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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-12-28
experience which the camps az

experience which the camps af-
ford.
Other reports, Mr.. Love an
nounced, show a decided in
crease as well in general NYA
enrolment. Reports submitted
as of November 80 reveal a to-
tai of 1,444 youths employed
on NYA projects in Montana,
an increase OF nearly 200 over
the figure of 1,247 for October
81. The figures are indicative,
the administrator said, OF
NYA's continuing efforts to as
sist needy youth bly, giving
them vocational skills and work
habits that will increase their
employability and eventually
enable them to find their
places in private industry. Dur
ing November, 260 new assign
ments were made to NYA pro-
jects, whereas in October, the
Number was only 1913.
A breakdown of the Novem-
Der reports shows a wide var
iety of state and federal agen-
cies assisted through having
Youths assigned by NYA to
their offices. During November
the Montana Department OF
Public Welfare had 48 youths
assigned to it, Montana En-
ployment service, 81; Farm Sc
curly Administration, 20; In
dian Agencies, IT: county and
city superintendents of schools,
81; and schools and high
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-12-28

tional rehabilitation, police sta
tons, public health service, as
ISOLATED charities, school for
the blind, soil conservation, GUS
toms patrol, commodity office
WPA offices, U. S. Forest serv-
ice, and many others, with the
number of youths assigned
ranging from l to 20. Nursery
schools used SO NYA youths
and county health officers a..
In many instances, NYA
youths who learn jobs in the
office of a public agency are
later hired permanently by the
same office, Mr.. Love said.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-12-28

~ JAMES Preston

Many farmers and business
men may not realize it, since
they are not directly affected
by the law, but they have a
tremendous stake in the in
veStigation of the Wagner Act
and the National Labor Rela-
lions Board now being con-
Quoted by a special House Com
mittee.
The stake was made very
clear in the first public hear
ings by the committee in
Washington. 1t is this:
Farmers and small business
men can sell more if their Gus
toners have the wherewithal to
buy. A major avowed purpose
of the Wagner Act was to re-
duce strikes SC as to main
tain purchasing power. When
factory workers r on strike,
their wages stop. They have no
money to buy things. Yet U. S.
Labor Department figures show
that the number of strikes, and
the wages lost, increased after
passage of the Wagner Act.
And, just as an example OF
what happens in these cases, it
is estimated that because of one
dispute in Detroit, purchasing
power in the whole country was
reduced about $3,000,0 900 a day!
Only recently, a big segment
OF the automobile industry
closed down, and the Wagner
Act and the Labor Board didn't
prevent it.
that the problem of the farm
surplus has simply been aggra-
waited. While the farmer has
plowed under, or reduced his
production, thousands of work.
ers have been unable to buy
farm goods because they were
out on strikes.
The farm stake in the mat
ter has generally been buried
in columns of newspaper re-
ports on various incidents,
tending to obscure basic issues.
Another important fact has
been overlooked, or hidden, in
newspaper reports. It is this:
The Labor Board itself is
under Investigation. No Con-
gr%eSsional committee in recent
years has permitted the group
under Investigation to interrupt
proceedings and insert argu-
ments and material into the
record at almost any time II
chose. ,
Yet Charles Fahy. General
Counsel for the Labor Board,
sits at one end of the Commit.
tee table. Not only has he asked
questions of witnesses, but he
Is the funnel through which
suggestions by seven or eight
other Labor Boarders are
passed, on to representative
Aurdock OF Utah. Murdock, in
tcidentally, Is the on:y commit
.teeman who has shown a defl-
mite pro-board bias. The others
are making every effort to be
unusually. fair. which Is the
real reason that the Labor
Board. through Murdoch, is al
lowed a chance to break down
or discredit the testimony OF
witnesses.
Labor Board spokesman have
shown clearly that they do not
think the Wagner Act should
be amended in any important
respect. They see no wrong in a
law. which grants all rights to
but imposes no responsibilities
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-12-28

schools, exclusive OF student
aid, 60. Public libraries re-
ceived assistance from 26 NYA
youths in clerical and book re-
pair work. County extension ag-
ents were assigned IA youths.
Others receiving assistance
from NYA youths were county
court houses, bureau of voca-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-12-28

