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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
NATIONS EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

OUR WAR PLANS thus far have been concerned
mainly with organization of materials BY the
end of this year, over SO per cent of production
Will be for war purposes. Conversion OF produc-
tion plants will be practically finished. From now
on our chief problems will be in labor supply.
AS war production expands and more young
men and perhaps young women are summoned
for military service, we shall have to reshift the
work force and call upon persons not accustomed
to work in industry to work at all. The task
of directing workers from less essential to more
essential jobs and Of mobilizng new workers falls
mainly to the United States Employment Service.
The Employment Service has been preparing
for this job. Following the executive order Of the
President Matchmaking the agency, it was made
the basic operating channel of the War Man
power Commission, coordinating the employment
work of the Department of Agricultre, the Work
Projects Administration and the Office Of Defense
Transportation. There has been definite inte-
grating of functions and information SO that each
office though functionng locally, is a unit in
state and regional systems-part of national
labor market. With detailed labor information Of
the entire country readily available to each part
and with definite national instructions, each local
office direct persons its register to places
where they are most needed for the Warsprogram.
Each month representatives of local services
get from employers with war contracts their I'M
mediate and future labor needs. These needs by
plant, industry, occupation and locality are bal
anced against available and potential workers, SO
may be most useful and training instituted where
it will be effective. When storages are known far
enough in advance needs can be met.
This whole program now on a voluntary basis,
depends upon the cooperation of management and
of labor In normal times the larger companies
have preferred to be Independent of the Employ
ment Service. They handled the employment prob
lem in hap-hazard manner, causing unnecessary
suffering for the workers involved. Advertising
widely, and particularly in regions where there
was surplus of workers, they caused these work
ers to migrate when there was no certainty of
employment. This could have been avoided if the
local employment service had possessed adequate
information concerning the national labor market.
With nationally organized service, workers can
protect themselves by making inquiries at their
local office before migrating.
With the present opportunity to develop and
use national service, it is most important that
employers and unions offer and give wholehearted
cooperation and equally important that the USES
make of the existing facilities and information
of employers and unions. Employers and unions
have had years Of experience in this field which
the service will find valuable
1t is important that the service be maintained
at the national level of greatest usefulness for
postwar purposes and hence important that all
cooperate to that end
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
RAILROADS TOLD TO IGNORE
LAW LIMITING TRAIN LENGTH

Washington, ID. G. 0LNS). - The
Interstate Commerce Commission has
ordered all railroads to operate trains
without regard to state laws limiting
the length or number of cars. Such
laws, supported and passed at the in
stance of organized labor, are designed
to promote railroad safety. =
Some states limit the length of
freight trains TO not more than one
half mile and the number of cars in a
train to not more than 20 and in a
passenger train to IA or 16.
Compliance with these practices in
the present emergency, the commission
said, may result in congestion of
tracks and terminals, wasteful use of
locomotives and interference with the
free flow of traffic necessary in the
present emergency"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
SHIP WILL BE NAMED
AFTER NEGRO EDUCATOR

Washington, ID. c. ULNS).-Marian
Anderson, noted Negro contralto, will
name Il Liberty cargo ship soon to be
launched at the Wilmington yard of
the California Shipbuilding Corpora
ton and to be named for Booker T.
Washington, educator.
The Booker II. Washington Ship
Launching Committee is co-sponsoring
the event. Among the guests will be
Mrs. Portia Washington Pittman, the
only living daughter of the educator,
and Miss Louise Washington, a grand
daughter. Other Negroes prominent in
public life also have been invited
In the construction of the vessel, the
Maritime Commission said many
Negroes were employed, as well as
Chinese, Filipinos, MeXicans and white
workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
AFL CONVENTION

THE AMERICAN Federation of Labor meets in
62nd annual convention on Oct 5 at Toronto.
The convention, first since Americas entrance into
the war; promises to be one of the most important
ever held.
Big problems and issues, affecting the nation
and the world, will confront the delegates Wage
freezing, labor draft and other proposed wartime
controls will be discussed and acted upon. After
war aims and policies will be considered. That the
federation will act wisely on these vital matters
is a foregonc conclusion. It's past record proves
this.
Union members who closely follow the pro-
ceedings of the convention will gain a better
knowledge of the aims and policies of the labor
movement and so be better equipped to serve and
champion its interests.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

