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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02
EVANGELICAL MENNONITE
CHURCH
$50. Jackson near Kibler)
Kenneth Bauman, Pastor

{So. Jackson near Kibler)
Kenneth Bauman, Pastor
Wednesday:
7:30 Ladies Sewing Society will
meet at the home of Mrs. Mellinger.
Thursday:
Choir rehearsal, $50 p. m.
7:15 Prayer meeting. We will
study Rom. 12:7b.
Sunday:
$50 A. M. Sunday School.
1890 A. M. Morning worship.
Emerald Gerig and Rev. Reuben
Short will bring the message.
There will also be a child dedica-
ton service.
7:15 Christian Workers Band.
500 Evening service Emerald
Gerig will bring the message.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02
IN 0he
Churches
EBENEZER MENNONITE
CHURCH

1.-TWO miles west of Bluffton)
Howard T. Landes, Pastor
Wednesday:
s P. M. Monthly meeting of the
Women's Missionary Society.
Thursday:
7:30 Prayer and Bible study. Les.
son I John 2: 1927.
Sunday: -
$50 Sunday School, Francis Mis-
wander, Supt.
1880 Morning worship.
Messages from I Thessalonians.
Theme, Life in the Lord" I Thes
/: 1-3.
7:30 Bluffton College A Capells
choir.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Rev. " IT. Monk. Pastor

$3.50 Sunday School, Harold Beals,
Supt.
7:30 Worship service.
The newly elected members of the
church council will be installed at the
evening service.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02
Mayors Notice

Monthly collection of rubbish and
ashes starts Thursday noon. Have
everything in containers so that it
may be readily loaded on the truck.
w. A. Howe, Mayor
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02
Spray Barn Walls

In dairy barns and stables, the
insecticide DDT may be used to
spray the ceilings and walls.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02
Save the Bees

Arsenical killing dusts are harm
full to bees and should be used with
extreme caution.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02

News Want Ads Bring Results.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1950-02-02

STATE OF OHIO
Joseph T. Ferguson, Auditor of State
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision oi
Public Offices
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09

Washington.-The leadership of
Samuel Gompers and the everlast-
ing hard work of AFL unions in
raising the nations wage levels
have helped to create the American
prosperity which is the wonder of
the world in this twentieth century.
That's the story told in the cur
rent issue of the AFL Labor's
Monthly Survey.
The Survey published charts
showing that in 10 industries alone
AFL unions have raised wages 20
to 80 percent higher than nonunion
wages and that these rising wages
increased the average purchasing
power of every American.
"Yet the union plants are pros
pering, well able to compete with
non-union concerns because of their
superior labor force and efficiency"
the Survey said. "This far-sighted
policy on the part of labor has
been basic in American progress.
High wages in union plants
have forced nonunion employers to
raise pay. Rising buying power
has. increased demand, raising pro-
duction and creating more jobs and
more demand, while expanding pro-
duction reduced unit costs"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
Higher Wages Are
Needed To Keep
Economy Growing

Washington (LPA)-The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has warn
ed that consumer buying. power is
insufficient to maintain full en-
ployment, and that higher wages
are necessary to keep the economy
expanding.
In it's Monthly Survey, the AL
said consumers must spend $1la
billion more in 1850 than in l949
to keep the national economy going
on a full employment basis and
provide the two million additional
jobs needed this year.
1t said business activity has not
expanded enough to absorb new
workers during recent months so
that total unemployment has in
creased by almost 100000 per-
sons.
industrial activity is not ex-
panding rapidly enough to put the
unemployed to work." the Month
ly Survey reported. an the fall Of
1948 unemployment had been at a
minimum of less than two million.
In 1949, during the recession, un-
employment rose rapidly until there
were Al million out of work in
July. This was almost two million
more than 1948. As business snap
ped back out of recession, unem-
ployment dropped to 3.5 million in
September, but since then there
has been no further decline. From
September through January, the
number out of work has averaged
1.8 million above the previous
year"
The Survey added that the two
million new jobs needed to absorb
the unemployed "can only be Great
ed by expanding buying power, and
demand for industrial products, so
that production and employment
will rise" 1t said wage raises are
"to increase workers
buying power"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
Small Business Front For Big
Business Exposed At Capitol

