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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01
In New Location

Mr.. and Mrs. James Elvin and
Miss Huldah SchifferIy moved the
first of the week to Wildwood, Ohio,
near Mt. Vornon, where they have
purchased an eleven acre tract of
land.
They recently sold their Poplar
street residence here to John Am
stutz of Norwalk. 1t will be occu-
pied by Amstutz's mother and sis
ter, Mrs. Eli Amstutz and Miss
Rhoda Amstutz.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01

The following births at Bluffton
hospital:
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Benroth,
Bluffton, a girl, jeanette Elaine,
last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merl McCluer, La
fayette, boy, Lyman Ray, Thurs
day
Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Snavely, Hol-
gate, a boy, Stephen Krohn, Friday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Crow, Pandora,
a girl, Georgia Kay, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wingate, Sr.,
Bluffton, boy, Paul Richard, Jr.,
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bradford,
Continental, boy, Larry Lee, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Nesler, Je-
nera, girl, this Wednesday morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Justin Gratz, form
er Rluffton residents, now living in
Dayton, a girl Karyl Ann, born at
Miami Valley hospital, Dayton, Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs .Ercil Parlette, Lima,
girl, Evelyn Doreen, born Thurs
day at Lima Memorial hospital. Mrs
Parlette is the former Ruth Hart
man Of Mt. Cory.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01
BLUFFTON MARKETS
"Wednesday Mnrninp

Grain (bushel prices) - Wheat
$3.50; corn $1.60; oats S5c; soys
$500.
Poultry-Heavy hens 33c; leghorn
hens 23c; heavy fryers 32c; leghorn
fryers Csc; stays 15c.
Eggs-Large white 43c; large
brown 41c; medium 36c.
Butterfat 62c.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01
Gun Club Trap
Shoot On Suy1ddu

Bluffton Gun club will hold a trap
shoot Sunday afternoon at | o'clock
at the Gossard filing station on the
North Dixie highway. Merchandise
prizes will be awarded, it is an
nounced by officers of the club.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01
Birthday Gathering

A family gathering was held at
the home of Rell Potee, South Mound
street in honor of his 18th birthday
anniversary, Tuesday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01
ANOTHER BLAZE IN
APARTMENT HOUSE
ON SOUTH MAlNST.
Two Apartments Untenable
After Fire Damages Bader-
fischer Building
Loss is Estimated at $4,000
Second Bad Fire OF It's
Kind Recently

Buttons second apartment house
fire within six weeks caused damage
estimated at approximately $4,000
and made homeless two families in a
stubborn mid-morning conflagration
at the two and one-half story Fred
Badertscher apartment building at
Main and Kibler streets, Monday.
The building, known as the form
er N. w. Cunningham residence, is
diagonalIy across the street on the
corner from the Biedermann apart
ments, swept by an $4,000 fire early
in March.
Discovered at 9 a. m, most of the
upper portion of the house was
ablaze when the towns two fire
bumpers were summoned. The roof
was destroyed and most of the up
per two stories, were gutted when
the fire was extinguished two hours
later. ~nx xvsvry r. n II SsN IRE
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01

A day to come seems longer than
a year that's gone.
Scottish Proyerb
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01
Two FAMILIES HOMELESS

Made homeless by the conflagra-
tion We're Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Cred
ing and. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Reichen.
bach, occupants of apartments at the
front of the building. Another
apartment on the south side occu.
pied by Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Lom.
hardy was undamaged.
The occupants saved most of THEN
household goods and personal belong,
Continued on page ~
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-01

They know enough who know how
TO learn.
Henry Adams
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
Georgia Assembly
To Press For
Anfi-Union Laws

Atlanta, Ga. (FP) - Anti-union
forces here hope to put organized
labor so much on the defensive in
the forthcoming session Of the
state assembly that it will be un-
able to carry out its program of
extending democratic legislation.
Labor has recommended that the
next session Of the assembly en-
act state anti-injunction statute,
reject a proposed sales tax and
turn back Talmadge-inspired
move to strip from the books laws
rights to vote in primary elections.
AS assembly members held a
special pre-session informal meet
ing here to plan their course of
action, Representative Fred Hand
Of Pelham, who is slated to be- next
speaker of the house, declared:
"The PAC is going to be so busy
they won't have time to be for or
against anything in the legisla-
ture."
Representative w. III. Lovett, a
Dublin industrialist, announced,
for example, that he will introduce
a bill to outlaw the closed shop and
said other assemblymen will pre-
sent measures banning the dues
checkoff and requiring unions to
incorporate.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
AL Chieftuin Asks Ldbor-
Management Cooperation
In New Yedr's Message

