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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
SHOE WORKERS OPPOSE
BATA FACTORIES IN
THE u. S. AND CANADA

Toronto (ILNS).-Delegates to the
Boot and Shoe Workers Union con-
vention unanimously passed resolu-
tions opposing establishment of
branches in the u. S. and Canada of
the famed Bata shoe company of
Czechoslovakia.
They also voted that the govern
ments of both countries be petitioned
to refuse entry of technical experts
of the company.
]. J. Mara, president of the union, an
A. F. of l.. affiliate, said the unions
opposition to the Bata expansion pro-
gram was based on the company's
poor labor record"
The Bata company is now awaiting
a Canadian government ruling on ap-
plications for permission to bring 25O
skilled technicians into Canada from
its European plants to act as in
structors at a proposed new plant
which, if present plans are followed,
will be erected near Belleville. The
plant, however, will not be built un-
less the technical experts are allowed
to enter the country, company officials
have stated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
PROPOSE SALARY INCREASE

Chicago, Ill.-Salary rates for state
Legislators, which range from $12O a
session in Oregon to $4,000 per
session in Illinois and average $500
per year over the nation, were made
a part of legislative programs in five
states this year, according to report
by the Council Of State Government.
Under new Washington law, voters
in the November, 1910, election will
pass on constitutional amendment Civ
ing the lawmakers the right to raise
their own salaries. Proposals for in
crease legislators salaries still are
pending before the Massachusetts and
Missouri legislatures while in Tennes-
see and North Carolina similar pro-
posals have been voted down. Illinois
is one of the most recent states in
which legislators voted pay increases,
having raised their salaries during
the 1887 session, (each session equal
ling a two-year period) from $500
to $1,000 session.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
{. {. {. BULLETIN

You are informed that the quarterly
C. c.. C. replacement enrolment for
veterans will be conducted July 7,
1899.
The quota will be filled without re-
gard to public relief requirements or
certification from a relief agency. All
other eligibility requirements are in
effect including the restriction pro-
hibiting re-enrollment of veterans who
have been discharged for period of
less than six months, or who have re-
ceived an administrative discharge.
In view of the quota assigned, it is
apparent that favorable consideration
can be given to all applications re-
ceived by July 1, 1889. Eligible vet
erans who desire to be enrolled and
who have not filed applications should
be directed to do so Immediately.
The fullest publicity in respect to
this enrolment is desired so that all
eligible veterans may have an oppor-
tunity to submit applications.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29

with the medical needs. The measure provides in
creased appropriations for health programs now
administered by the Public Health Service, the
|Children's Bureau, and the Social Security Board
expansion of hospital facilities; medical care for
the medically needy and Federal aid for state plans
for medical care.
There can be no question of need for more
medical care and of need for planning that all may
have adequate medical care. Facilities for medi-
cal care and doctors have been generally distribu-
tied in accord with the ability of a community to
support the services. AS need for medical care
varies inversely with incomes the existing dstri-
bution of medical care leaves rural areas and Sec
tions in which wage-earners live with inadequate
facilities.
AS a result children are needlessly handi-
capped for life because of physical ills that could
have been remedied by proper medical care; minor
sickness brings chronic illness for lack of ade
quate medical care; persons die prematurely for
lack of medical aid. The first condition for virie
person. resourceful and able to do for themselves,
lis physical and mental vigor. Economic chance
should not control the necessities of life itself AS
la Nation we cannot escape responsibility for a
national health plan and for encouraging the re-
search, education and facilities needed for ade-
|quate medical care for ALL
Although as one group of physicians has
Stated health insurance alone cannot provide ade-
quate medical care, health insurance should be an
Integral part of any national plan The plan for
health insurance should be national in scope, sim
lar to old age insurance. Our citizens move freely
from state to state and should not be penalzed in
this basic right because of a necessity in living.
Life in this country follows forces that know no
state lines While states may be convenient ad-
agencies, the provisions under which
health insurance operates should be national in
with the responsibility Of our
National Government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
INDEPENDENCE
rom Woman's Home Companion)

