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Evening star., 1940-04-10
Ford Says $70O Auto
Made by Hand Would
Cost About $1,000
Z Monopoly Group Told
Machines Make Jobs
And Good Wages
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Edsel Ford told the Monopoly
Committee today that the cost Of
a popular-priced automobile, now
selling for about $706, would in
crease to more than $4,000 If
manufactured by hand labor in
stead of by huge labor-saving ma
chimes.
The president of the Ford Motor
Co. testified as an expert witness
at hearings dealing with technology
and the concentration of economic
power"
At the cost of $1,000, Mr.. Ford
said, mot more than SO cars year
would be sold," and few of the 1885,
600 men employed at Ford plants
would have jobs.
The motor industry leader offered
his opinions on labor serving and
labor saving machinery" in a pre-
pared set of answers to questions
by the monopoly study group.
Three million men are normally
employed in making, selling and
servicing cars, because with machin-
cry, cars can be produced at prices
people can pay" Mr.. Ford said.
"And that. in turn, creates jobs at
wages that enable people to buy.
The cars, the jobs, the wages would
not be there, were 1t not for
machinery"
Technological Unemployment.
The automobile manufacturer ac-
knowledged that manufacturing
costs are constantly cut by taking
certain men of certain jobs because
better machines have made those
men unnecessary on those particular
jobs"
But that does not mean that the
total number of jobs has been per-
manently decreased" Mr.. Ford said.
and then cited statistics from his
plants to show that cutting costs
enables the company to put more in
the car, and 1t takes more men to
put it there"
Mr.. Ford said he thought patent
rights can be used or misused"
However, If Congress were consid-
ering modifying the present exclu-
sive rights Of patents, he declared
it should not overlook the incentive
given to thought and work and de-
velopment by the possible compen-
sating returns from proper use Of
patent rights"
Kettering Sees Hope.
Charles F. Kettering, vice presi-
dent and research director f6r Cen
eral Motors Corp, told the Monopo-
" Committee yesterday that the
Nation had become too gloomy"
about the future. He suggested that
inventors and new industries be
given a free hand in solving the
unemployment problem.
Senator OMahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming pointed out that an up
surge of employment had resulted
from development of the railroad,
the automobile, the radio and other
new industries, and asked what
might take their places.
Mr. Kettering said that no one
could be certain, but that a new
type of Diesel locomotive engine
might revive railroads, and that
housing construction, and especially
air-conditioning, promised great de-
velopment.
'It takes an industry from 10 to
IS years to become an important
factor" he added.
In the automotive field, he said,
he was confident that the next 10
years would see greater improve
ments than the past decade, with
engineers and inventors hard at
work on ''fuel and motors as the
No. problem"
Evening star., 1940-04-10
Boys Club Workers
Spurred by Appeal
From Member, 10
If Donors Could Stoy
At Camp, Funds Would
Come Easy, He Feels

A 10-year-old boys appeal for the
continuance of the Police Boys
Clubs today spurred the 625 cam
paign workers in their drive to raise
$4,000, less than so per cent of
which had been pledged up till noon
yesterday.
The letter, written by E. Brian
Thorpe of 78 I street NV. and ad-
dressed to Police Supt. Ernest w.
Brown, was read at the third report
luncheon held yesterday in the
Cosmos Club.
At that time $36,848 had been
pledged by the various units. The
drive is scheduled to close at noon
Monday, although campaign officials
stated they would extend the dead
line if the quota is not reached. An
other report luncheon will be held
Friday.
Yesterdays meeting of the volun-
tary solicitation group revealed 33
per cent of its quota of $50, 1000 had
been reached
Letter From Member.
Young Thorpe's letter, read by Po-
liceman John Ryan OF the ninth
precinct. follows:
II hope you get all the money you
need in your campaign. I have read
about it in the newspapers and also
on the screen at the movies.
'If all the ladies and gentlemen
who are helping to get the money
could stay at your camp and have
a good time like I did last summer
they would get all the money you
have to have quick.
Il had a fine time at your camp.
We went swimming, played baseball
and other games. We went fishing
and sailing, too. The food was great
and we got all we could eat. Oh,
boy, it was good. I gained five
pounds.
The Head Man Was Nice.
|
'The head man, Sergt. Binswan-
ger, and the counselors were very
nice to me and all the other boys,
too
will you please let me come to
your camp again this summer. All
the other boys know said they
would like to come again, too We
all hope the ladies and gentlemen of
Washington will give you the money
you need.
please thank every one of them
because all of us boys sure do ap-
preciate it. Thank you, Maj. Brown,
for being so nice to u.s."
The Boys Club maintains five
clubhouses in the District and a
summer camp on the lower Potomac
River.
Any amount of effort on the part
of Washingtonians is well worth the
time spent. Mr.. Ryan declared, in
urging the workers to redouble their
efforts to raise the full quota in the
few remaining days.
Group Collects $12,963.
Inspector Edward ]. Kelly, who
heads the police unit of the drive.
reported his group had collected
S12,9 1868 Of their $50 900 quota at noon
yesterday and that they expected to
60 over that amount before Monday.
Reports showing substantial in.
creases were read by Team Chair
men Bruce r. Allen, Thomas N,
Beavers. Edmund o. Carl, Will l.
Gates, w. Herbert Gill, Randall
Hagner, jr.; Samuel Mooers, Col. E.
G. Bliss, F. P. H. Siddons and Mar
tin r. West. This group had re-
ceived pledges totaling $16,333.22. !,
Entertainment at the luncheon
was provided by the Washington
Junior Chamber of Commerce Quar-
tet and the Hi-Hat Royal Hawaiians
Evening star., 1940-04-10
Weather Report

