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The POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OP
TUB RATIONAL BBOTHEHHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTEBS
-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 Postofiice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rate of Postage
provided ior in Section 1108, Act ol October 13. 1917, authorized
August 20, 1918.
Ohio.
General OHice. 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 National
Bank. Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 117, Thompson Avenue, East Liv
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—George W. Cook, P. O. Bo* 244 Hamilton
Square, New Jersey.
Fifth Vice President—Alex Young, 31 Passaic Street, Trenton, N. J.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio
Seventh Vice President—James J. McGowan, 744 Cadmus Street, East
.Liverpool, Ohio.
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. Va.
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool,
F. JEROME McKEEVER Editor and Business Manager
One Year to Any Part oi the United States or Canada S2.0C
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. A. G. DALE, FRED SUTTERL1N, JAMES TURNEh
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIEFU
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGILLIVRAY. LOUIS PIESLOCK, FRANK HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOSt CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives. ALVIN J. BURT, H. R. HAISLOP, JOHN D. McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALD, HARRY SPOREL MARGARET PARKER
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAV1N, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE AGENTS
When we think of insurance we usually think
of a huge central office with a large staff receiv
ing premium payments by check and settling
claims in the same way. But actually that type
of service is for a comparatively small portion of
the population, for at least 42 percent of all fami
lies have incomes less than $1,000. Whatever in
surance one-third of all families has is probably of
an industrial nature and payments are collected by
the army of industrial insurance agents.
Every week these agents knock at the same
doors to collect the five, ten or twenty-five cents
the family takes from actual living expenses to
set aside for burial insurance, life insurance, or
some other provision against emergencies. The
agent learns to know the financial difficulties of
the family and the mishaps that prevent prompt
payments. More frequently than not the small
amounts must go for sickness. The whole family
story unfolds in those periods of need before the
industrial insurance agent who must know whether
the family will be able to continue payments and
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how long he can personally carry the account. More'hi"'hest
often than not the family turns to him for adviceJotSier
on medicine, doctor, on small loans, etc. When all
is well the insurance agent gets the brighter side
of family life and the friendliness that comes,
through regular service.
These industrial insurance agents who go in
to the homes qf our workers—an army more than
a quarter of a million strong, are turning to union
ism to solve some of their own troubles. Organiz
ing in unions chartered by the American Federa
tion of Labor, these agents are trying to negotiate
agreements with their employers to increase their
pay and better working conditions. Vacations
with pay are unknown to most of these workers
Men are known to work six days a week for
twenty years without a holiday even unpaid.
Pressure is put upon them for collections and sales
and general holidays are a chance to find the
family at home.
Even in addition to unlimited hours of work
with no vacation arrangements, there are unfair
compensation practices. For example, agents have
had no base compensation or guaranteed salary
but have been paid commissions. The agent re
ceives a commission on new business but if a policy
should lapse, it may be charged back to the agent
who must return the commission or get substitute
business without commission.
These new members of the organized labor
movement are most welcome both for what we
can do for them and what they can do for us.
These men are trained salesmen with wide per
sonal contacts. It is important to labor to have
them organized and identified with our labor move
ment so that they may carry the habit and prac
tice of unionism into homes that are difficult to
reach.
These insurance agents may become our best
missionaries for the cause.
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TOWARD OLD AGE BENEFITS
American Federationist
For eighteen months the Federal Government
has been collecting taxes to accumulate an Old Age
Insurance Fund. Payments have been made by
both employers and employes. The Social Security
Hoard now offers every worker an opportunity to
check up on his record so that mistakes and omis
sions may be corrected while it is still possible to
get data. As the number of employers making
payments under the Act falls below estimates, it
is more than probable that requests of workers for
their records may bring such facts to life while
they may be corrected. In this issue of the AMER
ICAN FEDERATIONIST is an article by the ad
ministrator of old age benefits describing in detail
the procedure for getting records of individual
credits. It it obvious that wa^e-earners who Keep
HAVE
records of their weekly pay together with the
names of their employers will have an advantage
in verifying their wage credits and in taking up
inaccuracies.
