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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
F. ]. Dillon Elected Head Of
DistillerY Workers. Council

Toledo, o. (OLNS).-Francis j.
Dillon, regional representative Of the
American Federation of Labor, with
headquarters here, has been elected
president of the newly formed Amer
lean Federation of Distillery, Rectify-
ing and Wine Workers National Coun-
Gil.
The Council was formed and election
of officers held at meeting in Louis
vile Of union distillery workers,
chartered as Federal Labor Unions by
the A. f. of l..
Dillon has been actively engaged for
some time in organizing and negoti-
ating for distillery workers, and pre-
sided at the Louisville meeting as the
personal representative of President
William Green.
Announcement of the location of a
national headquarters of the Council
has not yet been made. Possibility
that Dillon would leave his Toledo of
flee to assume his new duties has not
been officially confirmed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
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IN THE NEWS
: ELLEN S. WOODWARD
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Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, newly ap-
pointed member of the Social Security
Board, has been working with the re-
lief agencies of the Federal govern
ment ever since they were organized
in 1888. She went with the Works
Progress Administration when it was
created in 1885, in July. By March
Of the next year, she had half mill
lion needy women working on projects
Of community value.
The WPA biography of Mrs. Wood
ward doesn't say how old she is,
though she has a son in business in
California. But her hair is still red,
and the figures already given show
that she has the capacity for getting
things done that frequently goes with
red hair.
But those figures are just starter.
In July, 1886, her jurisdiction was ex-
panded to take in Art, Music, Theater
and Writing programs. At their peak,
these projects employed 100000 men
and women. Mrs. Woodward always
has insisted that wages and hours
should be specified in terms Of people,
not in terms of sex.
During her administration of the
Nursing and Public Health work,
100000 people have received medical
attention, 100000 have been i'm
munized against contagious diseases
such as typhoid and diptheria, and
10000 have had their teeth treated
or pulled.
Not to mention the works of art,
music and drama that have been pro-
duced under Mrs Woodward's admin
istration, and the $500 travelling Ii
braries going by truck, auto, horse
back and boat to our remoter regions.
One live wire has gone to the Social
Security Board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05

cessively stringent regulation, heavy taxation and
direct and indirect subsidizaton by government of
their principal competitors - remain the same.
There can be no real prosperity in America so long
as an industry which spends billions a year for
supplies in normal times, which employs hundreds
of thousands OF well-paid workers, and on which
we depend for the transportation of the great bulk
of the products of our farms and factories, can
look forward to nothing save increasing deficits.
The political problems affecting the public SER
vice industries are similarly unsolved. The poti-
clans do not seem to have any more damaging
trade treaties on the fire, but you never can tell
cloud of price-boosting legislation hangs over
that field in which the consumer is most directly
involved: retail distribution The mass distribu-
ton agencies of the nation which have made such
notable strides in reducing costs of almost every
necessity and luxury of life, are under attack.
Should these agencies be destroyed, some eX-
tremists in Congress and elsewhere seem to de-
sire, the effect will be to reduce the standard Of
living of every of those millions of families to
which the budget problem is an ever-present wor-
ry. Here, then is another great issue, directly af
fecting all, that must be settled before national
stability can become a fact instead of hope.
The related problems of debt, taxation and
fiscal policy are likewise drag on progress.
Though now carrying the heaviest tax bur-
den in our history, the national debt goes steadily
higher. Investors are frightened, money needed
for industrial expansion cannot be obtained in ad-
equate amounts-and again depression is further
ed The average individual does not yet realize that
when treasury check is signed in Washington it
is in effect drawn against his own savings and in
come.
In spite Of our vast expenditures for relief, in
spite of improvement in business, little if any dent
has been made in the number Of the unemployed
Not until private business is able to absorb ma
jorty of relefers thus reducing the weight of the
relief milestone productive industry, can genu-
inc recovery and stability be possible.
This brief summing-up can touch on but few
Of the domestic nrObpmS that confront
We may take heart from the progress we have
made in the year just closed, but we must bring
new understanding to bear if weiare to make need
ed progress in the future
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
Job-making Projects Asked