Washington (FP) - A call for
teamwork between management
and labor to bring industrial peace
was issued by AFL President Will
liam Green in his annual New
Years message.
Extending ito all members of
the AFL and to the American peo-
pie as a whole best wishes for a
prosperous and peaceful New
Year." Green opened his message
with a statement that America
'smust keep alive the spirit of in
ternational cooperation through
which the United Nations can lead
the world to an era of permanent
peace"
After discussing the danger of
initiation, calling for millions of
new homes and increased produc-
ton ito bring about long overdue
reduction in prices" Green said
we must keep wages and purchas-
ing power high so that industry
and agriculture can be assured of
a domestic market"
"These are some of the minimum
and urgent tasks facing the ma
tion," Green wrote. Beyond these
immediate goals, we must provide
by law full measure of social Sc
curity for the American people SO
that the fear of poverty, the dan
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
Do Higher Wages Or Sunspo+s
Cause Price Jumps?
By DON STOFLE, Federated Press

First economic problems designed
meet the Big propaganda campaign raises
ments say The whole paid circus of the Big Busi
machine has saying the " day
couple got together ask the boss for
Today Business it with to the tune OF
aubV ISM But million dollars does not make the statement true It's
a lie and dangerous at that!
Why is dangerous Simple IF higher wages cause higher
prices nobody but herself blame for the gyppng
we re al taking
If the statement is there is in having unions
get will be matched with high prices before Gimme
mondoar tries the finger union labor
initiation and desson caused by Big Business itself But
while increased In 1885, for example standard model electric
cost $ according to former o oP c head n Geser a
9GT WAGES IN THE NDtsTRy HARGoNE IS PER CENT
N% hanasS a machinery
Wages rs but output poduc
number of workers or less The output
decreases the value falls and the price tends to fall
y wee the free competition Big
e. fn
medium sized competing against each other we find that lew
tain or Increase prices pretty they
andm money lines fewer and fewer pockets.
aed priceless tss' v s
aS Eo for Wase increase p per cent per
figures show that the % last wage increases toasd billion
@ aoai e more than "a billion dollars in e increases the boy
haven't accounted for with their higher higher prices
Big conveniently overooks fact labor
increases after prices had already increased Under the Little
crease but T. s. Statistics figures
left labor east IS per- ss esn UNDER the end of W the
s9ndy the major inc the last campaign @ Were
in food where wage Increases few between
Most of all Big Business orgt about the 192Os when labor
scale wage struggles What caused price initiation and de-
preston thn At the time Big Business said was caused by every K
present wages prices" bunk.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
Heintz Heads
(Confinusd From Pace Ose)

Zamarek is getting along nicely
following her recent operation.
Best wishes are exentded her for
continued Improvement.
The new mems room in the slip
house is nearing completion. The
tile floor has been laid, the walls
are being plastered with white
material and when it is finished,
it will be a welcome addition.
Isabelle Szymendera who recent
ly retired from the shop was pre-
sented with a beautiful hangbag
from the girls in the clay shop.
She expressed her thanks to the
girls in these words: "the thought
was sweet, the gift was beautiful,
and thanks million"
As the old year comes to an end
and we look back over the past
months, the thought occurs to your
o. C.. that credit should be given
when credit is due. To the editor
and staff of the Pottery Post
plant newspaper, we take this
means of expressing our thanks
for swell job throughout the year
and our earnest wish for continued
success in the new year.
A belated Christmas and New
Years greeting to members of the
Executive Board, office staff at
headquarters and employees of the
'Potters Herald. DO. G. rs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02

