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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1943-12-17

Bylo svateho Mikulase. AG
deti Kudrnovy byly jeste ma
lie, pTece Jim Andulka chystala
nadelenf.. Ia okno Jim nalozi
do rama oTfsky a ffky, take
"pernikove" a nejake bonbo-
ny, jez nedavno v mestecku
koupila.
VaSfcek ovsem jeste mnoho
nemlsal, musel byti strfdmy, a.
by Sc mu Ease katar nevratil,
ale Marenka, ia selmicka,
chroupala uz ma svych sesti
zoubcfch a rozumela, co je do
bre.
Devecka s paskou cd rama
suskaly a jejich prace nestala
"a mic; cekaly Mikulase, prij-
dou-li kteff to budou a kterf "a
certy, budou-li m1ti take koby-
lu a kozu, bude-li hodne trkat
a kan sc ony schovaj1. ga je
sem nemam AMI valnou chut
pustit," mfnila selka, "jen po-
dlahu zaslapou a este decka
postrasejf."
"Jejej, teto =" skemrala O.
be devcata, "pustte je sem, my
to umejeme a Wy budte S detma
v sednici = pekne vas prosl-
me-"
vida je," smala Sc vymen-
kaTka, "boj1 Sc a zatfm Sc me-
mohou dockat, ably tn byli!"
mo jo - vymlouvala sc
Fanda, "dyz voni budou taky
nadelovat."
81 jo," zasmala Sc hospody-
ne, "nad6lejf ii leda ma zada"
Ale stara panimama drzela
dnes s devcaty. "No necht, at
sem pTfdou, dyf detem Sc mic
nestane, pTeci ma chasa rozum
ably neblaznila, dyz jsou tn ma
la decka. To u mas bejvalo CO
rok, re k nam Mikulasi smell &
pane nejckom uz to nejnf mic
ale bejvali Mikulasi chlapici!'
este lepsf jakli nejckom?'
divily sc holky a pan1mama pc
kyvovala. $50 = to ich bejva
10 tfeba sest, jeden lepsf ne;
druhej; tejden pred tim shane
Ii kosile a sukne, ably byli maze
hlenf a pTedhaneli Sc, kerej bu
de lepsf."
Gale jak to-" smala Sc An
da, "dyt svatej Mikulas byl jel
jeden?"
emu = "panfmama krcils
rameny, byl, ale chasnlk1 cho
df preci u mas treba sest "a Mi
kulaSe najednou. A tt certi
Chasa shanela kozichy, vobra
tia je chlupnama navrch =
nebo nekdy celou k1zi NELL
VIOLA a rohy 81 dali ma hlavu
hubu 81 zacernili saZemi, pri
delali vocas a Tetezama zvonil
i no, bejvali tax zivf certi."
"zef = nase babicka pow
dala jednou pri dran1, jak s
mezi ne smfchal zivej cert
sv6dcila Fanda, "to pref je ist
pravda."
"Jez1si" - desila sc pask
Maizena,, "a kde to bylo?"
80, jo - vo tom ia tax
vim" stara ~panfmama ma t
,vazne a potakavala hlavou, st
sc stale mezi Strmilovem a Pr
lupfnem."
"Povidejte, ~panimamo," Il
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
IMPROVED COMPENSATION
LAW SEEN REAL GAIN

Olympia, Wash. QLNS).-Adoption
by Washington voters of an improved
workmen's compensation bill is hailed
in the state capital here as a real vic
tory for the forces of organized labor
who worked hard for two years in
bringing their program to Il reality.
The measure was adopted by refer
endum vote 1t provides increased
benefits to injured workmen and their
families. Some of the increases in
clude: Death payment to widow or in
valid widower, raised from $50 to $50
per month; injury to unmarried work
er, raised from $50 to $50 per mouth
permanent total disability, raised from
$40 to $50 per month; benefits to chill
dren, raised from $3.50 $50 and
50 to SO, $40 and $50, for youngest.
next to youngest and other children.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
WAGE BOARD CONTINUED
IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY

