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ness to speed. But now We are
about through.
Government Ownership Fantastic.

HcSS W SpcCOs out AOW VIC 9Ic
about through.
Government Ownership Fantastic.
With these democratic and Judi
cial approaches to the job, 1t has
been hard for those critics who have
no personal interests to serve to
find any other fault than the delay
which was due to our judicial OBJ
servance Of the mandates of Con-
gress. Even critics who have an ak
to grind in protest against having
any minimum prices, who think they
can make more money without them
because of their special situation,
have been hard put to it to find
fault. Faced with that difficulty,
they have invented story-and I
doubt whether they believe 1t them
selves-that this act will lead to
Government ownership of the mines
I have never heard anything quite
so fantastic In my life. This is a
bugaboo raised to frighten the un-
informed businessman, in my opin-
ion. There has never been any
serious thought Of Government own
ership in the country since 1922, Is
years ago. Only If Government, in
dustry and labor fail to bring relief
to this industry; only If it again
hopelessly starves at bankruptcy
prices, will there ever be any danger
that industry or labor or Govern
ment will revive this sort of talk.
Barring this calamity, talk Of Gov
ernment ownership is out Of the
picture, and never was in it. I am
against that and will always be
against it.
Nothing is in the picture except
cementing a foundation under the
industry so 1t doesn't 60 bankrupt
again and repeat the process con-
tinuously. There will be nothing
else in it until the minimum prices
have been in effect long enough for
Congress and the industry to decide
whether or not the job Of helping
and saving the industry can be done
In this way. I think the industry
will never be content until this
method Of preventing hardship has
been given a good honest tryout.
1t will certainly never agree on any
thing else unless it has been proved
by experience that this is not the
best way to- operate. I think prac-
tically all Of the industry will be
glad of the chance to see minimum
prices work. Even those who do not,
for various reasons of their own,
want to see these prices work, would
be wise, believe, to give the rest
OF the industry and the Nation an
opportunity to watch and study the
experience for a while.
do want to add this word: Con-
gress did not give us the Job of
doing anything about retail prices.
So we have nothing to do about
those. We see that the coal sells at
a fair minimum price to the pur-
chaser at the mine. We don't 20
beyond that. Congress did not order
us to 60 beyond that point, nor did
1t allow us to do so even II we
wanted to-nor did we ask to go
beyond that point. We want you
buyers of coal for your stoker, or
furnace or cook stove to remember
that fact after these minimum prices
60 into effect. However, in case any
retailer chooses to raise his uncon-
trolled prices inordinately and at
tempts to lay the blame on the Coal
Division, we do not propose to stand
silently by and take it. And the
consumers counsel has informed me
that he does not propose to stand
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the pressure for starvation wages
will automatically be eased.
We hope that there will be in later
years no need for large national
strikes to hold wages up above the
starvation level. In place of the
coal diggers bankrupting them
selves in strikes, and in place of the
coal producers bankrupting them
selves in the costly and monotonous
business of giving their undershirt
away every time they make a sale
we hope to help create a coal era
without these hardships. While we
are not giving the average producer
minimum prices which give him any
profit at all, we are protecting him
from disaster. We are throwing a
life preserver to him, not a pot of
gold. We are simply clearing the
road for opportunity. When these
prices are in effect it will be up to
the coal industry, just as it is UP to
all other industries, to earn its way
in the world. We are giving the
able producers that opportunity, and
that is, I believe, all they need to
rehabilitate themselves.
A Businessman's Approach.
The job of putting firm land under
one, of our major industries was en-
trusted to the Interior Department
last July. I am proud to have been
chosen by Secretary Ickes to head
up this work as director of the
Bituminous Coal Division. I have
been a businessman all of my life
and have had only a consumers in
terest in coal. I approach this job
from the businessman's point OF
view: Is it sensible? Is it reason
able? Will it accomplish the results
expected Of it?
This soft coal industry puts out
400 100000 tons a year. That's
enough to fill S,O0o,O 900 freight cars
enough to fill up all the freight cars
in the entire country five times
Some of 1t goes by coastwise traffic
up to New York and New England
Some of it goes from Lake Erie
up to Lake Michigan and Lake
Superior. Some Of it goes by river.
Most of 1t goes by rail. It is this
industry which keeps the railroads
going. The whole great industrial
structure of America has been built
up on the shoulders Of this industry
on plentiful and cheap coal. 1t is
the greatest source of energy in the
country and will become even more
Evening star., 1940-04-02
Soft Coal Industry
Gets Price Prop Soon,
Gray Tells Forum
director Of Agency
Forecasts Stability ond
Justice for Mines, Miners