Labor Board spokesman have
shown clearly that they do not
think the Wagner Act should
be amended in any important
respect. They see no wrong in a
law which grants all rights to
but imposes no responsibilities
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10
Pitching Arms

n Any VANCE, former Brooklyn
- hurler whose feats are legend
airy, recently analysed the epidem-
ic of sore arms that has struck
some of baseball's topnotch hurlers
during the past year.
Discussing the situation with Ken
esaw Mountain Lands, high COM
missioner of baseball, Vance admit
ted that back when he was playing
ball there were no Clipped bones in
throwing arms.
81 believe" he told Lands, "sore
arms are the result Of pitchers try.
ing to develop unorthodox deliveries
to cope with heavy hitting, and their
arms won't stand up to It,"
Carl Hubbell started the unortho-
dox delivery trend just as Babe
Ruth started the free swing style
of American league hitters, Dazzy
theorized.
Back when l was pitching" he
continued, you could get by with
lot more-mud balls. spit balls and
emery balls-but now the umpires
call for . new ball every time the
old one { sts q fly speck on it."
. WesAarn Nsvssasss uniea.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10
,-Spealting Of Sports
Brown Bomber
Faces Lack of
Real Brawlers.
By ROBERT McSHANE

" HEN Shufflin' Joe Louis low
W cred the boom on heavyweight
contender John Henry Lewis recent
ly it merely gave added and unnec-
essary strength to the old adage
that a good big man can always
whip good little man. Lewis, as
you remember, gave away almost
20 pounds. weighing in at 1904. The
champion scaled 200A pounds.
The fight Was . sad commentary
on the current heavyweight situa-
ton. Jack Dempsey's opinion Of the
aght, stated before Il took place.
was more accurate than compli-
mentary. He stated that tits bet
ter than 10 Aght at all" That, too,
b debatable.
When Referee Arthur Donovan
stopped the brawl after 2 minutes
and % seconds a new record was
established for the duslky champion.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

Chemists at Northwestern univer-
sity, Evanston, ILL.,, have invented
an instrument that will measure
temperature changes down to a mill
li0nth Of . degree. This micro
calimeter can measure the amount
Of heat produced when sugar dis
solves in water. The temperature
changes are recorded ON a scale SO
enlarged that one degree would
equal a mile. Photograph shows DR..
Hugh Pickard at the recording chart
as Professor Frank Quicker studies
the sealed vessels used in an expert
ment. The other inventor is DR..
Ralph Planck.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

Only once before has a heavyweight
championship battle ended so swift
ly. That was when Louis went into
the ring and disposed of Max Schmel-
ing in 2 minutes and seconds. No
fighter in the long history of pugi-
ism ever has won two successive
championship bouts in one round.
The fight should serve one pur-
pose. u should calm down the
cream pun eontenders who are sure
tat Louis Is q much over-rated
fighter. Few, indeed. have claimed
that Louis lacked q punch. But
many Of them are brave enough, or
foolish enough, to admit that they
have SOLVED" the problem Of his
boxing style, and are ready and
anxious to end his ring supremacy.
Even Tony Galento. king of the
stumblebums, seems to be losing
his enthusiasm for title bout. True,
he continues TO call the champ a
bum, but his vocal delivery isn't as
sincere as it once was.
John Henry thought he knew how
to fight Louis. He thought he had
perfected style that would save
him from the Brown Bomber's le-
thai punch. And John Henry is a
clever fighter. ring-wise and with
brains enough to know that he
couldn't stand up and out-slug his
dusky contemporary. Yet he lasted
less than one round.
This was the first Of four cham
pionship matches Promoter Mike
Jacobs has planned for Louis in
1859. There are Indications, howey-
er, that Il win be Increasingly DIM
cult to end four men willing to risk
their lives in the same ring with
the Detroit lad. Joe Louis Is un-
questionably the greatest fighter this
generation has seen. Donovan stated
that Louis could have whipped the
best fighter who ever lived that
night.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

staying win them
until Connie Mack
broke up his 500, 900
infeld in 1914. Col
Inns then went to the
Chicago White Sox,
remaining until 1925,
the last two years as
manager. Returning
to Philadelphia in
1927, he stayed for
three years. At pres
ent he is vice presi-
dent and treasurer
of the Boston Red
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

jor league per-
formers. They
were r o b e TT
Woehr. Johnny
Corridor, Vic Al
bridge Jr., and
Jimmy Middleton
Make Baer,
at present a hero
in H o lily W God
h o r s e operas,
claims that he
has forsaken the
bright lights and
will really train
for his comeback
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