BY h weather
District CombiaFa continued tonight: minimum
about 40 increasing codness
followed night gentle variable tonight becoming
moderate south
Maryland VignaFr tonight increasing coudi
night
afternoon.
RS in extreme west portion late tonight.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Noted
British Actress, Dies at IS
Stage Career Since
1888 Carried Her
Around World

by the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 10.-The death Of
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, noted actress
of the stage and screen, at Pau
France, was announced today. The
British-born actress was IS years
old.
Mrs. Campbell, almost as equally
famed as wit as she was ar
actress, made her professional stage
debut in 1888, launching a career
which carried her around the wor!c
in some of the theater's greatest
roles.
She toured the United States sew
eral times and in 1884 went to Holly.
wood, where she made severa
movies.
"100-Proof Temperament"
When Mrs. Campbell came to tht
United States in 1901 to play hel
repertory, her American producer
George c. Tyler, said, "She was tht
first really temperamental actres.
I've ever run into, and her Ions
suit was in making strong impres'
sions on people"
"She had 100-proof temperament,
he said, "but it was so interviewer
with a grand sense of humor anc
an outstanding charm that you
laughed at instead of trying te
strangle her."
In her most popular repertory in
this country-Sundermann's play
"Magda," Pinero's 1.-THE Second Mrs
Tanqueray" and a play called 'The
Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith," she was
the first touring star after Sir Henry
Irving and Ellen Terry to get a So
top admission.
William A. Brady told her she was
foolish to charge such prices, but
she made fortune at, it. Later he
told. her the only reason she got
away with it was because she called
herself "Mrs. Pat"
Fashion Plate of Actresses.
In those days, when she came
over, she was the fashion plate OF
actresses. Women rushed to her
shows to see the styles she brought
over from Paris.
Once, on her arrival, she an
nounced she had most magnificent
Paris, wardrobe assembled from the
new collections. Her feminine ad-
mirers were agog to see it.
Then she announced she would
do a production called Beyond HUI
man Power" It was q quiet play
In which she remained IN bed the
entire time.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
German Form Lund Cut

Germany's total of arabic land
has been decreased by airports,
| Notifications, new industrial areas
and new motor highways.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
Report for Last 48 Hours.

Record for Last - Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Highest. 81. 2 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. S2
Lowest, 40 6:10 am. today. Year
AGO. 45.
Record Temperatures This Year.
HIGHEST, IS, on April T.
Lowest, T. on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Heurs.
Wrcm noon yesterday to noon todayO
HiShest, 76 per cent. at $40 am. today
Lowest. 40 per cent. at noon today.
Tide Tables.
fturniShed BY United States Coast and
0eodetic Survey
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
r. r. Retirement
Benefits Total
SlO6,S4l,632 in 1899

Observation-Disclosures
benefits under the railroad retirement
act during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1889 amounted to $106,841 ,632, &C
cording to the railroad retirement
boards annual report to congress.
The 1889 payments, which were
29qo higher than in the previous fis-
cal year, brought the total payments
under the act to 1894, 440,151.
The benefits were paid to 1880
individuals of whom 100000 were en-
ploye annuitants, 48,700 of whom were
transferred from private pension rolls
of the railroads, 10000 of whom were
death beneficiaries and 1890 of whom
were survivor annuitants.
The average monthly payments of
all pensions certified was 1871 while
average lump-sum death benefit pay
ments increased from $527O in 1888
to $S6.0S in 1889.
Railroad workers are not covered
by the social security act. Instead
they receive old age pensions and sim
liar benefits under the railroad retire.
ment act, passed in 1885, and the rail-
road unemployment insurance act,
passed in 1888.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
Unemployment and
Relief Increase With
Industrial Slump

