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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
RELATIONS BETWEEN UNEMPL LOYMENT
COMPENSATION AND NATIONAL RELIEF

OUR Government initiated under necessity and
practically simultaneously national programs
for relief and for compensation for the unemployed
attached to the labor market. Because of the CON
tinued large number Of persons unable to get work
we have not been able to turn our thoughts from
the emergency problem of relief to that Of depen-
dable provisions for the needy. Our failure to con
slider this problem has influenced our planning for
the unemployed.
Unemployment compensation is intended to
provide an emergency income for persons who
have lost their Jobs pending the finding of new
ones. The primary test of eligibility is registra-
ton in an office of the Employment Service for
new employment. Unemployment compensation
takes care Of It's group for a limited period Of
time The problem IS to make the best possible
provisions for those unable to find work. Aftcr Il
worker has had benefits over the maximum dursl-
ton and is still unable TO find work it is better that
he 90 under some assistance provision rather than
lower the standards of unemployment compenSa-
tion SO as to continue to pay benefits Formula
tlOn OF relief policies must 90 along with improve
mentS in unemployment compensation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
UNEMPLOYMENT FUND OVER
SIP MILLION

Columbus, 0. (OLNS).-Ohio's I'M
employment compensation fund con-
tanned a total of $112,17S,679.16, in
cluding interest, when the books were
closed on January 1, 1889, before the
payment of benefits was begun.
This figure was reached when con-
tributions for the last quarter of 1888
were received from employers, COM
pleting the three year contribution
period under which the fund was Gre
ated.
BY March /, the Commission had
paid out total of $1,617,356.39 to
Ohio workers for total and partial un-
employment. On that date, the num-
ber of claims received totalled 14S,-
927.
Of that number, 122, LA were claims
for total unemployment, and 26,S13
for partial unemployment benefits. To
that date, the Commission had allowed
ll4,223 claims, and disallowed 2,529
leaving only l2,l75 claims on hand and
in process while the claimants are
serving their three-week waltln E
period.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS

Several major construction projects
were reported contemplated through
out the state last week, and million
dollar housing project at Warren
neared maturity as the United States
Housing Authority approved a loan
application making the project posi-
BILE.
Construction of an office building
and power sub-station at Portsmouth
costing a total of $1,OOO,OOO, is re-
ported contemplated by the Ohio
Power Co. Working drawings on the
office building have been completed
and bids will be asked soon, according
to reports.
Plans for $4O0,0O0 women's dor
mitory at Miami University, Oxford
have been completed and construction
will start as soon as lowest bids are
approved, reports state.
Two privately sponsored housing
developments in Cleveland suburbs
will be under way soon, according to
reports.
A corporation plans to develop a
tract in the Shaker View subdivision
with construction program of 300
dwellings,, mostly in the $500 classi-
fication. Work on the first units is ex-
pected to begin soon, reports state.
Another project, embracing 10 or IL
homes in the $4,000 class, is expected
to be launched soon on Severn Road
Cleveland Heights.
A 2S-building, 223 suite housing
project, to be erected on 21 acre site
by the Warren Metropolitan Housing
Authority, is a step nearer maturity
following approval of 100000 loan
by the United States Housing Au-
thority.
Preliminary plans are complete, and
working drawings will be started soon
by architects selected by the Author
ity.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09

manifest a definite dsinclination to part company
with any of their surplus funds for this commend
able purpose.
INSTALLATION of this question was presented
by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in an ad-
dress before the recent Farm Institute at Des
Moines Iowa. She is reported as having said that
If the small sum of one dollar month per person
were added to the incomes of the lowest paid
groups in the United States during the next few
years, the expenditure Of that augmented pur-
chasing power would raise the sale of commodi-
ties to levels never attained heretofore
The remedy offered by Miss Perkins is valid.
The only hitch in the program is the persistence
of one of the smallest but most significant words
in the English language-"if."
Expressed plainly and in more definite phrase
ology, Miss Perkins evidently meant to say this
If employers would increase wages only one dollar
per month per person to workers in the lowest in
come groups for a number of years, the spending
of this increase of one dollar per month would pro-
vide very much larger market for goods. But
the employers just won't do it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

