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Evening star., 1939-10-20
Silver Tea TODAY

Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel
president of the District Federation
of Women's Clubs, was to be the
guest of honor this afternoon at a
silver tea given by the Junior Alli-
ance in the home of Mrs. William
H. Hessick. jr.
Mrs. Jay P. Conger. president OF
the club, will preside, assisted by
Mrs. John Phillips, Mrs. Woodson T,
Birthright, Miss Annie Lee Chisholm
and Mrs. c. Y. Stephens.
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Mrs. Reades at Home

Mrs George Reades of 2233 S
street NE, has been in Sibley Me-
mortal Hospital for two weeks and
has now returned to her home.
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Anniversary Banquet
Planned Tonight
By Alpha IOta

A formal banquet, celebrating the
founding Of the Alpha Iota, inter-
national honorary business sorority,
will be held tonight by the three
Washington chapters ut the Madril-
lon.
Special recognition win be given
to Mrs. Kacile Bruce, chosen first
convention queen, and Mrs. Kathryn
Kramer Kirkland, selected first
Ideal secretary" at the sorority s
first national convention in 1881
Both members will be present at the
banquet.
Following the dinner, the newly
elected officers of the alumnae chap
ters will be installed by Miss Doro-
thy Matthews, regional councillor
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Mrs. LObinaier Guest

Mrs. Charles S. Lobingier, organ
izer of the first chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton In the Philippine Islands, will
be the honor guest OF. Vicr"ly Cnap-
ter on Monday, at a meeting at the
home OF Mrs. Elgie G. PurviS at 1920
Reno road NV. Mrs. Lucius O.
Chaplin will assist Mrs. Purvis.
Mrs. Lobingier, who founded the
Evening star., 1939-10-20
Grace Episcopal Ball
Set for Nov. 10

The Sulgrave Club will be the
scene of the fourth annual ball for
the benefit OF Grace Episcopal
Church, for the Rev. Meade Bolton
MacBryde and the patrons and pa
tronesses have issued invitations for
the ball on the evening of Novem-
her IN
Evening star., 1939-10-20

Philippine unit In 1914, was instru.
mental IN establishing scholarships
in hospital training for Philippine
girls.
The speaker at the meeting, which
will begin at 2 pm, will be Miss
Josephine Hamilton, formerly 4
teacher in China.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-10-06

on each side having the greatest num-
Der of correct answers. Bailey Dish
aroon won a prize for one team, and
Granville Hall won the other.
The assembly proved to be quite
entertaining as well as helpful.
THE SCHOOL BOY PATROL
The School Boy Patrol will be an
important organization in school this
year. Since the primary grades are
in the high school building, there will
be a great need for patrol. This year
will be a trial year for the patrol;
if it is not more efficient than in
the past, it will be discontinued. The
Student Council will be a court for
violation of safety rules.
The officers and patrolmen selected
by the Student Council are as follows:
Officers, Bobby Corddry, Captain, and
Dick Leonard and Jimmy COPPER, Lieu
tenants; and Patrolmen, Clifton Mock,
Hurley Holloway, Bill Hancock, Tom
my Jones, Barbara Brown, Avery Cor
dy, Elinor Wilson, Anna Pearl Hau-
bert, Gus Payne, Margaret Godfrey,
Dorothy Tyndall, Norma Hall, Lor-
raine Scott, Elinor Jones, Jane Grey,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-10-06

Margaret Holloway, Harriet Cherrix,
Marvel Scott, Randolph Taylor, Frank
lin Short, William Pusey, Jean Pusey,
Bill Cropper and Grace Laws.
The patrol will go on duty during
the week beginning Monday, October
2, and will receive instructions from
the Student Council on Tuesday, Oc-
tober 8.
TASTE AND BASTE CLUB NEWS
The Taste and Basic Club met Wed
nesday night for the first time this
school year. The new president, Shir-
ley Townsend conducted the business
meeting. AS the secretary resigned
the club elected Irene Tull. The mem
bers thought it would be great fun to
have a hike some day next week,
weather permitting. The club ap-
pointed scrap book committee, exc
cutive committee and ways and means
committee.
After the business meeting, several
interesting things were on the pro-
gram. To open the program Margaret
Holloway gave an interesting talk on
correct parliamentary procedure fol-
club meetings. Following this Rachel
Hall gave very worth while talk on
fall fashions, especially school cloth
es. Several girls modelled some ap-
propriate school clothes. Following
this a QUESTIONABLE was given each
girl. The object was to see how much
personality you have. The singing OF
the club song concluded the program
SOCIAL NEWS
Elinor Wilson spent Saturday and
Sunday in Wilmington.
Rosalie Truitt and Lorraine Scott
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-10-06

