davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
SPREADING DEFENSE WORK

THAT defense production is spread throughout
the country and not concentrated in few in
duStrlal areas OF among handful of large COM
panies as some led to believe is we'll illustrated
monthly magazine GM FOLKS stating that II
plants alone, of the more than 35 Corporation
plants doing defense work, buy materials from
nearly 200 communities, large and small, scattered
through Fl states.
But even this canvass of just few of the Cen
eral Motors defense plants included only those
communities where they make direct purchases.
II the raw materials that go into the parts and
supplies purchased by these II plants could be
traced back to their original sOurces-going back
to the mines, the farms and the forests--it would
be found that the work of men and women in many
times 200 communities, located in every section of
the country, is involved.
at is customary with many of us in listing
General Motors defense assignments to think of
the Allison alrplane engine as something made in
Indianapolis, for example, shells something
made in Lansing, machine guns in Flint, Saginaw,
Syracuse and Dayton and so on down the line, y
the article states. THAT of course, does not tell
the full story.
A few examples in the report suggests how the
roots of defense work reach far beyond the Corpo-
ration's own immediate organization:
One G.. NJ division buys materials and
semi-finlshed parts from suppers scattered
through 20 states and as far west as California
Another division buys 1000 defense parts from
S3 suppliers which, together with 81 suppliers Of
materials, are located in 10 states.
A third division draws on so small machine
shops for supplies. The average employment Of
these shops is 70.
All kinds of cOmmunities-largc and small,
some at industrial ccnterS and many at widely sep
arated pOntS--are feeding parts, supplies and
equipment to manufacturers for defense. Thus,
the important work in which every American has
personal interest is shared by great army of
workers throughout our entire land.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
! COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
.s.ss......s.s+*s.....4a...s...s....x...s...s

Trade unionists from Germany and
Nazi-occupied nations, now living in
Great Britain, are setting up their own
union organizations, in collaboration
with the International Federation of
Trade Unions and the British Trades
Union Congress.
1t is proposed to form separate
national groups for workers from
France, Belgium, Poland, Austria,
Czechoslovakia and Germany, the l..
F. T. U. reports. French and Belgian
groups have started organization and
the Germans have followed. The Ger
mans action is seen as particularly
significant, lining up democratic Ger
man trade unionists with their fellow
workers in other nations in military
opposition to the Nazi tyranny.
Germans attitude is revealed in a
manifesto published in their journal,
"Die Arbeit" Labor). The manifesto
says:
"In the face of Nazi and Fascist
boasting, the publication of our jour
nal at this moment is the clearest
token of the living power of inter-
national solidarity and of the un-
shakable resolve of all workers to
carry on the fight that has been forced
upon them, until the Nazi dictatorship
and the forces which have allied them
selves to it are finally defeated"
The heel of the Nazi crushes the
cooperative movement just as it
tramples on every other free and dem
ocratic institution in countries under
Nazi domination, the Cooperative
News Service comments. Even the CO.
operators remaining in Hitler's own
land are now being pillaged by the
Nazi bosses.
This is not anti-Nazi propaganda:
the news comes from the Nazis them
selves, in the official German news
service, as follows:
"Berlin, March Property of the
cooperative societies has been trans
ferred to the German Labor Front by
decree published on Feb. 2S.
Centres of distribution are to be
COuNeIIcu lHIO IcCdll SIlolS anu tui hSN
over to private ownership.
GAS distribution branches are to be
given mainly to men who fought at
the front, these changes will take
place on the whole only after the
war"
Out of their own mouths the Nazls
are revealed in their true colors: not
only for their pillage of other peo-
ple's property, but also for their
hatred of any popular cooperative or
ganization. The cooperative shops
and property they seize are to be turn
ed over to the opponents of cooper
alton.
X X X
AS serious as any danger from out
side enemies is the challenge on our
own economic and social fronts. I'm
less we can provide more secure and
more adequate incomes for every
body than they have had in recent de
cades, no guns or ships or planes can
give the nation effective total" de-
fense. Widespread poverty in land
of potential plenty is pistol pointed
at the country's heart.-From "De-
fens and the Consumer" by the In
| stitute for Consumer Education.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
WHAT'S AHEAD OF AMERICA?