Howard A. Gray, director Of the
Bituminous Coal Division Of the
Interior Department, explained Gov
errment efforts to bring order to
the bituminous industry in an ad-
dress in the Radio Forum of The
Star last night. The program was
broadcast over a coast-to-coast net
work Of the National Broadcast
ing Co.
The text of Mr.. Grays address
follows:
Within a few short weeks the
whole soft-coal industry will have
q foundation under it's feet for
about the first time in It's existence
The minimum prices for coal will
then be in effect.
A few days ago the trial eXamin-
ers who conducted the final hear
ing on these prices began to file
their recommendations with me.
They have already filed their re-
port and recommended prices for
the Rocky Mountain and Far West
ern States and general findings OF
facts for the entire country.
Tonight these examiners are
working hard on the rest of the
prices. These are the rates for
the great Eastern and Midwestern
coal fields, which supply the coal
for the railroads, industries and
homes from the Atlantic seacoast
to the prairies. The very wheels
of our national industry depend
mainly upon this coal for their
power. Very soon now these rail-
roads. industries and home owners
will know what minimum prices
have been recommended for the coal
they buy. The nature of the eX-
aminers' work makes it impossible
for them to count the exact number
Of DAYS it will take them to finish,
but the best estimate they can
make is that all of their recommend
ations should be out of their hands
the end of next week.
Cover 1880 Companies.
There will be about 1000 pages
of these eXamiDers recommended
tions, which will include the rea-
sons for them and the actual price
tables. OF course. no one coal con-
sumer will be concerned with all of
these recommendations. He will be
concerned with that section of the
document which pertains to the
mines from which he buys his coal
These prices will cover all of the
different kinds of coal mined by
13,50O coal companies and sold to
millions of consumers.
Before I make my decision as di-
rector on these prices, and set the
date upon which they will become
effective, interested persons will
have an opportunity to take excep-
tlons to what the examiners have
recommended and tell me what
they want changed When 1 have
heard these arguments on excep-
tions, shall make my decisions as
quickly as possible, issue the prices
and announce the date upon which
they will be effective My determ-
inations are subject to review by
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, and
the interested persons who are not
satisfied with my decision may ap-
peal to him.
The day the minimum prices and
marketing rules and regulations go
into effect should mark an epoch
Evening star., 1940-04-02

in our industrial history. It means
that for the first time the coal pro-
ducers and miners of 26 States,
representing an investment of over
5000 100000 and a million
workers, will have some protection
from the devastation of bankruptcy.
1t means that the little men in in
dustry and business will no longer
be at disadvantage against the
big industrial companies when they
buy coal. What the new levees
and dams which we have been
building at great expense are doing
to protect the people who live along
the Mississippi and its tributaries,
we are doing. by the minimum prices,
to protect the small producers and
miners in the coal industry and the
small businessmen of the whole
Nation.
To Have Price Bedrock.
You remember that early in
March part of the city of Shenan-
doah in Pennsylvania sank down
because of old mine workings that
had taken the solid props out from
under the city. The whole soft
coal industry, in manner of
speaking, has been going down like
that every few years because Of
too many mine workings. And when
it wasn't going down it was ex-
pecting to, which wasn't helpful
to its confidence. Now it Is taking
the old biblical injunction to heart,
not to build your house upon sands
where winds and rain and floods
can destroy it, but to build it upon
the solid rock. They are going to
have minimum prices for a solid
rock foundation. These are prices
without profits for the average pro-
ducer, but they will hold the in
dustry safe from the devastation OF
future earthquakes and bankrupt
cies.
On April l of many, many years
in our recent history, the coal miners
have felt themselves forced to put a
stop to Nation wide wage cutting by
SOlllS VII lldllOlldl SJl inc. 1llCSC
strikes have been caused in large
part by the recurrent bankruptcies
of the industry, by the cutthroat
competition which led to the sale of
coal at starvation prices, way below
COST With these starvation prices
came pressure for starvation
wages. Now that we are on the
point of stopping the process of gen.
eral bankruptcy of the industry
Evening star., 1940-04-02