(FTOm woman nome COnlpdHlOn)
FOR the past twenty years at least not Fourth
of July has passed without making us all the
more grateful for our American independence. We
glory in America not in any spirit Of cheap pride,
not because we think we are better than other
peoples. The luck of geography plus the wisdom
and courage of our forefathers gave us a CONT
nent which has almost everything that man needs
or could wish for, and guarded by two wide
oceans against the turmoil of the old bewldered
lands
Our task is to keep it so. To keep free-free
of foreign alliances and far-of quarrels, free OF
sinister alien ideas and stale degraded standards,
free of war.
Possibly by the time this page is read Europe
will be at war again. The war that has waged in
Asia these two years may have spread it's devas-
tation wider Whether or not that has happened,
the old cry is sure to be going round that "the
United States is bound to be drawn in sooner or
later" Against that belief we must strive with
all our power of will and persuasion. In some
minds it is a superstition; in some it is propa-
ganda seeded from abroad; in some it is cynical
conscious desire for action, excitement, spurious
effort to "face facts;' in some it may be half
thrills But in every it is stupid folly, to be
shouted down. We need not, must not go to war
again.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
FRANCE FIGHTS POLICY

THE difficulties encountered by organized labor
in operating a government for the benefit of
working men and women are revealed in the recent
experience of the government of New Zealand
which is controlled by the New Zealand trade un-
ion movement.
Confronted with considerable number of
goods which capable of being produced at
home, the New Zealand government raised the i'm
port duties on foregn produced goods in order to
stimulate domestic production with the accom-
panying employment of New Zealand labor
Some of these higher tariff duties hit French
goods Now the French government announces
that, in retaliation, it is going to clap surtax on
all New Zealands exports to France except wool.
Backed as it is by the entire organized labor
observers predict that the New Zea-
land government will continue it's policy of monop-
olizing far possible the New Zealand market
for the products of New Zealand workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
BROADCASTERS PROPOSE BAN

New York City ILNS).-Radio sta
tions affiliated with the National AS
sociation of Broadcasters would not be
permitted to sell time "for the dis
cussion of issues arising from strike"
under the terms of a proposed code of
ethics and standard practices on which
the association will vote in July.
The code, which will go into effect
Sept. "a if the broadcasters adopt it
at their convention in Atlantic City,
was made public here at meeting of
the associations sales managers di-
vision.
If time is given for discussion on
strike issues, the proposed code says,
"it will be given on a fair and equal
basis to all interested parties. If time
is denied, the broadcaster will deter
mine in his own mind that he has at
tempted faithfully to serve the public
interest"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
THE TOPMOST TOWER OF REACTION

VICE CHANCELLOR MAJA LEON BERRY,
high in the ranks of New Jersey judges, has
ruled that strikes for union recognition are Illegal
because they try to establish monopoly of en-
He went on to say:
"Has industry reached the point where the
owner of the business has no longer the right to
select his own employees and define his own bus
mess policies, to operate the union or non-un-
ion plan as he pleases"
Such perfect example of utter reactionism
should be preserved indeed, but not in active con-
troll of states courts. He belongs in the museum
class. He ranks with the western judge of 40
years ago who laid down the doctrine that there
could be no such thing as a peaceful strike; and
seems never to have heard of the judicial charac-
ter, to speak, that Chief Justice Taft gave to
unions by saying that they rose out of the neces-
sites of the occasion.
Judge Berry is consistent. He has ruled that
free speech is a qualified" right while property
rights are absolute" He has declared, udcially,
that "a strike is ended when the places of the
strikers have been filled" But he really functions
as horrible example, not as a working Judge
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
LABOR WAITS TO BE SHOWN

IT is not good news to labor that j. David Stern
has sold the New York Evening Post AS head
of the Philadelphia Record, Mr. Stern has been
fairer to labor than any other newspaper pro
prietor of equal scope and power. He has cham
pioned the great ajority of labors demands, and
has done this in city where political bosses such
as Penrose and Ware had welded autocratic pow,
er for generation
George Backer, who has taken over the New
York Evening Post, may do as we'll In fact, Mr.
Stern has given Mr.. Backer very high recon-.
mendation. But in this, as other matters, labor
likes to be shown, not told.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
. DO YOU PAY TAXES?
. SOME DON'T KNOW
. MOST TAX INDIRECT
. NEED TAX KNOWLEDGE