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Industrial
activity trade and employment during
January slumped from their, high lev
els of December to create a substan.
TALLY greater than seasonal increase
in unemployment and relief needs, F.
q. Harrington commissioner of work
projects, announced here on the basis
| OF a review of relief and economic
conditions throughout the nation.
The premature "war BOOM" initi-
ated in September and fed by expec-
tations of large foreign orders to be
placed in this country, as well as
by the fear of price advances and the
desire to build up inventories, came
to an end with 1889, Harrington said.
Production, construction and trade
declined in January. Coupled with
seasonal influences and abnormally
small employment in agriculture, there
was resultant rise of over 1000 900
in the estimate of general unemploy-
ment during the month. The total, he
added, Appropriated the high unem-
ployment level reached during the
summer of 1899.
WPA project employment was ex-
banded during January to absorb
part of the need caused by this in
unemployment, Harrington
said. The number on WPA rolls adj
yanced from 2,152,0O0 at the end of
December to 2,265,0OO as of January
81. This was more than 100000 below
the number employed a year ago but
about half million greater than
at the end of September 1889. Total
federal expenditures on the program
IN January were 1922, 100000.
There is normally a substantial de-
cline in non-agricultural employment |
Turing January, he continued, as
hose hired for the Christmas rush |
n retail trade are laid off and as
and other types of indus
ry slacken. The reductions this year,
however, were greater than usual.
Among the important changes were
he loss of some 100000 jobs in re-
all trade, approximately 100000 in
and an equal number
n construction.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20

and gatherings of students in the
schools of the cities he has visited,
and great interest has been evidenced
by the students in his discussions of
chronological advancement and its eff
feet on our social and economic struc-
ture.
Mr.. Hockey speaks at the Antlers
theater, Helena, Friday night, March
% and in Missoula, March "a
The recent passing of the industrial
peak of production of 1929, which we
have been told by the economists, these
many years, would bounce us back
into eternal prosperity, has come and
ployment that seems such a paradox
in this land of plenty Technocracy
was laughed out of the press when
it predicted several years ago that
when we reached the 1929 level of pro-
duction we would still have more than
half our unemployed still with us.
The study of facts and more facts,
scientifically correlated will convince
any fair minded person that there is
no other way out of our present diff
ficulties. Eventually we will have to
follow this method why not avoid
the tragic suffering entailed by bun
Cling along the road of opinionism
Amid the weller of cries to follow
right; to follow left; come with me-
go with him; this-a ism, that-a'ism, it
IS indeed refreshing to strike the
cool, clear facts of the scientific ap-
)roach, which Technocracy makes to
and social questions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
Labor Broadens
Continued From Page one)

Continued From Page One)
than 100000, come two more hardbit-
ten pamphlets Both are published by
the Hollywood Peace Forum, 6912 Sun
set Blvd. Hollywood Cal, and sell for
nickel each.
One is Lets Skip the Next War
(And Win a Free House and Lott"
by Guy Endore Pointing out that the
last war cost more than S25O,000,000
every day for four years, and 21,000,-
900 deaths of troops and civilians, En-
dore shows that the money spent for
killing could have bought house and
five acres of land for every family in
the u S., Canada, Australia, Great
Britain, France, Germany and Russia.
"And that tint ALL" the author con-
tinues Every city of over 100000
population in all those countries could
have had S1O0OO,000 university COM
plete with laboratories, dormitories
and instructors, a beautiful s5,000,000
library, and in addition hospitals, play
grounds and nurses, teachers and SUI
pervisors, all paid for.
well, that's what we didn't get
What we did get was funerali Let's
skip the next war and ask for our
free house and farm Let's
sit out this new world funeral-and
yell like hell for our free houses and
lots"
The other pamphlet is Chamber
lain, Count Us Quit" by Douglas
Greenwood, an Englishman who is
soon to become an American citizen.
In an open letter to Prime Minister
Chamberlain, he portrays Chamberlain
as the spokesman for the propertied
classes of England, who has spon-
sored law after law to deprive the
English people of their rights; who
on the eve of war, refused railwaymen
a $3.50 weekly minimum, and now adj
vises these lucky inheritors of Brit
ish freedom of the spirit that they
must tighten their belts-if they have
not already pawned their belts"
In a second letter to Americans,
Greenwood comments that Chamber
lain hasn't mentioned "the word De
this time in stating Eng
lands war aims He is sensitive
enough to know that in his mouth
it stinks little at the edges"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
LUST TO BEHOLD MISERY