a POWERFUL group Of BUSINESS men attended
meetings in Washington at the turn of the
present month. They were about as far apart in
opinions expressed by speakers as Town Meetings
on the radio. But these business men left nc
doubt but what they are standing solidly back of
the National Administration. While many of them
are not in complete agreement about the limits
to which the President should go, or extreme
measures by Congress; particularly about cngag-
ing in future fighting, there nevertheless was
enough unity in the annual gathering of the
Chamber to suit either Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr.. Will
is going out on the end of the limb"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
Higher Wage Rate Won
By AFL Cement Workers

Philadelphia, Pa.-Samuel Diskan,
vice president of the AFL United Ce
ment, Lime and Gypsum Workers In
ternational Union, announced that an
agreement raising basic wage rates
from 81 cents to 65 cents an hour had
been signed by the union and the Le
high Portland Cement Co. and the
Alpha Portland Cement Co., operating
in the Lehigh Valley.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR.. MODESTUS
. THINGS CAN BE DONE
. WHEN WAR is NEAR
. DEMOCRACY MUST WORK
. ITO SAVE THE SYSTEM

They can do it
When war comes with it's imper-
atives-
Anything can be done, when guns
begin to talk
Men can be put at work, given COM
Portable living
Even provisions for old-age, child
rem, helpless
Unions can be recognized, with col
lective bargaining
Whatever is necessary for national
unity, is possible
When war looks in at the windows
X X X
But in peace time
These things are too expensive
Permanent unemployment, s'is no
part of the problem of Industry
Not in peace time, when there are
dividends to be paid
When the right to hire, and to fire
is inviolable-
When private property in what the
nation must use
Is to be safeguarded from every
assault of radicals
Then, general welfare is too ideal
istic.
But did you ever hear the like
Of the Navy standing up for Or
ganized labor?
Of the Army objecting to anti-strike
legislation?
Of great industrial leaders cheating
the gun" in labor disputes?
When Tom Girdler, Americas S
typical industrial Hitler
Takes the inside track away from
U. S. Steel
In making union agreements, meet
ing union demands
1t looks as though the Thyssen
lesson had struck home
X x x
War is like a great churn--
In churns, the best comes to the
top
Europe is close enough, 5000 miles
away
So that even a good business man
can see what is going on
But for Americans, real objective
of this churn test
Is the trying-out of democracy, as
to its efficiency
Even under the most difficult of all
conditions.
Will it work.?
Can democracies fight, too, to de-
feat totalitarian controls?
Can democracies produce, under
propaganda pressure
Munitions and supplies required fo1
Armageddon-?
With mixed racial origins, car
American wills unite
To face an issue utterly new, ar
emergency unique?
X X X
Now it is speed, more speed
The war churn will soon tell the
tale
Of whether free men and women
working for their own way
Can surpass in months, seven years
of preparations by driven labor
This new speed calls for co-ordin'
alton, collaboration
Executives, with rank and file, must
integrate ali Efforts
What Nazis did with worm geal
and steel
America must do with oil driven
frictionless, organization
Working through magnesium, alum,
mum, plastics-
To ask for it now, is like asking
for miracles
Miracles: like radio, short wave
heat, oil transmission
Nothing but democracy can achieve
that kind of results
Nothing but democracy can shift
that much power at high speed
AT this supreme moment of time.
!. !, :. !. -. ::
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
Building Construction
Increases 81 Per Cent

Washington, D. C.-The dollar
volume of building construction as
measured by permits issued was 81
per cent greater during the first quar-
ter of 1941 than during the like period
of 1910, Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins reported.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
WHAT NEXT?

