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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28
TO REGULATE WORKING HOURS

Washington, d. CA special three
Judge Federal court has ruled that the
ICC, and not the Wage Hour Admins
tration, has authority to regulate
working hours of approximately 500,-
600 clerical employees in the trucking
industry. The decision was handed
down in an unusual appeal by the
American Trucking Association from
an sICC ruling that it did not have
authority to regulate working hours of
other trucking employees than drivers.
1t was indicated that the government
would take the case directly to the
Supreme Court.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28
BIG AIRPLANE INDUSTRY BOOM
SEEN IF U. S. ENTERS THE WAR

Grand Rapids, Mich. ULNS). -
Oswald Ryan, member of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority, told the Amer
lean Vocational Association conven-
tion that a force of at least 100000
workmen would be needed in the air
craft industry if the United States
went to war
He disclosed that a Federal Inter
departmental Committee estimated
that the industry would require la
Dor force Of approximately 100000 to
meet the enlarged U. S. peace-time
program and foreign orders.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28
Ohio Runks Third
IGon&;n,,od E.o.,a Dan.o 0naN

showed little increase in case-load or
total payments to recipients.
Pennsylvania, with more popula-
ton, Jagged far behind Ohio in the
nine-month period in payments to
aged persons.
In the number of persons aided,
only Illinois and California surpassed
Ohio during the first nine months Of
the year. The aid for the aged rolls
at the end of September in the eight
most populous states in the country
showed the following number of per-
sons being aided:
Illinois, 135,721; California, 1884,
66S; Ohio, 120,925; Texas, 12O,520;
New York, 1851; Massachusetts,
S0,59G; Pennsylvania, 80,495; Michi-
gan, S0,138.
Since the first of the year, Ohio has
added a total of 9,742 new recipients
to it's rolls in the nine-month period,
being topped in this respect only by
Illinois which added 10,259 to it's list
from January through September.
During the same period, Michigan in
creased it's rolls by 1927 while Cali
fornia showed an increase of 1892 and
Texas 1927.
Since September, the last month for
which comparative figures were avail
able, Ohio's aid for the aged rolls
have shown further increases and at
the end of November the state was
providing for 125,525 recipients.
In the average grant paid per reci-
pient, Ohio ranked fourth among the
most populous states, being surpassed
in this phase by California, Massa-
chusetts, and New York
The average grant per recipient in
the eight most populous states at the
end of September showed:
California, $32.46; Massachusetts,
$2S.26; New York, $23.7S; Ohio,
$22.69; Pennsylvania, $21.34; Illinois,
$19.61; MiSn~an, $16.47; Texas,
In the matter Of burial expenditures
for the year ending June 80, 1889,
Ohio ranked first in the nation, figures
showing that the state paid $668,137
in funeral expenses for burying de-
ceased recipients. Michigan ranked
second in burial expenditures with
$3l5,7O9 while Illinois was third with
$287,97G, and New York fourth with
$240,371.
Although no comparative figures
were available listing administrative
expenses in the various states, Ohio's
administrative cost in operating it's
aid for the aged program was under
five per cent during the first nine
months of this year.
Despite the fact that Ohio's pro-
gram during 1889 is providing for
more needy aged than at any time in
the states history, administrative
costs of the Ohio Division of Aid for
the Aged during the first nine months
of this year were STA, ,459 less than
for the corresponding period of 1888.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28
FORM RETAIL STORE
EMPLOYEES COUNCIL

Columbus, Ohio (OLNS).-Repre-
sentatives Of three Unions having con-
tracts with ten local retail stores met
last week to form the Retail Store
Employees Joint Council for the pur-
pose of coordinating organization,
grievance and negotiating activities.
Officers of the newly formed Coun-
Gil are Louis Meinert, Truck Drivers
Local Alb, president; ]. H. Anderson,
Retail Clerks Local IL, vice presi-
dent, and Miss Erma Schaer, Office
Workers Local 21427, secretary-treas-
urer.
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S. Miles President
CONTINUED From Page One)

