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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-30
Summer NuuficuI
Course Offered To
Youngsters. 11-21
Practical Ship Experience
At Ndtiondl Trdining
School Available

The American Nautical Academy,
National Training School for Merchant
Marine Officers, Washington, D. c.,
announced that boys and young men
between the ages of II and 21 years
will be allowed to secure practical ship
experience on board training ship of
the Academy within the period from
July l., to October l, 1910.
The young men may remain on
board ship for the entire period, or for
any shorter time they may wish, but
not for less than a month.
Students who enter for any period
less than the full course will receive
instructions only in those subjects be-
ing taught while the student is on
board ship.
The purpose of the course is: First,
as foundation for those who wish to
become officers in the Merchant Ma
rine, and devote their lives to a career
in the service; Secondly, for those boys
and young men who, though not de-
sirous of following the sea, still wish
to obtain a general knowledge Of ships
and the life afoat.
There is no charge for instruction
nor for living quarters on board ship.
The only required expense is for meals,
which are 49 cents. Three meals are
served daily.
There is no tuition charge for any
Of the courses offered by the Academy;
and no obligation for future merchant
marine, military or naval service of
any kind is incurred by the young men.
On Sundays the cadets will be al
lowed to attend divine services at the
churches of their respective denomina-
tions on shore. While on board ship
cadets will receive free minor first aid
treatment when necessary.
This is the eleventh annual summer
course offered by the Academy and will
be under the personal supervision of
the Captain Commandant of the
Academy who will be in command Of
the vessel.
During the summer course this year
the training ship will be stationed at
a New England port.
While on board ship the students
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-30
USHA Programs
Ruled vdid BY
Highest Courts
Half Of Stutes In Union Now
Have Approved Public
Housing Laws

Washington, D. C.-Local slum.
clearance and low-rent public housing
programs of the United States Hous.
ing Authority have passed legal tests
with flying colors.
Supreme courts, or courts of last
resort, Of exactly half the states now
have passed upon and, without ex-
ception, have approved USHA pro-
grams.
This unbroken string Of favorable
decisions has been attained in the
highest tribunals of "a of the IS
states having state public housing
laws. In these suits, the local hous-
ing programs have been attacked from
almost every possible legal angle.
Decisions in 80 Cases
A recent decision by the Supreme
Court of Arizona brought the number
of these high judicial opinions up to
33 cases involving the various points
of contention litigated in the "a
states. These decisions have, in gen.
eral, held public housing to be clearly
within the purview of the United
States Constitution, and the respec-
tive state constitutions and munich
pal charters.
The states whose highest courts
have sustained their local public
housing acts which permits participa-
tion in the USHA program include
states in the North and South, the
East and West, and well-nigh every
densely-populated state:
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-30
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY P0TTERS PICNIC JUST WEEKS AWA'
ALL. Pledges Aid in Natl. Defense Program;
Urges United States Stay Out of Foreign Wm;
Council Denies Skilled Labor Shortdqe Exists
Government Promised Full
Cooperation From AL
By Council
NO WAGE REVISIoNS