disease in this country. We can get
rid of most of it if we determine
| to do it.
We have other diseases that
come from causes unknown-like
cancer and polio. We can find out
those causes if we, as a whole ma
ton, determine that we must do
it. We made the atomic bomb,
didn't we?
We are doing better than we
used to be, but that isn't enough.
Let's mobilize determination and
see what happens. Brother, it will
be plenty!
On Jan. 1 each year we go
around saying, Apply New
Year.. That's fine-and a Happy
New Year to all of you.
But how about a new year Of
progress, one in which there is no
robbery of one by another, or of
many by few, one in which we
move on to build world for peace,
one in which there are more good
things for everyone, one in which
there is more downright delight
and deep qualification, instead of
merely vaudeville stage giggles.
Let's put all cheapness and mar
rowness out in this new year. M
Let's get at the roots and help
build for justice and freedom and
stability and peace. Is that too
much for grown-ups to want to
do? No, it isn't!-CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
Bosses NO. May
Cause Recession
AFL Leader Soys

Washington (LPA)-If America
slides into an economic recession
in 1947, the fault will lie with
those employers who keep saying
"no" to all reasonable requests OF
workers for wage increases, it was
charged last week by James A
Brownlow, Secretary-treasurer OF
the AFL Metal Trades Depart
ment.
at is about time that employers
stopped saying mo- from beginning
to end of collective bargaining,
he said. industrial peace can
never be attained if one party per-
sists in exercising veto powers.
"Instead of taking a negative
position, employers should come
to the bargaining table prepared to
listen. to reason and willing to
agree to a reasonable compromise.
Compromise is no new idea. Life is
a series of compromises between
what the individual wants and
what he can get. The same princi-
pie in the basis of collective bar
gaining.
"Many thousands of employers,
who sincerely engage in collective
bargaining, have found that it
pays dividends in uninterrupted
production and peace and harmony
within the production family Of
management and labor" Brownlow
said.
''If the old guard of hitherto un-
compromising industrial leaders
will agree to stop saying mo- to
organized labor and start trying to
find acceptable adjustments, fair
to both sides, peacetime production
will break all records in 1947," he
concluded.
"Then prices can be brought
down to more reasonable levels.
Purchasing power will reach new
highs and prosperity can become
an accomplished fact instead of a
vanishing dream.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
AL Meets
(CoHfisaed From Pare OnsJ

plete lmpunity.
"Such employer tactics as these
call for new defense measures on
the part of our unions, and in fact
a new organization approach. We
can no longer assure employees
that they are free to organize
without interference from their
employers"
As a strategy against situations
where employers call meetings of
employees during working hours
in the name of Stree speech"-and
propagandize them against unions
--Googe urged that unions demand
equal facilities TO present their
side.
1T is not likely that the request
will be granted, but the refusal
will serve to deflate the free
speech pretensions of the employ
ers," he said.
Googe also announced that, to
meet the employer attacks, the
AFL during l947 will embark upon
more energetic organizing activi-
ties than ever.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
GREEN NAMES GROUP
TO VISIT ARGENTINA

Washington (FP) - President
William Green Dec. "a announced
the members of an official AFL
delegation TO visit Argentina in
January and report back to him
on labor, economic and political
conditions there.
The group includes: President
Arnold Zander Of the State, County
and Municipal Employees; Presi-
dent Lee Mimic Of the Glass Bottle
Blowers; Vice President Israel
Goldberg Of the Hatters, Cap and
Millinery Workers; Vice Presiden.
Miguel Carriga of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees; and Sera-
fino Romualdi Of the international
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
The delegates are to visit Argen-
tina at the invitation Of the gov
ernment and of the Argentina Con-
federation of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
NY. Teachers Aid
St. Paul Teachers

New York (FP)-An emergency
committee of the New York Teach
ers Guild has sent its first contri-
button of $500 to aid striking
teachers in st. Paul, MINI. The
st. Paul teachers are entering the
sixth week of their strike for high
er pay and improved school condi-
tions.
The New York teachers also be-
gan citywide collections for fur
ther strike aid. Guild President
Rebecca C. Simonson, in a message
to the st. Paul strikers, declared:
81 know you are fighting the fight
of the teachers of the whole coun-
try. They are all profiting by your
courage. am particularly inter-
ested in you consistent emphasis
that this is not a matter of just
salaries but of schools and educa-
tion."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
Wilson Asks
For l-Yedr
Wage Freeze
Labor Sole Blame
For Initiation

