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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Job
Printing Plant in the State.
Entered at Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted lor mailing at Special Rate of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13. 1917, authorized
August 20, 1918.
6«n*ral Oiiic*. N. B. O. P. Building. West Sixth St., BELL PHONE 575
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street
Bank Building, Tr«nton, N. J.
Second Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street,
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George W. Cook, P. O. Box 244, Hamiltoa
Square, New Jersey.
Fourth Vice President—Alex Young, 31 Passaic Street, Trenton, N. I.
Fifth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Sixth Vice President—James J. McGowan, 744 Cadmus Street, East
Liverpool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. Va.
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool,
Ohio.
National Organizer—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
F. JEROME MfKEEVER Editor and Business Manager
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada $2.00
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacture!s A. G. DALE, FHED SUITERLIN. JAMES TURNER
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOU'.'G, LPWARD SEYFILRT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. I. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGlLLlVHAY, LOUIS PiESLGCK, FRANK HAYNKS
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS. CHAS GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Ir., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BE .' D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALVIN J. BURT, H. H. HAISLOP, JOHN D. McGlLLlVHAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. McDONALD, HARRY SPORE, MARGARET PARKL'H
B. of O. JAMES SLAViN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
LABOR'S DEPARTMENT
"DECAUSE the American Federation of Labor
has always looked upon the advancement of
wage-earners interests and welfare as interrelated
with national progress and welfare, from our first
convention we looked to government to provide
bureaus of labor statistics in the state and the
federal government. We needed the facts on
working and living conditions as the basis for
raising standards. Only as the standards of living
for wage earners are raised can the whole level of
living and culture of the nation rise. Our next
fundamental proposal for government service was
a Federal Department headed by a Secretary, a
member of the President's Cabinet. The great
masses of the people represented in Labor were
entitled to informational service on their welfare
and to representation in the highest division of
the administrative branch of the? government
representation as an integrated functional group,
not as a separate class. In 1896 we adopted this
second major objective for labor in the field of
administration—a, federal department of labor
w^JuS/Vur own representative in the President's
cabinet.
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Our campaign to secure this objective was ma
terially advanced by the success of Labor's non
partisan political policy in electing union-card
members of Congress. The struggle for the en
actment of our bill paralleled the terrific fight
•which the National Manufacturers Association
was making on us, trying to paralyze our unions
through injunctions and suits to raid our troas
uries under the Sherman Anti-Trust law. To afford
unions some measure of protection, the union
card group added a rider to the Sundry Civil Ap
propriation bill:
"That no part of this money shall be spent in
the prosecution of any organization or individual
for entering into any combination or agreement
having in view the increasing of wages, shorten
ing of hours or bettering the condition of labor,
or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not
in itself unlawful."
The Appropriation bill went to the President
with this proviso included together with the bill
creating the federal Department of Labor. Presi
dent Taft vetoed the former and signed the latter
March 4, 1913, as his last official act. In the in
augural ceremonies of President Wilson, William
1!. Wilson, a trade unionist, participated as tin
first Secretary of Labor. Labor chose William
B. Wilson for this position because he knew La
bor's problems and interests and because of his
distinguished service in behalf of Labor.
As first organized, the services of the Depart
ment of Labor covered the following fields: child
welfare and child labor, labor statistics, immigra
tion and naturalization, welfare of women workers,
conciliation, etc. To these original services have
since been added the employment service, the
division of labor standards and the division of pub
lic contracts. In addition to its research and fact
finding functions the Department of Labor has
the administration ol' labor laws which establish
rights of labor.
The Department of Labor has a fundamental
responsibility for service to Labor—:for knowing
their needs and desires and for supplying the in
formation and technical assistance needed to carry
out purposes determined by the groups concerned.
Not only should this be the attitude of those per
sons administratively responsible for the Depart
ment and its component bureaus and services, but
of the whole personnel from top to bottom. In
other words civil service should operate to provide
for this specific administrative department per
sonnel with training and experience qualifying
them to have understanding and sympathy with
Labor's efforts to raise working conditions and
standards of living.