The best estimates are that need
less illness costs the American peopl
at least 0,000,000,O0O a year. En-
forced idleness and unavoidable weak
ness caused by unnecessary disease ar,
the chief items in this gigantic bill
though not the only ones. And tn
Wagner National Health Act, just in
troduced, is sober, thoughtful, no
at all hasty effort to deal with thi
appalling waste.
1t will go through in some form
that is a perfectly safe wager. NJ
change in our national attitude il
many years is more striking than ou
rising resentment at unnecessar!
sickness and death.
No small part of this change is du'
to woman, DR.. Jessamine Whitney
who, with competent staff Furnished
by an insurance company analyzed tn,
sickness and mortality figures Of II
states. An astonishing proportion o:
our people now recognize poverty a!
the deadliest of all diseases; and til,
newest Wagner bill-how many time:
have we used those words in the las
10 years ?-is one statesmanlike rec
ognition of that fact.
x X X
And while American statesmen art
trying to lower the death rate at home
the three big relationships seek to wiz
their aims by exporting death in mass
ed quantities abroad.
Field Marshal Hermann Goerine
has declared, with all possible en-
phasis and publicity, that Nazi Ger
many annexed Austria and Sudeten.
land by the threat of her bombing
planes, and that she proposes to bring
20,000,000 more population under he1
sway by the same means. Goerine
does not name the territories he pro.
poses to annex in this way; but he
makes it clear that any nation which
resists Hitler's will have it's cities
bombed from the air.
A fine, humane way, this, to estab.
lish a world overshadowing empire.
How many lives have the three big
relationships sacrificed since they
started to expand?
No one knows. The lowest estimate
of the loss of life in Spain, soldiers
civilians, women and children, is fully
a million. In China, it must be more
In Ethiopia, where in the total alb
sence of medical supplies and care
even a moderate wound means death
the figures are doubtless vastly great
er than accounts of the fighting show
The House committee has reported
the largest army appropriation since
the World War; just under $5O0,OOO,-
600. There's no occasion for surprise
By comparison with relationships
democratic governments are much
handicapped in plotting or springing
war; but when it comes to paying for
war, Uncle Sam can outspend Ger
many, Italy and Japan, all three.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
INVALUABLE TRAINING"

'TllE American Newspaper Publishers Assoca-
tlon strongly opposes having the child labor
provisions of the wage and hour law being ap-
Piled to neWSboys. At the hearing in Washington
on this matter before the Children's Bureau OF
the Department of Labor, the attorney for the
publishers made the argument that "newsboy's
work is valuable training for the youth of Ameri-
ca, not injurious to school work. but extremely
beneficial to the well-being of those so engaged
The publishers should have given cases of such
benefits. All Capone now, served quite an appren-
ticeshp as a newsboy in New York before he be-
came a gangstcrs assistant, and worked himself
up to the chief gangstershp of America. Quite
d number of prominent gangsters in Chicago got
their start in this way; though the Genna broth
crs ddnt-perhaps that is why they were killed
so early. The Annenberg brothers, now believed
to be the chief purveyors of race track news
gained their experience handling the Chicago Tri-
bunc.
it is true that one of them was indicted fol
or murder; but he was not convict
ed, Neither was AL Capone, who fell from grace
by cheating Uncle Sam on income taxes. One is
sure he did not learn that by crying the "Noc
Yoik Chonical.''
NeWsboyS on strike have been beaten up by
full sized policemen but perhaps this was part
Of their valuable training" 1t is always we'll tc
give details in such matters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
BANK STOCKHOLDERS MUST PAY
GOVERNMENT LOAN