visited friend in Ocean City, Sun
day.
Mary Jane Jones visited relatives in
Delaware, Sunday.
Dickie Leonard, William Hancock
and Howard Taylor visited the
Worlds Fair Sunday.
ALUMNI NEWS
Enron Sidaway, Milton Laws and
Archer Holloway, who are attending
the Beacon College, spent the week
end at Snow Hill with their parents.
SEVENTH GRADE NEWS
The seventh grade are studying a.
bout breathing. One thing they have
learned is that it is very important
that everyone should kn@w how to
breathe properly. If our breathing
muscles are not constantly in use,
they become weak and fail to do their
work properly.
Another thing they have learned is
that you should not breath through
your mouth. The reason is there are
little hairs in your nose. AS you
breathe the dust and other particles
in the air are swept back by the little
hairs. If you breathe through your
mouth there is no way that the dust
and other particles can be separated
from the air. There is another reas-
on why you should breathe through
your nose and not your mouth. When
you are breathing the air is warmed
by the winding passages of your nose
When you are breathing through your
mouth, it does not allow time to warm
the air.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23
It's Up to Congress

The members of Congress who voted to
slash the WPA appropriation to $725, 100000
have advanced all sorts of excuses to in
dignant people back home who have called
them to task.
They have claimed that the slash would
not result in serious layoffs; that improve
ment in private employment would absorb
the jobless; that the provision against more
than a 5 per cent layoff would prevent serious
suffering; and all sorts of other arguments.
Having voted the cut and attempted to
square their own consciences with such
arguments, they thought they could consider
the issue closed and wash their hands of
further responsibility for the unemployed.
But now with his special relief message,
President Roosevelt has again made it clear
to the whole country that Congress cannot
dodge the responsibility for wholesale lay
offs of WPA workers which must follow if
adequate funds are not voted.
The President has stated clearly and posi-
lively that under the present appropriation
either 100000 persons will nave to be
abruptly cut off the WPA rolls on April 1,
or else between 100000 and 100000 will
have to be cut off in a series of gradual lay
offs this spring.
When the dependents of the WPA workers
are also taken into consideration, this means
that from six to eight million Americans face
extreme distress in the near future unless
Congress speedily votes an additional $780,
000,0 900 for WPA.
The fate of all these millions of Americans
now rests in the hands of Congress. No SNUG
excuses will any longer avail against the cold
and cruel facts which the President has
presented.
If protestations Of concern for the unem-
ployed are sincere, the members of Congress
will at once vote the needed $3.50, 100000. If
they fail to do so, they will stand convicted
of being willing to let millions of Americans
suffer dire want by being deprived of WPA
employment.
The CLIO does not consider that even this
additional $3.50, 600, 900 will provide enough
WPA jobs for the unemployed. But it is a
minimum appropriation which must be voted
at once, and CIO unions and members will
join with the President in hammering this
demand home to Congress.
It's up to Congress now, and don't let your
Senator or Congressman overlook this fact!-
Union NeUS SerVice.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23