The completion of bookkeeping for one year so
that a report can be made to approximately 40
million registered persons constitutes a definite
test of bookkeeping machinery. Now that this
part of the job has been achieved, we can now
turn to broadening the coverage and to financial
problems. Labor feels that farm labor, workers in
domestic service, and self-employed persons—all
employed persons with small incomes—should be
covered in the Act. Persons who have been self
supporting during the period of their productive
years have a right to. look forward to honorable
old-age free from the humiliation of dependence.
All employed persons should have an equal right
to old-age insurance provisions of the Federal
Government.
Monthly benefit provision should be payable
immediately and with more generous provisions to
all reaching the age of 65. There does not seem
sufficient justification for the creation of a large
reserve as in the case of commercial insurance
companies for the payment of such claims is an
obligation upon Society to be paid out of existing
resources. Payments out of current income would
clarify Federal accounting and eliminate a provis
ion necessarily increasing the Federal debt.
We have made substantial progress in- the
foundations for old age insurance. We need now
to consider in terms of equity and adequacy of
provisions for benefits.
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FAMILY INCOME
The National Resources Board sponsored a
study of consumer incomes and their distribution'
in the United States in 1935-6. This study
had incomes under $1070, while two-thirds had in-
comes less than $1150.
Looking at cumulative results* approximately
nine-tenths, or 89 percent, have incomes under
$2500. Approaching distribution from the higher
income groups we find that less than one percent
of all families have incomes of $10,000 and over.
About 2 percent have incomes between $5,000 and
$10,000.
National income for 1935-6 was $59,000,000,
000, of which 10 percent went to the poorest third
of the 39 million families or individuals con
stituting a consuming unit. Their incomes were
less than $780. An equal amount went to the one
half percent of all the families constituting the
inco™e
wav'
66 2/3
income
you ever looked into your purse or
pocketbook and wondered why there was so
ittle left of that ten-dollar bill you thought would
last until Saturday?
The National Consumers Tax Commission, a
housewives' group undertaking a nation-wide
crusade against taxes that increase the cost of
living, has an explanation for your wonder. The
average Ohio family, says the Commission, pays
an average of $6.70 a week in local, state and nati
onal taxes.
Of course some of these taxes are direct,
levied at intervals during the year. But 63 per
cent of them, the Commission estimates, are hid
den to the consumers who in everyday purchases
pay them as an unseen part of the prices of every
thing they buy.
In other words, the average Ohio family un
knowingly pays $4.22 a week in taxes out of its
purchases.
The next time you wonder about the meager
remnants of that ten-dollar bill, think of these
figures and say, "That's where my money goes."
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Many a. man does not discover it was anything
more than a mere flirtation, uatil she lias, mux
ried him.
THE
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group. Stating distribution in an-
Percent of all families are in low
groups and get 34 percent of national in
come while less than 10 percent are in the highest
income classes.
With so large a percentage of national income
going to a small group and the masses with in
comes that leave 110 margins for decent standards
of living, to say nothing of savings against emer
gencies, we find the cause of social security legis
lation. Taken with population trends showing de
clining births for upper income families, there may
be growing concentration of wealth in the hands
of a few. llere we find a reason for inheritance
taxes.
Looked at as a problem in unequal sharing in
social progress we see the grave need for organ
ization among various groups of producers so
that they may raise their incomes and their
standards of living. This is a country rich in
natural resources but the sum total of our efforts
shows 11 percent of all families with incomes un
der $500 12 percent with incomes under $1,000
65 percent with incomes under $1500 87 percent
with incomes under. $2500 97 percent with in
comes under $5,000 99 percent with incomes
under $10,000, while 1 percent net incomes from
$10,000 to $1,000,000 or over. Organization of
all groups will tend toward more intelligent dis
tribution.
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"THAT'S WHERE MY MONEY GOBS"
POTTERS, HERALD
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS
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(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Private construction projects re
ported contemplated last week total
led more than PWA cooperative build
ing, $1,250,000 to be invested by
private capital in three projects while
PWA projects aggregated $1,174,3(53.