New York (FP) - Joining in
big business solid front against
labor's new wage demands, Presi-
dent Charles E. Wilson of General
Electric proposed a 1-year indus
trywide freeze on wage increases.
Wilson's declaration followed
closely the line set by General
Motors spokesmen. GIN chairman
Alfred P. Sloan called on employ
ers to resist wage demands and
outlined bold unionbusting
scheme, while GIN Pres d e n t
Charles E. Wilson warned that
wage proposals would bring fur
ther price increases.
Admitting that prices are too
high, Wilson of GE placed sole
blame for initiation on labor. If the
electrical industry granted pay
raises, he said, 1--WE would have to
raise our prices three quarters Of l
per cent for every / per cent of
increase"
He ruled out any possibility of
a freeze on profits. Claiming that
costs had outstripped GE prices
and were being met out of profits.
Wilson hastened to add that "this
ration could not be continued"
The GE presidents press con-
ference coincided with a renewed
attack on unions as "monopolies"
by Vice President Walter Weisen-
berger of the National Association
of Manufacturers and disclosure
that a powerful group within the
NAM was aiming at outright re-
peal of the three most important
federal labor laws, the Wagner act,
the wage-hour act and the Norris
LaGuardia anti-injunction act.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02

ger of destitution in old age anG
the risks of illness without proper
medical care can be banished from
our land.
"This constructive program re-
quires a high measure of national
unity and the same kind of fight
ing determination to overcome al
obstacles which brought US victory
in the war.
"But today, / regret to report
wartime unity has for the most
part disintegrated and America
is being torn apart by dangerous
tensions. The key factors in our
industrial life are pulling and haul
ing each other in another tug OF
war. The powerful forces of man.
agement and labor which should
be part of the same team are
now, in many instances, struggling
at cross purposes.
That is not consistent with the
American way of life. 1t is equally
obnoxious to the Fundamental
policy of the AFL.
1--WE in the AFL believe sincere
ly in teamwork between labor and
management. We have found
through long years of experience
that it works and that it pays"
Green said the hope of 1947 is
that "This will become the accept
ed policy of all American business
and labor" and asked what is stop
ping the nation from going ahead
He answered that ''it is the lack
of a broad understanding between
industry and labor that they are
indispensable to each other"
A first step toward such an un-
derstanding, the AFL leader said
is pledge and commitment to re-
spect and safeguard "the free en-
terprise of industry and labor,
Industry has now been freed from
government controls. 1t should be
satisfied. 1t should not seek the
imposition Of new government con-
trolls on labor, either by legisla-
tion or administrative order. That,
in the end, would mean govern
ment control of business, too.
"The American way of life is not
static. 1t must keep changing for
the better all the time. ORGANIZED
labor recognizes this, truth. 1t is
time industry also understood it
and conformed to it, instead of
trying to apply the brakes and
throw our economy into reverse.
"The AFL hopes that in 1947
the forces Of reason and progress
will triumph over the few extre-
mists whose refusal to keep in step
with the times threatens the well
fare of our country"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
THE CHERRY TREE

