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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
SCIENTISTS AND THE WORKERS

\ new note on the attitude that scientists should
"A have toward the masses who perform most
of the useful work in the creation of wealth was
sounded by Sir Richard Gregory chairman of the
new scientists division of the British Association,
and Professor Levy Of Imperial College, at the
recent meeting of the association in Manchester,
England
Sir Richard told the meeting that scientists
had for too long gone exploring uncharted seas
and brought back argosies laden with rich dis
coveries which had been left on the quay-side of
civilization to be misused and abused.
In the United States, scientists (includng in
ventOrs) have been appropriated on a salary basis
by large industrial corporations and signed
to inventing labor-displacing machinery and meth
ods to be installed for the sole benefit of those who
live on interest and dividends regardless of the
effect of such inventions and methods on the wei
fare of the masses without whose physical
strength and mental ability very little wealth
would be produced
This grabbing the benefits of applied science
by investors deprecated by Professor Levy,
who described at the Manchester meeting the
chaotic effect Of scientific changes and the prob
lens with which scientists were concerned
Science has opened up avenues of employ
ment in directions,' he said but it has Gre
ated unemployment in others it has closed In
creating the chauffeur it has destroyed the cabby
ut has meant new life to some and misery ano
undernourishment to others
1T is entitled to Judge efficiency in the way
its results have been applied We are entitled tc
inquire whether the persistent large-scale unem
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
"PAY AS YOU PLAY"

Chicago, Ill.-A ten-year "pay-as-
you-go" recreation plan recently
voted for Portland, Oregon, will make
that city one of the few in the country
with a comprehensive play program
based on needs and financed with cur
rent revenues, the International City
Managers Association reported re-
Gently. Whereas many cities have
bonded themselves heavily to secure
park and play facilities, Portland ex-
poets to acquire land and complete i'm
provements gradually throughout the
next ten years. The city will levy an
annual fixed tax from 1939-1949 to
finance the development. 1t is esti-
mated that the levy will produce a
revenue of slightly more than $780,
600 year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
TRADE UNIONISM PROTECTS THE PAY
ENXEI OPE

A ANT1-UNlON employers and the journalistic
hirelings often break out with allegations that
working men and women do not realize tangible
benefits from their membership in unions affli-
ated with the American Federation of Labor In
cluded in the tangible benefits of trade union
organization is the wage protection which unions
give their members The extent of this protection
is visualized in the current issue of the Monthly
Survey of Business of the American Federation of
Labor in discussion of wages during recent
months. The Survey says:
Strong trade unions have maintained wages
during the 1888 recession, so that in industry as
a whole there were only small declines. Wage in
creases this spring have brought workers hourly
earnings almost back to the 1887 high point In
1887, earnings of factory workers reached an aver
age of 66l2 cents per hour in the last quarter the
1888 recession reduced this to 63l4 cents in the
third quarter, but by the first half of 1889 earn
ings were back to 65 cents per hour Wage cuts
this year are giving place to wage increases In
1888 cuts were reported affecting 376,O0O of the
6,9OO,OOO factory workers covered by Labor De
partment records. Reports in 1889 (to AprD
showed less than 5000 receiving cuts and $4,000
receiving increases"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

This is the month when city health
officials give out the sick and death
rates of their communities for the
first half of the year, and compare il
with last year. 1t is good practice
But at least once year, it is well to
look back say 20 or 80 years, and see
what changes have come in that time
New York, for instance, says that
she had only Is deaths from diptheria
this first half year.
When New York had a little more
than two-thirds of her present popu-
lation, she averaged" 1920 deaths
from diptheria a year. Last year, with
much larger population, she had 27.
A hundred deaths in a year from that
disease would have the health authori-
ties tearing their hair-and probably
some one else's hair, when they found
the negligence.
And here is the moral: Every in
fectious disease can be wiped out if
we are willing to work hard enough,
long enough, and intelligently enough.
X X X
One of the most hopeful events of
Years is the action of the British Trade
Union Congress and Labor Party in
warning German labor that Hitler is
riding for war. The broadcast was
sent in German; and beyond doubt it
is going through Germany.
eve beg of you (the German peo-
ple) to do whatever you can to make
it known to your government that you
want peace and not war;" says the
manifesto. And on the Danzig case,
it is crystal clear.
"You must face the fact that if this
(pressure on Danzig) is continued,
the result will be war. Workers of
all lands must insist that disputes be
settled by reason. But what we cam
not submit to is that we should be
blackmailed and threatened by egotis-
tic dictators."
1t is an appeal to the German peo-
pie against the Nazi government.
Nothing quite like it has ever been
done before; and it is certain that by
underground printing and radio, the
appeal is going to millions Of the Ger
man people.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
MIGRATE LEWIS
(From New York Herald Tril