Largest private project reported
was a 10-story addition to the Laz
arus Department Store in Columbus,
which is estimated to cost $750,000.
Wrecking of buildings now on the site
of the proposed structure will be start
ed soon.
Construction of a new church at
Fairmont and Lee Roads, Cleveland
Heights, by the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, at an estimated cost
of $250,000, is expected to mature
soon. Plans are being prepared.
A 36-suite apartment building, to
cost $250,000, was reported contem
plated by a Cleveland syndicate. The
three-story building will be construct
ed at Rosalind and Euclid avenues,
East Cleveland, if zoning changes are
approved.
Plans are being prepared by the
Zanesville Metropolitan Housing Au
thority for a si,500,000 low-cost hous
ing project in that city, which has re
ceived the approval of the USHA.
A 35-acre site for the project is be
ing considered by the Authority,
which plans to construct unit type
dwellings for one, two, three and four
families.
Four buildings to house child study
activities are contemplated by the Lu
cas County Commissioners. Cost of
the buildings is estimated at $300,000.
Application for a PWA grant has been
filed, and a bond issue will be submit
ted at the November 8 election.
A new stadium and improvements
to the Marcelline school in Cuyahoga
shows|Heights
i i, j. ... 'of Education. Cost is estimated at
that one-third ot all families had incomes under
520(l„00i and the PWA has been asked
$780 for the year 1935-6 one-half of all families
is contemplated
by
the Board
to grant $90,0()0 for the project
A
$200,000 addition to the Ft. Re-
covery, Mercer county, school, is con
templated by the Board of Education
with the cooperation of the PWA.
Construction of a new school at
Hannibal, Monroe county, is depen
dent on a PWA grant and a local bond
issue. Cost of the project is esti
mated at $130,303
Approval of a PWA grant has as
sured the construction of a new high
school costing $136,000 at Smithville,
Wayne county, according to reports.
A PWA grant has also been ap
proved for the construction of a gym
nasium addition to tl^ Wilmington,
Clinton county, high school. Cost of
the addition is estimated at $102,000.
Construction of a hospital is con
templated at Upper Sandusky by the
Wyandot county commissioners. Cost
of the project is estimated at $100,000.
A PWA ap#tjetion has been filed and
a bond issue will be voted on Novem
ber 8.
Ohio Typos Choose
Kroger Their Chief
Marion, 0. (OLNS).—Ben M. Kro
ger, Cincinnati, was elected president
of the Ohio Typographical Conference
at the sixty-third semi-annual conven
tion held here October 8 and 9. He suc
ceeds (irover V. Barr, Portsmouth.
Other officers elected are George
W. Sorreles, Marion, vice president,
and Roy L. Hiller, Dayton, secretary
treasurer. Sorreles succeeds Kroger
and Hiller replaces T. Ralph Ellis, Co
lumbus.
More than 300 attended tho two day
session, at which groundwork for the
formation of a state organization of
auxiliaries was laid. Resolutions adopt
ed included opposition to the ap
pointive judiciary amendment and en
forcement of a state law providing for
printed lists of voters.
Mansfield was chosen as the next
conference city, with the convention
scheduled for a date in April to be
announced later.
A full program of business and en
tertainment was provided for the dele
gates, with banquets on Saturday
evening and at noon Sunday.
Following the speaking program
Sunday, a tour of the Harding Home
and Museum closed the convention.
USlN(i FAUM SURPLUS TO FEED
"LOWER THIRD" IS PLANNED
Washington, D. C. (1LNS).—Plans
for "dumping" the agricultural surplus
of this country at home, rather than
abroad, are being carefully considered
by the Department of Agriculture, ac
cording to a public statement by Sec
retary Wallace.
Roughly, the idea is to sell the
wheat crop at home. The mills will
take by far the greater part of it for
ultimate sale to the upper-two-thirds
of our population. The government
will take the rest, to be turned over
at a lower price for the one-third now
ill-fed as well as ill-clad and ill
housed Uncle Sam standing the loss.