denly that they will never be raid.
That Is the extreme. For others Of
them 1t actually means that the
management will be more able to
protect their lives by purchasing
and using safety equipment and
materials.
Mine Visit Would Be Convincing.
If all Of you could visit one Of
the thousands Of coal mines Of the
country, go underground with an
acetyline lamp on your miners cap.
or in gassy mines with an electric
light, you would appreciate the quail
ity of the men and the managers
of whom I have just been speaking.
You would appreciate some of the
dangers, some OF the rigors of min
ing the coal for your homes and
factories. You would realize not
only the labor always needed, but
the courage frequently called for on
the part Of both men and man.
ayers. They would speak to you,
on behalf Of these prices, far
stronger words than I have used
today
To the persons who are eager or
impatient to have minimum prices
in effect, want to say that the
trial examiners are working over
time and at top speed to complete
their recommendations But they
cannot cut corners to hasten the job
and risk doing poor one. There is
too much at stake for that. But,
they now have very little left to do
except the mechanical Job of edit
ing the report and making duplicate
copies for distribution. They be-
lieve this will take until the end Of
next week. And let me repeat:
When the examiners have filed their
recommendations with me, shall
do everything within my power to
make minimum prices effective as
soon as possible. But, of course, in
terested persons shall have full OPP
portunity to show me where the eX-
aminers' recommendations should
be changed, and to show Secretary
IckeS where my determinations
should be altered And then the coal
industry and the coal consumers
must have time to familiarize them
selves with these prices before they
60 into effect. But, with all that, it
should not be more than few weeks
before they will become effective.
All I ask. as one public servant
among others who have worked
hard, is that when the minimum
prices are put into effect shortly
and the job of enforcing them be-
gins, you give sympathetic UNDER
standing to the job which Congress
asked us to do for the Nation. 1t
is not only job for the good of the
industry, but a job for the good Of
the Nation.
Evening star., 1940-04-02

silently by and take II, either. We
have no authority to regulate retail
prices, as I have said, but we can
make the facts concerning inordi-
nate increases by retailers known to
the public, so that the responsibility
will rest where It should. The coal
act allows the division to fix maxi
mum prices at the mine when neces-
sary to protect the public interest.
Sees Stability . Reward.
Because what we are doing seems
so reasonable, so sound to me from
my businessman's point Of view, I
feel proud Of being part of this job
Of determining minimum prices for
the coal industry. When I am asked,
as I occasionally am, whether this
law which involves so many hum
dreds of thousands Of prices will
work, I answer that not only do I
believe it will work, but I foresee
as a result an era of stability for a
large part Of the United States
which has needed it badly. I foresee
an end to the conditions which have
led to long, wasteful and bloody
labor disputes. I foresee restora-
ton of confidence on the part OF
the operators in the industry and
the 100000 mine workers, and new
willingness and ability on their part
to buy food from the farmers, and
supplies and manufactured goods
from the people in the cities.
foresee a greater ability on the part
CT many producers to install better
safety equipment to prevent catas-
trophies.
I would be exceedingly remiss II
I did not, at this moment, express
to considerable number of mer
throughout the country who have
worked hard to make this law sue.
cess, our acknowledgment Of Their
cooperative endeavor during the
past long and weary months. Wash.
ington is not the only place in the
country from which men have gone
home from their Offices after mid.
night, and done it again and again
In little mine Offices from the Pacific
to the Susquehanna men have beer
working in closer cooperation thar
ever before in order that this law
might be success. There has beer
new era of teamwork; and team
work, whether on the farm or ir
the mine or factory. produce!
splendid human characteristics. II
brings forth unselfishness. I believe
that the cooperative work of the
coal industry for the past months
has not only been a net gain, but
that 1t will be long time before the
men of the industry will agar
in desperation and self defense
sharpen their knives and 60 fol
each others hides as savagely a.
they have done in the past.
But 1t is not only the men charged
with the responsibility of manage.
ment who have worked and waited
long and patiently for us to meet al
the exacting requirements of Con.
gress and to produce the result:
that are now right ahead of us
within few short weeks of com.
pletion. The men who mine tht
coal, with drill or pick, who tamr
and fire the shots, who load, who
| drive mules or motors along The
underground railways, who art
charged with screening it and pre-.
pairing it-they have been waiting
too. They are expecting this &C
and these prices to stabilize the IN
dustry. For some that means pro
lection against working for week!
without pay and finding out sud
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White embroidery on a dark color.