Ives, they did, all of it. So | asked
them if they thought God was smarter
than they We're. Well they com
menced to see that they were in a hole
and they got uncomfortable and
started to twist and squirm and got
up and said they guessed they had
better go home as it was getting late.
But | saw that | had them on the
run so | stuck with them on my ques-
ton and demanded they answer if
they thought God was smarter than
they were. Well they looked at each
other and got red in the face and
shifted from one foot to the other and
coughed into their handkerchiefs and
cleared their throat and said Eyes"
they guessed God had the edge on
them a little bit when it came to
Intelligence. So l said | guess if God
and the preacher was right then |
would just take it easy like because
there wasn't a bit of use in trying
to buck God and get in bad with Him
too. 1t was bad enough to have your
relatives ON your trail.
After | found that | could put the
run on my relatives I got so | was
hard to get along with and every time
they came in the house I would start
shooting embarrassing questions at
them until they got so they wouldn't
insult me right to my face, but would
just walk around kind of sorrowful
like and shake their heads and click
their tongues as much as to say, ''Too
bad, too bad. How much better they
would be if they were dead instead
of living in abject misery"
1 know that it has always been
satisfaction to these people to enter
my hole-in-the-wall. 1t satisfies some
sort of a lust they have to look upon
people that are miserable And the
more miserable the people are the
more satisfaction they get out of it.
The lust for poverty intrigues them.
Poverty to these people is like heady |
wine to a drinker | know how well |
they love to walk around and look a.
Ill of the shabbiness with a look of |
sorrow and disbelief when they know
hat they are merely satisfying long
ng to see some of their own kind
on the ragged edge of star
Tation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
WHAT'S WHAT?

lrector Herbert Hoover, that the fund
with Russia is over Browns state
ment follows, With the contribution
today of S320.50 from the Moose lodge
at Great Falls and $500 from the Fifth
grade children at Shelby there is no
question but what Montana is going
to keep on helping these people.
Everyone knows what terrible condi-
tions they will be under now that they
are in subsection to the Bolshevists.
With our fund being administered ma
tionally by a man like Herbert Hoover
the Montana organization will be kept
intact and continue its work."
If Finland is under the domination
of Russia why send any more money
over there. Let Russia foot the bills
She has lots of wealth in her country
and a few million more people would
MT make a bit of difference to her
There isn't any good reason that can
see for pouring more money into Fin
land letting Russia gobble it up.
These articles in the kept press just
don't make sense somehow. They keep
contradicting themselves. First, we
are told that Finland is a democracy
and should be protected by other de-
mocracy loving nations And the next
article says she is under the subjec-
tion of Russia. Then we have another
here in great big type "Mannerheim
to be a virtual dictator under Finnish
plan" So why collect the pennies
from the kids and cut the relief of
the already starving people of this
country to donate it to an organization
that doesn't seem to know who is boss
in Finland-whether it is Stain or
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
Wire-Tapping-

Continued From Page One)
ture of the charge on which he is
being arrested and detained
"Some police have used the process
of Interrogation to entrap suspected
persons. Some have exercised UNI
authorized power to grill such per.
sons.
"Some have abused the power OF
arrest in order to question the ar
rested person on matters entirely diff
ferent from those contained in the
charge on which the arrest was based.
"Some have used grand jury sub
penas to trap witnesses into star-cham-
Der inquisitions by detectives operat-
ing in their own quarters, free from
restraints which would be required by
due process in a grand jury proceed
ing.
Some police have inflamed public
opinion against arrested persons, in
advance of their trial and sometimes
even in advance of their indictments,
by statements against them as Grim
inals and by publication of rogue's-
gallery photographs of the accused
bearing criminal Identification num-
bers.
Some police have abused arrested
persons by unwarranted claiming and
other degrading and third degree
Quoted in the report is a part of
Norris letter to Attorney General Rob-
ert II. Jackson asking for an investi-
CATION of the FBPs conduct in the ar
rest of Spanish loyalist sympathisers
in Detroit.
Shortly before the report was is
sued, Norris wrote second letter to
Jackson asking him to press inquiry
Of the FBI's conduct further. Norris
contended that the inquiry Jackson
made was "one-sided" and that 1t
should be pressed
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
BAR ASSN. WARNS
| AGAINST MENACE
TO CIVIL RIGHTS

| NEW YORK.-(FP)-The legal pro
fession and the general public were
warned to be ION their guard" against
violations OF civil liberties in state
ment issued March 1 by the American
Bar Assn. committee on the Bill OF
Rights
The committee has made a several
months survey of violence against
labor organizations and communists,
noting in particular the recent out
breaks in San Antonio, Tex, Aber-
deem, Wash, and Detroit, Mich.
"All tendencies to violate civil rights
should be equally discountenanced at
all times, but especially in the present
critical period" the statement said
illegal violence in any circumstances,
even against activities deemed subver-
sive, cannot be justified upon grounds
of supposed necessity.
at is vital to liberty that the most
unpopular be given the opportunity
to speak. When we deny this right,
especially by violence, we are using
the very methods of dictatorship and
tyranny that we abhor."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
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