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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
The Rear EcheIon Soldier
By RUTH TAYLOR

Once | heard three young sold
iers who had been wounded in the
last war talk of their experiences
One youngster, who looked like
any high school boy in your town
or mine, told US that his job was
that of "rear echelon soldier
that his unit brought up the sup
plies to the men in the front line
1t was in the performance of this
sometimes called "cushy" duty that
he was hit-the only man in his
group to survive.
That is what we civilians are to-
day-rear echelon or supply sold
iers. We do not go up to the front
lines to fight-but we nevertheless
have a job to do, each and every
one of US. 1t is our job in our war
And much of what our fighting
men all over the world accomplish
will depend upon how we do oui
part. They have the greater task
but we have an equal responsible
ity.
Our job as rear echelon soldiers
is best expressed by cartoon with
a very pertinent caption-"lf you
can't stand beside him, stand be-
hind him."
This does not mean just turning
out the goods and the food to sup
ply the armed forces-though that
task must come first in our lives.
1t does not just mean buying bonds
for, after all, that is just as good
for US as it is for the war effort.
Being a good rear echelon sold
ier means a great deal more than
producing weapons or purchasing
bonds. 1t means facing the fight
with the enemy, as our men are
doing, and not fighting among our
selves. 1t means sacrificing our
personal privileges, as they are
sacrificing theirs. 1t means accept
ing restrictions as they accept the
curtailment of their personal lives.
1t means disciplining our emotions
and putting aside our prejudices as
they have done. 1t means joining
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
STONE WORKERS GET PAY
BOOST, ESCALATOR CLAUSE

Alpena, Mich. UPA) - A new
contract which ties wages to the
US governments cost-of- living in
dex has been signed by Branch 1876,
United Stone & Allied Products
Workers Of America, and the Hur-
on Portland Cement Co. The pact
will mean an immediate increase
and an automatic one-cent hourly
increase or decrease for every l.3
fluctuation in the Bureau of Labor
Statistics index. Wages will not
drop below the l708 base establish
ed in the 1850 contract.
The settlement was negotiated
even though the present contract
does not expire until May 1, 1851.
The pact was reopened at the
unions insistence on a cost-of-liv-
ing wage hike. Similar escalator
clauses have been won by Branch
81 bay City, Mich.) and Branch
1876 (Petoskey, Mich.).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
Texas Building
Trades Hit By
Court Ruin

Austin, Tex. (LPA)-Labor took
a beating in the Texas Supreme
Court the other day that will affect
all construction workers on state
city, and local district projects.
In a decision involving pay rates
on an overpass near FL Paso, the
court ruled that the State Highway
Commission has final" authority
to determine prevailing wages
on highway construction jobs. The
decision sustained a district court
opinion and overruled finding by
the Austin Court of Civil Appeals.
The FL Paso Building & Con
struction Trades Council-AFL con-
tended it could appeal the High
way c o m m s S ms prevailing
wage" rulings to the courts. The
Austin Court of Civil Appeals sus-
tained the union argument, but Dis
trict Judge j. Harris Gardner
thought otherwise.
The Supreme Court supported
Judge Gardner in a decision writ
ten by Justice Meade f. Griffin.
"There is good reason for making
the decision of the highway com
mission final" said Judge Griffin,
declaring that in 1888 the legisla-
ture re-drafted the prevailing
wage statues to make it declare
specifically that the decision of a
public body awarding a contract is
final.
The FL Paso unions pointed out
that the wages on FL Paso projects
were 10 to 80 cents below the
wages on other construction work
in the area. They obtained an in
junction last March to stop the
Highway Commission from taking
bids on the overpass. Other high
way construction around Ell Paso
was Immediately postponed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
NPA Will Study
|Union-Employer
Policies In South