We're looking down the road tc
New Year - and wouldn't yor
like to know some of the things
that will happen in that span ol
months =?
One thing is sure. Each one o1
us can do something toward max.
ing it a better year, if we do oul
plain duty.
We can be alert in our politica
life, to help see that capable anC
clean men and women are elected
to public office.
We can quit sleeping at th5
switch and help see to it that oul
education system works better.
Every member or an organiza-
ton, whether it be union, fraternal
civic or what have you, can play q
full part toward making that or
ganization express sounder poll
cies.
We can quit staying in the shad-
ow while professional leaders anC
professional politicians do oul
thinking and speaking for us.
We can think more about dem
ocracy, what it means and how to
portect it.
We can get into our minds a
determination that this must be d
better and a safer world and then
we can work toward that end at
every opportunity. More than that
we can MAKE opportunities.
This nation is ruled by MAORI
ties and majorities don't have to
be bigoted, stupid and careless.
They can be informed.
1t may be true that it hurts to
think much. 1t may be true that it
is difficult to be fully informed.
Maybe it's impossible.
BUT WE CAN TRY and if we
try we are sure to have some i'm
provement.
We don't have to either hate or
support somebody because some
one else tells US we ought to. We
can take less for granted and try
to get proof on more things.
Questions are powerful things if
they are used properly.
Read, search, dig, ask questions
wisely and often.
If enough persons think the
United Nations will fail, then
probably it will fail. If enough are
determined that it shall succeed,
quite probably it will succeed.
One way to get determined that
it must succeed is to ask, WHAT
WILL HAPPEN IF 1T FAILS?
One way to get something like
democratic practice in solving in
dustrial difficulties is to start
thinking about how that could be
done.
One way to keep bigots and self
seekers out of office is to deter
mine that they shall not get into
office.
During the war we had block
leaders and a whole city could be
informed in a few hours on any
vital question.
We can pretty near do what we
want to-if we want with suffi-
cient energy and intelligence.
There is no sense in being beaten
before you start.
We have a lot of preventable
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02
Xmas Party Held


fCosfinaed From Page Ons)
Berk Dillon; cochairman, Ed Holt
man; gifts, Croft Wright, Andy
Schwartz; refreshments, Dean
Reed, Beryl Naylor, Chester Bare,
George Phillips, Archie Patison,
Harold Torbet; entertainment,
Otto De Yong, Harlan Emerson,
Harold Miller, Clarence Davis,
Louis Graitge, AL Sepulveda; deco
rations, Walter Mcdonald, Joe
Gordon, Harold Chute, Fred Couch,
Chas. Hitchcock, Lew Maroda; ar
rangements, Vic Simmons, Ralph
Snapp, Lee Hauger, Doyle Littrell; /;
publicity, Jim Butler, Bob Prender-
gast; donkeys and clowns, Don
Postlewaite, Pete Phillips, Wells
Moody, Everett Dotson; invocation,
Dwight Ball; Santa Claus, Jack
Bell.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-02

Demand the Union Label.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Ha|as Hires SIeuths
To Fight 5caIpers
Nv the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Nov. 8-According to
George Halas, owner-coach of the
Chicago Bears, he is using private
detectives to fight ticket scalping
at the Bears remaining home foot
ball games.
The detectives repurchased tickets
from almost a dozen agencies in the
city selling them above regular
prices for the Bears game with
Green Bay in Wrigley Field Sunday.
Halas declined to reveal the
amount paid for the tickets in the
drive, but said he would issue a
complete report at the end OF the
season and would turn over all
facts of the investigation to the
Office of the collector of internal
revenue if requested.
The Bears Office keeps a list of
names of all purchasers of reserved
seats. Persons who originally
bought the tickets which Halas re-
purchased from the spectators will
not be given consideration for future
games, a club spokesman said.
The private detectives, group
said to number about 40. will visit
agencies preceding the games with
Pittsburgh, November "a, Los An
geles Rams, December 7, and the
Chicago Cardinals. December IA.
Evening star., 1947-11-08
Hockey Lions Proving Soft
Touch for Buffalo Bisons

both occasions the SeconQ place
Western division team has skated
off with APPOINT marginal victory
Last night the Bisons handed the
Lions a 90 setback before 2,212 fans
at Uline Arena. 1t was the fifth
straight loss for the home team.
After outplaying the visitors for
most of the first two periods, the
Lions suddenly became tame. en-
abling the Bisons to score three
times late in the second frame.
Leo Gravelle, Len Halldorson and
Joe Bell each drove home the puck
in less than three minutes time to
give the Blsons a 40 margin. Paul
Bibeault scored Washington's first
goarat 1910 of the second period.
Defenseman Hal jackson scored a
long shot past the unseeing eyes of
Lion Goalie Gordon Bell to put the
Bisons out front in the first period
Dan Porteous scored for Washing
ton in the opening minutes of the
final, but the Bisons put the game
on ice when Les Douglas and Tom
Cooper each scored while Bud Foley
was sitting out a two-minute hold
ing penalty.