his own middle class. In kind, if
not in degree, his emotional fervor
is the same as that which character
lied Whitman. When you read to
the end of his book, the chances
are you'll agree with him that
America will be a better place when
capitalism is supplanted by a more
democratic economy, but you'll still
be asking, $50 what?"
You are not likely to be satisfied
with Hicks's calm implication that
Communism is the only way out.
You won't be mad at Mr.. Hicks, for
he is nothing if not sincere, nothing
if not good tempered, the farthest
opposite from dogmatic.
But if he adds nothing new in
the way of facts, and if his spiritual
message is no more stirring than
chat of an anemic New England
moralist is likely to be, why the
book? We have gone far enough
in our common American thinking
and living that we don't have to pull
any punches. Hicks's book has value
if it does no more than declare how
namby-pamby the new Communist
line is. No one expects American
workers to lap up John Strachey,
the darling of the pinko women's
clubs, but one might expect a
descendant of the Mayflower stock
to have something to say to them.
Granny Hicks, however, Tugs in
the ragged tomcat of Communism
under the patched-up cloak of
pseudo-liberalism. At a time when
once-militant liberals are filling re-
view columns with soft soap about
this book, it is only honorable to
bring in a dissenting vote. l, for
one, do not like Granville Hicks.
RICHARD LAKE.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23

whooped up the same refrain. The
roll call of lesser enthusiasts down
to Louis Adamic, would fill a num-
Der of paragraphs. Granville Hickss
hymn of praise is very faint to our
ears.
The important thing about this
book is not that the middle class
will flock and shove to read it, but
that considerable sections of the
awakening working class will likely
be taken in. Because after all
Hicks's argument is plausible. He
rehearses a story of unemployment,
insecurity, disproportionate distribu-
ton of wealth, thwarted creative
energy, and denial of civil liberties
that is fairly familiar to most Ameri-
cans of whatever class.
Hicks does not claim to be plow-
ing any new ground. He draws his
facts from the same Labor Research
Association that has supplied such
journalists as George Seldes, John
L. Spivak, and Leo Huberman. His
message is personal, addressed to
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23
New Housing As Job Provider

The tremendous possibilities of work for
millions of the unemployed in providing
adequate housing for hundreds Of thousands
of working men and women in the low-in-
come groups are pointedly revealed in recent
figures compiled by the American Federation
of Labor in connection with the proposal to
set up a National Planning Board composed
of representatives of all groups of industry,
commerce., finance and consumers, for the
purpose of encouraging investors to lend
their idle funds for industrial expansion.
Declaring that a program to re-house our
population living in slum areas" would be
at least a partial answer to the admitted
social need for housing, the A. F. of L. said:
''The United States Housing Authority has
made a good beginning, and in 1910 it will
build 100000 low rent homes and give jobs
to 213,0 900 persons producing materials and
erecting the houses. But this is a very small
beginning compared to the need. For over
and above the United States Housing Au-
thority program and the maximum private
industry will build, there is need for 10000
homes which have not been planned for. A
large proportion Of this need is in low rent
homes which are not profitable for private
industry. To build these homes would en-
ploy 1,683,000 persons. In all, it has been
estimated that we need to build 10000 900 new
homes each year for the next ten years. This
would create 3,081, 900 jobs yearly"
In the important field of "low-rent homes
which are not profitable for private indus
try" the United States Housing Authority
has already allocated the $500, 600, 900 in loans
for this purpose authorized by Congress, with
new demands for slum clearance funds COM
ing in every day.
It has been estimated that the $500, OOO,O 900
already earmarked will provide direct en-
ployment at the site of the slum clearance
projects for more than 100000 building trades
mechanics and laborers, and, in addition, will
give work to approximately 100000 en-
ployees in the production of building ma
terials and their transportation. This means
approximately 100000 full time jobs in in
dustries where employment is critically
needed.
Well informed observers claim that the
housing for l%ow-income groups already guar
anteed by the $500, 900, 900 Housing Authority
loans makes only a dent in adequate housing
requirements for the masses of our people.
It is therefore automatically evident that an
enlargement of the Federal housing program
is ar important element in this definite social
improvement capable Of mitigating markedly
the unemployment crisis.
To meet in part this admitted emergency,
Senator Robert F.. Wagner Of New York has
introduced a bill in the U. S. Senate author
izing an additional $500, 100000 for low-cost
housing loans and $45, 100000 to substitute
certain rents which will still be too high. The
new bill is endorsed by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23
Metnanized Industry