More and more use is being
made of farm products in indus
try. The Speedwall Co., Seattle.
Wash, has just announced the
latest from earth to assembly
line" product - "The Cotton
House." Promoted by the L. 5.
Department of Agriculture to help
solve the cotton surplus problem,
the house uses up about 4,oGO
square feet of cotton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtchet Gu,
The Truth
. MANY KINKS FOUND
Q TO SLOW THE PACE
. THE COAL TIEUP
. SKILLFULLY DONE

Things wrong. Many things wrong.
Many things right; but too many
things wrong.
Growing army personnel - many
young officers, new to their jobs, not
sure what to do, not sure which way
to turn, always wary of superior Off
GERS.
Civilians and military men working
on same jobs, not too sure of division
of authority, each looking out lit
tie for No. /, with resulting losses of
efficiency.
Many things wrong like this. Many
months will pass before the kinks are
out, with personnel running smoothly.
It's too bad-but it's the way of
democracy. Which is no condoning at
all. We need to hurry up-fast!
John L. Lewis walks off with an
other coup. He pulls something like
tour de force.
Gets the usual lookup between
northern and southern mine owners.
He does it skillfully this time.
Then refuses to let northern miners
90 to work until the southern issue is
settled.
Mediation Board says blame is on
southern owners. IZZAT so? First
hopperoo for Mediation gentlemen.
Burden thrown upon F. D. R.
Why should not the northern mines
have been allowed to work while medi
alton settled the southern differential
issue? At first, instead of after great
damage had been done.
1t will be hard to explain that to
young aviation officers. They can't
argue about whether they'll take
planes up in either the north or south.
THEY GO!
Of course we don't want dctatorial
operations, but the best way to avoid
them is to make reason do it's work.
Here's something else.
A worker somewhere in America
said of his new job, "this is better
than WPA anyhow"
Indicating an idea that defense
work is merely "made work" to take
the place of WPA, to keep men busy.
That's all wet.
This period in our lives is NOT a
picnic.
We are engaged in a desperate
race to see whether we can manu-
facture enough war weapons IN
TIME to save our nation from be-
ing engulfed.
1t isn't necessary that we be run
over by military might in order to get
oudselves knocked flat. There are
plenty of other ways. But we can beat
those other ways if we GET STRONG
EONUGH.
That's why defense jobs multiply
every day. That's why they're not
picnic days. We must quit fooling
ourselves.
Work must go on, continuously.
Not, for example, when John l.. Lewis
thinks it ought to go on.
For those who will not cooperate,
we can expect the big steam roller to
come chugging along very soon.
It's that kind of a life-or-death
! issue.
We don't want dictatorial methods
for many reasons; one of them is that
we want to have democracy AFTER
the struggle is over.
Soldiers need to remember that they
don't want to come back into regi-
mented civilian life.
But be these things as they may,
be our love for free action deep as
possible, there come times when he
who insists stubbornly, or corruptly,
upon getting in the way Of national
need gets told where to go to spend
the time until peace comes again.
A democracy that cannot make it
self work will go to pieces-and then
what? You may answer to suit your
wishes-but AN ANSWER THERE
| MUST BE.--CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
FARM RELIEF

ANOTHER block Of Illinois farms has been taken
over for an ammonia oxidation plant, thus out
doing the motif of turning farms into golf courses
incidentally, as relief to tired farmers. Several
thousand acres have been covered by a 1S million
dollar Government defense project capable of pro
ducing great many tons of explosives day
with plenty of thoughts about using it on the
Hitler armies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS

Seven hundred and eighty four new factories for
- national defense are more than 60 per cent
completed according TO statement by William S.
KnudScn, Director General of OPM. In supple
mcnting his statement that he is sometime afraid
that we haven't quite realized the seriousness of
the battle against time Mr.. knudscn added
THE next four months might be crucial in the
whole history Of the world and if we can only save
part of a month in each four, it might mean every
thing in our future and the future of our child
rem
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08

The Union Label of the Laundry
Workers international Union is
stamped on the price lists of all
Union laundries. 1t was adopted
in 1900.
For further information regard
ing Union Labels, Shop Cards and
Service Buttons write Mr.. I. M.
burn, Secretary-Treasurer,
Union Label Taades Department,
American Federation Of Labor
Building, Washington, D. C..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
WISDOM

Rejoice therefore in your diff
culties. for troubles bring endur-
ance, and endurance brings char
acter, and character brings hope,
a hope that is never disappointed.
Saint Paul.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08

a man who gives in when he is
wrong is wise; man who gives in
when he is right is married.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08
TOO LITERAL
THIS is NO JOKE

She's so dumb, she thinks a vice
president is a gang leader.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-05-08