Washington (LPA) - Some of
the little business men" who came
here for the annual convention of
the Natl Small Business Mems
Association Inc. were unhappy over
their reception on Capitol Hill
March 2.
They visited members of Con-
gress, peddling legislative recon-
mendations that started out with a
proposal to limit the federal bud
get for 1851 to $50 billion-the pre-
else figure advocated by one of the
most reactionary members of Con
gress, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Cd, Va.),
A lively debate was preclpitateo
in the House when Rep. Chet Holi-
field Cd, Calif.) noted that only a
week earlier the Small Business
committee of the House had brand
ed the association a "front" for big
business. The official report of the
House committee indicated that
their claim to represent small bus
mess is "false and misleading"
Their "labor" proposals for Con-
gress included a ban on industry
wide bargaining, application of the
antitrust laws to unions, repeal OF
the wage-hour law "and all similar
legislation. To make their record
complete, they asked Congressman
to "reject all proposals such as So
cialized medicine, federalized edu-
cation, socialized farming, FEPC,
valley authorities, political hous-
ing, and every other power that
would mean more concentration of
power in the federal government"
Dewitt Emery, president of
Natl Small Businessmen's Assn,
is also president of the Small Busi-
ness Economic Foundation, which
uses the same offices and the same
staff. This outfit has claimed that
its funds come from at least 20
big corporations, including Stand
ard Oil of NJ, Sears Roebuck,
Chrysler, and Celanese Corp
hardly "small business"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09

Here's the story from Labor's
Monthly Survey:
Significantly, we are reexamin-
ing this year the principles of our
founder, Samuel Gompers, as we
celebrate the Tooth anniversary of
his birth.
Gompers and his fellow workers
developed unions which enabled
workers to better themselves by
sharing in the benefits of free en-
terprise. No other way promises
workers as great advancement, for
economic progress springs from
individual initiative and voluntary
action when men can benefit from
the results of their work.
Gompers' union activity began
in New York City in the early
1670's. Wages then were 10 to 15
cents an hour for a work week of
more than go hours. Unions were
weak and often misled by imprac-
tical theorists; union organizers
were marked men, blacklisted, their
families ostracized. Gompers and
his fellow cigarmakers set out to
make their local union a strong,
practical and effective organiza-
tion to deal with the employer and
handle members work problems.
They discussed socialism, and other
forms of government intervention
-theoriest then popular in Europe
and cast them aside. They set up
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
Jersey Governor
Seizes Phone Go.
To Avert Strike

Trenton, N. J. UPA)-Gov. AL
fred Driscoll ordered seizure OF
the property of the Bell Telephone
Co. March |, acting under an anti
strike law imposed first during the
1947 nationwide telephone strike
The governor will name a five-man
arbitration board whose findings
are binding on both sides. New
Jersey members of the Commun-
ications Workers had voted a to |
two weeks ago authorizing strike,
and state mediators already have
recommended a one-year contract
with wage reopener after May.
Their findings are not binding.
CWA has sought arbitration of
its wage dispute throughout the
entire Bell System, but not forced
arbitration, as in New Jersey.
CWA Vice-President A. r. Jones,
in charge of the unions bargaining
program, said: sour New Jersey
situation was specifically exempt
ed from the provisions of the truce
in our dispute with the Bell Sys-
tenn because the case was well
along in the state mediation pro-
cess.
"CWA does not believe that com
pulsory arbitration is a substitute
for either the process of collective
bargaining or of voluntary arbitra-
tiop. Throughout the rest of the
country, save where we are limited
by restrictive anti-labor laws, we
shall seek to resolve our dispute
through direct bargaining with the
We can in no way agree
in advance that the decisions ofl
any state-appointed board of arbi-
tration should necessarily affect
the hundreds of thousands of other
telephone workers represented by |
the union throughout the country."l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
Dixie-Byrds Don't
Like Economy Plan