Washington, d. C. ULNS).-The
National War Labor Board has dele
gated authority to the building wage
adjustment board whereby the adjust
mem board will continue as arbiter of
pay Sterilization in it's field The
boards decision. if unanimous, will be
final and effective Immediately.
The wage adjustment board was set
up last Spring by agreement of Ameri-
can Federation of Labor building
trades unions and six government de-
partments and agencies. Its jurisdic-
gion covers all employees on war con-
struction jobs, which includes virtually
all current building construction work.
The WLB delegated the authority
in general order 13-A. 1t provides also
that if one member of the wage ad-
.justment board dissents, the decision
will become final in seven days unless
the dissenting member refers the case
to the WLB for review.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
JOB WELL DONE

WPA HAS GONE out of existence, by Presiden-
W tial order. Those projects that useful to
the effort will be continued, while the work
ers dropped from other projects are expected to
secure war Jobs.
During its career, WPA offered employment
and a small measure OF economic security to mil
lions Of American workers who would otherwise
have been left without support or abandoned to
the mercies of local relief. Out of WPA, the nation
acquired not only work for its people but enor-
nous material benefits from the completion of the
projects.
Sour cracks about Shovel-eaners and leaf-rak-
ing were peddled in the papers, on the stage and
over the radio-unti public disgust and union
members in The acting profession ruled them out
of the theater. The mentality that assailed WPA
and made cruel Jokes about WPA workers was
precisely the same mentality that attacks labor
today and hampers the nations victory drive.
Now that WPA is gone, it is labor's job in
each community to that projects are
carried to completion, the President has direct
ed. In addition to the more obvious war projects
involving physical construction, there are numer-
services that WPA has carried on that must
be cOntinued-services such care for children
of workers, hot lunches for school kids, nur-
sery school projects and the like. They must be
continued as a direct contribution to the nations
total war mobilization.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
FOR THE MINDS OF MEN

WHY DO WE READ? TO live different lives
situations and ideas than our own. Thus we
multiply our span into Immortality. Or at least
we learn more than if we couldn't read and had
Ito depend on the individual experiences of life
time rather than the infinite variety of books.
A campaign to collect ten million books for
soldiers, sailors, marines and merchant seamen
Twill be opened this week. 1t is important. 1t will
|give books to men who need them in long hours
lat sea and in camp. Have you ever wished for
something to read in an hours wait for train
lat rural railroad station? Then what must it be
Ito wish for days and weeks and months?
Not all men in the service are like the Navy
gunner who took a book of essays from his pocket
latter battle to resume where he left off. But there
are thousands and tens of thousands who want
something to read. "All Americans will be glad
Ito pass on to our boys in uniform books they have
read and liked" said William Green, putting the
American Federation of Labor behind the drive
"We will give our active support" said Philip
Murray of the CLIO. Every one should do the
same
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
THAT NAM AGAIN

THE NATIONAL Association of Manufacturers
holds it's annual hate-fest shortly before the
opening of each session of Congress.
After listening to frenzied denunciations of
union labor and every other progressive tendency
in American life, the NAM adopts it's directives
for the coming year, which are duly transmitted
to it's stooges in press and politics.
Thereupon, with unfaling regularity, editorials
and columns begin to appear in the papers de-
claring that labor has gone too far, that public
opinion is turning against the unions, that they
have been "codded" too much, and that drastic
curbs' are called for.
Meanwhile little clique of anti-abor extrem-
lists in Congress get together to translate the
NAM program into legislative terms and the
papers begin to report. that the coming session
will crack down on labor with bills to do this, that
and the other to every existing right of the work
ing people.
The war seems to have done nothing to stop
this annual routine. The woud-be union-busters
shot off their mouths at the recent NAM congress
with their accustomed venom, and with additional
disruptve attacks against the administrations S
Win-the-W Wal-pollcles
The newspaper propaganda is also running
true to form. And the MANS agents in Congress
have jumped to the crack of it's whip with their
usual alacrty.
The same clique of labor batting poll-tax Con-
gressmen, headed by the same Rep. Howard
Smith, the MANS chief mOuthpiece in Congress,
have held their meetings and announced the anti
labor legislative program of the NAM to the press
if it were their own baby
This program calls for the suspension of over
time pay requirements Of the wage-hour law; for
antstrike legislation for open shop conditions in
industries handling government work; for the
barring Of political contributions by unions; for
revival of the Hobbs bill to curb uniOns and for
the scrapping of the National War Labor Board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
JANUARY
WHATEVER ELSE you choC

