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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
(An Abstract of Broadcast to thu
British Empire)
BY SPENCER MILLER. Jr.

Democratic government and trade
unions stand together as the proud
achievements Of the cooperative efforts
Of free men: they both rely on the dis
cipIine Of consent. Under democratic
government men are free to speak, 10
print, TO assemble, and 10 worship God
according to the dictates Of their own
conscience. Under such government
workingmen are free 10 join together
in organizations Of their own choos-
ing. The guarantee of these four free
doms has come 10 be regarded as one
Of the attributes of "A free society
In the soil Of unfreedom no unions
can long endure. The world today is
experiencing an object lesson il will
not soon forget, concerning the tyranny
Of dictatorship and its evil influence
on labor. When Hitler came to power
in Germany in 1893, one of his first
acts was the suppression of the Ger
man Federation Of Labor-One Of the
most powerful free trade union move
mentS in the world.
What is more, wherever the Nazi
legions have placed the people of one
nation in Europe after another under
temporary subjugation. there they have
suppressed the trade unions and i'm
prisoned their leaders. Workingmen' :
organizations. with membership total
ing in excess Of thirteen and a half
millions, have thus been suppressed by
I NaZi aggression in the past eighteen
months. AS a result Of these barbarOuS
tactics, the voice Of free labor upon the
continent Of Europe has been virtually
silenced. Free labor cannot live and
| function under the oppression Of
dictatorship, but only under a free
society. That is the record. which is
writ large in the pages of the history
Of these days.
The modern trade union has become
something more than bulwark Of
democracy: il is rather one Of its basic
institutions. Without democracy the
modern labor movement could not exist
Without labor, democracy could not
survive for long in an Age Of Indus
trialism. Democracy cannot rest upon
the shoulders Of workers - men and
wOmen-whO are not free That is why
labor has given itself without stint and
without limit to the prosecution of this
war for decency. justice. and freedom
the world over. Whether on the pro-
| duction line or the battle line, labor
! knows that this is a DpODle'S fight for
freedom against the forces of tyranny
and oppressiOn-it is a war for the
survival of democracy. Labor knows
that if the forces Of democracy win
| labor wins; but if the democratic
forces should fail, then labor would be
lest. But working people everywhere
are determined that the cause of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
Boost Ordered
In Navy Yards

Washington, ID. G. ULNS).-Pay in
creaSes for 25O,0OO civilian employees
in navy yards and other naval shore
stations, totalling more than S1,OOO,OOO
Il week, have been announced by ASSiS-
tant Secretary of the Navy Ralph a.
Bard The increases are effective on
the Atlantic and Pacific and the Great
Lakes area on July 6 and in the Gulf
area on August 3.
The new scale is designed to make
wage rates of the Navy conform to the
stabilization code adopted by the ship
yard Stabilization conference held in
May at Chicago.
The Navy workers increase is an
overall boost of cents an hour except
in a few classificationS where any
qualities had existed and where the in
crease was slightly more or less than
that figure. Certain classficatiOns of
aircraft workers We're not included, as
aircraft wage stabilization conferences
will soon be held on the West Coast.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
The Interest Of Labor In The
Preservation Of Democracy

democracy shall not be defeated in this
Peoples War And please God it will
not
Democracy cannot be merely pre-
served, as something inert and static.
1t is living spirit which is essentially
dynamic in character. Democracy is
not form Of government, a political
process or even a way of life. 1t is
essentially mode of dealing with
souls. That is its true nature That is
why / say that democracy cannot be
preserved: it must be proclaimed as a
social faith-a faith by which to live
and a belief for which to die 1t is be-
cause labor everywhere has gained a
deeper insight into the spiritual nature
of democracy that workers are willing
to make it a part of their creed for our
day, and to proclaim that creed in ac-
tions as well as in words.
Labor has not rested its case on pro-
teStations alone: it has sought to
eXemplify in its own activities the faith
by which it lives. Today in America
the trade union movement has come of
age; it has fashioned the instrument
Of vast economic power which no one
will deny. The combined membership
of the American Federation of Labor,
the Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tiOns, and the Four Transportation
BrotherhoOds totals nearly eleven mil
lion workers, or more than 80 per cent
Of those gainfully employed in the
manufacturing industries of the land.
What labor thinks, therefore, what
policies it adopts, and what ideals it
holds are destined to have profound
effect upon the character of our Amer
lean Commonwealth. That is why the
uncompromising support of free labor
in America down through the years
for the democratic way of life and
labors militant defense Of democracy
in this World Struggle are a source of
vast strength to buttress democratic
government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09

