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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-16
THE LOW M
HICKORY Gzl(

Well folks, am Coming out
Tor another kind Of week. T am
calling it, BE calm and don't list
an too serious week. Away back
there in Egypt; they we've pestered.
with lOcusts, but here in our land
of-the-free it is spellbinders. We
have an excess Of folks wearing,
nice clothes and eating regular viii
sponsoring some new kind 81. 90
.cial uplift or Govt. fummididdles.
And nt-like the big comrno-
ton is about how the Govt must
build grander dams and light
plants. And a private U.S.A. citi-
zen willing tostalke q chance withi
his own money, he is told to stand
aside--if anybody, IS to- lose any
dinero, It is gonna be Uncle Sam-
DO. A private citizen, he is not
even free to lose his. own money
legally. Freedom, paruner, where
is the old gal? ).
My don't listen too serious"
week, it looks like it IS helping
and we get little time to think
on our own hook, we could maybe
branch out and extend it to 2 wkSs.
or maybe 8. And as we calm
down we will find time maybe to
drop a card to our boys down there
in Congress and inquire ABOUT
how-come they are so slow about
taking the racket out Of labor, or
how about tightening up little
down at. the income tax place.
Yours with the low down,
10 SIERRA. y
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Henry Fonda. actor, Navy vet
eran, born at Grand Island, Nebr.,
AZ years ago.
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Carleton J. H. Hayes, eminent
historian and author, wartime am
bassador to Spain, born in Aftop,
N. Y, IS years ago. a
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Evening star., 1947-10-26

At last he was on his way back. But the going was
extraordinarily difficult. He painting heavily now,
and barely found the strength to dig the markers.
His heart pounded, his tongue Glove to the roof of
his mouth. His bones ached with WEAKNESS.
But he did not dare stop to rest now. Somehow
he forced himself to stagger on.
He could see the Bashl1rs clearly now. They were
waving and cheering him on. But the sun was low
in the sky, sinking rapidly. He gathered his last
remaining strength few hundred yards, fell,
and could not move
f1E had overestmated his strength. He wished
he had omitted the rich valley land, the wooded
cunp and cut inside the damp hollow. Now he stood
to lose both his land and his money
He staggered to his feet moved on. The sweat
blinded him. 1t growing dark. He fell again,
crawled forward on his hands and knees The Bashkrs
only few hundred yards away; he could hear
their encouraging cries. see their eager expressions.
Too late. The sun had set. He had lost
Then why were the Bashkirs still waving and
calling? Suddenly he knew. He in depression of
land They were on the knoll and could still see the
sun. There was still time
He ran frantcay the rest of the way plunged head
long into the crowd, and fell fiat on his face
"Ah,' said the chief admiringy HE is strong
and determined man. He has won much land"
But Pahok did not rise. They turned him over
His eyes were open and fixed. Pahok was dead
The Bashkirs made clicking sounds indicative of
pity They dug grave for him - it was only six feet
long from head to heels. But then - how much land
does man need?
(Adabtsd from the Translation by Aylmer Maude,
with permission Of Oxford University Press)
Evening star., 1947-10-26
GKttD by lie. 7,I,,cy

nAHoLK Russian farmer, hearing that the far off
Il Bashkirs placed no value their land, decided
to try his luck among them After journeying for
weeks, he came to their main settlement and spoke
to their chieftan, a corpulent, good humored, but
obviously barbaric fellow
Choose whatever land you like. said the cheftain
ndiferently. The price will be thousand roubles"
For how much land?" Paholk inquired.
Large or small, the price will be the same
1t was finally agreed that the land would
comprise such portion as Paholk could encirce
foot in day, from sunrise to sunset At intervals
he was to dig hole with his spade for marker,
and the Bashkrs would follow the line with plough
until the boundaries were clearly defined
But warned the chief, you must return to
your starting point the sets, or both money
and land will be forfeited
Paholk agreed He started out the next dawn and
huge crowd of Bashkirs with their chief gathered
to him off, They let out great cheer as he de-
parted spade in hand The air was cool and Paholk,
refreshed by long sleep, made marvellous progress.
He did not halt until he had covered nearly three
miles. By this time the sun was higher in the
heavens and hot his back. He refreshed himself
from his flask of water and moved on.
BY NOON he knew it was time to consider his return
He must not make his circle wide But the further
he went the richer the land. Here ran rill whose
water he would want to include in his property there
damp hollow suitable for raising flax.
At one point, the sun grew hotter and his flask
low he thought of cutting across back to the waiting
crowd he could barely on the top of knoll. But
this would make his land lopsded No. he must muster
all his strength and complete the circle. Then he
would be wealthy beyond his widest dreams.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
DNnEMM;n;c

