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Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
Assembly

The assembly program, Tuesday
October %, was in charge OF the
girl scouts. Charlotte Everett was
the chairman. Short talks were
given by Betty Russell, and Dor
othy Badur. The subject of their
talks were the origin, development
and duties of the scouts. After
the talks, the scouts sang their
theme song, Scout Hymn"
The last part of the program
was turned over to Billy Bramble,
who called on several members of
the students to give brief talks
concerning the chief school activ-
ities.
Wilma Blendt, spoke about the
Civics class project "electing q
president" A president and vice
president have been nominated to
represent each party in the Civics
class. The girls representing the
conservatives, and the boys the
radicals. Emphasis were made on
every ones cooperation in the gen
eral election. The voting by each
high school student will take place
November 4.
The topic Of the senior supper"
was discussed by Betty Jones. The
menu and the price were explained
so that everyone would know to
tell his friends.
In connection with the Little
Theatre" Sarah E. Wright explain
ed that the 'Dramatics Class" is
giving two plays. The first entit-
led The Glittering Gate, and the
second Rocking Chairs" AS
everyone knows this is the first
year for the "Dramatics Class,
and it is difficult for perfection at
first, but everyone has enjoyed his
work in the play.
The program was closed by
Coach Doerr's urging more boys to
join the Leaders Corps" of which
the main object is to train the
mind and bodies of everyone.
Betty Jones
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31

friend; not long letter but just
a few words of greeting and well
wishing?
Or, if you can interest some
friend today in the reading of q
worthwhile book or to become in.
terested in a new hobby, you will
have succeeded in planting seed
that will bear for you the fruits OF
future joyous experiences.
Happy indeed is he who, at even
ing, can look back upon th05e mo-
ments in which he took time to in
vest a little good in the days life
Rev. Griffith has helped others to live
a more radiant life and he would be GLAD
to help you. Write him concerning youl
difficulty. addressing your letter to Cecil
ton, Md.
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
j. b. NJ. Team on the Way to
Victory


Looks as though Coach Doerr
and the basketball boys are out for
a good seson this year. The meet
ing Monday after school, which Mr..
Doerr called for all boys going out
for basketball, was attended by
approximately thirty-fve boys.
AS Coach stated in his talk to
the boys, spirit is the main re-
qlisite." He also announced some
of the training rules that the boys
would have to abide by, rules that
are essential to a good athlete,
such as: No smoking; regular
hours. Remember, boysl 10
o'clock on week nights and IL on
Fridays and Saturdays. It's for
your own good and for that of the
team.
Smyrna, before, has always been
noted for its good basketball teams
and we feel certain that this year
will be no exception.
With the group of boys and the
coach that we have we're looking
forward to a good season and an
undefeated team! To the ]. B. M.
boys and the new coach, we all say,
Good luck, and more power to
you!"
w. Blendt
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
The General Organization

Soon all G. 0. members are
about to witness the first school
party of the year.
Three seasonal parties are made
possible by the General Organiza-
tion each school year.
For all students who have no in
terest, as yet, in the General Or
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31
MfddIetown Women Form Group

Good Neighbor Tours to the
Other Republics of the American
Continent" will be the subject of
a study group being organized by
the Middletown New Century Club.
Mrs. Henry S. Brady, Jr., Mrs. w
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31

Lewis Fleming, Mrs. Harry B.
Roberts and Mrs. J. B. Cleaver are
organizing the project.
Smyrna times., 1940-10-31

The Scriptures say that Pros
perity is won and wed by gener-
Gus giving.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
RELIEF FROM PUBLIC FUNDS
DECREASE DURING JUNE

