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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
FPC TO Rehear Valley Power Case

Washington LPA) = Reversing
its original stand, the Federal
Power Commission has voted to re-
hear case in which it voted to
turn over to private utility a key
part of the Central Valley project
in California.
In November, FPC voted to
grant a license for greatly stepp-
ed-up power plant on key spot
of the Kings River to Pacific Gas
& Electric Co., over the protests of
the Federal Bureau of Reclamation,
which is handling the overall de-
velopment of the valleys water
supply as source of power and of
irrigation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
BY BRADFORD V. CARTER
for Labor Press Association

Did you ever come with dele
i cation to Washington, to urge pas
sage of a bill? Or have you heard
a report from such delegation :?
If so, you've had glimpse into
one important part of the enor-
mously complex business of MAX
ing laws.
This writer has just finished
reading a Notwithstanding be-
cause the story was so familiar,
yet told in full for the first time
about how one revolutionary law of
our time was conceived, written
and rewritten, strained through the
Congressional meshes, and finally
enacted into law.
The Employment Act of 1916, in
the story told by Stephen Kemp
Bailey Congress Makes A Law,
Columbia Univ. Press, $3.75), was
formulated by a Kaleidoscope and
largely irresponsible interplay of
ideas, interests, institutions and in
dividuals."
In some ways, the inside story is
profoundly discouraging about the
opportunity for the democratic pro-
cess to really work -small-minded
men, representing a few thousand
voters in Mississippi, outweighing
by their Congressional positions
men speaking for hundreds of
thousands of voters; a President,
precipitated into office by the
death of the greatest man Of our
generation, swayed by the advice
of rivals for his loyalty; the in
ability or Indifference of Party
leaders in the face of defiance of
the Party's electoral program.
"Put in its baldest form," Bailey
says, "the story of S. $50 adds up
to the fact that majority senti-
ment expressed in popular cleo
tions for a particular economic
policy can be, and frequently is, al
most hopelessly splintered by the
power struggles of competing poll
tical, administrative, and private
interests, and is finally pieced to-
gether, if at all, only by the most
laborious, complicated, and fire.
quently covert coalition strategies. +"
However, the fact remains that
what Sfarted aS the "Full E,nonlov-
ment Act" and ended up as the
Employment Act of 1916" was the
response to "a public awareness
that the recurrence Of widespread
unemployment was a frightening
possibility in the postwar years"
And the new, bold idea that the
federal government has a respon-
sibility for creating the kind of
economic climate in which men who
want jobs can find them, at decent
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Lesinski Insists
Bill Will Come
Up Before Jan. e

Washington (LPA)-The bill to
set up a federal Fair Employment
Practice Commission will certainly
come before the House Jan. %, if
not earlier, Reps. John Lesinslli
Cd, Mich.) and Adam Clayton
Powell Jr. Cd, N.Y. insist.
Lesinski, as chairman of the
Labor Committee, which recon-
mended favorable action, Ia to II,
after three weeks of hearings, can
call the bill before the House Jan.
%.
Meanwhile, he ami rowell, chief
sponsor of the measure, are put
ting up a scrap before the hostile
Rules Committee. The Jan. % ac-
tion would bypass the Rules
group, but Lesinski and Powell
are willing to give the committee
chance to expedite floor consid-
Grafton.
Facing the most rabid of the
Dixiecrat-Cox of Georgia, Colmer
of Mississippi and Smith of Vir-
ginia-Lesinski and Powell in a
public hearing Jan. Is insisted the
FEPC bill should go to the floor.
Rep. John Rankin Cd, Miss.) is
being heard by the Rules Commit
tee Jan. 16 in opposition.
Powell, a Negro, insisted only
one question so dealt with in the
bill discrimination in opportun-
ity for employment because of
race, color, religion, or national
origin. The questions of social
equality and segregation of the
races aren't involved at all, the
Congressman insisted.
Accused of playing cheap poll
tics" with the bill, Powell pointed
out that the measure he sponsors
is based on the New York FEPC
put through the Republican-run
legislature, and written by Sen.
Irving Ives Or, N.Y.)while he was
in the state law making body.
PowelPs supporters on the Rules
Committee are almost evenly divid-
ed between Democrats and Repub-
licans. He was received sympathe-
tically by Committee Chairman
Sabbath Cd, Ill., Madden Cd, Ind.),
Delaney Cd, N.YD, Wadsworth OR,
N.Y.) and Herter Or, Mass.) Hos
tile and sometimes jeering ques-
tions were asked by the southern
ers and Reps. Allen CIR, Ill., and
Clarence Brown Or, Ohio).
Powell insisted the House should
not delay FEPC action until the
Senate acts-with the inevitable
filibuster under present Senate
rules. The Senate Labor Commit |
tee has passed the FEPC on to the
full Senate without recommends !
tions, and Majority Leader Scott
Lucas has agreed to call it up soon
as the major test of civil rights. /
1t may come up as soon as the vote I
IS taken on the "basing point" bill
which comes up Jan. 20.
Meanwhile, a big civil rights mo-
Dilization here over the weekend is
expected to put the heat on mem
)ers of Congress. Both AFL and
Go are represented on the com
nittee running the gathering.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19