Lots of Americans are blissfully un-
aware that they pay taxes.
Light on the number of these inno-
cents is given by the American Insti-
tute of Public Opinion, popularity
known as the Gallup poll.
The institute, headed by DR.. George
Gallup, questioned cross-section of
the voting population in all walks of
life, asking each individual whether
he or she paid taxes of any kind.
Although virtually every person
pays taxes, direct or indirect, the sur
vey indicated that 25 per cent or one
quarter of the population do not think
they are taxpayers.
These citizens are in the position of
being separated from their money and
not knowing it, which speaks well for
the painlessness of many of our taxing
methods.
Taxpayers and consumers organ
izations still have plenty of work to
do, if the Gallup poll accurately re-
fleets the public consciousness of tax
alton. The tax consciousness of tax
alton. The tax consciousness cam
paign is apparently considerable dis
tance from it's goal.
The surrey revealed that most of the
persons who are not conscious of pay
ing taxes are in the lower income lev
els-the group earning less than $40
week.
Yet recent studies show that
workers earning less than $40
week pay taxes of more than $500
year.
These people probably contribute
larger proportion of their income to
taxes than do better paid groups.
In their case the taxation wind is
not tempered to the shorn lamb.
x
If all taxes were direct we'd all be
tax conscious.
But very large proportion of tax
es are indirect and included in the
selling price of articles we buy, hence
we don't realize they are there, unless
we. take the trouble to do little in
vestigating.
Food, clothing, housing nearly
everything consumed or used has its
hidden tax or taxes. In some cases
there are a dozen or more taxes on
one article.
Renters often say they pay no real
estate taxes. If they thought mo-
ment, they would see the foolishness
of their statement.
If there were no real estate taxes,
their rents would be lower. The land
lord figures taxes as one of his costs,
to be covered by rents. -
Renters of the nation, as a matter
of fact, are big payers of real estate
taxes.
X X X
That one fourth of the nations
population is apparently unaware that
it pays taxes is a situation that is
hardly laughing matter.
Corrupt politicians may think it
funny and congratulate themselves
that so many "poor saps' don't know
they are being taxed.
Lack of tax consciousness plays
right into the hands of the dishonest
politician, of course, which is all the
more reason why every citizen should
know how much he pays in taxes, how
and when he pays them and how the
taxation money is being spent.
Such tax consciousness would bene-
fit the whole nation and make for the
betterment of democratic methods and
practices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
FREEDOM FOR LABOR VITAL

BECAUSE the National Labor Relations Board
has interfered with the right of the labor
movement to make it's own decisions, the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor believes that the law
should be amended to prevent continuance of this
administrative mistake. Freedom for the labor
movement is of more Importance than any tenn
porary advantage gained by the board deciding a
controversy. The precedent of governmental con-
troll Of voluntary agencies can lead to only one
result.
Labor owes it to our democratic institutions
to protect our free labor movement against gov
ernmental invasions.-William Green in American
Federationist.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
CIGAR MAKERS TO CELEBRATE

Washington, d. C.-The Diamond
Anniversary of the Cigar Makers IN
ternational Union of America, to be
held here July 26 TO 2S inclusive, re-
calls the Indian tradition of cigar
which was no doubt the
reason for most cigar stores in early
days having wooden Indian as an
advertisement. Whether a buck or a
squaw, the wooden Indian always had
in one hand cigar, and usually a
tomahawk in the other. Today, the
'cigar store Indian rests alone and al
most forgotten in the museums and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