Sox. Collins, a second baseman,
batted over 400 in three of the seven
series in which he took part.
Keller, author of the still-famous
classic, "Hit 'em where they amt"
played with the Baltimore Orioles of
the National league from 1894 to
1898, with Brooklyn from 1899 to
1902, the New York Highlanders
from 1908 to 1909, and the New York
Giants in 1910. He died in 1923.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

1928 witnessed the Minnesota-Illi-
nois basketball game at Minneapo-
lis recently. setting new confer
ence record -. Cincinnati was
the only team in the major leagues
last season TO outdraw its popula-
ton. There are 450, 900 persons In
the city. while 656. 900 saw the Reds
A action.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10
Chicago Paralyzed
When Storm Strikes

Thousands of Chicago motorists
found their cars buried deep in
banks Of snow recently when one Of
the worst storms in the city's his
tory crippled all surface traffic. Ap-
Fortunately Is inches Of snow,
whipped by high winds, marooned
workers in residential areas. The
binding blizzard resulted in three
train wrecks within the city.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10
Football the Goat

THE fact that Big Ten football
= receipts In 1898 amounted to a.
most two millions Of dollars has
tended to focus attention on athletic
departments Of schools belonging to
that conference.
IT'S emily natural the veteran
alarmist would view that fact with
mtsgtvings. Where, he mutters, does
that money 60? He. as Q taxpayer,
has . legitimate question, and one
that should be answered for the fu-
ture welfare Of the game.
To begin with, football is frankly
commercial. All college athletics at
which gate admissions are charged
are commercial. Anything that costs
money to conduct is commercial.
And it does cost money to promote
and further college athletics.
OF them an football Is the only
sport to make any appreciable
profit. Basketball, over q course Of
years, may hold its own, or even do
. little better than that. Occasion
ally at . school some other sport
may end up In the black as . re-
suit OF some unusual local condition.
But the rest Of the intercolle giate
program-track. swimming, wres.
Ting, baseball, tennis, golf, etc.-is
almost entirely dependent upon foot
ball receipts for maintenance.
The sports dependent on football
for their existence are the ones that
provide competition and healthful
activity for the thousands Of stu
dents who are not football players. :
Many will answer this argument
by saying that those sports would
not be nearly as costly II they were
conducted on strictly an intramural
basis. This does not necessarily
hold true. Golf courses, tennis
courts, intramural football fields and
baseball diamonds must be built
and maintained for the benefit OF
the student body as q whole. In
many schools football also supports
the physical education program.
Commercialism is sometimes Q
welcome condition, even in scholas-
tic circles. Especially II it results
in nation more physically fit.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10

II ASEBALL scribes of the nation
in recent triple play added
the names Of George Sisler, Eddie
Collins and Wee Willie Keller to the
Cooperstown, N. Y, national shrine.
The addition of their names
swelled to 10 the list Of yesterdays
heroes whose names will be immor-
talized in the Hall Of Fame. Be-
tween five and ten more players will
be named between now and the cen
tennial celebration at Cooperstown.
June IL.
Sisler, only As. is one of the most
active men in baseball as high COM
missioner of the semipros. He was
with the st. Louis Browns from 1915
to 1927, with Washington in 1928.
and the Boston Nationals until 1890
In 1922 Sisler hit 40, and became
the first player to win the Official
honor Of "most valuable player in
the American league" His lifetime
batting average was .341.
Collins, ST., joined the Athletics
back in 1906, fresh from college,
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-02-10
Sport Shorts

M HEN baseball practice started
w at Indiana university recently,
Coach Paul "Pooch" Harrell had on
his roster four sons Of former ma
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
Governor Paroles Union
Organizer Who Is Jailed
On Manslaughter Charge