This column commented in August
on Sweden's preparedness for general
municipal elections, pointing out that
the Swedes, though facing great dan
gers from without, were conducting a
political campaign based largely on
domestic issues.
The Swedes, it was emphasized,
while bending every effort to strengthen
their defenses, were discussing munich
pal taxation building of hospitals and
similar apparent trivia" to quote a
| leading Swedish editor, who further
said:
Our house has been fortified. 1t is
not matter of Indifference to us how
| it looks inside"
| The elections, held Sept. 20, resulted
| in the loss by the Swedish NaZis of
| their five seats The dominant Social
Democratic party lost 81 seats but still
retains its overwhelming majority with
total of 500. The Farmers won 36
seats, while the Communists won 80,
a gain of II.
X X X
The Communist gain, though inSign-
fcant, stirred Berlin's wrath and Nazi
propagandists aimed new sharp at
tacks on Sweden. A Berlin radio
broadcast recorded in New York de-
| clared Communist activities in Sweden
| would "have to be carefully watched
| by European powers fighting against
| In tot
Not even attempts made by leading
conservative papers in Sweden to dis
guise this development We're able to
shake the Wilhelmstrasse's conviction
| that BolSheviSm has been able to
| establish new bases in Sweden and
tries to consolidate them by all means, "
the Nazi broadcast added.
| The Nazis have long been very criti-
cal of Sweden, resenting its firm de-
| termination to maintain neutrality, its
sympathy with the peoples of the con-
quered nations, and its plainly eX-
pressed detestation of totalitarian re-
gimes and policies.
X K x
Berlin, of course, knows perfectly
| we'll that Sweden has no sympathy
whatever with BolsheviSm (Commun-
| ism and would resist it as bitterly
as it would any other form of totali-
5arianism.
Swedish opposition to totalitarianism
has been made known again and again.
| Typical of the nations viewpoint was
an address by OSten linden, diStin-
guished Chancellor of the Swedish
Universities, who drew contrast be-
tween the democratic order in the
! scandinavian countries and political
| systems of FascSm, NaZism and Com
muniSm.
"Isms,' said linden, create super
| chiefs" who do not allow citizens their
civic rights and who ''reintroduce bar
barrie tortures in their prisons and con
Centration camps"
The NaZi denuncation of Sweden is
pure hypocrisy, being based on Swedish
opposition TO Nazism and not on any
| danger of Communism in the northern
| nation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
GLASS IN THE GUTTER
Nrum the Washington Daily NcwS)

from the Washington Daily NcMS)
'IllE MAN WHO left glass, nails and similar tire
dcStrOyerS in the gutter never could have won q
popularity contest among his neighbors Now,
when rubber is more precious than much gold, ne
invites deserved chaStiSement
But more than that, he is opening himself to
the justtiable description of war Saboteur For
tires have ceased to be matters solely of private
concern. They are u major weapon against the
enemy.
For patriotism, if not for common decency lets
keep glass out of the cutters and out of the
u chance
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
w H A T N EXT2

The first commercial harvester
for sugar beets is now in operation
near Bakersfield, Cal, i'm the San
Joaquin Valley. The harvester,
made by the John Deere PlOw CO.,
tops the beets, pulls them out of
the ground and deposits them in
WindrOwS or in trucks, thereby
eliminating "stoOp labor" long the
bane of beet growers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01