A MOTHER victory in the broad field of protect
ing funds of the Federal Government against
the questionable practices of certain bankers is
recorded by the decision of the United States Cir
cult in awarding to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation S14,OQO,O00 from the stockholders OF
the Central Republic Bank & Trust Company, OF
Chicago, ILL.,, the old dawes Bank" which passed
out of existence in 1882.
The suit of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor-
alton against the stockholders developed from
$9O,00O,00O in loans made by the R. F. c. to save
the bank from cOllapSng during the days preced-
ing the 1888 bank moratorium.
Charles G.. Dawes, a former vice president OF
the United States, of the highlights in the
Central Republic Bank & Trust Company. When
the financial condition of the bank became acute
in June, 1882 Mr.. Dawes resigned as chairman OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and re-
turned to save the tottering bank.
A short time later the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation agreed to lend the Central Republic
$9O,O0O,0OO with an immediate advance of $780,
100000 on the commitment. Despite this large
loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
the affairs of the bank grew worse, and in Octo-
Der, 1882, Mr. Dawes and his associates establish
ed new bank the City National Bank & Trust
Company, with Nlr. Dawes as it's chairman, to take
over the deposits of the Central Republic Bank 4
Trust Company. This metamorphosis was ac-
through r. f. c.. loan of $5O000,0OO
under the original commitment.
Inc banking officials responsible Tor This IN
volved situation evidently designed to relieve the
stockholders of responsibility for the Government
loans, set up the Central Republic Trust Company
as a liquidating shell for the old Central Republic
Bank & Trust Company.
The suit of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration to collect $14, 100000 of this loan from
the stockholders of the Central Bank & Trust
Company was filed November 19, 1884, under the
Illinois Bank Stockholders Liability Act which
provides double liability. In November, 1886, Fed
eral Judge James H. Wilkerson awarded that
amount to the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton. Presiding Judge Evan f. Evans, who wrote
the opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals up
holding the Wkerson decision, concluded the opin-
ion with this significant declaration regarding the
responsibility of stockholders for the debt incur
red by the bank:
Concluding as we do that this stockholders
liability was right which attached when Central
gave its note to the plaintiff and is enforceable in
Il direct suit against the stockholders, it follows
that the decree should be- and it is hereby affirm
ed"
The distressing note in the case is that the
wealthy stockholders involved in this malodorous
transaction should be so lacking in business mo-
rality as to attempt to defraud the Government
and violate the law prescribing their legal obliga-
ton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
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-income groups are
pointedy 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, Tor
the purpose of encouraging investors to lend their
idle funds for industrial expansion.
Declaring that 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 good beginning, and in 1910 it will build
10000 low rent homes and give jobs to 213,OOO
persons producing materials and erecting the
houses. But this is very small beginning com
pared to the need. For over and above the United
States Housing Authority program and the maxi
mum 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 indus
try. To build these homes would employ 16S3,OO0
persons. In all, it has been estimated that we need
to build 100000 new homes each year for the
next ten years. This would create 3,O81 900 jobs
yearly"
In the important field of "low-rent homes
which are not profitable for private industry the
United States Housing Authority has already al
located the $500 100000 in loans for this purpose
authorized by Congress, with new demands for
sum clearance funds coming in every day.
1t has been estimated that the $500, ,OOO, 900 al
ready earmarked will provide direct employment
at the site of the slum clearance projects for more
than 100000 building trades mechanics and labor
ers, and, in addition, will give work to approx
mately 100000 employees in the production of
building materials and their transportation. This
means approximately 100000 full time jobs in in
dustries where employment is critically needed.
Well informed observers claim that the hous-
ing for ow-income groups already guaranteed by
the $S0O,O0O,OOO Housing Authority loans makes
only dent in adequate housing requirements for
the masses of people. 1t is therefore aXio-
maticay evident that an enlargement of the Fed
eral housing program is an important element in
this definite social improvement capable of mti-
eating markedly the unemployment crisis
TO meet in part this admitted emergency, Sen
ator Robert +. Wagner of New York has intro
duced bill in the u. S. Senate authorizing adj
ditonal $500, ,OOO,O for loW-cost housing loans
and $1,000, 600 to Subsidize certain rents which
will still be too high The new bill is endorsed by
the American Federation of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
l8 Tire Firms Sued
For Fixing Prices
Department of Justice Demands Over
Million Dollars Damages for
Conspiracy