government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
OBLIGATION

(FrOm the MOtOrman, Conductor and
Motor Coach OperatOr)
The organized workers of this ma
ton have an obligation to defend the
trade union movement that extends
beyond our own interests as active
members. 1t is an obligation to the
hundreds of thousands of our fellow
workers who have laid aside their tools
to take their stand against the enemy
ON the firing line. While they are fight
ing to defend our homes on the far
flung battle fronts, it is our duty here
to defend their interests and their
rights as trade unionists.
We would be more than derelict in
that duty were we to permit the anti
labor forces of the country to tear
down and destroy the conditions which
these fighting men have helped to build
and which they have every right ro
expect Will be here to protect them
when they return to civilian life
We cannot forget that the persona
liberties of a great many of our people
were taken away from them when the
prohibition act was put over during
the last war. That may not be cOmpar-
able, but the fact remains that it was
put over behind the backs of citizens
who should have had an opportunity
to express their opinion but were pre-
vented from doing so because they
were over there fighting TO make the
world safe for democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
Proposed Postal Rute Rise
Fought By Printing Trades

Minneapolis GLNS). Plans for a
fight to the finish against proposed
postal rate increases that would cost
newspapers and magazines an esti
mated S77,OO0,000 a year were made by
the Board of Governors of the Inter
national Allied Printing Trades Asso-
citation in session here.
John b. Haggerty, president of the
board and of the international Brother
mood of Bookbinders, said that protest
would be filed with Congress.
"Elimination of Il number of papers
and magazines would cause widespread
unemployment among printing work
erS," he pointed out. 1T also would
curtail the public'S sources of informa-
ton about the war
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
COOL

when were you born?' asked the
sergeant of the recruit.
December 1917" replied the man.
"Ah." mused the sergeant, Il well
recall that winter. 1t was bitterly cold.
I'll say it was cold" said the re-
crut Il was brought by "A penguin.
The Storll couldn't make il"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09

San Francisco ULNS).-Trade union
officials closely questioned witnesses
about danger of child labor eXploita-
tions at hearing of an application of
fruit growers and driers for relaxation
of Federal regulations to permit chill
dren between IA and Is years of age
to be employed in the dried fruit in
dustry.
Witnesses told Miss Beatrice Nc
Connell, chief of the Industrial Divi-
sion of the Children's Bureau, L. s
Department of Labor, and Jules
Schlezinger, attorney in the Labor De-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09