A relatively small corporation in
Detroit has won the Army-Navy Award
for EXcellence-the famous f., coveted
by all, but won by few.
This company is the Electromaster
Corporation.
Normally the company made electric
ranges and related products.
But scarcely had the defense pro
gram got under way when its presi-
dent began looking to see how the com
pany could help Uncle Sam by making
things for the army and navy.
there was no profit at all. But the OBJ
ject was to help, not to see how much
profit could be piled up.
The energetic president of this COM
pany is Richard Marshall-Dick, to
hundreds of men and women.
He could look ahead and see that
things were changing, to stay changed.
x X X
A small contract for small item
came first. 1t was really trial order.
Since that day the company has
taken on an ever-increasing load of
war contracts. Since Pearl Harbor it
has thought only in terms of war and
victory.
The company had contract relations
with the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers and while Wash
ingtOn was talking about developing
employer-employee relations, this COM
pany had such relations with remark
ably good results.
There have been no StoppageS of
work, nor any slowdowns.
Faster and faster the wheels have
turned, to make commodities to help
arm and equip the American armed
forces.
Here was a company that was bound
to win the much coveted Army-Navy f.
And when it did win the famous
award, it was because of all of the
things that had been thought out and
DONE for the sake of fast and right
priced production.
X X
A great many small businesses have
cried in their beer and let it 60 at
that.
They have whined and run to their
Congressman.
Electromaster probably never saw a
Congressman.
Production is not political job.
The union in the plant proceeded
along the same lines. 1t didn't cry in
its beer, either
1t worked 1t kept its agreement. 1t
didn't look for little tricks to play, nor
for sharp corners to turn.
1t worked--and kept on working.
Somehow it seems as if here might
be a company to study.
One would gather that a company
so honored must turn out good things
and fast.
Nobody is just now looking for credit
to'use after the war, but this award
cannot fail to be of value after the
war. when peace-time things are made
again.
x X X
There has been Il great deal of cry
inc in the beer-a great deal OF run
ming for help, a great deal of wringing
of hands.
Washington has done its share. Men
have looked for personal advantages
and advantages for the companies
from which they came to Washington.
We hear now a lot about getting
tough. You don't have to get tough
with men who are doing their jobs,
who are putting their best lickS into
what they are doing.
Uncle Sam is not handing out any
awards TO those who hold back and
who seek their own welfare first.
But when the flag goes up to the
top, showing the f. proudly floating in
the brceze-Well, isn't that just about
the most worthwhile thing to have
today?
Service to the nation is Signalized by
that banner.
Service to the nation is all that
matters today.-CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MR.. MODESTUS

Democracy
Finds devious ways
Its wonders to perform
By what miracle of persuasion
Has a high priest of the Temple Of
Commerce
Come to believe that workers who do
nations work
Can possibly have ideas of how that
work could be better done?
X X X
Yes, yes, we know
Railway shop workers proved it,
years ago
That secret has been percolating
about our industries
Some business men have been saved
from bankruptcy by it
Clothing manufacture has long since
been cured of it's sickness
By nothing else but the impudence
of some union organizers
Coal miners taught government and
coal operators
Why and how it was better to let
miners have a say-so-
Even in World War I, Sam GOmpers
and Woodrow Wilson worked it out
But that was labelled anarchy and
smashed, afterwards.
X X X
Now comes representative retail
business man
High key man of Rears, Sawbuck
and Monlleytown-
Calls in men who served apprentice
ships at trades
Then practiced all mysteries in eff
fective organization
This prophet of distributiye-engi-
neering SmasheS all precedents-
Actually calling agents chosen by
hornyhanded sons of toll
Tells them to sit at council table
with managements agents
Just to find out how Il war is to
be Won!
X X X
Corporals are having their day
Corporal Batista took over Cuba,
some years ago
Corporal Schickelgruber tells Prus
sian Army Staff where to head in
Joe Stain, not even a corporal, dareS
Adolph to come and take his city
Industrial corporals talk back to a
British Premier
Barelegged Gandhi seems to have
India tied up in knots
Homeless Chinese soldiers make
their own weapons
While their agents borrow millions
from western nations
Meanwhile tantalizing mperia a |
japanese generals.
Under dogs getting toward the top
Some of old dogs finding old tricks
don't suffice
Pendulums swing in opposite quar-
terS, around the globe
Hitler gathering all powers into his
fingers, even of life-anddeath--
But freedom-loving peoples gain con-
tidonce in freedoms powers
CobWebs of pride, superstition, stu
pid Stubbornness---
Are swept aside in prime necessity
of saving Il nation.
X X X
Napoleon said il, too
\ marshal'S baton is in every
soldiers knapSack-
In this new battle, calling for mass
movements
Such as neither military nor eco
nomic might ever imagined
Our whole armies must be linked,
into one vibrating whole
Victory here will not come just be
cause we have a great general
But because every last marching,
shooting, flying soldier
With every hamnering, drilling,
welding, chopping man and woman
Has confidence, not only in glory of
freedoms objectiyes-
But believes also that each is part
of II united whole, at last.
That is the biggest meaning of
democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
SWEDISH LABOR AIDS NORWAY