Washington, d. c., QLNS). ).-Tele-
graphic reports from 33 states for 106
urban areas show for June, 1910, a
decrease of percent in the number Of
cases receiving general relief from
public funds and decrease of 6 per-
cent in the amount of obligations in
Cured as compared with May, accord
ing to figures made public by the So
cial Security Board.
General relief from public funds in
cludes all state and local relief in cash
and in kind extended to the needy, eX-
cept public assistance to the needy
aged, needy blind, and dependent
children under the Social Security Act,
other public assistance of these spe-
cial types, and aid to veterans under
state and local statutes. 1t does not
include expenditures from public funds
for maternal and child health and well
fare services, cost of disqualification
and burials not paid from general re-
lief funds, institutional care, boarding
home care of children, earnings of per-
sons employed on work projects of the
WPA, loans and subsistence grants
made by the Farm Security Admins
tration, or Federal surplus commodi-
ties. Nor does it include aid granted
by private relief and welfare agencies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
THE FIGHTING IN AFRICA

SIX months ago. when Firms and Russians fought
- in the Arctic forests, the cold was so piercing
that the wounded froze to death in thousands. 1t
seemed then that human endurance had reached
its limit yet companion piece to the epic is be-
ing written today, in blood and suffering, under
the scorching sun of Africa. The struggle for en-
pire is being fought by British and Italian troops
in the pitiless heat of Libya, in the sitting bush
country Of Northern Kenya; and climate is again
the enemy, as it was in Finland. If water fails on
the Libyan desert, fighting men go mad with
thirst; if helmets lost they fall from sun
stroke or blindness; for those who survive, there
is no escape from the heat but death itself.
Militariy the operations in North Africa have
not yet been important, although the British claim
to have inflicted heavy damage upon Italian oil
tanks and other supplies in air raids on Tobruk,
on the Libyan coast. In East Africa, on the other
hand, the Italians have won what appears to be a
considerable success. The British have been forced
out Of Fort Moyale, which guards the entry into
kenya from Ethiopia, after five-day siege con-
Quoted with the help Of tanks, low-hying planes
and artillery.
The pathway for further invasion of Kenya
is long and rough, and the climatic obstacles alone
are enough to daunt any army. But the British
will be wise not to underestimate the qualities of
the Italian Army in East Africa. Whatever their
defects as fighting men may be, the Italian troops
are superb engineers who can do wonders in road
building and bridge-building across difficult coun-
try. Their physical endurance is high, their gen.
eralshp is apt to be more daring and unorthodox
than the British. These are precisely the qualities
required by an East African campaign. They are
qualities that may give the British plenty of
trouble before the campaign is over.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
ORGANIZATION TO AID VICTIMS
OF COTTON PICKING MACHINE

Rosedale, Miss. (LNS).-Believing
that mechanical cotton picking ma
chimes will soon displace hand picking
due to the possible speeding up of all
harvesting in the event of American
involvement in the war, J. D. and Max
Rust of Memphis, inventors of one of
the mechanical pickers, have set up. a
benevolent organization designed to
aid sharecroppers and day farm labor
ers replaced by the machine
The organization will be a non
profit concern intended to aid the re-
habilitation Of farm employees thrown
out of work and to carry on research
and trade schools with a view to find
ing permanent solution to problems
of poverty and unemployment.
The Rusts will finance the founda-
ton by contributing a portion of the
profits of the manufacturing concern.
They hope to interest various organi-
cations in the proposed benevolent or
ganization without seeking contribu-
tions. Social groups are expected to
work with the Rust organization in
the establishment of trade schools and
social research.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
MEMORIAL TO GREAT LEADER

V'lIE late Andrew furuseth, veteran maritime
labor leader, has been honored in a bronze and
granite memorial made for the Sailors Union of
the Pacific. 1t is to be erected in a San Francisco
park.
The memorial is bronze bust three feet high,
the work of Hal Bayard Runyon, San Francisco
artist and sculptor. The bust stands nine
foot granite shaft.
On the granite base is the simple inscription,
ANDREW FuruSeth, 1854, 1888 emancipation Of
seamen. Erected by the Sailors Union of the Pa
cific"
Carved deep into the granite are the words Of
the maritime leader himself, you can put me in
jail, but you cannot give me narrower quarters
than as seaman have always had You cannot
give me coarSer food than | have always eaten.
You cannot make me lonelier than | have always
BEEN
The inscription and FuruSeth'S own words are
fitting tribute to great leader of abor-a leader
whose life and work Will always be an inspiration
to American organized workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
A FREE SPEECH ESSENTIAL