VldeS that all workers employed by the
telegraph companies on or before
March /, 1941, are guaranteed full-time
employment for Il period of five years
from the date of approval of any con-
solidation or merger, at the compensa-
ton and rate of pay they received at
the time of the approval of the merger.
None of these employees will be assigned
to work which would be inconsistent
with his training and experience.
House Still to Act
Senator Mcfarland, chairman of the
subcommittee of the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee, in reporting out
the bill passed by the Senate said the
committee "believeS it has recon-
mended in this legislation the greatest
degree of labor-protection requirements
yet proposed in any legislation"
Provisions of the bill may be changed
in the House, which has yet to act on
the measure.
Commenting on the bill as approved
by the Senate, President w. l.. Allen
of the Commercial Photographers Union
said:
considering the fact that the Com
mercial Teegraphers' Union was the
only organization which applied any
effort toward securing protection for
the employees in the event of a merger
we feel that the labor provisions in the
bill as passed by the Senate represent
substantial progress
Aided by AFL
I'VE were assisted in our efforts by
the American Federation of Labor, and
it is only fair to state publicly that in
our several conferences with the mem
bers of the committee we We're treated
with every courtesy and consideration
especially by Senator Mcfarland, with
whom the majority of our conferences
We're held
The proposed merger legislation
falls far short of that degree of pro
lection which we would like to see in
cOrporated therein There does not ap
pear to be any hope of further i'm
provement when the bill comes up for
consideration by the House. Therefore
assuming that the bill, as passed by
the Senate, is to be the final merger
legislation, and that a merger will be
consummated u nder the provisions
thereof, we must be prepared to take
care of the interests of the employees
on the basis of the protection which
the legislation affords.
Alert Union Can Help
'The important thing to remember
is that a wide-awake, aggressive or
ganization can accomplish more with
a limited amount of legislation pro
lection than weak organization can
do with Il lot of protection.
1T is my conviction that if Il merger
takes place Western Union employees
will be able to take care of their in
terests with little or no hardship to
themselves if they will only complete
and perfect their organization in the
Commercial photographers Union, and
thus equip themselves to police effec-
lively the labor provisions of the pro
posed legislation
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09
Ldbor-Protection Clause
Secured In Merger Bill As
Result Of Unions Efforts

Washington, D. C. QLNS)As result of persistent efforts
corporaed the telegraph merger BILL passed the with
out debate number of labor protection provisions of which
termed outstanding by the union
One of the most important of the clauses
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-07-09

Several hundred Netherland soldiers
who came to the United States from
Australia for aviation training, are be-
ing trained at four Army Air Forces
establishments.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23
RockpOrt

Carolyn Carey of Lima spent sew
eral days the past week with her
aunt Mrs. w. E. Marshall.
Mr.. Harvey Bowers who has been
residing in the house in Rockport
recently purchased by Miss Elnora
Marshall will move to one of his
apartments in Findlay in the near
future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kerst, Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Kerst and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Hedapohl and children, Mrs. Sophia
Geiger, and the Misses Cleola Kerst
and Emma Lutz all of Wapakoneta
spent Sunday in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Begg and two
sons.
Mrs. F. C. Marshall was among
the guests at a party in honor of
Mrs. Walden Hilty of West Orange,
New Jersey given at the home of
Mrs. D. C. Steiner and daughters
Tuesday evening of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Palmer and
children Dan and Sue of Columbus
spent the week end in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cupp and
family. Dan and Sue Palmer re-
mained here and are spending the
week in the Cupp home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Marshall
were Sunday dinner guests in the
home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23
CHIEF LOGAN

When Lord Dunmore glanced
around the circle of Indians meet
ing with him at Camp Charlotte.
near Circleville, on that bright
fall day in 1774, one of the most
influential was missing - Chief
Logan.
The campaign which history
calls Dunmore's War was over.
The Indians were defeated. A new
peace was to be made.
But peace could not be made
without Logan. He was a great
Ohioan--in the days before there
was an Ohio.
Logan, born in Pennsylvania in
1725, had been friend of the
white man - named Logan in
honor of Pennsylvania Secretary.
He came to Ohio and dealt with
his white friends.
Then affection turned to hate
A party of Indians, including all
of Logan,s relatives, were at the
mouth OF Yellow Creek, near
Steubenvi1le. Roistering whites
across the river sent an invitation
to the Indians to join them. Men
women and children were wan
tonly murdered.
Logan became an avenger
Other Indians joined him ano
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23

6StSGtttSs
Dunmore's War blazed in bloody
reality. And now peace was be-
ing made, and Logan was miss.
ing. y
An emissary found Logan under
a great elm-Logan's Elm, near
Circleville. The Mingo chief spoke
to the messenger in what Theo-
dore Roosevelt declared to be,
perhaps the finest outburst of
savage eloquence of which we
have any authentic record"
Il appeal to any white man."
said Logan in part, ito say if ever
he entered Logan's Cabin hungry
and he gave him not meat; if ever
he came cold and naked and he
clothed him not !. had thought
to have lived with you ). Colonel
Cresap, the last spring, in cold
blood and unprovoked, murdered
all the relatives of Logan, not
even sparing my women and chill
dren. There runs not drop of
my blood in the veins of any liv-
ing creature"
Peace was made. Logan's friends
died. He wandered from village
to village, detected, solitary and
broken.
He was murdered one evening
in 1880 as he sat before a lonely
camp fire.
Today, Logan's Elm still stands
"a state monument to a heroic
Ohioan, perhaps one of the Oldest
! liviffg things within the state.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23