Ask for Union Labeled Merchandise.
Evening star., 1941-05-10

Grated at a program in which the
minister and people will partici-
pate.
TomorroW's program will inaugu-
rate two weeks of special services in
the new church. DR.. A. P. Williams,
superintendent of the Alexandria
district, will preach at the pm.
services tomorrow and each night
throughout the week. Pastors of
other churches in the community
also will participate in these pro-
grams.
Former pastors of the church will
preach during the week of May 49,
%. These include the Rev. T. M
Swami, pastor of the Braddock
Street Methodist Church, Winches-
ter, Va; the Rev. j. H. Pearson, pas
tor of Trinity Methodist Church,
Roanoke, Va; the Rev. G. H. Field
ing, pastor of the Methodist Church
at Ridgeway, w. Va, and the Rev.
j. J. Rives. D. c., pastor of Centenary
Methodist Church, Richmond Va.
Music will be furnished by the
church choirs under the direction of
Leonard F. Nichols.
( Services Sunday evening, May 25
will be devoted to dedication of the
organ and chimes, with an organ re-
/ cital by Mr.. Nichols. R. Deane
Shure, director of music at Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church in
Washington, will make an address
du.ing the dedicatory program. The
organ is the gift of DR.. j. E Payne,
and the chimes gift of A. w. Nc
Daniel.
Evening star., 1941-05-10
DR.. Lennig Sweet Heads
Fairfax P.-T. A. League
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DUNN LORING, Va, May 10.-Dr.
Lennig Sweet of Fairfax was elected
president of the Fairfax County
Federation of School and Civic
Leagues and Parent-Teacher Asso-
Citations at the annual meeting last
night. DR.. Sweet succeeds Mrs.
Stanley P. Stewart Of Vienna.
James E. Bauserman, county ele-
mentary supervisor, was elected first
vice president; Mrs. Charles N.
Brown of Herndon, second vice
president: Miss Rivera Ashley OF
Mount Vernon, secretary; Mrs.
Horace D. Buckman of Woodlawn,
treasurer, and Mrs. Holden Harrison
of Floris, historian.
The group voted to sponsor pub
lie meeting June at which candi-
dates for the General Assembly will
be asked to express their views on
educational questions affecting the
county and State. Plans for the
meeting are to be handled by DR..
Sweet.
Two schools-Chesterbrook and
Bailey's Cross Roads-last night re-
ported study groups sponsored by
parents are being conducted for
children during the period between
the closing of school and the time
the last pupils leave on school buses.
The newly-elected officers were
installed by Mrs. Gladys Monroe,
president of the Northern Virginia
district.
Evening star., 1941-05-10
Girl, Il,
Struck by Auto,
Critically Injured
Driver Released on Bond ;
Richmond Pair Arrested
After Car Hits Tree

A 12-year-old Fairfax (Va) girl
was in critical condition in George
town Hospital today from injuries
received when she was struck by an
auto late yesterday near her home
in Pender, on Route so.
The child, Hazel Ann Mccarthy,
was reported suffering from frac-
tured skull, conclusion of the brain,
ruptured liver, ruptured lung, frac-
tured leg, three fractured ribs,
lacerations and abrasions.
County Policeman James A..
Thomas, who investigated the case,
said the child apparently stepped
from behind a parked car and was
struck by an automobile driven by
James T. Wakenight, %, of the 1900
block of Vermont avenue NV.
Mr.. Wakenight. who was held for
investigation and later released on
$1,000 bond told police he did not
see the child until she was directly
in his path.
County police took her to George
town Hospital.
Her mother, Mrs. Mary L. Nc
Carthy, is a widow. There. are
two brothers, David, 10. and Will
liam, 18, and three sisters. Virginia.
%; Louise, 16, and Georgia, IA. An
other brother, Joseph, 20, was
drowned several months ago when
he was swept into the Pacific Ocean
from a Navy ship.
Police placed charges against two
Richmond youths early today after
the car in which they were riding
crashed into a tree in front OF the
Treasury, injuring two young women
companions.
The girls. also of Richmond, were
listed as Frances Hite, 16, who suf-
fered an injured leg, and Irene Hlte,
%. who received face decorations
and knee abrasions. They were
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Police said the car was driven
by Earl E. Williford, %, and charged
him with driving without permit.
Robert Allen Harlow, jr., 19. was
charged with being drunk and per-
mitting an unlicensed person to
drive. He was also treated at Emer-
gency for minor injuries.
Evening star., 1941-05-10
Son Of BeIvoir Officer
Suicide, Coroner Rules