On the fourth of last March- the Department
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National
East Liv­
of Labor celebrated its first twenty-five years of
service. It has a proud record of achievements.
Labor hopes that the next twenty-five years will
show an equal record in developing the spirit and
the means of service to workers in their efforts
to organize in unions for the purpose of collective
bargaining.
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THE CONTINUING TRAGEDY OF JOBLESS
WORKERS
"P\ESPITE billions of dollars of Federal, State
and municipal funds used to* help the un
employed either by work or home relief, plus large
amounts contributed by private charity for the
same purpose, the shockingly large army of work
ing men and women whom those who own and
control industry refuse to employ continues to be
the outstanding tragedy of our social order.
According to reliable estimates made by the
American Federation of Labor the jobless army
numbered 3,216,000 in January, 1930. This num
ber increased month by month until in March,
1933, there were 13,689,000 who were deprived of
the opportunity to earn a living by circumstances
beyond their control. By January, 1935, the num
ber was reduced to 11,695,200. There was a fur
ther decrease to 10,952,121 by January, 1936,
with additional decreases month by month until
September, 1937, when there were 7,513,054 with
out jobs.
Then case the business "recession" with em
ployers discharging millions of workers until by
January 1938, there were 10,973,395 without em
ployment.
The constant and never ending tragedy of this
situation with its terrible suffering for the adult
jobless and their dependents, is a picture which
the workers should visualize at all tipies. It is
vividly presented in the following figures compiled
by the American Federation of Labor giving the
total number of gainful workers in the United
States, the number of employed workers, and the
number of unemployed workers during the years
1935, 1936, 1937, and January, 1938:
Yearly Gainful Number
Aver. Workers Employed
1935 51,191,283 40,539,049
1036 51,758,980 42,364,426
1937 52,283,038 44,024,851
Monthly Average
1935
Jan. 50,943,881 39,248,681
Feb. 50,988,213 39,568,850
Mar. 51,032,594 39,799,568
Apr. 51,077,148 40,201,014
May 51,121,875 40,301,939
June 51,166,827 40,408,648"
July 51,212,011 40,453,052
Autf. 51,257,563 10,765,339
Sept. 51,303,899 41,273,232
Oct. 51,350,81 1 41,575,945
Nov. 51,397,017 41,436,242
1 )ec. 51,113,191 41,436,073
1936
Jan. 51,490,330 40,538,209
Feb. 51,537,969 40,676,197
Mar. 51,585,756 41,103,260
Apr. 51,631,208 41,815,233
May 51,682,110 42,126,613
June 51,731,096 12,311,760
July 51,780,132 42,399,079
Autf. 51,830,761 12,803,381
Sept. 51,881,952 43,383,5 1
Oct. 51,933,521 13,757,161
Nov. 51,984,175 43,697,789
Dec. 52,031,844 43,760,882
1937
Jan. 52,040,012 42,799,135
Fob. 52,089,521 43,129,198
Mar. 52,138,624 43,531,730
Apr. 52,187,156 43,874,628
May 52,236,322 44,326,94 1
June 52,283,748 44,460,236
July 52,332,552 41,550,066
Auk. 52,381,996 4 1,636,113
Sept. 52,428,196 11,915,142
Oct. 52,474,396 14,768,190
Nov. 52,520,596 41,011,973
These startling figures are climaxed by the
statement by Aubrey Williams, deputy adminis
trator of the Works Progress Administration, that
according to estimates of the United States De
partment of Labor there are now "more than 12,
000,000 unemployed men and women in our
country, a large percentage of them willing and
able to work, who cannot find private employ
ment."
As an effective remedy for this deplorable un
employment condition the American Federation of
Labor urges the adoption of the basic 30-hour
work week on a national scale and believes that
under this shorter work week industry would pros
per and the unemployed army would gradually be
liquidated.
The guiding principle of the American Fed
eration of Labor is the principle of democracy.