(FrOm New York Herald lrlbune)
MIR. JOHN l.. LEWIS has now eliminated even
NA the very slim prospect which had existed
since the coal settlement that peace negotiations
between the two labor factions would be resumed.
Peace, he says, is impossible" giving as his main
reason the personality of A. F. of L. leadership.
Let us correct him by saying that it is impossible
because of the personality of John l.. Lewis and
that his very reason plus his record prove it,
A few weeks ago Mr.. Matthew Woll, one of
the A. F. of L. leaders cited in LeWiss Indictment,
report by the late Charles P. Howard, secretary
of the Committee for Industrial Organization, on
the labor peace parleys in the fall of 1887 and de-
signed for the guidance of the G. l. 0. delegation.
In it Mr.. Howard listed thirty-four great labor
groups which, he said, the A. f. of L. was ready
+. to welcome to it's fold an industrial basis. In
cluded were most of those categOries of workers
which have been now the mainstay of the
Lewis OrganiZatlOn-the mine workers, the auto
mobile workers, the garment workers, the steel
workers, the rubber workers. the glass workers,
and This memorandum clearly suggests
that the conferees had entirely overcome the orig
ina industrial-craft union issue, leaving for set
tlement only those individual adjustments between
rival organizations made necessary by the growth
of dual unionsm. YetLewis snorted at the prog
ress made and kicked the whole proceeding out
of the window against the advice and wishes OF
some of his negotiators Today he is simply re-
peating the performance with no more ground for
his action than he had then. "'The real reason is
that he does not want peace because peace would
automatically end his autocratic control over q
minority group in organized labor" SO says MIR.
William Green, and one fears he is right
How does the President feel about this latest
manifestation of his proteges obduracy? 1t was
the President who personally instituted the nego-
tiations definitely broken off. At the time
the labor feud and what it was doing to in
dustry, to the labor movement and last, but not
least, to his political fortunes seemed his main con-
cern. In the interval he has helped Lewis to tr- :
umph over the Appalachian coal operators and,
incidentally, the A. F. of l.. Did he expect that
Lewis, out Of gratitude, would help him by helping
must be keener even than that of the rest of the
country, including labor. For Lewis has done him
about as poor turn one man can do another
Gone are his hopes of labor unity before the Presi-
dental primaries begin next January and greatly
increased is the likelihood that the New Deal I'M
the fall will meet in the nation the same type of
defeat which it suffered last fall in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Michigan
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING

Washington, d. Glow to get rid
of scorch marks? 1t is't not too scorch-
ed, the dark mark may be removed
with little effort if the rules suggested
by the Consumers Guide, publication
of the Consumers Counsel Division of
the AAA, are followed.
"Washable cotton and linen: Wet
spot with water and expose to sun as
long as necessary.
"Any white fabric: Dampen white
cotton cloth with hydrogen peroxide
and place over the stain. Place clean
dry cloth over it and then press with
a medium warm iron. Do not iron di-
rectly on the cloth moistened with
peroxide. Rust stains on the garment
would be the result.
"Woolen material: Brush lightly
with emery paper"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
DISCOURAGE TRADE BARRIERS

Albany, n. Y.-Gov. Herbert II.
Lehman of New York convened the
3lst annual conference of governors
with q plea that state executives CO.
operate in plan to discourage trade
barriers. Lehman said that previous
conferences had discussed the erection
of trade barriers by various states and
"if that evil remains unchecked, l think
there can be no doubt that the nation
and the individual states of the
nation, will greatly suffer-" he said.
Lehman told the chief executives that
the nation has progressed far beyond
the philosophy of sectional interests.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13

ployment during recent years is an efficient use OF
the community's man power, whether undernour-
ishment and malnutrition show wrong distribution
of foodstuffs which science has helped to create,
and whether the transfer of industries mean So
cial efficiency"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
= HOME OF Ely MARKS
. POVERTY HERE LACK
= PECULIAR RACIAL
SOURCES
. AMERICA CAN BE "GOD
BLESS AMERICA"

