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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
THE LURE OF DEATH

|'CIIE defeatists in the United States have been
raising their voices again. They seem to be-
|lieve that we have reached state of economic
lmaturity"-in palmer Words economic senlity.
The whole world their argument runs, has
been tending toward some form OF dictatorship
No nation has been immune from the trend De-
Imocracy after democracy has collapsed, from
weakness within attack from without There
fore, they reason, this country must eventually
fall into line The forces of state socialism are
too powerful to withstand. And the wisest policy
lis to swallow the medicine now, and make the
necessary readjustments to conform to the new
and revolutionary "word order
That is an nsidious argument baseless and
|fallacious. This country has not reached econ
ionic Senility. 1t has met great crises in the past
lit has survived storms which threatened to de-
|stroy it. 1t has won through, not, by shelving
democracy, but by making democracy work hard
Ter. 1t has kept always to the principle that
strength comes out of Freedom not out of slavery
lit has known that wealth and power are best
created by free men, working under a free sys,
TEN which makes the welfare and happiness OF
the individual the nations first concern
What has state socialism ever accomplished
The world has watched it in many forms for long
|years-in Russia, in Italy, in Germany. Has it
|made the common man and woman happier anC
more secure? Has it raised the standard of liv
ing? Has it produced abundance and wealth fol
|all? Has it advanced the causes of art and cul
tme? Has it made for great progress in the
fields of science and medicine? Has it given the
Ipeope freer, fuller lives? TO all these questions
there is but one answer, and that is No! In the
lands where socialism and dictatorship rule, the
people fear to speak their minds lest they be i'm
|prisoned executed Disease increases Nal
nutrition is commonplace. Men work long hours
under inhuman conditions for pay barely sufici
ent to keep their families alive. Only the ruling
class is rich-only the ruling class lives we'll
only the ruling class has inalienable rights
1t is the first duty Of those who believe in this
country, in this system which we call democracy
to oppose socialism in any and all forms. Wher
socialism takes command real progress ends
when men are enslaved, they are no better thar
dumb brutes, responding mechanically to tht
whips of the masters. Socialism, as we see it il
the modern world means death to all that me1
have fought and blcd for during thousand years
| of hstory-a thousand years of striving TOWARD
the light of freedom.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
DEMOCRACY AT IT'S BEST

DEMOCRACY gave a truly thrilling exhibition
- in the British House of Commons last week.
In the very heart of empire that is battling for
it's survival in country whose leaders and peo-
pie have vowed that they would die rather than
surrender, three pacfst members of Parliament
brought forward a motion calling for immediate
peace "in spirit of compromise" They were not
beheaded for high treason. They were not flung
into a concentration camp They were able to
argue their freely and their speeches were
reported in the newspapers, because they were
simply exercising their rights the elected rep
resentatves of free men. The Deputy Prime Min
lister, Mr.. Attlee, replied to them, and the House
then voted by 341 to against the motion. That
was all. The four who wanted peace will be back
in the House tomorrow, taking part in debates on
the conduct of the war.
What now becomes of the fatiOuS idea that
British democracy is dead or dying? Can any
free country do better than this to prove that it's
freedom still lives? The British Parliament, it is
true, has entrusted the Government with immense
wartime powers affecting the life and property of
every British subject. Yet the immemorial liber-
ties still remain the freedom to speak, to criticize
to worship to think The British people are free
to listen to German broadcasts and to read Ger
man communicates in the newspapers. The pro-
cesses of law and order continue. If the Govern
ment seems guilty of arbitrary injustice, it is at
tackled from press and public platform. If the
Government proposes a tax which seems unfair
a law which uncalled for, it can be forced
to yield And if Parliament could vote almost
UNANIMOUSLY against a peace resolution yeStel-
day, it would be perfectly free to vote in favor of
peace and compel a new Government to make
peace if Parliament chose to do so.
1t is important for the world to be reminded
that the British Parliament and people are re-
solved to continue their struggle until victory is
Won There is no chance of peace, no serious talk
of peace noW for the British people know per-
fectly well that any compromise with Hitler is
equivalent to defeat and surrender. But it is just
important to know that peace resolution
however it may outrage the most sacred convict
ions Of the British people, can be discussed openly
and freely in the midst of war. AS Mr.. Attlee
truly said the debate "would not be tolerated in
any other country at war" Il believe" he said
'it will show our strength
He was right. 1t will show again that democ-
racy lives in the flesh and blood and soul of the
British people. 1t will show that totalitaran ideas
have more chance Of crumbling British resist
ance than wind that blows against towering
mountainSlde.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
GOTHAM ELECTRICAL WORKERS
WIN 4S-HOUR WALKOUT