CROSS-STITCH is combined here
~ with plain running stitches 10
make a smart luncheon cloth that
may be embroidered quickly IN
coarse white embroidery thread.
The material may be broadcloth
or other smooth-fnish cotton. The
color is a deep maroon and the
white design IS very effective on
this background. Deep blue or
green are other fabric colors that
are being used with white embroid-
cry.
This cloth Is made Of two H.
yard lengths Of 36-inch-wide mate
rial Split one piece lengthwise
through the center and join 10 the
sides Of the other piece by ma
chine. The seams are covered by
the rows Of running stitches. You
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do not need a stamping pattern
10 make the cross-stitch design.
Basic coarse open-mesh embroid-
cry canvas over the material;
then follow the design given here
ar the lower left. Repeat the cor
ner Of the design 10 make the -four
corners Of the center square.
NOTE: There are IS en-
broidery stitches illustrated n
Mrs Spears Sewing Book 2; also
several original designs for table
covers; mems ties; mittens; hats;
purses; Baby's bassinet; dolls
wardrobe; five ways 10 mend fab
RIGS. Ask for Book 2, enclosing
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New York.
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That's Strange

"What on earth is the matter
with this shaving-brush?" stormed
the husband. It's as hard as iron
and won't bend at all. 1t was
al right yesterday morning"
ct certainly was all right yes
terday, dear" replied his wife
when I touched UP the paint In
the bathroom II was In splendid
condition"
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HELPFUL SON

The angler was relating a fishing
story TO his neighbors.
Yes" he said, proudly, ST caught
the biggest fish Of my career last
night. II was a bass, and weighed
seven pounds, two ounces"
His small son, who had been lis
tening, Clipped IN: Yes, and daddy
was 50 kind he gave II TO my
kitten"
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Lobster

The waiter was taking the order
Of a pretty girl who was accompa-
MED by a pudgy middle-aged man.
When she did not mention the lob
ster included N the meal she or
dered, he asked: "And how about
the lobster7"
To which the fair lady replied:
"Oh, he can order whatever he
likes"
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Tough on Daddy

Little Winnie had evidently been
thinking hard as she sat On moth
er's knee before the fire. Pres
emily she asked:
Mother, why did you marry
daddy"
Mother looked al her sadly and
sighed:
so you've begun to wonder. too,
have your"
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Out of Sight

Mother-You were a very tidy
boy not TO throw your orange peel
On the floor of the bus. Where did
you put II?
Johnny-In the pocket Of the
man next TO me.
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Natural Flair for IT

Whatever happened to Jones7
You know the chap who let the
grass grow under his feeti"
'+Oh, yes. He's done very wen n
making lawns.
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Any Suggestions

IrGfe Puent-FH teach you to make
lore TO nv daughter, young man.
Suitor-I CiSh yOu icouId, sir. I'm
not making much headluar.
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As She Said II

SIS II true, Miss LoIlop, that
you're going 10 be married soon?"
mo, II isn't. But I'm very
grateful for the rumor."
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:M.JUST .an EN- s
ss7 -, sGssoa ~ 49, IS
81 0-S081 - .z-5ss}y E-s p
Owed for IT

