Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1956-04-27
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been approved in 1854 or 1855 if
Benson had allowed it. But Eisen-
hover and Benson did not approve
until this year. Yet they criticize
Congress for being so slow in ap-
proving this plan which few
months ago Benson refused to
tolerate.
Definition - Home is a place
where a man is free to say any
thing he pleases, because no one
will pay the slightest attention to
him.
Nine times out of ten the man
who boasts, Il run things at my
house." usually refers to the lawn
mower, the washing machine, the
furnace, the vacuum sweeper, and
the errands.
The u. S. Bureaus of Labor
Statistics predicts that by 1854, one
out of three American workers will
be woman due "To the growing
tendency of married women to take
jobs outside the home" -.
The phrase "Welfare State" has
become a battle cry for those op-
posing further activity by the fed
eral government on economic af-
fairs.
Yet the startling fact u that
today's federal government is ac-
tually spending less money on ac
tivities labeled Labor and Wei
fare" than was spent in 1889 or
1910.
BY far the largest part of today's
budget goes for national defense
and related items. Of the budget
proposed by the President for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1857,
81 per cent is scheduled to be
spent for purposes under the
heading Major National Security"
Quote of the Week "Where
you have weak Unions or no
Unions, it is often necessary for
the Government to step in with
minimum wage laws, standards on
hours and working conditions, and
other intrusions upon free contract.
But where Labor is strong there
is less need for such Governmental
action The stronger Labor is,
in short, the less need there is for
welfare state" ((U. S. Undersec-
retary of Labor Arthur Larson,
speech to Midwinter Personnel
Conference, Chicago)
Just in case some of you men,
bers are planning summer vaca-
tion the Department of Agri-
culture offers publication you
might be interested in. It's called
"Chiggers - How To Fight Them"
and gives a recipe for a solution
to ease the itching of chigger bites.
1t also gives method of treating
your clothes with repellent that
will withstand laundering. You can
get it without cost by writing to
Office of Information, USDA,
Washington 25, D. c.
One sure test of will power is to
see friend with black eye and
not ask any questions.
1t is no longer news that in 1855
General Motors became the first
corporation in history to make 81
billion year in profits after taxes.
But in reporting their profits the
rounded figure of ST billion was
used when actually GIN netted
81, ,189, AIT 900 after taxes. Now, if
we forget the billion and just con-
slider the rest, the $189 million, we
see that overage itself would be
enough TO place GM in the select
top 10 manufacturing profit-mak-
erS
That $189 million itself is more
than was made by such industrial
giants as Bethlehem Steel, Kenne-
colt Copper and Union Carbide &
Carbon, etc.
GINS total profits last year were
more than the total profits OF
ALL corporations in the food
manufacturing industry, that is, of
all meat, dairy, beverage, grain,
bakery, canned food, and other
food prduct corporations PUT To-
GETHER. It's amazing !!
oh, we'll, being an assembly-line
worker has its routine drawbacks
but also some unexpected advant-
ages, including longer life. So says
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. The average fife expectancy OF
industrial workers, since 1909, has
increased more rapidly than the
rest of the population, studies
showed. And the average wage
Garner can figure on living al
least to 70. Executives have much
shorter lives.
But some workers complain, "By
the time a man can afford to lose
q golf hall he can't hit ii that farin