Washington, d, C. (LPA). -
Policies and practices followed by
both management and labor unions
in the employment of Negroes in
the South will be the subject of
new study sponsored by the Com
mittee of the South of the Nation
| al Planning Association. The in
vestigation, based on case studies
in selected southern cities and rep
Iresentative industries in the South,
is expected to throw light on long
range efforts to secure more effec-
tive use of manpower, the associa-
ton said.
George l.. Googe of Atlanta, Ga,
vice president of the International
Printing Pressmen's and Assist
ants Union of North America is a
member of the NPA Committee of
the South, which is composed of Sc
prominent Southern educators, in
dustrialists, editors, bankers, state
government officials and others.
The report on procedures used
by southern industries in the en-
ployment Of Negroes will be the
first Of its kind. 1t is made pos
sible by a $4,000 grant by the
Carnegie Corporation of New York
to the NPA Committee of the
South.
E. w. Palmer, chairman of the
committee and president of Kings
port Press, Inc, Kingsport, Ten
nessee, announced that the study
will be supervised by Calvin B.
Hoover, director of research of the
committee and chairman of the De-
partment of Economics of Duke
University, Durham, N. C.
DR.. Hoover stressed the purely
factual and analytical nature of
this study. He said: at is hoped
that the results of the study will
be particularly useful at time like
the present when the most effec-
tive utilization of our manpower is
of first Importance to national Sc
curity. 1t is not intended, however,
to advocate any policies or prac-
tices in the published report of this
study. 1t should be emphasized,
consequently, that the study has no
connection with any proposed leg
islation."
Don Dewey, Assistant Professor
of Economics at Duke University,
is conducting research for the
study in Durham-the first city
chosen for study. He has had con-
ferences with a number of heads
of Durham industries, and will con-
tinue these conferences during the
next few weeks. Other cities and
industries in the South will be
studied by economists whose names
will be announced later in various
southern universities.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
Communists Out
|TWU Shortens
Meet Two Days

New York (LPA)-One benefit
of kicking Communists out of
union was evident at the 7th Bien'
nial Convention of the Transport
Workers-they had to meet only
three days instead of the usua
five.
Michael J. Quill, union president
also pointed out that the unions
finances were back on sound basis
after being mishandled by Com
munists, and that membership in
creased 35 percent since the left
wingers' custer.
Quill also displayed bit of fine
verbal footwork in introducing
Mayor Vincent Impellitteri who
was opposed by TWU in New
York's recent mayoralty campaign,
"In the last election" Quill said,
81 asked the TWU people to vote
for another candidate that | liked
very much and still do. And appar-
emily the TWU fellows said, You
may be all right as representa-
tive of this union, but you are a
bum as a politician. ("
The roar that broke from the
476 delegates brought quick grin
to the mayors face, but it didn't
thaw him completely out. He spoke
of the importance of the subway
system here in the event of World
War III and told TWU members
that it would be New York's life
line in case of attack.
He pictured subway platforms
set up as emergency hospitals while
trains would be pressed into SER
vice to evacuate the injured from
devastated areas.
AS a sidelight of the convention,
TWU announced wage moves on
nine independent bus lines in New
York City and the transit system
in Philadelphia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
Dealers Cash In
As Canadians Seek
Wonder Foods