WHATEVER ELSE you choose to say about
January - and you can say plenty, if you
please-it does bring days that are lengthening
instead of diminishing. The sun will be in the sky
today about ten minutes longer than it was last
Sunday, and the span will steadily increase until
next June. One of these fine Winter days, in fact
lit may even be possible to eat reasonably late
breakfast without benefit of artificial light.
War time, of course, which has pushed the
hands of the clock ahead and kept them there,
has made this Winters dawns seem particularly
dark and often dreary The countryman is used
Ito getting up in what city folk consider the dead
of night but even for him it is bit wearing to do
the morning chores, eat breakfast and still have
Ito start the days work with lantern in his hand.
And the commuters simply can't reconcile them
selves to seeing the sun loaf leisurely over the
horizon while they are riding the 8:15 to the
office. What are we, they grumpily ask, men or
roosters?
There's gain at the other end of the day, but
it's neither particularly noticeable nor of any
perceptible use. If the sun must set in midafter-
noon, what does it matter whether it's at o'clock
of 5? It's cold and distant sun, anyway as i'm
personal as an icice. And Winter evenings always
were long.
But January brings the turn. 1t brings more
snow, more ice, more cold; but it also brings more
sunlight 1t got it's name, didn't it, from Janus,
who specialized in new beginnings? A two-faced
fellow, of course, but that was only personal
eccentricity. One of his faces was rather nice.
And so is one of January's.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
JEWISH WORKERS THANK
GREEN AND ROOSEVELT

New York City (ILNS).-A resolu
ton expressing the gratitude Of the
100000 organized Jewish workers in
the United States and Canada to Pres
ident Roosevelt and William Green.
president of the American Federation
of Labor for their humanitarian aid"
to the Jews of Europe, was unani-
mously adopted at the closing session
of the annual convention of the Jew
ish Labor Committee here.
1t was voted also to continue the
committees program of financial aid
to United Nations relief agencies dur
ing the coming year and to request
the Soviet Government to permit a
delegation of American Jews to visit
Russia to coordinate relief activities
for the Russian people.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
DEMOCRATIC METHODS WORKING

|tOAUL V. McNUTT, War ManpoWer Commls-
sioner, says he considers compulsory job legis-
|lation unnecessary at present. Mr.. McNutt has
the facts on the manpower situation and his opin-
ion should put stop to the continual agitating
for "labor draft" especially as heretofore he
has leaned toward the idea that compulsory place
|ment of labor is necessary. Apparently the facts
|have convinced him that he was wrong.
But the advocates Of compulsion won't be
stopped and are as busy as usual in urging their
plans. Most of the plans are presented under the
assumption that democracy cannot cope with die
without adopting totalitaran methods
The record to date shows that they are wrong.
Production records alone prove that voluntary
methods of recruiting labor working. The
American Federation of Labor points out that the
Axis headstart in supply of fighting tools has been
overcome. 1t rectes the tremendous progress
made in production, far outstrpping that Of the
Axis nations and says:
"Unquestionably free labor can out produce
slave labor"
In the face of this admitted admitted by
ANYONE familiar with the production situation
why does the agitation for compulsory job con-
|trol persist?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
SUIT AGAINST
ELECTRICIANS DISMISSED

Chicago GLNS).-Weakness of the
Government case was indicated when
an indictment charging Michael j.
Boyle, chief business agent of Local
l34, International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. and 16 others
with antitrust law violations was dis
missed in Federal Court on motion of
the Government.
The indictment, returned in Febru-
ary, 1910, alleged that five firms, Boyle
and ten other individuals and Local
1874 engaged in a combination and
conspiracy" to curb the sales of cleo
trical supplies outside Illinois and to
raise prices within the state
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
LABOR ON RATION BOARDS