For more than 50 years the Federation has led
in the struggle to free the wage earners of
America from social injustice and economic bond
age. From the day of its inception it has been
the purpose of the Federation to achieve this ob
jective in a way that is democratic, in a way that
is, in a true sense of the \Vord American,
—William Green.
Number
Unemployed
10,652,234
9,894,553
8,281,962
11,695,200
11,4 19,39.'
11,233,026
10,876,134
10,819,936
10,758,179
10,758,989
10,492,224
10,030,667
9,771,869
9,960,775
10,007,118
10,952,121
10,861,772
10,4 82,196
9,818,975
9,555,797
9,419,336
9,881,353
9,027,383
8,498,101
8,176,360
8,286,686
8,273,962
9,240,877
8,960,023
8,603,891
8,812,828
7,909.381
7,823,512
7,782,486
7,745,883
7,513,051
7,706,206
8,478,623
THE POTTERS HERALES
JOB INSURANCE
WHAT IT MEANS
By CHARLES S. LEASURE
Chairman Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission of Ohio
(This is the third of a series of
four brief articles on the Unemploy
ment Compensation Law of Ohio. Its
publication will be greatly appreci
ated.)
Benefits
Under the Ohio Unemployment
Compensation law, benefits will be
payable to both the totally unemploy
ed and partly unemployed after Janu
ary 1, 1939. The amount of benefits
a worker may receive for total unem
ployment will be one-half of his aver
age weekly wage, but in no case can
this amount exceed $15\per week, for
that is the maximum benefit allowed
by the law. The maximum period for
which any worker may receive bene
fits in any one year is sixteen weeks.
Therefore the most any unemployed
worker can receive in one year will
be $240, or sixteen times the maximum
benefit.
The amount of benefit a worker
will receive, within these limitations,
depends upon how much the worker
has been earning and how long he
has worked for an employer subject
to the law. For instance, if you
averaged twenty dollars per week,
your benefit for total unemployment
would be $10, or one-half of your aver
age weekly wage.
For workers partly unemployed, the
benefits will be figured differently. In
the eyes of the law, they become
partly unemployed when their earn
ings are less than sixty per cent of
their average weekly wages. Then
they receive benefits in proportion to
the amount of their earnings. The
more they lose, the larger the bene
fit will be. These amounts will be ten,
twenty, thirty and forty per cent of
the average weekly wage.
Who Will he Qualified
However, all the unemployed or
partly unemployed will not be eligible
for benefits as some may believe.
Probably the most important re
quirement is: employment in at least
each of twenty weeks during 1938 by
an employer subject to the law that
is, oYie who was contributing to the
unemployment fund or liable for con
tributions to the fund.
Next, the worker must he registered
at the nearest local office of the Un
employment Compensation Commis
sion or place designated by the Com
mission, and undergo a three-weeks
waiting period.
For partial unemployment, this
three weeks waiting period may be
accumulated on the job, and is com
pleted whenever the worker's loss of
earnings equals the ara^upt he would
lose if totally unempPoyCtl -for three
weeks.
Unemployment compensation is in
surance only against unemployment
and gives no protection against loss
of work through sickness or accident.
So, another important qualification a
worker must have to receive benefits
is, that he must be capable and avail
able for work. Also, he must be un
able to obtain work in his usual oc
cupation or one in which he can
reasonably be expected-' to accept
work.
Unemployment Compensation is
looked upon neither as a cure for un
employment nor perfect protection
against unemployment. It is expected
to do more than cushion the blow of
unemployment and help the worker
guard against its consequences. But
the protection he does receive from it,
he receives as a matter of right and
not as relief or a dole.
(Editor's note—The fourlh and final
article of this series will be published
in this paper next week.)
WISDOM
However things may seem, no
evil thing is success, and no good
thing is failure.—Henry Wads
worth Longfellow.
Bontempo Is Cleared
Of Blackmail Charges
Columbus, (). (OLNS).—Benjamin
,Bontempo, Cleveland, president of the
Ohio State Board of Barber Ex
aminers, who was suspended recently
pending an investigation of blackmail
charges preferred against him at
Cleveland, was reinstated last week by
Governor Davey following dismissal
of the charges after a municipal
hearing.