vNIIE American Youth Commission, in urging
that youth organizations should not be sup
pressed simply because they irritate some adults
gave the youth groups some advice which, if heed
ed, would improve their standing in the eyes of
the public.
Pointing out that every adult has had the ex-
perience of being young but that no youth has hac
the experience Of being an adult, the commission
added:
"To compensate so far as possible for this lack
Of experience, all youth organizations should take
special care to avoid outraging the adult com,
munty through conspicuous bad manners and
through gross failure to give a hearing to adult
points of view.
"'This is an elementary rule for any youth or
ganiZation dealing with controversial problems
which is interested in sef-preservation and eff
fectve action"
Advising youth organizations to hear speakers
presenting different points of view, the commission
said:
'lf some Of the points of view upon presenta-
ton seem lacking in intelligence or honesty, they
should nevertheless be heard couIteously, rule
of conduct which may be commended to audiences
of adults well as of youth.
"A willingness to hear more than one view is
essential to the maintenance Of the American ira
dition of free speech
The advice Of the commission, while intended
for youth groups, would be good medicine for any
organization seeking public favor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
FLEXIBLE ACT

president ROOSEVELTS firm stand against
proposals to lengthen the work week in de-
fense industries should put quietus to the clam
OF for abrogating provisions of the wage-hour act
Advocates of such action are either ignorant of
the facts or are deliberately seeking to misead the
public
The wage-hour act is not rigid piece of legis-
lation like the 40-hour week law in France which
is alleged by some to have been partly responsible
for the slowness of the French in rearming from
1886 to 1888 Workers can be employed longer
than the maximum hours set under the act by
payment of time and half and there is no pro-
hibition of more than one shift of workers. With
millions Of workers still idle, two more shifts
could be employed wherever necessary.
Indeed, industralists are already beginning to
urge that the addition of one or more shifts would
be the easiest and quickest means of speeding up
national defense production. No increase of work
hours is required. AS the American Federation of
Labor points out, 'To lengthen hours with 10000
900 unemployed would be to lose our gains and
preserve our unemployment"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
POLL TAX CONDEMNED

TIIE poll tax and its evils are analyzed by SIX
Southern leaders in a pamphlet published by
the American Council on Public Affairs. They dis
cuss the origin of the poll tax how it has dsfran-
chised white voters even more than Negroes, how
it has been used to corrupt elections and frustrate
the peoples needs in legislatures.
Governor Johnson, of Mississippi, is quoted as
summing up the injustice of the poll tax in the
single question, "Why should we refuse man the
right to vote just because he is poor?"
The effect on labor legislation is brought out
by Barry Bingham, publisher of the Louisville
Courer-Journa:
at is easy to understand why the states with
poll tax suffrage have Jagged behind all others in
social legislation. The people who want laws to
protect labor, the tenant farmer, and the bottom
income group from exploitation are seldom the
people who can pay poll tax
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
SHUT OFT

RACK in the Middle Ages they had an ecclesas-
tcal punishment of frghtful severity which
was sometimes inflicted upon wicked kings. The
guilty one was expelled from the social order, and
everybody was forbidden to give him food or fire.
1t brought the proudest monarch to his knees in
short order. But today, unemployment constitutes
a kind of gradual expulsion from the social order.
The man who is out Of Job for while is shut
out of the whole normal give-and-take of our So
ciety. He is no longer doing whatever it was that
he used to do for otherS-make shoes dig coal or
raise food-crops. And nobody is doing for him
what everybody used to do-supply his needs and
his family's needs. The time comes when he is not
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
Window Cleaners Deoth
Brings Award Of $500

San Francisco, Calif-The Califor-
MIA State Federation of Labor an
nounced that through its attorneys
the widow of J. d. Face, window
cleaner killed in fall from the Phe-
Ian Building had been awarded COM
pension totaling $500 by the State
Industrial Accident Commission. The
award was divided into two parts:
$4,000 normal compensation, and ST.
500 penalty for serious and wilful
misconduct by the employer because
of failure to provide a safe place to
work.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
WHAT NEXT?