The American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. head and boss of the Bell
system, has more wealth than the
United States had, at the time of
Washington's Inauguration. But the
two-volume report on the A. T. & T.
by the Federal Communications Com
mission has been barely noticed. Per-
haps, if attention is pointed to just
one or two items, interest can be in
creased.
First, what is the labor record of
the Bell system? Not so good. On De-
cember 81, 1929, that system had 1862,
O56 employees. On December 81, 1888,
it had 250,396 employees. Dividends
were kept up and surplus was drawn
on to pay them. But at time when
jobs were the most precious things in
the land, the A. T. & T.-the Bell sys-
tem-fired nearly a third of its peo
pie.
The Western Electric Co. is an elec-
trio appliance manufacturing company
owned bodily by the A. T. & 7. It's
profits, the FEC reports, have aver
aged from 21 to % per cent year on
the investment; and the FEC says
that "the Westerns prices bear no
reasonable relation to the indicated
cost of manufacture"
On December 81, 1929, the Western
Electric had S4,848 employees.
On December 81, 1888, the Western
Electric had 21,033 employees.
X X x
1t is not likely, though entirely pos
sible, that Japan's maneuvers in
Chinese ports and on the Chinese coast
will lead to direct war with western
powers at once. But the calm as
sumption of Toxic that China is a
Japanese province, to be treated as
such forever, is anything rather than
suggestion of peace.
China has not much less than g.
100000 square miles-more than half
the area of the United States. Japan
has about 50,OO0-about the size of
California. China has more than
400,000,0O0 inhabitants. Japan has
70,O00,000. The natural resources of
China are incomparably greater than
those of Japan; and it is perfectly
clear that the Chinese resent the yoke
being pressed upon them.
For Japan to carry out her obvious
plans in China would be to set up the
greatest slave empire in the worlds
history. There is no peace for anyone
in that prospect.
x X
"War would make as certain as
death and taxes that civil liberty
would perish in the United States. We
are not yet rid of the persecution
mania let loose by the last world war
and the prospects of another emotion
al rage are alarming to contemplate.
Nor are the almost certain effects of
a war upon our domestic economy, now
deranged and debt-ridden, to be con-
templated with less anxiety. Even a
victorious army, on it's return home,
will not accept the misery of unem-
ployment and destitution such as we
now have and which is likely to be
augmented after the war speed-up and
let-down." DIR. Charles Beard, noted
historian.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
WAGE LAW vIOLATOR IN COURT

Columbus, D. (OLNS).-Two addi-
tional charges of violating the state
minimum wage law, making four in
all, against Mrs. Marie Amarosa, op-
orator of chain of dry cleaning es-
Establishments in several cities in the
state, were disposed of in Columbus
Municipal Court last week.
Mrs. Amarosa entered pleas of
guilty to the two charges, and was
placed on probation by Judge Francis
P. Howard. Mrs. Amarosa has appeal
ed sentence of ten days in Jail and
a fine of 500 and costs imposed here
on another charge, and a fine of $1OO
and costs levied against her in Day.
ton case.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
Whats In q Name?
Shakespeare and Dunlop
Ask the Old Question
BY Can't. r. H. Dunlap

BY Capt. R. H. Dunlap
A names funny sort of thing
That man has mixed from letters
To talk to those who understand
Or irritate his betters.
A rose by any other name
May smell as sweet, you say
But names, for various kinds of jobs
| Just aren't made that way.
Mister William Shakespeare some
years ago laughingly inquired. "What's
in a name?" names, Names, NAMES!
Names are the handles by which we
grasp ideas. But what is in name i?
What the idea?
Concentration upon the puzzling
paradoXes found among the twenty
thousand occupations pursued by
Ohioans as listed in the Bureau of I'm
employment Compensation's Sta e
Employment Service division, may
give few answers.
Notwithstanding that life is mostly
too real and earnest, many things
amt always what they seem!
Names of many unusual occupations
really give most of us no accurate de-
scription of the job.
A reducer really has nothing to do
with slenderizing the human form-he
operates revolving knife used to trim
out curves in women's shoes! In the
meat packing industry, chiseler isn't
like some other chiselers for his job is
Ito remove bones from meat; in a smell
ter, he's another fellow who works on
Ia Hegler Roaster.
No aborigine collector of human
scalps is our modern scalper; he ton
sures only the heads and hides of
slaughtered meat animals. Some duck
ers you have met may be evasive, but
those at a packing house always wear
helmets and definitely shove around
whole carcasses with long, hooked
poles.
A naumkeager operates a rotating,
|sand-or emery-covered inflated rub
ber tube as he works on leather shoe
sole.
In an ordnance factory the bluer, who
frequently can't sing note, holds his
job through his skill in getting per-
feet blue tones on gun barrels.
A bracer, in the parlance of the
building trades, may mean carpen-
ter who specializes in snoring and
bracing.
The clipper trims selvedge from
sheet and bar steel and a trimmer
|clips the walls and bottom of tunnel
with a pneumatic digger.
In the graphic arts, the makeup
man isn't necessarily ingratiating-he
makes up the pages preparatory to
printing. There, too, the lookup man
isn't an officer of the law; he makes
final inspection and locks up the forms.
In foundry, the Knockout takes
apart TASKS after the metal has cool
led, and moistens sand for cutters.
Squeezers, first, second and third
class, assemble heavy cable for sus-
pension bridges in their hazardous oc-
|cupation.
Teasers, in the glass manufacturing
industry, mix patches, decide just the
proper temperature for working them.
A gagger isn't person who "wise
cracks" funny gags; he's the foundry
fellow who pulls and holds the wires
for reinforcing cores and castings.
In the printing industry the ruler
isn't monarch of all he surveys-he
just operates a ruling machine.
And, as a finisher to this report, a
|finisher in an artisan who puts the dec
Iorative finishing touches on book COW
|ers.
SO we still would like to know
what's in name!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
w HAT NEXT?