Bontempo was charged by non
union and ClO-union barbers of
threatening them with citations before
the Barber Board for violations unless
they became affiliated with the Master
Barbers' Association or the Journey
men Barbers' Union.
The Cleveland court held that there
was insufficient evidence supporting
the accusation of the prosecution, and
dismissed the case.
NEGOTIATE PACT
Marysville, O. (OLNS).—Recently
organized employes of the Fisher
Brass Co. here have successfully ne
gotiated first contract with the com
pany, in which the Metal Trades
Unions involved .ire recognized as the
exclusive bargaining agent.
Seniority is established, rates of
pay for men and women woi'kert? were
set., and the work week set at 40 hours
with an eight-hour day. The employes
were organized two months ago by
representatives of the Machinists',
Molders' and Metal Polishers' Unions.
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TRUTHS PONDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MR. MODESTOS
GO WEST
WHERE ARE FRONTIERS?
"AIR LANES'' AROUND
WORLD
POWER IS DEVELOPED
Where are the frontiers, now?
Horace Greeley said: "Go West—n}
There was the chance to grow up
with the country—
Frontiers are just the unexplored
places—
Unsurveyed, where no man has yet
driven his stakes—
Where land belongs to the first who
claims it—
It is the Land of Elbow-room—
Where there are no barbed-wire
fences—
And every man is his ow*n sheriff—
Where the cattle rustler gets by un
til he is shot in the act
Where new settlers were called
"nesters"—
Taking away open ranges from the
cattle barons—
Yes, but Where are the frontiers,
now?
Every last quarter-section has been
staked—
Most of them have been covered by
many filings of claims—
All the running water has been
fenced in—
Water power companies hold most
of the power locations—
Prospectors are using a fine-tooth
comb now—
Becausfe gold is worth $35 an
ounce—
But all the big "strikes" have been
struck—
Unless you want to go to' the North
Pole—
Timber frontiersmen are now re
foresting—
Cattle frontiersmen have gone to
South America—
Except for the few who got into the
United States Senate—
Western grain frontiersmen have
torn down the wire fences—
To make room for tractors—
The Oregon Trail is buried under
steel rails—
Japanese are fighting for the sal
mon fisheries.
Wright Brothers staked out the
first air claims—
Now there are "air lanes" around
the world—
Scientists are smashing atoms—
To find the frontiers of horse
power—
Cqmmunications lost their frontiers
with radio—
While television is abopt ttf add
visibility to hearing—
Concrete roads have been laid down
across the deserts—
Air-conditioning conquers climates,
hot and cold—
Men have sent their mining shafts
down to intolerable heat—
Recently the deepest oil well was
drilled to a depth of -three miles—
Astronomers have begun to map
ghost stars—
Having already located the point
where the solar system turns—
On its vast journey through inter
stellar spaces—
There seem to be no physical fron
tiers not staked out—
Unless it be in the realm where the
chemists are probing—
Even there it is mainly a matter of
relationships—
Uncovering unsuspected affinities of
atoms—
Which suggests where the real
frontiers are for humans—
In the unknown regions of socio
logy-
Blind alleys of economics—
Unexplored possibilities of political
action—
Mysterious potencies of credit—
In all of these there are surveyors
out on assignment—
But they have been using old in
struments—
Trying to ascertain and test the
values of social forces—
In terms of competition and in
dividualism—
When they are dealing with the un
chartered realms—
Where power is developed to unex
plored tensions—
By the unleashing of co-operative
efforts.
PACTS RENEWED
Cleveland, O. (OLNS).—With a
new closed shop provision and at the
1937 wage scale, renewal of all AFL
agreements with Great Lakes vessel
owners was announced l^gt week by
Edward J. Sullivan, general organ
izer of the AFL Seaman's lleorganiza
tion Committee.
The agreements cover the C. & B.,
the D. & C., Georgian Bay and Lake
Michigan passenger lines, rail car
ferries in Lake Michigan and Detroit
liiver, sand stone barge lines, auto
mobile carriers, and independents not
in the Lake Carriers' Association.