capacity of Canadian mills exceeds
demand but that prices will be
maintained artifically in 1850 ito
the further injury of the newspaper
industry in the United States"
(The Sun, in folding, emphasized
that the chief factor was the "un-
reasonable demands of unions"
Other newspaper publishers have
always shrieked about union de-
mands also. There is nothing to
indicate that they are doing any
thing about the gouge in news
print prices.)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
CONGRESS RECORD HAS
GOMPERS STORY

Washington (LPA) - Samuel
Gompers-His Story, an editorial
in the Jan. 5 issue of the Mime
apolis Labor Review, was reprinted
in the Congressional Record of
Jan. II, at the request of Sen. HUI
bert H. Humphrey I'd, Minn.). The
editorial begins: "To Samuel Com
pers, as to few men, fell the oppor-
tunity at historic time to lead an
army of men with a bright torch
down broad highway. The torch
he raised is now held high by g.
000,000 workers and blazes its
light around the world" Then fol-
lows an account of Gompers' life.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
FUEL BOARD NAMED
TO AVERT NY STRIKE

New York OPA)-A three-man
board to find a peace formula be-
tween 2200 coal and fuel oil driv-
ers and 200 operators has been
named by Mayor ODwyer, after he
won five-day truce on the eve of
a strike called for Jan. III. A
strike would tie up 80 per cent of
coal, and 60 per cent of fuel oil
deliveries. The union is the AFL
Teamsters, Local 553. The old con-
tract expired Dec. 81, and the last
extension ended Jan. II. The
teamsters ask a $2 daily increase,
the operators have offered 40 cents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
WOMEN IN
INDUSTRY

California, Massachusetts and
New York have led in recent in
creases of women,s minimum
wages, a report just published by
the u. S. Department of Labor S
Women's Bureau shows. Revisions
in state wage law and orders from
July /, 1912 to Jan. /, 1949 were
covered.
During the 81z-year period, Cal
ifornia established a minimum OF
65 cents in each of 10 wage orders
covering service, manufacturing,
clerical and other industries. Cal
ifornia also recognized seasonal
workers by covering women en-
gagged in canning and preserving of
fruits and vegetables.
Massachusetts raised 6 minimum
wage orders and added public
housekeeping and amusement and
recreation industries.
New York revised 6 orders in
creasing minimum wages for
women in laundries, cleaning and
dyeing, beauty services, confection-
cries and hotels, and added retail
, trade.
Only one state, Wisconsin, took
up domestic service. Through an
order that became effective in Feb
ruary, 1947, Wisconsin set min
imum of $12 a week for domestic
workers in cities of over 5000
population; $10.75 in towns of
from LOCO to 5000 and $10.25 else
where in the state, if they received
board but not lodging. For maids
who "sleep in" a minimum of 81
to So per week depending on popu-
lation, was set.
Wisconsin is also one of the few
states to cover by minimum rates
its women workers in agricultural
occupations. In this respect, it has
been joined only by Nevada and
Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
X X i
Rearing a child is not an "act of
God" but a "self-inflicted ailment,"
it was solemnly decided in a meet
ing of the Norwegian Seamen's
Union with shipowners. Because
women are employed in many capa-
cities on Norwegian merchant yes
sells, and as they often marry men
in the same crew, and as children
sometimes result = the shipping
companies and the Norwegian De-
partment of Social Security have
been at loggerheads over who
should pay for loss Of work days
and the expenses of confinement
and delivery.
The union was called in and help |
ed decide that child was "self- |
inflicted ailment," for which ship |
owners cannot be held responsible, |
as they would be for any "act of |
God" the Gothenburg Trade and
Journal said.
!. ;. I:
Miss Catherine Schmitt, 50, said
20 have been the first "hello girl"
by the New York Tele-
phone Co. died Jan. IL in a Brook
yn hospital. She became tele-
phone operator in 1882, and when
she retired in 1880 headed the tele- I
phone company's training school |
'or operators.
When Miss Schmitt started, men |
we're employed as operators and |
or some years after they still /
handled the night work.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Inside Story Of Full Employment
Bill Fight Shows Cops In Democracy


