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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
VIRGINIA SEXES
LOCAL PHONE co.

Clifton Forge, Va. (LPA)-Be-
cause the local telephone company,
an independent, only offered it's
employees a PA cent an hour pay
boost, which the rs members Of
Communications Workers of AM
erica rejected, Gov. Tuck has taken
over the Clifton Forge Waynes-
boro Telephone Co. under the state
anti-strike law.
The State Corporation Commiss-
ion was designated to operate the
company August 10, after the
workers voted to strike They had
asked for an 11.2 cent wage in
crease. The company's only offer
was 81 week across the board,
and 81 more at the top for the top
craft-which would have affected
one man.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Union Can Demand
Merit Rating Data,
Examiner Rules

Washington (LPA)-A company
Under contract to a labor union
must give the union full informa-
tion on the merit rating of en-
ployes when requested, an NLRB
trial examiner ruled last week.
The decision was handed down
in case brought by Lodge No.
1000 of the Int'l Association of
Machinists against the General
Controls Co., manufacturers of
automatic pressure and control de-
vices in Glendale, Calf.
The examiner held that the union
needed detailed information on
merit ratings in order to deter
mine whether the contract was be-
ing properly administered and so
that grievances arising from dis
charges, layoffs and promotions
could be properly handled. He also
said that the company would have
to furnish merit rating informa-
! ton on all employees in the bar
gaining unit including those not
members of the union.
The examiners ruling in this
case takes effect as an NLRB order
unless one of the parties contests
it within 20 days.
The General Controls Co. was
guilty on four counts of refusing
to bargain collectively, the exam
iner maintained. He wrote that the
company had refused to furnish
the unions: (D names of employees
receiving merit raises; (2) the
amount of such raises; (3) COM
plete seniority lists in the various
departments; and (4) the rating
review cards of all employees.
However, the examiner said that
the company did not have to con-
suit with the union granting merit
raises. The contract, he pointed
out, gave the company Exclusive
right and power" to administer the
merit rating plan in accordance
with the contracts terms. 1t was
when merit ratings became the
subject of grievances that the
union became entitled to informa-
ton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
AFL Council And
Political League
Dig Into Problems

Toronto (LPA) = Two major
units of the AFL-its executive
council and the administrative
committee of Labor's League for
Political Education-swung into
action on a wide variety of poll
tical and economic problems, at
their quarterly meeting here this
week.
One big issue tackled by the ex-
ecutive council is that of the busi-
ness recession and accompanying
unemployment. The question of
how serious the job decline has
become, and whether the trend is
now being reversed, was studied
by the council.
Further steps to help in the
building of a new world alliance of
free trade unions as rival to the
Communist ist-dominated World Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions We're also
considered.
Much of the time was also de-
voted to the drafting of the coun-
ellis report to the next AFL con-
vention, opening in st. Paul in
October.
The administrative committee of
the Political League went over
plans for intensified political acti-
vity in 1850 and for a nationwide
drive for So per capita contribu-
tions to finance the 1850 campaign.
Defeat of Senator Robert A. Taft
in Ohio's 1850 senatorial election
is to be a major objective in the
plans being formulated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
Act Now To Head
Off A Depression
lam Chief Urges

Washington (LPA)-An urgent
appeal to Congress to take action
now to "head off a serious depres-
sion" was issued here this week
by President A. ]. Hayes of the
Int'l Association of Machinists.
Hayes said he did so "on behalf of
almost 100000 skilled craftsmen
who belong to our organization"
"In our own language, we are
asking for preventive mainten-
ance," Hayes wrote. "We see signs
that show a breakdown is coming.
Our trade, which is better off than
most, already has tens of thous-
ands unemployed in hard-hit areas
from Providence to Seattle.
"Our country cannot afford to
continue wasting our skills and
energies. The cost of idleness to
the country and the world is far
greater than the price of preven-
tive action which can be taken by
Congress now. 1t is still true that
an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound Of cure.
"On behalf Of the members of
the lam | am asking that you act
now, this summer, before you ad-
journ for your vacation, on an i'm
mediate short-term program that
will help increase purchasing pow
er, so as to reverse the trend to-
ward depression"
Specifically, Hayes urged that
Congress increase unemployment
benefits and the period of payment,
revive GI unemployment payments
for another year at S25 a week,
raise the minimum wage to rs
cents an hour, hike social security
benefits, appropriate funds for
public works, appropriate funds
for maximum public housing, and
repeal wartime increases in excise
taxes.
"Such positive action now would
get US past this period of postwar
uncertainty and provide time for
planning long-term full employ
ment program" Hayes added.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
RAILROADS GRANTED
18th ROUND BOOST