America
Home of the Ely Marks
Dwelling of a nation having time
to be idealists-
So generously endowed with the
riches of nature
That they gambled, and played, and
toyed, with their wealth.
1t is even yet new country
Untouched, even in it's slums-
With the horrible squalor of the old
er countries
X X x
Poverty here, is lack
Of those things which make life
comfortable
Poverty, in China
Is lack of handful of rice to eat
x X X
We must distinguish
To US, America has provincial linn
itations-
We mean, that area bounded by
Great Lakes and Gulf
From Atlantic to Pacific blue
waters
Having peculiar racial sources pre-
dominant
From which flow also peculiar So
cial and political ideals
Where century of free land bred
free spirits
Where practice of self government
Gave confidence in democratic gov
eminent
While continuing liberties and COM
forts
Produced an easy tolerance for para
sites
Whether of the predatory rich
1 Or the cruder gangsters who use
their own machine guns
x X X
But there are others than Ameri-
cans
Viewing America as one vast op-
portunity still
Sweeping from Alaskan and Can
adian gold, timber and fish
To Patagonia's undeveloped hinter-
land
Valleys of Mackenzie, st. Lawrence
and Mississippi
To Orinoco, Amazon and La Plata
Comprising one vast collection of
juicy plums-
Awaiting only the firm hands and
ruthless weapons
Of those who would repeat and re-
peat
Stories of ancient Spanish conquests
of Peru
Or broader scale, with more splen-
did spoils-
X X X
America can be-
Scattered settlement of provincial
Or reserved and happy section of
the world
Maintaining in common it's vision of.
freedom
Cooperating in use of resources
and skills-
Treasuring common heritage of
individual liberties
Constructing, in continent still
new
Higher and happier types of civil
ization-
Than will be possible for centuries
In older, and hungrier, and more
crowded continents
4 x x
Or, the Americas can be one Ely
Mark
Wide open to every breeze of prop
aganda-
Taking into it's homes and its busi-
ness
Every skillful agent Of tired and
hopeless seekers
For Colonies, for "places in the
SUM-
In view of which, after $50 years
Let US all together join, and sing
"God bless America"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
WHAT NEXT?

The latest in mechanical shavers
is nOn-electric dry shaver which
operates by pressing a lever on
one side. 1t is made by an English
company and is said to have sold
several thousand in six months. 1t
is being introduced in this country
and will sell for $40.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-13
WISDOM

A lie is like snow ball; the
longer it is rolled, the larger it is.
Martin Luther.
Evening star., 1939-08-01

frumpiness to loveliness and falls in
love with her instructor. 1t is a
pleasure to watch her every minute
she is on the stage and she is on the
stage most of the minutes of The
Curtain Rises"
This Reginald Allen of the
radio does a top-notch bit of work,
too, as the struggling actor who
creates glamour girl. Some of his
scenes with Miss Jewel are great fun
the first, for instance, where he
introduces her to stage technique
and kisses her into a faint, and the
last, where he learns what love is all
about.
These two make "The Curtain
Rises" a pleasant evening, though
not with too much assistance, it
must be reported Charles Grun-
well manages neat caricature of
an actor with an ego, to be sure, but
the rest of the support is what is
politely known as adequate. And
there's one fellow who lends his role
that aroma which goes we'll with rye
bread. But Miss Jewel and Mr.. AL
len are fine.
Evening star., 1939-08-01