Washington, D. c. Responding
Fundamentally to President Roose-
velt's appeal for national co-opera-
tion in the new billion-dollar de-
fense program, the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor pledged the Gov
ernment it's active and loyal support.
The Executive Council, meeting
here, acted promptly to assure the
nation that organized labor will do
its part fully to help make this
country safe against foreign foes.
In the national emergency which
confronts all Americans, the Coun-
ell statement said, the responsibility
or all major factors in production
cannot be adequately discharged
unless there is cooperation be-
tween management and labor and
the Government"
The American Federation of La
Dor has been working in close touch
with all Government agencies en-
gagged in the national defense pro-
gram for long period without fric-
tion or trouble of any kind.
The Executive Council, however,
detected a movement to relax wage
and hour safeguards set up by organ
lied labor and by legislation on the
part of certain business interests
claiming labor shortages.
Such reports were scotched by the
Council which denied the existence of
any such shortages and added:
"The problem is not a shortage Of
skilled mechanics but the fact that so
many Of these have been forced by
the depression to seek employment in
lower wage occupations"
The Council added:
"The emotional effort to immedi-
ately suspend rules and regulations
now protecting labor will not appeal
to thoughtful Americans"
President William Green explained
at press conference that it would
be disastrous to lower wage and hour
standards at time when millions of
Americans are unemployed. He urged
that extra shifts be put to work, if
necessary, to speed up production of
uCACHSS c4ulpIIIciiI. OHly IL oil dCIudl
emergency arises and if real labor
shortages exist will it become neces-
sary to lengthen hours, he declared.
Significantly, while Senator Bone
of Washington estimated the cost
of battleship construction has in
creased 200 per cent in some cases
since the last war, Senator Tobey, of
New Hampshire, declared that the
actual labor cost in battleship con-
struction because of the use Of ma
chinery has been reduced, while hour
ly wage rates have increased only z
per cent.
The Executive Council statement
concluded with this pledge:
'In 1917 the American Federation
Of Labor demonstrated it's readiness
and willingness to do everything with
in it's power to assist the Government
in the winning of the war. This
pledge of support went farther than
that Of any other national trade union
movement of the countries which were
Continued on Page Two)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-30
Nazi And Soviet Invdsion
OF Neutral Nations Hit
By Council
FIFTH COLUMN" HERE

washington, u. C.-Organlzed Ia
Dor demands that the United States
stay out of the European war.
This was the fiat declaration of the
Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor which denounced
Nazi and Soviet invasion of peaceful
neutral countries in Europe but in
sisted on American neutrality.
The text of the Councils statement
follows:
The Executive Council of the Am.
erican Federation of Labor expresses
the feelings of all American workers
when it condemns unreservedly the
invasion of Holland, Belgium and
Luxembourg by Nazi Germany.
Our sympathy goes out to the in
nocent, peace-loving peoples of these
nations who have been victimized by
the superior force of Hitler's war
machine.
These latest explosions in Europe
were not unexpected. We predicted
last February that if Soviet Russia S
invasion of Finland were successful
the next victims of the Nazi-Soviet
alliance would be Belgium, the Meth
erlands and the Scandinavian coun-
tries. We saw then, and it has be-
come obvious now, that the purpose
of the dictators Of Germany and Rus
sia is to seize every democratic ma
tion and subjugate every frea4 people
in Europe.
We in America are peace-loving
people. The Executive Council OF the
American Federation of Labor does
not see how the entry of the United
States into the European war would
serve the cause of peace. On the
contrary, we feel that if we stead
fastly maintain our neutrality we will
be in better position to aid in the
reconstruction of Europe when the
war is over.
On behalf of the workers of this
country, we make the flat declaration
that the United States should remain
out of the war.
We in America are devoted to the
cause of freedom and democracy. We
are shocked by what is going on in
Europe. But we do not see how the
cause of democracy cauld be furth-
cred by our involvement in foreign
war. The opposite is true. Democ-
racy and freedom on this earth would
be jeopardized if the United States
were to go to war. Our function as
a nation should be and must be to
safeguard and maintain peace and
democracy in the Western Continent
by maintaining strict neutrality, re-
gardless of our sympathies and feel
ings toward the victims of totalitarian
aggression in Europe.
Therefore, we recommend the fol-
lowing program:
l. This country must quickly
strengthen and modernize it's de-
fenses, taking advantage Of the les
sons in new military techniques
which the present European war af-
fords. -.
2. We must not let emotion un-
balance our clear thinking nor con-
tribute to the development of war
psychology. Rash and hysterical
statements should especially be avoid
ed by those in a position to influence
public opinion.
8. We must redouble our vigilance
against treachery and the creation of
"Trojan horse" organizations by
Soviet and Nazi adherents in this
country.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

cepted this Interpretation, yet he
certainly would have agreed that it
was his intention to bring his mar
rative, dramatic action, poetic dia-
logue, pictorial appeal and the
grandeur of noble harmony into a
single effect Such was his purpose,
and there cannot. be any question
about his achievement of the goal
he set. No other work approximates
the perfection of Tristan and Isolde"
as an exposition of the dynamic
force of human love. That it is
frankly and even proudly human the
composer conceded. Devotion to re-
ligion, to patriotism, to honor, to
beauty, to life itself he dealt with in
supplementary efforts.
Probably no attempt to represent
in printed symbols the attraction of
Tristan and Isolde" can succeed.
The opera must he heard to be un-
derstood. In the recordings offered
by The Star in it's second music ap-
probation campaign all the more i'm
portant passages are included. Hear
ing them, the listener realizes to the
full the achievement of the greatest
master of majestic song.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Suggests Club to Aid
Finance Britain's Defense.
20 the Editor Of The Star


