitution of Oregon
and the constitution of the UniteC
States, but that it also conflicts with
the Wagner National Labor Relations
Act and the Norris-l.a Guardia Anti
Injunction Act, both of which have
been held constitutional by the Ma
tons highest judicial tribunal. In
view of these precedents, A. r. of l.
leaders believe that both the Supreme
Court of Oregon and the Supreme
Court of the United States will OUTLAW
| the measure as unconstitutional.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
NEARLY MILLION WORKERS
REPORTED RETURNED TO
JOBS SINCE JULY

Washington, ID. C. QLNS).-About
100000 non-agricultural workers have
been returned to jobs in the four
month interval since July, bringing
the total number of persons at work
to 34,000,0C0, compared with 3S,COO,-
0O0 in 1929 and 37,0O0,O0O in Septem-
Der 1887, Secretary of Labor Perkins
reports.
Miss Perkins said that 24S,OOO
workers were placed in positions in
October, with automobile, body and
parts plants alone absorbing $4,000
new employees. Retail trade establish
ments, she said, hired about 44,OCO
additional workers in October to
handle the increase in fall business.
Manufacturing as whole, the Sec
retary said, added 10000 employees to
payrolls, exclusive of decrease OF
103, ,OOO casual workers in canneries.
Weekly payrolls rose about $5,1CO,-
COO week, gain Of 3.3 per cent,
the Secretary reported.
The Secretary said that general
gains also were reported in whole
sale and retail trade establishments,
anthracite and bituminous coal mines
and private building construction, re-
sulting in 4 higher payroll index for
October than any other month III
1855.
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Oil, Gas Products
Firm Signs Pact
Wage Increases. FortY-Hour
Week. Paid Vacations
Included

Sterlington, La. (AFLWNS).-The
strong influence exercised by unions
affiliated with the American Fedora
tion of Labor in securing improved
employment conditions is we'll illus
trated in the agreement negotiated by
Federal Labor Union No. 21739 with
the management of the Imperial Oil
and Gas Products Company's five
units high grade color and rubber
carbon black plant here. The main
Offices of the company are in Pitts
burgh, Pa.
According to Sidney Simpson, Sec
retary of the A. F. Of l.. union, the
executives of the company ordered a
wage cut sometime ago ranging from
10 per cent to so per cent and in
creased the length of the work week
from Sc to 70 hours.
The company was evidently under
the impression that there were plenty
of idle men available who would be
forced to work for the low wages and
long hours in order to live.
Following the wage cut the en-
ployes of the company joined the Fed
eraal Labor Union and negotiations
for an agreement were begun with the
result that the contract was signed by
! the company just five weeks after the
entire personnel had paid their init
alton fees.
The agreement calls for the re-
duction of the work week from &c
hours to 40 hours for skilled labor
with no cut in wages, Is per cent
wage increase for semi-skilled labor
a 25 per cent wage increase for com.
mon labor, flashlights and batteries
for all night men, classification of al
skilled labor jobs, and two weeks an
nual vacation with pay.
The agreement, which runs unit
October Is, 1889, was negotiated b!
E. H. Williams, president of the
Louisiana State Federation of Labor
Tex Conder, organizer, and the unions
committee consisting of w. L. Griffin
Edwin Ballard and Earl Blackstock.
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History Of Labor
lContinued From Puqe Onel

of the country's finest speakers.
Others on the speakers stand were
Louis Marcianti, president Of the New
Jersey State Federation of Labor;
Walter Peabody, professor of econ
omics at Rutgers University; Thomas
Kelly, president Of the Perth Amboy
CLU, and Julius Kass, chairman and
instructor of the Labor School which
terminated it's first session of the
year.
The writer would like to take this
opportunity to say that we are all
heartily in accord with the idea as set
forth in their letter, urging the be-
ginning of a reconciliation movement
among individual locals in an attempt
to bring William Green and John l.,
Lewis to the same side of the fence,
20. c.. 96
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THE POTTERS HERALD

consideration and special action. Do
so individually and collectively.
Let us preserve, so far as it lies
within our power, the absolute and
full freedom of conscience and of re-
ligion. Set up community organiza-
tions for the avowed purpose of max
ing this boycott effective.
Let Hitler and his associates re-
sponsible for the persecution of the
Jewish race in Germany, know ano
understand that not only is the con.
science of American working men anc
women aroused, but that they have
united in a common and determined
purpose to bring to an end the bruta
treatment and inhuman practices i'm
posed upon the Jewish people in Ger
many.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

