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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1949-01-26
ZION BANK
Continued from Page II

CONTINUED from rage l.
elected to fill the two new
positions on the Board of Di-
rectors. Mr.. Warren is SEN
ior partner in the Leader De-
partment Store in Zion and Mr..
Burgess is Vice President and
Cashier of the bank. Mr.. War
ren's new duties will include
membership on the loan COM
mittee.
Dividend Declared
In addition to the $25, 900
increase in Capital, a $50 cash
dividend was distributed.
In his report to the stock
holders, President Mintern
commented on the progress of
the new bank quarters and it
was the hope of all present that
the building would be ready
for occupancy this Spring.
Officers Appointed
Following an organization
meeting this week the new
Board of Directors announced
the appointment of the follow
ing named officers who will
conduct the affairs of the
bank: Michael J. Mintern was
again elected as President;
Ralph R. Phil as Vice Presi-
dent; R. A. Burgess will con-
tinue as Vice President and
Cashier; and James Hotham
as Assistant Cashier. Philip G..
Wright was named Assistant
Cashier to fill the vacancy
created by the recent demise
of Vim. j. Armstrong who was
a member of the Zion Bank
staff for many years.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1949-01-26
CENTRAL P. T. A.
HOLDS MEETING

The Central P. T. A. met
Tuesday night January 18th.
Weather conditions were I'M
favorable but there was a good
program. Dottie Lee McCon-
nell, Jackie Woodman and
Lanny Schmidt each gave a
reading. Theodore Neave led
in group singing.
Miss Olive Lind, school
nurse, gave a talk on the func-
lions of the school nurse. Miss
Lind is secretary-treasurer of
the Social Service committee
of Zion, and told of dental
work done for school children
through funds from the Com
munity Chest.
Two films were shown,
"Joan Prevents a Cold" and
one on Infantile Paralysis.
Theodore McGarrahan, chair
man of safety committee, Cen
trail, and Gerald Fisher, gen
eral safety chairman, each
gave talk.
Mrs. Jack Douglas, presi-
dent, presided. Refreshments
were served by Mrs. George
Stried Jr., and her committee.
Two Central school pro-
jects this year are: buying IL
brary books for the upper
grades, and records for the
lower grades.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1949-01-26
ILLINOIS NEW
GOVERNOR
CONTINUED from page y

Continued from page II
mental structure both state
and local which will insure
the most economical admins
tration of all government SER
vices"
These sincere statements by
Governor Stevenson are the
best possible definition also of
the detectives of the Taxpay-
ers' Federation of Illinois
which, pledged it's complete
support to Governor Steven
son to help him achieve such
detectives, in a letter of Nov
ember IL.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1949-01-26
JOE MOLE

JUL MOAG
Continued from page y
1900's Grandpa Mole, brought
his family to Zion to live.
During this same period of
time, Joe's mother, the former
Miss Georgia Grow, was grow
ing up and going to school in
Missouri. She received her
teachers certificate and taught
school for a period of years in
Missouri, Oklahoma and later
in Illinois. 1t was through the
means of the Leaves of Heal
ing that she heard of Zion and
came with her sisters to live
here.
After a period of time she,
Miss Georgia Grow, and Frank
Mole were united in marriage.
1t was here in Zion that the
members of Franks family
were born, raised and educat-
ed.
Anyone who knew Mrs.
Frank Mole can we'll remem-
Der the happiness she brought
to many who were in need of
food, clothing or a comforting
word.
Here in Zion, Joe's father
took up shoe repairing and
worked in the Zion Depart
ment Store, where he owned
his own repair shop. 1t was
during this time that Joe would
go into his fathers shop after
school and on Saturday and
vacation time to help Dad. AS
time went on he learned more
and more of the shoe repair
ing trade and all about leather,
etc..
After leaving high school
Joe went to work at the Zion
Bakery and Candy Factories
for a period of three years. In
the early part of 1887 he left
the Bakery and went to work
for his Dad repairing shoes. It
was not long until he was able
to carry on with the business.
AS you see Joe has grown
up with the shoe repairing
business and to him it is a full
time hobby. He enjoys seeing
the old, worn shoes take on a
new shine, heels lifted, and
soles made new again.
On June Z, 1887, Joe Mole
was united in marriage to Miss
Lucille R. Richards also of
Zion, at the home of the brides
parents.
When business became slow
Joe took on the job of deliver
ing groceries for Zion Store.
Thus he became acquainted
with many people and had
many experiences on the gro
Gerry truck. He also came to
know every street and nook
of Zion.
In the early spring of 1941
Mr.. Mole left Zion Stores and
went to work for Johns-Man-
vile in the Rock Wool Dept.
Who knows, he may have
been there yet had not his faith
err decided to sell out his, Shoe
Repair Business in the fall of
1912 and go to Phoenix, Ari-
IONA, with Joe's younger bro
Their and sisters.
It was October 1, 1912, that
Joe bought out the Shoe Re-
nair. Shnn from his fath nY 70
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Swiss Labor Movement
WithdraWS From WFTU