am writing this letter because it
seems to me that golden opportunity
is being overlooked whereby we could
extend to England an appreciable good
will offering and at the same time give
those persons In the United States who
feel as do that something more should
be done chance to help.
There are a million persons (prob-
ably many more) like myself whose
salaries are small. who could not give
much from a months wage because it
is all needed to take care of family and
home, yet who would do without some
thing to give dollar for Englands aid.
Not just dollar one month and no
more, but dollar each month for the
duration of the war.
The movement could be called THE
Million Month Club; and if it were
successful, what a boon it would be to
England, now so in need of money,
supplies and encouragement. I feel Ger
tain amazing results would follow If
such a plan were carefully publicized
in every city, town and village.
Santa Monica, Calf. 10 RAYLE.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Morgontown BRIDGE

Wnlle washington discusses the
question of additional bridges or a
tunnel to nearby Virginia, Maryland
has passed milestone in the history
of its transportation system by the
opening of the S5,000,OOO Potomac
River span near Morgantown. Com
pletion of the -mile-long struc-
ture eliminates years of effort
prompted by the hope that the new
bridge will have widespread beneficial
effects in Southern Maryland and
the northern neck of Virginia.
The bridge might still be in the
discussion stage had it not been for
the aid of Public Works .Administra-
ton funds and the decision by Mary
land officials to finance it through
tolls. Now that it is in use, the public
will watch with interest to see if the
anticipated results materialize First
and foremost, Marylanders will
be vitally concerned with the
amount of traffic that uses the
bridge. Official minimum estimates
are that $50 cars day, or $4,000
vehicles year, will use it during the
first year of operation, increasing
gradually to about 143,0O0 vehicles
during the fifth year.
On the basis of such estimates it
is expected that a maximum of
eighteen years will be required to
pay off construction costs. If for
any reason the tolls fall far below
expectations, many believe the debt
might have to be assumed by the
State.
1t is expected that the bridge will
prove popular as an alternate route
for tourists travelling from Baltimore
and the North to Richmond and Nor
folk and the South. Those taking
the new route will avoid Washington
traffic congestion. If, as anticipated,
the span relieves the National Cap
ital of some truck traffic, the result
will be welcome here. Being the
only span between Washington and
the mouth of the Potomac, the bridge
also may prove of value as defense
project.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
At the Crossroud