wood. Husband Leslie is committed
to make a couple of pictures here in
the fall for R-K-O Radio. But will
come back alone.
Metro and Paramount are the
only two major studios in Hollywood
who maintain Offices and sell their
product in Germany. Which is why
Paramount dropped plans to pro-
duce Hell, America" and Metro
dittoed 1T Can't Happen Here" .. 4.
Olivia de Havilland and sister, Joan
Fontaine. went to the Helen Hayes
play together, accompanied by Tim
Durant and Alex Steinert. A Gamer
aman took a picture of Olivia and
Joan, then demanded. What are
your names?" When Olivia had re-
covered from the shocks, she told
him, Louise Fazenda and Mary
Pickford." The lens lad starting
writing, then did a double take
Which" he asked, lis Miss
Fazenda?"
The forthcoming divorce between
Miriam Hopkins and Anatole Litvak
is good argument against husband
and wife living in separate houses.
AS a matter of record, the Litvaks
lived in three houses. in different
houses during the week, with get
together house for the week end AS
I understand it, Miriam paid the
entire expenses for her large house
and shared the bills of the week end
home. In this way, she was stuck
with the financial liabilities of
spinSterhood-Without its compensa-
ton of real freedom. >. Ann Sheri-
dan and DR.. Charles Taylor dining
and dancing around town. And it
looks as though another doctor will
be added to the high roster of doc
mates of film ladies'
Richard Arlen bought baby bull
couple of years ago, and called him
Ferdinand" because of his sweet,
gentle ways. The other day, Fer
dinand tried to gore a farmer and
lost his name and home the same
day Dick made deal with the local
blacksmith. He gave him Ferdinand
and in return the blacksmith shoes
the Arlen horses free for one year.
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Anna Neagle Prefers
Drama to Glamour

Greater love for her art hath no
woman-than Anna Neagle. Be-
cause of her long ambition to play
the dramatic role of the martyred
World War nurse in R-K-O's pro-
duction of Nurse Edith CavelI," she
gladly renounced jewels, a lavish
wardrobe and things dear to the
feminine heart for one lone, drab
suit.
Throughout the Herbert Wilcox
Imperadio production Miss Neagle
wears a light gray wool nurses uni
form, a small gray cap on the back
of a severe headdress and pair of
cotton stockings, with clumsy, prac-
tical brown oxfords.
This is in startling contrast to the
81 expensive period costumes she
wore in her last starring film, queen
of Destiny" not yet released in this
country, which was produced and
directed by Herbert Wilcox.
The story of the English nurse,
who faced a firing squad in Belgium
during the World War because she
helped her countrymen escape from
the terrors of war, was produced and
directed by Herbert Wilcox.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Washington Players
Have Lucky Charm

Hugh c. Smith of the Washing
ton Players, appearing in the Shake
speare comedy, Twelfth Night"
tonight at the Sylvan Theater, as
Feste, Clown, will carry a famous
bauble which was formerly used by
E. H. Sothern and Julia MarloWe in
their production of this play. 1t
was presented to the Washington
Players as a good luck piece at the
final rehearsal last night by S.
Carlton Ayers, who is directing the
comedy, and will be used in the
play.
Recent additions to the cast in
clude B. Berry Barcuse, Harry
Whiting, John Palmer and Stanley
Ostrow, appearing as sailors in the
opening scene and in bit parts later
in the action of the piece
Harold Snyder, who is in charge of
settings and lighting at the Monu-
ment theater, has devised a method
of lighting the stage by placing spot
lights in the audience area which
will focus on the four Shakespearean
playing areas on the stage, as the
scenes follow in quick sequence,
without intermission or change of
setting.
Chair privilege tickets will be on
sale at the Sylvan Theater at the
Washington Monument at 7 o'clock.
The play opens at 8:15 promptly.
In case of inclement weather,
Twelfth Night" will be offered
Thursday, August 3, at the Sylvan
Theater.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
| Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"The Magnificent Fraud"
an actor doubles for a dictator: II
am, lao, 4:3O, tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50, 6:15 and
9 pm.
Palace-"Andy Hardy Gets Spring
Fever" the seventh in the popular
Hardy family series: 11:15 am, 1:20,
1925, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's Bachelor Mother" +"
comedy, starring Ginger Rogers:
Ills am, l, 2:45, 4:3O, 6:15, sos
and $50 pm.
Capitol-"Second Fiddle" story of
Hollywood publicity romance:
1O:45 am, 1885, 4:25, 7:20 and 1910
pm. Stage shows: 1920, $40,
and 8:55 pm.
MetrOpOlitan-"Man About Town.
the man is Jack Benny and it's
funny: 1l:10 am, lis, 3:25, $50,
7:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia-'Undercover Doctor"
the G-men get him, too: 1905, 2:05,
4, 6, 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Little-"Alexander Nevsky," Eisen-
stein does another majestic job:
IL am, l:30, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
$40 pm.
Open-Air-"A Mans Castle" with
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Miss Jewel
Scores aHit
The Curtain Rises,
At Cross Roads,
A Frothy Trif1e
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Izetta Jewel, jr., scored again last
night. She actually achieved drab-
ness all through the first act of ''The
Curtain Rises" the light (summer
ENTERTAINMENT trifle which opened
for a two-week engagement at the
Cross Roads Theater. And she
achieved such radiance in the next
two acts that the contrast must have
had any one who has not seen the
young lady before rocking on his
heels.
1t is fortunate for the Cross Roads
and for Mr.. Benjamin M. Hayes
frothy comedy that Miss Jewel is a
performer of some virtuosity. For
she is the shining ight-even when
being drab she is the shining light
shedding brilliance on a play which
can hardly be called actor proof.
She brings alive the not-so-young
lady who wants to be kissed
by Vienna's No. One glamour
boy, studies dramatics, turns from
Evening star., 1939-08-01