Berne, Switzerland-The Swiss
Trade Union Commission voted to
withdraw from the World Fedora
tion of Trade Unions. Describing
the sWFTU as "a branch of the
Cominform," Communist lnfor-
nation Bureau.) The Swiss COM
mission declared it absolutely nee
essary" to maintain close collabor-
alton between the national trade
union movements in democratic
countries"
AS result of this action it is
expected that the Swiss trade union
movement will join with the AFL,
the British Trades Union Congress
and democratic labor organizations
from other countries in an effort
to set up new world organiza-
tion of free trade unions. A con-
ference for this purpose is sched-
uled to open in Geneva June 25.
The AFL delegates are Secretary
Treasurer George Meany, Interna-
tional Representative George p.
Delaney and George Brown, the
AFL's European representative.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30

It's easier to get ahead than to
keep ahead.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Utilities Lead Profits Parade In First
Three Months Of 794o, Survey Shows

Washington (LPA)-Profts Of
all US industry were still near the
all-time high during the first three
months of 1949, and were consid.
erably higher than for the same
months last year, the Federal Re-
serve Board reported last week.
] Large manufacturing companies
did best-with profits 1919 larger
than for the first quarter of 1913
though they took in 1596 less ir
profits than in the fourth quarter
of 1948, traditionally the most
lucrative part of the year.
Electric light and power com
panies showed the biggest profits
in large part due to rate increases
and the increased efficiency of new
plants and equipment put into op-
GRAFTON only recently. Their profits
before taxes were 24.4 per cent OF
sales, compared with 20.5 per cent
during the comparable period last
year.
Factors that have tended to
maintain profits during the current
period of declining sales," the
Board observes, shave been lower
unit labor costs because of an
increase in productivity and the
disappearance of most overtime
wage payments" and lower unit
material costs.
The Board also points out that
"some companies" have kept up
their profits by closing plants when
they can't sell their goods at pre-
sent high prices. 'In some cases
this has made1i it possible for them
to reduce operating costs sufficient
ly to offset, at least in part, the
decline in sales"
Moderately lower" profits were
chalked up by trade and transport
alton industries.
AS in 1948, only the larger COM
panies showed the big profits.
oHldll anu IHeulun-SlZeu companies
weren't doing as well.
AS for "hidden profits" these
are more likely this year to be
written off thru increases in
charges for depreciation of new
plant and equipment, rather than
as in 1947 and 1948 thru setting
aside large amounts of corpora
tion's funds for future capital ex-
penditures, according to the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
Spending for new plant and
equipment, during the first three
months of this year, was at level
S per cent above the same months
in 1948.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Nation Shocked By
Alabama k!anmen

Washington OPA) - The ma
TONS horror at renewed violence
by hooded hoodlums in Alabama
found expression in the US Con-
gress and the Justice Dept last
week.
Attorney General Tom Clark an
n unced that the FBI will
thoroughly investigate the terror
ism, and the House of Representa-
tives okayed an inquiry by its Jud-
iciary Committee.
Prejudice met outrage on the
floor of the House when Rep. John
Rankin Cd, Miss.) voiced opposition
to the statement of the Commit
tees plans by Chairman Emmanuel
Celler Cd, N. ". "If the gentle
man from New York would keep
| his nose out of the south's affairs
we'd be better off" Rankin snorted.
The Dixiecrats' passions were
already aroused by another House
committees IL to 7 approval of the
anti-polI tax bill--even tho that
measure is still a long way from
becoming law.
Spurred on by CIO and AFL
unions in the state, and by Gov.
James Folsom, a committee of the
Alabama legislatures lower house
last week okayed bill unmasking
the white sheet brigades. The state
senate has already passed the
measure.
Veterans and civic organizations
have joined with the unions in a
resolve to track down the goons
that have beaten up miners, their
wives, and at least one newspaper
man who was on their trail.
While some officials of the Ku
Klux Klan denied that their organ
ization has been guilty of the
latest assaults, the Klan has been
quick to denounce the anti-secrecy
proposal. They called the bill an
insult to the Klansmen of the
1S60's and 70's. One Baptist minis
ter said he'd rather be hung from
from the steps of the state capitol
"where Jefferson Davis was in
augurated than take the masks
from the Klan."
from day when compared to those
great Republican liberals of the
past" he pointed out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Supreme Court
Rule May Mean
Higher Gas Rates