| Washington (LPA)-A load like
a ton of bricks descended on Sen
Hubert Humphrey Cd, MINI. J
March 2 as a result of his proposal
to eliminate the special committee
on economy headed by Sen. Harry
F. Byrd Cd, Va.). 81 know | could
expect the entire anti-Fair Deal
coalition to give me the business, y
he told his colleagues after Is Sen
ators in rapid succession rose to
laud Byrd's reply to the Minnesota
liberal.
Byrd'S economy o m m t e e,
Established in 1941, has not met in
two years, and confines its activi-
ties to frequent and widely-pub-
licized reports on the number of
federal jobholders, Humphrey in
sists. He would abolish it as an
ECONOMY measure.
Byrd, in lengthy defense,
charged Humphrey was a publicity
seeker (the same charge Hump
hrey made against Byrd originality
and claimed his committees work
had saved $21a billions in cutting
federal expenditures.
Humphrey agreed that ain the
long run" a balanced budget was
essential, but not at the price de-
manded by Byrd. Humphrey re-
called that Byrd voted against the
Marshall plan and other admins
tration measures. He quoted a Con-
gressional Quarterly study which
showed that the Virginia Senator
voted with the COP against the
d ocra tic Administration on
nearly two-thirds of the issues
session after session of Congress.
Ridiculing Byrd's assertion that
he could see "no new emergencies"
today that might justify an unbal-
anced budget, Humphrey suggested
that perhaps news of the Hydrogen
bomb and "a little trouble on the
island of Formosa and in China"
hadn't reached Virginia yet.
Humphrey had estimated that it |
cost government agencies $250,0O0
a year to answer questions of the
Byrd committee. Byrd called this a
wild guess" The wild guesser,"
Humphrey replied, was the Direc-
tor of the Budget, top authority on
federal expenditures.
The Minnesota Senator charged |
he Byrd-type economy advocates
we're always missing when chances
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
Labor Men Hit
Loyalty Firing
In Chicago Area

Chicago UPA)-The creeping
paralysis Of so-called loyalty dis
!charges" was assailed at confer
ence here sponsored by labor lead
ers and the American Civil Liber-
ties Union. The 100 present pro-
tested the recent FIXING of eight
union members by three local cleo
trical concerns, because they re-
fused to sign non-Communist oaths.
All eight are members Of the Unit
| ed Electrical Workers.
Al Fineman, field man for the
Int'l Union of Electrical Workers,
told the meeting that although in
the three plants involved the IUE
is contesting UE jurisdiction, "that
has no bearing on the question. We
in the IUE have nothing to gain
from purges because of political
belief" Such employers, said Fine
man, "are borrowing from the
arsenal of Communism"
DR.. John Lapp, labor arbitrator,
noting that more and more en-
ployers are demanding the signing
of non-C m munist t affidayits,
branded the trend Stupid totali-
tarianism, which if it spreads can
destroy not only our labor move
ment but our whole society,""
Pat Greathouse, UAW regional
director, said 1--WE don't believe
anyone has the right to take away
a persons living because of race,
color, religion or political belief"
In cases of possible espionage,
workers should not be fired until
after they have had hearings, in
Guiding calling of witnesses, he
said. Greathouse added, "The men
in the shops certainly are no worse
for our country than the business
men who are busy setting up car
tells in Germany, the businessmen
who are doing their share in setting
iup the dictatorship of the right,
the people who are doing every
thing possible to destroy demo-
cracy. And yet there is no move
ment to remove these people from
the high positions they hold"
Other members of the labor con-
ference committee were Thomas
Slater of the Carpenters; Olivia
Bautsch, Janitors' union; Robert
Bollard, editor of Illinois Labor;
Ben Martin, IUE field man. All
are non-Communists, but, as the
Chicago Sun-Times said in an edi-
torial, "they are showing an intel
ligent interest in preserving the
principle that no man should under
go a political test in order to keep
his job" Otherwise, the editorial
pointed out, the "door is open to
require in other instances accept
anee of some other theology, which,
in practice, may turn out to be as
bad a doctrine as communism. The
editorial praised the Chicago labor
men for opposing the loyalty
oaths" and said "they are giving
the community a good lesson in
how communism should be fought.
They are reminding us that adop-
tion of communist methods is NOT
the way to fight communism.
The first five were fired by the
Stewart Warner Corp. six weeks
lago. The other three frings were at
Foote Bros. Gear & Machine Corp.
and the Sunbeam Corp. All three
firms hid behind a Defense Dept.
directive intended to protect mill
tary secrets. However, an official
Qualification later debunked that
argument.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
PLANS COMPLETED FOR
1850 LABOR SCHOOL