Washington, d. C.-The evident de-
termination of certain large business
interests to evade statute law appears
to be revealed in suit brought by the
Department of Justice against eigh-
teen of the largest tire manufactur-
ers in the United States on charges
of conspiring to fix prices of tires sold
to the Government between October
/, 1886, and March 81, 1888.
The department alleged that the
companies reported to collusive or
Identical bidding on Government con-
tracts, which is held to violate the pro-
vision of the Sherman Act which seeks
to give the Government the advantage
of competitive bidding.
Taking action under Section 7 of
the antitrust act which provides for
triple damages, the Government sued
the companies for s1,053,474.
The eighteen companies named by
the Government as defendants are:
Cooper Corporation, Dayton Rubber
Manufacturing Company, Dunlop Tire
& Rubber Corporation, Falls Rubber
Company, Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company, Fisk Rubber Corporation,
General Tire & Rubber Company, B.
F. Goodrich Company, Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Company, Kelly-Springfeld
Tire Company, Lee Tire & Rubber
Company Of New York, Inc, Mohawk
Rubber Company of New York, Inc,
Norwalk Tire & Rubber Company,
Pennsylvania Rubber Company, F. G.
Schenuit Rubber Company, Seiberling
Rubber Company, United States Rub
ber Products, Inc, and U. S. Tire
Dealers Corporation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
THEY WON'T DO II

INCREASING the purchasing power Of low paid
wage earnelS is generally recognized as being
one Of the fundamental principles the application
of which will bring prosperity to industry. The
difficulty of the remedy is that the increase must
be provided b. the employers IL pay envelope con,
tents for their employees. And far employers
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
WHAT NEXT?


A new buoy has a miniature
radio transmitter sealed inside it
which sends out continuous code
signals to guide ships, regardless
of weather conditions. The U. S.
Lighthouse Service is testing the
new type of buoy in the main ship
channel of Boston harbOr.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
HYSTERIA is PREFERABLE

A Maryland doctor is dcnounCing "hysterical
laws against syphilis But as between hys-
terra, however unpleasant that may be, and CON
taglouS disease that even when cured seems tC
shorten life and that is a fair ticket. if allowed
to run, to insanity and locomotor ataxla, most OF
us would choose hysterla.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
FRIEND To MAN

Yes, I'd like to sit by the side of the
road and be friend to man; but the
Chevies go by with hiss and bang,
and the Fords with their rafting pan.
I'd need stretcher and Red Cross
nurse, and a doctor with ether can,
Then | could sit up in tree by the
road and be friend to man.
Helen Creel.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
DISTR RAC"TING

eff you don't marry me, I'll take d
rope and hang myself in your front
yard
"Ah, now Herbert, you know Pa
doesn't want YOU hanging around
yellow jacket
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
. PUBLIC OPINION
Q NO EUROPEAN WAR
Q PURGE ABSURDITY
. WAR FOR DEMOCRACY

Court of public opinion began to rule
against the sit-down strike two years
ago. Decision wasn't unanimous but
it soon had good sized majority be-
hind it.
Now Supreme Court rules the same
way, in vigorous opinion written by
Chief Justice Hughes. r.
American Federation of Labor IL
sit-down Survey,
It pointed out tho+. 'cessary Woulo
"new" strike techniuneory that the en-
to labor itself. er legislatlon was
The dangers were q new law, and
the sit-down and wher2n that oasis.
1t led, of course, to aeemployes 1oulla
less confusion, with irrelll proper az
norities in a position to naleeguiatlohs
union contract they didn't fancye.d' oue
X X X pro
The boys who are always ready to
hail some short cut to labor's eman-
cipation greeted the sit-down with
gladstone shouts.
won by the sit-down but they couldn't
see that in the long run, it threatened
Greater losses than gains, because it
was bound to ALLEVIATE public and en-
ployer sympathy.
A. F. of l.. opposition to the sit-g /
down threw light on the whole prob
lem and was strong factor in the
ruling against sit-downers given by
the court of public opinion.
x X X
London and New York stock ex-
changes say there will be no European
war in the near future.
Rising prices on the two exchanges
express this opinion.
The Cherry Tree has suggested
from time to time that possibly the
writer's on international affairs who
are always seeing war just around
the corner may be mistaken.
Possibly the worlds financial powers
know more about the international
situation than the newspaper EEK
perts." They may be confident that the
totalitarian nations will not force war,
because of the realization that it will
mean their utter ruin.
Anyway, Americans can contribute
to world stability by not getting jit-
terry. AS the A. F. of L. says:
"We in America need to guard
against an emotional approach to for
eign problems, which would magnify
war scares, create hatred and fear,
and serve as a background for large
armament expenditures"
X, X X
The utmost in purge" absurdity
has been reached in Russia.
Children are now the victims of ther
Communist burgers.
Three Soviet officials in a city in
the Urals are revealed as having
framed" school children and obtained
their confessions" on trumped up
charges of treason. They hoped thus
to win regulations for vigilance
against enemies"
The children were questioned for
days and kept in Jail eight months,
crowded into general cells with COM
mon criminals as we'll as political of
tenders.
Revelations such as these should oc-
casion no surprise. Dictatorial power
always brings gross abuses. The tyr
amy in the kremlin is no exception to
the rule.
And this kind of thing goes under
a regime that American Communists
glorify and seek to line the United
States up with, in "war for democ-
racy"!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09