Washington (LPA)-Higher gas
rates were predicted by Supreme
Court Justice Hugo Black last
week, dissenting in a court decis-
ion that the Federal Power Com
mission has no control over natural
gas reserved.
Unlike other Supreme Court
cases recently, the natural gas de-
cision was clearly split along some
what political lines with the tri-
bunaPs three outstanding liberals
Justices Hugo Black, Wiley Rut-
ledge and William O. Douglas all
strongly opposed to freeing the
gas companies from government
regulation.
The case involved jurisdiction
over Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line
Company's sales of natural gas,
Justice Stanley Reed said that
Congress never intended to give
the commission power over sale of
gas reserves. For ten years, he as
serted, the FPC never sought any
such power.
Justice Black said that the de-
cision will give "the unwholesome
practices that the Natural Gas Act
was primarily designed to prevent,
a new lease on life" He compared
the situation to granting jurisdic-
tion to regulate railroads without
power to regulate the tracks,
routs, rights-of-way, etc."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
AFL Ready To Put
tn Before Nation
Again, Green Says

Washington (LPA)-If this Con-
gress doesn't repeal the Taft Hart
ley law the AFL will carry the
issue again to the voters, who re-
pudiated the anti-labor act last
November, AFL President William
Green declared last week, as the
Senate debate on labor legislation
reached fever pitch.
Unanimou determination to
fight to the last ditch for repeal of
the Taft Hartley act and the pass
age of new labor relations law
with amendments acceptable to
labor was expressed at the meet
ing of the AFL's legislative confer
ence.
eve appeal to all members of
the United States Senate to vote
with u.s. AFL President William
Green told the conference. eve will
fight to the bitter end against any
amendments authorizing the Gov
ernment to issue anti-strike injunc-
tions."
Green said that regardless of
the outcome of the fight for Taft
Hartley repeal, the AFL's political
arm, Labor's League for Political
Education, plans to hold confer
ence in Washington July 10Th of
local union representatives from
every section of the nation to per-
feet plans for the 1850 Congress-
ional election campaign.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
High Court okays
Steward. Seniority

Washington UPA) = The i'm
portance of trade union shop stew.
ards was recognized by the US
Supreme Court last week. 1t said
that even veterans preferences
under the wartime draft law must
not be permitted to deprive the
trade union movements non-coms
of the job rights.
Because a labor agreement as
sumes the proper adjustment OF
grievances at their source, the
union chairmen play q very import
ant role in the whole collective bar
gaining process" wrote Justice
Felix Frankfurter in the court
order.
Therefore," he said, at is high
ly desirable that union chairmen
have the authority and skill which
are derived from continuity in Of
fee"
The IntI Association of Machin-
lists was victor in the case, which
involved the claims of a war vet
eran that his seniority rights under
the draft law were superior to
those of shop stewards provided in
IAM's contract with the Lockheed
Aircraft Corp.
Justice Frankfurter pointed out,
in his decision, that the contract
clause protecting shop stewards is
wholly unrelated to the veterans
absence in the service" Veterans,
in fact, are often chosen as shop
stewards by their co-workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Congress Sits On River Funds While
Flood Rushes BY Washington. D. G.
By BRADFORD V. CARTER