attracts the eye of the buyer so
changes are being made constantly.
The toilet must have an extension on
the rear with spread or bracket ex-
tending from each side Of the supply
hole while the tank is bolted on the
toilet rather than the wall as formerly.
At first only syphon jets were used
with this attractive feature, making
the profit worth while and passing
some of it on to the caster.
Now some of the plants are going
to put an extension on the washdown
and receive trap types which will
make them look like syphon jet. AS
the public knows very little about the
advantages of one combination over
the other, the cheaper type will sell
The passing Of 1910 may see the end
Of the syphon jet and that means we
must put out more of the limitations
which are hard to handle and do not
pay the wages the originals demand
In many sanitary shops there are
many skilled jobs aside from those
in the clay shop which pay more than
$l.00 an hour. Some of these men
naturally break some ware, but it is
not charged against their pay. The
firms supply them with sponges and
tools, yet the caster workers for less
than $100 per hour and must stand
breakage. He also buys his sponges
and tools and now makes a piece as
hard to handle in some cases as a
syphon jet with a rear raised vent.
A sanitary presser never had to use
a dust bag to dust his moulds. The
caster making these new pieces must
inhale dust while busting both the toI
core and bottom core of these new
pieces land they put on the dust)
The best workmen in the plant are
employed on these pieces.
Just when will the caster catch up
the wages Of men in other skilled
departments And why does he not
profit by the introduction of this new
set up?
Local Union No. 1873 elected new
leaders for the next six months with
Shirl Miles, president; Ted Roman
vice president; Mike Pamela, record
ing secretary; Dean Reed, financial
secretary; Roy Boston, defense secre-
tary; H. M. Stevens, treasurer; Harry
Mehlman, statistician; Herschel John
son, inspector; Selby Moore, guard
Guy Matricardi, trustee. All of these
men have given proof of their worth
in some official capacity or other
With the cooperation of the members
these men are certain to turn in an
excellent job.
The Universal Sanitary held another
of it's successful Christmas parties
From what we hear it is a good thing
it was scheduled for Saturday night
Two of the boys going home at late
hour bumped into preacher. The
preacher exclaimed, "Do you know
who am?" The answer was in a
cute tenor, "No, but if you can give
US the address, we will take you
home"
1t is the wish Of Local 1873 that
every member of the Brotherhood haC
an extremely Merry Christmas anC
that the New Year will be one of great
success.--O. c. 1873.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28
Musicians Union Fights
Lockout Of Radio Bond

Philadelphia, Pa. (AFLWNS). =
Frank p Liuzzi, president of Local
No. II Of the American Federation Of
Musicians, A. F. of l.. affiliate, said
the A. F. M. national office had call
ed out orchestras in affiliates station
WPEN in protest against the Philadel-
phia stations lockout of it's band.
Liuzzi declared the dismissal of the
13-man orchestra at WPEN was a vio-
lation Of an existing contract between
the American Federation of Musici-
ans and the National Association of
Broadcasters, of which, he said,
WPEN was q member.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28
Pay Chiseling Spiked
By Duluth Union Head

Duluth, MINI. (AFLWNS).-With
his eagle eye peeled for violations of
agreements with the Duluth Grocery
Clerks Union, Henry Degnan, bust
ness representative of the organiza-
ton, uncovered lot of chiseling by
one of the firms which had signed the
union contract. 1t was found that in
the case of employees on weekly
salary many were paid as much as
SO week under the union scale and
that temporary employees were get
ting IL cents less than the scale.
Business Representative Degnan
confronted the employer with evi-
dence of his wage gypping and col
lected approximately $50 in back pay
for members of the union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-28

Always Demand the Union Label.
The Valley settler., 1939-12-08

 
 
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Evening star., 1939-10-08
Business Leaders
To Attend Conference

Business leaders from many parts
of the country will assemble here
November Is for a national con-
struction conference" under auspices
of the United States Chamber of
Commerce, to discuss means Of stim-
ulating a more rapid recovery Of
building in residential and non
residential fields The conference
will continue through November II.
The delegates will seek to point
out obstructions checking the flow
of private funds into capital expendi-
lures. All divisions of the construc-
ton industry will be represented
here - manufacturing, contracting
and distributing.
The conference Program Commit
tee stated that the stimulation of
private construction becomes more,
and not less, important as a result of
the outbreak Of war in Europe"
Evening star., 1939-10-08
McNuf 10 Lead D. T..
Recreation DELEGATION

Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt will lead a Wash
ington delegation of Federal Dis
trict and social agency officials to
the oath annual National Recrea-
ton Congress, which opens tomor-
row In Boston. Mr.. McNutt will
speak at the Wednesday evening
session on Recreation and National
Morale"
Among others from the Capital
slated to attend are John SEEKER,
acting chief of the Division of Rec
reation and Lands, United States
Forest Service; G. OFT Romney, di-
rector Of the Recreation Section
Professional and Service Division
Works Projects Administration;
Richard Brown of the American
Youth Commission, Tom L. Popeioy
deputy administrator of the National
Youth Administration; Alexander
Winton, regional recreation planner
OF the Forest Service, and L. r.
Alderman of the United States Of
flee of Education.
Also Miss Sibyl Baker, supervisor
Of District Fairgrounds; Birch E..
Bayh, head of the Department of
Health and Physical Education in
the public schools; Robert B. Brad
ford, acting director of the w. P. A..
recreation program; Lydia A. H.
Burklin, director of Friendship
House; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
president of the Board of Education;
Gracious D. Dresden, supervisor of
education for the National Youth
Administration; Miss Ellen S. Wood
ward, member of the Social Security
Board, and Mary Edith Coulson, sec
retary of the Recreation Department,
Council of Social Agencies.
A total registration of 1,5OO is ex-
pected for the congress, which is
sponsored by the National Recrea-
tion Association.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Miss Johnson Promoted

Miss Elizabeth S. Johnson, who
obtained her masters degree in the
field of labor economics at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin after gradu-
alton from Wellesley College, has
been promoted to assistant director
In charge of research in the indus
trial division of the Children's Bu-
reau, Labor Department. Miss john
son, before joining the bureau in
1885, had seven years of experience
with the Pennsylvania State De-
partment of Labor and Industry.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Leaders in Music
And Journalism 10
Attend Banquet
Music Appreciation
Committee to Sponsor
Event on Tuesdoy

More than 200 nationally known
leaders in fields of music, journalism
and civic life will meet at the Ra-
leigh Hotel Tuesday night for a
banquet and special program spon-
sored by the National Committee for
Music Appreciation.
The committees Nation wide mu-
sic appreciation campaign was spon-
sored in Washington by The Star
several months ago.
The banquet, which will begin at
3 o'clock, will feature addresses by
prominent music, newspaper and
educational figures throughout the
country.
Music, Democratic Art" will be
= discussed by DR.. Howard Hanson,
chairman of the National Commit
tee for Music Appreciation and di-
rector of the Eastman School of
Music, University of Rochester, N. Y.
DR.. Hans Kinder, director of the
National Symphony Orchestra, will
welcome the guests, and a string
ensemble from his orchestra will
furnish music for the event.
Brown to Be Speaker.
James Wright Brown, sr., presi-
dent and publisher of Editor and
Publisher of New York, will deliver
an address stressing The Impor-
tance of Music and the Fouth Es-
tate" Another well-known jour-
naist, Walter M. Harrison, manag-
ing editor of the Daily Oklahoman
and Times, Oklahoma City, will dis
cuss Journalism and Public Service. :"
Also appearing on the program
will be DR.. Edwin N c. Barnes, head
of music for the District of Colum-
bia public school system.
DR.. Joseph M. M. Gray. chancellor
Of American University, will be the
POSTMASTER.
Reports on activity of the commit
tee and plans for the coming year
will be announced at the meeting
by Edward T. Ingle, director of the
national committee, who is super
vising arrangements for the BAN
quet.
Celebrities to Be Present.
Among distinguished persons who
have accepted invitations to attend
the banquet are:
Senator Arthur Capper of Kan
sas, Robert Mclean, president of
the Philadelphia Bulletin and of the
Associated Press; Paul Patterson,
president and publisher of the Bal
timore Sun papers; Lucien Wulsin,
chairman of the board of the Gin
cinnati Symphony Orchestra; Fabien
Sevitzsky, conductor of the Indian
apolis Symphony Orchestra; Will
liam H. Ball, president of the In
dianapolis Symphony Orchestra As
sociation; Paul Block, publisher of
the Block newspapers: Nellie Tay-
loe Ross, director of the mint: DR..
John c. Merriam, president of the
Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton; DR.. Frank w. Ballou, super
intendent of schools for the District
Of Columbia; Mrs Henry Grattan
Doyle, chairman of the Board of
Education in the District, and many
Others
A portion of the program will be
broadcast over Station WMAL at
1890 o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Library Course Set