ing fine. The message came from
Great Britain.
Shortages of materials because of
the war effort are daily coming home
to the man in the street. Lee Cred
ing, in the hardware business for
the past thirty years says this is
the first time he has ever been sold
out Of lawn mowers. Prospects of
getting a new stock are not prom
ising.
To say that Mrs. Ernest Gratz
was surprised Monday would be
putting it mildly-when her brother,
David Boegli of Centralia, Wash,
whom she had not seen for % years
Unexpectedly dropped in to call. Mr..
Boegli with his parents, the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Boegli moved
from Pandora to Washington in 1914
and this is the first time he has been
back. He expects to remain for
about ten days visiting relatives.
Most Bluffton residents should be
glad for the drive by the American
Legion for old phonograph records
starting on Friday of this week.
Except for some of the classical
numbers, a phonograph record is
something that after year or SO
one tires of and opportunity is now
given to put the record to good use
in the service of the country
Several members of the Bluffton
radio club enjoyed week end out
ing at Indian Lake at the cottage
belonging to Don Ream's father.
Swimming proved to be the princi-
pal attraction. Enjoying the outing
were: Nelson Herr, Maynard Geig-
er, Bob Benroth, Fred Herr and
Don Ream.
One of the camp rules at the CIR.
Camp at McCutchenville attended
last week by the Bluffton high school
girls was that no food would be per-
mitted to be sent into the camp. If
any food did come in thru the mail
it was held at the office until the
conclusion of the camp period. One
of the girls received box of choco-
lates which several days of warm
weather made grand conglomera-
tion of black and white.
Rationing of tires and gasoline
has hit the tourist trade a hard
wallop along the eastern seaboard,
says Franz Herr who with his wife
stopped off here to visit his brother
Frederick the other day. Franz and
the Mrs. were returning to their
home in Toledo after motor trip
thru Virginia and North Carolina.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23

He reports that in III miles along
the famed scenic skyline drive he
encountered less than a dozen cars.
Several nights found them the only
ones in large tourist camps Many
proprietors are expecting to close
their camps for the duration.
Gerald Swank, North Main street
barber for the past seven years in
the spot formerly occupied by the
late Budd Dillman has closed his
shop so many Saturday nights at the
end of a weeks work that it has be-
come routine matter. But this
Saturday night it's going to be diff
ferent. When Gerald finishes his
last customer he will hang flag in
the window, turn out the lights and
lock the door-for the duration. He
will leave next Tuesday for service
in the navy-good luck Gerald
maybe it'll take a Yankee barber to
give the Japs a good trimming.
We couldn't help overhearing il
the other night on the street as
some of the younger generation
drifting between the News office
and Hankish's were reviewing the
war when the leader of the discus.
sion exclaimed "Sure, the Mediter.
ranean and the Red sea are con,
nected by the Sewage canal"
If the killing of hen pheasants
intentional or otherwise could be
avoided, there would be twice the
crop for future seasons, says the
state conservation department.
1t didn't take long for the news
to get around Tuesday night after
Jess Basinger of Jenera, former
Bluffton barber hooked four big bass
at the Buckeye quarry. The largest
one measured 18 inches and weighed
3I2 pounds. And this makes 25
bass which Barber Jess has taken
out OF the Buckeye this summer.
That it's a small world was again
demonstrated the other night when
station wagon with a Massa-
chusetts license pulled up at Han
kish's for refreshments. The car
bore the name of an Attleboro
Mass, screw machine plant and the
representative, John Holden said he
knew VIM. (BilD Plattner, prominent
in neighboring North Attleboro, and
former Bluffton resident. The
plattner family resided on South
Main street in the property now oc-
cupied by Ray Patterson. Bill was
manager of the municipal light plant
here in the early days some thirty
five years ago.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23
PAGE SEVEN
Jack Pugh IN Beayerdam.