pay, has taken root. Still cropping
for some fast moorings, the Pres.
ident's Council of Economic Advis-
ors has for three years now turned
in an annual statement to the Pres
ident and Congress on the nations
economic health, and an annua
economic budget. The Joint Con
gressional Committee on the Econ
omic Report is doing some hare
studying of the factors standing ir
the way of continuing economic
growth.
Nevertheless, it is alarming tt
see the happenstances that molc
m tant Legislative decisions
Just few samples from Bailey's
account: the absence of one key
Senator at conference session t.
compromise the more liberal Sen
One of the prime mobilizers
of popular support for the
Employment Act of 1916, as
well as the reporter whose COW
erage of the fight for the bill
is rated by Stephen Bailey as
the most complete, is now as
sociated with Labor Press As
sociation, which serves this
paper.
Paul Sifton, head of the or
ganized group which met week
ly to map strategy for union,
farm, and other liberal pro-
ponets of the bill, is a mem
Der of LPA's Board of Direc-
tors.
Nat han Robertson, then
Washington correspondent for
PM newspaper, whose reports
Bailey calls the most complete
and most sympathetic to the
bill, now covers Capitol Hill
and the White House as an
LPA columniSt.
ate version of the bill with the en-
asculated measure passed by the
House; the snafu-ed strategy which
found the White House and the
bills supporters in the House dis
agreed on how to vote on the morn
ing the measure came before the
House.
Or, take another example. Chair
man Carter Manasco of the House
committee handling the bill just
happened to tell corporation
lawyer, who had been carefully
brought to Manasco's attention
through a Los Angeles Chamber OF
Commerce lobbyist, just "happen'
ed' to have been working for g
month with an anti-labor econom-
list, DR.. Jules Bachman of New
York University, preparing the
case against the law for Donald
son Brown, vice-chairman of Gen
eral Motors Corp. and a director OF
the Natl Association of Manufac
turers.
We need "a responsible politica
system which will reflect the will
of the majority and which will en-
able the citizens to hold identifiable
rulers accountable for policy decis-
ions," the writer maintains. He
should know whereof he speaks
after the laborious tracing of the
stratagems whereby the Employ
ment Act of 1916 was fought and
defended.
81 fail to see how this can be
done," Bailey warns, except by
the only two instru-
ments in our political life which
have an inherent responsibility to
the nation as a nation: The Pres
ident and the national political
parties"
Many Congressional observers
would underscore both points. The
lack of clearcut party responsible
ity, the complete inability to COM
NIT either Democrats or Republi-
cans to democratically lly-arrived-a at
caucus decisions, and the independ-
ence of elderly gentlemen who
chair committees solely because
they're the oldest members in point
of service, all contribute to our ir-
ConpreSS
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19

1t seems unfair to expect dog
to like you when nobody else does.
Evening star., 1950-08-06

Isn't it nice to live in this modern
age where old bugaboos and false
modesty can be tossed out the win
dow and a mother can speak freely
to her daughter about hygiene
Gnternal cleanliness). A modern
mother won t fail to tell her grown
up daughter it's just as important
for her to put zoNITE in her fountain
syringe for her health. charm. after
her periods. as it is for an Older.
married woman.
And mother will certainly warn
her daughter about common odor
she herself may not detect but is
so apparent to others around her.
And isn't it reassuring for your
daughter to know: NO other type
Itqnid ontise pic gevmieide tested for
this purpose is so powerful yet safe
to tissues as ZONITE.
A Modern Miraelel
Doctors know that much unhappi-
ness can be traced to women using
dangerous products, overstrong
solutions of which can gradually
Evening star., 1950-08-06