New York City QLNS)-Maintain-
ing it's unbroken record Of never hav-
ing lost strike, Local 3 of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, announced that 500 work
ers employed by 12O electrical sup
ply concerns in New York returned
to work following a victorious 48-
hour strike.
Settlement followed two days and
nights of almost continuous negoti-
alton. The union was represented by
Samuel Dobbins and a committee of
twelve employees.
Allowed time out only for meals
and short recesses, the participants
of the conference emerged beary-
eyed and dog tired and smilingly an
nounced the end of the strike. The
walkout affected clerks, managers,
statesmen, and buyers in $50 of
wholesale and jobbing concerns which
supply retail stores with electrical
equipment and appliances.
The terms of the contract agreed
upon was hailed by Dobbins as a
clear-cut victory for the union and
include an average ten per cent in
crease for all employees, a 40-hour
week with time and a half for over
time, one weeks vacation with pay,
seven holidays with pay and union
shop. The contract will be in effect
for two years. However, after it has
been in effect for one year, wages will
be subject to an upward adjustment
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
AIRCRAFT DELAYS

TT is easy, in the early period of defense pro-
gram scale as great as that on which we
are now embarked, to charge manufacturers with
undue delays in production. Such charges in gen
eral, and specifically, already have been made with
regard to our aircraft industry. They gain Gre
lence because large and impressive round figures
Ire announced as goals and the production totals
although rapidly mounting, remain only trickle
las compared to the great outflow which has been
envisioned. The onus does not lie, however, prim-
arily on the manufacturers or labor. The builders
|of aircraft and aircraft engines who have enor-
|mously expanded their productive capacity and
still are doing so, are usually only too eager to
turn out production orders when they can get
them.
Thus far they have been bedeviled with
changed orders. Contracts are let on the basis of
Ia prototype. Then the changes begin For our
own military arplanes changes have included en-
CINE types-in the case of one bomber three such
changes all of which involved delay in the pro-
ducton of the plane itself-fuel capacity, landing
gears, propellers, gas tanks, turrets and arm
aments. The change from 80 caliber to a so
caliber machine gun involves change in plane
manufacture because 1T involves change IN
weight It is not the airplane builder who decides
On the armament that is to go into the aircraft
In the case Of orders for Great Britain and other
foreign buyers changes involving weeks and even
months of delay have hung on the type of pilots
seat, the locks and hinges on doors, instrument
|OanelS and the noses of bOmbers.
often, even usually, carries with it improvement.
Production in quantity for an emergency national
defense program, however, calls for rigid stand
|ardization the freezing of types and an rreducibe
minimum Of changed orders.
How rapidly, on their part our manufacturers
Of aeronautica equi pment expanding their
facilities was shown last week by Colonel John H
Jouett president of the Aeronautical Chamber of
Commerce of America, at it's annual meeting. Al
ready, he reported, they have spent S83,OOO,O 600
for plant expansion for national defense and have
let contracts for an additional sum of S232,OOO,-
1000 to the same end. The whole of these new
facilities will be in operation by next June Pay
rolls in the industry have risen from 10000 last
January to 164 ,92O today By June the industry
will have $4,000 shop employees, not including
the additional thousands added to their rolls by
|subcontractors which are expected to bring the
total to 100000 workers six months from now.
lit is clear that the industry has had the foresight
and the courage to plan and to gear up for de-
|fense production.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12

Taxes don't worry us as much as lack Of in
come.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
A VIRILE DEMOCRACY