Louisville, Ky. UPA) - The
Kentucky State Federation of
Labor's Department of Research
and Education has announced that
the 1850 Kentucky Labor School
will be held at Morehead State Col
lege, Morehead, KY, from July 16
to 2S.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09
Burden Shifted To Boss By Bill

Frankfort, Ky. (LPA)-A bill re-
quiring employers to pay for any
medical examinations or records
they require from applicants for
jobs has been passed by the Ken
lucky House and sent to the State
Senate. The bill was supported by
the Kentucky Federation of Labor
and individual labor unions.
came for genuine money-saving.
He challenged them to support a
cut in the subsidies for newspaper
and magazine publishers represent
ed by the low rates for mailing
their products, subject on which
Fair Dealers like Humphrey, Sen.
Paul Douglas Cd, Ill., and Rep.
Andrew Biemiller Cd, Wis., have
taken the lead. In 1889, he pointed
out, Byrd voted against increasing
the number of planes in the air
force, despite compelling testimony
by Charles Lindbergh on the size
VI IIlS I1lIItI dlI IlCCl, anu liiCii
later supported an increase in ship.
construction = funds for which
might be spent in the big Virginia
shipbuilding centers.
Even such a conservative busi-
ness organization as the US Cham
Der of Commerce favors abolishing
the Byrd committee, Humphrey
told his colleagues. "For once" heI
said, 81 take advice from them. |
stand with the businessmen on this
issue"
The Dixie-Gop coalition that
tried to chastize Humphrey includ-
ed Democrats George (Ga), East |
land (Miss.), Stennis (Miss.), Nc
Kellar (Tenn), Mcclellan (ArkD /
and Republicans Butler (NebrD
(Nebr.), Millikin (ColoD +, |
Williams (Del.), Martin (Pa), Cain
(Wash.), Mundt (SD), Ferguson
(Mich.), Tobey (NH), and Bridges
(NH).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-09

Buy Union Made goods from
Others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-01-28
Investment in Sufety

The American Bar Associations laymen's
group which studied traffic safety was
UNDERSTANDABLE disappointed when it
it learned that no provision was included
IN the District budget for extension of
driver training courses in Washington high
schools. There is lot of evidence to
support the groups contention that money
spent for such courses is a worthwhile
investment in human safety.
Accident statistics prove that teen-age
drivers are far more reckless than mature
drivers. The Interindustry Highway Safety
Committee found that drivers in the six
teen-to-twenty group were involved
In flve times as many accidents as those
IN the forty five-to-f1fty group Sixteen
year-olds were responsible for nine times
as many accidents as those involving the
forty f1ve-to-fifty group.
Cleveland, which was among the first
cities to institute behind the wheel driver
training In high schools, has had remark
ably impressive results. dozen of Clave-
lands high schools began driver training
both in the classroom and in dual-cor,troI
automobiles on the streets several years
ago. Records were kept of accidents in
volving trained and unframed students.
Analyses have shown that trained students
had just about half as many accidents as
those who had not taken special driving
instruction. Similar checks in other cities
have produced like findings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-01-28
Free Press and Monopoly