cause serious injury. On the other
hand. what woman wants to RELY
on weak. homemade kitchen make
shift solutions none of which
have zoNITE's remarkable deodor-
izing. germ-killing action.
Developed by a famous surgeon
and scientist. the zoNIrE principle
was the first in the world that was
powerful enough yet positively NON
Irritating. nom poisonous. You can
use ZONITE as directed as often as
you wish without injury.
Gives BOTH Internal and Exisrnol
hysienie Protection
zoNITE deodorizes not by Just
masking as many products do.
Instead. zoNiTE actually dissolves
and removes odor-causing waste
substances. And zoNITE has such a
soothing. refreshing effect. 1t
promptly relieves any itching and
irritation il present. zoNITE gives
daily external protection. too. Avail
able at any drug counter.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17

probation this time, however, if
he had promised marriage he
would be able to keep his promise.
"Why a girl would want to marry
a man in your difficulty is hard to
understand" said the Judge. Ash
burn is being held in the county
Jail.
Two men we're fined for carry
ing concealed weapons. They were:
Earl G.. Lambert, 532 W. Fourth
ST., 5000 and cost and sentenced
to 80 days in the work house
Joseph Thomas, Of 1892 Howell
ave-, assessed the cost of court
and a suspended sentence of 80
days in the w. H. for the same
crime.
The fate of William Holiday,
confessed killer of Tommy Holt
and Lawerance Marbury is still
unknown at press time The
three Common Pleas Judges, Cal
vim Crawford, Don R. Thomas and
Hubar Berry entered the fourth
day of deliberation on the first
degre murder case and may re-
turn their verdict some time Tues
day 80. The state is seeking the
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Hotel as a maid was charged with
stealing $50 from the room of a
guest at the hotel. and was fined
S25 and cost on the petit larceny
charge.
Willie Elan, Of 481 S. Broad
way, charged with promoting a
game of chance at his home
brought criticism from the Court
when he explained through his
attorney Joe Freeman how the po-
lice officers forced their way in
to his home and arrested him and
others without a search warrant.
Judge Jackson said to the police
officers, "Maybe there was gambl-
ing in this mans house, and maybe
it was against the dignity of the
city ordinance, but officers have
no right to enter any home unless
asked in by the resident, or with
a warrant issued according to re-
gulations. "a mans home is his
castle and a not be entered
without invitation" Elam's case
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17
Summing Up

SuTs1IllE1g up
concluded from page II
Chamber of Commerce to help
sponsor a FEPC city law. In
Cleveland the local Chamber Of
Commerce co-sponsored the law
that finally became legal.
The West Side branch of the
YWCA recently held it's own ell
ection for officers of the Resi-
dence Council. Girls elected to
serve for one year are: Obedia
Cunningham, president; Helen
Oates, vice-president; Evelyn
White, secretary; Mary Simmons,
assistant secretary and Deborah
Anderson, treasurer.
A race Of another sort is being
engaged in by Naomi Ware and
Allura Franklin of the YWCA.
They are fighting to e who will
become Miss YWCA Nov. 10th.
The popularity contest is being
sponsored by the Residence Com
mittee, Mrs. Nathaniel Martin,
chairman.
The faculty of Willard school
is holding a testimonial meeting
October Goth. at 8 pm. in the
auditorium of the Dayton Art
Institute. At that time they will
honor school principal w. E. Will
ey who recently received his Ph.D.
from Ohio State University.
Principal speaker of the even
ing will be the dynamic Charles
Anderson, assistant prosecuting at
torney for the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. A resident of Louis
vile Mr.. Anderson is a graduate
Of Howard U. School of law and
has been practising law since 49,
33. He is former president of the
Negro National Bar association
and the National Urban League.
he was the first Negro to be elect
ed to the Kentucky legislature and
the only legislature in the South
since the Reconstruction era. The
public is invited. A reception will
be held in the Austrian room.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17
Obituary

Services for Roscoe Craps, SO,
227 Conover ST., who died at l:l5
am. Sunday at a local hospital
will be conducted at 1870 pm.
Wednesday at Tabernacle Baptist
Church by the Rev. j. Welby
Broadus.
Burial will be in Greencastle
Cemetery. Friends may call until
10 am. Wednesday at the McLin
Funeral Home, 1870 Germantown
st.
Born in N. Carolina, MI. Crops
had been a Dayton resident ~
years and was a maintenance man
for radio station WING.
Survivors include his wife, Oh
lie; a daughter, Mrs. Claudia Hun
ter of Brooklyn, N. Y; a stepson,
William Hopper of Dayton, and
two grandchildren.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17
was placed on open docket.