Development of new metal
known only as "K -42-B" was re-
Gently disclosed by the Westing-
house Electric & Manufacturing
Co. at science symposium in
Pittsburgh. Heated to tempera-
ture of around LOO degrees Fahr-
enheit, bell made of this metal
still retained its ability to ring
with a brilliant tone, while an or
dinary steel bell gave off dull
thud. "This demonstrated that the
new metal retains its elastic quail
tiles even at high temperatures"
it was reported.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
THE PUBLICITY MACHINE
. A MASS PRODUCTION JOB
. DONE BY CLEVER CADETS
. AND CLEVER GADGETEERS

There used to be
There may be still, in potential
One famous public utility publicity
machine
Complete, with public school, pulpit
and newspaper gadgets-
Which in its day was highly geared
to forming public opinion
Congressional investigation put a
muffer on it
Today ordinary men wouldn't know
its street number
Everything which has tried to pinch
hit for that machine
Like Hopson's famous congressional
drive
Has stubbed it's toes on other pub
licity attachments
Where do you suppose they put all
the used parts
Taken out of that machine, after
Congress went through it?
Most of those parts were in the form
of skilled minds
Likely, most of them were carefully
oiled, with good jobs
Filed away, in corporation person
nell
With index catalogue of where to
be found, in case
Being nice fellows, they were easily
remembered
Having to be pretty nifty guys, they
were hard to forget
Also, being very useful publicity
graduates
Most of them were easily attached
to current news channels
Well, SO what?
X X X
In this day and age of machine
tools
One is bit incredulous when mass
production job
Is handed out of a back window
With the remark that it came out of
thin air
That little brides, singing in the
breezes-
Carried tidings of it's origin and de-
sign
To the uniformed minds of the Great
American people
Herded by hundreds into a great
political convention
And just bubbled up the gas pres
sure from the back Counties
So convincingly that the convention
a political stranger
For the presidency of the United
States
On the ticket of the G. 0. P.
You have seen an electric eye
Suddenly light up and throw hand
spring
Just as the beautiful lady stops be-
fore the window
Convincing the lady that she is the
cause of it all
Getting her attention to the contest
of said show window
Well, the method is very convinc-
ing
1t sort of personalities the propa-
ganda-
But it takes clever gadgets, and
more clever gadgeteers--
70 make the electric eye work clear
across a continent
Making one of its puppets snap back
at a tired chairman
Who objected to the disturbance by
Wilkes gallery guests
"Guests!" He'll, we're the people of
the United States
x * x
SO much of this Charlie Mccarthy
stuff is going around
That we instinctively look for the
gifted Mr.. Bergen
Whenever we hear a little guy
springing smart wise-cracks-
So, you may have to forgive the
hard-headed plain citizens
If, while laughing at the cleverness
Of Charlie, and his staging
They decline to lay plans for the
coming battle lines
On the blue prints of Mr.. Bergen's
mechanical suggestions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
WIS DOM

1t is the common fate of the
indolent to see their rights become
a prey to the active. The condi
ton upon which God hath given
liberty to man is eternal vigilance;
which condition if he break, serv-
itude is at once the consequence
of his crime and the punishment
of his guilt.-John Philpot Cur
ran, speech upon the Right of
Election, July 10, 1880.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25

WELCOME in the grocery store, in the coal yard
He has been interdicted from food and fire His
children haven't any shoes to go to school in, so
they drop out of school. The family has been eX-
communicated from the regular world.-Florence
Kerr, Assistant Commissioner, Work Projects Ad-
ministration.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25

Liable employers contributed $50 793, 1856 IA to
the Ohio Unemployment compensation trust fund
during the first six months of 1910 The balance
available in the fund for the payment of benefits
at the end of June totaled $14S, ,397, ,7722 %
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25

Bureau Of Unemployment Compensation sta
tiStcs show that Ohio, with an average payment
OF SlO6.S2 against a national average of SS424
was first among the forty-eight states and three
territories in total annual average benefits paid
to unemployed workers in 1889.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25