Aside from the basic cause of
high cost of living and inadequate
purchasing power (~interest paid on
our bonded debt and its inevitable
invisible taxation) the advantage
gained from mechanical industry is
not equally distributed amongst the
consuming public. Improved ma
chinery, instead Of tightening the
workers load and giving its just
share to society as a whole, is giving
its private owners the best of ii, in
many cases all the traffic will bear.
A typical example is the "continu-
GUS strip sheet-iron rolling-mill'i
now being gradually put into opera
ton.
Ordinarily with the hand-worker
operating a strip-mill section, it took
him years to learn the trade and
then a lotion output was an eight
hour job. With the latest mill, and
its automatic improvements, a high
school graduate can, after a three
months experience, produce q thou
sand tons a shift. Twenty-seven
strip mills can dispense with [, 5000
workers and produce more sheets at
the same time.
While these excess workers are
being dropped gradually with the
utmost care, the final result will be
the samoan addition to the perma-
nently unemployed. We may miti-
gate the evil and hide some of its
results by CCC camps, WPA and
other AS, but we will never find a
solution until we first discover the
basic cause for our present NAL
adjustment of industry. Education
is the vital factor needed to clarity
the situation and show the way out;
but visiting the different gambling
houses and soft drink joints and
then compare the numbers with
those attending the free educational
courses offered at the old high school
building, l see we are far from out
of the woods yet.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23
LAB0R'S BOOK SHELF
81 Like America" by Granville
Hicks. Modern Age Books.
1898. SOC.

Granville Hicks likes America.
Some of us may reflect that we like
America, too, and %retort, $50 whatl"
Hicks answer is pat: so join the
Communist party, and help make
America what it should be.
1t is a curious thing that an in
telligent American should feel him
self called upon to assert that he
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23
A Teacher Who Never
Severed His Ties With
The Men in The Mines

Michael Joseph Mansfield, treasur-
er of the Teachers Union of the State
University at Missoula and professor
at the college and who has often
been mentioned as a likely candidate
for Congress on the Democratic
ticket in 1910, was born in New York
City on March 16, 1908, and abided
there the next eight years.
He moved to Great Falls in 1911
and remained there until 1918, at
which time he enlisted in the United
States Navy, for the duration of the
war, being then only IA years old.
In August, 1919, he received an
honorable discharge. In November,
1920, he enlisted in the United
States army, following which he
enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps and stayed until he was hon
orably discharged in November,
1922. In that same year he came
to Butte and rustled a job as a
mucker in the old Colorado mine on
East Park street. For the next six
years Mr.. Mansfield continued this
occupation, working in various
mines but spending most Of the time
working at the Black Rock. Mr..
Mansfield also worked in the West
Colusa, Mountain View, and Penn
sylvania mines, and served also as
a firefighter at the Leonard and Elm
Orlu.
Even today, in labor circles and
among the miners, he is affectionate-
ly called mike" Mansfield.
The god of fortune smiled on him
in the spring of 1929 when he was
given a job as sampler at the West
Colusa, Tramway and Anselmo
mines, and then became an assistant
mining engineer at the Steward.
The acquisition of his education
has been as varied as his occupa-
tional work. He divided his juvenile
years between the pubic and paro-
chial schools. The war interfering
with his high school training, he
took and passed the regular entrance
examination in order to get into the
university as a student. In the
school year of 1928-29, he was a stu
dent at the School of Mines in Butte.
In 1881 he returned to the Uni
versity of Missoula and received a
Bachelor Of Arts degree in history
and political science in 1888.
Not only feeling an urge but being
in need of money he took a part
time teaching position at the Uni
versity in 1933-34 while completing
his work for a masters degree. Since
that time, he has been on the staff
of the University in the Department
of History and Political Science, and
has also spent two summers of work
toward a Doctor of Philosophy de-
gree at the University of California.
He is a member of the following
organizations: American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Uni
versity Teachers Union 497.
He and his wife have a baby
daughter. Before marriage, Mrs.
Mansfield was an English teacher at
the Butte high school.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23

"Are you troubled much in your
neighborhood with borrowings"
Eyes, a good deal. My neighbors
never seem to have a thing ! want"
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23