Just few blocks from the capi-
tai an angry, turbulent Potomac
River races down to the Chesa-
peake Bay and members of Con-
gress are again reminded of the
pressing problem of harnessing the
nations water power.
The river carries a heart-break-
ing burden of good topsoil the re-
mains of farm buildings and homes,
and hundreds of head of livestock.
This shameful waste of our re-
sources, however, doesn't seem to
trouble men like Sen. Harry Byrd
Cd, Va.), though his own home is
in the beautiful Shenandoah valley.
The valleys most priceless posses
sion-its Soils sweeping down to
the sea, making the river at Wash
ington a rich earth color.
Byrd (whose middle name appro-
priately enough is Flood) consist
emily joins with his COP "econ-
omy" pals to bite off funds for far
sighted flood control and power
creating projects. A Potomac basin
conservation plan is small potatoes
to him compared with the huge
Missouri and Columbia valley pro-
jects which the private utilities
lobby is fighting to avoid at all
costs.
Hearings on a Columbia Valley
Administration are now being held
by the House Public Works Com
mittee. The fight is between the
Fair Dealers who want coordin-
ated valley plan patterned after
iva, and the private power inter-
ests who want to see the Army
Engineers continue their inadequ-
ate flood control program so that
the government will not harness
the areas resources for power pro-
duction. The Republicans and Dix
iecrats as group are carrying the
ball for utility companies.
The Columbia valley is the heart
of the Pacific northwest. For years
its resources have been exploited
and wasted. The people of the area
have witnessed such destruction
that in addition to the liberals eX-
pected to support eva legislation,
hard-shelled conservatives such as
Sen. Harry p Cain Or, Wash.) and
+. b. McNaughton, chairman of
the Portland National Bank and
publisher of the Oregonian, have
reluctantly come around to the
eva idea.
The idea is the one underlying
the Tennessee Valley Authority:
that all development of the valley
must be handled by a single agency
which is responsible for irrigation,
flood control, power production,
navigation, soil conservation and
hundreds of other problems, all
related and all vitually important
to the region and the people who
live there.
President Truman is backing a
eva bill that has been introduced |
into both houses of Congress. The
bill would set up a democratically- |
run agency having three directors
appointed by the President and |
confirmed by the Senate. Labor,
farmers, and industry would be re-
presented on local advisory boards.
AS the valley is run now, there
are four conflicting agencies, all
at each others throats and each
having a limited authority that
clashes with the others. These four
are the Army Engineers, Bureau of
Reclamation, Bonneville Power Ad-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Junior COP Told
To Study Norris,
'LaFoIIette Records

Salt Lake City OPA)-Over 50t
COP juniors, many of them pro
claiming they wanted to do battle
with the Old Guard, heard some
blunt truths here from a labor lead
er on what their party must do tC
recruit support from labor and the
plain people.
The straight m-the-shouldel
talk was given by Joseph ID. Kee-
nan, director of Labor's League for
Political Education, the AFL poll
teal arm, to the annual convention
of the Young Republican National
Federation, attended by delegates
from all over the country.
He was invited to speak about
"The Responsibility of the Republi-
can Party to Labor" but he broad
ened the assignment to cover his
views on what the COP respons-
ibility should be to "the general
welfare of all our people-farmers,
businessmen and urban workers" F."
Pulling no punches, Keenan, in
sisted that "a complete change in
the thinking of Republican leaders
is necessary to give new and more
realistic direction to that party"
and he declared only the young
Republicans offer hope that this
can be done.
The AFL, he said, wants a
"strong two-party system" and has
"no intention of building a third
labor party" It's policy will remain
one of "helping our friends and de-
feating our enemies on a nonpart-
isan basis"
If the AFL now seems more
friendly to the Democrats, at is
because of the voting record of the
congressman from the two parties" "
Then he read the roll on votes in
Congress with respect to major
progressive issues-such as rent
control, the Wood labor bill, hous-
! ing bill, and others. On almost all
of these, keenan, said, a majority
Of Democrats, but only a handful
of Republicans, voted fright" from
labor's standpoint.
"You can see from these ex-
amples that if the farmer and the
workingman are to have their
faith restored i'm the Republican
party and its candidates, that
policy must be brought more in
step with the concepts of progress
sive democracy and social welfare
held by the majority of the voting
public" he declared.
keenan, cited the emergence of
young, courageous congressman on
the Democratic ticket in the last
election, and he predicted that "the
same thing is going to happen in
both parties next year"
"Young men and women with
the courage of their convictions
and strong consciousness of their
responsibility to the public welfare
will run against backward thinking
incumbents,'" he said.
If the COP comes forward with
men like the late Senator Robert
M, LaFollette Sr. and Senator
George Norris, it has a chance of
regaining public confidence, Kee-
nan asserted. AS things stand now,
1.-The men who lead the Republican
party are as different as night
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Two Sfufes End
All Rent CurbS