Men between the ages of IS and 35
years can work, study and play while
earning a comfortable living in the u.
S. Army. Local post Offices through
out the country can supply information
concerning how to enlist.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
SUMMER DRIVING HAZARDS

(FrOm tne Express messenger halfway Express
Agency, Inc)
A T no time of the year are extreme alertness and
care in operating motor vehicles vital as
they are right now. Youngsters may romp on
streets and highways and without warning dash
in front of approaching trucks and cars. Their
elders are likewise often thoughtess at crossings.
and oblivious Of passing motor traffic and traffic
lights.
One can never tell when pedestrian may, be-
cause of hurry or preoccupaton, place himself in
jeopardy. The fact that the driver may not be
solely responsible for serious happening does not
remove the tragic character of the result. If he
realizes the hazards that prevail he will be ready
to act at just the right time and thus avoid mis-
haps that sometimes lead to nuries and fatalities
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25

Business barometers are we'll up,
largely IN anticipation of the orders
the armament program should soon
give industry. SO far, appropriations,
or pending, for military
purposes have passed the $10,000,000,-
900 mark, and will no doubt go much
higher The navy is to be increased
by 70 per cent, to give us two-ocean
fleet infinitely superior to anything the
world has ever seen before. The army
is to be mechanized to the limit. For
years to come, we are to be on a war
economy basis.
1t is highly doubtful if the securi-
ties markets will long follow the
rising production index. Reason:
profits will be severely limited. There
is general sentiment in opposition to
making war milionaires this time The
tax burden the program will neces-
sarlly impose will be almost incredible.
The new taxes passed this year are
but modest start. We haven't seen
anything yet, for we are starting a
defense program under the handicap
of a $45,OOO,0OO 900 peacetime Federal
debt, which far exceeds our World
War debt.
Evening star., 1940-06-13
All Troops Now Are Removed
From Metropolis, Berlin
Is Reported Informed
BY the Associated Press.

Supported by American-made bombers Gen. Maxine
Weygands French polus hurled the Germans back 5
mles north OF Paris today French military spokesman
said, and the Allied line reported holding elsewhere
under the onslaught of 100 Nazi divisions.
With the beeaguered French capital now declared an
open cy'-technicaly inviolate against bombing and
shellng-a French spokesman said the French have no
intention of fighting in the streets of Paris itself.
Battle-weary polus holding subbornly all along
the 200me line the spokesman said despite the fact that
many of them have not been relieved since Hitler launched
his massive offensive from the Somme on June s.
Gen. Weygands deep "quickand" system tank traps
available
question withstand the determna
ton defense point regardless Of the
and material
Nazs Declared Paying High Price
French dispatches repeatedly emphasize that Hiter
paying dearly for mile of gained
high price 1t this basis that the Allies pin hopes
tualy stemmng the Nazi tide
French spokesman admitted however that the situation
everywhere along the north front is serious,
simultaneously the German high command reported
pairing broadcast surrender be destroyed umatum
beautiful French capital.
spokesman said troops only
far from the heart of Paris zlendo is from the center Of
Berlin. zehendorf is Berlin suburb about miles
The French however said the nearest German soldiers were
now IS miles capital
ing the last ditch defenders of Paris from three sides Berlin
the fate OF Paris would probably be decided within the
few hours"
The Naz high said operations along the entire
progressing rapidly that columns OF the main German
had Chaons about 25
miles south of the great French cathedral city of Rems The
asserted Res had already fallen The French denied it.
Turkey Reaffrms Pledge to Allies.
conflict spreading Turkey reafirmed
her pledges of mutual military assistance to the Allies and dis
Mussons offer respect her neutrality
worthless"
of troops tanks and
guns defenders Paris Premier
Rynaud of France dramatically announced that the French
would withdraw to their African their
the against Germany.
Premier declaration of Frances resolve to
fight of France sencluded appeal
for public statement that the United
give the Allies expedonary force
help before it is too late
Italys the still remained practically ofstage.