ELECTION ORDERED
Toledo, O. (OLNS).—A collective
bargaining election was ordered last
week by the National Labor Relations
Board at the Martin Brothers' Box Co.
here following a jurisdictional dispute
between the AFL's Millmen's Union
and the CIO Toledo Industrial Union.
The CIO refused to abide by a Toledo.
Peace Board ruling, which held that
the AFL Union represented the ma
jority of the workers.
Buy American.
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
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"Ted" Dewey, New York's famous
prosecutor, recently told the Legal
Aid Society of that city that the poor
man arrested on criminal charges sel
dom got decent legal.-services, and out
lined a plan to bring betterment.
Next day, Charles Evans Hughes,
Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court, told the American Law Insti
tute that the administrative agencies
of government must be extremely
careful to see that the spirit in which
they work is "the spirit of the just
judge."
Both gentlemen are entirely right
in what they said and both refrained
from mentioning the greatest blot on
America's administration of law. What
the poor man arrested on a criminal
charge in most cities has most to fear
is that the police will give him the
"third degree" to get a confession out
of him.
The star villainy of the lot probably
is the action of the Denver police some
years ago, when they beat and bede
villed a man into confessing to a
double murder that never was com
mitted. It was proved beyond all ques
tion at the trial that the deaths were
due to a faulty gas heater, with which
the man who confessed had nothing
to do.
Dewey is right, and Chief Justice
Hughes is right—though it must be
admitted that the New York prosecu
tor picked a llaw infinitely more im
portant to the mass of the American
people than the one which engaged the
attention of the Chief Justice. Most
of our administrative agencies deal
with corporations—and no corporation
in trouble lacks legal services, what
ever the plight of its exchequer. But
isn't it about time that someone to
whom the country must listen goes
after the third degree?
In a statement of considerable
length and studiously moderate lan
guage, Premier Hirota of Japan re
cently told the world that what Japan
is working for now is a united China,
under a government that will be
friendly to Japan. He admitted that
the difficulties in the way were large.
The context showed that what Hirota
meant by "friendly government" is a
government of China which will do
the will of Japan in all things.
If China were a corporation with
(Btock on the market, that should have
boomed when Hirota's statement was
published. For what Hirota really
said is that China has become so thor
oughly united that Japan no longer
has any hope of dividing it. In the
early days of the war, as everyone re
members, Japan was aiming to have
the five northern provinces of China
under a puppet pro-Japanese govern
ment. That time is past. Hirota ad
mits, apparently without quite know
ing it, that the case has come to be
all or nothing so far as Japan is con
cerned.
Why, if the Chinese are united past
division in all the fighting regions and
nearby territory, should the Japanese
be striking at southern China, which
hitherto has had little experience of
this war? The answer must be that
Japan is absolutely under the domin
ation of her army and navy and that
history shows that the military mind
seldom thinks. The Japanese raid on
Amoy probably will put 250,000 south
ern Chinese into active war service
who would not have been in that ser
vice before.
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WHAT NEXT? I
It is now possible to rubberize
paper for wrapping salt, cocoa
and candy and similar commodi
ties by coating it with a derivative
of crepe rubber to ma lie it mois
ture and „vapor resistent. The
paper is tasteless, odorless and
has a high gloss. The rubber coat
ing is supplied in the form of an
emulsion.
THE BUY AMERICAN PICNIC
June the eleventh is the date I hear
For Potters to gather from far and
near.
So all you potters be on your mark,
For the annual outing at Idora Park.
Bring all your friends, and neighbors
too,
For all are quite welcome and I DO
mean you.
Free coffee is served in the picnic
grove,
So pack your basket and be there by
jove.
You'll be reminiscing with friends of
old,
As tales of bygone days arc told.
It's a gala occasion, and one, of good
will,
With the park amusements to fill the
bill.
The sports will be grand with contests
too,
Thg committees have arranged them
just for you.
This outing will be their best by far,
You may be lucky and win the car.