A course in library techniques"
is to be conducted by David Wahl
of the Library of Congress at the
Federal Workers School, 532 Seven
teenth street NV.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29

litical suicide by voting against war
in 1917: "As long as we maintain
an army, navy and an air force
worthy of the name, as long as
America does not decay within, we
need fear no invasion d. If we
enter fighting for democracy
abroad, we may end by losing it
at home"
This was fine spirit, as was the
Gallup poll finding that "a per cent
of the U. S. wants to keep Ameri-
can ships out of war zones "a tenet
Of the proposed neutrality act). But
America was nevertheless plugging
for France and Britain. Another
Gallup poll showed 80 per cent of
them thought the allies would win,
while "A per cent dangerously near
majority for so early in the war;
favored sending U. S. troops abroad
if it appeared Germany would win.
Amid such befuddled opinion con-
gress met to argue the Presidents
neutrality proposal: To repeal the
present arms embargo and sell bel
ligerents anything they want, pro-
vided they pay cash and use their
own ships. Isolationist sentiment
was growing, but so was 'scash-and-
carry sentiment, simply result of
greater public interest. Most popu-
lar objection to neutrality revision
was not that it would discriminate
in favor of the allies because they
rule the seas) but that common
sense overruled changing legislation
after the war has started.
Closer to trouble, more realistic
in its attitude, the state department
knew it must move chessmen as
belligerents moved theirs. Exam
pie: Russo-Jap rapprochement
meant the Philippines. might fall
easy prey to Tokyo unless the u. S.
delayed independence plans.
No easy job awaited congress.
Administration forces moved to linn
it debate and the nation both booed
and praised. No problem ever de-
served more thought and discussion,
yet, paradoxically, this was prob
lem which seemed only to grow
more confusing when pondered and
debated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29
THE WAR:
Diplonsntic Front

Thoroughly indicated this month
are the astute International observ-
ers who have called Russia's Josef
Stain the sIrewdest diplomat Of Eu-
rope, shrewder even than Germa-
ny's Adolf Hitler who begged and
won Russia's friendship few weeks
ago. Like remote control opera
tor who needs only to punch buttons,
Dictator Stain sat in his Krenlin
palace and manipulated diplomatic
machinery that responded like one
two-three clockwork in a sequence
Of events that sped westward from
Tokyo to Paris and London, leaving
the harried allies of Europe's war
in miserable shape:
Truce. For five years stubborn
Japan has fought an undeclared, in
formal war with Russia in the vast
wastelands Of Manchukuo and Out
er Mongolia. Ambitious elsewhere,
Dictator Stain was not free to med
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29

mild by comparison. Nations with
far-fiung territories (France and
Brittany suffer most when their enc
mics Japan, Russia, Germany and
italy, are also far flung. While the
harried allies had their hands full
keeping mighty Germany at bay be-
hind her invulnerable West wall,
these things might happen:
Japan. Under German coaxing,
Dictator Stain might withdraw his
support of China's long-suffering
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek, thus
paving the way for immediate COM
pletion of Japan's war. Meanwhile
the maze of European concessions
and settlements in China could be
wiped out because western nations
are too busy at home to complain.
Russia. With 900, 900 men concen-
trated, on the Afghanistan border,
the Soviet could use this nation as
jumping off place in her campaign
to establish rule over India. Mean
while the Krenlin's threat is lur-
ing Turkey away from her alliance
with Britain and France, thus clos
ing the Black sea outlet which has
been Ruinania's sole hope of inde-
pendence. T
Germany. Between them the
Reich and Soviet must divide Po-
land. If Germany takes only her
pre-World war territory (See Map
and Russia takes only the land Po-
land took by force in 1920, buff
er state would still remain between
the two powers-provided settle
ment can be reached in southeast
ern Poland, whose rich Galician
lands are coveted by both Berlin
and Moscow.
Italy. Shattered was the popular
belief that Italy would not only stay
neutral, but might even come to the
allies side. Observers still expect
ed Benito Mussolini to promulgate
a peace conference any day, but
they also knew he had an Interior
motive. Italy wants the French
italian port Of Djibouti, entrance to
Italian Ethiopia, made a free port;
she wants control of the Djibouti-
Adds Ababa railroad; she wants a
la u i r
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29
War Really Between Two Groups
With Utterly Selfish Motives
Time Has Come When Citizens of United States Must
Examine Facts of International Situation; Debates
In Congress Should Be Enlightening.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington, D. c.