Advertising promotes ideas Of all
sorts-including the idea Of buying.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09
WIS

The strength of nation, es-
pecially a republican nation, is in
the intelligent and well-ordered
homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-03-09

Always Demand the Union Label.
La gaceta., 1939-02-10
Ell CfrculO

Con mucho gusto ha sido ador
nado ell palacio de los cubano,
para ell bale de Carnival de ma
mana sabado.
La Seccion de Recreo, en- Ia
que figuran buenos amigos nueS
tros, tiene a su cargo la fiesta.
En- ell piso alto, como va he
mos dicho, tocara Zack Whyte
y en- ell bajo, La Sonora.
Son dos notables orquestas, di
rigiendO ell professor Victor Con
zalez.
Una nota agradabilisima es Ia
reception acordada por la Sec
ci6n de Recreto y la DIRECTIVE
en- honor de las Secciones de Re-
creo y Damas de las Sociedades
hermanas y conocidas PERSONAL
ladies.
Pagaran los transeunte que
desee admitir la Secci6n, rs cen.
tavos los hombres y % las seno-
ras y senOritas.
La gaceta., 1939-02-10
NOtdS Ud1iddGS

| NOtdS UdriddGS
FL Sr. Jose PeTiOmo. repre-
sentante de la industrial del Ia
baco de Cuba, partio hoy, via
Miami, para la Habana, en- CO.
mission de servicio.
Ell Dr.. Antonio Gonzalez L6-
PEI Sc encuentra muy compact
do por las fraseS encomiasti-aS
que escucha, "celebrando" ell eX-
uuisito SAILOR del cafe cubano.
Escuchanio las armonicas e
inspiradas canciones que canta
81 "Cuarteto Luna" EN- la exhibi
ci6n de Cuba, EN- la "Feria-EX-
posici6n de fernando De Solo,
una joven americana, que entien
de ell espanol, estaba traducien-
do la letra de la cancion la Ca
sita," a otra joven que escucha-
ba a los cantadores. Por cierto
qeu 10 hacia correctamente.
Decia un senior que nunca ha
bia saboreado un jugo de papa
va, como ell que Sc lie habia ofre
edo en- esu vista al d%epartamen
to de Cuba, en- 10 exposition. Sc
lie explic6, que el antes habia in
gerido una composition de 10
por ciento de jugo, 10 por cien-
to de az1car, y 80 de aqua, pero
que ahora habfa bebido ell puro
jugo de la marayillosa fruta, y
por ESQ encontraba tan enorme
diferencia.
La gaceta., 1939-02-10
Co4nite Fe7nenino

Rogamos a las compaheras no
descuiden su labor, su merito-
ria labor, y prOcuren asistir a
las juntas del Comite Femenino.
FL mayor merito de toda bue-
ma obra Sc prueba en- la adver-
sidad, no en- los momentos del
.riunfo.
Ahora q. Espaha lucha contra
an poderosos -enemigos como
Italia Y Alemania Y la innoble
apatia de los gobiernos de Pa
ris y Londres, es cuando mas me
lece ell pueblo espanol ell concur
so de las dignaS companeraS.
NosotroS esperamos que Ell lu-
mes respondan, con su mayor en-
tusiSamo.
A la bora del triunfo es facil
gritar pero la amistad Sc prueba
de veras cuando ell in%fortunio
surje.
Las juntas Sc vienen celebran
do semanalmente.