Stockholm ULNS). - The Swedish
Labor Federation has appropriated APP
proXimately $4,000 kroner (about S62,-
800 at par) as its contribution for
Norway relief and at the same time
asked affiliated unions TO make a do
nation of about cents per member to
the committees work. This would in
sure another 100000 kroner.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
w l S D o M

Agitation prevents rebellion,
keeps the peace, and secures prog
resS. Every step she gains is gained
forever. Muskets are the weapons
of animals. Agitation is the atmOs-
phere of the brain. Wendell
Phillips.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01
TIE
CHERRY Tree

Where With Our Little HGfchet
We Tell the Truth about Many
Things. Sometimes Profoundly,
Sometimes FIippanly and
Sometimes Rccklessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01

If you suspect a man, don't employ
him; if you employ Il man, don't sus-
peCt him.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01

Union is strength, but where the elements
composing it are both weak, their combination
may be weak also
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Z. WHEATLEY. VIM f. YOUNG EDWARD SEYF1ERT
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-01

WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE q
M. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELIS
operatives LOUIS PIESLOCK F. HAYNES
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-10
GASOLINE RATIONING

The gasoline rationing program
has encouraged storage of fuel in un-
suited containers and within sheds,
barns, and houses. Not only does
such practice nullify insurance pro-
lection; it is an open invitation to
fire, explosion and death, according
to- Ray w. Carpenter, specialist in
agricultural engineering for the Elk
tension Service.
He warns that handling gasoline
in building is likely to result in a
gas-air mixture which is highly ex-
plosive and which can be set on fire
by sparks from friction, by smok-
ing, by any pilot light or fire or even
by sparks from shoes or metal
against gravel or concrete floors
Gasoline vapor is heavy, travels
along the floor to find the lowest
level and will fill pit or basement
with deadly and explosive fumes
from any level above. Gasoline stor-
age should be in separate structure
or in underground tanks apart from
regular farm buildings. Handling
should be outside of any building to
insure thorough ventilation
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-10
D. j. WARD CANDIDATE FOR
REELECTION TO CONGRESS

Congressman David j. Ward,
Salisbury, Maryland, announced to-
day that he would be a candidate
to succeed himself as Representa-
tive in Congress from the First Con-
gressional District. The announce
ment was made from his offices in
Washington, d. G.
Congressman Ward, after re-
ceiving the unanimous vote of the
Democratic State Convention as
the Democratic candidate, was elect
ed to Congress for the first time at
special election held on June 6,
1889, to succeed Congressman T.
Alan Goldsborough who resigned to
become Federal Judge in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
In 1910 Congressman Ward was
nominated by his party and won in
the election over the Republican
opponent, Ex-Judge Robert F. Duer,
Of Somerset County.
In his announcement, Congress
man Ward said: "In these dark and
critical days, when our Nation is
fighting desperately for its very
xistence against strong and un-
crupulous foe seeking to destroy
nd enslave us; when loved ones
rom every home are in the battle
ronts risking and giving their live
preserve for us and those to come
lfter us the heritage of liberty, free
lom and the right of free govern
nent; we have little time for other
thoughts than war and how we can
help to win it.
"Our Republic, however must
nave leadership and our govern
ment must provide this leadership
Congress is an essential arm of our
government. Under the provision OF
our constitution the entire mem
bership of the House of Represents
tives must be elected this year. This
gives the people themselves the
right and powr to select this leader
ship.
1.-THE records will show that dur
ing my service in Congress, as Rep
resentative of the First Congress
sional District, have supported and
voted for every major measure de-
signed to help and further the wal
program AS long as / am a member
of Congress, I shall continue to dc
SO, until that day when victory is
won and peace is established.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-10
MARYLAND UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION

Payments of benefits by the
Maryland Unemployment Compen-
sation Board for the month of June
show small decrease from the pre-
ceding month and a large decrease
from the corresponding period OF
1941. The total paid in June was
$451,542. In June, 1910, it was
more than $4,000 and for June
1914, it was nearly 100000. The
May, 1912, total was, in round fig
ures, $489,0O0.
New benefit claims in the four
weeks ending June 81, aggregated
4,753, a decrease of twenty-five per
cent from the CORRESPONDING period
of last year. Compared with May,
1912, there was a very small in
crease.
Benefit claims for unemployment
of all classifications, in the four
weeks ending in June aggregated
43,279, a decrease of about thirty
two percent from June, 1941.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-10
CONOWINGO ANGLERS Or
CAME NEW CLUB

The State Tax Commission has
issued papers of Incorporation to
the Conowingo Fishing Club, Inc, OF
Conowingo.
The directors are: DR.. Herbert
Hopes, Charles T. Ness, Vernon E.
Knopp, r. E. Reilly, John H. Gal
lion, Leonard Burkins, Kenneth
Burkins, John Neal, William Gar
rettson, Lawrence Lutz, Chester
BOSNIAN, Pierre LeBrun, Oliver
Lambert, Clay Gahagan, Lawson
Burkins and H. Clinton Scar
borough.
The aims of the club are given as
follows: ITO protect, preserve the
fish supply in the Susquehanna Riv-
er and it's tributaries, to furnish
recreation and amusement to its
members; to cultivate fraternity
good will and fellowship among it's
members
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-10
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

Of1fOlSIlAN 0O1ENSE OhnV HES
Sacrament" will be the subject
of the Lesson-Sermon in all Church
es of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday,
July IL.
The Golden Text will be from
Co. 1923: LET man examine him
self, and so let him eat of that
bread, and drink of that cup"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible--Luke 23:34::
"And he (Jesus) said, I tell thee,
Peter, the cock shall not crow this
day, before that thou shalt thrice
deny thou knowest me-
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science Textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, "
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page 43: Love
must triumph over hate"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-07-10
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESSMAN

CANDIDATE FUR CONGRESSMAN
The following is the life history
of Leon Asa Andrus as released for
publication of his candidacy for
Congress.
Andrus was born June 26, 1888,
has resided in Cheston-on-Wye,
Queenstown, Queen Anne's County,
Maryland. His occupation is Dairy
Farmer. Mr.. Andrus is President of
American Water Foods Associa-
ton; publisher of Queen Anne's
Record observer; Civilian Defense
Chief of Staff--Queen Anne's Coun-
ty; Director of Eastern Shore Milk
Producers Association; Director of
the Maryland Expenditure Council;
Treasurer of the Blue Channel
Corp, (Canners of American Crab
meat; Member of the Maryland
Farm Bureau, and a member of the
Maryland-virginia Milk Producers
Association.
Il am a candidate for Congress.
There is no sense in telling you
am for the war. OF course I am. Any
and all Americans would give their
blood and souls to win this war. The
war isn't going to last forever. The
smart people are looking ahead to
see what kind of a world we're goinl
to live in after the war. The Eastern
Shore of Maryland is the creates
part of the United States. The Unit
ed States should know this, and the
only way they can know it is to have
man in Congress to tell them SO.
have prepared platform and be-
fore the campaign Is over I'll tell
you all about it. But right now I'm
telling you I am for the Eastern
Shore and I am asking the Eastern
Shore to be for me.
My hat is in the ring with Wig
orous toss against Mr.. Ward and
against inaction. Mr. Wards state
ment as given to the press could not
have been better if he had written
it himself. do not disagree with his
words. They express the thoughts of
any loyal American. do disagree
with him, however, If he thinks the
Eastern Shore wants an order-taker.
They want a Congressman that can
fight for them and the Nation and
one that can help plan the peace"
LEON ASA ANDRUS,
Centreville, Maryland.