Washington (LPA) - Railroads
got their Seventh round" rate
boost last week. The Interstate
Commerce Commission authorized
another four percent hike in
freight rates, over and above a 5.2
percent interim raise allowed last
December.
The December boost added $391,-
100000 to freight revenues, and
the new increase will add another
$293, 100000. The commission said
the railroads needed the hike to
cover the cost of the 40-hour week
which goes into effect for million
incorporating" employees on the
rails September /.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
NEW PRESS SCANDAL
DOCTORS BRIBE PRESS
ON HEALTH INSURANCE
By NATHAN ROBERTSON

Washington OPA) = Minnesota
doctors and newspaper editors
have worked out a secret deal
under which the doctors have prop
ped their long standing ethical rule
against advertising in return fol
IA "closer understanding with the
press"-which amounts to bribing
the press to fight President Tru-
mans health insurance program.
Some of the editors are reported
to be planning to blast the deal as
an attempt to corrupt the press. y
But although the arrangement was
consummated in May, and an
Inounced to. the editors in a "con-
| fidential bulletin" from the Mime
sofa Editorial Assn in June, il
has so far been treated with the
same secrecy as press scandals in
other states this year-notably in
Illinois.
A copy of his Confidential bull
letin" to editors has been obtained
by the Committee for the Nations
Health, which is spearheading the
drive for national health insur-
ance. 1t carries a "doctored" text
of a resolution adopted by the
Minnesota State Medical Assn ap-
proving advertising by doctors and
by local medical societies in order
to foster indirect publicity for
the medical. profession.
Under a headline Medical Pro-
fession Eases Ethical Restrictions
on Advertising" the Bulletin tells
the editors: "This is one of the
most significant items your MEA
Bulletin has ever carried, though
we fervently hope that enthus-
iasm over relaxed medical ethics
will not encourage even the mom-
entary impairment of newspaper
ethics"
The background of the story,
however, offers little basis for this
hope. Apparently the idea origin
ated with the newspapermen and
was presented to the doctors in a
medical press conference in April.
In May the State Medical Assn at
its annual meeting adopted the
resolution approving newspaper ad-
vertising by the doctors with a
preamble including this key state
ment:
Zone criticism frequently heard
from the press is that the medical
profession expects the press to
maintain the entire burden of in
direct publicity from the doctor to
the public without remuneration" :"
To meet that criticism the reso-
luton approved of doctors placing
in their local newspapers "pro-
fessional card" st tating their
names, addresses, telephone num-
bers, and office hours. Local medi-
cal societies also were encouraged
to take advertising in the news
papers.
1t is highly significant that the
words without remuneration" in
the quotation above We're in the
text of the resolution as published
by Minnesota Medicine, the organ
of the Medical Association, but
were omitted from the text distri-
outed by the MEA. Apparently
these words were a little too plain
in their meaning. Even without
hat phrase, however, the meaning
If the resolution as printed by the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 124

All members are requested
to attend meeting on Tuesday
evening, August 20, in the
auditorium at headquarters.
Matters of vital Importance
will be transacted and every
member is urged to be pre-
sent-By order of president.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-18
NOTICE MOULDMAKERS

The second reading of a re-
solution to assess a $1.00 fine
on members not attending one
meeting a month will be held
at our next meeting on Tues
day, August %. All members
are urged to be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