was pldSCd VII OpCIl 0oShSI.
Monday morning lineup at po-
lice headquarters found the follow
ing suspects facing the detective
assembly for investigation: Ro-
bert Alexander, %, of AIS Ponti-
&C st., employed at the Kelly Coal
Co. charged withattempted rape on
a four year old child at $40 S.
Summit ST., Sunday am. Alex
ander's record revealed he had
served time for rape in 1888,
grand larceny in 1886, and serv-
ed a sentence of one to IS in 49,
81 for burglary and larceny. He is
now on probation.
George Jones Jr. 213 Celina
ave-, charged with assault to kill
following a fight with Norman
Quill, 80, of 432 S. Broadway ST.,
is reported in fair condition at
the Miami Valley hospital. Accord
ing to the investigating officers,
both men, employed at the Sears
& Roebuck Co, engaged in a fight
and Jones is said to have Inflicted
sever head injuries on Quill. The
fight occurred last Thursday, Oct
Der II.
Police are investigating a strong
armed robbery Of Gus Trambell,
II, of 1911 Howell ave. last Sat-
urday night about ten o'clock. Ac-
cording to his story to the po-
lice, Trambell was on his way
home when six men attacked him
at the corner of Western and Kin
nard ave., after robbing him Of
his billfold containing $26. They
left him in some weeds. Trambell
told police he recovered 8 o'clock
Sunday morning.
Common Pleas Judge Calvin
Crawford, withheld the 10 to 25
year sentence in prison for armed
robbery and auto theft Monday
morning in the case of Harold
Ashburn, of 2915 Home ave in or
der to let him complete his ar
arrangements for his coming we'd
ding scheduled for October 23.
| Ashburn, on parole from the Ohio
| State reformatory, since April
after serving time for the same
offense, was given permission to
marry by his parole officer, Ed
Toscani.
Judge Crawford told the bride
groom to be he need not expect
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17

death penalty in the double muir
derof May 81. Holiday confessed
the killing of two men following
a week long milling game at 113
Mound st.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17

FOR RENT Room, nice couple
with a small child, privileges
$1,000 per week. Ad6316 -202
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17
CLASSIFIED ADS

FOR SALE 1882 Lincoln, good
rubber, in good condition. In
quire at 1867 w. Third st.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17

WE WILL BUY your house for
cash. Call He-8161. Evenings
Ra-2023. If
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17

WANTED Refined young man
share room 2 meals $3.50 per.
week. He. 1858. Morn only.
t-2O2
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-10-17

FOR RENT Furnished room.
He-7354 after 6 pm. t-O3
Montana labor news., 1950-05-18
o DO o ARGUE?

How do YOU argue? Do you buster and fume and try to
talk down your opponent? Do you take keen pleasure IN con
tradicting him? Do you try to make an impression by POSITIVE
assertions and cancellations? Do you hammer home your
points in emphatic. loud tones?
but there is a second definition in the dictionary which IS tar
more important-"to influence by argument
Are you influenced by people who buster and fume9
Doesn't contradiction make you more set in your own opinion!
Don't YOU resent positive assertions and generalizations? Ana
dom you have to keep tight hold Of your temper when you are
hammered at in loud. emphatic tones2 Then why think such
tactics will win a n argument for you?
Al a great thinker once said: 1t is one thing to show a
man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession OF
truth" If you want to win an argument. first listen to the other
fellows side of the story. Find out what he is thinking, and
WHY he feels as he does
Once you know the why's, you will be able to determine what
are the strong points in your case and. it you have listened
courteously to him. the chances are nine out OF ten that he will
listen to you. DOM assume he is all wrong. Just take the
stand that here are some facts that have probably not come
to his attention.
Talk frmly-if an opinion is not worth defending. it ism
State your case clearly. but stick to the point and don't over
opponent a chance to comment on your position. An argu-
ment has to have views both for and against. If it is one
sided, it isn't an argument.
These are simple rules to follow. If you really want to in
nuence your opponent, then talk from his side to his interests
And this applies not only to personal discussions but to argu-
ments between groups.
Maybe it is too Utopian-but-could wars start SC easily
if nations argued this wayl