Jack pugh in Beaverdam.
Members of the Friendly Neigh
bors club and their families viii en-
JOY a picnic next Thursday at the
home Of Mrs. Matt Stewart in
Orange township.
Donald Rockhill and Warren Spic-
er We're among the Allen County
group that left for camp last Thurs
day.
Miss Jean Marshall was a week
end guest of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Il.
Sears at their cottage at Mentor-on-
the-Lake, near Cleveland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Sylvester
and sons Dwain and Buddy of Ft.
Wayne, Ind, spent the week end
with Mrs. Mary Sylvester and Mr..
and Mrs. Glen Huber and family.
Mrs. Sylvester returned to Ft.
Wayne with her son where she will
spend several weeks.
Mrs. Howard Bassett and daugh-
ter Alice Jean of near Lima spent
Thursday afternoon in the Walter
Marshall home.
Miss jeanette Huber is spending
the week at Russels Point where she
is the guest of Miss Doris Gerde-
mann of Beaverdam.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Sylvester
and children of TT. Wayne, Ind, and
Mrs. Mary Sylvester were Sunday
dinner guests in the home of Mr..
Ed and Miss Ella Reichenbach near
Pandora.
Mrs. Claude Meyers attended a
luncheon meeting of the Loyal
Daughters class of the South Side
Church of Christ in Lima, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. c. Marshall and
DR.. Nj. r. Bixel of Bluffton attended
funeral services for Edison Springer
of Berne, Ind, Monday of last week.
MIR. and Mrs. Tom White enter
tanned a group of friends in their
home Saturday evening.
Mrs. Claude Meyers spent Satur-
day with Miss Saunders in Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-07-23
MinA
OeAAeSsaI

Observations it wasn't the
heat, it was the humidity that's
why you were SO hot from Friday
to Sunday altho the thermomet-
er never reached the 100 mark :.
Art Amstutz at Barnes whistling
Justify despite the heat how
does he do it dull summer for
fishermen since the National quarry
is closed presumably for the dura-
ton T.. nothing worthwhile in Riley
creek say anglers golfers tee
ing off at McComb and Findlay
since the course here is abandoned
=. ). great growing weather for to-
matoes, pickles and soybeans
oats may not be as good as earlier
anticipated.
The front yard of the Cleon Trip
| lett residence on South Main street
seems TO be a favorite spot for
automobile accidents. One which oc-
Cured there Saturday night when a
light delivery pickup truck from
Lima went over the curb and crash
ed into a tree was the third smash
up in the past several years. The
| location is in the middle of a block,
away from intersections and why it
should be the scene of so many
crackups is unexplainable.
Allen Beeshy, Blufton gardener
than whom there is none whomer is
expecting a big sweet potato crop
| this year. Allen has 1450 of some
of the best looking plants we've
seen all coming along Justify. He is
cultivating two patches, one in the
garden at his home on Riley street
| and the other in Bert Watkins
vacant lot across the road.
We hadn't noticed it, but Seth
Basinger of the Morning Star cider
press tells US that there are few
| apples on the west side of the trees
in the district northwest of Bluffton.
Reason is the heavy hail and wind
storm that swept in from the west
over that area several months ago.
Growers are expecting about half a
crop, he says.
In spite of wars and disrupted
transportation schedules, the Bluff
ton News still gets around to some
of the far corners of the earth
altho a little late, but nevertheless
welcome. Maurice Boutwell,, son Of
Fred Boutwell, of Orange township,
stationed in Hawaii usually gets the
News a month after it is printed.
Rev. E. B. Steiner, missionary in
northern India near the Tibet border
is not so fortunate-he usually waits
about six months to read about
Bluffton relatives and friends.
q y
We knew it was important when
we saw Jacob Nusbaum waving a
cablegram at us the other day and
we were right. 1t was a greeting
from their son Donald in the navy.
Says he is in good health and feel