Though illness prevents my attending
this year,
I sincerely hope that the day will be
clear.
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For these loyal potters have done all
they can
Attd ask your support on The Buy
American Plan.
—MRS. JOSEPH RICKEL.
Thursday, May 19, 1935
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
"ECONOMIC RECESSION"
HAS REACHED BOTTOM!!
"PUMP PRIMING"
NATION TO MAKE CHOICE
The "economic recession"—so call
ed for politeness sake—has "probably
reached the bottom," Secretary of
Commerce Roper thinks.
Well, here's hoping.
If the bottom has really been reach
ed, then the next move must be up
ward.
If the bottom has not been reached,
lower levels are to come.
Secretary Roper is cagey on the
future.
He says there has been as yet no
substantial up-grade and that -a sur
vey of business conditions merely in
dicates there has been relative stabil
ity in industrial activity in the four
months of this year ending in April,
in contrast to the precipitous decline
in the last four months of 1937.
Government is tackling depression
with a big emergency relief and Fed
eral building bill.
It called the recovery bill for short.
Recovery bill aims to get business
and industry going by spending and
lending money.
In other words, "pump priming."
Government delayed vigorous action
for months, apparently hoping "pros
perity was just around the corner."
Corner was not reached and Presi
dent and his advisers finally acted.
Seemed to be the only thing they
could do in the circumstances, though
there are grave misgivings about the
success of the move.
Last pump priming spree didn't
bring lasting recovery.
Lots of people think there was no
real recovery at all, only the appear
ance of it.
One thing seems certain as regards
the present situation.
The pending recovery program is
probably the last possible experiment
of the kind the nation can try in this
generation.
If it doesn't work, we shall have to
face a "completely new orientation in
our thinking and actions," one com
mentator says.
That is a fancy way of saying we
shall have to adopt a different course
of action and way of looking at things
economic.
That might mean one of two things:
Returning to the old way of letting
the economic system alone, with a
minimum of government control or in
terference.
Setting up a system of production
and distribution in which profit is sub
ordinate to use.
Nation may have to make a choice
before many years have passed.
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Agencies of Russia's Communist
government send out glowing accburits
of cultural, recreational and other
things being done for tne people.
Such as a description of how one
of the most feared and dreaded of
the old Czarist prisons, once noted
for its dungeons, torture chambers
and execution, gallery, has been con
verted into an art museum.
But the government agencies don't
say anything about converting the
present day prisons, with their torture
and execution chambers.
Those are reserved for enemies, real
and imagined, of the*Russian dictator
ship.
The dictatorship is getting on dan
gerous ground when it begins to talk
about prisons.
It might be asked in what respect
its prisons, and what they signify, are
any advance over those of the days
of the tyrannical rule of the Czars.
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IN THE NEWS
LISTER HILL
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Lister llill, elected to the Senate
by Alabama to fill the vacancy caused
by the appointment of Hugo L. Black
to the Supreme Court, is 43 years old
but he doesn't look it, except in the
eroded districts of his hair. He has
a springy walk not too common in the
thirties he stands about five feet,
eleven inches above sea-level his face
is not lined, his light gray eyes ap
pear to need no spectacles, he has not
made a start toward getting fat. His
whole manner is that of a young man
who finds life a doggoned interesting
affair.
He graduated from the University
of Alabama in 1914. He served with
the Seventeenth and Seventy-first U.
S. Infantry in the World War. He
was elected to the Sixty-eighth Con
gress to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John R. Tyson. And here
comes a fact rather unusual, even in
the Deep South—he was renominated
and reelected, without opposition,
seven times.
Evidently, his district was pretty
well satisfied with Lister Hill. His
election to the Senate by more than
two to one, shows that the state is
pretty well satisfied, too. He made a
vigorous New Deal campaign, uphold
ing Roosevelt on the stump as in the
House.
While he was still Senator, Hugo
Black was heard to say: "There's a
lot more liberalism in the South than
most people believe." Hill's experience
seems to justify his predecessor's
words.
Yes, competence is largely a mat
ter of confidence.
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