Hitler calls it justice; Chamberlain
and Daladier call it brigandage.
Back in 1919, when the Treaty Of
Versailles was written, the Germans
shouted brigands and other epithets
as the French and the British over
ruled Woodrow Wilson and took
what they wanted. Not only did the
winners in that war, excepting the
United States, take what they want.
ed, but they parceled out other parts
of the German empire.
Where did the United States finish
in that war? 1t helped win a war
to make the world safe for democ-
racy, which turned out to be
sham. And it was left holding the
bag. It still is holding the bag, be-
cause little of the eleven billion dol
lars loaned to the allied powers ever
has been repaid. Only little Fin
land has kept her promise to pay
back the loans.
Stripped of all Of its jungle of
words, therefore, the question thus
seems to shape itself. We have
nothing to gain, so why not make
over our neutrality into the policy
Of an isolationist? Why not stay
out by keeping our stuff here at
home? know will be rebuked by
those who say we cannot afford to
close down factories and let cotton
and wheat and corn remain unsold.
Notwithstanding all of this, there
surely is ground for belief that 1t
would be cheaper in the end, cheaper
in money, If you want to deal only
in the rnaterialistic side and cheaper
in blood, because it may come to
that.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29

major voice in administering the
Suez canal; she wants other assert
ed and miscellaneous concessions
which the allies foolishly denied her
after the World war.
Choice. The four totalitarian ma
tons might decide to strike first and
talk peace later. Or they may poise
their threats and then sue. Which
ever course they take, Britain and
France are on the spot; never in
modern history have their empires
been so completely threatened.
Probably the better part of valor is
to fight and ignore totalitarian-
ism's peace offers. From expert
ence, Europe's democracies have
learned appeasement merely whets
the appetite and pro1ongs the tor
tzire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29

scrap. Use this easy and effec-
tive block for pillow or scarf as
well. Pattern 6416 contains the
Block Chart; carefully drawn pat
tern pieces; color schemes; direc-
tons for making the quilt; yard
age chart; illustration of quilt.
To obtain this pattern send IS
cents in coins to The Sewing Cir
Gle Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
18th St., New York.
Please write your name, adj
dress and pattern number plainly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29

die in .Eu-
ropean poll
tics or peck
at theBritish
empire SO
long as Jap
an remained
a nuisance.
But one up
shot of the
recent Russ
Gerrlaannon-
aggression
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29
DOMESTIC:
Var Talk

In 1917 it was public opinion that
forced the U. S. into war. In 1889,
as in 1914, public opinion wants no
truck with Europe's troubles. But
Americas memory of the war is
still so vivid that its citizenry's judg-
ment is more reasoned, less apt to
be colored by propaganda from
home or abroad. Even so, there is
no unanimity.
Representative of anti-war thought
was the unprecedented radio talk by
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, whose
congressman father committed po-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-29
LOUISIANA:
Nest Case

When DR.. James Monroe Smith
fled his Louisiana State university
for Canadian haven last summer,
the u. S. lost no time sticking its
foot into a messy state political pud-
die. Resigned was Gov. Richard W.
Leche, succeeded by the late Huey
p. ("Kingfish'') Longs. brother,
Earl. One after another of Louisi-
ana's politicians were caught in the
trap, including Seymour Weiss, al
legged political "powerhouse," and
finally Richard Leche himself.
Rumor had it that U. S. Attorney
General Frank Murphy was merely
using Louisiana as proving ground
to show the Democratic party was
equal in purity to New York's rack
et-busting states attorney and G. o.
p. presidential possibility, Tom
Dewey. Whatever the reason, the
u. S. got its first conviction: Five
Louisianians, including DR.. Smith
and Seymour Weiss, were found
guilty of selling hotel furniture to
the state university, not once, but
twice. Basis for the federal charge;
A check for the ill-gotten gains was
sent through the U. S. mails.
Immediately the federal prosecu-
tors went to work on their second
case, an open-and-shut matter of in
terstate commerce and therefore
clearly under U. S. jurisdiction. In
this trial, prosecutors hope to find
Messrs Weiss and Leche guilty of
conspiracy to violate the Connally
shot oip' law for allegedly piping
contraband oil to Texas.