YUM-YUM: The japanese didn't
know it, but they were eating ex.
plosives during the war. Our problem
was to ship explosives to the Chinese
in an innocent-appearing form, 50 if
the stuff was intercepted, the Taps
wouldn't know how to use it 81
scientists devised a substance that
looked like -four, felt like -four
tasted like flour. 1t could be baked
into bread and eaten - and it I'm.
doubtedly was eaten by many
Nipponese soldier.
But it could also be exploded in
either its flour or bread form. It's
conceivable that while Japs on one
side of a line were munching on dyna-
mite biscuits, Chinese on the other side
were blowing up bridges with them
Evening star., 1947-10-26

Names and descriptions Of all characters in
fiction stories and sanai-6etion ardeles in this
magazine arc wholly imaginary. Any name
which happens to be the same as that ct any
person. living or dead. L. entirely coineldenfaL
Evening star., 1947-10-26

DEM0TI0N: Speaking of China,
people who think the new crop of
school children is bit violent may
be consoled to learn that Chinese kids
can be even more so. In Shanghai. a
group of high-school students decided
their examination grades were too
low and hurled Principal Tsai Hu-fu
down a fight of stairs.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
This Week Magazine

FOR BETTER AMERICA
WILLIAM l. NICHOLS, Editor
vNSECnOk: LIFEsAxER OR FRAUD7
BY Lumss r. Miller
TIP TIE GREEN EARTH. !
BY Puvl MoEevs
WANT 70 RUN A RAnROAD7. ......
byCsosse H. Wolt.. k.
NY SHORT LIFE ON THE STAGE. ......lo
BY Josspk Wseksbsss
MeGARRY AND THE HALLOWEEN
DEVIL. by Mott Toylos II
POpUL AR kiBiTZER. ...................f IS
BY Alice Loks
HOW A STAR GROWS. Ws..............t 10
TOUcHDOWkas BETWEEN HALVES. :. ~
BY Bob Dsindosiss
Cover BY Ed Esfubrook
Evening star., 1947-10-26

THE WOMAN PAYS: The trade
paper "Telebriefs'', reports that a
telephone operator in a Midwestern
city answered an agitated signaling
from pay station, and heard a tear
full feminine voice:
Operator, can have my nickel
back? Albert won't speak to mew ..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Court Denies
Sleeping Time
Paw For Firemen

Chicago (ILNS).-In a decision
attracting widespread attention
among city officials, thes Seventh
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled recently that firemen in Ell
wood, ILL.,, have no rightful claim
for pay for hours spent sleeping at
the firehouse.
The decision punctuated the first
court case of it's kind, according
to the Municipal Finance Officers
Association. The Circuit Court
ruling reversed lower court
award of $276,619 to SO Elwood
firemen for time spent sleeping at
the local ordnance plant fire sta
ton.
Firemen sleeping in the fire
house in order to be available for
immediate duty are waiting to be
engaged" and were not hired ''to
do nothing but wait for something
to happen" the higher court held.
The court decided that during the
sleeping shift of their 24-hour stint
at the firehouse, firemen should be
paid only for time spent on emer-
gency calls.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Treat Workers As Humun
Beings. Not As Machines
To Win Good Relations

ed, and in turn between foremen
and executives.
If executives would devote as
much time to the consideration of
human problems as they do their
racing forms, it was seriously sug-
gested by Oliver Carlson of Los
Angeles, an industrial consultant,
'that in itself would mean some
considerable advance"
Hits Social Worker Approach"
Urging that the labor relations
problem be tackled through indi-
viduals who really had the work
ers' point Of view," he warned
against "the curse of the social
worker approach"
"People who deal with working
men and women as they would re-
lief recipients, old-age pensioners
or slightly balmy people bring as
bad results as the notorious hard
boiled attitude" said Carlson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Sfutes' ATTORNEYS
Mop Resistance
To Labor Suits