Montgomery, Ala. (ILNS) Homer
Welch, 37-year-old textile workers
union organizer, serving 10 years for
first degree manslaughter growing out
of the killing of Talladega County
deputy sheriff in 1886 during picket
line fight, has been paroled.
cat the time of the staying" Gov.
Bibb Graves said in granting the pa
role, "Welch was acting as an agent
for the Governor Of Alabama" "a fact
not hitherto disclosed.
81 had told Welch he must disarm
the pickets or | would do it by force, Z
Graves added. "He said he would and
arranged to meet Capt. Potter Smith
Of the highway patrols at the picket
line.
"The fracas in which the deputy
sheriff was shot started when WEIGH
arrived at the picket line to see Smith
Regardless Of what had gone or
before, Welch was on lawful mission
at the time of the shooting and was
acting as the agent of the Governor
of Alabama"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27

is perfectly available for radio sets.
But the patents enable the Bell Com
pany to hold the tube out of general
manufacture.
To any thinking layman, this last
scheme seems to contradict the theory
on which patents are granted at all.
They are given to reward inventors for
devices which will be of use to the
public. But if only the Bell Telephone
Companies and perhaps few other
concerns can get the use of them, that
patent should be voided at once.
This grab for replacement profits Is
found in many places; and it is worth
noting that none of them are in high
wage industries. Textiles are one;
and that is one of the low-wage in
dustries.
Safety razors are another; and there
mechanism is so complete that wage
costs are very low. Apparently, ma
chimes. have displaced workers in the
manufacture of radio tubes, as well.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
WHAT NEXT?

Powell Crosley, Jr, head of the Cros-
ley Radio Corporation, announces pro-
duction of radio facsimile receiver
to sell for $3.50. Crosley said that
radio transmission of facsimile would
in no way compete with newspaper
functions as only three-foot strip of
news and pictures could be printed
an hour by the machine. Fac-Simile
will transmit bulletins and flash news
while newspapers will continue to pro-
vide the details, he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

England will not even sell munitions
or allow volunteers. Leon Blum, for
mer premier, declared the other day
that such a situation ''is no longer
either admissible or tolerable," and
even Premier Daladier seems to be
losing patience.
Pretty clear stories are that the
French government is thinking seri-
ously of sending arms and munitions
to the Loyalist Spanish government.
If this happens, the coming war may
not wait till spring.
A five-point peace program in di-
rect opposition to what he declares is
the present repetition of propaganda
and policies preceding our entrance
into the World War was advocated in
recent radio broadcast by Senator
Gerald P. Nye Of North Dakota. The
Nye program will be pushed by a
group in Congress and therefore calls
for consideration and study, regardless
of what may be any individuals opin-
ion of its merits. The program is as
follows:
Avoidance of being stampeded into
"a wild spending in the name of de.
fense"; maintenance of the neutrality
law (which is the lone evidence today
that America learned anything as {
result of the last war;"
Measures to prevent any possibility
of war profits to any citizens if this
country should go to war again; adop
ton of an embargo making it unlaw
full for the United States to sell mu
nitions abroad in peacetime and war
time alike.
Passage of referendum giving tn
people themselves the right to vot
on the question of this country's par
ticipation in any foreign war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
Housing Is Brightest Spot
In 1899 Industrial Picture

Raleigh, N. c. (ILNS).-Secretary
of Labor Perkins told joint session
of the North Carolina General Assem-
bly, that the brightest spot" in the
1889 industrial picture is the housing
industry.
"The year just ended has witnessed
erection of more than 100000 dwell
ings. largest number since 1929,' she
said. "At the present rate of prog
ress, we estimate that more than
100000 dwellings, will be built in 1889
with private capital.
"In addition, existing plans and ar
rangements call for construction of
$4,000 low-cost units under direction
of the U. S. Housing Authority.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27