By the Associated Press.
GLOUCESTER, Va, May 10.-Dr.
J. w. Smith, acting as coroner, said
yesterday he had rendered verdict
of suicide in the death of Richard
w. Leary, 80, son of Col. T. j. Leary
Of Fort Belvoir.
Both wrists had been slashed, DR..
Smith said.
Mr.. Leary's body was found Thurs
day in the Severn River by a fisher
man. In a shack nearby were found
a bloody Boy Scout knife and razor,
the coroner said.
Mr.. Leary volunteered for Army
service six months ago and had been
spending two weeks leave of absence
at his fathers summer place on the
Ware River, about Is miles from the
place where the body was found.
Surviving are his father, mother
and a brother, Don Leary, all of
Fort Belvoir.
Funeral services were conducted
at the grave in Bellamy Church
Cemetery yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-05-10

mends that adequate appropriation
be made from the highway fund for
signs, signals and markings, for
traffic engineering personnel and
for driver examination and driver
permit control, and that an ade-
quate and strong traffic bureau Of
a size capable of coping with the en-
forcement side of the safety prob
lem be maintained.
Capt. Whitehurst has made It
plain that his report is preliminary,
dealing only with the principle of
the proposed solution of traffic
problems in Washington and going
into detail only enough to show
what general changes are intended.
The final proposals, while they are
expected to follow this initial plan,
will come after all supporting data
on which the report is based have
been made available.
Surveys to Continue.
The director pointed out, for in
stance, that the traffic surveys in
connection with the report will be
continued indefinitely to keep a cur
rent picture of conditions before the
Highway Department. These, as
we'll as changing trends. may direct
a conclusion as to the way to separ-
ate a grade or channelize an inter-
section which could never be
reached with information available
at present.
The Commissioners already have
followed one of the directors rec
concentrations in setting a public
hearing for May 20 to give the pub
lie an opportunity to present its
views on the plan. Notices of this
session, with invitations for them
to be represented, have been for
warded to civic organizations ana
all others interested in traffic con-
ditions.
Since the release of the report,
Capt. Whitehurst has made several
talks on the program before pub
lie groups. The reaction he has
heard at all of these, he reported,
has been favorable.
He said there seemed to be gen.
eral accord with the plan to boost
the gasoline tax cents. revenue
source estimated to bring in enough
money to complete immediate
phases of the program over an
eight-year period. Those who would
pay the tax, he added, apparently
realize that they already are pay
ing this sum, due to increased fuel
consumption from traffic congestion
and that they will benefit in the
end, both in safety and in reduced
transportation expense.
Capt. Whitehurst has recon-
mended that the Commissioners
after approving the program, au-
thorize the corporation counsel. in
cooperation with the Highway De-
partment, to prepare the necessary
legislation and then that they give
him the signal to proceed with the
work. After this is done, he prom
ised, the construction will be ad-
vanced on a basis of as wise pri-
ority of projects as can be deter
mined.
Evening star., 1941-05-10
North Virginia Defense Unit
Makes Registration Plans
BY e Staff Correspondent of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 1O.-Five
officials of the Northern Virginia
Regional Defense Council met here
yesterday to formulate plans for
registration of civilian volunteers
for council activities.
Those attending the meeting, in
the George Mason Hotel, were
Albert A. Smoot, chairman of the
Personnel Committee; Mrs. George
Sloan of Warrenton, chairman of
the Civilian Voluntary Service Com
mittee: Mrs. Daniel Sands of
Middleburg, Mrs. May Thompson
Evans of the State and Local Co.
operation Committee of the Ma
tional Defense Council and Mrs.
Alma Ramsey, executive officer of
the council.
The officials agreed to ask the
Virginia State Council to issue an
appeal to voluntary organizations
to confer with the authorized
councils before recruiting volunteers.
Mrs. Ramsey said the request was
designed to prevent the birth of
sporadic and unauthorized groups,
which might operate in the name
of the council, without the council S
approval.