Il
younger, live longer? Of course you
do. That's why Canadians began
looking for wheat germ, yogurt,
powdered brewers yeast, powdered
skim milk and blackstrap molasses
after the October issue of Readers
Digest crossed the border from the
| U. S.
In the Readers Digest was a
condensation of a book provoca-
lively entitled Look Younger,
Live Longer, by Gaylord Hauser.
1t was Hauser's thesis that by eat
ling bit of the five wonder foods"
listed above every day, and by eat
inf unrefined foods in general you
could look forward to a long life
without a wriARle-if you'd be
careful crossing streets.
Hauser's advice sounded fine to
Canadians. Down to their grocery
stores they scurried to buy some
yogurt. No yogurt. Some wheat
germ? No wheat germ. A little
brewers yeast, then? No brewers
yeats. Perhaps some powdered skim
milk? Sorry. How about some
blackstrap molasses? =? Yes, the
stores had blackstrap. Up went
blackstrap sales. And up went the
price-from 10 to Is cents gallon
in Ottawa to $3.50 to $500.
Canadians began looking into
Hauser's recommendation n d
Lorne Ingle of the Cooperative
Press Association came up with the
whole story. Seems there's nothing
wrong with Hauser's wonder
foods, but there are other foods
just as wonderful. However, Haus-
er himself turns out to be the own
er of a chain of "health food"
Stores in the United States. His
stores sell yogurt, wheat germ,
powdered skim m k, brewers
yeast, blackstrap molasses and
other unrefined foods. Thus Haus-
er was engaged in a big promotion.
And the Readers Digest paid him
to be his own promotion man.
Says Lorne Ingle: Competent
authorities have told me that the
advice which Mr.. Hauser gives is
sound. He has evidently consulted
some authoritative nutritionists
and there is little wrong with the
general case he presents, although
he adds a few frills that are not
essential. The particular foods
he mentions do, in fact, contain all
of the vitamins and other nutrients
that he says they do. But so do
other foods that can be just as
easily, and is some cases more
easily obtained"
ID "For example, he urges. people to
use yogurt. That's fine. But from
nutrition point of view all of
the vitamins, etc, that are con-
tanned in yogurt are also contain
ed in ordinary milk The benefits
he claims can be obtained from un-
refined blackstrap molasses can
also be obtained from ordinary
cooking molasses."
In fact, reports the Canadian
writer, "the blackstrap molasses
admitted to Canada is not intended
for, and in many cases is not fit
for, human consumption. Its chief
use has been as an animal feed. It'll
is not prepared and packaged with
the same care as is required for
foods intended for human consump-
tion. 1t comes in great rough casks
and all manner of foreign material
is apt to be found in it, from rub
Der gaskets to bits of metal and de-
composed mice. 1t is ladled out of
these casks into small packages
for sale in food stores and the GUS
toners don't know the difference.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
lam MEMBERS TO VOTE
ON RETURN TO AFL

Washington LPA)-Some 600,-
900 members of the International
Association of Machinists were
scheduled to start voting in Dec
ember on whether to re-affihate
with the American Federation of
Labor The union executive council
has urged the membership to APP
prove the move.
The Machinists left the AFL five
years ago after sharp jurisdic-
tional dispute. Recently LAM lead
ers reached a five-point agreement
with AFL leaders, solving all juris-
dictional problems.
lam members will also elect
local officers for 1868 lodges from
Nova Scotia to Hawaii, from
Alaska to the Canal Zone-not to
mention the US proper. There are
Ia, ,144 local offices to be filled.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
Head Of JAW Urges One
Agency For All Controls

Washington (LPA)-We demon
strated free labor could out-pro-
duce slave labor last time, "and we
are prepared to do the same again. y
So declared Walter Reuther, pres
ident of the United Auto Workers,
before a Senate-House watchdog
committee on defense production
Dec. 7. The job can't be done,
though, he said, unless we get a
more sensible mobilization and
economic control program than we
have now.
Reuther appeared on behalf of
more than a million members to
protest Regulation w, the ruling
curbing installment buying of
autos, refrigerators and other
items. The Federal Reserve Board
clamped the controls on as an anti
inflationary measure. They requir-
ed one-third down and only Is
months to pay, for auto purchases.
The American economy can be
the decisive factor in the world
struggle, Reuther declared. "We
must discuss Regulation w or any
other aspect of mobilization in the
total economic picture" To rely
on credit controls as a major anti
inflationary weapon would be dis
astrous, he said.
Such a shot-in- the-dark approach
is no substitute for price control,
and is typical of the way the whole
mobilization program is being run,
he said.
All economic controls should be
centralized ain one agency" he de-
clared. Reminded by Senator Bur-
net Maybank Cd, SCI that w.
Symington has authority as an
"over-all coordinator," Reuther ex-
pressed respect for Symington, but
described him as a "sort of glori-
fled grievance committee member"
He should be able to direct" the
economic program, Reuther main
tanned.
The auto union chief presented a
detailed mobilization program COW
ering production needs, resources,
civilian controls, conversion, prior
tiles and allocations, manpower,
credit controls, price controls, rent
controls, and taxation.
As an example of the present
disastrous confusion, he said, auto
production will have to be cut 30
percent next year because Of gov
ernment orders cutting back acivil-
ian use of aluminium. Officials at
Ford told him, he said, that they
would have to lay off 10000 work
ers.
The auto industry could use 40
percent scrap aluminium, he said,
and it would more than make up
the difference. Thousands Of OBJ
solete airplanes are sitting in the
desert, and nobody is doing any
thing about utilizing them, Reuth-
or charged. "Those planes are use
less as aircraft but contain many
materials that could be used other
places"
Reuther said he tried in vain to
get government officials to auth
orize dismantling of the planes for
aluminium scrap and pledged him
self to comb Washington until he
found the agency that could do it.
This illustrates the need for con
troll coordinating agency, he point
cd out.
Another solution to the imme
diate problem has been promised
him by National Production Auth
ority chief William II. Harrison,
Reuther said. He asked Harrison
to issue end-use orders on alum
mum, instead Of relying on the
meat-ax across-the- board order now
in effect.
Automobiles are not luxury for
workers who must drive TO defense
plants thirty miles from their
homes, Reuther declared. We're
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14