Urging the government to institute
the 30-hour week on government-con-
trolled work and to undertake job
creating projects, the delegation said:
"On all sides can be seen the OF
portunity for planned work, such as
the elimination of level railway cross
ings, extension and improvement of
the highways, reforestration and con-
servation projects, clearing of slum
areas and provision Of decent homes,
both in cities and rural areas"
A retirement scheme whereby per-
sons withdrawing from employment
at the age of 60 years might receive
the old pension instead of waiting
another ten years, was advocated.
Everybody should be eligible to the
old age pension at 60 years, with no
deductions unless the recipients in
come was more than $1,000 a year,
it was contended.
National Disruption Hit
The delegation noted that disruptive
forces were operating in Canada, and
division of the country
into separate states, but declared that
the organized labor movement was
solidly opposed to any activity which
seeks to weaken the unity of the
Canadian people.
The best means of preserving the
integrity of the Confederation was to
proceed with the plans for the promo
ton of the economic and social well
fare of the country as whole.
On this score, the federal govern
ment should introduce national un-
employment and health insurance
scheme without waiting for the con-
sent of the provinces.
The abolition of sales taxes was
asked; also legislation providing re-
lief for home owners struggling to
meet payments.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Our
The Truth
o POPULAR PASTIME
o FEAR AND HYSTERIA
Q OUT THE WINDOW
. A MEASURE OF WISDOM

Popular pastime of the Washington
newspaper writer's now is specializing
on the size of the proposed armament
program.
All kinds of wild yarns are floating
about. Many are being printed.
Aim seems to be to beat the other
fellow in telling the most lurid tale.
Some of the boys are doing very
well at the fame and are spreading
some tall tales before supposedly
palpitating public.
Public hasn't palpitated to any
marked extent as yet, though.
Which must grieve the boys who
really believe the stuff they write. But
perhaps none of them do. Which, if
true, is tribute to their intelligence.
X x X
Nation might almost get the idea
the enemy was at our gates, to credit
some of the Washington stories.
Those who profit from the sale of
armaments must be chortling in glee.
They may not profit as much as they
hope, however.
Indications of healthy scepticism
are in evidence.
Comment has already been made in
this column on the doubters:
Mention was made of Senator Borah
and others.
Major General George Van Horn
Moseley, retired, recently charged
"fear and hysteria" were being en-
gendered in support of heavy expendi-
lures for national defense.
People who have their feet on the
ground suspect there is something to
what Moseley says.
x X X
Senator Wheeler and Nye are
among the members of Congress who
will demand straight thinking, thor
ough investigation and carefully con-
sidered action on the armament pro-
gram.
Those are only commonese require
ments.
There is little disposition to oppose
armament really needed for defense.
But there will be found, this column
predicts, determined opposition to any
attempt to arm for offensive war
abroad or beyond what is needed for
stric4ly defensive measures in our own
territory.
If Congress investigates before act
ing, lot of headaches will be pre-
vented.
Schemes for 10000 or more air
planes, for example, will likely go out
the window on real investigation.
There are men in this country, in
military and naval service and in
civilian life, who can give light on
what is necessary to make the United
States safe from invasion or serious
attack.
If they are called on to give their
opinions, Congress will have some
thing to go by.
There should be no objection to
hearing the ultra -pacifists on the one
hand and the advocates of feverish
preparation on the other, either
Let 'em all have their say. That is
the American way. In the end, the
chances are the fellows who really
know their stuff would prevail and the
extremists on both sides would lose.
X x X
Once Congress has the facts, it can
act with at least a measure of wis
dom.
And that is about all that can be
expected or even hoped for, in this
imperfect world.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
Taxes and the Budget

Washington, D. C.-Two Democratic
Senators have indicated that the Ad-
would find opposition to
continued Federal spending among
Democrats of the next Congress. The
Senators--Adams of Colorado and
demanded that recurring
Federal deficits in the budget be met
by an increase in taxation of a dras-
tic cut in federal expenditures. Harri-
son, Senate Finance Committee Chair
man, said another tax bill will be nee
essary to continue the $500,00O,O00 in
revenue raised by expiring nuisance
taxes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