ment. He undertook it for the
National Planning Association at
Beardsley Ruml's request. The
reorganization bill passed near the
end Of the 1916 Congress incor-
porated more than half the pro-
posals Mr.. Heller made more than
year earlier in his book
Strengthening the Congress"
Later Mr.. Heller's firm made a
postal study for the Hoover Com
mission.
Long before he tried his analyt-
ical methods on Government, Mr.
Heller was well-known in Ameri-
can industry. In fact, the con-
fidence Of big business in the value
Of his studies made Mr.. Heller q
millionaire before he was 40.
Mr.. Heller was born in New
castle, Ind, January IA, 1899, OF
Prussian ancestry. His father had
a successful rose cultivation bust
ness there. In Newcastle Mr.
Heller had kindergarten sweet.
heart" Lois H. Mouch, whom he
married in 1920.
That was the year Mr.. Heller
left Harvard University with his
bachelor of science sheepskin anc
an idea born of conversations
with Harvard Prof. William z
Ripley for pioneering as a con-
sulting engineer.
Industry and business were
pretty well satisfied with them.
selves in those years. and Mr.
Heller worked in Q bank and wait.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

and medical research men IN
Europe and America were engaged
in varying it's formula-tying other
atoms on it's benZene ring-to pro-
duce drugs less toxic and more
precisely suited for various infec-
lions. Thus came sulfapyridine,
sulfathiaZol, sulfadiazine and
host of others. The list now runs
to about 20.
Even then a British bacteri-
ologist, now Sir Alexander Flem-
ing, was struggling in the face Of
many obstacles, with an even more
powerful drug against the "cocci."
the secretion of common mould.
1t was only after the Second World
War was well under way that
penicillin became available in suf-
ficient quantities to be of any
value.
MI. Sokoloff tells the stories Of
the discovery and development Of
these magic bullets"
1t is all so recent that one finds
it difficult and rash to attempt
giving the development its place
in history. 1t may we'll be that in
the long sweep of time 1t will
overshadow in it's significance all
the wars and clashes of cultures
and economic systems Of our day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

with both hands. 1t is true that
the second years ECA appropria-
ton received ugly treatment in
the Senate. And it is true that
the Washington talks between
Cripps and Snyder are officially
predicated on the assumption that
the ERP program will taper of
and come to an end in 1852.
But we should not forget that
there were earlier aid measures to
end all aid measures, and they
did not produce the promised re-
suits. The fact that this country
can and does produce so much of
the goods the outside world covets
in itself generates pressures
American pressures. for foreign
aid programs. The shortage of
dollars is nothing but the measure
of the gap between the wants of
the outside world and it's ability
to pay for those wants. There
will always be a dollar shortage,
as far ahead as we can see. And,
it is likely, there will always be
some sort of foreign aid program
or programs. The names of the
programs will change from time
to time, but the economic effects
will be the same, whether we call
the process lend-lease or Breton
Woods. UNRRA, British loan, ERP
or just investment" Congress
will come around in due course
To quote Representative Charles
A. Eaton, ranking Republican and
former chairman of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs: ut
would be an unmitigated calamity
if Britain were to go down. For
us to permit that would be the
acme of folly. We want at least
one friend in the world. this small
modern world, in which we are
all in the same boat.
IF the administration would
come through with a good con-
structive proposal, the Congress
would adopt it. Just remember
all the opposition to the Marshall
Plan and how it melted away in
the end. There's a tremendous
undercurrent of common sense in
this country and we're not going
to let Britain 60 down."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
By Richard H. Smith

CLEVELAND.-An Indiana rose
growers son has taken his prun-
ing shears to Washington to snip
from one to three billion dollars
from the Nations annual bill for
defense.
It's a job to the liking of Robert
Heller, president of Robert Heller
e. Associates, Inc, management
engineers.
Mr.. Heller has worried for years
about the trend to bigger and
more expensive Federal Govern
ment.
Were approaching a corpora
tive state" he warns. Through
lack of information our voters are
voting themselves out of our form
of government.
I'VE simply can't 60 on SPEND
ing 10 to Is billions a year for
arms and five billions more on
foreign air, or it'll be curtains
for U.S."
Mr.. Heller thinks it may take
up to two years to complete his
investigation of the armed forces
for Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's
National Defense Management
Committee.
Army Work Not New
His firm was chosen over three
Others by Defense Secretary Louis
johnson on August 10 and given
a $125,000 six-month renewable
contract. After conferences with
Mr.. johnson and President Tru-
man, Mr.. Heller said he was con-
vinced the administration means
business" in reducing expenses
under the newly enacted service
unification bill.
When Mr.. Heller uses those
pruning shears he will do it with
careful regard for the defense
plant. IS
We've got to save money, and
save it fast he said, 'but we can
not do it unintelligently and hys-
terically without breaking down
our defense"
Applying management engi-
|neerinq principles to the armed
forces won't be a new experience
for Mr.. Heller and his Cleveland
firm of 81 associates. Since last
January they have been shipping
red tape and increasing efficiency
in the Air Forces Air Materiel
Command.
A study for reorganization OF
Congress was Mr.. Heller's first i'm
portant work on Federal Govern
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