Every plan for stabilizing farm
prices comes against this irregular but
periodic surplus. The Supreme Court
knocked out the AAA plan, which in
cluded a certain control of production.
The McNary-Haugen bills vetoed by
President Coolidge Provided for the
sale of surpluses abroad, and for the
American farmer, collectively speak
ing, carrying the cost himself through
the equalization fee. It may come up
again. The Wallace statement is
frankly temporary
It is also true that a surplus of
wheat is more likely to be used in the
near future than a surplus of cotton,
which is another snag.
Don't confuse action with progress.
TRUTHS PONDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
SHIPPING HOUSES
GREEN BAMBOO
TRAINED HAND1MEN
APARTMENTS ON WHEELS
Shipping 1,000 houses—
To Great Britain from Sweden—
Fabricated in Scandinavia, where
lumber grows—
Exported to Great Britain, where
lumber and food are scarce—
But the distance is not great-
Only a few hundred miles, over
water—
But what of the British carpenters?
Becoming now mere hands on an
assembly line—
Could that happen in America
Japan builds mud houses—
Using green bamboo for re-enforc
ing rods—
They last from 30 to 50 years—
Hammered earth is much cheaper
than hammered wood and iron—
Green bamboo is easier to come by
than steel rods—
But will they be bomb-proof?
Japanese rules now demand new
standards—
Those tight little isles are becoming
nervous—
About buildings too easily smashed
and burned—
By air-borne missiles dropped from
substratosphere—
Unbeautiful oil tanks must now be
buried—
Covered with camouflaging grass
plots—
Roofs of city buildings present new
risks—
Soviet planes might not
all
fly
across the North Pole—
But such things are real problems—
For the other side of the world.
Will America's 31 major building
trades—
With 18 other "helpers" trades af
filiated—
All their subdivided crafts and
specialities—
Plus dock and timber men, blasters
and machinists—
Erect bomb-proofs for their skills?
Will the twenty different rates of
pay for craftsmen—
Ten different ratesfor shopmen apd
unskilled—
Thirteen varying rates for helpers—
Find shelter in a time of storm—
When factories assemble room
units—
All wired and piped and plastered—
Ship them by truck or train—
From southern pine flats—
Or western slopes of Douglas fir—
To be assembled by factory-trained
handymen
The "low" for American building
trades unemployment—
Was in 1929, when it stood at 16
per cent for the nation—
Today unemployment in building
trades—
Grips 34 per cent of craftsmen in the
nation—
While in New York City it is 42 per
cent—
But in Britain it is placed today at
13.8 per cent-^
Which may explain the reason
why—
They are shipping fabricated dwell
ings from Sweden—
To house the British workers.
Not only new materials—
New ideas also, are entering in—
For housing plans, and all con
struction—
There is not land enough, nor roads
wide enough as yet—
To put all our apartments upon
wheels.
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WHAT NEXT?
W' •$ '1' frig
An agricultural implement
manufacturing company in offer
ing a tractor with a cafi so the
farmer can work in comfort in
bad weather. The cab is all en
closed with a windshield wiper, a
ventilating system, hot water
heater, radio and cigar lighter.
Most tractors at present have
open seats.
RAIL WAGE UT VS. DEBTS
Washington—Over capitalization is
the issue and the only issue in the
conflict between labor and Railroad
management, according to a statement
by George M. Harrison, Chairman of
the Railway Labor Executives As
sociation, commenting on hearings be
fore the President's fact finding com
mittee. "Railroads must not be per
mitted to maintain a suicidal system
of public debts which exceed the val
uation of property holdings. If the
roads pursue their chartered course by
taking $250,000,000 from the earnings
of railroad labor they will not only
fail to Solve their problem, but, due
to the effect this raid on purchasing
power will have on the nation as a
whole, will kick themselves down
stairs," Harrison said.