IVY loord, THAT'S nice suit You're q
credit 10 your tailor
No, Tn afraid you're IOrOHg- G3
HOtU q debit 10 M tailor
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In Trade

81 shan't tell you any more
secrets. You gave the last one
away"
81 didn't give II away. I ex-
changed II for another one"
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When man makes money hand
over fist, it's his wife's job to
make fist hand over money.
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To the Fool

The truth is bitter and disagree
able 10 fools; but falsehood Is
sweet and acceptable.-ChrysoS-
tom.
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Nowadays a scandal has to be
really bad TO be good.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-10-03
City Meat Inspector
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mittee from the board of health,
that meat unfit for human con-
sumption was being sold in New
ark, and as result there had
been several cases of ptomaine
poisoning, stomach ailment, and
other diseases directly traceable
to faulty meat. 1t was agreed
that the inspection could prob
ably be decently carried out for
$3O00-although Mayor Wright,
and others present were of the
impression that perhaps it would
take less money.
The defeat of legislation two
years ago which was to provide
for an inspection department,
when a referendum was held,
was directly traceable, accord
ing to the board of health COM
mittee to the fact that the peo-
pie of Newark were not aware
of the actual conditions.
The Scioto Provision company
has a payroll of 5000 per week,
and have been adding men
steadily since they started oper-
ations. Farmers in this COM
munity have a market for $4,000
to $4,000 worth of livestock each
week. The company will be
forced to leave Newark, because
their market is being curtailed
as the city has no meat inspec-
tion, unless inspection is pro-
vided in the immediate future.
Ways and means of providing
the funds to pay an inspector
were discussed. 1t was pointed
out that if the funds could be
raised from some source until
January first, the council could
then appropriate certain
amount to set up an inspection
department for the new year.
An endeavor is being made to
secure funds from private
sources to carry on the work un-
til January first, which would
give the finance committee of
the council, an opportunity to
figure from what source the
the special melting Friday night,
money can be raised.
The legislation presented at
will be considered at the next
regular meeting of the council,
October 7.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-10-03
THE NEWARK LEADER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER g. 1914

Walters will again carry the
Reds to another championship.
Severe left field problem plug
ged by Mike Mccormick and
Vince DiMaggio. Infield will be
more sound than last year, new
pitchers Joe Beggs and Jim Tur-
ner will help the Reds. Fine
catching department with Lom-
bardi and Hershberger.
Brooklyn was the runnerup in
the senior circuit and | picked
them for 4th in April. Here's
what l thought about them:
Brooklyn in fourth place = If
the Dodgers win the pennant it
won't surprise us. If they fin
ish in fourth we won't be sur
prised either. The Dodgers sport
a fine infield and outfield may
shape up as a corker. But Whit
Wyatt, great highlander, has
bad knee. Van Mungo is not in
shape and Hamlin won't win 20
games. Hugh Casey, another
good pitcher, may suffer second
y,ar slump. Phelps, the Dodgers
fire catcher, can't keep his fling
ers away from foul tips.
In the American league De-
tr,it finished first and we pick
ed them for fourth, but who did
MT. Detroit in fourth place =
Tigers have plenty of power in
Greenberg, York, Higgins, Geh-
ringer. They have a good catch
er in Tebbets. Pitching may be
spotty. If Gehringer suffers so
much from his sore back that he
can't play regularly the Tigers
may slide backwards. The
switch of Greenberg to outfield
and York to first base helped
the Tigers no end.
Here's what we said about
Cleveland: Cleveland in second
place. This will be Bob Feller's
and Al Milnar's pitching year.
Great infield. Hemsley will make
a splendid record as catcher
this season Indians have spirit
which will carry them far.
We really hit the nail on the
head talking about the Browns
last spring. st. Louis in sixth
place-Surprise team of majors.
Strong outfield. Alan Strange
will turn in a nice season at
short for the Brownies.
Well, there you are. Some of
the things we predicted came
true, others sounded plenty sill
Is. However, the biggest kick /
got was picking the Yanks to
end third where they really be-
long.