in worse shape for transportation
now than we were before the last
war, he said. The average age OF
car is now S12 years, he pointed
out. In 194l, the average age was
only 512 years. Many of the cars
on the road now will wear out be-
fore the present emergency is over
You can't meet this sort of down
to earth problem by ivory-towel
manipulating of credits. "The only
way TO control prices is to control
prices" :"
Under loopholes in the present
law, food professors can escape
price controls, he pointed out. "The
fellow in between milks the con-
sumer on one end and the farmer
on the other. This, he said, makes
the consumer "the only COW in
captivity that gives milk on both
ends"
Rents must be controlled right
now or 1--WE will have serious war
housing problems in big industrial
centers," he warned. When Sen
Homer Capehart Or, Ind.) sang a
hearts flowers tune for "the
small property owners" Reuther
retorted that he is call for protect
ing the little fellow, but not for
using him as a front for the big
apartment house owners"
Not only prices, but the quality
of goods must be controlled, the
union official held. Under Section
709 of the present law, he pointed
out, before a price can be set you
have to talk to the fellow who pro-
duces it and the fellow who sells it.
Not a word about the fellow who
buys it,"
"The steel industry pulled the
trigger on this chain reaction in
flation," he said. "Their price rise
was completely unjustified. If US
Steel can't absorb a wage increase,
how can the little fellow down the
line?" General Motors and Ford
followed by raising car prices, he
pointed out, though GINS profits
in the third quarter Of 1850 were
$500 million.
ain the face Of these things"
said Reuther, "the price rise can't
be defended by any moral or econ
omic standard" He advocated an
immediate price freeze on selected
items, with wage freeze later,
after some equity" can be worked
out in the wage-price- profit struc-
ture.
Reuther called too for tax
structure based on equality Of
sacrifice" People who make under
$4,000 are paying taxes at the same
rate as they did during World War
II, he demonstrated. Those making
$4,000 and over are paying less
than in World War ii and corpora
tions are making 60 percent more
profits than they did during the
war.
On the question of the 4O-hour
week, Reuther said that before
this job is completed Wen have to
work more than 40 hours" As long
as corporations are making profits,
he maintained, workers are entitled
to overtime.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
HELP BLOOD BANK

Rockingham, n. c. (LPA)-Tcx
tile Workers here helped set Z
worlds record donation of 3l6 pint.
of blood from a single Red Cros.
Chapter. Claude Johnson, ono o'
the TWUA members, has given Il
pints of blood--a county record.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-14
Guild Wins On Spanish Daily

New York (LPA) = The New
York Newspaper Guild was choser
by the editorial and commercial
employees of Ell Diario, Spanish
language daily, "a to 4, in Ma
tional Labor Relations Board cleo
ton. The Guild previously had wor
at the Ready to Wear Scout and
the Times Tower.
Arizona sun., 1950-11-16
VALLEY SOCIAL WHIRL
By Marguerite Hunter-Phone 8-1O50

little surprised not to find six
gun toters all over the place, he
nevertheless got quite thrill out
of the towering mountains, the
desert and the cacti. Deciding "to
do it up proper" he bought a
complete western outfit, hired two
horses and invited a charming
young lady to be his guide. AS
they rode slowly through the des-
ert a sudden gust of wind blew
his large hat off. AS he hesitated,
the young lady jumped off her
horse and retrieved the sombrereo.
It wasn't that Leon was in doubt
utes to get on the animal!
about how to dismount from his
horse that he hesitated-heck, no!
Why it only took him ten min
But he just couldn't refuse the
young lady's efforts to be hospit-
able. Right, Leon?
Arizona sun., 1950-11-16
RAGSDALE
OBITUARY