The Pan American Conference at
Lima has been a distinct though not
unqualified success for the aims and
proposals of Secretary Hull. He had
to modify the language of some of
his proposals; but in the end, they
were passed unanimously. And in the
proposal that disputes in the Western
Hemisphere must not be settled by
war until every peaceful method has
been tried and has failed, the change
Of words, though it doesn't make for
clearness, doesn't alter the meaning.
A paragraph from Secretary Hull's
final speech deserves to be quoted:
"We know that in much of the
world, trust in any form of agreement
has completely vanished. We know
that might has stated that it would
have it's way, and would recognize no
equal, except equal might. We know
that the ordinary ends of living are
being subordinated in the attempt to
create vast and terrifying military
machines, whose first purpose might
be to create terror, and whose only
final use could be to create the ruin
of the world which we have fixed in
our thoughts during this meeting.
Our task must be cast in the opposite
direction"
Nazi papers in Germany claim the
conference was total failure for the
United States" 1t is anything but
that.
The monopoly committee will hold
it's next meeting January 16. The
present prospect is that it will go on
with the patent situation, and that the
Commerce Department will take the
stand to tell what it knows about
patents.
archaeological unemployment, which
means in plain words the displace-
ment Of men by machines, is an ever
present and growing fact. Practically
all the machines which displace work
ers are or have been under patents.
When the Federal government is
spending billions on unemployment,
including chronological unemployment,
IllcIc 10 ooIilcIHlllS JuoC llCllS ducSI
about the use of Federal patents to
pile up giant fortunes while adding
to unemployment.
X X X
I. In the last case before the monopoly
committee, it was shown that one
company, the Hartford Empire, DOM
mates the glass industry, and with a
closely related company, controls the
production of 96 per cent of all the
glass containers manufactured in this
country in 1887. 1t does this through
it's control of basic patents alone.
Any independent" glass company
who wants to use the machinery under
those patents is told by the Hartford
Empire what kind of glassware it may
produce, and how much; in what ter
ritory it may sell it's wares and with
whom it may do business; and under
what conditions it may use machinery
that the Hartford-Empire does not
own.
One of its basic patents, out of
which it has cleared several million
dollars, it bought in 1917 for $4,000.
And in 1887, it earned GIFT per cent
on the net capital employed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
LABOR'S FRIEND SEEN
NEXT VICE PRESIDENT

Buffalo, n. Y. ULNS).-Senator-
elect James NJ. Mead's successor in
the House of Representatives has pro-
posed Mead as a candidate for Vice
President. "Two years from now,
jim Mead is going to advance further
by going into the Vice Presidency of
these United States" Plus l.. Schwert,
Representative-elect, predicted at a
party here honoring Mead's tifty-third
birthday.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
WHAT NEXT?

A new ar compressor invented
by l.. V. Jones of Phoenix,
Arizona, is reported to make use
of a revolutionary principle which
obviates water cooling and uses
fewer moving parts. The princi-
pie, used in superchargers of au-
tomobile and airplane engines, is
expected to greatly increase their
power.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05

The whole program, of the American Fedora
tOn OF Labor is common-sense application of the
spirit of goodwill. We uphold the principles of
democracy and individual freedom upon which our
nation was founded We seek to eliminate class
warfare and industrial strife from our national
life We are confident we making progress
William Green
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
AN INFERENCE

Phi Delta: "Do you know that Phi
Delta Theta maintains five homes for
the feeble-minded?"
Frosh: 81 thought you had more
chapters than that. Iowa Frivol.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05
TRUTHS POWDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
Mr.. MODESTUS
. COAL OIL
= THEN GASOLINE
. THEN PUT PUTS
. ESSENTIAL SUBSTANCE