A medical revolution of the first
magnitude began about IL years
ago.
1t was heralded by the first use
of an organic dye, sulfonalimide
to combat bacterial infections. II
seemed to be a miracle drug
against streptococci, meningococci
gonococci and pneumococci. These
microscopic plant organisms were
among the major killers of man
kind. Death rates from pneu-
monia, meningitis and blood poi
soning dropped as much as 80 pei
cent.
The drug might we'll have come
into medicine 80 years earlier. 1t
was one of the great variety of
organic dyes which had been pre-
pared for Paul Enrich in his
laborious and at last partially SUE
cessful search for a magic bullet
against syphilis. For some I'M
known reason, the great German
doctor never had gotten around to
test it against organisms and 1t
had lain neglected on I. G. Far
ben's shelves.
Sulfonilamide was only the be-
ginning. 1t was q rather crude
drug and somewhat poisonous.
For the next decade chemists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11
Efficiency Expert for Armed Forces

FED for his break. Then in 1882,
when the depression had landed
it's solid punches, he organized
the Robert Heller Associates and
two years later moved to Cleve-
land.
The Mellon interests in Pitts
burgh gave the new firm its mi
tial boost and a recommendation
which won an assignment in 1885
from the Carnegie Steel Co.
Tackles Big Job
This led to employment of the
Heller firm by the United States
Steel Corp. on a modernization
program. That required three
years of back-breaking efforts,
Mr.. Heller recalled, and midway
through it the firm tackled q sim
liar assignment from International
Harvester.
Between 1887 and 1870 the firms
work doubled, and Mr.. Heller now
claims his business is the largest
of its kind in the country.
Over the years Mr.. Heller
gathered as associates technical
engineers. certified public accounts
and experts in scientific marketing.
There is a generous sprinkling of
Harvard men in his organization.
His vice president, Frank L. Ell
mendorf. is a fellow Hoosier hail
ing from indianapolis.
Mr.. Elmendorf, along with Fred
R. Raach, a cost-accounting
specialist, and Frederick o. Rob-
bins, an organizational specialist,
are working with Mr.. Heller on the
armed forces study.
Mr.. Heller himself is short OF
stature, neat Of dress and serious
of mien, with searching eyes,
prominent nose and a balding
forehead. His resonant baritone
voice has the tone Of man ae-
customed to giving orders. but he
smiles easily and warmly.
Working in Washington, Mr..
Heller probably will return here
for most of his week ends. He lives
in Shaker Heights and has a coun-
try place in nearby exclusive Gates
Mills. The family also has a New
York City residence.
The Hellers have two sons
Charles Robert. a Harvard senior
just turned 81, and Frederick. II.
In off-duty hours Mr.. Heller
turns to golf Che describes his
game as "lousy'D, his library OF
symphonic records, amateur
movies and an occasional deep
sea fishing expedition.
distributed b. the Associated PrsssJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

much later date in this neighbour
hood.
It is said that Miss ONeale-
afterWard Mrs. Undertake. and
later Mrs. Eaton-Was the lead
ing child actress at the Gunton
School.
Grace Church School
Old Grace Church School. at
Ninth and S streets NV. had
two entrances on the second, or
upper, floor, one on the north side
and one on the south. To these
entrances a long flight OF crude
wooden stairs led. They were
without any covering. A door led
into a hallway running north and
south, separating the four school,
rooms. In some respects the
building was typical OF the early
country school-no running water,
no plumbing and no heating APP
paratus, except the large round
stove, which would get redhot and
burn up most everything around
it while the boys in the far corner
of the room would be having
difficulty keeping warm.
The rooms were large and airy,
with nearly 12-foot ceilings. the
floor dimensions being % feet
inches by 81 feet 3 inches. There
were accommodations for so
pupils, and it is needless to say
there was seldom a vacancy.
The first grade was taught IN
the southeast room by Miss
Malone, who was temporarily sue
ceeded in 1877 by Miss Mary Celia
Jones. Miss Harriet j. Drury. SUBJ
sequently taking the latter's place.
Miss Susie E. Porter taught the
second grade in the northeast
room. From the beginning. Miss
Kate T. Brown taught the third
grade in the northwest room, Miss
Virginia r. Gettings taking her
place in 1874, and continuing for
several years thereafter.
Emma F. Quinlan taught the
fourth grade for several years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