From Brotherhood of Frcmen and Engnemcn's Magazine
ITO those who have decried our peoples lack of
interest in their government the recent cleo
tiOn has given eloquent answer No decadent de-
mocracy this, with an apathetc, unntereSted
electorate but rather vrile, dynamic democracy
whose people, keenly interested in their govern
ment, went to the polls in unprecedented numbers
to select in the traditional American way, the
leaders who will guide our nation in the perilous
days ahead. 1t demonstrated not only our faith
in this way of life but it showed the fundamental
soundness Of form Of government for even
before the last ballots had been counted, partisan
differences were laid aside, the sound and fury of
the heated campaign forgotten and Americans
had closed ranks to march forward. Confident in
the power Of our free people to maintain their
liberties, come what may, America faces the tu-
ture unafraid.
Let those who mistake the fiery rhetoric of a
political campaign for any great schSm in our
people take heed, for all American differences end
at the waters edge and partsanism with election
Democrat Republican, Socialist or Prohibition
party these but represent our internal differences
of opinion on diverse sub ccts; on the fundamental
concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness we are all agreed.
Love Of country and faith in its institutions is
the monopoly of no political party. A free people
from coast to coast and from border to border
. we are Americans, first last and all of the time.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
DEFENSE BOOKS IN DEMAND

Chicago.-Public libraries, especial
ly some located in defense industry
centers, are experiencing increased
demands for books relating to natl
onal defense and the specific skills
required in strategic industries, the
international City Managers Associ-
alton says. These libraries, the as
sociation said, are devoting a portion
of current revenue to the purchase
of such books. One, the Library AS
sociation of Portland, Ore, said it's
department has received additional
funds for their purchase.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
. COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Adventures in Human Engineer
ing" is what Howard M. Bell might
have called his new book, published
by the American Youth Commission
of the American Council on Educa-
ton. He uses that provocative phrase
in summing up this volume. Actually
he has named it Matching Youth and
Jobs"
"This more descriptive title covers a
report on an Illuminating and con-
structive adventure" in vocational
guidance, vocational preparation and
jobs placement. 1t reflects the findings
of joint fact-finding and demonstra-
tion project by the Youth Commission
and the Employment Service Division
of the Social Security Board. The OBJ
ject of the project was to check up
further on the occupational and edu-
cational needs of American youth, and
to demonstrate methods of meeting
those needs.
That these needs are great is grap-
hically brought out in this book. There
are nearly 100000 young people be-
IWSSH tIlC dSCS VI ll1lCSIl CWCIlly-
four out of work and out of school
today. The Commission finds the ma
jority of them have no definite job
training or experience. Every year
1,75O,OOO more finish or leave school
and start job-hunting.
x x X
The Youth Commissions evidence
seems to show that, of the 100000
out-of-school jobless and of American
youth in general, less than one in
four have had any practical help in
finding out what work fits them best
or in adequate education for work,
let alone any organized aid in finding
jobs.
And yet all these young people
have $4,000 different kinds of jobs to
choose from.
Bell refuses to blame the schools
alone for this deficiency; he puts the
blame on the community as a whole.
While he suggests that the school
may we'll be the logical center for vo
cational guidance, education and even
placement, Bell believes the commu
nifty itself must act comparatively on
the task Of developing such a pro-
gram.
To explore this need and outline
model system, the Youth Commission
and the Employment Service Division
selected for study four cities, st.
Louis, Baltimore, Providence, and
Dallas, and four rural areas in Miss
ouri and Maryland. To make it a
community project and correlate di-
verse elements Of the population,
council was formed, representing the
schools, local employment offices, in
dustry, organized labor, social work
ers, service clubs, the church, and
groups of young people.
X X X
The council once selected, the next
step was a survey Of youth unem-
ployment on the one hand and of
available jobs on the other, accompa-
MED by a continuous campaign of
publicity.
These eighteen month studies in
each Of four key areas serve to illu-
munities seeking to lay the founda-
tions of such system. The book
anayzes the Research Basis of a Pro-
gram--the need of knowing popula-
ton and industrial changes taking
place in the community, the occupa-
tions offering jobs in the community
area, and the needs and nature of the
youth seeking jobs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
BUY UNION FOR CHRISTMAS