It is too bad that Herman Oliphant,
federal counsel of the Treasury De-
partment, died.
DR.. Vannevar Bush, head of the
Carnegie Institution, came before the
monopoly committee the other day and
told it why there are so few new en-
terprises in this country. Taxes are
so high, and the S. E. c. attaches so
much red tap, and it is job to float
securities. That's why industry is
tagging.
From 1926 to 1929, inclusive, taxes
taxes which the government col
lected, that is-were very low. There
was no S. E. C. There was no inter-
ference by government with Big Busi-
ness. The chief task in the chief fl
nancial street of the nation was to
issue more stocks, and boost the price
of these outstanding. And
And then came Black Thursday in
October, and stocks tumbled, and busi-
nesses closed, and banks busted, and
wages were cut, and 100000 work
ers lost jobs, and the national income
dropped to 40 per cent of what it had
been-all while that regime OF low
taxes and non-interference which DR.
Bush favors prevailed.
1t is very much too bad that Herman
Oliphant died. He was member OF
that committee; and he knew his stuff
If he had been there, even DR.. Bush
might have learned something.
The war break which everyone fears
at no great distance of time may com
| in the west instead of in the east; Il
Spain, not in Russia. The Frencl
people are getting very tired OF hav
| ing Italian troops and planes and Ger
man cannon pouring in to help tn
Spanish insurgents, while France an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1889.
THE RELIEF CUT MYSTERY

More than 100000 organized work
ers are against the relief appropria-
tions cut. They have said so through
their unions. Four or five million
men, women and children, on the edge
of relief or over it, are against relief
cuts because they are against starva-
ton. Every city official in any in
dustrial community-and many in ru-
raj communities-oppose the cut be-
cause it will force them to see distress
which they have no means of relieving.
Yet big majority of the members
of the House of Representatives
elected for two-year terms and need
ing reelection if they like their jobs,
have voted to throw nearly million
families out of the w. P. A., and the
throwing process will have to start in
the dead OF winter.
Can any human being make a ra-
tional explanation for that?
AS said before, this is the worst time
of all to pick for such performance.
1t is winter, the country is only part
way out of a recession that almost GER
tainly was due in some measure to a
too quick cut in relief before Every
one, too, sees the coming clash between
dictatorship and democracy; and
whether that brings direct war or
not, it has already created condi-
tion in which the firm satisfaction of
the largest possible part of the people
with their government is an advantage
to which the President of the United
States has directed attention.
And yet, for saving which comes
down shade over a dollar per capita
in a period Of nearly six months, Con-
gress cuts relief hundred and fifty
million dollars.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
WPA MEN IMPROVE
MILES OF HIGHWAY

Washington, D. C. {ILNS).-More
than 10000 miles of roads and streets,
the largest proportion of which was IN
rural areas, were built or improved by
w. p. A. workers in the four-month
period from July to November, 1888,
it was announced by Colonel F. Z.
Harrington, Works Progress admins
traitor.
Because of the large opportunity
for the employment of unskilled labor,
and because of the widespread de-
mand for better roads, highway prof.
ects constitute a major phase OF the
w. P. A. construction program" said
Colonel Harrington. "More than AZ
per cent of all persons employed by the
w. P. A. are at work on projects OF
this type"
The figures showed completion OF
an overall total of 1851 miles of new
highways, roads and streets during
the period, and repairs and improve
ments to 28,085. Rural roads, mostly
of the farm -to-market type, comprised
the biggest group within the category
with 1872 miles of new construction
| 1922 miles of which were paved and
| 24,395 miles repaired IL improved.
Bridge construction and repair
formed another important phase OF
the highway program, with 4,O9O new
structures completed, and repairs and
| improvements to 1,728.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
REA Loan To Cooperative
Headed By Woman

Washington, d. C. GLNS) The
Rural Electrifcation Administration
has made a loan Of S403,000 to CO.
operative in Carthage, ILL.,, Of which
Mrs. Ruth Stevenson is president. This
is the first case in which woman has
been put at the head of one Of these
rural electrical co-operatives. John
Carmody, administrator of R. E. A.,
declared that the full benefits of cleo
tricity in rural regions would not be
realized until women took a larger
part in managing them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-27
AUBURNDALE UNION WINS
PACKING FIRM CONTRACT

Auburndale, Fla. (AFLWNS). -
Members of A. F. of L. Union No.
2121O expressed themselves as greatly
pleased with the terms of the agree
ment negotiated with the Adams Pack
ing Company here. Paul j. Aymon, of
the Atlanta office of the American
Federation of Labor, assisted union
officials in finalizing the contract