There can hardly be any serious dis
agreement with the unanimous finding of
the United States Court of Appeals that
freedom of the press is not infringed by
the denial of radio license to a news
paper which seeks monopoly control of
news and advertising.
The question was raised by the Mansfield
Journal and the Lorain Journal, two Ohio
newspapers owned by the same interests.
The Federal Communications Commission
found that the Mansfield Journal, the sole
newspaper in the community, had sought
to drive out of business its only competing
medium, Radio Station VIVIAN. On the
basis of this finding, an application for
radio license by the Mansfield Journal was
denied, and a similar application from the
Lorain paper was rejected because of the
identical character of the owning interests.
There was, of course, a dispute as to the
facts-apparently of some substance since
two FEC commissioners dissented. Counsel
for the newspapers also raised three ques-
tions of law in their appeal.
The question of major public interest,
however, concerned the claim that denial
of the licenses amounted to a violation of
the First Amendments guarantee of a
free press.
The court, in an opinion by Judge Wash
ington made short work of this contention.
1t pointed out that all the commission did
was to deny license. It did not attempt
in any way to censor the editorial policies
of the paper, nor did it attempt to order
the paper to desist from any of the Offend
Ing practices. The Mansfield Journal re-
mains free to pursue all of its old policies,
or any new ones equally bad. All that the
commission and the court have said is that
it cannot do this, and at the same time
operate radio station.
This is sound position In this day and
age, when newspapers are becoming in
creasingly conscious of the responsibilities
that should accompany freedom of the
press, not many publishers would refuse to
publish the programs of competing radio
station, or attempt, as did the Mansfield
Journal, to coerce businessmen who adver-
tlse over competing radio station. Still.
the fact remains that economic pressures
IN many areas are tending more and more
toward the creation of newspaper monop-
ol1es. This being so, there is timeliness
In Judge WaShington's reminder that "only
by keeping the dissemination of news free
from monopoly can the constitutional
guarantees of free speech and free press
ever be fully achieved"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-01-28
economy, the Nation will be able to work
out genuinely sound and self-enriching
| fiscal policy.
A Corruptinq Influence

The Star has never been among those
who believe that the Fair Employment
Practices bill can be clasSed as good
legislation.
It is a measure that is just and sound
honestly enforced it would seem certain
to do great deal more harm than good.
The bill contemplates the creation of a
Federal commission, somewhat similar to
the Labor Board This commission would
have jurisdiction of all employers of more
than fifty persons if they are engaged in
commerce. 1t would be charged with the
duty of preventing any discrimination in
employment based on race, creed, color,
ETC., and it would be the sole judge of
whether employment had been denied for
any of these reasons. Once finding
against an employer or union had been
made, it would be enforceable through
appeal to the courts.
This was the setup which led to I'M
considerable abuses under the old Wagner
Act. And conditions probably would be
worse under this new proposal. What
prospect would there be, for instance, of
enforcing such a statute in Mississippi or
Georgia without whipping up racial fric-
lions far exceeding anything seen before?
Some indication of what this bill would
do if passed may be seen in the corrupting
influence it is exerting on the political
scene in its prepassage stage.
Both political parties profess their sup
port for FEPC. But not many members of
either party are honestly in favor of it.
The result has been scramble for partisan
advantage in the House which is little short
of disgraceful. When the Democrats and
the Republicans have MIXED the bill dry
of what they seem to think are its political
benefits the measure presumably will be
brought to the floor for vote.
Then it may be sensibly modified, or 1t
may be passed as it is and left to the
tender mercies of Senate flibuster. In
any event, it is doubtful that the bill will
become law in its present form. And if it
should become law without substantial
modification, there is ample reason to
believe that the vote-hunting politicians
will live to regret the day that they
assumed responsibility for it.