President Roosevelt returns to the
Capital today to resume active di-
rection of the affairs of an America
which stands hesitantly at a fateful
crosSroad.
Two courses lie before us. Choos-
ing one, we must be satisfied with a
continuation of our confused and
uncertain progress toward the goal
of national security. We must toler-
ate internal pickering, selfish de-
mands for special consideration and
a lack of leadership which combine
to cripple our productive effort. In
a word, we must be willing to drift
along, to follow the path of least
resistance at a time when powerful
forces are shaping a new world in
which we will have to live, like it
or not.
To choose the other road means
that we must shake off the lethargy
which is tying our hands and take
decisive acton while there is yet
time in which to act of our own voli-
ton. The obstacles, formidable in
the aggregate, which stand in the
way of wholehearted and effective
rearmament effort can be swept away
if we but muster the will to remove
them. For the first time, the for
tunes of this war are favoring the
British and those fighting with them
They are winning military victories
and even greater psychological trl-
umphs, and the latter are important
in this war A decisive move on our
part, such as the prompt Inaugural
tion of a full-fledged domestic war
effort, coupled with a plain state
ment of determination to aid the
British with every resource at our
command, come what way, would be
a potent contribution to the demo-
cratic cause at this time. But if it
is going to be done, it must be done
now. In a few weeks, or few
months, the opportunity for effec-
tive action along this line may be
gone.
If we are to take this latter course,
If fumbling and indecision are to
be put aside, there must be positive
leadership from the President. En-
lightened and intelligent decisions, if
they call for unaccustomed exertions,
are not made spontaneously. In the
two weeks that ne has been away,
Mr.. Roosevelt undoubtedly has given
much thought to his future policy,
and it is to be hoped that he has
made up his mind to give the Nation
the aggressive leadership which can
come from no other source. If he
will but take the initiative, the neces-
sary public support surely will be
forthcoming.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Criticizes 'Appeosers'
And 'Defeutists'
Writer Says 'IsoIotionists'
Should Reed Warning
Of John Dome.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The latest recruit to that inglorious
company, consisting of Messrs. johnson,
Fish, Holt, ct al, is Joseph P. Kennedy
Truly notable band of appeasers,
isolationists, defeatists. They either
whimper that Britain is already defeated
and that we should get ready to make
the best terms we can with the gangsters
of Europe or they advise us to skulk
behind the embattled British Empire,
supinely hoping that through the
desperate courage of the English we shall
be relieved of any real effort for our own
and the worlds salvation. They still
refuse to face facts-facts presented
again and again to their hearts and
minds.
Even President Roosevelt lamentably
has failed us in not appealing to all
those in this country still capable of the
faintest trace of cerebration. wake
Up America!' should have been his cry.
Men talk of peace, peace when there
is no peace!" should have been ham,
mered into the consciousness of all
England by all measures short of war
is simply toying with the issue. We are
already in the war.
The law of life is clear 1t brooks no
evasions, no excuses. When a time Of
extreme stress occurs no form of life
and no way of life shall survive unless
it proves, through it's ability to protect
itself and to adapt itself, that it con-
tains within itself the power to so
survive. No morality is involved here.
Nature knows no moral law. Man him.
self has evolved whatever moral law he
has. And he must infuse this moral
law with the power to sustain itself and
thus to sustain him in his time of
desperate need.
All of us, therefore, who are even
family realistic in our view of life must
bitterly resent the attempt of men of
small minds and hearts to keep on COM
placently watering our own small grass
plot, supposing that if only some rem
nant, some sickly flower of liberty and
liberalism be preserved here, all will be
we'll or nearly we'll with us and with
our world. But that grand old poet,
John Donne, knew better than that.
Magnificently and for all time and
beyond cavil he has put something of
it into these words: mo man is an Hand,
entire of itselfe: every man is a peece
of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if clod bee washed away by the sea,
Europe is the lesse, as well as if a
Promontorie were, as we'll as if Mannor
of thy friends or of thine owne were;
any mans death diminishes me, because
am involved in Mankinde; and there
fore never send to know for whom the
bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
FRANCIS N. SMITH.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Another Appeal

The success of the annual toy
matinees sponsored by The Star, the
National Broadcasting Company and
the Warner Brothers Theaters has
been noteworthy beyond even the
most ardent and hopeful expectation.
On Saturday morning a veritable
army of children crowded a dozen
different neighborhood playhouses to
share in the privilege and the pleas
ure of frightening the Christmas of
boys and girls who otherwise might
have had reason to suppose that the
anniversary of the birth of Him who
is Childhood's Friend was only an
ordinary day.
Photographs reproduced in The
Star yesterday indicated the infinite
variety of the youngsters gifts to
their little neighbors. Human genius,
it seems, has specialized in the pro-
duction of mechanical novelties,
sports equipment and accessories,
musical instruments, puzzles, arts
Sl1lS VI aAeo l1lolS14dlO, IOOlO, NClllS1Co
of different sorts, dolls, games and
books. The list is endless, but the
need also is impressive.
Money, however, is more particu-
larly wanted this week. Up to Sat-
urday evening approximately thirty
four hundred dollars had been sub
scribed for distribution to necessitous
families in time to make their
Christmas merry. 1t is hoped that
the fund may be doubled during the
next hundred hours. Checks may be
sent to The Star by mail or left at
Christmas House, Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Eleventh street Northwest,
to be acknowledged in the printed
list of donors published daily. Re-
member that the objective of the
Christmas fund is to insure a larger
participation in the traditional Joys
of the Yuletide season.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