INCREASED LABOR participation on local war
price and rationing boards was agreed upon by
labor officials and key regional officials of the
Offce of Price Administration, and the Office of
Civilian Defense in two regions at recent con-
ferences
Conferences were held in Atlanta, Georgia,
and Cleveland Ohio, at which techniques were
worked out between government officials and the
organized labor movement for further labor par
ticipation on local rationing boards.
Attending both conferences and responsible
for arranging them were the labor liaison officers
of the Labor Office, OPA, Washington, d. C. They
are John T. Burke, AFL; John w. Edelman, CIO;
and Glenn r. Atkinson, railroad unions.
These conferences are in line with policy
agreed upon by the labor movement and the two
government agencies to conduct region by re-
gion conference to further labor participation.
The first conference was held Nov. 10 at Boston.
Others are scheduled soon for other cities. Labor
can gain valuable representation in price and ra-
tioning regulation by cooperating actively in the
meetings.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
UNIONIsM

'TF WERE a factory employee, a workingman
on the railroads, or a wage Garner of any
Sort ] would undoubtedly join the union of my
trade If | dsapproved of it's policy would join
in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders
were dishonest would join in order to put them
out believe in the union and | believe that all
men who are benefited by the union are morally
bound to help to the extent of their powers in the
common interests advanced by the union" -
Theodore Roosevelt
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
PEACE RALLY REPORTED

New York City.-It is reported from
London that Il secret conference was
held recently in Western Germany by
"a newly formed national peace move
ment," according to ''the German Peo-
piles Station which describes itself
as Il secret German radio. The chair
man is said to have asserted that
more and more people have come to
understand that the war must be end
Jed to save Germany from utter catas-
|trophe."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

! Ann additional Is billion dollars will
have to be raised in taxes during 1913
above the levies now ON the statute
contained in current Public Affairs
Committee pamphlet, How Can We
Pay for the War? by Maxwell S. Stew
art, based on a research study by the
National Bureau of Economic Re-
search.
At least 40 out of the 76 billion to
be spent in the fiscal year 1913 must
be raised in taxation if the govern
ment's price ceilings and other anti
imitation measures are to succeed, the
pamphlet holds.
The estimated total revenue from
existing taxes, including those enacted
by Congress last October, is only %
billion.
Estimates of total income presented
in the pamphlet purport to show that
| the proposed boost in taxes is well
within the limits of practicability. Con
sumer incomes are expected to reach
100 billion in 1943, while owing to war
time restrictions only 81 billion dol
lars worth of consumer goods and
services are available to be bought
Thus, there will be 4S billion in pur-
chasing power left over that must be
absorbed by taxes or war bonds if in.
flation is to be avoided, the pamphlet
says
| This 4S billion in surplus income
was found, however, to be evenly dis
tributed among the various income
groups. Taking into account rationing
shortages of goods, and other emer-
gency factors, it is estimated that the
group with incomes of less than $I75O
a year will have roughly three billion
dollars left; the $1,75O to $4,000
group will have 81 billion; and the
group above $4,000, about IA billion
x X 4
'These figures, rough as they are -
the pamphlet adds, furnish useful
guide-post for our wartime financial
policies An ideal wartime financial
program would attempt to get, in one
! way or another, all of the excess pur-
chasing power in the hands of each
of these groups. In practice, such a
program is probably impossible.
Nevertheless, any program that is
even reasonably successful must be
| designed to absorb a large part of the
excess from each of the groups"
4 4 4
Cheering news on war production
comes from the American Federation
of Labor's monthly survey, which
says:
The Axis headstart in supply of
| fighting tools has at last been over
come. AS 1913 begins, the Allies stock
of arms will at least equal that which
| the Axis can muster, and we have a
substantial advantage in airplanes,
fighting shops, tanks. Americas war
effort is 2R years old England's only
Il little older. 1t took Germany years
to build her war machine. Unquestion-
ably free labor can out produce slave
| labor.
"In 1913. if we make the best pos
| sible use of every resource, we may
expect to have 80 per cent more arms
| than the Axis by the end of the year.
That shows our position as to supplies.
Daily production of the Allies
| britain, Russia and ourselves) is now
about double that of Germany and
JaDan together"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
BUFFALO FORMS 'RUMOR CLINIC

Buffalo, n. Y-EStablishment of Il
''rumor clinic" has been approved by
the Buffalo War Council as IA measure
to prevent the spread of rumors dam
aging to civilian morale or the city's
war effort Similar clinics have been
set up in Boston and some other cities
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
IN UNION THERE Is STRENGTH