WHAT would be more appropriate Than to dedl-
cate the holiday shopping season to the great
cause of the union label? 1t would be most appro-
pirate because by urging Christmas shoppers to
buy only union-made gifts they are also buying
goods that are made in our own factories. In
addition, this indirect boycott of foreign-made
goods will create more jobs for our own citizens
If all Christmas presents that will be purchased
in 1910 were made in America, employment would
be increased and likewise taxation for relief pur-
poses would be reduced to a minimum.
i. NJ. Ornburn
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
WHAT NEXT?
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The first "streamlined" railroad sta
ton, typical of others planned by U.
S. railroads, was recently completed
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
at Lacrosse, Wisconsin. With plate
glass windows, upholstered furniture,
pastel-painted walls and acoustic
ceilings, the new station is as mod
ern as the trains that pass through
it. Forbes Magazine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. MUNITIONS INDUSTRY
. AGAIN REBORN
. A SELLERS MARKET

. A SELLERS MARKET
. WHAT NEXT IN AMERICA?
This is it
What the investors have been wait.
ing for
It is not an infant industry; no1
is it new
Munitions; reborn, as a worldwide
industry
Foreign markets, begging fol-
American production output
Openings now for "Surplus Capt.
tal", amounting to over $40 billions
A sellers market; and governments
to back Investments
Guaranteed returns; and nice cell
ings of profit
"Good Old Times" are with us
again
Nevertheless, there are 5 million
listed unemployed
While in England itself, unemploy-
ment becomes an acute problem
X x x
What goes on, under the shell?
| Just more of the process, which
paused in 1929
In 1880, Moody's listed $1,000 cor
porations-
Largest 200 of these controlled SO
per cent of non-banking assets
They received 43.2 per cent Of ma
tional income
They controlled 3S per cent of all
national wealth.
From 1909 to 1928 the 200 largest
corporations grew by 5.4 per cent
While all corporations averaged in
crease of 2 per cent
Extend that growth for less than
next 40 years
Then those 200 largest corpora
tions, reduced by mergers
Will control ALL wealth Of this
nation
And just what will be done to pre-
vent this?
X X X
In 1900 there were 3O5 profit-seek-
ing corporations
Of these, 219 operated public utili-
ties
They were controlled by stockhold-
ers, who elected directors
These elections were subject to ma
jority stockholders
Today, only II per cent of all cor
porations-
Only 6 per cent of their controlled
wealth.
Are subject to majority vote of
stockholders
One man, J. P. Morgan, controls
STA billion of corporate wealth.
A. T. & T. controls more wealth
than exists in 21 states
It's management perpetuates its
own personnel
Because no one stockholder owns
enough stock to peep
Private capitalism? That is dead
Long live corporocracy!
X X X
This is where we start
Concentration of wealth flows on
centripetal-
Control by management groups anc
| nnanclerS remains
Americas workers love their land
and their "way of life
Americas managers threaten mo.
mentarily to cut wages, lengther
hours
American conscripts stand ready tc
"pay the last tax
American capitalists won't bulge
until guaranteed Security
S. E. G.. may make them keep hon.
est books, now
Income taxes may be adequatel!
levied, against protests
But, when this war is finished, il
ever
When "boom times" are dehatet
again
There will be still more billions o1
Surplus Capital
Looking for investments in Capita
Goods
While Surplus Workers will mount
against by millions
X X X
Did National Socialism come tt
Germany, because somebody wrote {
Book?
Did cooperative control come tt
Italy
Because of some organizations o.
working men?
NO: Capitalism was dead there
or dying
And Corporocracy was able to take
over, in Europe
But, what comes next, IN AMER
ICA?
: WHAT NEXT? q:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12

Demand the Union Label on all your
purchases.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12

. EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
g. DALE FRED SUTTERLIN,
Operatives E. L. WHEATLEY. VIM YOUNG. EDWARD SEYFIER1
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12

Teacher: "What do we call a man
who keeps on talking when people are
no longer interested?"
Pupil: "a teacher"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-12-12
WISDOM
!. Observation-Disclosures.