III ISS1/4N Ia ~ ~ ~ ANVIL
You won't remember "coal-oil"-
Unless your youth was in the
1905
Fifty-fve of them in the State of
Pennsylvania
There was an coil spring" near
Titusville-
People dipped blankets in it, and
wrung them out
Salt wells, drilled along the Kama
wha river
Brought up so much oil and gas
that they called it "Old Greasy
DR.. S. F. Hildreth, in 1926, called
it petroleum or Seneca oil"-
Spoke of it being used in lamps in
stead of whale oil
England had been using coal oil,
from coal
AS far back as 1850, burning it in
lamps
Then, in 1859, Drake drilled for oil,
at Titusville-
Before long, kerosene, or coal oil,
was gushing from these wells
The hundreds of coal-oil barrels
shipped to various cities
We're multiplied into thousands, and
carloads
Oil was pumped from these 500
foot deep wells
Producing hundreds of barrels a
day
With which the coal-oil distilleries
could not compete
Nature had made millions of bar
rels of coal-oil underground
When that secret came out, it be-
gan to change America
But first, it put about fifty coal-oil
factories out of business.
x X X
Some of this coal-oil was dangerous
to handle for lamps
1t contained too much volatile gas
This made trouble, causing explos-
ions and fires
Compelling the fixing of standards,
and distilling of the gas
Thus there came TO be very
troublesome by-product, called gas
oline-
In some districts it exceeded the
coal,oil yield
Had to be poured in the creeks and
run off
1t had some uses as chemical, and
for cleaning
Some of it was used in experiments
with internal combustion engines
Small quantities served for special
lamps
But these were also dangerous
There was altogether too much gas
oline.
Meanwhile, travel and freighting
was largely by ox-teams-
Good horses were increasing, and
wagons were improving
Roads were rough, and rutted, and
muddy when not dusty
And coal oil made good lantern-oil-
For such slow travel as oxen and
horses could furnish.
Up in Detroit mechanic was tink-
ering-
He was trying to get gasoline en-
gine hitched to buggy
His ambition was to make it so
cheap that everybody could have
one
Up to that time, automobiles had
only been rich mems toys
But suddenly they blossomed out
all over the country
Buggies hitched to put-puts-
With high wheels and straight
axles-
They could travel over the ruts and
through the mud
And get back again, after while
From then on, kerosene came to be
a very useful fluid
For washing parts of automobiles
in garages
1t even became cheaper than gas
olne.
Its principal and most famous use
was
To furnish Oil for the Lamps of
China
While gasoline became the essential
substance
Of new civilization, with roads
and landing fields to match.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05

Anybody can be thrifty in the
privacy of the bathroom, but it takes
courage to practice thrift when
fancy headwaiter is glaring at you.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05

A great democracy must be progressive or it
will soon cease to be great OF democracy.-Iheo-
dore Roosevelt
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31
$50 WILL GO TO BABIES

Babies will provide Of the most heated con-
tests offered in the Town Oh will open Sep
TENDER in the elementary school. Greenbeltts
eight healthiest youngsters will be selected by
Ua1 public health officials and will participate in
prizes provided by $50 donation from Council Imam
Allen D. Morrison.
In sponsoring this contest Mr.. Morrison indicated
that he thought better child health of major i'm
portance and should be actively promoted.
Any parents in Greenbe1t eligible to enter
babies in the appropriate classes. ALL entrants Will
be divided into four classes for girls and four
classes for boys. Class I is for babies from six
weeks to six months old, class is six months to
one year, class 3 is one to two years, and class
is two to five years. Entries be registered
with Hrs. Florence Garrett, health nurse, W. F.
Eabee at the town admin stration.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31
ANOTHER SPEAKER SELECTED
FOR INSTITUTE

Miss Gertrude Emerson, of the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau Cooper alive Associate on, and of the
leaders of the National Cooperative Recrea ton
stitute sponsored by the Cooperative League, Will
be present at Greenbe1ts Second Annual Cooperative
Institute, October and and assist with the
att ona1 program being planned, according to
word just received by co-chairmn Louis Bessemg.
Greenbelt citizens who recently attended the
Amherst Institute back with enthusi astic
counts Of Miss Enersons play leadership. This led
the committee to make its successful bid for her
presence at the local two-day session.
R. N. Benjamin, president of the Pennsylvania
Associa on, who will be Of the principal
speakers, has written that the title of his talk
will be IA Disease and Remedy"
Arrangements for the Institute going forward
under the leadership of Mr.. Bessemer and Tessim
Zorach, co-cha irmen.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31
MeditatiOns
by
Robert Lee Kinche1oe
Mini ster to the
Greenbe1t Communi ty Church