IS to purchase instruments for
pulling teeth.
THE extraction of teeth" we
are told, was not punishment,
but the toothache was such a
common excuse for neglect of
lessons and for nom attendance at
school, that Mr.. Craig came to the
conclusion that the removal OF
the offending member was the
best way of maintaining discipline.
And it was astonishing. said the
trustee who explained this entry,
to see the business he did! Odon-
talgia became so contagious or
fashionable that Mr.. Craig soon
filled a quart cup. more or less,
with trophies of his dentistry. "
Peggy O'Neale's School
AS early as 1916 we find the
Western Academy or the Western
Free School, as it was also called,
occupying the corner at Seven
tenth and I streets. Another
school which stood on I street dur
ing the same period-no doubt q
private school was taught by
Thomas Gunton between Twenti-
eth and Twenty-first streets
Thomas Gunton was the father OF
DR.. William Gunton, for several
years president of the National
Bank of Washington.
1t was here that the famous
Peggy O'Neale attended school, a.
did Gen. James Augustus Pleason.
ton; the sons of DR.. Bruff, includ-
ing Thomas. a midshipman in the
Navy, who died somewhere in the
West Indies; Joseph GoldsborC
Bruff. well-known Forty-niner anc
member of the Association O.
Oldest Inhabitants, and Schuyler
and Theodore. who published
newspaper in Norfolk, Va. Hamil.
ton Mechlin also attended here
as did James and George Lowry
the latter being at one time presi.
dent of the Metropolis Bank. now
the National Metropolitan Bank
The Friends School started at q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

the public in personal hygiene, in
Guiding sanitation and decent
housing.
2. Addition of four health cen
tiers similar to the one in the
Southwest area, and a broader
program of follow-up care in CEN
tiers and hospital clinics to cut
down costly hospital care.
8. Consolidation of many of the
Health Departments ID bureaus
for economy and efficiency. (Sucf
a plan has been vetoed by the
Commissioners In addition. new
programs already have been pro-
posed to attack heart diseases, dia-
betes and diseases of the aged.
4. More Health Department per-
sonnet are needed, particularly ir
the nursing services.
S. While several projects are
under way. there are serious needs
still to be met at Gallinger Hos
pital.
The last Is years have seen rev.
dictionary advances in medica
science. The citys death rate:
are one of the best signs of how
the advances have been translated
into doWn-to-earth programs tt
carry public health to the people
In 1885. Washington's death
rate was IA per 1000 population
as compared with 100 for tn,
country as a whole. In 1913. il
moved to 10.9-even with the ma.
tional rate-and has been falling
ever since. Last year, it hit ar
all-time low of go. compared with
a rate of 10 for the Nation.
If the 1885 rate had held las
year-along with the tremendou!
growth in population-2.500 PEG.
pie who were alive at the end o.
the year would have died.
'Agitates' for Progress
DR.. Ruhland, personally. is &
picture of dignity and quiet eff.
ficiency. He has a classical com.
mand of English and his converse.
ton includes a liberal smatterins
of Latin and Greek. BY nature. hi
isn't a social mixer, but he ha.
"a lively interest in the people
around him.
When an Office present was pur.
chased for a clerk of Italian de.
scent who was married last year
| for example, DR.. Rutland learned
to congratulate her in italian
when he presented the gift. He
still may not know it, but the CIR
didn't understand word Of
Italian.
Before taking his medical de.
gree at Marquette University. DR.
Rutland had a brief Journalistic
career, serving during the Span
Iish-American War as a war CORE
spondent in Puerto Rico. During
his youth, he had studied the
classics, thinking of following ir
his fathers footsteps as a clergy
man.
Outside his Office, DR.. Rutland s
interests center around art an6
literature. He also has a keen in
terest in the medical profession
one of his pet projects being a
campaign under which graduates