WASHINGTON-(FP)-A call to
all workers and progressives to rally
in defense of the National Labor
Relations Act was sounded in a
booklet issued here by Labor's Non
Partisan League. Under the title
protect the National Labor Rela-
tons Actl'. the pamphlet presents
reasons why it is in the true interest
of workers and other economic
groups to defeat the proposed
amendments to the act.
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23

likes America.
1t is curious,
probably, in
our day be-
cause Ameri-
C a n S h a v e
been asserting
just that in
their national
SOIlBS dllu III
erature for
general n S.
Melville said
so; Emerson
said so; and
w h i t m a n
Montana labor news., 1939-02-23

If Montana had no unemployment COM
pensation law the same taxes would be col
lected by the federal government from en-
ployers Of eight or more workers, but the
workers would not be eligible for job insur-
ance, to be paid in July of this wear.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-17
Rail Lease
Approaches
Some Nearer

Raleigh, July 17.-(AP)-Attorney
General Harry Mcmillan said to-
day that the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation had released the Allan
tic & North Carolina State-owned
railroad from its guarantee of $188,-
900 Of bonds of the Morenead City
port commission.
The release was obtained, McMul-
Ian said, by having the RFC sell $76,-
900 of North Carolina institutional
bonds which brought $1O8, ,322.8O,
and by turning over to the RFC at
face value an issue Of $4,000 Colds
boro Union Station bonds. The RFC
had held both issues as collateral on
$326,OOO Morenead bonds. With
coupons and accrued interest, the
RFC got $161, ,O64.8O, and in turn
gave the State that amount of More
head City port bonds, including
coupons and accrued interest.
The transaction was part Of the
work in connection with the propos-
ed leasing of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad to H. P. Edwards,
of Sanford
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-17
Find Bodies
9 More Men
In KY. Mine
Total of Deaths from
Disaster Now %; Re-
moval Slowed by Poor
Air Conditions in Deep
Shaft

Providence, KY, July 17.-(AP)
Bodies Of nine men were found
deep in the Duvin coal mine by a
rescue crew early today, raising to
% the death toll from an explosion
late Friday night
From rescue workers, F. V. Ruck-
man, president of the mining COM
pany, located near this town, re-
ceived by telephone the word that
ended hope That the nine still might
be alive after a search Of nearly gu
hours. Bodies of the other l9 VIC
tins were found Saturday. Ten men
escaped safely after the blast.
John Daniel, State mine Inspector,
said efforts to remove the nine bo-
dies from the mine probably would
not be renewed until later today
He explained that additional venti-
lation was necessary to clear the air
in mine entries
Earlier a rescue squad had begun
the task of taking bodies of the 19
men found previously to the surface,
but Daniel said that poo rair condl-
tions slowed the work
A spark which ignited gas fumes
is believed to have caused the ex-
plOSiOn
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-17
Britain To
Resume War
Plan Talks
Pre- mier Reports
Tientsin Situation I'm
proved, But Negotia-
tions To Be Resumed.
at Tokyo Wednesday
Are Expected To Fall

London, July IT, (AP) The
new inspector general of the Brit
ish overseas forces, Major General
Sir Edmund Ironside, took off from
Croydon airport for Warsaw, Poland
today for staff talks with the Polish
high military command. War Sec
retary Leslie Hore-Belisha and
number of high officers at about the
same time took off for tour OF
anti-aircraft gun positions and
searchlights in Yorkshire, in north
east England.
AS General Ironside left, it was
understood the question of Britain,
France and Poland acting under
unified command in event of war
would be discussed in Warsaw.
French staff officers arranged
talks with Turkish military experts
at Ankara, the Turkish capital, on
defense plans under the French
Turkish pact
British anti-aircraft guns were
manned for a defensive drill in
mock raid by 100 French bombing
planes, probably tomorrow. The
Royal Air Force, which made l.
2OO-mile hop over French territory
last week, awaited orders for anoth-
er and longer flight of a series OF
reciprocal maneuvers to give mutual
air attack and defense tests and to
impress the axis powers.
In Warsaw, the coming of General
Ironside was regarded in Polish cir
cles as a well-timed gesture, which
rhould convince Germany that the
British-Polish alliance exists in fact
as well as by declaration