Lincoln, Nebr. (ILNS).-Invita-
tions to strategy meeting have
been issued to the attorneys gen
eral of 26 states which have
sought to turn the clock Of his
tory back by outlawing the closed
shop or are considering such re-
Progressive action.
Nebraska's Walter Johnson in
vited them to meet in Omaha
April IA and Is to discuss means
Of combating labor units to have
the anti-closed shop measures de-
clared unconstitutional.
Invitations were issued to the at
torneys general of Arizona, Ark
ansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa,
Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mex
leo, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Oregon, South Carolina, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia,
Nevada, Louisiana, Alabama, Col
orado, Maryland, Indiana and Cali
fornia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Governors Asked
To Aid Disabled

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-
Secretary of Labor l.. B. Schwel-
lenbach has asked governors of the
AS states to give special attention
to the employment problem of
handicapped persons.
Importance of strengthening the
employment program for the ply
sically handicapped was under
scored in letter from the Secre-
tary in which he pointed out that
employment of handicapped work.
ers increased sharply during Oc-
tober, along with the observance
of National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week.
Experience, Schwellenbach de-
clared, demonstrates what can be
done to resolve employment prob
lens of the disabled when suffi-
cient attention is given the matter.
Urging the governors to give spe-
cial consideration to job programs
for such workers, he said:
'If we can find ways and means
to rehabilitate and put them to
work we shall not only perform a
great humanitarian task but we
shall be saving, even making,
money because restoration of many
of these individuals to productive
status will naturally not only aid
them, but their communities, states
and the nation ITSELF"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03

Los Angeles ILNS).-Manage-
ment must give first consideration
to the human needs and feelings
of workers as the keynote to good
employee relations, speakers at
the convention of the Society for
the Advancement of Management
declared.
Treatment of workers as human
beings, not as machines, is the out
standing challenge to American
business, 500 executives attending
the convention were told. Speakers
emphasized that faulty human re-
lations management could cancel
the value of all the elaborate pro-
duction and distribution Controls"
which arrangements had estab-
lished.
"Man More Than Machine"
"Too much of your thinking has
been based on the idea that man
is a physo-chemical machine" DR..
Samuel Stevens, president of Grin
nell College, said. "Man is more
than a machine" he added, "and
employees are not satisfied, happy
or efficient when they are put on
a slide rule.
"Man has certain distinctive hu
man urges, of ambition, selfesteem
and proper pride. Management has
done little to recognize the domi-
nance of these distinctly human
needs in employees
The familiar business conception
of labor as sort Of 'inchoate
mass" is fallacious and an impos-
sible basis for operation, Frank
Foisie, president of the Water
Front Employers Association of
San Francisco, said
FOremen Seen Crucial Factor
Declaring that labor must be
considered as group of distinct
individuals, he asserted that fore
men, as the only representatives of
management with whom workers
had constant contact, were the
crucial factor in good employee re-
lations. There must be an atti-
tude of mutual respect between
foremen and workers, Foisie add
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Health Benefit
(Continned From PAGE OneJ

tCOUttHbSQ rum rage OWEy
experience" on the part of unions
"to set up definite criteria to en-
able welfare programs to stand
the stresses and strains inevitable
in relation to the business cycle"
Extreme Prudence Required
8. Profitable and secure invest
ment of funds. Because persons
directly in charge of union health
funds are free from the govern
mental restrictions to which most
of the non-proft fraternal organi-
cations, savings banks, and insur-
ance companies are subject, they
have to use extreme prudence and
care. Investment is a study in it.
self, and few union officials in
charge of funds are trained in it."
a. Complete segregation of
health and welfare funds from the
general funds of the union is abso-I
lutely necessary. Even in the most
critical labor-management dispute,
he declared, welfare funds must
never be used.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Our American Heritage--lII