Investors have always claimed that
profits belonged exclusively to them
because they alone bore the risk of
industry. But we we'll know the risk
of business is borne by every person
dependent upon it for jobs and income.
The risk of wage earners is no less
frightening and hazardous than that
of investors--food, clothing and shell
ter are at stake.
The profit motive is strong force.
1t gives an Individual opportunity to
benefit from resourcefulpess and eff
cheney 1t has been a most powerful
force in developing present day civili-
zation and we do not wish to limit
the scope of it's operation. We, there
fore, propose that collective bargain
ing be extended to the field of profit
sharing as rapidly as possible.
Profit-sharing in the strict sense
means plan to share net profits with
employees. Some have used the term
in broad sense making proit-sharing
include types of bonus payments, in
surance or savings plans, stock own
ership and production bonus, such as
gift or merit bonus, per cent-on-Wages
bonus, cost-of- living bonus and SER
vice bonus.
The difficulty of including these
plans in profit sharing is that they are
part of the wage structure and
therefore are production charges and
therefore must be charged off before
profits can be determined and divided
Many Proft-Sharing Plans
Discontinued
A study by the British Ministry of
Labor (1936) showed that out of 532
bona fide profit-sharing plans in that
country $50, or 62 per cent, had been
discontinued.
The National Industrial Conference
Board reviewed experience in this
country in it's 1887 study and founc
5 that 9G out of 161, or 60 per cent, hao
| been abandoned. Dissatisfaction OF
| employers or employees was found tt
: be the cause for discontnuance of Il
per cent Of the British plans and q
per cent of the American. Substitu
ton of higher wages, shorter hours OF
: other benefits replaced profit sharing
= in II per cent of the British companie:
and in IA per cent of the American.
Tax Credits Opposed
The American Federation of Labol
is unalterably opposed to using thu
tax power of the Government to pro
| mote profit-sharing plans. We arr
squarely opposed to amending the So
cial Security Act to provide tax credits
for funds allotted to profit sharing o.
2 any similar purpose, however worth!
2 they may be in themselves.
The Social Security Act is to pro
vide some degree of security for th
victims of industrial unemployment
!, 1t cannot be used to remedy the de
t fects of industry without interfering
S with it's prime function.
The costs of administering socia
r security are already too high-betweel
o $40, 100000 and $60,OO0,000. Thes
n high costs are due in part to our in
experience in the field and in part t
n the very complicated provisions in ou
n laws. Merit rating provisions in tn
: laws not yet in effect will definitel
y increase these costs. The Federation
: believes these provisions should be re
moved Credit for profit sharing wou
d multiply the difficulties and the costs
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Federal Committee on Apprentice
ship.
Where an apprenticeship agreement
has been approved by a State Appren-
ticeship Council, or other recognized
authority, the application forms shall
be signed by both employer and ap-
prentice and forwarded to the Admin
istrator.
A special certificate authorizing
the employment of the apprentice at
the rate specified in the agreement
may be issued by the Administrator
providing the Administrators IS salts
fed that the application and agree
ment comply with all requirements.
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NOTICE l.. u. 1873

: An exceptionally important
: meeting will be held by Local
: Union 1873 Thursday, December
: Is. The election of officers will
+ also be held at this time. All
: members are urgently requested
( to be present.
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NOTICE.!
Important Announcements of Local
Unions are to be found in this
Column
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NOTICE NO. l66

+ Sebring, O.-Local Union No.
! 166 will nominate officers for :
! the next term at the regular :
! meeting Monday night. Every
\ one is urgently requested to be
\ present.
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+ NOTICE 135 .