Kemp, Morris Clyde, 80, 1874 w.
Grant, resident of Phoenix for 9
years formerly of Oklahoma had
been ill for the past year, passed
away at local hospital, Saturday,
November II. Funeral services
held at Chapel in the Valley, We'd
nesday morning with Rev. Dun
bar officiating. Survivors: wife,
Ruth; four sisters, Cecilia E.
Jones, Elnita Wallace, Doretha
Kemp, all of Tulsa, Oklahoma and
Willie Kemp of Phoenix; three
brothers Tommy, Paul and Willie
Kemp, all of Phoenix. Interment
in Greenwood Memorial Park.
Arizona sun., 1950-11-16
Bahai's Enjoy
Picnic Luncheon

On Sunday, November IL, fifty
Bahais, their family and guests
enjoyed a picnic lunch at Encanto
Park. This occasion marked the
one hundred and thirty-third an
niversary of the birth of Baha'u'-
l1ah, the founder of the Baha'i
faith. Short talks by James Harris,
Clinton Bugbee, and Francis John
son followed the luncheon. Games
and recreation for the children
completed the days program.
On Sunday evening, November
19 at s o'clock at Assembly Hall,
1888 West Van Buren, Mrs. James
Harris will speak on "Are We
Obstructing Peace?" Clinton Bug
bee will act as chairman for the
meeting which will include a
question and answer period. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend this meeting without charge.
Other Baha'i activities include
weekly study classes at 7:30 pm
each Wednesday and childrens
class each Sunday morning at
1890 at the home of Mrs. Robert
Phillips, 736 Encanto Drive, Sc
Those interested are invited to
call Mrs. Carl Deppe, 5-2524 for
further details.
Arizona sun., 1950-11-16

Well, the deer hunting season
ended Sunday, and good number
of last minute nimrods swarmed
the wilds in an attempt to bag
a buck. In this number were
Mr.. Tommy jenkins, Mr.. Robert
L. Sublett, popular young barber
and four other sportsmen. Now,
it could have been just a simple
case of mistaken identity, any
way the hunters brought back sew
eral bucks, some huge ones, in
fact, only in this neck of the woods
we call them jack rabbits! But
that's o. K. fellows, you put meat
on the table, and every time you
do that nowadays, you score!
Mr.. Roy A. Scott Of Santa Bar
bara, California, spent the week
end with his sister Mrs. Cecil
James Hewitt, 316 w. Yavapai St.
Mr.. Scott is former Phoenician
having attended the elementary
school here and graduating from
Carver High School. This is his
first visit here in ten years, how
ever, and he was joyfully received
by his old friends and schoolmates.
He was entertained by Miss juan
TIA Favors, Mr.. Lowell Sperland
and others. Mr.. Scott is war
two veteran and spent five years
overseas during which he visited
practically every campaign theatre
including the African.
Another Veteran and former
WAC, Mrs. Gladys L. Knight, is
confined to the Veterans Hospital
at Wickenburg, Arizona.
Mrs. Alice Cullen, prominent
business woman of Chicago, Ill,
is spending three weeks vacation
here, during which she is dividing
her time house-guesting between
Mrs. Mary Howard, 1526-E, Mon
roe ST., and Mrs. Mary Ellen Bruce
at TO So. 7th Ave. Mrs. Cullen
will journey southwark when she
leaves here Saturday morning to
visit her four brothers in Houston,
Texas, and a brother and sister in
New Oreleans, La. Then back to
Chicago, where she has done busi-
ness in one location for fifteen
years.
Before the arrival of Mrs. Gull
len, Mrs. Bruce had another guest
for thirteen days. Mr.. Leon Pin
son, young son of very dear
friend of hers. He is a postal en-
ployee in Chicago and decided to
spend his vacation exploring the
''wild and wooly vest" Although