COMMITTEE TO BE NAMED SOON
Washington.—Wage hour Adminis
trator Andrews has announced he
shortly will name an Industry Com
mittee for the clothing industry. The
clothing committee probably will be
the only additional group named be
fore the law governing wages and
hours, become effective on October- 2-1,
Andrews said. v
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS S
The plight of German refugees in
Prague is appalling. There are at
least 60,000 of them who are all Ger
mans or German Austrians. They are
German? but not Nazis. Many of them
are Social Democrats the chief liberal
and labor party of Germany before
Hitler, and now dealt with there by
murder and concentration camps,
which are slow murder. And in addi
tion to these Germans fleeing from
the German government, the Czecho
slovak government must care for a
still larger number of Czechs driven
out by Hitler's overflow.
About 10,000 of these belong to the
German-Austrian Refugee Society
which has prayed for help to Sir Neil
Malcolm, commissioner for refugees
of the League of Nations.
"If we are forced to return to Ger
many," they said, "it will mean death
or at least heavy imprisonment for
hundreds of us, and concentration
camps for several thousand others."
It seems a time when immigration
restrictions should be suspended. Cer
tainly, it is a time for all forms of
private 'charity to come to the front.
-K
George Welborn Norris, Senator ad
lib. from Nebraska, is distinctive, even
in announcing his political intentions.
In telling his state that he would not
be a candidate again, he said:
"You know, I know, and God knows
that I've made my last rave. I am
serving my last term, making my last
fight. I have nothing further to ask
of the Nebraska electorate I want
good will, but I am not seeking
votes."
Only fools and unteachable reaction
aries ever accused George Norris of
raving but let that pass. He has given
service enough to make the fame of
half a dozen men. He stopped two
bought and paid for Senatorships at
the door. He saved Muscle Shoals.
He took by odds the biggest part in
creating TVA. He was responsible in
the Senate as La Guardia in the House
for smashing Federal labor in
junctions.
And he is the only man now alive
who amended the Constitution of the
United States, and amended it in the
direction of democracy.
Hail, and not yet farewell, to George
Norris.
A five-man commission will mark
out the new boundary between Bo
livia and Paraguay, as agreed upon
by arbitrators from six countries.
Heavy fighting between these two
countries began in July, 1932 though
there had been some hostilities be
fore. Protocols for arbitration, media
tion or whatever is the best name for
it were signed in June, 1935 and
again hostilities stretched well be
yond negotiations. As in all South
American fighting—as in our own
wars down to the World War—more
were killed by disease than in battle.
Neither Bolivia nor Paraguay has
either men or money to spare. Yet
they fought openly for more than
three years before they could bring
themselves to peaceful settlement.
Arbitration doesn't work when one
side wants to arbitrate with guns. But
when it can and does work, what ut
ter folly to neglect it!
IN THE NEWS
LEWIS R. ALDERMAN
Lewis R. Alderman, probably the
most experienced expert in adult edu
cation that the country can show, has
been.at this work in Washington for
more than 10 years. He has been in
charge of the Federal program of
adult education for that long and
before that he was in France and Ger
many with the Federal educational
work for the doughboys.
His life illustrates the curious back
wash of American population, when
the young man ceased to go west and
grow up with the country, but came
east and triedv to get the country to
grow up with him. Lewis Alderman
was born in Oregon, went to school
and taught school in Oregon, took his
A. B. degree from Oregon's state
university, was superintendent of the
schools in the city of Eugene, Oregon,
and then superintendent of the state
schools. Then he came east, first with
the army, then in an important sur
vey in New York.
Now, he is in Washington—a good
deal of the time. He is preaching and
practicing the doctrine that education
never needs to stop. He is about the
most important figure in the adult
education work that would make the
WPA worth while if it had done noth
ing else. He studies, manages, en
courages, devises for this chief end
and every missionary of adult school
ing, mostly women and most needed in
the South, looks to Alderman for
cheering counsel.
He is 66 years old and except for
the thinning hair crop, doesn't look it.
He is tall, well built, remarkably
straight for a life long student and
a slight gruffness is just a defense
mechanism that vanishes as soon as
he senses the visitor's interest.
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I WISDOM
The worth of a promise consists
purely in the way in which the
performance squares with it.
—Theodore Roosevelt.
A word to the wise is useless.