forts stream of skilled army Of
ficers-Lafayette, Steuben, kosci-
usko and many others-crossed the
sea and joined Washington. There
were many in Europe longing for
a new day which would put an end
to tyranny in the world. Franklin
gave them a chance to strike a
blow against dictatorship. They
saw in America "a new order of
the ages"
Within two years after his ar
rival in Paris, Franklin had won
Frances signature to two treaties
pledging the aid which made pos
sible the ultimate victory at York
town.
Why was Franklin so success
full? 1t was because of his own
sacrifices in the cause of freedom,
and of his willingness to live out
his nations ideology even when it
meant costly personal change. He
reveals in his autobiography the
shortcomings of his younger years
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
:SdfetY Work
Cut Mishups
To Low Mark

= Albany, N. Y. OLNS).-The
""apathy toward safety" that re-
suited in the accidental deaths of
100000 persons and injury to TO-
000,000 others throughout the
country i'm 1916 does not exist in
New York state, Industrial Com
missioner Edward Corsi declares in
the February issue of the Indus
trial Bulletin, monthly news
magazine of the State Department
of Labor.
The issue features an exhaus-
tive account of the Departments
Division of Industrial Safety Serv-
ice in action, describing how the
division discharges its "life-saving
Responsibility TO the states indus
trial army and the general pub
lic."
Noting that few such headlines
as "Hotel Inferno" "Mine Dis
aster," "Boiler Explosion" or
aTunnel Cave-in" involved events
in New York during the past year,
Commissioners Corsi, in an edi-
torial keynoting the special safety
issue, declares:
Lauds Inspectors Vigilance
4. "In no small measure, we owe
bur gratitude-perhaps even our
deliverance--to the unwavering
vigilance of the inspectors of the
Division of Industrial Safety Ser
vice whose efforts have helped to
keep our accident record low. The
alertness of these men, the inspec-
tors, coupled with the unstinting
voluntary cooperation Of industry
at large, measures the margin be-
tween catastrophe and safety for
the citizens Of our state"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03

and his own experience that hu-
man nature can change.
For 25 years Franklin had pro-
vided instruction and simple truths
in "Poor Richards Almanac" He
was publisher, a scientist, a stu
dent of nationcraft, but most of
all he was a man with moral
code which he applied to affairs of
state. He had become the grand
old man of the American Revolu-
ton. He put all his ready money,
some $4,000 into helping finance
the Revolution.
After the long struggle to win
the war, the great need in the new
Republic was to frame Constitu-
tion for a national government. At
the Constitutional Convention,
Franklin, appalled, by the dele
gates lack of unity, finally ad
dressed Washington, the presiding
officer, as follows:
"In this situation of this AS
sembly, cropping as it were in the
dark to find political truth and
scarce able to distinguish it when
presented to us, how has it hap
pened, Sir, that we have not hith-
erto once thought of humbly apply
ing to the Father Of Lights to IL
lumine our understandings !? In
the beginning of the contest with
Britain, when we were sensible of
danger, we had daily prayers in
this room for the divine protec-
ton. Our prayers, Sir, were heard;
and they were graciously answered.
All of US. who were engaged in
the struggle, must have observed
frequent instances of a superin-
tending Providence in our favor
To that kind of Providence we owe
this happy opportunity of consult
ing in peace on the means of estab-
fishing our future national felicity.
And have we now forgotten that
powerful Friend, or do we imagine
we no longer need His assistance
| have lived, Sir, a long time; and
the longer / live the more con-
vincing proofs | see of this truth,
THAT GOD GOVERNS IN THE
AFFAIRS OF MEN. And, if
sparrow cannot fall to the ground
without His notice, is it probable
that an empire can rise without
His aid ?"
Soon afterwards the Constitu-
tion was adopted.
(Note: Watch for the last of
this series in a Forthcoming is
Sue.)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03