An automobile was recently
driven several blocks in Chicago
on "liquid coal" composed of 60
per cent light fuel oil, 30 per cent
pulverized coal, about 10 per cent
of hydrOcarbOn and small
amount of secret substance.
Liquid coal" is undergoing de-
yelopment at the Armour Institute
of Technology, Chicago.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
A NATIONAL. MEDICAL PLAN

FOR the first time in our history the Congress of
the United States is considering our national
health problems for the purpose of formulating
policies. Early in May hearings began on S. 1903,
the Wagner Health Bill, and there has been an cx-
traordinary presentation of views from represen-
tatives of technical groups and persons familiar
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-29
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. UTOPIA AGAIN
. SOVIET EXPLORERS
q PLANTS IN WATER
q SOILLESS AGRICULTURE

Utopia, again
No more plowing, no hoeing-
No pulling of weeds and hilling po-
tatoes-
Just a rack, and tank, and some
chemicals
Of course, you must have some
seeds, too
Oh yes, and lots of water, prefer
ably distilled
That is the basis of chemiculture-
Up-to-date farmless farming.
x X X
Soviet explorers
Did it at the North Pole
To keep away scurvy by producing
vegetables
Pan American Airways are doing it
at Wake Island
To supply their trans-Pacifc flying
boats with fresh food
Californians are growing truck loads
of tomatoes that way
At least six universities have courses
of study in it
Now they are writing books about
So it is probably here to stay
x x X
Given the watts, racks, water, plus
some attention.
1t required % pounds of chemicals
to grow 1880 pounds of tomatoes
Fifty ponds of chemicals grew 1000
pounds of potatoes
One man grew $4,000 in tomatoes
per "tank acre.
Never using more than So worth of
solution at any one time
Fifteen different chemicals enter in
to plant life
Some in larger proportions, some in
minute ratios
Water furnishes the oxygen and
hydrogen
And water composes about 80 per
cent of plants, anyway
x x x
But all of this will not pull plow
factories out of business
Not for some time yet, will filling
vats replace plowing fields
But in the range of truck and gar
den products, and flowers
Chemiculture is destined to play
larger part
Requiring and allowing complete
control of plant food
Of growing conditions and crop
gathering
Land is needed only for the square
footage of space
With proper electric lighting, watts
can be stracked above each other
Flowing the chemical solutions Qife-
blood of the plants)-
Down from one level to another,
aerating it as it flows
Adding oxygen by mere mechanical
stirring of the fluids
X X X
Temperatures are controlled by
electric cables and thermostats-
Flavors Of fruit and vegetables
modified by chemical agents
Seasons pass into the discard, and
climate is unimportant-
You can grow tomatoes at the North
Pole in December
The Russians did something like
that
Just to show it could be done
Also, for the health of the explor-
erS-
X X
Watts to grow wheat fields would be
expensive
But if you want to experiment with
a few stalks of wheat