Walking into duly-lig GIFTED hall with the en-
trance halfb1ocked by huge black "ange1" who
INJURED "Peace", entered extension Of the realm
of Father Divine, Har1em's God. We at Lemox
and l23rd in the great Negro section of New York
City. On the walls crude and Illustrative adj
yer tisements of the Holy One's sanctuary. We had
not proceeded far when little old white Lady with
charming smile and comtenance stopped US
and explained the fundamentals Of her fai tn in re-
markably lucid Her Language learned,
after hearing the Father, pure imi tation of his.
Only at times her coherent description of her
Divine Father and his beliefs Interrupted by ramt-
ling utterances that had meaning and carried
strong indication Of abnormality. Since we were
after vision of the famous Father himself, we
not linger long but fastened to 155th and Lennox,
where she informed us he probably preaching.
Here, in all his glory, him and his enthl-
siastic follower who seemed to hang every
ance of his inspired message. ALL about us were
Wel1-dressed Negros janmed into old colorful
hall, resplendent with hammered sayings Of the
Father and testimonies of the Angels. Many
crying out, HThank You, Father" others, "Yes,
Father, peace, peace, praise the Father" They were
consequently oblivious of white strangers intruding
into their realm.
We truly impressed with the man's genius.
Continually he shouted and cajoled his audi ence
with, IT will not bless America unless you stop your
drin', your stea1in' ,your fl in' and gamb1in'
unless you learn to follow the Constitution and its
Amendnents." Father Divine, vi tn all his rabble-
rousing methods and effective release Of sweeping
1y to the economic and moral betterment of his fol-
lowers.
A very interesting evening it was-nin heavenly
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31
ELIZABETH YURETICH HEADS HOSPITAL

Elizabeth Yretich has been appointed superinten-
dent OF the Greenbelt Hospital to replace Fedrika
Martin who resigned from the position as Of August
Is.
Trained at Kings County Hospital in New York,
Hiss Yretich finished her work with the Class of
1887. Since then she has worked on special staff
at that institution for several months and received
specialized training in care of post-operative
cases. From November 1897 until August l Of this
year she served at Kings County Hospital in charge
of the operating room.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31

Allen Underwood, 9 year old Greenbe1t hit-run
victim, was buried Sunday, August 27 at Forrest
Vile, Maryland. The funeral party left the Hines
Funeral Home, 18th and Harvard Streets, N. VI. at
2: 80 P.A., accompanied by honor guard Of Cub
Scouts, orgai cation to which Allen had belonged.
Greenbelt Boy Scouts served pail bearers.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31
HEBREW CONGREGATION

The year le3o-57oo, marks the first HG Holiday
Services be observed in Greenbe1ts Present indi-
cations are that it wi IL be well attended.
Plans have been completed by the Grenbelt He
brew Congregation for High Holiday Services to be
held in the Junior Recreation Hall. Rosh Hashona
(w Years) services scheduled for September -,
at $500 Pm. and September L., at $500 Am. Ycm
Mppm (Day Of Atoneuent) Services scheduled for
September % at $500 Pm. and September H., at ooo
AN.
cantor has been engaged for the occasion. He
viii be assisted by the choir.
Anyone interested and wishing further information
may obtain it by ting Isaac Schwartz ,B East
way phone 5l31.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-08-31

Greenbelt's Woodworking Roy E. Braden and family
are vacatio ming in Greenvi11e, West Virginia with
Mrs. haden's parents. They Will be there from to
l. weeks
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-09-15

is doing splendid work Mr.. Birdie
Hes our present commander is plan
ming large program for September
25th, in imitation Of Major Bowes
hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennie Jewett are
the proud parents of a baby boy.
Mary Jones, our former past COM
mander has returned from New
York. where she visited the Worlds
Fair.
Return from vacations: Viola
Jackson, Mrs. Pearl L. Mason, Mr..
Jethro p Tatum.
Neighbor Claud Ora sponsored q
picnic and barbecue, Saturday and
Monday in Crown Point.
Officers of the American Wood
men met recently at the home of the
clerk to form plans for entertain.
ing camps from Columbus, Cincin,
natl, Springfield and Indianapolis,
who will be guest of Dayton Camp
September 25th.