giant beside the swart, stumpy
Laval, is Partisan of good family,
born to wealth and culture. He is a
hard-boiled realist, conservative in
outlook, affiliated with high finance,
and accustomed to putting material
efficiency ahead of almost every
thing else. These qualities tend to
make him acceptable to Marshal
Petain. In addition, he undoubtedly
shares the Marshals disillusionment
with the Ineffective parliamentary
regime of the Third Republic which
the men of Vichy are attempting to
replace by an authoritarian state.
That is the common bond which
links men of varying aims and pur-
poses.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Mountains Proved Bar
To Other Invaders.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Charles the Bold of Burgundy 1433-
147O and the Swiss Confederates." He
comes to mind when sizing up Musso-
hni's hazardous attempt at an invasion
of mountainous Greece-the land of
Ossa, Pelion and of tabled Olympus
The great duke. lord of many domin-
ions on the left bank of the Rhine. ex-
tending from Flanders through Lor-
raine and Alsace to the borders of Switz-
erland. was irked at the independent
attitude of the Swiss cantons. Losing
three battles, Charles fell at Nancy
1470. His body, completely stripped
was identified on the battlefield by his
false teeth. Only princes could afford
them in those days. Others did without
This was just about 80 years after the
Swiss mountain men had overcome Duke
Leopold of Austria s ironclad chivalry at
Sempach 1386 ADD. There, called to
arms by the tremendous blasts from the
Horn of Uri" "a steerhorn of immense
volume). these clansmen fought, prac-
ticslly in their shirt sleeves. But their
calloused fists welded hefty morning
stars" somewhat on the order of those
war clubs which cannibal chiefs favor)
decorated with plenty of pointed spikes.
1t was on this stricken field when, ac-
cording to legend, Arnold Won Winkel-
ried, barring his breast to the threaten
ing spears, made pathway for liberty"
The breath of mountain air and the
spirit of freedom apparently travel to-
gether. Proclaims the State seal of our
own West Virginia: "Montani semper
liberi.' Those who live in the hills and
run stills will never consent to go to
jail. FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1940-12-16

to put fence around the cliff than
an ambulance in the valley? Is this
Nation to become a Red Gross agency
to relieve suffering caused by interna-
tional marauders or is it to be true to
its traditions of human freedom and
bravely take its stand for liberty under
law?
The appeasement ideas of certain in
dividuals in this country are enough to
cause the Pilgrims to turn over in their
graves
This Nation has not yet awakened to
the world crisis and seems hardly to
have realized that it is very important
part of the world. The tide of oppression
surely is rising and, unless it is checked,
disastrous consequences are sure to fol-
low. If liberty-loving men everywhere
will get into action, they can bring to
an end these diabolical depredations In
ternational bandits must be taken in
hand If the world is to have peace.
What is the practical and imperative
thing for this country to do? Send
planes and more planes to England, and
food only if there is certainty that suffer-
ing peoples and not Hitler's soldiers will
get 1t. A. B. CANNADY.
Crescent City. Fla.
Evening star., 1940-12-16
Tristan and Isolde

Richard Wagner, throughout his
career, was enamoured of the spirit
of Gothic art. His respect for the
Middle Ages probably never has been
eXcelled by any student. Perhaps
because he was so consciously a
Central European, he turned as by
instinct to medieval literature for
his themes. In Tristan and Isolde"
for example, he adapted to his own
esthetic uses Celtic story of ancient
origin. The version employed in the
making of his libretto was that of
Gottfried of Strasburg, a forgotten
bard of the thirteenth century.
But in his treatment of his ma
terial Wagner was deliberate
modernist He knew as no other
person has known the potentialities
of the latter day theater. The power
contained in these facilities he took
to his service. One of his biog-
raphers, with particular reference to
Tristan and Isolde says: Here is
heard for the first time the unim-
paired language of dramatic passion
intensified by an uninterrupted flow
of expressive melody. Here also the
orchestra obtains that wide range of
emotional expression which enables
it, like the chorus of the antique
tragedy, to discharge the dialogue
of an overplus of lyrical elements
without weakening the intensity of
the situation, which it accompanies
like an unceasing passionate under
current"
Wagner himself might not have ac-