< Roseville, O.-All members of .
X Local Union No. 1876 are request :
< ed to be present at our next :
X meeting, December 7. Officers :
x will be nominated for the coming :
X year.
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position to know more about the
facts.
President Speaks for All Americans
1t is significant that President
Roosevelt has recalled our Ambassa-
dor from Berlin for consultation here.
1t is encouraging that the President
has discarded the niceties of diplo-
matte usage and frankly stated his
personal shock that such things as are
happening in Germany could take
place in these supposedly civilized
days.
By so doing the President has eX-
pressed the feeling of all our people
of whatever faith in every walk of
life. We know that Hitler has attacked
not only the Jews but Catholics,
Protestants, organized labor and every
individual, religion, or group that
stands in his way. No one is safe in
Germany today.
Therefore, | pledge the support of
the American Federation Of Labor to
any practical plan for the release of
refugees from Hitler's wrath. This
must be done not as charity but in the
name of humanity.
And in that same spirit | pledge
that the full strength of the American
Federation Of Labor and its 100000
members will be eXerted to keep the
plague of Nazism from spreading in
this country.
What is happening in Germany to-
day is so terrible that it makes US
ashamed that human beings can sink
to such depths. But we must not let
| it discourage us. 1t should renew our
faith in our own free democracy and
strengthen US in the determination to
hold fast to the principles of liberty,
justice and decency which have guided
our destiny as nation. Let US show
the world that these principles cannot
die in the hearts of human beings.
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NOTICE MEMBERS OF rs )

At December s meeting officers .
will be nominated for the ensuing :
year. Members in arrears get in ;
touch with the financial secretary .
and bring up your standing be-
fore January /, 1889. "
BY Order of Pres. :
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01
MINIMUM WAGES FOR
GLOVE INDUSTRY STUDIED

New York-A statewide investi-
cation of wages, hours, and other
working conditions of women and
minors employed in all branches of the
glove industry by the Division of
Women in Industry and Minimum
Wage of the New York State Depart
mcnt of Labor is we'll under way, ac-
cording to an announcement by In
dustrial Commissioner Freda S. Mill
er. The survey will cover the manu-
facture of leather, fabric and knit
gloves, and material will be obtained
from employers records and inter-
views with home-workers. The Com
missioner will use the information
thus gathered to enhale her to deter
mine whether the minimum wage and
homework laws should be applied to
the glove industry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

Washington, D. C.-The Ecusta
Paper Corp. has begun construction
Of a S3,0O0,000,00O cigarette paper
mill near Brevard, North Carolina,
and just short distance from Pisgah
National Forest. The construction of
the mill, which has behind it several
years of intensive laboratory research
and study, is expected to have a mark
ed effect on the present French mon
opoly of cigarette paper making.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-12-01

Man wisely thinks ten times as
often as he wisely acts.
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Policies Formed

Continued From Page One)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-03-11
WHY==
Ears of Corn Produce Even
Number of Rows.

There is always an even number
of rows of grains on normal ear
Of corn. This popularity is due to
a botanical characteristic. The
United States bureau of plant in
dustry gives the following explana-
tion
"An ear of corn is made up of two
or more connate two-rowed spikes
which have grown together or failed
to separate during their early devel-
opment. Each spike bears at the
end two two-fowered spikelets, but
the lower floret of each spikelet is
abortive, leaving only one pair of
carpets to develop at each end.
This accounts for the uniformity in
the development of rows of grain in
pairs. AS each spike is two-rowed,
the entire ear must have an even
number of rows, unless, as some
times happens, an entire row of one
spike aborts, in which case the ear
will be abnormal and have an odd
number of rows of kernels"
There is story to the effect that
in slavery days a southern planter
once offered a slave his freedom if
he would bring the master a per-
feet ear of corn with an odd num-
Der of rows of kernels. The negro
vainly searched for such an ear for
an entire season. Early the next
season he selected a growing ear
and with a knife carefully cut out
one row of kernels. When the ear
was ripe it looked like normal
ear with an odd number of rows of
grain. True to his word, the master
gave the slave his freedom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-03-11
THE WASHINGTON CONFER
ENCES

The President and the business
men have met many times and
talked it all over" Congress has
heard from business men appearing
before its own committees. Besides
that-the President and Congress
have heard from business men who
did not come to Washington, but
used the mails and other means OF
communication. AS a result the de-
preston is boiled down by aid OF the
press and the radio to fairly COM
prehensive analysis and understand
ing.
The business men of large and
small industries and corporations
have told Washington that common
sense would be served if the Gov
eminent would announce program
of intentions for year or two, at
least.
They put it about as follows:
Tell us what you intend to do, Mr..
Government, and do it; tell business
what you want it to do. and We'll
do It," Business men believe that the
slump is superficial, due to fear, and
q peculiar lack of confidence.