Note: This is the third of a
series of four articles on the fight
for freedom in our Revolutionary
War, by the MIRA Labor News
Service. Labor will be heartened
by this tale of battle for human
rights.
During the entire Revolution,
Washington constantly had to
.fght two wars. One was the fight
ing in the field of the war of arms.
The other was the war of ideas
fought in the hearts of his coun-
.trymen, to win them to the idea of
. nation enjoying freedom under
God.
He gave much more time and
thought to the second war, the war
of ideas, than is generally re-
allied. Forces of reaction were
Scattered all through the popula-
tion. Many did not accept the idea
OF democracy. In fact, from a
quarter to a third of the popula-
tion were Tory at heart. Many of
these actually enlisted in special
.regiments and fought against the
Patriots.
But Washington had able and
far-seeing associates who fought
on the home front. John Hancock,
Samuel Adams and John Adams,
all Of Massachusetts, had nation
wide influence. So did that revo-
Iutionary orator from Virginia,
Patrick Henry, and Governor
Trumbull of Connecticut did yoe
man service. There were many
others not so well known but equal
ly devoted.
Their biographies show that
these men saw eye to eye with
Washington as to the democratic
ideology needed to make the new
Republic succeed. AS Sam Adams
put it, he felt the government
should actively promote virtue in
the minds of youth, because lib
erty and virtue were inseparable,
if one were lost the other was. AS
leaders of public opinion they bat
tied to build these ideas into the
public. The things they fought for
were (1) Faith in the ordinary
man, (2) Nationwide teamwork,
and (3) Getting the citizens of the
nation to turn to God for His plan
for themselves and for America.
There came a time when the
Colonists greatly needed aid from
abroad in their cause, so Ben
Franklin was sent to Europe. Due
to his sincerity and ceaseless ef-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
TEETH CAN CAUSE CRIME

Chicago, lll.-Dr. Roy G. Ellis,
professor of operative dentistry at
the University Of Toronto, speak
ing at the SD mid-winter meeting
Of the Chicago Dental Society, de-
clared that teeth defects that af-
feet a child's looks may bring on
,complexes leading TO delinquency
and even juvenile crime. He urged
dentist TO treat tooth injuries in
children immediately-not to tell
their young patients to wait
until they are older"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03

asserted, lay in the possibility that
'the people of this country will do
some real thinking about how far
they want Congress to go and
make their feelings known"
Morse said that the worst ac-
tion against labor was likely to
come through the cutting off of
appropriations of labor agencies.
He said he believed the trend ought
to be toward larger appropriations
and more adequately stated agen-
cies to prevent delays in the ad-
justment of controversies. The
Senator recently joined with rep
resentatives of industry and labor
in opposing the budget cuts recon-
mended by the House Appropria-
tions Committee for the Depart
ment of Labor and the National
Labor Relations Board.
Morse, a member of the Senate
Labor Committee, warned his own
party that it's tenure as the ma
jority would certainly not exceed
1862" if it persisted in the enact
ment of punitive legislation de-
signed to restore a laissez-faire
economy and permit the exploita-
ton of labor.
Morse said he favored modifica-
tion of the Wagner Act to curb
certain alleged abuses on the part
of labor, but he added he was
strongly opposed to bills to strait
jacket" unions.
Seeks Moderate Legislation
He renewed his criticism of labor
for its demand that no legislative
curbs be enacted, and said his own
plan was to seek "conscionable
compromises to prevent the laws
that are adopted from going too
far" He acknowledged that the
prevailing mood of both Houses of
Congress was for the passage of
extreme" bills, and said he had
received no encouragement in his
attempts to win support for more
proposals..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
New Buildings


existing structures, whether by
private or public enterprise, would
perpetuate the bad land pattern
that now exists. Some demolition
would be necessary under such a
program, but the vacant spaces
left would not be suitable for
parks or Fairgrounds, the re-
searchers contend.
Complete razing of the area and
erection of new dwellings under
public ownership and subsidy
would result in an average rent of
about $25 a month, the research
ers concluded. Buildings would be
modern and attractive, and plan
ned for best possible land use. The
cost of this construction program
was estimated at $6,400 per unit.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-03
Bakers Elect. Officers

Chicago NS).-Herman Win
ter was reelected president of the
Bakery and Confectionery Work
ers' international Union of Amer
lea in the recent referendum. Will
liam F. Schnitzler was elected gen.
eral secretary-treasurer. They had
no opposition. Members of the
general executive board and dele
gates to the American Federation
of Labor convention were also
elected.