Thursday, October 20th, 1938
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
RUSSIANS DON'T LIKE
RIDICULOUS LIGHT
FOREIGN QUARRELS
MEDICINE MEN
Russians don't like our Col. Lind
bergh, all of a sudden.
Too bad, but probably. Lindbergh
will survive.
It seems Stalin's stooges think
Lindbergh has been belittling the
Russian air fleet to the British.
They offered no evidence that Lind
bergh had peeped a word about Rus
sia's airplanes.
Maybe Russia's aviators are very
"edgy" and ready to believe anything.
More likely though, Boss Stalin pass
ed the word for them to open a wordy
assault on Lindbergh, perhaps as
backhanded slap at the British for not
fighting IJerr Hitler over Czechoslov
akia.
Episode places Russia's dictatorship
in rather ridiculous light.
Pretty far fetched to believe British
attitude toward Hitler was influenced
by anything Lindbergh said about the
alleged weakness of the Russian air
force. British don't have to depend
on the Colonel for their information
on this matter. Their army heads un
doubtedly know far more about it than
Lindbergh does.
"Friendly" nations in Europe, you
Know, spy on each other as well as on
"enemies."
If the Russian air force is all tha^
it is cracked up to be, why do the Rus
sians show so much heat over alleged
criticism?
Their lack of poise gives rise
to the lively suspicion that the
criticism, if ever made, was justi
fied.
In other words, the Russians do
"protest too much."
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Now that the sound and fury from
Europe have died down, Americans are
devoting more time to domestic af
fairs.
Which is all to the good.
America has plenty to do at home,
without tearing its hair over foreign
quarrels.
We have problems galore which call
loudly for solution.
As a writer in Current History
says:
"For one thing, the American people
still face the problem of recovery—
of putting 10 to 11 million people back
to work of bringing about peace be
tween capital and labor of restoring
business confidence of overcoming a
continuous deficit in the Federal bud
get and a continuous increase of the
Federal debt of preparing themselves
to vote intelligently.,in .fail's
elections."
Writer might have included farnW
problem in his list.
Much will be heard of this in conn
ing months.
Plain truth of the matter is, that
all the mighty striving in the last five
years has failed to solve the farm
problem.
Prices of principle crops are now not
much above- those of 1933, when the
Roosevelt Administration took office
and tackled the job of restoring farm
prosperity. Huge surpluses seem to
bar better prices.
Farmers are rebellious and it is
feared may listen to weird schemes of
"relief" advocated by agricultural
"medicine men."
"Medicine men" are reported fur
nishing their wardrobes and practicing
a new and improved line of war
whoops.
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Speaking of preparing ourselves to
vote intelligently in the fall election,
Ohio Senatorial candidates are to en
gage in joint debates on current
issues.
This is a step toward intelligent
voting and a step away from cam
paigns of recrimination and name
calling, of which we have had .too
much in recent years.
MOONEY'S LAST HOPE
(From the New York Times)
The Supreme Court of the United
States has shattered what seemed al
most the last hope that Thomas
Mooney could be released from Sat
Quentin Prison by judicial process.'
True, in refusing to grant a writ of
certiorari the court did permit
Mooney's attorney to renew his peti
tion for a writ of habeas corpus. But
the indications are that the court, in
cluding such tried liberals as Justice
Stone and Brandeis, will not find any
constitutional way to take hold of this
case.
Mooney's reported denunciation of
the court "as a bulwark of the pre
datory, corporate anti-labor interests
of America" and his demand on Gov
ernor Merriam of California to end
"this outrageous procrastination" in
his case are, to say the least, untact
ful. But the issue is not whether
Mooney is tactful. It is not ever
whether, if released, he will resume
what many regarded as a career of
trouble-making. The issue is whether
or not he wa3 strongly convicted of
blowing up the Preparedness Day pa
rade in San Francisco in 1916.
On the face of the evidence sub
mitted to the jury at his trial he was
guilty, but every damning scrap of
this evidence has since been questioned
and much of it exposed as perjury.
Governor Merrinian would serve com
mon sense as well as justice if he re
viewed the case and, if the evidence
is as weak as it now appears, to be,
issued a pardon.