I T1NORGANlZED LABOR cannot be represented
- anywhere; it cannot protest anything; it can
not fight for anything; it takes what is handed to
it; it is helpless in the face of modern industrial
might.
That is why every worker belongs in the
union; union membership means industrial en-
franchiSement
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MIR. MODESTUS

Define Democracy!
Lincoln: no slave; no master:
Thycydides: (450 B.C) hath re-
spect not to the few, but to the multi
tude"
That was in Athens, Greece; govern
ing population small;
and an ''imperialist"-
Only 5000 Athenians met Oriental
hordes at Marathon, 400 Be
Thomas Carlyle said inventor of
printing created a new democratic
world."-
Hitler speaks of parliamentary
principle of democratic majority"-
Goethe: democracy is, by the nature
of it, a self -cancelling business
Aristotle: liberty and equality,
chiefly found in democracy
Best attained when all alike share
in government to the utmost
Westbrooke Pegler: United States is
not democracy
Modern China: governed by Peoples S
Political Council
Consisting of 24O representatives, at
this third session
Representing six political parties
five classes experiences officials
Five cultural and pro iona
groups
Fifteen business men; Six bankers
Five military men; Six religious
Ten out of original 200 members
were women
Chinese call it: Wartime experiment
in practical democracy
Aiming to serve about 400 million
Chinese, 1.-The multitude
"Demos"-
That stands for "the multitude" the
people
"kratos": that is the power or the
method of control
"Aristos," the best people," cul-
tured, privileged
But of course, 1--WE" are the best
people," wisdom dies with us
Sooner or later, "we' turn out to be
the political ma jority"-
Because military or shillaleh majori-
ties become too painful
Here is where Goethe thinks democ-
racy cancels out" in the long ruin
But we have been having a pretty
long run, now
And this wars argument runs
against the alleged "eliiciency"-
Which is claimed for the selected
and chosen few leaders
+ X x
France sent America Statue of
Liberty
But that is an image of a pedestal
1t represented, somehow, France S
idea of Liberty
Democracy, when sought for in the
lives of men and nations
Does not appear twice in the same
FORM
Democracy is just only form" of
expression and control
In New England, it appeared in the
town meeting"-
In IA very few years, that became a
garment all too small
Democracy, applied to thirteen wide
ly separated communities
Split open at the seams, Mpped up
the back, was hard to fit
4 4
There was the United States Sen
Once the most digniiied debating
club in the political world
1t soon degenerated into very eX-
pensive and malodorous replica
OF the Old Roman Senate, British
House of Lords
Any Form of Democracy" kept in
service too long
Passes into collection of junk; be-
cause something else must be used
K X 4
DEMOCRACY is NOT
A craven image, set up to be wor-
shipped
A Fossil Form, Infallible, incapable
of change
New sources of vitality, drawing
from greater springs of power
viii furnish garments to fit these
New Bodies of Power
There will be new blue prints upon
the drawing boards, before long
Forcshadowing the changing styles
of economic, social, political, control.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
LET HIM HAVE IT

Hitler has promised his armed forces that he
will have the last word in this war For once, the
United Nations agree with him. He will have the
last word and that word will be Uncle"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
w H AT NE T?

Draught beer in some bars and
restaurants is now coming to the
ultimate consumer in pipelines of
transparent plastic.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07

The assembly line is the spectacular
feature of mass production, but the
blueprint room is where the brains OF
the enterprise function.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07

Every violation of democracy committed with
i'm our country is of aid and comfort to the enemies
of democracy outside. - Francis Biddle, U. S.
attorney General.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-07
THE
CHERRY TREE

Where With Our Little Hatctes
We Tell the Truth About Man,
Things, Sometimes Profoundly.
Sometimes FHpPantly and
Sometimes Recklessly.
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w l S D O M

Power and strict accountability
for its use are the essential con
stituents of good government. -
Woodrow Wilson.
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:, EASTERN GENERAL WARE % STANDING = CoMmTTEE @
L. WHEATLEY VIM E. YOUNG EDWARD SEYF1ERT
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