her and gave the picture title less
reflective of her private-life troubles.
The movie is now called My Love
for Yours"
Would you call this a gesture of
love? Jimmy Stewart, who would
sooner make model planes than
make love, gave two of them to
neighbor Binnie Barnes. She has
them hanging over the couch in her
bedroom Jackie Coogan explains
anent wife Betty CRADLES second
divorce suit: 1T was no use going
on as We were. We couldn't afford
to be together. My life for the past
two years has been nothing but
trouble. Why? I've been a good
kid Oh. well, I'm a fatalist.'
Paul MUM lives up to the title
1--WE Are Not Alone by killing his
screen wife while his real wife looks
on-and approves The wife
of well-knoWn, agile-looking
screen actor slapped his face in a
public restaurant during an argu-
ment over the lads too obvious ad-
miration for his pretty secretary.
The evolution of a house. First
it was bought by Hedy Lamar, who
put in a swimming pool. After
Hedy's marriage it was sold to the
Leslie HoWards. The Howards are
leaving shortly for England and it
will then be rented to Vivien Leigh.
Mrs. Howard tells her intimates that
she will not be returning to Holly
Evening star., 1939-08-01

DIA olllSo Poi " CIV Va OAlC SSAloA "a
character, and any one who does not
think nicely restrained" is much
of a superlative ought to see some
of the accompanying performances.
Under the circumstances, nicely
restrained" translates as four bells,
in spite of the fact that Miss Green
whammed unduly hard on a few
lines that needed no whamming.
IT'S a Wise Child" brought into
the world by the late David Belasco,
is humorous affair in its broad
way. There is nothing particularly
novel about it, but the situations
which johnson created in their turn
beget some comic, some ribald dia-
logue. His characters are varied
lot of small-town personages, the
beautiful, the rich, the dumb, the
innocent and the heroic, a group
nicely designed to give good cross
section view of how the community
views unwed motherhood. That the
whole thing was just the bright
figment of a surprisingly sophisti-
Gated maiden's imagination does
not make the cross-section view any
the less thorough or funny.
Miss Green, authOress of the lie
which leads to all those amazing
complications, manifests neat un-
derstanding of her part and meets
its demands in every respect save
diction. She gets considerable sup
port from Mabel Paige as the flut-
terry Victorian mamma and from
Fred Sherman as the iceman who's
not going to be badgered into any
marriage of convenience for lot of
other suspects. A profound tendency
to everyday quite as if Johnson'S play
were underwritten, which it GER
tainly is not, is evident among sew
eral of the others. 1t is something
about which some one certainly
should speak to Cecil Willis as the
kid brother making certain that
Frank McNellis is within hearing
distance at the time.
The others, Alice Mackenzie and
William Bishop especially, help the
star considerably by being temperate
in the relatively important things
they are called upon to do.
A single set, in Charles Squires'
best manner, suffices for the back
ground If what goes on in front of
it can be toned down, ITS Wise
Child" will be a still funnier show
and more in the manner which the
playwright intended.
X
That droll part he is playing so
skillfully in Bachelor Mother" at
Keith's is right in the groove for
David Niven. Heretofore, his cinema
employers have dealt only serious
roles to the tall, spare Englishman
who is another who fits that de-
scription of two profiles pasted to-