The highest compact we can make
with our fellows is: "Let there be
truth between us two forever more"
Emerson.
Evening star., 1940-05-10
Capital Store Sales
'4.S Per Cent Above
1899 in April
Four Months Volume
Shows Increase Of
6.4 Per Cent
by EDWARD C. STONE.


Department store sales in Wash.
ington In April averaged 90 per cent
above April, 1899, and sales in the
drst four months of 1910 were 6.4
per cent better than in the like
period last year, the Federal Re-
serve Bank of Richmond announced
today.
Sales in the whole fifth district In
81 stores averaged 2.3 per cent bet
ter than last year and were up 81
per cent in the four month period.
Norfolk reported the best April gain
OF any city in the territory.
On account of all Easter sales
coming in March this year, a fairer
comparison is presented in the
combined sales for March and
April IL. Sales in the Capital in
the two months were ~ per cent
ahead Of the corresponding months
last year. April trade varied lot
in different cities but In the four
months, good sales gains were re-
ported everywhere.
Percentage comparison in fifth
district cities in April and in the
four months with the 1899 periods;
follow:
Evening star., 1940-05-10
Stock Averages .
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.
6o-Stock Range Since 1927:

NEW YORK, May 10.-With the
exception of few war stocks, prices
crumbled in today's market as Wall
Street attempted unsuccessfully to
figure the effects on domestic in
dustry Of Germans surprising over
night smash at the neutral Low
Countries of Europe.
It was one of the speediest ses-
sions since the outbreak of hostili-
ties last September, with the ticker
tape occasionally as much as five
minutes late. Losses ranged from
l to more than points at the
worst, although recoveries were in
evidence here and there at the
close. Transfers were in the neigh
borhood Of 1000, 900 shares, despite
slowdowns after midday.
Steels, aircrafts, coppers and sug-
ars bounded up at the start, while
rubbers, rails, utilities, oils and a
variety Of peace-time specialties
sank rapidly. The early climbers
were subsequently thrown for de-
clines, but several managed to revive
at the last and finish with modest
plus signs.
The stock exchange had its largest
attendance of members since last
fall, with crowds swarming around
the steel posts throughout. In the
morning frequent bursts of cheering
accompanied jumps of a point or so
in favorites. Scattered groans were
heard when quotations began to give
ground.
Prominent stocks on the relapse
were United States Rubber COM
mon and preferred, Chrysler, Gen.
eral Motors. Sears Roebuck, WOOL
worth, Douglas Aircraft, American
A1rlines, United Aircraft, Westing.
house, Standard Oil of New JERSEY.
Western Union, Consolidated Edi.
son, Santa Fe, Great Northern,
Southern Railway, Loft, Interna-
tional Paper, Allied Chemical and
Eastman Kodak.
Resistance was exhibited by United
States Steel, Bethlehem, Republic
Steel. Boeing, Anaconda, Phelps
Dodge, South Puerto Rico Sugar,
Fajardo Sugar and Baldwin Loco
motive. ,---.
Evening star., 1940-05-10
Washington Exchange

SALES-AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas Light common-2o
at 27.
Evening star., 1940-05-10
| Net of Bendix
Aviation Corn.
up Sharply
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. May 10.-Bendix Avia-
ton Corp. and subsidiaries reported
today for the quarter ended March
81, 1910, net income of $1,933,s8o.
equal to 90 cents a share on the
capital stock and comparing with
81 ,023 1896, or 49 cents a share, tn
the like 1889 quarter.
Evening star., 1940-05-10

put IN the nrSt
quarter was up
40 per cent and
It o tai revenues
kwere up nearly
. per cent.
I President E. l..
sShea states that
the operating
companies of
sthe North Amer
hcan System are
snow bringing 10
tper cent m or e
se ! e c tr icity to
sconsumers than
It he national
Evening star., 1940-05-10

\ Output Up 10 Per Cent.
i Printed copies of the North Amer
lean Co.'S quarterly letter just re-
Iceived here show that electric out
Evening star., 1940-05-10

4 Continued On Page A-N.)
Evening star., 1940-05-10
New York Bar Silver

NEW YORK, May 10 R.-Bar
silver, 34x, unchanged.