Washington (LPA)-Two more
states have taken all the prelimin-
airy steps to end rent controls with
| in their borders. Gov. Beaufort
Jester approved the Texas legisla-
tors action to remove controls 1O5
days after the Legislature adjourns.
The Wisconsin lawmakers okayed
lifting controls by June /, 1850.
The Wisconsin measure, which
squeaked thru the lower house on
a AZ to 40 vote after it had been
rejected twice, provides for 15%
to 30R rent boosts between now
and next year when all controls
are off. Tenants who have accepted
15% rent boosts in the past will
be subject to another 15% boost.
Their landlords must offer them
leases running thru 1850 in order
to. collect the new hike.
Wisconsin tenants who turned
down past leases with the 1879 in
creases allowed landlords under
the previous rent control law, will
also be subject to 1870 automatic
boosts.
Thru actions of city councils, the
following places have also been de-
controlled: Dallas and IL other
Texas cities; Tucson, Ariz.; Mar
ion, Ind; Moultrie, Ga; Hobbs,
N. NJ; S. Hutchinson, Kans.;
Tecumseh and Yukon, Okla; Hum
boldt, Tenn; Caney, Ottawa and
Coffeyville, Kans.; and by action
of Housing Expediter Tig h e
Woods, a 168o blanket rent boost
for Vermillion Co., Ill.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
OBITUARIES
ALE MAE WELLS

Paden City, w. Va.-Alie Mae
Wells, charter member of Local
Union No. 146, died suddenly al
her home June 3rd. She was Ct.
Miss Wells was born in Mead
vile, w. Va, the daughter of the
late Eli and Mary Wells.
She is survived by one sister,
Rosa Wells of Paden City, and
three brothers, Clyde Wells of
Shiloh, w. Va. and Paerly and
SAINT Wells of Lawrenceville, I'll.
Funeral services were held at
the home by Rev. c. E. Hart of
Parkersburg, w. Va. and Rev.
Wiley Baker of Bens Run, w. Va.
Burial was in Greenwood Gene
terry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
Hiring Practices OF
Building Trades
Ruled Against

Washington UPA) - For the
first time since the passage of the
Taft Hartley law, the NLRB last
week revealed the full extent of its
effect upon union-management hir-
ing practices in the construction
industry.
The board turned thumbs down
on a contract, between the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters-AFL
and a contractor, which thru a "re-
ferral and hiring" clause gave
UBT members first cracks at job
vacancies.
This clause violated THIS clos
ed shop ban, the board ruled.
While acknowledging that such
contracts are "the custom and
practice" in the building trades, the
board said:
"That argument should properly
be addressed to Congress, not to
this board. 1t is our duty as admin
istrators TO enforce the law, and
not to pass upon the wisdom and
practically of it's provisions"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
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Demand the Union Label.
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from day when compared to thos,
great Republican liberals of the
past" he pointed out.
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ministration, and Fish & Wildlife
Service. There is such confusion
that recently it took four days
merely to float free a barge that
was stuck between Bonneville and
Grand Coulee dams. The four out
fits all have to write memos to each
other when extra power is needed
by the atomic plant at Hanford,
Wash.
This is the sort of disastrous in
efficiency the private power COM
panies like to see. 1t makes it inn
possible for the government to
build and operate adequate facili-
ties in the Northwest. As soon as
there is unified eva the govern
ment will be producing electricity
in the region ut cheaper rates than
the Puget Sound Power & Light
Co. That's what the utilities lobby
is fighting against. And that's why
the Republicans turn their heads
the other way when floods take
lives and property each year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-30
In tallm ent Buying
Curbs To Die June 30

Washington - Government con-
trolls over installment buying by
consumers will be allowed to expire
at the end of the month, senators
said.
The wartime and postwar con-
trolls over the amount of down
payments and total time for pay
ments have been known as Regu-
lation w.
Sen. Robertson (D) of Virginia,
chairman of banking subcommit-
tee which held hearings on a pro-
posed extension, said his group
"contemplates no further action.